Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1916 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE V ■ ' "■ ; ■ Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. European War News The French official statement, issued at Paris, announces that the French succeeded in driving the Germans from the greater part of the Corbeaux wood. The report admits, however, that the Germans have reoccupied the Hardamount redoubt. The capture of 58 French officers and 3,277 men and 10 cannon were reported at Berlin. • • . The Russians found only 16 Armenians alive in Erzerum but of the usual Armenian population of 40,000, according to information received in Petrograd. * • • The German fleet, composed of at least fifty big war craft, which was re- j ported out in the North sea, returned to its base at Kiel, says Reuter’s Ymuiden correspondent. •* * | Russian troops have captured the town of Riza (Rizeh) on the Black sea, 35 miles east of Trebizond, according to an official report from Petrograd. The Russians also have occupied the town of Sehna. * * * Twenty German dreadnaughts have left Kiel, according to information received at Rome, Italy. * V* 1 The Australian cruisers Australia and Sydney, with Japanese cruisers Chitoso and Tokiwa, are hunting the ! Pacific for a German commerce raider. : according to reports from Honolulu, Hawaii. * • •

The capture by the Russians of the Persian city of Cola, 27 miles west of Kermanshah, is announced in an offi-; cial statement issued by the Petrograd wais*office, * * * Italian aeroplanes made a raid on the city of Laibach and 800 Austrian soldiers were killed or wounded in barracks. The raid was made February 19. * • * The Russians, under cover of the fire of their fleet, at last have been able to make a landing on the Black sea coast east of Trebizond, capturing the toivua of Atina and Maprava, says a dispatch to London *..*.*■ Domestic The senate.of the Kentucky legislature passed the woman suffrage bill, 15 to 8. * * * Nine dead, eleven probably fatally burned and a score injured was the toll of an explosion and fire at the jail in El Paso, Tex. The name of one American is included in the list of dead. A *#ash of flames burst from tanks in which prisoners; including many Mexicans, were being given dis infecting baths. ♦ * • William 11. Orpet, University of Wisconsin student, was indicted for the murder of Marian Frances Lambert, the Lake Forest liigh-school girl whose body was found in Helm’s woods. * * ♦ Indictments were returned by the Mahoning county grand Jury at Youngstown, 0., against the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company, the Republic Steel company, the Brier Hill Steel company, he Youngstown Steel company, the Carnegie Steel company, the United States Steel company and E. H. Gary. The defendants are charged with having formed a trust to fix the wages of common labor in violation of the laws of Ohio • * * Congressman John A. M. Adair, Democrat, of Portland, and James P. Goodrich, Republican of Winchester, were selected in the Indiana statewide preferential primary to run for governor next fall. Opponents of Goodrich and Adair conceded their nomination. Goodrich’s majority is 18,628. Adair’s race was an easy one, apparently. The contest for the Republican nomination for United States senator is undecided. * * * Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel corporation, said a new tube plant, to cost $25,000,000, is to be erected at Gary, Ind. The work will start as soon as the details can be prepared. * * • Fire following several explosions, virtually destroyed the plant of the Niagara Electro-Chemical company at Niagara Falls, N. Y., causing the death of one workman, the injury of several others and property loss estimated at $200,000. * * * Senator Martine, Democrat, of New Jersey, announced at Washington his determination not to be a candidate for delegate at large to the Democratic national convention because of his decision, to be a candidate for the senate.

I Wage increases that may annually approximate $8,000,000 or more in the soft coal fields of western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois were agreed upon by the subcommittee of bituminous operators and miners lor those states who are in New York ihegotiating a new contract to go Into effect April 1. • * • Four soldiers of the Fourteenth United States infantry were burned to death in the fire that destroyed the barracks at Fort Osborn, Alaska. ■ ; Local option won over prohibition in Vermont by a margin of 14,366 votes. The state voted for direct primary elections by a majority of 3,700, • * * At Terre Haute, Ind., there was a shooting affray on primary day in which Ad Rogers was probably fatally wounded and Sylvester and Seymour Jordan were arrested, charged with the shooting. * • * Nine more victims of a disinfection bath explosion, which burned fortyfour prisoners in the jail at El Paso, Tex., are dead. These deaths bring the list of fatalities up to eighteen. * * * A school girl was killed and her teacher, Miss Sarah Hillingworth, was seriously injured when a tornado struck a schoolhouse six miles east of Danville, Ind. • * • Seven members of the family of Dan Okane, a farmer, were found murdered in their home near Lawton, Okla. * • • Rev. Henry Jajeski, pastor of St. Casimir's Polish Catholic church at St. Paul, Minn., was shot and instantly killed by a woman, said to be Mrs. Amiela Dudek, wife of a laborer of Minneapolis and said to have ten children. Police Surgeon Dohm said she is insane. • • * A SIOO,OOO endowment with which to pension aged Methodist ministers was started at the southwest Kansas conference of Methodist ministers held at W’chita, Kan • • • Personal Maud Allan, famous dancer, entertained and admired by kings and emperors, is in a most critical condition in the German hospital at New York following an operation for appendicitis. There is little hope of her recovery. • * •

Washington The commission on car shortage of the American Railway association at Washington notified eastern railroads that it would impose penalties upon such of them as continued to disregard the commission’s suggestions for delivering box cars to western roads to ameliorate the present car shortage in the West. • * The German government expresses a willingness to operate its submarines In accordance with international law prevailing prior to the war, provided Great Britain does not violate the same laws. Count von Bernstorff, on instructions from his government, handed to Secretary Lansing at Washington a long memorandum explaining in detail the German position in regard to armed merchant ships. * » * The house of representatives at Washington declared itself opposed to interference at this time, with the policy pursued by President Wilson in the submarine controversy with Germany. By a vote of 276 to 142 the house tabled the McLemore resolution requiring the president to warn Americans to shun armed merchantmen. * • » Without a dissenting voice the senate at Washington confirmed the ap--1 pointment of Newton Diehl Baker, former mayor of Cleveland, to be secretard of war. * * * Henry Morgenthan, United States ambassador to Turkey, is about to tender his resignation to president Wilson, according tc a report current in official circles at Washington. * ♦ * Most of the seventeen leading food articles in the United States are slightly cheaper than a year ago, according to the department of labor at Washington. * * • The street car strikers at Washington agreed to return to work at once and take up adjustment of their grievances with the local car companies while the systems are being operated. • ♦ * Newton D. Baker, former mayor of Cleveland, has been selected by President Wilson as secretary of war to succeed Lindley M. Garrison, it was | announced at Washington. Mr. Baker was a follower of Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland. He was subsequently elected mayor himself. Mr. Baker was a Wilson supporter in the Democratic convention at Baltimore. Mr Baker , is forty-four years old and was born at Martinsburg, W. Va. * * ♦ The American consulate at Treblzond, the great Turkish Black sea port was wrecked by shells when Russian warships bombarded the city on March 1, according to a cablegram received at the state department at Washington. • • * The senate at Washington after four weeks of debate passed the Shields bill to provide for development of water power in navigable waters by private capital. The vote was 46 to 22. Conservation champions failed to 5 amend the measure.