Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Mexican Revolt A representative of the state department telegraphed the department in Washington information that Francisco Villa, hunted bandit leader, passed through Tfoya 25 miles east of Parral, on April 10, two days before the engagement' between American troops and Mexicans at Parral-, ♦ ♦ ♦ Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott. chief of staff of the army, left Washington for San Antonio. Tex., by order of Secretary Baker in order to get accurate information as to the situation on the border and in Mexico. General Gavira, commander of the Juarez 'Garrison, received a message from General Gutierrez, military commander of Chihuahua, stating that fifteen civilians concerned in a Villa plot to seize the Chihuahua garrison were executed. • • • Senor Amador, subsecretary of foreign relations of Mexico, declared at Mexico City that Eliseo Arredondo, ambassador designate of the de facto government at Washington, had been instructed to demand the withdrawal of the American troops in Mexico. »» * d General Funston issued orders at San Antonio, Tex., that will place at the disposal of General Pershing 2,300 more troops. * • • Secretary Lansing officially called to General Carranza's attention the charges made by General Pershing that Carranza soldiers led the attack on the American cavalry at Parral. A synopsis of the report by General Pershing Was telegraphed from Washington to James L. Rodgers, special agent with Carranza. ♦ • • American army officers with Pershing in Mexico and Maj. Frank Thompkins received a written threat from General Lozano, commander of the Carranza garrison at Parral, that the American troops would be attacked if they advanced to the city. They say the fight at Parral was the result of treachery.

It was 300 Carranza soldiers engaged 100 American cavalry at Parral, according to a detailed report written by Maj. Frank Tompkins and forwarded to General Funston at San Antonio, Tex., by General Pershing. Forty of the Mexican soldiers, including one major and one civilian, were killed by the retreating Americans. The American casualties were twq killed and six woufided, including Major Tompkins. His wound was slight The United States troops were attacked after being invited into the town by Carranza’s officers. ■: • • There is no confirmation at either the state or war departments at WashLington of reports from the border that ■ Villa is dead and his body is being brought to northern Mexico to satisfy American authorities. The Mexican embassy has received similar reports of the death of Villa but places little - credence in them. * • * Domestic George Harshaw Phillips, former “corn king,” died at Chicago after a short illness. Corn was his hobby, and he did more to help the western farmers secure higher prices for their grain during the years 1899 and 1901 than any man in the trade. He was born at Morris, 111., January 11, 1869.

• * * Six persons were crushed or burned to death in collision of trains on the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad at Bradford, R. I. ♦ * * At an election held at London Mills, 111., a complete ticket of women was elected. The ticket includes the offices of village clerk, four trustees and treasurer. ♦ • * iiE* DeLloyd Thompson, an aviator, of Washington, Pa., soared 3,000 feet over Washington and dropped 300 excelsior-filled bombs on the city. Mr. Thompson said he made the ascent as a demonstration to members of congress to accelerate sentiment in favor of aerial preparedness. • • *’ Harry K. was granted a divorce from Evelyn Nesbit Thaw by Judge Joseph Cohen-at Pittsburgh, Pa., Thaw named “Jack” Francis, a former reporter op the New York Morning Telegraph.

Typhus germs have been found in the blood of Mrs. Arthur Warren Waite, wife of the dentist awaiting trial in New York for the murder of his father-in-law, John K. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich. • • • The St. Louis ordinance fixing the speed of automobiles in the city limits at eight and ten miles an hour was declared invalid in the circuit court at St. Louis. A state statute fixed the speed limit at 25 miles ah hour.

Washington Honduras cattle growers, long barred from American markets by the presence of the cattle tick, are treating their herds and will begin shipments to New York soon, according to a report from Washington. • • • William M. Ingraham, former mayor of Portland, Ale., has been selected, by President Wilson at Washington for assistant secretary of war. Mr?lngraham will succeed Henry Breckinridge, , who resigned with former Secretary ’ Garrison. I ' ■; * »■ . Sharply indicting Germany for its use. of submarines', against trierchant; vessels, President Wilson, before a joint session of congress held in the house at Washington, issued public no-1 tice to the world that unless the German government changes its methods the United States will have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations. ,j » * »

• The United States 7 note to Germany, demanding an im mediate Cessation of submarine attacks on unarmed passenger and freight vessels, given out by ! the state department at Washington Simultaneously with its receipt in Berlin, is regarded generally in the nature of an ultimatum. The note demands I that the German government immediately declare and effect an abatement of its present methods of submarine ' warfare. » • • The army reorganization bill was passed by the Sena te at Washington without a roll call. As the bill passed it carried provisions for increasing the regular army to 250,000 men; the coast artillery to 21,748 men and pro- ( Vided for military training in certain schools and colleges, 7 7 * *■ • Acting on a protest from the German embassy, the-state department at Washington asked that the department of jutsice release Wolf von Igel, secretary to Captain von Papen, the recalled Germanmilitary attache, arrested in New York on a charge of conspiracy to blow up the Welland ] canal, unless the activities complained 1 of were committed before Von Igel be- * caqe attached to the embassy staff. The embassy claim diplomatic immunity for him. President Wilson, speaking before [ the Daughters of the American Revo- ! lution at Washington, declared that the only excuse for the United States ! ever to fight would be in the cause of humanity. • • • President Wilson approved at Washington the recommendation of the secretary of war imposing a sentence of reprimand on Lieutenant Colonel Goodier of the aviation service, who recently was tried by court-martial in connection with charges over the conduct of the San Diego station. • • * The American people, famous as coffee drinkers, consume 40 per cent of the amount sold in the international markets. acording to figures announced by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce at Washington. More than 1,000,000,000 pounds of coffee came to this country last year. * * • European War News The British admiralty announced at. London that 49 lives were lost when the British steamship Zent was sunk without warning by a German submarine on April 5. » » * The Berlin war office issued the following statement: ‘Russian attacks at the Dvinsk bridgehead on the narrow front south of Garbumovka broke down in front of our positions with heavy losses for tire enemy.” » ♦ • Trebizond. the most important Turkish city on the Black sea, has been captured by the Russians, according to a Petrograd dispatch.

* * * The Russian army in the Caucasus has penetrated to within eleven and one-fourth miles of Trebizond, the Turkish stronghold on the Black sea, according to an official report issued at Petrograd. ♦ » • Two Americans, William Smith and Nathan Tillman, were on the British steamer Eastern City w’hen she was attacked April 9 off Cardiff, Wales, and sunk by shell fire from a submarine. No lives were lost. * « • Foreign The Scheldt dike has broken near Quatrecht, six miles east of Ghent, and a large area of southern Holland and northern Belgium is under water. The damage is estimated at $1,000,000. Thus far nd loss of life has been reported. * • • A dispatch to the Kieler Zeitung at Copenhagen from Wilhelmshaven says there was a great explosion in the new torpedo works there, a number Of persons being killed and others wounded. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company at London says that travelers arlving at The Hague from Berlin report that a woman fired two shots from a revolver at Dr. Karl Liebknecht, while the socialist member of the relchstag was walking in the street. Both shots missed. * * * A destructive fire in Belgrade, formerly the capital of Serbia, is reported in a dispatch to the Paris Matin fnm Bucharest. The eastern section of the citv was almost destroyed