Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Mexican Revolt In an engagement lasting several hours near Tomachio U. S. troops un der Colonel Dodd routed a superior force of Vfllistas, killing six and wounding nineteen others. Two mem bers of Colonel Dodd's command were killed and three wounded In an eh gagement at Cocomorachic a detach meat of Colonel Erwin’s command mortally wounded four Mexicans. « • • American Consul Coen at Durangc City has advised all Americans tc leave the city, and is himself consul ering the advisability of going to the border. • * * As an indication of their confidence that serious trouble between the Uni ted States and Mexico will be avoided, three important American concerns made preparations to reopen their plants in northern Mexico. according to a dispatch received at El Paso, Tex. • y Public execution in the plaza at Chihuahua City is to end the career of Pablo Lopez, the bandit cap: tuned near Santa Ysabel. Mex. A similar fate will be meted Out to the three men who were taken with Lopez.

* » » Further developments in the pursuit of Villa and the, relations between the United States and the de facto government of Mexico now await personal discussion of these subjects by Maj Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the American army, and Gen. Alvaro Obregon, minister of war of the de facto government. They will meet at Juarez € * * * General Funston has recommended a redistribution of American troops in Mexico on lines approved by Secretary of War Baker. This announcement was made at Washington after a conference between President Wilson Secretary Baker and General Bliss

Domestic The German government was prepared to pay $500,006 each for the destruction of ships loaded with war supplies for the entente allies. Lieut. Rob ert Fay, on trial at New York for con spiracy, was quoted as having informed Carl I. Wittig, a witness for the prosecution. - • • • United States Senator Thomas Taggart was nominated for United States senator for the short term, by the Democratic state convention at Indianapolis. • • • Harry S. Stokes, a prominent Nashville attorney, was shot and killed at Nashville, Tenn., by Charles Trabue, a legal opponent. * • •

Two thousand employees of the Westinghouse Airbrake company joined the strike of 18,000 Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company employees at Pittsburgh, Pa. • • * Both Republican and Democratic delegates at large to the national convention were elected in Ohio at the state’s first presidential preference primaries. For the presidential nominations Republicans voted predominantly for Theodore E. Burton and Democrats for President Wilson- Roosevelt received a slight indorsement of voters. •• • ? Irish leaders, the New York Evening Mails reports, received a cablegram from London saying that Lord Wimbourne, the lord lieutenant of Ireland; Under Secretary Nathan and General Friend, commander of the forces, and the whole British military staff, with several hundred soldiers, are now prisoners in the hands of the Irish and are being held as hostages for the life of Sir Roger Casement. Mrs. Hetty Green, often described as “the wealthiest woman in the world,” Is dangerously ill at the home of her son. Edward H. R. Green, in New York. • ♦ • Fire which started in the lowa Union, formerly St. James hotel, a rooming house for university students at lowa City, la., caused property loss of $35,000.

- * • • Mrs. Ida Sniffen Rogers is free. The jury’ refused to believe that she, a notoriously loving mother, could have been in her right mind when she poisoned her two children in New York. “Not guilty on the grounds of insanity,” was the verdict announced. • * • Acting on instructions from the treasury department at Washington, it was learned 75 customs inspectors wefat to Hoboken to make a thorough search of German steamships which have been lying at their piers since the beginning of the war. * • • A strike of more than 175,000 miners in the anthracite regions is imminent. The operators refused to grant the ten demands f tamed by the miners in Wilkesbarre, Pa., last September. Announcement to this effect was made at New York.

Washington The latest British note in answer to the American protests against allied interferences with neutral trade, made public at the state department at Washington, contends that the practices complained of are “judicially sound and valid,” and that the relief which neutrals seek is rather to be obtained by the mitigation of necessary hardships than by “abrupt changes.” * • • In defining more clearly than ever before what constitutes dishonest advertising through the mails, the Supreme court at Washington held In effect that advertisers, even though they give purchasers value received for their money,’are guilty of fraud if by exaggerated advertising propaganda they have led clients to expect more. . .' ♦ • ♦ Henry Morgenthau, American ambassador to Turkey, has tendered his resignation to President Wilson at Washington. It probably will be accepted. Abram 1. Elkus, a New York lawyer, is expected to succeed him. * * * William F. McCombs, chairman of the Democratic national committee, has made it plain to President Wilson at Washington that he will be unable to serve, even though he might be chosen to do so. as chairman of the committee after the St. Louis convention. • • *

European War News The revolt in Ireland far exceeds in extent the admissions of the British government, according to information reported to have been received in Irish circles at New York. A force of about 10,000 rebels is opposing the British authorities. ♦ ♦ ♦ Lord Lansdowne announced in the house ot lords in London that the rebels in Dublin had made a half-heart-ed attack on Dublin castle. There is a complete cordon of troops around the center of Dublin, he added. The casualties at Dublin were 42 killed and 46 wounded. The German naval forces which bombarded Lowestoft sank the steamer King Stephen and captured the crew, it was officially announced at Berlin. This is the steamer that refused to rescue the crew of the Zeppelin L-19, which dropped into the North sea. It also was announced that a destroyer and another scout boat were sunk. A wood north of the Aisne has been captured by the French, according to the official statement from Paris, * * *

Dublin, the capital of Ireland, is a smoldering volcano as the result of furious street fighting which followed a sudden but carefully prepared uprising by the Sinn Feiners, the Irish Nationalists. Much blood has been shed. Official reports given out in London place'‘the total death roll of the loyalists at 12. The number of rioters killed or the parts of the city still in their possession are not stated. •* • • Two British light cruisers and a destroyer were hit in a 20-minute engagement with a German cruiser squadron at daybreak, following a raid by the Geimans on Lowestoft. The German vessels escaped. Four civilians were killed by shells. *'• . • German war planes raided the French coast town of Dunkirk, dropping six bombs. One woman was killed and three men wounded. /According to a statement from the Paris war office. Only slight damage was done. * • * “Several Italian aeroplanes dropped 25 bombs on Trieste killing nine civilians, of whom five were children, and wounding five other persons,” says a statement issued at Vienna. * • • Two German submarines stopped the Dutch steamship Berkelstroom. bound from Amsterdam, and gave the crew of 23 men 15 minutes to leave the ship. They then sank it by gunfire. The crew was rescued by a British vessel and landed in England.

An attempt to stir up # a revolution in Ireland was nipped when a German auxiliary cruiser, armed by a strong force of German sailors and loaded with vast stores of rifles and ammunition, was sunk off the coast of Ireland by British patrol craft. Sir Roger Casement, one of the leaders in the Irish home-rule struggle, was arrested, an admiralty bulletin issued at London stated, “while attempting to land arms In Ireland.” A number of* other prisoners were taken. • • • A narrow escape for Emperor Nicholas of Russia from death or serious Injury by bombs dropped by an Austrian airman during a recent visit of the emperor to a southern sector of the Russian line, is reported in Stockholm jidvices received by the Overseas News agency at Berlin. • • • Field Marshal von Mackensen and Enver PasJha, Turkish minister of war, are reported to have left Constantinople for the Armenian front to direct operations against the Russians, according to a dispatch received in Rome. j • •' • German forces were compelled to evacuate newly won trenches on the Langemarck-Ypres road on account of high floods, "which made the consolidation of other positions impossible, according to the statement issued at Berlin by the German war office.