Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1916 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

European War News Four heads of tfie "Republic of Ireland,” including “Provisional President" Patrick ii. Pearse, were tried bv. court-martial and executed in London. Their trials were swift and secret. The three others executed were James Connolly. Thomas J. Clark and Thomas MaeDonagh. * * * At least 500 rebels were killed and 1.50" wounded in the seveq days of fighting in the streets of Dublin, it was estimated by ' soldiers wlio completed a canvass of the city. • • • A strong attack was made by French troops on German positions southeast of Fort Douaumont, on the Verdun front. The French captured a first-line German trench 500 1 meters (547 yards) long, the war office announced at Paris, and took 100 prisoners, *■ * * Two vessels under charter by the American commission for the relief of Belgium, the- Swedish steamship Fridland and the British steamer Hendonhall, have been sunk within two days, it was announced at London. » • • The British armed yacht Aegitsa, commanded by Capt. T, P. Walker, and the British mine sweeper Nasturtium, the master of which was Lieutenant Commander Robin W. Lloyd, have struck mines in the Mediterranean and sunk. • * * All the rebels in Dublin have stirrendered and those in the country districts are doing likewise, according to an official statement issued at London. *... * - * ■ The unarmed British steamer Teal of London has been sunk by a submarine. The crew was rescued after having taken to the boats. The Swedish bark Niola has been torpedoed. '• * * Maj. Gen. Charles To wash end has surrendered at Kut Ki-Amara. Mesopotamia. with his entire garrison after a siege by the Turks lasting 143 days, British official announcements issued at London place the strength of the garrison at 2,970 British and 6,000 Indian troops, * . *, • The leaders of the Irish insurrection are reported to have surrendered unconditonally. The four Courts district has been rec aptured. . - * * * Loss and recovery of trenches north of Mournvitz in a desperate fight with Austrians and the capture of 600 men is told in an official communication issued at I’otrograd. * * • Capture of a German trench north of Dead Man Hill with 53 prisoners, the ejection of the Germans from trenches' they had taken south of I,assignv. and the repulse of German assaults in the Vosges, are reported in the official statement issued by the Paris war office.

* * • The captain of the Dutch ship Borkolstroom, which was sunk in the North sea by a German submarine, declared at Rotterdam that the Germans intend to sink all ships of every nationality carrying food to England. * * • Domestic \ Pittsburgh’s street car strike is settled. Thirty-one hundred car men voted almost unanimously to accept a compromise agreement. The men returned to work immediately. * * * John Devoy, editor of the GaelicAmerican, and John T. Ryan, a Buffalo attorney, were mentioned in superseding indictments handed down at New York by the federal grand jury which investigated the alleged German plot to blow up the Welland canal. • * Citizen soldiers went in training at the Southern military camp at Fort Oglethorpe, near Chattanooga, Tenn. The attendance for the first period is estimated at between 1,000 and 1,500. * • * Unless the milk dealers of Chicago grant an increase of $2 a week and promise to do away with milk solicitors, 2,850 members of the milk wagon drivers' union will strike. • • * Rear Admiral Caperton has arrived at Santo Domingo with the cruiser Prairie and a strong force of marines to put a stop to the activities of factional leaders seeking to overthrow the Jiminez government. • * * The big packing firm of Swift and company of Chicago was found guilty of rebating by a jury in Judge Landis’ federal court. A verdict of guilty on 20 counts was found. Under the law, the firm is liable to a maximum fine of $520,000. ■• * * One of the worst labor tie-ups in the history of New York harbor began when the engineers of practically every tug and lighter plying on Hudson and East rivers went on a strike for an increase of wages.

I Two men were killed, four probably fatally wounded and a score of others seriously hurt when a mob of 7,000 strikers attacked the Edgar Thomson works of the Carnegie Steel company in Braddock, Pa. }* * * William Lorimer was acquitted of charges of embezzlement and conspiracy to defraud in connection with the failure of the LaSalle Street Trust and Savings bank by a jury at Chicago. The jurors had deliberated six hours. Lorimer promised that he I would repay the money lost by de- | positors. . | _• * * . *» Republicans of Michigan in convention at Lansing, Mich., indorsed Justice Charles E. Hughes for president and selected four delegates at large to the national convention. Mayor Oscar B. Marx of Detroit, Albert E. Peteri man of Calumet. Benjamin Hanchett I of Grand Rapids and George W. Cook | of Flint were chosen., * * * | The strike of the 2,000 laborers on the government’s railway in Alaska j has been settled, according to a tele- | grain received at Washington. » » * . Georgia’s new prohibition law, designed to drive breweries, locker clubs and “near-beer" saloons from the state, ' became effective Saturday. * • * Col. Theodore Roosevelt brought 1,500 lawyers to their feet in wild Cheering at the Illinois Bar association banquet at the Hotel La Salle in Chicago when he demanded universal service in the United States, modeled on the Swiss and Australian systems. . The demonstration came after he had been urging for an hour the gospei of "genuine Americanism" with no hyphen. • * • The submarine L-5, built for the United States government, was I launched at the yards of the Lake Torpedo Boat company at Bridgeport, Conn. * * * betters to the Louisville & Nash- | villa and Nashville,, Chattanooga & St Louis railroads, requesting passes for judges, legislators, witnesses and newspapers were read into the record I of the interstate commerce commis- . sion’s investigation held at Nashville, j Tehn , of alleged corrupt practices by these carriers. • • • George M. Brown, special examiner j for the interstate commerce commss- | sion, will begin an investigation in ! Chicago of the rates charged for the j shipment of milk in the hope of establisliing uniform rates. ! * * *

Washington Conviction of David Lamar, “the wolf of Wall street," of the charge of unlawfully impersonating a federal officer, was /affirmed by the Supreme court at Washington. \ C : ■ .* ■' * The Supreme court at Washington approved extradition of Ignatius T. Lincoln of New York, the so-called “German spy," to England to answer to a criminal indictment for forgery. * •: * The department of justice announced at Washington that the United States attorney at Baltimore had made a motion that the court enter an order dissolving the American Can company on the ground that it i 3 a trust, . * * * The administration's fight the senate Philippines hill, with its Clarke amendment authorizing independence for the islands within four years, was lost in the house at Washington. After voting, 213 to 165, to strike out the Clarke amendment, the house, by a vote of 251 to 17, passed as a substitute for the entire measure the Jones bill providing for a greater measure of self-government- ift the Philippines. * * * ■’ Substantial agreement with the senate's plan for army reorganization was reached by the senate-house conferees on the military bill at Washington. A regular army of 180,000 men at peace strength has practically "been agreed on bv the conferees. It provides $250,000 men, war strength. * * * Admiral Dewey will recommend to the house naval affairs committee at Washington that a building program be adopted which will put the American navy in second place within three years. The recommendation will be a formal communication from the admiral containing the report of the naval general board. ,* • • Mexican Revolt Mexican military men believe withdrawal of the American troops from Mexico will take place in about two months, it was learned at El Paso, Tex. The Mexicans say that in view of the dispositions to be made by General Obregon under the tentative agreement with Gen. Hugh L. Scott, the hunting down of the bandit groups in Chihuahua and Durango can scarcely take more than that period of time. ** * . President Wilson will not withdraw from Mexico until Villa has been captured or killed. Notification to this effect has been given to the Carranza government through General Obregon In conference with General Scott at El Paso and Juarez. Personal Enos M. Barton, founder of the Western Electric company of Chicago and a pioneer figure in the telephone industry, died at Biloxi. Miss.