Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1916 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIQ HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS .. _ •• Kernels Culled From Events of Moment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All the People Everywhere. European War News It was officially announced at Queenstown that Thomas Kent, another of the Irish rebel leaders, had been shot, *■* * ‘ With the official announcement at London that the torpedoed White Star steamer Cymric had gone down at three o'clock in the morning came the news that five of the crew of 107 men •were killed by the explosion of the torpedo that sank the ship. The others were saved. * * * Lloyd's Shipping Agency announced at London that the steamship Cymric of the White Star line is sinking. The steamer was torpedoed ’by a German submarine in the Atlantic, There were no passengers on board. * * * French troops have recaptured a large part of the ground lost on both banks of the Meuse in a most violent German attack, according to a dispatch from Paris. Four more of the leaders in the Irish revolt have been sentenced to death by the Dublin court-martial and executed, according to an official statement issued at London. They were Cornelius Colbert, Edmund Kent, Michael Malloli and .1. .1. Houston. i * * * ' v — Countess Georgina Markievicz, one of the prominent figures in the Irish revolt, was sentenced to death at Dublin after her trial by court-martial, but" the sentence has been commuted to penal servitude for life. * * * The sinking of an allied transport in the Mediterranean by a mine with the loss of nearly all the 600 Russian troops who were oil board is reported at Berlin in advices from Corfu, the Overseas News agency announces.

Domestic For president, Theodore Roosevelt j of New York, for vice-president, Charles Warren Fairbanks v>f Indiana. This is the ticket the Bull Moose party will ask the Republican and Progressive national conventions to unite upon at Chicago on June 7. "All of this was decided upon by the Pro- , gressive national committee at New York. * * * Twenty lives were lost when the steamer S. R. Kirby of Detroit foundered off Eagle Harbor, Mich: Only the second mate, Joseph Mudra, and Otto S. Lindquist, fireman, were saved. * * * Robert Fay, former lieutenant in the ! German army; Walter Scholz and Paul j Daeche, German reservists, convicted 1 in the federal court for conspiracy to 1 destroy ships carrying munitions to 1 ■the allies, were sentenced to the At- j lanta penitentiary by Judge Howe at j New York. j' Theodore Roosevelt was indorsed for the Progressive presidential nom- I ination at the state convention of that party at Jackson, Mich. Fifty-six del-1 egStes to the Chicago convention were • instructed to support his candidacy. ' Resolutions adopted called Roosevelt “the greatest American.” j ** * j The will of Charles W. Darkness, ! former Standard Oil attorney. Pled at New York, divides his $106,000,000 estate between his widow arid his broth- j er, Edward S. Darkness.

♦ * * Four persons were burned to death and five others seriously injured when the home, of D. A. Inman, near Warroad, Minn., was destroyed by fire. * * * The Navy League of the United States filed suit in the district supreme court at Washington against Henry Ford for SIOO,OOO damages. The league charges Ford with having published in advertisements in a local newspaper statements of a ‘‘libelous and defamatory character.” \ * * . The fight against tuberculosis is gradually being won, Dr. Charles J. Hatfield, executive secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, told the delegates to the annual meeting of the .association at Washington. * * * As a result of a clash between guards at the plant of the Webster Manufacturing company at Tiffin, 0., where a strike has been in progress, Albert Latona, a union mojder, was shot and instantly killed. Two men were wounded * • « Five workmen were killed in an explosion in the plant of the Atlas Powder company at the end of Lake Hopatcong, according to a statement issued at New York by President W. J. Webster. _ "

Fire in the hold of the Italian steamship San Giovanni destroyed 7,000 bags of refined sugar which had been loaded at New Ytork for transportation to Palermo and Naples. * * * William L. Carlisle was declared guilty of train robbery by a jury at Cheyenne, Wyo. The jury recommended life imprisonment. Carlisle robbed a Union Pacific passenger train at Corfett J unction, Wyo. /•* * * Washington ; Germany notified the United States she would accept full responsibility for the torpedoing of the Sussex and that the submarine commander already had been punished for failing to exercise proper judgment. Germany offers to pay indemnity for all American injuries. - * * * The house in committee of the whole at Washington, by a vote of 65 to; 64, adopted Representative Lenroot’s amendment to the Pood control bill, which provides that the appropriation for tin> Mississippi river shall not be expended for the construction or repair of any levee until the Mississippi river commission has assurances that local interests will contribute one-half , the sum allotted for the work. » * * The senate at Washington passed ! the good roads bill, carrying $85,000,- 1 000 of which $75,000,000 will be available for federal aid to the states dur- 1 ing the next live years and $10,000,000 for the construction of roads in the national forests. * * * Minority members of the senate commerce committee at Washington denounced the $45,000,000 rivers and harbors appropriation bill as "utterly indefensible" when the country is to be so heavily taxed for the purpose of the preparedness program. * • • Despite ,the fact that there was before them a letter from President Wil- : son practically demanding the con- \ firmation Of Louis D. Brandeis of Bos- • ton to be an associate justice of the Sppreme court, the members of the senate judiciary committee at Washington failed to set a date for a vote on the question. ■ - ; * \ *. ~*■■■■ President Wilson in a formal note dispatched from Washington to Her- ■ lin lias accepted as meeting his de- j maud the announced change in Germany's submarine policy. Übupled with this acceptance is a veiled threat that diplomatic relations will be severed unless the hew orders issued by ' tile German admiralty are scrupulously observed. j * * * The house of representatives -at 1 Washington Went on record as opposed to increasing the regular army to 250,00 b, By a vote of 221 to 1.42 the house instructed its conferees on the army reorganization bill not to agree to the senate proposal lor aft army of a quarter of a million. ■ * • Wilson lias decided to accept Germany's reply as a compliance with liis demand that illegal methods of submarine warfare be abandoned. The danger oi' an imminent diplomatic break is authoritatively described at Washington as past. ; ;v. - * * * President Wilson received an important message at Washington from Pope Benedict hearing on the establishment of peace in Europe. The exact nature of the message was riot disclosed,. but it is understood the pope urged President Wilson to suggest negotiations at .once. * * * Mexican Revolt ' i Gov. James K. Ferguson of Texas, at Austin, Tex., issued a signed statement in which he declared that now was the proper time for United States intervention in Mexico, to restore order in that country, "if it takes ten or fifty years.’’ * * * ( apfain Fox of the Texas Rangers reported to Colonel Sibley at Marathbri, Tex., that seven American soldiers and-p.os.se men had engaged a small band of Villa bandits across the Rio Grande and killed several of them There were no American losses, ‘ * * * President Wilson issued an order at Washington calling into active service “for drity as a border guard’’ the National Guards of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, Secretary of War .Baker stated that the outbreak in the Big Bend district of the Rio Grande and the danger of other outbreaks made it imperative that more troops be called into service. • • * The Columbus raid was repeated by raiding Mexicans under the leadership of Colonel Cervantes, a Villa subcommander. Three members of Troop A, Fourteenth cavalry, and one civilian boy are known to have been killed. Six cavalrymen were wounded. Boquillas, Tex., was also invaded and several stores were looted. * * * In an official statement issued at Mexico City, Minister of Foreign Relations Aguilar charges that the bandits who raided Glen Springs and Boquillas, Tex., last Friday night were organized in the United States, and that the raid was “staged” by enemies of both countries. * * • All Americans north of Chihuahua have been ordered by American Consul Thomas D. Edwards of Juarez to leave Mexico at once. He acted, he said, upon instructions of the state department.