Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1916 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

European War News The auxiliary cruiser Hermann was attacked by four Russian destroyers in Norr Keepings bight. The vessel became afire and was blown up by the crew. The commander and most of the crew were saved, says a dispatch from Berlin. » * * The German cruiser Koenig von Sachsen (King of Saxony), a destroyer and 12 merchantmen have been sunk in a sea fight in the Baltic, according to a report received by the Exchange Telegraph company at London. * * * German troops renewed the attack the whole section of the Verdun front west of Thiaumont farm. They succeeded in entering some advanced trenches at one point, but were repulsed elsewhere, the French war office announced at Paris. • * • The great Russian offensive added nearly 7,000 more captives to the 108,000 already taken, and swept down upon Czernowltz, capital of Bukowina. The Russians are reported to have entered the city, Petrograd officially announces a total of 113,000 men and 1,700 officers captured in the two weeks’ drive. ♦ * • The Italian transport Principe Umberto, with 1,000 troops on board, has been sunk in the Adriatic sea by an Austrian submarine. The loss of life was very heavy. • • • It was announced at Amsterdam the Swedish bark Hehle and the Norwegian ship Orkedal have been sunk In the North Sea. The Helde was mined. The crews of both were saved. • * • It has been established that the cruiser Hampshire, whose destruction cost the life of Lord Kitchener, was sunk by a mine, it was announced in London by the admiralfy. * • • Continuing their offensive movement in Volhynia and Galicia, Russian troops took prisoner 400 officers and 35,000 men, says the official statement Issued at Petrograd. Since the present offensive was started a week ago the Russians have taken about 108,000 prisoners. • * • A continued advance by the Italians in the Arsa valley, in Pasubio sector, and along the Posina-Astico line, in the southern Tyrol, was announced by the war office at Rome. • • • Domestic Ten men lost their lives and about a score more were hurt when fire swept a large grain elevator of the Pennsylvania railroad on the harbor front at Canton, Md. The property loss was estimated at $3.00,000. * * * Charles Evans Hughes has chosen as his political philosopher nnd friend in his fight for the presidency, George W. Wlckersham. lie made tlxe selection at New York.

Theodore Roosevelt underwent an X-ray examination at New York for what lie characterized as “possibly a slight, breaking of the muscles" around the rib which Was broken when he was thrown from a horse May 24, 1915. * * * Official announcement was made at New York by the National City bank of the closing of a loan of $50,000,00(] to the Russian government by a banking group. * * * -President Wilson, in an address to the cadets at West Point, discussed preparedness, militarism, Americanism. the cause of the war in Europe, peace, the Monroe doctrine, divided allegiance and the ideals of America, lie declared it is the present imperative duty of the United States to be prepared, adding: “Mankind is going to know that when America speaks she means what she says.” *jr * The Progressive national committee held a meeting at Chicago and elected officers, but did not pass on the suggestion made by Colonel Roosevelt 01 frame a reply to his letter. The committee adjourned until June 25 when the conditional declination of the colonel will be considered. * * * , The five-year-old lad who, through adoption, recently became heir to the millions of Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard, may soon have a brother and sister. Two children are now at the Shepard home at Irvington-on-the-Hudson on “probation.” * * * In a statement issued to the Progressive party, following a conference with Colonel Roosevelt at New York, George W: Perkins told the Progressives to wait the action of the na tlonal committee on June 26 before making any moves. • * • Miss Mildred Fuller Aubrey, granddaughter of the late Chief Justice Melville Fuller* and James Bronson Blake of Milwaukee, Wig., were married in Washington,as the home of the brlde’f •ant, Mrs. Hugh Campbell Walles.

••America first,” shouted thousands of voices in the preparedness parade at El Paso, Tex. While thousands of small American flags were raised aloft by the marchers, a thousand voices sang “America” and other patriotic airs. * * * Charles |E. Hughes, to questions p|jt to him by newspaper men at New York in regard to his attitude toward the support offered him by the German-Americans, said it was “one of undiluted Americanism.” * • • r Nursing many bruises, the Kentucky delegation to five Democratic national j convention left Owensboro, Ky„ for St. ! Louis after a part of the train on which Its members were traveling*had been wrecked. * * * Charles Evans Hughes, associate Justice of the United States Supreme court,, was nominated for president by practically a unanimous vote in the Republican convention at Chicago. Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana was named for vice president. Justice Hughes resigned from the Supreme court when notified of his nomination. * * * Theodore Roosevelt, refusing to accept Hughes as the fusion nominee of ( the two parties, was nominated for j president by the Progressive national convention at Chicago, which selected , ns its nominee for the vice presidency , John M. Parker of New Orleans, j Roosevelt declined to accept the nomination. * * • Mexican Revolt The finishing blow was given the largest surviving band of Villa followers in Chihuahua by 20 men of the j Thirteenth United States cavalry in a | fight north of Santa Clara. No Amerlcans were hurt. The Americans routed t 25 Villa bandits, killing three and wounding several. • * * With 1,500 additional regular troops ordered to the Mexican border and reports of the rapid spread of antl-Ameri- j can feeling continuing to pour into the state department at Washington' from consuls all over northern Mexico, | administration officials made no attempt to disguise their uneasiness. * * • One of the three Mexican bandits j killed in the chase of outlaws who made a raid on the T. A. Coleman ranch near Laredo, Tex., wore a Carranza uniform bearing the insignia of a Carranza colonel, according to a message received at Laredo, Tex. * * * Mexican bandits, under the leader- J ship of Luis de la Rosa himself, j crossed the Rio Grande at Hidalgo, rounded up 80 horses and drove them j back across the border. American troops under Captain Bell are in pursuit of the raiders.

Washington In a Flag-day spech at Washington the president charged that there were some foreign-born persons in the United States who were trying to levy a kind of political blackmail on the American political parties in the interest of foreign governments. This, the president declared, must be stopped. * # * United States consuls assigned to stations in Mexico have either left the republic or are preparing to leave. With the spread of the anti-American demonstrations south of the Rio Grande tlm United States Hag has been taken down and the national shields removed from the consulates all over the country. * * • A favorable report was ordered by the house military committee at Washington on the annual army appropriation bill, carrying $157,000,000. It makes provision for the increases and changes authorized by the new army reorganization law. • • * A constitutional amendment to disqualify federal judges from holding any elective offices for at least two years after leaving the bench was introduced in the senate at Washington by Senator Thomas (Dem.) of Colorado. * * * E. B. Carson, sales manager Consumers’ Refining company of Chicago, charged before the federal trade commission at Washington that “big oil interests" caused the increased prices of gasoline by the “speculating in crude petroleum and manipulating the market.” His testimony was part of the investigation of the gasoline price increase. * * * Justice Brandeis was assigned by Chief Justice White at Washington to the Second judicial circuit, consisting of Vermont, Connecticut, and the state of New York, formerly held by exJustice Hughes. * * * Inquiry into the advance in the price of gasoline was begiin by the federal trade commission at Washington with representatives of the principal oil-pro-ducing concerns on hand to testify. * * * Increases in the assessments imposed by the grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, upon its members who hold fourth-class insurance benefit certificates, were held by the Supreme court at Washington to beAegal, * * s* Foreign Almore Sato will be the new Japanese ambassador to the United States, succeeding Viscount Sutemi Chinda, who is transferred to London. This innouncement was officially made by the foreign office at Tokyo.

Incidents of the Indiamcpolis Delegation’s Trip to St. Louis. j St. Louis, June 14.—-'Although i yesterday was the 13th, the Indiana , Democratic club of Indianapolis did not find a hoodoo from the banks of the -Wabash to the banks of" the Mississippi, They left Indianapolis on what is said to be the finest pasI senger train that ever " went out of the union station. At was made up of Solid steel Pullmans and r two Steel dining cars. The members of the Democratic , club, in their white hats with red | silk bands, Palm Beach suits and canes, presented a nobby appearance, and John Hollett, who had charge | of then, expressed his pride many times. The train made the run from Indianapolis to Terre Haute, 72 miles, in one hour and 19 minutes, including a three-minute stop at Greencastle. And that is going some. Ten passengers got on at Greencastle and 35 at Terre Haute. At the letter city the Indianapolis /Military band, that gave concerts all the way over, went to the platform and playeu “On the Banks of the Wabash,” and a big crowd that was

at the station cheered the Indianapolis nur icians. A short stop was made at Effingham, 111., and the run after that was made straight into St, Louis, the special train arriving practically on time. The baggage of the Indianians was piled in huge vans and taken to the American hotel, and when it got there, \there was a scramble and a rush. Every man got hold of ttye other man’s suitcase or grip. E’d Cox of Hartford City, who came with a silk hat in a box, got a box with a bonnet in it. E. P. Honan of Rensselaer rushed for a haircut, and when he went to look for clean linen, he found the kind of linen that men do not wear. Mr. Honan dashed downstairs and rescued his suitcase from a bellboy who was looking for its owner. After a while, however, everything was straightened out and the Hoosiers were happy. This town is topsy turvey. At Chicago the Republican national convention was a struggle for supremacy. Here the Democratic national convention is a celebration, a demonstration, a confirmation, an affirmation, a jubilee. In Chicago the delegates made the men and built the platform. In St. Louis, where no very intricate problems are to be , solved, the candidates already picked, and the platform already prepared. All this political machinery here is simply an illusion. At Chicago there was rain and mud and spitting snow and quinine. Here there is sunshine with the perfume of roses and the tinkle of the iced mint.

Yes, St. Louis is topsy turvey and all it needed last night to be a carnival was the confetti. The windows were filled with flags and the balconies were hung with banners. Even the somber old court house, where much of the history of St. Louis lies hidden, was a pile of red, white and blue gorgeousness. The people deserted their homes early in the evening, and the side streets, as if rivers, emptied their homogeneous currents into Olive street, which became a torrent of human being from the Planters’ hotel to the Hotel Jefferson, rushing in double streams down one side and back on the other, and between the streams on the sidewalks were numerous bands leading marching clubs with merry music and martial step. And among them was the Indiana Democratic club, headed by tbe Indianapolis Military band, attracting attention and applause from the crowd. Olive street, last night was a glare with thousands and thousands of electric lights. The street was filled with gay and noisy revelers. Luxury and wretchedness danced side by side in the feverish brilliant life of the city. The crowd was everywhere, with all kinds of men and women dressed in all kinds of clothes. —W. H. Blodgett in Indianapolis News.