Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 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 Mo* ment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All the People Everywhere. Mexican War News Supplies have been provided along the Mexican border for an army of 200,000 men for the next 30 days, according to an announcement at New York by the quartermaster’s department of the United States. * <► * Gen. Jacinto Trevino, commander of the army in the north, received an order at Chihuahua, Mex., from “First Chief” Carranza directing him to immediately release the American prisoners of war. The prisoners were placed on a special train and sent to Juarez. * * * Carranza’s reply to the American ultimatum demanding the release of the troopers captured at Carrizal is a coun-ter-demand for the release of 30 Mexicans arrested on the American side since the battle, according to state department officials at Washington. * * * American cavalry and citizen posses are riding hard across the desert prairie south of Haelilta, N. M., in pursuit of the Mexican raiders who murdered William Parker and his bride of three months and drove away their cattle. * • • An American who. arrived at El Paso, Tex., from Colonla Dublan says 40 Mexican prisoners were brought into the headquarters of the American troops there on Sunday. These prisoners were captured by the armed force which went to succor Jhe United States troops who fought at Carrizal. * * * I - General Trevino, in a report to the war department at Mexico City, says the American forces have retreated northward, leaving the towns of Bachiniva and San Geronimo in the hands of the Constitutionalist forces. General Medinaveita, former chief of staff of Panelio Villa, and Gen. Jose Ysabel Robles, another former Villa chieftain, arrived in Juarez with GOO Carranzista cavalrymen. • * • The United States consulate at Torreon, Mexico, was demolished June 18 by a mob of 3,000 civilians led by the mayor of the city and a Carranza army band, according to American refugees arriving at Eagle Pass, Tex. * • * Capt. Lewis S. Morey of Troop K, Tenth cavalry, was brought to Pershing’s headquarters by automobiles which were sent to the vicinity of the Carrizal fight to search for him and any of his command who might be with him. • * a Domestic The First infantry, Illinois volunteers, entrained at Springfield, 111., for San Antonio, Tex. * • * It was learned at New York that Colonel Roosevelt is going to ask the government for permission to raise a division of volunteer soldiers for service in Mexico the minute that war is I declared and a call for volunteers seat out. He will ask for a commission as major general. * * * William R. Willcox, former postmaster of New York and later public service commissioner, was appointed at i New York chairman of the Republican | national committee. Mr. Willcox was the choice of Charles E. Hughes. James G. Harty and Charles Marcelle, who left New York a year ago on a 10,000-niile canoe trip, perished In Lake Huron, according to Information received by Henry Clews & Co., bankers. * * * Automobile manufacturers of the United States are prepared to furnish to the government on short notice 900 motor trucks and 1,000 passenger automobiles a day, says Alfred Reeves, general manager of the National Automobile chamber of commerce, at New York. * • * John Bryan, thirty-five, who was said to have insulted members of the Minnesota National Guard who were entraining at Duluth, Minn., died of injuries sustained when he was shoved away from the guardsmen, * * Charles E. Hughes, Republican presidential nominee, announced at New York, at the end of an interview with Theodore Roosevelt, which lasted more than two hours and a half, that he and the former president were in “complete accord.” * * * Five persons were instantly killed when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a train near Warren, 111. The dead: Patrick Deery, Darlington, Wis.; Mrs. Deery, their twm (children, aged six months and six years; Pete Howe.