Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Mexican War News The Ward Hue steamer Monterey arrived at Havana from Vera Cruz with 251 passengers, mostly American refugees. The ship passed through a cyclone. * * ♦ The immediate danger of the Mexican crisis was eliminated by the delivery of Carranza’s friendly and conciliatory note to Secretary of State Lansing at Washington, which promises co-operation against border raids and paves the way for the settlement of the entire controversy by diplomatic means. Carranza, in effect, withdraws all threats against the American expeditionary force in Mexico/ * • • Gen. Ignacio Ramos, a Carranza commander, was killed in a fierce and bloody battle that raged all day at Corral ranch, near Jiminez, Mex., between de facto troops and Villistas. Both sides suffered heavy losses; Corporal F. X. Cooke, last known survivor of the battle at Carrizal to be rescued from the desert, was formally turned over to the United States arm v officials at El Paso, Tex, ♦ ♦ ♦ Calling the notes sent by the United States to Mexico not only discourteous but haughty, and declaring that 140 Mexicans have been murdered in this country and their slayers unpunished, the department of foreign relations of Mexico issued a statement representing its views on the United States’ reply to Carranza’s note requesting the immediate withdrawal of troops from Mexican territory. The text declares Americans incite trouble by persisting in remaining in the Mexican danger zone. * * *.

Domestic .The net result of summary activity by the Boston police after they learned that an automobile had been driven up to the house of Police Sergeant Duffee of Salem with the body of Duffee’s sister-in-law in the tonneau, was ten persons arrested and held as having some connection with a case of an illegal operation. * • • While his five children slept undisturbed John Walters of La Salle, 111., shot and killed his wife and then turned the weapon upon himself, dying instantly. lowa Prohibitionists, in convention -at Oskaloosa, decided to place a state ticket in the field this fall. » * » A final settlement has been reached in the Rock Island arsenal wage scale dispute, it was learned at the war department in Washington. An increase -of about 25 cents per day per man has been granted. • » • Colonel Roosevelt, in a Fourth of July address at Oyster Bay, L. 1., de-i clared his intention of organizing a force for a possible campaign in Mexico. He said that he and his sons were going, and he promised to place any unmarried young man in Oyster ; Bay who wished and was prepared to accompany him. He did not mention politics. ♦ * ♦ Four cases of infantile paralysis were discovered in the Italian section of Standard. Putnam county. 111., and steps were taken immediately by the state board of health to avoid an epidemic of the disease. ♦ * Fire gutted the building at Dubuque, la., recently purchased by the Moose Ipdge for a home and lodgeroom. The loss on the building will be .$25,000, partly covered by insurance. * « • Diamonds and other precious stones imported at New York in the government's fiscal year ended June 30 reached the high total of $44,887,826, according to a report of the appraiser of the port of New York. The gain in 1916 over the year before was $30,000,000 in round figures.

Records kept at the Tuskegee institute at Montgomery, Ala., show that there were 25 lynchings in the United States during the first six months of this year, compared with 34 for the same period a year ago. * * * Charles E. Hughes at New York, on a two-days’ trip, approved the proposal of his advisers to have a liberal representation of the Progressive party on his campaign committee. This committee virtually will have entire charge of the campaign. , ♦ • • Charles E. Hughes, speaking at the nearby village of Easthampton, N. Y., told a Fourth of July audience that what America needs just now above all other things is an intelligent comprehension of the ideals of democracy. • * • The business section of Pharr, Tex., headquarters for the Third brigade of the New York National Guard, was practically wiped out by fire. The fire is said to have been of incendiary origin. Army equipment was not damaged.

Twenty-six children have died from the epidemic of infantile paralysis in the five boroughs of New York within the last twenty-four hours.

> ■ European War News The French have carried by assault the second Geimian lines on “a front of two kilometers from the Clery-Mari-court road to the River Somme. They have also captured the village Hom, according to the official statement issued by the French war office at Paris. The French have qaptured. all the German second positions south of the Somme on a front of seven miles. • ♦ • Russian cavalry have crossed the Carpathians and entered Hungary, according to a wireless dispatch received at London from Bucharest. The dispatch says that the patrols advanced from Kimpolung and entered Hungarian territory on Tuesday. * * * Berlin announced that all attacks by the allies were thrown back with serious losses. The Thiaumont work was again captured by the Germans — for the fourth time. ♦ * ♦ Berlin says German aviators shot down fifteen allied flyers on the western front in one day. • • * The Berlin official report admits gains of the allies both north and south of the River Somme. Fricourt was taken by the British, and the French captured a fortified stone quarry east of Curlu. South of thq Somme the French penetrated the second line of German defenses, capturing the village of Franz, and the Mereaucourt woods, according to the French reports. The French captured 6,(MM) and the British 3,500 prisoners. The French hold Thiaumont fortification. » * » The capture of Kolomea and Obertine, announced in Petrograd dispatches, marks another vital step in the crushing advance of the Russians in Galicia and Bukowina. Kolomea, with its railroads, is the most important seizure since Czernowitz. * * *

Washington Orders for retirement July 29 of Admiral Cameron Mcßae Winslow, commander of the Pacific fleet, who will then reach the age limit, were issued by the navy department at Washington. The justice department bureau of investigation at Washington reported the capture of a Mexican spy on the border, having in his possession a copy of a communication to a Mexican commander, giving details of the disposition of American forces along the border. • • • The senate at Washington confirmed the following nominations as postmasters: West Lebanon, Ind.’ May Whitewood; Brazil, Ind., Theodore W. Engl ehart. * ♦ • President Wilson . dedicated “To Common Counsel and a Common Understanding” a labor temple erected at Washington as the new home of tl*e American Federation of Labor. He said at the dedicatory exercises that the greatest barrier to industrial peace had been the difficulty of insuring candid and dispassionate conference, and that ‘‘getting our fighting blood up” was “the long way and not the short way” of securing rights. * • • Both the state and war departments at Washington confirmed the report that tin* American forces would be withdrawn from Mexico in the near future under an agreement with First Chief Carranza. President Wilson sent to the senate at Washington the'nomination of I Brig. Gen. Albert E. Mills, head of the division of militia affairs of the war department, tb be a major general. The president also sent the names of the following colonels to be brigadier I generals : Charles Morton. Granger i Adams. George A. Dodd, Edward A. Plumber, Clarence P. Townsley. * » • Senator Kern of Indiana, Democratic leader in the senate, following a conference with President Wilson at I Washington about the administration’s legislative program, predicted that congress would adjourn on August-20. * * *

A census bureau table issued at Washington estimates the number of able-bodied meh of military age in the United States at about 21,000,000. ♦ • ■ • Private Mills of the Thirty-first company of marines was killed in a battle with revolutionists near Monte Cristo, Santo Domingo, the navy department at Washington was officially informed.

Foreign The American steamship Jacob Luckenbach was sunk in collision with an unidentified ship off Dover. Its crew of 31 men was rescued. ♦ * • Ten persons were seriously wounded and 50 arrested in the pro-Liebknecht riots in Pottsdam Platz, Berlin, the Amsterdam correspondent of the Central News of London asserted. Most of the participants were socialists. • • • . i

Personal Miss Sarah Brown, seventy, daughter of John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame, is dead at the home of her sister, Mrs. James Fablinger, San Jose, Cal.