Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHOOT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHOOT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Ferm for Quick Consumption. European War News The British have recaptured practically all the ground lost in the spectacular German onslaught which took Longueval and the Delville wood from General Haig’s forces. The dead and w’ounded lie in heaps in the ruins of the village and wood, while reserves from both sides are being rushed into the fray with no time to care for those who have fallen, says a London dispatch. ♦ • * The Russians have crossed the Carpathians and have penerated a day’s inarch into Hungary, according to a dispatch to the London Star from Petrograd. The dispatch says the Russians are threatening the Austrian rear in the mountains. • • • A dispatch from Petrograd says 24 women have been elected to the Finnish diet. This represents 12 per cent of the entire membership. • * • Successful fighting above the snow line by the Russian troops In Turkish Armenia is reported by the Petrograd war office. « • ♦ Official advices received from Saloniki say that cannonading is in progress along the entire Salonlkl front. ♦ ♦ ♦ BelgiaK troops operating in German East Africa have reached the shore of Lake Victoria Nyauza and in a seven-hour engagement fought July 7 they dispersed the Germans opposing their advance, taking the German commandant prisoner and inflicting a number of losses on the Germans, according to an official statement Issued by the Belgian war office. • • * Austrian advanced posts in the region of Zabie and Tatarow, south of Kolomea in the Carpathian region, have been pressed back by a Russian attack, says the Vienna war office statement. • • • Reports from Rome say that the retirement of the Teutonic allies on the Lipa has caused a panic in Galicia, where towns are being evacuated. * * * The complete repulse of Russian attacks in the region west and southwest of Lutsk was announped by the Berlin war office. ■ * • Another contingent of Russian soldiers has landed at Brest to re-enforce the allied army on the western front, says a Paris dispatch. * • * A London dispatch says another mile of German second line trenches has been stormed and captured by the British on the Picardy front northwest of Bazentino-le-Petit. The last of tne German defenders have been driven from their ruined positions in Ovillers and La Bolsselle. * • » The Hungarian town of Kirilbaba, In the Carpathian mountains on the frontier of Transylvania, has been captured by the Russians, the Petrograd war office reported. The official statement reports the capture of German trenches near Riga (at the extreme northern end of the front) and the capture of more men and guns. • • •

According to the Berliner Tageblat, the kaiser has decided to pension seven Prussian generals. Five of the generals, namely, Von Bredow, Von Wiestkowsky, Glokke, Cramer and Von Beuer, will leave the army, while Generals Von Kleist and Krahmer will be given garrison commands. No reasons for the dismissals of the generals have been made public. • • * Domestic Seventeen additional deaths have brought the southeastern flood toll to 32, but all rivers are falling and something like normal conditions obtain iu many sections. • * • The First National bank of Alpha, Mich., a small town in Iron county about thirty-five miles from Iron Moua* tain, Mich., was robbed of $6,000 by two highwaymen. The cashier was the only one in the bank at the time. • • * That infantile paralysis, which has resulted in one case at Paris, Hl., had Its origin in a flock of chickens was the statement made by Dr. H. P. Nelson of the state board of health, who investigated the case. • • • Arrangements virtually have been completed at Asbury Park, N. J., for the rental of quarters to be used as the executive offices of the president when he and Mrs. Wilson take up thelt summer residence at Shadow Lawn.

Floods,which have already drowned 200 persons in the district about Queretaro, Mex., are becoming worse hourly, according to official dispatches. Thousands of families have been driven from their homes. * • • Infantile paralysis showed a sudden and marked increase in figures issued by the New York health department, proving unfounded the hope that the crisis of the epidemic had been I passed; One hundred and twenty-one new cases and 2 deaths were announced, as compared with 95 cases and 14 deaths the previous day. ♦ ♦ * An automobile carrying four residents of Jefferson, S. D„ bound for Sioux City to attend a circus, dashed through the railing of a bridge over the Sioux river at Sioux City and three occupants of the car were drowned. The victims were: George Fountain, thirty years old; Florence Wakefield, seventeen, and Evelyn Wakefield, fifteen. • * • Six persons are dead and three wounded as the result of a pitched battle between 150 policemen and a negro maniac and his wife, barricaded in a house on Irving avenue, Chicago. The battle was ended only when the police dynamited the flat building in which the negroes were quartered, after hundreds of shots had been fired. • ♦ * The jury In the Orpet case at Waukegan, 111. reached a verdict of acquittal after four hours and thirty-nine minutes’ deliberation and three ballots. The verdict means the young college student was not responsible, in the eyes of the law, at least, for the death of Marian Lambert, his one-time sweetheart, February 9. ♦ * * The campaign tour plans for Charles Evans Hughes were turned over to the new campaign committee in New York which will make definite arrangements for the western trip. ♦ • * Mexican War News A band of Villistas attacked a train on the Mexico Northwestern near Santa Ysabel, about 50 miles west of Chihuahua City, according to a report to Gen. Jacinto Trevino. The bandits were beaten off, and eight of them captured. • * * An army of 70,000 men will be encamped at El Paso, Tex., within the next ten days. The military authorities estimated 20 additional regiments are to go to the border city from southern and middle western states. * ♦ ♦ An El Paso dispatch says “Pancho” Villa’s advance guard is riding on a raid north of Chihuahua City and less than 150 miles from the American border. Gen. Jacinto Trevino, commander of the Carranza army of the north, admitted that the Villistas had broken through and that he seemed powerless to stop them. Carranza troops engaged a detachment of the Ninth Massachusetts infantry in a sharp skirmish fight on the border near El Paso. More than 100 shots were fired. One Mexican is believed killed. No casualties on the American side. • * * Several scattered groups of Villistas have eluded the cordon of government troops which surrounded them in the Rio Florida bottoms, and have reassembled at Tinajas and Las Escobas, on the road to Ojinaga, and are making their way north with the object of making another raid on the American border, according to confidential advices to Gen. Jacinto Trevino at Chihuahua City. • * ♦ According to announcement by General Gonzales in Juarez, Villa Is in the vicinity of Las Nlevas, Durango, and is being hunted by three separate columns of Carranza troops under Generals Arrieta, Ramos and Herrera. • * * All lines of commnnication from Chihuahua City southward have been cut by Villa. Intense excitement prevails there. The bandit is believed on his way to take the city. A train which started for Mexico City returned with the report that the railroad track north of Jiminez had been torn up for miles. Telegraph and telephone wires also have been cut. *• • ' Washington President Wilson sent the nomination of Abram I. Elkus of New' York to succeed Henry UPorgenthau as ambassador to Turkey to the senate at Washington. • • * President Wilson is to go to Wisconsin’s lake country for at least two weeks of fishing and to hide away from the cares of office preliminary to his fall presidential campaign, according to a Rhinelander, Wis., dispatch. * * * President Wilson sent to the senate at Washington the nomination of Representative John Hay of Madison, Va., to be judge of the United States court Of claims. • • • Figures compiled by the department of commerce at Washington show that on July 1 there were building in American ship yards steel merchantmen totaling 1,240,000 tons, declared to be a world record in shipbuilding. * * • The senate at Washington confirmed President Wilson’s nomination of Representative James Hay of Virginia as a justice of the court of claims. Mr. Hay will resign from congress at the end of the present session to accept.