Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1916 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War News Following official announcement both from London and Berlin of the capture of the important village of Pozlerea, the British war office at London reported in its statement that there was no further fighting of any consequence. * * * A British dreadnaught has been torpedoed by a German submarine off the Scottish coast, says a Berlin official statement given out by the admiralty. * • • The war is costing the Dominion of Canada $1,000,000 a day, an official announcement Issued at Ottawa said. • * * Six civilians have been executed by the Germans at Ghent, charged with “war treason,” according to a Reuter Amsterdam dispatch quoting the Telegraaf. • • * The Russians have torn two new gaps in the Austrian lines in Volhynla and Galicia and are advancing on the main road to Lemberg, Petrograd reports. * * * An Austrian official statement received at London says that 12,500 Italians were killed in an attack in the Sugana valley Monday. * • * Germany is pouring great masses of troops into the west and the frontier has been closed as a precaution against any of their movements becoming known, says an Amsterdam dispatch. * • • The German classes of 1017 and 1918 will be called to the colors shortly, according to information received at Rotterdam. • • •

The city of Brussels has been fined $1,250,000 by the German authorities for celebrating Belgian day, July 21, according to an Amsterdam dispatch. * * * Smashing gains by the Russians In the Riga sector, where they broke the German line on a 30-mile front, and a further advance south of Berestechk, Volhynla, where they tore a new gap in General von Linsengen’s line, were reported by Petrograd. * * • Petrograd reports that Erzingan, a gyeat Turkish stronghold in central Armenia, has been taken by the Russians. The Caucasian armies of the Grand Duke Nicholas have been conducting a campaign against the city for months. * • • Having thrown back the Teutons with a series of sledge-hammer blows, the Russians are now attacking the Austro-Hungarian positions defending the main ridge of the Carpathians in southern Galicia, says a Petrograd dispatch. * • • Fighting in the battle of the Somme centers around the village of Pozleres, which was entered by the British Sunday in the renewal of their offensive, says a London dispatch. Smashing counter-attacks by the Germans failed to drive the Australian troops from *he positions they had won, and the British forces added 151 captives to the number already taken in the ruins of the town. * • •

Domestic Seventy'-two thousand cats and 8,000 ' dogs have been put to death In New York by the S. P. C. A. since July 1 In the fight against infantile paralysis. • * * As a result of a quarrel over the 1 race for the Democratic nomination for i sheriff, Jim Smith shot and instantly | killed Robert Nabors in crowded Main street at Ringling, Okla. * * * Net earnings of the Steel corporation in the June quarter were at the rate of 47 per cent per annum on the $508,312,500 common stock—after allowing for interest charges, sinking fund requirements and the regular disbursements on the preferred stock. An extra dividend of one per cent was declared on the junior issue. * * * Clayton McDonald, son of a prominent Floridan, was killed and all but his hands and feet eaten by a ferocious panther in the San Pedro swamps. * • * A Washington dispatch says the comfortable profit of $3,000,000 was made by Herr Lohmann, the man who conceived the idea of sending the Deutschland to the United States with a cargo of dyestuffs. • • * All doubt as to the identity of the three persons found dead in the woods near Lake Forest, HI., were dispelled when messages were received from Flint, Mich., that the bodies undoubtedly were .those of Lloyd A. Crandall, wis wife and their baby son Arthur. • e • James W. Pryor, thirty-five years old, his wife and two children and the child of C. E. Westcott, all of Houghton, Mich., were drowned in Portage lake, Michigan, when their motorboat collided with another. West* cott and his wife were saved.

Unable to stand criticism which he felt the public directed at him because of his connection with the disbarment proceedings against Attorney J. H. Thompson on an alleged tax title fraud, Henry M. Gardner, probate judge of Ingham county, Michigan, threw himself into Grand river and was drowned. • • • Junk men in the United States collected $114,000,000 worth of scrap iron and other metals last year, the geological survey ut Washington announces. • • • The death tell of the bomb outrage at San Francisco reached six when I Capt. Reuben Vaughn died of his inI Juries. A total of $14,000 in rewards 1 has been offered for the apprehension of the assassins. • • • Information has been received by San Francisco railway men that the 350,000 members of the four great brotherhoods of railway trainmen have concluded their balloting and have re--1 turned an overwhelming vote in favor ! of a strike. • » • The Yonkers, N. Y., street car strike spread to the Bronx and practically every surface car in the northern and western part of the borough was tied up. • • • Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, awaiting electrocution In Sing Sing prison for the murder of his father-in-law, John E. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich., was found in his cell in the “death house” bleeding from a wound in his chest made in the shape of a cross. The prisoner had cut himself with a piece of broken glass.

*; • * The %l. Louis Globe-Democrat has announced an increase in the price of Its daily edition in St. Louis from one cent to two cents, effective August 1. • * • That the material wealth of the Salvation army is $8,353,179.97, was disclosed in a petition of the army for permission to mortgage property filed In the Kings county, New York, clerk’s office. • * • During a thick fog the incoming steamer Comus from New Orleans collided with a coal barge off Sea Girt, N. J. The barge’s crew of seven men was rescued. The barge sank rapidly. The damage to the Comus was slight. • • • Fifteen men were reported killed and 18 overcome by gas in the new waterworks tunnel extending from the shore to the West side crib at Cleveland, O. • • • Thousands of men, women and children, admirers of the works of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, passed before the casket In which his body lay in state in the capitol at Indianapolis.

* * * Mexican War News General Funston has ordered trial by court-martial for all negro soldiers of the Eighth Illinois infantry that were engaged in a riot, at San Antonio, in which three of the militiamen were shot by the provost guard. * * * The full report of Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, assistant Chief of staff, on his inspection of National Guardsmen in the Brownsville district, made public at Washington, says that in an inspection of all camps and more than 30,000 men, reports of inefficiency and bad rations were found to be wholly false. * * * Between six and seven hundred men of the First brigade were bowled from the line on the hike, San Antonio to Ten-Mile hill. Almost every bush between Camp Wilson and Ten-Mile hill was doing umbrella service for exhausted militiamen. • • • Personal The remains of James Whitcomb Riley were laid to rest in a massive flow-er-covered vault in Crown Hill ceme- : tery at Indianapolis. This temporary ! resting place was chosen until it could ! be decided where the poet should be ! interred. • * * Cardinal Gibbons, eighty-tw T o years old, celebrated his birthday at the home of Joseph Shriver, a quiet place in Carroll county, near Baltimore, Md. For 20 years he has taken birthday dinner as the guest of Mr. Shriver. * • •

Washington To “weed out” the disgruntled militiamen along the border, Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss will Recommend to the war department that a most liberal construction be placed on its policy of releasing guardsmen with dependent relatives, according to an El Paso dispatch. • • • The Democrats of the senate at Washington yielded to President Wilson’s demand that the child labor bill be taken up and passed at this session. »* * 4 More than $12,000,000 was added to the appropriation for the pay of officers and men in the United States army and National Guard as the result of the adoption of an amendment in the senate at Washington to give everyone serving along the Mexican border “foreign pay.” • e • Official announcement was made at Washington that negotiations have practically been completed for the purchase of the Danish West Indies by the United States from Denmark for $25,000,000. i . r