Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1916 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF TH 5 NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY'PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Fsrm for Quick Consumption. European War News Further French gains are reported In the official statement issued by the war office these being entirely south of the Somme, where the greater part of the village of Berny was captured, as well as the northern portion of Vermandovillers. * ♦ » Germans and Bulgars have concentrated artillery and men against the strongly fortified Roumanian bridgehead at Tutrakan on the Danube, only 40 miles southeast of Bucharest. The German-war office announced the capture of seven Roumanian works near Tutrakan. ? • * * Canada has 361,693 men under arms, according to figures announced at Ottawa, Ont. • • « The question of the central posters delivering an ultimatum to Greece mKis discussed in political circles in Berlin, according to the Koelnische Volkszeitung. Greece’s submission to the demands of the entente allies is interpreted by the newspaper as an abandonment of neutrality.

Despite the fact, reported from Petrograd, that the Russian columns advancing through the Dokrodja (eastern Roumanla) have clashed with the Bulgarians, the Teuton-Bulgar army Invading that region continues victorious, according to advices from Berlin. The invaders captured the City of Dobrltch. * * ♦ The French troops have captured the village of Ommiecourt, Hospital farm, Rainnette wood and part of Marrieres wood, and progressed in other regions north of the Somme, according to the official communication issued by the Paris war office. The prisoners captured number 6,500, and the cannon 36. -» * * Representatives at Athens of Great Britain and France presented to the Greek government at Athens’ a note demanding control over the Greek posts and telegraphs, and insisting on the deportation from Greece of agents of the central powers. • * • The Bulgar-German invasion of Roumania has begun. After concentrating in the vicinity of Varna, Bulgaria, a strong force of German and Bulgarian troops was thrown across the Danube and the Black sea, according to official announcement from Berlin. The Roumanian frontier guards were thrown back “with losses.” ♦ ♦ * Thirteen Zeppelin airships took part In a raid over eastern Britain, and an unofficial statement issued at London says It was the most formidable attack by air ever made on England. One Zeppelin was shot down at London and two were driven off. *. • * It is learned from a reliable source in Athens, Greece, that King Constantine has declared to the entente ministers that after Roumania’s participation in the war he was disposed to reconsider Greek policy.

The Russians stormed Plosga height, southeast of Zelona, in the Qarpathllans, and retained possession of it, the German war office as Berlin admits. '• • • Domestic Congressman Thomas J. Scully of the Third New Jersey district announced at Long Branch, N. J., the receipt of a check for $2,500 from President Wilson. The money Is to be divided among Monmouth county hospitals in accordance with the president’s agreement in accepting Shadow Lawn as his summer home. •* • “ Rates on iron ore from lower lake Erie ports to Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania were pronounced generally unreasonable by the interstate commerce commission at Washington. William Tank, aged thirty-three, and Otto Bergmann, aged thirtyfour, are dead and Arnold Zwickey is probably dying as the result of their auto being ■truck by a Northwestern passenger train near Vandyne, Wig. • • • Following a mass meeting of electric railway employees, a strike was voted on all subway and elevated lines of the Interborough Rapid Transit company of. New York, to go into effect immediately. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cox were found dead in their home at Hartley, la. A coroner’s inquest resulted In a verdict that Cox had murdered his wife and ■hot himself. Cox was fined last week tor beating his wife.

Fifty persons, about half of them from Chicago, were Injured when the Grand Rapids & Indiana resort flyer;-south-bound from Mackinaw City, left the rails near Mancelona, Mich., while traveling at 40 miles an hour, and 11 coaches left the track, a broken rail causing the accident. * * • A little farm of rock-ribbed soil and “crawfish land”i at Hodgenville, Ky., became a nation’s shrine when President Wilson accepted on behalf of the people of the United States the memorial park into which the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln has been transformed. » « • Charles E. Hughes declined to attend the Labor day celebration at Nashville, Tenn., as arranged, for by a local committee, when he was advised that no formal invitation had been extended him by labor leaders and that he would not be permitted to speak except on nonpolitical subjects. Strong defense of the attitude of the railroad brotherhoods was made by Samuel Gompers in a Labor day address at Lewiston, Me. The American Federation of Labor head praised President Wilson for his efforts to settle the controversy and unqualifiedly denounced any attempt by legislation to compel arbitration.

E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, declared in a formal statement at Topeka, Kan., that the Santa Fe does not intend to, comply with the Adamson eight-hour law, recently enacted by congress to avert a threatened railroad strike until ordered to do so by the United States Supreme court. . * • * Mexican War News General Pershing departed from Columbus, N. M., for his headquarters in Mexico, having completed his inspection of the base of the punitive expedition. • • « Mexican bandits attempted to hold up a passenger train near San Luis Potosi. Carranza troops rushed out and charged the bandits, capturing 12 of them. The captives were hanged. >• • • Personal Rear Admiral Arthur J. Pritchard, U. S. A., died at Baltimore, Md. He was in his eightieth year. Admiral Pritchard entered the navy at the beginning of the Civil war as an assistant paymaster. . < ? • • Francisco Madero, father of the late President Madero of Mexico, and one of the largest land and mine owners in that country, was found dead in bed at his home in New York from heart disease. He was sixty-seven years old. * • * Washington Three new brigadier generals for the Marine corps, as provided by the naval bill, were nominated by President Wilson at Washington. Three colonels were am-anced to the posts. They are Charles IL Lauchheimer, George Richards and Charles L. McCawley. • ♦ • Under instructions from the state department at Washington, Ambassador Guthrie at Tokyo and Minister Reinsch at Peking, are investigating the Japanese-Chinese situation precipitated by demands upon China by Japan in connection with the anti-Japanese outbreaks in Mongolia.

A possible violation of Germany’s submarine warfare pledge” to this government was revealed when Consul John M. McCunn, at Glasgow, Scotland, cabled the state department at Washington that 28 Americans were on board the British steamer Kelvina, which was “torpedoed or mined” and sunk near Glasgow on September 2. * * * The senate at Washington rejected the nomination of Dixon C. Williams to be postmaster of Chicago. The rejection was brought about at the request of Senator J. Hamilton Lewis. • * • To the proposal of the entente allies that neutrals accept the principle that all submarines are vessels of war, the United States has dispatched a reply which holds to the principle that the characteristics of each submersible must govern the case. ♦ * • The administration emergency revenue bill, designed to raise $205,000,000 annually from taxes was passed by the senate at Washington. It will create a tariff commission; establishes a protective tariff on dyestuffs ; provides for protection of American firms from “dumping” at the end of the war; and gives the president authority to take drastic retaliatory steps against allied Interference with American trade. • ♦ • The house of representatives at Washington elected Representative S. Hubert Dent, Jr., of Montgomery, Ala., to succeed Representative Hay of Virginia as chairman of the house committee on military affairs. M• • • The eight-hour railroad bill became a law when President Wilson signed it on the train which brought him to Washington from Shadow Lawn, N. J. Foreign Lieut. Sir Ernest H. Shackleton has rescued the members of his antarctic expedition who were marooned on Elephant island. Shackleton returned to Punta Arena, Chile, with his men safe and well on board the rescue ship X«l£ho.

FRANCESVILLE , (From the Tribune) Alex Merica and son Stanley were over from Rensselaer Monday. Mrs. S. K. Jones is visiting this week with relatives in Wolcott-and Kokomo. Mrs. W. R. Johnson and daughter Della of Gillam motored to Rensselaer Thursday. . Misses Hazel Whitaker and Ernest Scjiultz and Leslie .Koster have returned from school at Terre Haute. George Maze of the Tribune has been the guest of friends in Michigan City and Westville for a few days. Born, to Sir. and Mrs. John R. Alkire Sunday, a boy; to Mr. and Mrs. John U. Garrigues Saturday night, a boy. , Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Porter spent a few days of last week here with Mr. and Mrs. William Fitzpatrick and Dr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Ives. Mrs. Joseph Molitor and son of Paulding, Ohio, were here last week the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Molitor and Mr. and Mrs. Otis Culp. I Mrs. R. H. Glassford of Detroit, who had been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bart Reed in Gillam, left Monday fo.r Bedford, where she is visiting relatives, I. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chewers of Whiting were the over Sunday guests df Mr, and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick. Mrs. Chewers was formerly Miss Tracy Fitzpatrick. , Lawrence Hoeschens of Melrose, Minn., arrived here Saturday and will be a member of the teaching corps of the Francesville schools, which begin Monday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Clark, son-

Keith, J. A. Clark and Mrs. Maria Clark motored here from West Clarksfield, Ohio, yesterday, where they had been the guests of the latter for several days. . Charles Wolfe was here from Roanoke. Illinois, last week. He hag rented one of Joseph Fox's farms northwest of town and will move back here in October. Willis will return in time to attend high school. A good sized colt owned by Nick Goller. south of town, met an awful death yesterday morning when it became impaled upon a post. Nick had just left for Minnesota and Mrs. Goller stopped Jess Myers and his section crew and asked them to relieve the animal of its misery. The post penetrated through the body until the skin projected upon its back, its intestines were hanging upon the ground and the colt was running around in a circle trying to liberate itself. It was necessary to cut down the post before the aniinal could be destzoyed.

MEDARYVILLE I (From the Journal) A Claude Reeves of Rensselaer spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Mary Reeves. J. C. Ferrier of Mulberry spent a feat days here this week looking after business matters. Lew Selmer sold a couple of calves last week which netted him the neat sum of SIOO. Charles Douglass of Oilman, Illinois. visited with his brother, W. U. Douglass, over Sunday. Irl Clark and wife of Minneapolis, Minnesota, came last Saturday for a two weeks’ visit with relatives. Miss Ava Guild left last Saturday

for Nappanee for another year of teaching in the high school there. Ronald and Sarah Pullins, Francis Ryan and Daniel Guild have gone to Rensselaer to attend high school. Mrs. Ammon Osborn entertained the M. M. club at the home of her mother, Mrs. C. P. Hermansen, last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Manning and family and Mrs. John Selmer motored Thursday and at' tehded the fair” Walter H. Nicoles of Glendale, California, arrived here Monday noon to be present for the celebration of his father’s one-hundredth birthday. Hugh Low and wife, / who have been visiting the former’s mother, Mrs. M. J. Low, returned to their home in Trimble, Tennessee, last Thursday. Simon Spriggs, living west or Medaryville, suffered a fracture of his right shoulder cap last Sunday when the buggy in which he was riding was upset. / Miss Ethel Hermansen, Miss Fay Marlowel of Chipago and Mrs. Ammon Osborn of Star City have been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Hermansen. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stansberry, Mrs. T. Lizenby and *yss Violet Stansberry spent Sunday afternoon with William Culp and family, living west of Francesville. Mr. and Mrs. John Koepsel, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Oberbeck of Lafayette and Forest Bowman of Indianapolis were guests at the Henry Busch home over Labor day. James Rodgers and sister of Gil-

lam, Rev. Dunn and wife and daughter Kathryn motored to Lakeside Thursday and spent the day with Rev. David Rodgers and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Wobble, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Luken, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Amore and Mrs. Margaret Jones of Chicago attended the funeral of Mrs. Catherine McCay Wednesday.

- -- - v QUITTING A JOB (By Wait Mason.) I said, “My are too low; I’ve worked away, the best I know, since 1 was young and hale, and my employer never cries, “Oh, James Adolphus, you’re a prize, I’ll see you draw more kale.’ I know his business will go broke, when! I throw' off the galljag yoke that I so long worn; without my rare abilities, ’twill soon be bagging at the knees, and he will weep and mourn. He'll realize, when comes that frost, how , great a treasure he has lost; he'll beg me to return; and now I’ll quit this office chair, and get a situation where more roubles I can earn.” So I resigned, with language brief; my boss’ face showed great relief, lp\stead of pain and woe; he cried aloud, “Oh, happy day! It’s lou* since you have earned your pay—-* I’m glad to see you go!” He’s doing business as of yore; things boom in his department store, his 'goods are all the rage;-while I plod on, with sigh and sob and vainly try to get a job at half my former wage.