Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — News of the Week Gut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Gut Down for Busy Readers

European War News British and French losses in the battle of the Somme have reached about 500,000 men. the Overseas News agency at Berlin estimates. • • • Reuter's Telegram company at # London says it learns officially that the Greek government has submitted a very urgent note to Germany regarding the removal to Germany of Greek troops from Kavala, and demanding that they be released. • * • The Roumanian army in Transylvania has been defeated. It has been driven back on both right and left flanks. Bucharest admits that superior forces have pressed the troops of King Ferdinand back on the northwestern front, and the Vienna report claims the expulsion of the Roumanian left wing from the province into its native land. • • • According to a dispatch to Amsterdam from Maastricht, 62 persons have been on trial at Hasselt, Belgium, on charge of espionage, of whom 22 were condemned to death. •• * V Serbian. Russian and French troops have driven the entire right wing of the Bulgarian army out of Greece across the Serbian frontier and are pressing on toward Monastir, according to official advices received at Salonika The Bulgur leaders are said to be evacuating that city.

Turning upon the Russians, the German and Austrian armies struck a smashing blow at the Russian line before Kovel. The Berlin war office announces that the Russian bridgehead Zarecze. has been taken by storm, .‘»1 officers and 2,511 men being taken prisoners. • • * The official report issued by the ministry of War at Paris shows that the French have captured u group of trenches only 2<>o yards south of Conibles, the important town, which they have nearly encircled. South of the Somme the French captured Deniecotirt and IJJUU prison rs. • • • Abandonment by the Germans of the village of Berny and* DeuicoUft, together with positions between Barleux find Yermandovillers, south of the River Somme, is reported in the official statement issued at Berlin. Lieut. Raymond AMjuith. oldest son of the British premier, has been killed at tlie front in action, it was announced at London. He Was in the Grenadier Guards and was thirty-live years old.

* * * Fiorina, an important town in northwestern Macedonia (nearly eleven miles within the < Ireek frontier), was carried by assault by French troops, according 11# an official states iiient issued at Paris. The Bulgarians are retiring in disorder in the direction of Mdnittstir. * * • A German attack against the Russians who are attempting to capture the Guiieian town of Haliez, the southeastern key to Lemberg, resulted in the defeat of the Russians, the Berlin war office announced. The Germans took :5..j01> prisoners. * * • Additional gains along a front of more than a mile and a half were scored by the British in pressing their ofTensivu north of the Somme, the war office announced. The “Danube trench." about one mile long, was taka n, and further territory on a thousand yard front near Courcelette was captured. Domestic Fire destroyed the grain elevator of McKenney, Rodgers \ Co. of Chicago located at Lapnrte. Ind. The estimated loss is $150,000. • * • The British “tanks,” the armored motor cars used in recent assaults on German trenches in northern France so successfully as to attract worhl- ! wide attention, were built for the most part in Peoria, 111., in the form of , caterpillar tractors, designed to meet ! some of the difficult problems of modi era farming. * * • ’ Wild rioting in New York by strikers along routes where surface cars were being operated kept the police in constant battles with strikers. Several cars were wrecked. A score of rioters were arrested. Others were sent to hospitals. • • • Three private banks operated by W. H. Paisley & Sons of Chicago closed their doors. The institutions were known as the North Shore Savings bauk, the Summerdale Savings bunk and the Broadway and Grace Street bank. • • • John Clyne, Missouri National Guardsman, was shot and killed by a guard in camp at Dolores, Tex, Clyue's arrest had been ordered by Lieutenant Zullum. Clyne threatened the officer, finally leveling his gun at him, whereupon the guard fired.

Caroline B. Hulbert was married at the home of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hulbert. in Mjddlesburg, Ya., to Raymond Belrpont, son of August Beimont of New York. Belmont married Ethel Lorraine, a’ chorus girl, four years ago. She sued for divorce and won. * • • Nine stores, ten houses and a score of sheds were destroyed at Erie, Mich., by a fire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. • * * Chemistry hall at Notre Dame university was destroyed t>y fire. Two top stories of the same building were burned off one week ago. The work of reconstruction had just been completed. •• • • The five men and three women arrested at Chicago by government officers in a raid on the Tyson apartments as members qf a band that has mulcted wealthy men and women out of $250,000 or more, are to be tried in Philadelphia. It is said those held, together with others at liberty, have fleeced at least 15 prominent men and women in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York by blackmail methods of a most modern type and that there were many other victims who never complained, fearing the notoriety. '

Returns from the New York statewide primaries show the following results: Governor Whitman won the Republican nomination; William XL Culder of Brooklyn won the Republican senatorial nomination; William F. McCoombs won the Democratic senatorial nomination; Judge Samuel Seabury was unopposed for the Democratic nomintaion for governor. « * » Joseph Tuina, owner of the Turaa Savings bank at Chicago, one of the private institutions under investigation by State’s Attorney Hoyne, shot and killed himself while standing on a pier in the lake. Failure to obtain a loan of SIO,OOO is believed to have caused his act. * • • Five persons 'Were killed, two probably fatally injured, and four others less seriously hurt when an automobile In which they were rifling crashed through a guard rail on a bridge across the Harlem river at New York. * * * Worth’s museum at Newcastle, Ind., a private collection of relics arid curios, said to hi* the most extensive of its kind in America, was destroyed by fire with a loss of probably sl,000,000. ..

Mexican War News General Carranza notified Secretary of State Lansing at Washington that every American-owned mine in Mexico not in operation in GO days will be confiscated. The threat is aimed at property valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. • * • General Obregon, minister of war, announced at Mexico City that a thousand followers of Francisco Yilla, who attacked the town of < 'liihuahua, were routed witii a loss of Goo men killed and many captured. During the fighting General Trevino was slightly w ounded in the shoulder. • • • Foreign The giant (lain situated above Hannwald burst, says a dispatch from Berlin. Many lives were lost and enormous property damage was caused at Galiionz, Bohemia, and in Weissendesse valley 250 bodies, many of them children, have been recovered. The villages of Deszendorf, Tiefenbuch, Tanmvald, Sehuml»urg, Sehwarow, Grosshannuer aiul liaratz are inundated. * • * Washington Great Britain formally apologized to the United States for tlie British violation of American neutrality in the Philippines When a British destroyer inside the three-mile limits stopped and searched the steamer Cebu, flying the Stars and Stripes.

It was announced in Washington that Germany will pay an indemnity for all American lives lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. * * * The navy department at Washington has sent the cruiser San Diego, flagship of the Pacific fleet, with Admiral Caperton on board, to Nicaragua waters, where revolution is feured as a result of the approaching elections and the dispute over Nicaragua’s cession of canal rights to the United States. • ' • • Secretary of War Baker at Washington ordered the Second New York National Guard home from the border for muster out. At the same time orders have been given for the return of four other regiments in exchange for five regiments ordered to the border last week. • • • Personal Pierce Burton, editor, writer and lawmaker, is dend nt Ayrora, 111., aged eighty-two years. In 1871 Mr. Burton sold a paper he had at Demopolis, Ala., and came to Aurora and established another. f • • • . . . William J. Calhoun, former-minister to China, died at his home in Chicago. Death came as the result of a relapse from a stroke of paralysis. Of Scotch ancestry, Mr. Calhoun was bora October 5, 1848, ip Pittsburgh.