Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Moment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All tho People Everywhere. European War News A fresh Russian defeat in Volhynla Tuesday, west of Luisk, was announced by the German war office at Berlin. “Thousands of dead were left on the battlefield,” the statement said. ’ • * • Serbians have crossed the Toherna river and defeated the adversary on the Nize mountain in Serbia, and also captured the Kessali railroad station, according to advices received at Paris. The Serbian territory recaptured now embraces 89 square miles including seven towns. • • ♦ German submarines between September 20 and 29 sank in the North sea, and the English channel 35 hostile vessels with a total tonnage of 14,000, the Overseas News agency announced at Berlin. “As the result of an encircling attack,” the German war office announced at Berlin, “Roumanian forces which had crossed the Danube near Rjshove, south of Bucharest, withdrew in a hasty flight.” ♦• * - Between July 1, the opening of the Somme battle, and the end of September, the British forces on that front took 26,735 prisoners. They engaged in that period 38 German divisions and forced 29 of them to withdraw from the battle exhausted or shattered. These results were announced in a summary of the Somme operations hy Sir Douglas Haig, given out by the Official Press bureau in London. b » * * The Bulgarians have abandoned several positions in the Starkov, Grob and Brod river regions, says a Paris dispatch. The entente allies occupied Sovich, Petorak, Verveni and Jenikoi, northeast of Florina. * • * The capture of 5.000 soldiers, 600 of them Germans, during fighting in Galicia, was reported by the war office at Petrograd. * * * Rome reports that, as a result of the Roumanian invasion of Bulgaria, Field Marshal von Mackensen, commanding the German-Bulgar-Turkish army, invading Dobrudja, has ordered the evacuation of the fortresses of Turtukal and Silistria on the Danube. ♦ ♦ * The following official statement dated September 30, was received at Berlin: ‘■Russian forces in Persia, camping south of Sakiz, 50 kilometers east of Saudshbulsk, were attacked and routed by the Turks September 27.” "* • * The Roumanian army in the Dobrudja has forced a crossing of the Danube south of Bucharest, invading Bulgaria for the first time, according to an admission made by the German war office at Berlin. .... * • • Ten Zeppelins took part in Sunday night’s raid over England. Except for part of the envelope there is left hardly a vestige recognizable as part of tho huge airship which was brought down near Potter’s Bar. The crew was incinerated. ♦ • * Domestic The United States merchant marine lost one of its best freighters when the Norwegian flag was hoisted on the steamship Honolulan at Newport News, Va. The ship was bought from the American-Hawaiian line by Ove Lentoft, Bergen, Norway, for about $2,000,000. A negro woman named Connelly, whose son is charged with killing a white farmer after a quarrel in which she took part, was taken from the jail at Leary, Ga., and lynched. • * * Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer and peace advocate, reiterated to President Wilson at a conference at Shadow Lawn, N. J., that he was supporting him for re-election. • • • Five were killed and fifty were injured at Cleveland, 0., when the north span of the West Third street bridge collapsed under the weight of two heavily loaded street cars. They met head-on before the bridge collapsed. * • • Clarence Meyers, twenty-three years old, confessed at Grand Rapids, Mich., that he murdered William Travis, a well-to-do farmer living near Fremont, Mich., last October, to make clear the way for his marriage to Travis’ wife. • • • Tacit admission of the failure of the ‘general” sympathetic strike lu New York in behalf of the striking street car men was made in a report to a conference of labor leaders which diecussed the general situation.

Michigan’s mail-order murderer wqs taken to Jackson prison to spend the remainder of his life. Scott Maussell of Mancelona, Mich.,, is his name, although he was arrested as James C. Allerton. Maussell has confessed at Grand Rapids, that he killed Mrs. Anna St. John of Elmira, N. Y., and Westboro, Wis., aged fifty-five. • * * Two hundred men fought all day at Phelps, Wis., in a successful attempt to save the town from destruction by fire which burned the lumber mills. The loss is estimated at $300,000. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. Helen Morton Bayly, daughter of Mark Morton, the Wheaton and Lake Forest (Ill.) millionaire, won her suit for divorce from Roger Bayly, the well-known Virginia horseman, to whom she was married in June, 1914. The charge she made was that of desertion. ♦ • • Daniel G. Reid, New York millionaire, who has been connected with a Richmond (Ind.) bank, resigned as vice president and director to comply with the Clayton act, which prohibits a person from being officer or director of more than one national bank. Reid i already is connected with three New York banks. * * * The entire business section and many fine residences of Mendon, Mich., were completely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $400,000. * * * Father Scheutz was killed and Bishop Dunne and Father Shannon seriously injured in an automobile wreck near Princeville, 111. ♦ * ♦ Aviator Lawrence Sperry of New York was found floating on the sea off Boston after a thrilling night. He started on a flight from Lynn late in the afternoon. He ran out of gasoline, and was compelled to “land” on the water. A motorboat came to his assistance. A hunt for Lorine Merriman, nine years old, kidnaped from the home of his aunt, Mrs. Lulu Overman, at Indianapolis four years ago, ended when the girl was returned to Indianapolis from Grand Forks, N. D. * » » Edward A. Leet of New York, who pleaded guilty a week ago to blackmail, was sentenced to a term of from four to eight years in Sing Sing. « • • Sporting There is joy in Brooklyn, for the Robins have captured the National league pennant. Brooklyn clinched the flag by defeating, the Giants, 9 to 6, at Brooklyn, and will clash with the Boston Red Sox for the championship of the world. • * • Washington The special war department board at Washington which investigated military aeronautics reported that its inquiry not only failed entirely to substantiate allegations of inefficiency on the part of army officers but clearly established that development of this branch of the service “is being conducted with energy and foresight.” • * • Politics Former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft shook hands according to schedule at the Union League club in New York. • ♦ * For the first time in the history of American politics, 200 women started on a country-wide campaign tour for a presidential candidate. They left New York on a special train for San Francisco to stump the country for Charles E. Hughes. Mexican War News Strong protest has been made to the state department at Washington by the British and French embassies against the action of the Carranza government in Mexico in seizing the assets of British and French banking institutions in the Mexican capital. Foreign Gen. Emilano Chamorro, until recently minister to the United tSates, has been elected president of Nicaragua.

* * * Field Marshal Terauchi has been appointed by the emperor to succeed Count Okuma as premier of Japan, it was announced at Tokyo. * * * Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, former ambassador at Washington, addressing the Congregational union at Birmingham, England, decried the spirit of hate against the Germans and the talk of a lasting trade war. In conclusion he advocated a league to restrain aggression and compel arbitration. ♦ ♦ * A mass meeting held at Frankfort adopted a resolution in favor of early peace, says an Amsterdam dispatch to London. • • » Personal Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the army, is confined in Walter Reed army hospital at Washington suffering from an attack of indigestion. His condition is not regarded as dangerous. General Scott is sixty-three years old. • Maj. William Warner, Missouri statesman and former United States senator, died at Kansas City, Mo.