Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — Happenings of die World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of die World Tersely Told

European War News German troops in a salient projecting toward the town of Vermandovillers, south of the River Somme, have been cut off by the French forces, it ■was stated in the German official statement Issued at Berlin. • * • Two Americans have been killed in the Avenue Georges Henri, Brussels, by German gunfire directed against British aeroplanes, according to the Amsterdam Echo Beige. • * * 7 German casualties from the beginning of the war to the end of September were 3,556,018, according to an official British compilation given out at London. * • * Brig. Gen. Philip Howell has been killed in action, says a dispatch from London. He was only thirty-nine years old, and had had a distinguished career In India. • • • The total British casualties on all fronts for the week just ended are announced by the war office at London to have been 22,852 of ail ranks, killed, wounded and missing. • • • The Dutch government, it was learned at The Hague, on the basis of facts already ascertained, will immediately ask Germany to explain the sinklag of the Dutch steamer Bloomersdijk In the Atlantic off the New England ooast i • • • Italian troops fighting in the Carso region, southeast of GoritZj have resumed their march toward capturing several lines of Austrian trenches and more than 5,000 prisoners, says the official statement issued by the Rome war office. • * • * Athens reports that Vice Admiral Dartige Du Fournet, commander of the Anglo-French fleet in the Mediterranean, has presented an ultimatum to Greece demanding that Greece hand over the entire Greek fleet. * * * French forces south of the Somme river resumed their drive on Chaulnes. Gains of a mile and a hulf north of the beleaguered city were made, the official Paris report says, and the town of Bovent and part of Chaulnes woods were captured. • * * Continuing their advance in Transylvania, the Austro-German forces Under General von Falkenhayu huve captured the passes in the Hargitta and Carole mountains, according to the official statement issued at Berlin. * * * The United States has refused to accept the contention of the entente allies urging that neutrals deny the use of their harbors to all submarines, whether merchantmen or warships. Counselor Polk of the state department announced at Washington. * * * A conference between President Wilson and Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, at the summer White House at Long Branch, N. J., revealed the following facts regarding the situation of the United States with respect to the activities of the U-53 off Nantucket lightship: President Wilson will hold Germany to all its promises regarding its conduct of submarine warfare. Ambassador von Bernstorff promises that Germany will hold sacred all.its promises to the American government. • * * With allied cruisers guarding the steamship lanes off the New England coast, submarine raiding ceased. Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, commander of the torpedo-boat destroyer flotilla, says there was only one German raider. * * * Six hundred and thirty-eight men perished when the French transport Gallia was torpedoed in the Mediterranean by a German submarine, says a dispatch from Paris. The ship carried 2,000 French and Serbian soldiers. * • • Domestic Neil J. Berston, sixty, wealthy real estate dealer, was shot and killed in his office at Flint, Mich. Robbery is believed to have been the motive. * * * District Attorney Charles F. Clyne announced at Chicago that several Chicago coal dealer have been asked to confer with him with regard to the recent increase in the price of coal. *’ * • Dr. Arthur C. McLaren, a dentist, who* held that his life had been ruined by an operation performed by Dr. J. B. Weintraub, nursed his grievance seven years, then shot the surgeon in the abdomen. * * * A fight in the Cumberland mountains near the Kentucky line between alleged bootleggers and a force under Sheriff Livingston of Fentress county, killed and two men were mortally wounded, was reported at Chattanooga, Tenn., from Jamestown, er<rt _ ... .. CXST'-'T-'V'.*

President Wilson made public at Long Branch. N. J., the names of seven men whom he has appointed members of an advisory commission to be associated with the “council of national defense” created at the last session of congress. The names of the men are as follows: Daniel Willard, Samuel Gompers, Dr. Franklin H. Martin of Chicago, Howard E. Coffin of Detroit, Mich., Bernard Baruch of New York, Dr. Hollis Godfrey of Philadelphia, Julius Rosenwald of Chicago. • * * When the train bearing the women who are touring the West in their campaign fee votes for Charles E. Hughes arrived at Butte, Mont., Mrs. William Severln, president of the Illinois Federation of Women, announced that she would return home at once. “The train was too nonpartisan and not enough Republican,” she said. • • » Results of an Investigation of gasoline measuring pumps In Illinois made by the United States bureau of standards under the direction of Secretary of State Lewis G. Stevenson of Illinois were made public at Chicago. The government Inspectors found 82 per cent of the Chicago pumps and 83 per cent of those outside Chicago are inaccturate. The average shortage was 3.9 cubic Inches per gallon. • * • As a result of the conference between President Wilson and Secretary Lansing at Long Branch, N. J., it was stated authoritatively that no evidence of the breaking of German promises to the United States hud been discovered so far in connection with the submarine activities off the American coast. • • • While in attendance on a session of the house of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church at St Louis Bishop David H. Greer of New York was stricken with a severe attack of neuritis. • * • Dr. Valeria Hopkins Parker, noted suffragist and social hygiene exponent of Greenwich, filed suit for divorce at Hartford, Conn., from Dr. Edward O; Parker. She charges Intolerable cruelty. * * * Six strikers and three policemen were wounded in riots in the Standard Oil company workers’ strike at Bayonne, N. J. The strikers and police engaged in a revolver battle. • * • After dodging through the seas on a strange course to elude German submarines, the Anchor liner Cumeronia and the French liner Espngne arrived at New York. The Cameronia carried 630 passengers and all the way down the coast she hugged the three-mile neutral zone. Among the passengers on the Espugne were Sarah Bernhardt, Mine. Cnvalieri and Mme, Maria Montessorl, the educator. * * » Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, son of the late Frederick Weyerhaeuser, multimillionaire lumberman, was elected a director of the Great Northern Railway company at St. Paul, Minu. • ’ * The passengers and crew of the Ward line steamer Antilla, bound from Guantanamo for New York, and which reported by wireless that it was alire 120 miles off the Virginia capes, were saved and brought into Hampton Roads on the United States coast guard cutter Onondaga, says a dispatch from Washington. *. • * Unprecedented prosperity of the ultimate consumer was asserted at the annual convention of the National Poultry, Butter and Egg association, in convention ut Chicago. The consumer lias t pay high prices for eggs now, but he will pay rather than deny himself, said a New York broker. * * * The passengers ami crew of the Ward line steamer Antilla, bound from Guantanamo for New York, and which reported by wireless that it was afire 120 miles off the Virginia capes, were saved and brought into Hampton Roads on the United States coast guard cutter Onondaga, says a dispatch from Washington. * * * Lying off Nantucket light, where every liner bound to arid from New York must get its hearings, the German submarine U-53 torpedoed and sunk six ships. Four of them were British, one a passenger carrier. The other two were neutrals —one Dutch and the other Norwegian. An American steamship was held up, but was allowed to proceed. * * * Washington The Supreme court of the United States opened its fall term at Washington, which promises to he one of the most important judicial sessions of recent years. * • • Foreign The German reichstag will ask for another war credit of 12,000,000,000 marks during the present session, according to the Amsterdam Koelnische Volkszeitung. * • * A cyclone swept over St. Thomas, D. W. 1., with disastrous results. Almost every building in the city was damaged. The damage is estimated at sl,000,000. The Island of St. Croix and the town of Christianstad suffered heavily. * * * Former Premier Venizelos of Greece, leader of the revolutionary movement in Greece, arrived at Saloniki from Crete with the announcement that the revolutionists would attack the invading Bulgars without waiting for action by King Constantine.