Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. European War News The Greek provisional government has opeqed negotiations with the United says a dispatch from Athens to the Exchange Telegraph company at London to secure freedom of action in recruiting Greeks in America. * * • The admiralty announced at Berlin that the Italian protected cruiser Libya was hit and severely damaged in the Mediterranean by a torpedo from a German submarine. * ♦ » The official statement issued at Paris says: “North of the Somme we completed the Conquest of Sailly-Sallisel and are driving the enemy northwest and northeast of the village.” • . » William Thaw, the American aviator, who is a member of the French Hying corps, was killed in action, according to news received at New Haven, Conn., in a letter from S. S. Walker to Lyttleton B. P. Gould. Walker is a member of the American Ambulance corps in France. • ♦ ♦ A Reuter’s dispatch to London from Athens says: ‘‘The situation appears to be dangerous. There have been royalist demonstrations in the streets. Vice Admiral du Fournet, commander of the allied fleet, was hissed and French sailors were attacked by a hostile crowd. Four thousand malcontents protested to the American legation against the landing of foreign marines and demanded the protection of the minister, who was absent. * • • Vice Admiral du Fournet of France has handed the Greek government at Athens a new note of an extremely grave character, says a dispatch to London from Athens. Rioting in the streets followed the presentation of the latest entente demands upon Greece. • • • A crushing defeat of the Russian armies attacking the Lemberg defense lines was announced by the war office at Berlin. The Teutons took Russian trenches on a front of a mile and a half, taking 1,930 prisoners. Then machine guns were captured. • • * The Roumanian armies Xn Transylvania have checked the furious onslaught of the Austro-German division and are holding their positions west of the frontier, according to an official report issued from Bucharest. * * * Roumanian troops have occupied the villages of Stana, Gligoinan, Cio-cadobro-Gugli, and Ciorcastrica-Tului in their new counter-offensive against the Teutons in the Alt valley region, it was officially announced at Bucharest. • • • A British and an Italian warship. In consequence of a fog, collided in the Messina channel (between the mainland of Italy and the island of Sicily), Amsterdam reports, says an item given out by the Overseas News agency at Berlin. “The ships shelled each other and one was damaged heavily.” ♦ * * “The Roumanian Second army in its retreat in Transylvania lost approximately 7 two divisions,” says the Overseas News Agency at Berlin. "The Roumanian First army and the larger part of the Second army have been virtually annihilated. » ♦ » At Kirlibaba in the Carpathians five officers and 1,097 men and five machine guns were captured by AustroGermans, says Vienna, and on the Smotrec three officers and 381 men. In both sectors Russian counter-at-tacks failed. * • * Domestic > A dozen leaders of the striking negro employees in the Panama Canal Zone were arrested charged with violation of the intimidation laws. • * ♦ Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe mail express train No. 5, south-bound, was held up and robbed by a band of robbers near Bliss, Okla. An express clerk named Norman was shot and killed by the bandits. The robbers escaped in an automobile. • • • Trapped in a two-story building only 16 feet from the ground, seven lost their lives in a fire that wiped out part of the Oakes Dye Manufacturing company’s plant at New York. The loss is estimated at SIBO,OOO. * * * Mayor Martin R. Carlson of Moline, DI., raided 53 alleged “blind pigs,** practically all of them located in former saloon buildings and operated as “•oft drink” parlors by former saloon keepers.

Another boost in the price of bread la imminent as a result of the soaring price of flour. Bakers paid $9.50 a barrel wholesale, the highest price in 20 yeaips, and at Chicago it was predicted millers would be demanding $lO or sll for their product before the winter is over. • • • Members of the Central Cotton Garment Manufacturers’ association, which met at Chicago, predict still higher prices for cotton goods. • • • The South was rocked by earthquake and swept by storm at the same time. While a tropical hurricane was flaying the gulf coast, earth tremors overturned chimneys and frightened many people from their homes in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The earthquake did little damage, but a loOmile wind lifted roofs from houses at Pensalcola, Fla. The property' loss was estimated at $1,(MX),000. ♦ * * Four bandits, who entered Centralia, Okla., in an automobile, held up the officials of the First National bank and robbed the institution of approximately $6,000. * * * It was reported in the New York financial district that Great Britain Is to float another loan of $250,000,000 in this country. It will be handled by J. I’. Morgan A Co. • • • Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, thirty years old, guest at a hotel in Detroit, Mich., shot and killed her five-year-old son, Harold, and the committed suicide, according to the police. The mutilated bodies of Andrew Frey, sixty years old, and his sister, ilarie Frey, fifty-five, were found near their home at Rosedale, Ind. Apparently they had been murdered. • • • Chicago's voting population for the November election breaks all American records with the unprecedented total, men and women, of 808,728. This places New York in second place. Gotham’s high water mark is 738,000. The total women's registration for the coming election is 304.512. The total men enrollment is 504,467.

George Noonan, clerk of the court of Washington county, Missouri, his wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Annie Campbell, and Wade Richardson, ten years old, of St.- Francois county, were drowned in the Rug river near Blackwell. They attempted to ford the river in a two-horse buggy. • • • Nine cattlemen of western Nebraska and a fourteen-year-old boy lost their lives in a collision between two sections of a heavy stock train near Bertrand, Neb., on the Burlington. * * * The Du Pont company, it was announced at Wilmington, Del., will pay more than $11,000,000 to the government in munitions and other taxes. • • • Following two lynchings, Paducah, Ky., prepared for possible trouble by ordering its saloons to remain closed. Two negroes were hanged. One of them was charged with attacking Mrs. George Rose, the wife of an Illinois Central employee; the other expressed sympathy for him and, It was said, lauded his act. * • * Washington President Wilson’s efforts to get assistance from foreign rulers for starving Poland have failed. The president Issued a statement at Long Branch, N. J„ announcing the failure of his plea, and also made public the letter he sent abroad. • ♦ * Sporting Running every step of the distance and making only three stops, which consumed 20:30 actual time, Sidney Hatch, who competed unattached, broke the record between Milwaukee and Chicago. The great performer negotiated the distance, 95.7 miles, in 14:50:30. ■ • • • Al Shubert of New Bedford, Mass., surprised Kid Williams and a crowd of 5,000 fight fans at Philadelphia when he gave the title holder a terrific battle. The champion won by the narrowest of margins—but he won nevertheless. • * • Foreign An official admiralty statement issued at Petrograd announces that the Russian submarine Tulen captured the Turkish 6,000-ton armored war trans-' port Riditsto. The transport, which was commanded by German officers, was taken to Sebastopol. « * * Challenged by Timothy Healy during a bitter debate in the house of commons at London on the conduct of the government toward the 560 Sinn Feiners still interned as ringleaders in the uprising, Premier Asquith retorted Uait he would be most happy if an impartial judge—the American ambassador —would visit the prisoners. • * • Senator Filipescu, former minister of war, Is dead at Bucharest. Filipescu, together with M. Jonescu, virtually forced Premier Bratiano to bring Roumania into the war. * ♦ ♦ Mexican War News Carranza troops numbering about 1,000 were defeated in an all-day battle with Villa bandits in superior numbers at San Andres, Chihuahua, according to persons who arrived at El Paso, Tex., on a train from Chihuahua City.