Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1916 — WORLD’S NEWS IN] BRIEF [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S NEWS IN] BRIEF

European War News From a trusted source in Petrograd the Chicago Dally News receives the cabled message that “henceforth communications should be addressed to Odessa, not to Bucharest.” This is believed to convey the veiled information that the Roumanian government Is fleeing or preparing to flee out of Its imperiled country to the Russian city of. Odessa. ♦ * * Official announcement was made at Berlin of the capture of Czernavoda, In Dobrudja, by the army under Field Marshal von Mackensen. Vulcan pass Is now in the hands of the Austro-Ger-mans. • * * In a powerful series of attacks on the Verdun front the French have captured the village and fort of Douaumont, advanced beyond the Thiaumont work and farm, and occupied also the Haudromont quarries, north of Verdun, according to the bulletin Issued by the Paris war office. Thirtyfive hundred prisoners were taken. • ♦ • A new type of warfare has developed on the Somme front. The French war office communique issued at Paris said that a French aviator flew over the German trenches at St. Pierre Vaast wood and when above them opened fire upon the German soldiers with a machine gun. * • * French aviators on Tuesday fought 20 battles in the air over the western front. Three German machines were shot down, the Paris war office announced. • • * Baron Newton, under-secretary for foreign affairs, announced In the house of lords at London that the British and German governments had agreed to exchange all interned prisoners over the age of forty-five. • * * The Roumanian Danube town of Resova has been captured by Field Marshal von Mackensen’s left wing tn the Dobrudja, the German war office announced at Berlin. Seventy-five officers and 6,693 men were captured. The town of Medjldle also was occupied by Mackensen’s army. The Roumanian town of Predeal has been captured by General von Falkenhayn’s army. * * * In an attempt to break through the German lines on the Somme at any cost, the British and French used great numbers of troops in repeated attacks, the Berlin war office announced. Their assaults broke down, with heavy losses. The dead are lying In one row after another. * * * The repulse of the Russian forces from the western bank of the River Narayuvke In Galicia has been completed, says the official statement issued in Berlin. At Predeal pass, on the

Transylvania front, out) Roumanians were captured. • • • Four tons of projectiles have been dropped by a French air squadron of 24 machines on blast furnaces north of Metz and on the Metz Thionville stations, the Paris vtar office announced. • • • Constanza, Roumania’s greatest seaport, has fallen before Field Marshal von Mackensen’s armies, it was officially announced at Berlin. Capture of the city and fortress Is the greatest single achievement for the central powers since Roumania entered the war, eight weeks ago. • • * The Bulgarian defenses at the mouth of the Struma river, in portheastern Greece, were bombarded by an entente" allied fleet, says a dispatch from Saloniki. • • • Domestic Alexander Brown, the widely known polo player ofi|Philadelphia, fell in his hydroaeroplane into the Delaware river at Esslngton and was drowned. * • • Victor Emmanuel Chapman, son of John Jay Chapman of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., killed in action at Verdun, left an estate of $500,000. Young Chapman was in the French flying corps. Conrad Chapman and Chandler Chapman, brothers, inherit the estate. » * ♦ The three-story colonial residence on the Hayfield farm in Fairfax county,, Virginia, which was built in 1772 by George Washington and sold to his cousin, Samuel Washington, in 1784, was destroyed by fire. It was owned by James M. Duncan. Managers of the steamer Merida, owned by the Valley Camp Shipping company of Midland, Ont., admitted at Cleveland, 0., that the ship was lost in the gale on Lake Erie Friday night. So far as known not a man of the crew of 23 survives the traaedv. The world-wide shortage of wheat has forced prices on the Chicago board of trade above the mark set In the Leiter corner of 1898 and close to the high mark in the history of the cereal since Civil war days. December wheat soared to $1.86 and May to $1.85. • * * Six persons were killed when an interurban car on the Northern Indiana railroad struck an automobile at a grade crossing near South Bend, Ind. The dead are: Frank Brown, Mrs. Olsenburg, Mrs. Florence Elliott, Mrs. Frank Elliott and two children of Mrs. Frank Elliott. w * • • The house of deputies of the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church, in session at St. Louis, adopted a resolution urging that the members of the church be abstainers from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, especially at social functions. " - ♦ • • United States army authorities at San Francisco, Cal., have advertised for women to aid in obtaining recruits for the army. The girls will be paid $1 for each recruit. * » ♦ Official announcement was made at New York by J. P. Morgan & Co. that a new’ British loan of American bankers, aggregating $300,000,000, had been arranged. It will bear interest at 5% per cent and is payable in two installments, one of three years and one of five years. * * * At a special meeting of the board of conference claimants of the Methodist Episcopal church at Chicago, Dr. Joseph B. Hingeley, secretary, reported he had received a certified check for $450,000, being payment in part of the bequest of Mrs. Ellen S. James of New York. The management of the gold supply of the country to meet the foreign drain which is expected after the close of the war was discussed by A. C. Miller of Washington, a member of the federal reserve board, before the Indiana State Bankers’ association at Indianapolis. He said that the United States will be able to meet all demands. ♦ ♦ • Hope that the government might declare an embargo on grain as a means of restoring bread to the prices that prevailed before the war were dissipated by David T. Houston, secretary of agriculture while on a visit to Chicago. “Congress never would pass a law providing an embargo on grain,” he said. * * * , Indictments naming Chief of Police Healey and his secretary, William Luthardt, and Charles T. Essig, secretary of the Sportmen’s club, were obtained at Chicago by State’s Attorney Hoyne in a whirlwind finish in his drive on alleged city-hall graft. The Indicted men are charged with conspiracy and malfeasance in office. > • • • Eighteen men lost their lives as the result of an explosion in the Roden coal mine at Marvel, Ala., and rescuers have brought 16 bodies to the surface. Six w’ere negroes. • • * Robbers who entered the Bank of Ringwood, 111., blew open the safe with nitroglycerin, and escaped with $5,000. • * * Waldemar Brown, former mayor of Manistee, Mich., was killed and nine others Injured when two automobiles in which they were riding collided while trying ttf avoid a buggy... . ;

Foreign The threatened strike of conductors and trainmen of the Canadian Pacific railway has been called off, it was officially announced at Winnipeg, Man., after a conference between representatives of the employees and officials of the road. • • • The assassination of the Austrian premier, Count Karl Stuergkh at Vienna, was a purely political act, and was induced by Ills refusal to convene parliament, according to the admissions of Dr. Friedrich Adler, his assailant, made shortly after his arrest. Doctor Adler is an eccentric and super-radical socialist, sometimes known as “the Liebknecht of Austria.” He is editor of Der Kampf. ♦ • • In an engagement in Santo Domingo between American troops and rebel forces Gen. Ramon Batista was killed. Several Americans also were killed, including two officers, and one American officer was wounded. » » » Washington The first concrete results of the physical valuation of railroads upon which the interstate commerce commission has been working for three years were announced at Washington when the commission issued a tentative valuation of the Texas Midland railroad and of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic railroad.