Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — Important News Events of the World [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World

Domestic A verdict of $150,000 In favor of the United States government was returned by a jury in federal court at New York in a suit instituted against Karplus & Herzberger tSt Berlin, Germany, exporters. They were charged with undervaluing a shipment. • • • The Union Pacific Railroad company filed suit in federal court at Omaha, Neb., to test the constitutionality of the Adamson eight-hour law, recently passed bv congress. * • * Forty j»ersons were drowned when a crowded street car dived head-first through the open draw of the Summer street extension bridgg into the waters of Fort Point channel at Boston. Only 12 persons were rescued. • • • Ann Konkel, nine-year-old daughter of Mayor and Mrs. J. S. Konkel of Superior, Wis., christened the Cleveland, the first ocean vessel to be built at the head of the lakes. • * • Frank B. Ruhr, a Republican nortfinee for presidential elector for the Tenth Missouri district, committed suicide while driving through Forest park at St. Louis. He had been worrying over ill health. • • • Seven persons were killed as a result of a wreck at Xewportage Junction, five miles south of Altoona, Pa., on the Newportage branch of the Pennsylvania railroad. ~ • • • Six men were killed and 40 wounded in a pitched battle at the city wharf in Everett, Wash-, between 250 members of the Industrial Workers of the World, who came there from Seattle on a steamer, aiid a pbsse of" 150 citizens. „

European War News The Peninsular Oriental liner Arabia received no warning from the submarine which sank it in the Mediterranean, according to the British admiralty at Loudon. All the 437 passengers and all the crew with thF exception of two engineers, who were killed, were saved. * • *

A wireless dispatch to London from j Bucharest says that General Dragalina, J commander of the First Roumanian army, has /lied of wounds received in battle. • • • The French took all the German positions on a front of two and onehaff miles extending from C’haulnes wood v • southeast of Ablaincourt refinery. s lys the official communication issued i . the Paris war office. The villages of Ablaincourt and Pressoire and Ablaincourt cemetery were cajv tured. More than 500 prisoners wert taken. • • • In an encounter between the forces of the Yenizelos government which occupied Katerina. Greece, and the royal troops sent there, two soldiers were killed and five wounded. •.• ; • The destruction of the German submarine U-20 by its own crew after the submarine had gone aground on the west coast of Jutland, is reported by the German admiralty at Berlin. * • * Lloyds announced at London that. the Norwegian steamship Lanao had been sunk by a submarine. Thirty men have landed at Barry. The Lanao was formerly owned by Americans. • * • Proclamations re-establishing the right of the Polish nation to control Its own destinies \«*re read at Warsaw and at Lublin. 'General von Beseler officiated at Warsaw and General Kuk at Lublin. The event was the consummation of joint action of the German emperor and the emperor of Austria; The form of government established by the proclamation is described as an autonomous hereditary monarchy. • • • Paris says the great French drive beyond Fort Vaux swept through the village of Damloup. adding a wide area east of Fort Vaux to the gains already made. • • • General von Falkenhayn has struck further heavy blows against the Roumanians near Rothenthurm pass and Vulcan pass, two of the main gates of the Transylvanian Alps. He has pressed forward, capturing 1.000 prisoners, according to Berlin statements. • • • The Roumanians claim to have won an advantage in the Buzeu valley, while, well to the north, near the junction point of the Roumanian and Russian fronts, the czar’s troops have struck a strong blow against the Aos-tro-Germans at Tulghes. • • • Italian torpedo boats penetrated the anchorage of the Austrian fleet at Pda and ineffectively fired two torpedoes at a large warship and returned unscathed after making a comprehensive reconnoissanee under the gups of the 'fortress, says a report from Rome.

During a spectacular experiment with a new type of" aeroplane bomb at Indian Head, Md. t Naval Lieutenants Clarence K. Bronson and Luther Welsh were instantly killed. While flying at an altitude of 1,000 feet the bomb exploded immediately beneath the aeroplane breaking it in two. * * • •' ( * Mexican War News A report was received at El Paso, from Chihuahua City that Edgar Koch, German consular agent at Parrai, either was killed or was being held for ransom by Villa bandits in the vicinity of Santa Rosalia. * * * Sixty-seven bars of silver belonging to fin American mining company at Parrai, Chihuahua, are reported to have been taken from Edgar Koch, an agent of the company, by Villa bandits at Santa liosalia on October 27, The silver was valued at §50,000. ' * * * Arthur Williams, agent for an automobile supply house in Chihuahua, reached Tucson, Ariz., in a battered automobile after a chase by Villa bandit sharpshooters in another car. In the wild tight a woman and Williams’ little daughter were killed. Williams’ wife was killed in Chihuahua. * * * Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the army, expressed at Washington the belief that the statement given out by the war department, telling of a border conspiracy had prevented an attack by Mexican bandits on frontier towns. He believes also that it had frustrated plans for attacking the American forces in Mexico. * • • Two denials were made at Washington of the statement appearing in dispatches from Mexico City and also In an official statement in Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations AguilyA - to the effect that the British embassy m Washington had warned the Mexican government that a base was to be established for German submarines on l£e coaat and that Mexico would be held, responsible for violation of neutrality if such a base were permitted. * The United' States notified Mexico to be careful. * * * Despite denials from Washington and Fort Sam Houston, Tex., there is a marked increase in activity around base headquarters at Columbus, N. M. It is: reported that Pershing is again on Villa's trail, but army officials disclaim knowledge of it. • * * Doctor Fisher, an American physician living at Santa liosalia, Mex., was killed by the Villa bandits under Gen. Baudelio Uribe.

Personal Queen Lydia Kamekeha Liiiukalani, seventy-eight years old, former ruler of Hawaii, is seriously ill at her palace in Ilonoluli! and her medical attendants say she may live only a few days. - • » * Dr. Constantin Durnba, former Austrian ambassador to the United States, is dead, says a dispatch to Geneva from Vienna. Doctor Durnba was fiftysix years old and had sAved in the diplomatic, service of his country for many years. In September, 1915, Ambassador Durnba was recalled by his government. * :* : Mrs. Dion Boucicault, the British actress, who has appeared many times on the American stage, died $n London. • • * Formal announcement was made at New York of the engagement of Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler, widow of Henry M. Flagler, to former Judge Robert W. Bingham of Louisville, Ky. The nodding will, take place November 15. * • * Washington Crop production estimates issued by the department of agriculture at Washington are: Corn, 2,643,508,000 bushels; buckwheat, 11,447,000 bushels; potatoes, 288,964,000 bushels; apples, 67,695,000 bushels; sugar beets, 7,416,000 tons; onions, 11,060,000 bushel?; corn on farms November 1, 89,686,000 bushels. * • • Acting Secretary of State Osborne announced at Washington that advices from American Consul Lathrop at Cardiff, Wales, report the sinking of the steamer Lanao by a German submarine and declare that “presumably” it was an American ship carrying a cargo from Manila to Havre. * * • Foreign Arthur Henderson, leader of the labor party in the house of commons at London, has been appointed Minister of pensions, a post recently created. • • * Cardinal Francis Della Volpl, seven-ty-two years old, died at Rome. He was prefect of the Congregation of the Index. '• •-> • • * It was officially announced at Berlin that the imperial military tribunal has rejected the appeal of Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the socialist leader, from the sentence imposed upon him by the court-martial. Liebknecht was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for military treason. • • * After cutting all wires leading into Okotoks, 40 miles from Calgary, Alberta, yeggmen leisurely dynamited the Merchants’ bank and escaped with no,ooo.