Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War Netos The Germans succeeded, according to the Paris war office in its communique, In gaining a foothold in Frenich “advanced elements” in the outskirts of the St. Plerre-Vaast wood, north of the river, In the eastern part of Pressolre village, south of the Somme. The Copenhagen Morgenbladet says that a Norwegian torpedo boat has fired upon a German steamer which refused to stop when passing Stavanger. The Norwegian boarded the steamer and dismantled its wireless. • • * The British have captured Beaucourt, on the Somme front, as a result of the continuation of their powerful drive on both sides of the Ancre brook. The prisoners taken by the British number more than 5,000 up to the present, according to the official bulletin issued at London. » » • British troops in a new offensive north and south of the Ancre river have advanced north of the river on a front of fivemiles and to a maximum depth of one mile, rapturing from the Germans the towns of Beaumont, Hamel and St. Pierre-Divion, according to a dispatch to London by the correspondent of Reuter's Telegram company at • • • A “mosquito squadron” of the German fleet boiffbarded the fortified Russian naval support point Baltischport. The kaiser’s admiralty announced that the Russian port was “efficiently bombarded.” Petrograd declares that “a majority of the German vessels were sunk.” > - * * * Capt. Frederick Curtis of the American steamer Columbian, who arrived at Coruna, Spain, with the rescued crew of this steamship, declared that he was a prisoner on board the German submarine U-39 for six days after the destruction of his vessel. • * ♦ ♦ In an all-day battle in the region of Dragoslavele, northeast of Campulung, south of the Transylvanian border, the Roumanians maintained their positions, the Bucharest War office announced. On the Tight bank of the River Alt, however, the Roumanian forces were compelled to yield ground. • « « After an all-day battle in Unlicia, southeast of Lemberg, Austro-Gprinan forces captured a sector of the Russian trenches, the Petrograd war office reports. The engagement occurred In the vicinity of Lipnichadelna tmd Syistelniki. * • • The Russian army, which is invading Transylvania to assist the Roumanians in the defense of their western frontier, has gained further successes, the Petrograd war office- announces, and has penetrated Transylvania a distance of more than 50 miles below the Bukowina border. In Dobrudja -the advance against Von Mackensen’s army continues. _

Domestic Four express companies—the Adams, American, Wells-Fargo and Western—announced at Chicago that raises in pay to employees will go into effect on November 1 in all parts of the United States “where working conditions ami cost of living fairly warrant such adjustments.” As attorney for himself, John Armstrong Chaloner of Merry Mills, Va., author of the expression “Who’s looney now?” filed in the Supreme court at Washington a brief, attacking proceedings in New York in which he was pronounced insane years ago. ♦ * * Unless the railroads put an eight-* hour day into effect by January 1' the 400,000 members of the “big four” brotherhoods will strike. This was the threat issued at New York as officials of the brotherhoods—the organizations of the union men—went into a secret conference. * * * The thirty-sixth' annual convention of the American Federation of Labor opened a two weeks’ session at Baltimore, Md. • • * Julius Rosenwald, Chicago millionaire, has agreed to give half a million dollars toward the foundation of the medical school at University of Chicago, which the Rockefeller interests announced recently they intended to establish there. • • * J. C. Diemer and his wife and their daughter Magdalene were released under SIO,OOO bonds each to appear before the grand jury at Pontiac, 111., in connection with the, death of the daughter, Christine, who was found in Vermillion river. * * * In a letter to President Wilson, made public at New York, the secretary and treasurer of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks entered a protest against working post office clerks more than eight hours a day.

Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler, widow of Henry M. Flagler, one of the organisers of the Standard Oil company and builder of the Florida East Coast railway, was married to Robert Worth Bingham of Louisville. Ky. The ceremony was performed at New York. Mr. Flagler died in May, 1915, leaving about $70,000,000, mostly to his widow. • • • Horace Jackson, the Chicago board of trade man who was lost in a blizzard in the woods of northern Minnesota while hunting, has been found by members of a rescue party. • • • That the coal shortage has reached a critical stage was demonstrated at Clveland, 0., when the Big Four railroad seized for its own use 150 tons of coal consigned to a manufacturer. * • • The Standard Oil company of California voluntarily granted an eighthour workday to all refinery, pipeline and producing department employees. There will be no change in wages. • • • The strike of coal miners in Oklahoma is ended. The conference committee of operators and miners agreed at a meeting held at McAlester, Okla., on disputed points in the biennal contract and the strike was called off. Harold Wells, of Phoenix, Ariz., won the Douglas-to-Phoenix automobile road race. His time for the 245 miles was seven hours and twenty minutes. • * : Washington Suits by railroads attacking the constitutionality of the eight-hour railroad law were begun in many parts of the country and the department of justice at Washington laid plans to defend them.. The department of justice will take direct charge of these cases, and Frank Hagerman of Kansas City, Mo., has been retained to assist in their preparation and trial. • ♦ » • Trial by court-martial of Capt. Edward L. Beach of the armored cruiser Memphis, wrecked in a hurricane on a Dominican reef several months ago with the loss of many lives, was ordered by the navy department at Washington. ♦ ♦' • XNecessity for broadening the scope of military training in agricultural colleges was emphasized by speakers of nation-wide reputation at the opening session of the thirteenth annual convention of the Association of American Agricultral Colleges and Experiment Stations at Washington. • * * The British reply to the latest American note protesting against the trade blacklist, made public by the state department at Washington, denies that rights of neutral traders under international law have been ruthlessly canceled. The note fails to meet the American demand that the names of American firms be stricken'from the blacklist. • « • Suits testing the constitutionality of the New York, New Jersey, Washington, Ohio and lowa workmen's compensation laws were ordered reargued by the Supreme court at Washington. • • •

Foreign Maj. Gen. Hon. Sam Hughes has resigned as Canadian minister of militia and defense. His resignation was requested. Charges were made before parliament by George VV. Kyle, Liberal member. Kyle produced documentary evidence purporting to prove that Colonel Allison^ purchasing agent for Hughes in the purchase of war munitions, had organized mushroom companies in the United States, secured sales for shells and shell fuses from the Canadian shell committee, through the aid of General Hughes, and had charged exorbitant prices for the shells and pocketed millions as a result. * * • ■ It was announced in Vienna that there is no foundation for the report recently published in the United States of the death of Dr. Constantine Dumba. former Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the United States. • • • Advices from Stockholm to Berlin state that a large Russian armored cruiser, either the Rurik or the Gromobol. ran aground in the Gulf of Finland. It is feared that the cruiser will be a total wreck. Sir Robert Borden denied all reports and rumors at Ottawa, Ont., that/he contemplated vacating the premiership of the dominion. He made it clear that he will remain in office until the end of the war. ♦ • • Mexican War News The murder of an entire American family on the Gulf coast*near Tampico was reported at Brownsville, Tex., by £irs. Eva Han Son, a refugee from that place. She was unable to give details of the affair. ' • • * De facto government troops of Mexico under General Murgia have recaptured Parral and Santa Rosalia, according to a report from the border. • • • After being in the Juarez (Mex.) jail since November 7, during which time he expected to be shot as a Villa spy, Benjamin Brahan was released at the military headquarters in Juarez and came to the American side of the river. He says the only charge against him was that of aiding General Pershing- • • • Personal Molly Elliott Seawell, the novelist, died at her home in Washington at the age of fifty-five.