Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1916 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War News Kalafat, Koumauia, ha.s been captured by Bulgarian troops. *» . * I.ondi>n announeed that German naval forces find raided the cast (joust of England. Tht* attacking squadron was made up of torpedo boats. The British trawler Narvul was reported missing. Among the towns bombarded by thi* Bermans was Lowestoft. * * * ■Official announcement was made at Berlin of tin* capture of (Jiurgevo, which is directly south of Bucharest and only 35 miles away, de Argos, an important railway town in northern Itoumania, is also in the hands of the Austro-f ierman* forces. * * » Lloyd's reports, at London, that the American sieinner ('hemung has been sunk. Tin* <'hemung was torpedoed near Cabo de (lata, according to the dispatch. The <’hemung was owned by the llarby Steamship company of New York. The steamer foundered with tin* American ting flying, it is added. the captain having formally refused to lower his colors. The crew has been landed at Valencia, 1 *; *’ * v ■ Two Zeppelins were brought down as they took part in a night raid on the northeast coast of Kngkmd. The crews of Toth airships perished. The destruction of the airships is announced it) an official communication issued hy the London war office. One hundreds bombs were dropped. One woman was killed and several persons were hurt. * * * The government of Greece appealed to the neutral nations through the Greek diplomats at the respective neutral capitals against “the coercion being employed hy the entente powers toward Greece.” * • • Another raid by airships over the northeastern coast of England took place at night, says an official statement issued at London. No reports of casualties or damage were announced. * • * Alexandria, a Boumanian town, 47 miles southwest of Bucharest, has been captured by Teuton forces, says Berlin.

General von Falkenhayn’s troops ity vading western Itoumania from tl/e north find west have effected a junction with Field Marshal von Mackensen’s forces that have advanced from the south and crossed the Danube into Itoumanian territory, the Berlin war office announced. Mackensen is within 47 miles of the Itoumanian capital. ♦ * * The provisional government set up by former Premier Eleutlierios Venizelds of Greece following his revolt from the neutrality policies of King Constantine, formally declared war agaiust Germany and Bulgaria. * * • Domestic The sinking of the American steamer Chemung caused a wheat market flurry at Chicago. In Minneapolis news of the sinking of tiny Chemung was followed hy a break of 6% cents in wheat prices. * * * Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the Republican national committee, filed the final financial statement of contributions and expenditures for the Republican' campaign at Washington. Tlie report shows total contributions of $2.445,421, from 34,205 contributors, and expenditures of $2,441,565. leaving a surplus of S3.SSG. * * * In defense of the farmer, the National Grange, in annual session at Washington issued a statement analvz- . ing the high cost of living and attributing the rising prices of farm products to poor crops. If any embargoes are to be placed to help the situation, the statement says, they should be on munitions of war. * * * Further steps in a “stop the war” campaign, designed to crystallize sentiment so that any peace move which may he made by President Wilson will receive the united support of the nation, were taken up at New York by the organization of the New York branch of the-American National conference confmittee.

Charles E. Hughes announced al Lakewood, N. J., that on January 1 he would resume the practice of law as a member of the Neiv York firm oi Rounds, Schurman & Dwight, 9C Broadway. His son, Charles E Hughes, Jr„ also will enter the firm. * * * Three seamen of the United States naval supply ship Glacier were drowned in San Francisco bay when the launch in which 36 members of the crew were returning to the Glacier was crushed under the stern wheel of the Southern Pacific river boat Apache. ' • » * Five persons were killed and three others injured when an interurban cai crashed into their automobile at Detroit, Mich. The dead; Mrs. Laura Wilkemeyer, Joseph Wilkemeyer, Roj Hayes, Russell Winterstein, Elizabeth B. Marchese.

Francis M. Brady, assistant United States district attorney for Kansas, fell from a ftiird story window of a downtown hoteLat Topidm, Kan., und was killed instantly. He whs forty-five years old. * • * Final certification for the election of Democratic presidential electors in California was made at the office of Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan at Sacramento, Cal. * * * William F. Wolfe of La Crosse, Wis., was given a recess appointment by President Wilson as I'nited States attorney of the western district of Wisconsin. * • * To forestall a possible recurrence of the disastrous hoof-and-mouth disease, State Veterinarian O. E. Dyson ordered the Union stockyards at Chicago and the National stockyards in Fast St. Louis closed against the acceptance of any cattle, sheep or swine from Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, or markets in the Missouri river valley, and forbade the shipment of any stock except for immediate slaughter. *' * * Mexican War News Carranza forces under General Trevino exacuated Chihuahua City *at five o’clock Monday afternoon. General Gonzales, commander of the Juarez garrison, made this announcement in the first official statement from Carranza sources.admitting the loss of the state capital to Pancho Villa.

“I’m the best little withdrawer on earth—l did it at Vera Cruz and I can do it again.” This was General Funston’s only comment at San Antonio, Tex., on the Mexican-American agreement providing'for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico. * * * A protocol providing for the conditional withdrawal of the American troops now in Chihuahua, Mex., and for the military control of theTfrirder, hilt with the supplemental stipulation that United States troops shall be sent info Mexico in pursuit of bandits at any time the American government deems necessary, was signed at Atlantic City, N. J„ by the members of the Mexican-American joint commission. • * * Personal Joseph Brooks, the theatrical manager by a fall' from his eighth-floor apartment in New York. He was sixty-five years old. * * * Andrew Carnegie Is eighty-one years old. He spent the day with his family at New York. * * • Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, widely known woman suffragist and welfare worker, died in a hospital at Los Angeles, Cal., after an illness of ten weeks. She was thirty years old. * * • Washington Senator Ollie James is being mentioned by arrivals at Washington among the Democratic senators for president pro tempore of the senate to succeed the late Senator Clarke of Arkansas. ' * • * President Wilson- and his closest personal advisers, in a series of conferences at Washington, decided not to make any definite move toward obtaining peace in Europe at this time, it was stated in official circles. V• * * Ambassador Gerard had a final conference with Secretary Lansing at Washington preparatory to starting on his return to his post in Berlin. * * * The federal reserve board Issued a statement at Washington warning hanks and the public against the purchase of short-term .foreign notes. The statement will be a severe blow to the financiers who were planning to float these loans in the United States. * * * The Adamson eight-hour law test case to he sent to the Supreme court at Washington for final decision is that of the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad injunction petition. It was agreed i*y the department of justice anil lawyers representing the railroads that this case brings before the court all the points at issue as to the constitutionality of the law.

Foreign The Amsterdam correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company of London quotes the Berlin Vorwaerts as publishing an editorial declaring the socialists will oppose the compulsion bill in the reichstag. %* * * The London foreign office has sent Ambassador Page a note definitely refusing to grant a safe conduct to Count Adam Thrnowski von Tarnow, the new Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the United States. * * * Alexander Trepoff, Russian minister of railways, has been appointed premier, according to a Reuter dispatch to London from Petrograd. * * * Lieut. Col. Joseph E. Kilhn. military attache to the American embassy at Berlin, has received orders of recall, and will leave at an early date for New' York. No successor has been iyuned. No reasons for Colonel Kuhn’s recall are given. * • * Travelers from Munich arriving at Amsterdam reported that a nejv German super-Zeppelin was wrecked in a gale between Friedrichshaven and Wilhelmshaven. Twenty-seven men are said to have perished in the accident, only one being rescued.