Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 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 • c Notes Covering Most Important Hap. penings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct * Farm for Quick Consumption. European War News The steamship John Lambert, listed in the maritime register as an American vessel, was shelled and sunk without warning by a German submarine off the Isle of Wight, according to accounts given by members of the crew, Americans, who arrived at New York. * • • Bucharest, capital of Roumania, has been captured, it was announced officially at Berlin. Ploechti, the important railway junction town, 36 miles northwest of Bucharest, also has been taken. ’ » • • Dispatches from Paris quote political writers as saying that the political upheavals may be followed by the resignation of General Joffre, commander in chief of the allied armies. There are reports that the French government may be changed so as to concentrate authority for quicker decisions and action. The total losses of the entente in the present war have been 15,100,000, according to figures given out by the Association for Research Into the Social Consequences of the War of Copenhagen, as quoted in an Overseas News agency statement issued at Berlin.

The Italian steamer Palermo, with 47 Americans on board, has been torpedoed off the Spanish coast. One American sailor was wounded by a shell and died at Palafrugell, Spain. Three others were seriously wounded. ■ • . The Important town of Tergovistea, Roumania, has been captured by the Austro-German forces. The defeat of the first Roumanian army is declared by Berlin to have been complete, and the Teutonic troops are continuing their victorious march toward Bucharest. * « * Two Belgians who have arrived at Sliuiskill, Holland, from Ghent, report that there was a revolt in Antwerp in which 200 to 300 inhabitants and many German soldiers are said to have been killed, according to a Reuter Amsterdam dispatch to London, quoting a Sluiskill correspondent. The reported revolt was due to a call upon the inhabitants for work in Germany. * * * The entente troops have been sent back from Athens to Piraeus. The Greek government has offered six mountain batteries to Vice Admiral De Fournet, but the entente ministers say that reparation must be made for the assault on the allied troops. ■• • •

Domestic Picketing by organized labor during strikes is legal, according to an opinion handed down in the United States circuit court of appeals at Chicago. * • • President Wilson, speaking at the banquet which was the culmination of the celebration to mark the permanent illumination of the Statue of Liberty In New York harbor, declared that he had thought for the last two years that “peace is going to come to the world only with liberty.” Two men were arrested for trying to see President Wilson. * • • • The United States mail stage running from Rogerson, Idaho, to Jarbridge, Nev., was held up and robbed and its driver, F. Searcy, killed by bandits. The mail sacks were rifled and $7,000 was taken. * * • Miss Edith Colby, newspaper woman, was found guilty at Thompson Falls, Mont., of murder in the second degree, for shooting and killing A. C. Thomas, a politician, who she alleged had insulted her. * • • The egg boycott movement was launched in over a score of New York cities in response to proclamations issued by their respective mayors. The boycott was declared to be virtually state-wide. • • * The appointment of William H. Moyer, for 12 years warden of the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., as warden of Sing Sing prison, was announced by the state superintendent of prisons, James M. Carter, at Albany, N. Y, • * • A national federation of milk producers that will control the milk industry of the United States was forecast at the national conference on marketing and farm credits, in session at Chicago by milkmen from all parts of the country. • • • The Carolina, a steel steamship of the Goodrich line, struck a reef etn miles horth of Algoma, Wls., at midnight and went down quickly. The crew of 28 men and six passengers were rescued and taken to Sturgeon Bay.

A crazed man, armed with four revolvers and a sword, and his body padded with steel plates, ran into the courtroom of the superior court of Lake county at Hammond, Ind., and shot three men, including the Judge. One of the victims may die. The man's name is Michael Innik, a Polish laborer. The men shot were: “Judge Charles Greenwald, Lou de Bow and George Robbins, a juror. • * • Four armed bandits, in an automobile, held up the Bothell State bank, four miles north of Seattle, Wash., and escaped with $40,000. Posses and motorcycle policemen engaged in a running revolver battle with the bandits. « • • An embargo to prohibit the export of print papers used by publishers of newspapers is asked in a resolution introduced in the house at Washington by Representative Campbell. * * • Twenty-five Kansas editors, threatened with suspension because of print paper shortage, met at Kansas City, Kan., and took steps to meet the crisis by delegating George W. Marble of the Fort Scott Tribune-Monitor to present their necessities to the federal trade commission in Washington next week. • • • The famous mystery of “Oliver Osborne” was solved in Chicago. Charles W. Wax, arrested by the federal authorities on a fraud charge, confessed that he is the elusive “Oliver." Wax admitted that it was him and not his double, the New York prosecuting attorney, James W. Osborne, who courted Miss Rae Tanzer in 1915. Osborne was made defendant in an action for $50,000 breach of promise by Miss Tanzer.

• • • All the paper mills In western Massachusetts granted their employees an emergency bonus of 10 per cent in wages. Between 4,000 and 5,000 employees will benefit. ♦ . • • Pennsylvania crude oil made its most sensational advance in years at Pittsburgh, Pa., when it jumped 15 cents a barrel to $2.75. Operators are now predicting $3 oil early in the new year. • • •

Foreign David Lloyd-George has overthrown the Asquith cabinet of Great Britain and will become prime minister himself. The new government will be coalition, like the old one, says a dispatch from London. * • • It was announced in London, that Herbert H. Asquith, premier df Great Britain for eight stormy years, has resigned. His resignation was accepted by the king. To Andrew Bonar Law, the Unionist leader, has been offered the post of prime minister. David Lloyd-George resigned as minister of war. By a vote of 235 to 19, the relchstag at Berlin adopted the “man-power” bill, mobilizing the civilian forces of the German empire. The bill provides for the mobilization of civilians for service in the support of the armies in the field. • • •

Washington Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota Introduced a resolution in the house at Washington urging congress to ask the president to call a peace conference. • • • Secretary Lane, in his annual report issued at Washington, directs attention to the fact that the pioneer spirit has not died out in the people of this country. While the volume of public land Is decreasing until now it Is almost down to two hundred and fifty million acres in the United States, much of which is in the arid region, the entries of public land are increasing. • • • It was announced at Washington that the United States government has inquired of the Austrian government concerning facts surrounding the torpedoing of the American steamer Chemung by an Austrian submarine. • * •' ' Representative Tribble of Georgia, stricken with apoplexy in his office in the house office building at Washington, lies in a local hospital with only slight chances for his recovery. ♦ * * The most serious problem which congress faces is the “high cost of government,” for it will take $4,500,000 a day to run the United States’ service in the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, according to the annual estimates sent to congress at Washington by Secretary McAdoo of the treasury department. The estimates call for an expenditure of $1,654,819,654 for the year. • • * Four bills designed to touch the high cost of food were introduced in the house at Washington by Representative Fitzgerald of New York. Two propose a food embargo. * • • The government’s investigation of the rising cost of living began assuming definite outMnes following conferences at Washington between officials of the department of justice, the federal trade commission and United States Attorney Anderson. • * • A general investigation into union labor activities was proposed by the department of labor in its estimates of expenditures, which was submitted to Congress at Washington, asking that $19,000 be set aside to defray the expenses.