Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1916 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Moment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All the People Everywhere. European War News Prince Henri of Reuss was killed in battlegon November 29 on the Russian front, according to the Overseas News agency at Berlin. * « • The Dutch steamship Caledonian and the Brazilian steamer Rio’ Pardo have been seized by the Germans because they were carrying contraband cargoes to England, it was officially announced at Berlin. ♦ * * Russian troops captured a line of Teuton trenches on heights to the south of Agusualia in the region of the Troths valley of Itouniania, according to an official Petrograd statement. ’■ ■ *. * Premier Briand of France (hiring a session Of tin 1 , chamber of deputies at Paris delivered a speech on the German imperial dliaiicellof’s peace; proposal, in which lie warned the country to be ware of France's enemies. * ;■ * * Fighting is in progress between Greek regular troops'and the French, the Overseas News agency announced at Berlin, The town of Katerina has Ifeen captured by the Greeks. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch to London from Copenhagen says advices have been received there from Switzerland that King Constantine of Grece has ordered a general mobilization. * * * • Russia’s smash on Falkenhayn’s left on the Moldavian front resulted in the capture of two heights in the Belbor region, says an official announcement from Petrograd. * * < It is officially announced at Paris that Vice Admiral du Fournet, commander of the .allied squadron in Greek waters, has been replaced by Admiral Gaucher. ♦ * * With a new ultimatum from lhe allies in the, hands of the Greek government, the situation in King Constantine’s: realm has become so menacing that the English, French, Russian and Italian ministers are reported to be leaving Athens. ’ g..T , • ***'~T..■ The Roumanians who have been retreating in eastern Wallachia before the Teutonic advance have made a stand east of Ploechti, the Petrograd war office announced. They assumed the offensive on the road from Ploechti to Buz.eu and drove the Austro-Ger-man forces back to the westward. ♦ ♦ .♦ The British steamer Caledonia was sunk by a German submarine on December 4, after it had tried to ram the undersea boat, it was announced officially at Berlin. Its captain was taken prisoner. ♦ * * The Danish steamship Sigurd, 2,119 tons, and the British steamships Avriston, 8,818 tons; Conch, 5,620 tons, and Tanfield. have all been sunk, Lloyd’s announced at London. * * * Domestic Drastic declines in the stock market at New York followed the receipt of cable news that Germany had notified the neutral countries of her decision to enter into peace negotiations. Bethlehem steel lost 27 points and all munition and steel shares were lower by 4 to 7 points. • * ♦ The Oronogo bank .near Webb City, la., was robbed by two masked men. They locked the cashier in the vault and escaped with S2OO. ♦ ♦ » English shell contracts in the United States virtually all run out within six months, and most of them within three months, after the first of the year, and will not be renewed, it was announced at Toronto, Ont,, by J. W. Flavelle, chairman of the imperial munitions board of Canada. .♦♦ * / With all of Its members pledged to secrecy, the Birth Control league of California has opened a campaign at San Francisco to legalize the practice of birth control in that state. It is proposed to write to every mother in the state urging support for the passage of a law legalizing the purposes of the league. • * • Demoralization In the wheat pit at Chicago was the first marked result locally of Germany’s proposal of peace. For fifteen minutes pandemonium reigned on the board of trade. The market closed at $1.65% to %, a loss of 9% cents. ♦ ♦ * Judge Walter Hardy of the Lake county superior court pronounced Inlk, who shot up the courthouse at Hammond. Ind., and wounded three, insane and ordered him committed to the colony for the criminal Insane at Michigan City.

Airs. Genevieve Gilmore was secretly divorced from James A. Gilmore, president of the defunct Federal Baseball league, on November 8 by decree of Judge Charles M. Foell of the superior court at Chicago. » * » Twenty men lost their lives in an explosion which wrecked the Reedy & Ryan coal mine at Stone City, Kan. Aline officials declared 39 men were trapped in the drifts. ♦ * * Gov.-elect .Tallies M. Cox of Ohio is ill in Washington at the home of former Representative Ansberry, and physicians fear he may develop appendicitis. * • » Four persons were killed and a fifth seriously injured when the northbound Winnipeg flyer on the Soo road crashed into the auto in which they were riding near Vergas, Minn. * « * Mexican War News Arnold Vogel, German consul at Colima, Alex., reported kidnaped by Mexican bandits, lias returned to Colima, according to a report to Washington from Admiral Caperton. Vogel was reported held for SIS,(MM) ransom. The city of Mapimi, an important point in Durango, where many large American mining interests are located, has been captured by Villistas. * * * Gen. Ariiulfo Gonzales, provisional governor of Chihuahua, Mex., declared in his first proclamation to t he people after the reoccupation of the city by Carranza troops, that he would soon be ready to join the first chief in forcing the retirement of the American punitive expedit ion. * * ♦ Washington The civilian advisory board at Washington has recommended to Secretary of Ute Navy Daniels that the authorized $1,500,000 naval experimental laboratory be located at Annapolis. * * * ° • By a vote of 42 to 14 the senate at Washington adopted the committee amendment, to the immigration bill, which would exHude Hindus and other Asiatics without mentioning them by name and which eliminates from file bill all reference to passport agreements. * * « Announcement Was made at the state department at "Washington that complete informationnow at hand covering the case of tlie British horse ship Marina, torpedoed with a loss of six Americans, makes it tippear to be a “clear cut” violation of Germany’s pledges to the United States. • *' *' / United States Attorney Anderson, in general charge of the federal government’s investigation into the high cost of living, went over plans for grand jury investigations with President Wilson at Washington. The .president directed that the investigation be followed vigorously and prompt prosecutions brought if any violations of law tire discovered. * * ♦ ■' One cent postage for local first-class mail deliveries .and a zone system of rates for second-class matter, which is expected greatly to increase the Charges for magazines and other periodicals having a nation-wide circulation, are provided for in the annual post office appropriation bill as virtually completed at Washington. * * * Contracts for 96 high-power hydroairplanes for the coast artillery stations in the United States, Hawaii, Philippines and the Panama Canal Zone were let by the war department at Washington. Foreign The Austrian government has resigned. This announcement is made in a Reuter dispatch to London from Amsterdam. ♦ * * The Canadian torpedoboat Grilse has been lost at sea with all hands, according to information given out by the minister of naval service at Ottawa, Can. The Grilse had a complement of 56 officers and men. ♦ * ♦ Official announcement was made at London that the government had been constituted with a war cabinet comprising the following: Premier, David Llcyd-George; lord president, Earl Curzon; Arthur Henderson, minister without portfolio; Lord Milner, minister without portfolio; Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer. Two hundred Sinn Feiners stopped a charitable performance given in behalf of the families of the soldiers of Cork. They sang Sinn Fein songs and shouted, “Up rebellion! Down recruiting!” ♦ * • Berlin reports the arrival of the submarine merchantman Deutschland, after a quick trip. • • * The Overseas agency at Berlin says: “German newspapers state that the French destroyer Yatagan, sunk in collision with a British transport, is the fifth French destroyer lost in this way during the war. * • • Paris says that Germany’s reply to the Swiss note regarding the deportations in Belgium makes it clearly understood that Switzerland has no ground for interfering with events In Belgium unless her own inter sts are affected. ,