Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

European War News

The spiking of two neutral and two allied merchantmen was reported by Lloyds at London. The vessels were the Norwegian steajner Erica, the Swedish steamer Goosebridge, the Brit; ish ■ steamer Hollybranch and the Frent-h sailing ship Aconcagua. • * • The towns of Matchin ami Jilija, in northern' Dobrudja, have been captured, it is announced officially at Berlin. During 1916 French aviators shot down 450 enemy airplanes and British airmen shot down 250. while 50 more were brought down by high-angle guns, according to figures just compiled in Faris*. « « • The Russian steamer Suchan, cap-' tured by a German submarine recently in the • Arctic ocean, east of Cape North, has been brought into a German port, says an official Berlin announcement. • * ♦ The French armored cruiser Gaulois was torpedoed in the Mediterranean sea and sank in half ah hour, according to official announcement by the admiralty at Baris. There were only four victims. Two were killed by the explosion. » ♦ • On the Moldavian front the AustroGerman forces, continuing their heavy attacks, captured several height positions and two towns in tii’e Zabala valBerlin war office announced. Viorent Russian and Roumanian coun-ter-attacks were repulsed. In Wallachia the Russians were again defeated. In reply to the proffers ol Germany and her allies for a peace conference, the entente allies, in a collective note made public at Paris, declare that they “refuse to consider a proposal which Is empty and insincere.” The entente allied governments insist that no peace is possible so long as they have not secured reparation for violated rights and liberties and the free existence of small states and have not brought about a settlement for the future security of the world. The note declares that the proposal of the central powers is not an offer of peace, but a “war maneuver.” « « • An entire Russian regiment of coast artillery —about 1,500. men —with the exception of 50 men, yvas lost when the Finnish steanlship Oihonne* struck a mine near the Gulf of Finland, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to Berlin. One thousand horses also were drowned.

Domestic

Two hundred and fifty woodsmen, strikers and Industrial Workers of the World, agitators, were arrested at Cussan. Minn. J* * • - A committee from a local union of office clerks .sought a conference with Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor at'Washington In an effort to have tjje federation pay its clerks employed at national headquarters the same rixtes advocated, by the federation for government clerks—s 3 a d;iy minimum and S2OO increase for, those now earning $3 daily. * • » Three Filipino firemen from the naval collier Ajax, which is qjoored at Cavite. I’. 1., were asphyxiated following confinement in irons for several hours in a room above the boilers of the ship. They were being punished for mutinous conduct. It was reported at Washington that Congressman Claudius U. Stone, Democrat, is to be appointed by President Wilson as postmaster at Peoria, 111. Gov. J. A. A. Burnquist, after hearing representatives of logging companies in northern Minnesota, announced at St,, Paul his purpose to Investigate complaints that I. W.' W. activities threaten to halt all logging operations and to create a reign of terror in that section. ’ ‘• • * Fire in the Angel business block at Logansport, Ind , destroyed the Park hotel, the White hotel, the Colonial theater, and. damaged a number of business firms. '■ « • . The Hagerman State bank of Hagerman, Tex., Was robbed by five bandits. The safe was blown open. The robbers escaped in a motorcar with $5,000. Gov. Charles-S. Whitman, in his inaugural address at Albany, N. Y., urged that, the state troops who recently have been on border duty, bb paid an extra wage for Mexican service. • ’ Juan T. Burns, Carranza Consul at New York, was arrested, charged with being concerned in a conspiracy to ship arms and ammunition to Vera Cruz in violation of President Wilson’s embargo proclamation of October, 1915. Three indictments have been brought against Burns, it was learned. .

Herman Billik.. who was -sentenced to the penitent Jury for life in 15*07, after a*mun|er trial-in Chicago in which he was accused of poisoning five members of the Vrzal-.faiifily.wva.s granted a pardon by Governor Dunne. '■■■*. * ■» From the United States in 1916 manufnettires yyere exported to a value greater than the value of manufactures exported from any other country in any year, according to a compilation issued at New York by the National City bank, which showed that the year’s total exceeded $3,000,000,000, as against $2,012,000,18 hi. the highest export record ever made by Great Britain. 7 .» • • Aaron\lacob.s ami Charles Thomas were instantly killed when a northbound Pennsylvania railroad passenger train struck' the automobile riding in at Noblesville, Ind. '* * * Wabash express,train No. 3, Decatur to Kansas'City, struck a broken rail at Illiopolis. 111. Three Cars were derailed. None of the passengers were injured.’ ♦ * » . “My chief desire is to be tlje servant of the people,” said E. C. De, Baca, New Mexico’s'new governor, as he stood wearing a bathrobe to take the oath of office at a sanitarium in Santa Fe, N.< M. .... ' * * * Mexican War News President Wilson is contemplating the early withdrawal of General Pershing’s troops from tile Mexican state of Chihuahua to the American border. This action wil l be taken independently of the Atlantic City protocol of agreement, which, it was announced at Washington, General Carranza has declined to sign in its present form. Secretary of State Lansing announced that Eliseo Arredondo. Carranza’s envoy, would return to Mexico. * * *. ■ ■ „ J ■ Minister of War Obregon announced at Mexico City that the City of Torreon had been recaptured by Constitutionalists under General Maycotte. G ♦ • *. Sixty Villista soldiers, made prisoner by Carranza troops in a battle at RustlUa, Mux.. were promptly executed by a firing squad, a Carranza official In Juarez announced. » * •

Foreign President Wilson now* knows the peace conditions of the Teutonic allies and the entente powers can learn what they are from him, Count Julius Andrassy, former premier of Hungary, is quoted as saying in a dispatch to London from Budapest,, according to the Central News agency, by way of Amsterdam. • • • A British army scandal, involving the exercise of influence over high officers by* a prominent society woman of London, is described in the report of a court of inquiry, and Mrs. CornwallisWest, wife of Col. William CornwallisWest and mother of the princess of Pless and of the duchess of Westminster, is officially severely censured. * * » The three Scandinavian nations, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, through Identic notes, the Nordegian copy of which was handed to the state department at Washington by Minister Bryn, have expressed their interest in President Wilson’s proposals “looking toward the establishment of a durable peace” and their “deepest sympathy” with all efforts to shorten the war. * * * Sisters of Charity were without aid. in rescuing inmates of the St. Ferdinand de Halifax Insane Asylum at St. Ferdinand de Halifax, near Quebec, when fire destroyed the building at night, resulting in the death of 45 ; woman inmates and one sister. ♦ * * The Russian steanfship Kursk, while bound from Archangel, Russia, for New Yoyk, with 126 passengers aboard, hit a mine on November 29 off Kirkwall, Scotland. One passenger and two inembprs of the crew were drowned.

A Berlin dispatch says that the merchant submarine Deutschland and Its sister ships will carry on future voyages special mail at rates recalling those of the transcontinental post in the days of the forty-niners. A special charge of two marks for a postcard or letter will be levied in addition to the regular international postage. • ♦ ♦ ♦ Washington It was announced at Washingtonthat President Wilson has appointed Lieut. Col. Chester Harding governor general of the Panama Canal Zone to succeed General goethals, v ♦ * . * Senator Stone of Missouri, chairman of the senate foreign raltions committee, bitterly arraigned Thomas W. Lawson on the senate floor at Washington and decided emphatically 'that “no public official is guilty, of wrongdoing,” in connection with the “leak” to Wall street on the Wilson peace note. *♦ ♦ - At the closq.of a conference between Thomas W. Lawsbn and Chairman Henry of the house rules committee at Washington Mr. Henry declared he had not received information from Lawson warranting an investigation Into an alleged stock exchange. “leak” from the state department. y .... President Wilson said at Washington that he would veto the $28,000,000 public buildings bill if it comes to him in the foriii in wnich it’is now pending in the house. -