Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1917 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

i European War News An Italian submarine destroyer re‘cently was' sung off the Island of (,’<>r!fu, according to tfte Overseas News ’agency at Berlin. An array staff was on board the vessel, the • statement 'adds, and seven naval officers 'army officers were killed. " Fighting their way forward in a raging blizzard, the Russians have succeeded in recapturing the Island of Glaudon. north <»f Illuxt." Die German war office a-t Berlin admitted. Ihe great battle that developed along the northern mni-of the eastern con- • ’tinues furiously. L/' * * i Following up .their offensive on the Beaumont-Hufiiel sector of the Ancre front, the British after hours of terrific ' artillery tire attacked _tlie. Germans south of the Arras. Some ground was gained. Berlin, however, reports she repulse of the assault with artillery and machine gun fire.’ • « • An admiralty statement published at Berlin in connection with • the announcement of the safe return of the German, submarine U-46,' which had been reported sunk in the Bay of Biscay-, says that a German submarine, Humber not given, has sunk 11 entente Steamers in 11 days. * Russian forces launched a counteroffensive against the Teuton forces along a front of 15 miles between Focbani and Fundeni in central Roumania. The German official report issued at Berlin says all the assaults broke down with heavy looses, except in the direction of Obilechti, where the attackers gained some ground. • • * ‘ A dispatch from Havre says that Gen. Maximilian Wielemans, chief of the Belgian general staff, is dead of pneumonia, contracted in the trenches. • • *

Domestic Franz Bopp, German consul general nt San Francisco, and four of his attaches or employees, were found guilty by a jury in the United States district court of having violated this country’s neutrality. a • • The jury in the case of Roy Hlnterllter at Olney, 111., brought in a verdict of manslaughter after having reported three times for Instructions. The verdict carries a sentence of from one year to life imprisonment. * * * - Mayor "Thompson of Chicago appointed Herman F. Schuettler chief of police to succeed Healy, who Is charged with graft. •• • • Tom Costello, the “brainy of “The Big Three,” whose alleged "graft collections from vice and crime .sources at Chicago led to the arrest of Police Chief Healey and three lieutenants and a sergeant of police, has told his ■ecrets. State’s Attorney Hoyne also announced that Lieut. Augustus Martin White had confessed. . *♦ * ♦ Fifteen persons were injured during a fire which destroyed the Observer building at Troy, N. Y., when an explosion blew out tlie front of the building- . ? • ♦ ♦ *

Forty-five men, said to belong to the I. AV. W„ gathered about the entrances to the Virginia & Rainey mill at Virginia, Minn., gnd engaged in picketing In an endeavor to persuade men not to go to work. Officers drove them out of town. ’ * * * , James R. Garfield, member of former President Roosevelt’s cabinet and son of a former president, reported to the Cleveland police that his home had been robbed recently of SIO,OOO in Jewels. ‘ . ■*., * * ' Two.hundred marines left the-Phila-delphia navy yard on the transport Hancock ,for Haiti, where they will relieve men on duty there. ♦ * * While on his way from the Tarentum depot to the plant of the Flaccus Glass company at Pittsburgh, Pa., the paymaster was held up by four masked men and robbed of SIO,OOO. • * ♦ A $400,000 commission for obtaining B war munitiori contract calling for ah expenditure of $37,500*000 by the Russian government was awarded by the supreme court at Mineola, N. Y., to Charles Fuller, a New York city lawyer. The Bradley Construction company was ordered to pay the commission. r-" • • • A verdict of “guilty with capital punishment” was returned against Frederick L- Small, former Boston broker, who was charged with the murder of his wife, Florence A. Small. The verdict means hanging. •• • • Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford' White, was indicted on charges that be tricked Frederick Gump, Jr., nineteen years old, of Kansas City, to come to this city, imprisoned him at the Hotel McAljfin In New York and assaulted him with a buggy whip on three different occasions. . z -- * • ’ . . ‘ . •" r

Sporting A new bantamweight boxing champipn was crowned at New Orleans, La., when Referee; Rocap gave Pete (Kid) Herman <>f New' Orleans the decision over Kid Williams of Baltimore at (he end of 20 rounds of terrific lighting. Mexican War Nezvs Parral, Chihuahua, was occupied by Carranza forces under Gen.T ranciscQ Murguia, according to a inessjige,. received at ,3/1 Paso, Tex., by Carranza Consul Bravo. * » • Foreign Tlie Overseas Neyvs agency of Berlin gives out the following: “The Prelate Knigllt von Gerlach (Mgr. Gerlach), first iieting private chapiberlain to his holiness, lias been forced to leave Rome and has arrived at Lugano, Switzerland. He was the only German prelate in the pope,4s r retinue. The entente, through the intermediary of the Italian government, urgently ln» sisted ujion .. • ♦ * Count Romanone.s, who has been premier in the Spanish ministry since* December. 1015, presented to King Alfonso at Madrid tlie resignation of the entire cabinet. " ■ A ■*. The report by the Overseas News agency that Ambassador Gerard at a public welcome back to Germany had said that “never since the beginning of the, war have the’relations between the United States and Germany been so cordial as now,” were inquired into officially by the state department at Washington through a cabl? to the ambassador personally. t « • • The Russian' preimer, Alexander Trepoff, ha? resigned- says a Petrograd dispatch. Trepoff has held office only a few. weeks. ' * • * Sixty persons were killed or by avalanches’in tlie Tyrol during De* cemb.er, according to Innsbruck newspapers. * * •

Washington Describing it first as a supposititious qase, but later stating it had been told to him as a fact, Thomas W. Lawson in his testimony before the house rules committee at Washington, pictured a United States senator, cabinet officer and New York banker having a joint stock gambling account and dividing the profits*among them. He declined to give names because he did not know them of his own knowledge. Ten per cent increase in salaries of all agricultural department employees paid $1,200 a year or less and 5 per cent for those who get from $1,200 to SI,BOO is authorized in the annual appropriation bill, passed by the house at Washington. * » ♦ At the close of the executive session of the house rules committee at Washington, it was learned that the majority of its members are opposed to a favorable report on the Wood resolution asking for a congressional investigation on the -“information leak” to Wall street. Woman suffragists began their “silent picketing” of the White House at Washington.. Twelve women from the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage appeared at the two main gates of the White House grounds carrying suffrage banners inscribed “Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?”

* * * arguments in the Adamson act test case were heard by the Supreme court at Washington. With the closing address in behalf of the government by Frank Hagerman of Kansas City, special assistant to the attorney general, the case was submitted to the court. * • * Ordnance and aircraft innovations designed from lines developed by European belligerents have, been authorized by i both war and navy depart; ments at Washington. They include the Zeppelin type airships, large caliber rnobHe rifled and howitzers to be mounted op railroad trucks for the coast defense, or hauled by tractor engines over country roads. * ♦ ♦ The Hughes vocational educational bill, making national grants for training persons of more than fourteen years to increased efficiency in trades, industries, agricultural, commerce and home economics, with appropriations running up to an ultimate annual expenditure of $7,000,000, was passed by the house at Washington. Renewed pleas to President Wilson to support the constitutional amendment for woman suffrage were made at the White House in Washington by a delegation of 300 members of the Congressional Union for; Woman Suffrage, who presented memorials oh the recent death of Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain. - , * * • • c The Sheppard bill to abolish saloons in the national capital after November 1, 1917, was passed by the senate at Washington, and now goes to the house, where*its frieqds claim it is assured of passage. The vote in the senate was 55 do 32. By a vote of 56 to 10 the senate at Washington adopted the conference report on the Immigration bill. This report lAves Japanese immigration to be regulated by Japan as provided in the ’’gentlemen’s agreement” between the United States and Japan.