Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1917 — 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 Alt ths People Everywhere. European War News Great Britain and her allies are prepared to meet Germany’s moves in her submarine campaign, it was authoritatively 'asserted in. shipping circles at New York. The ports of Liverpool and Bordeaux will be kept open, even if it becomes necessary to convoy every merchant ship. * ♦ • Russian troops have captured Aus-tro-German fortifications east of Jacpbeni, southwest of Cfimpulung, near the northern end of the Roumanian front, the Petrograd 1 war office announced. Prisoners and booty were taken by the Russians. * ♦ * Declaring it has proof of misuse of hospital ships by the allies, Germany gave formal notice tit Berlin that free passage of hospital ships in a certain zone in the channel hereafter would be withheld. * * ♦ About 260 were lost in the sinking of the auxiliary cruiser Laurentic, many of them having been killed by the explosion of the mine which sent the forijier White Star liner to the bottom last Thursday, according to a dispatch to London from Belfast. The Laurentic struck 1 the mine off ,the north coast of Ireland. '• * * The London Times says it is authorized to state that the allegation that Great Britain is preparing to arm merchantmen with guns forward as well as astern is untrue. The sinking of a transport ship filled with troops in the Mediterranean by, a German submarine on January 25 was announced by the admiralty at Berlin. The vessel sank in ten minutes, j e Heavy, lossses were sustained by the British in their recent attacks on the Tigris front, according to an official announcement made at Berlin. ♦ • ♦ During the' battle northeast of Jacobeni on the northern end of the Roumanian front Russian troops captured 30 officers and more than 1,000 men, the Petrograd war office announced.

♦ * ♦ Domestic Orders were issued at New York to the torpedo boat stationed at quarantine to perserve neutrality, not to permit any vessel, either neutral or flying a belligerent flag, to pass out. The purpose of the order was not disclosed. United States customs officers and police boarded German liners lying at Hoboken piers and searched them from stem to stern. * * * That the tobacco industry is preparing to firfht the prohibition movement in self-crefense is l|ie claim put forward at Cincinnati, 0., by the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ association. * * ♦ ' ... “ Engineer E. T. Norman and Fireman H. Yoder, both of Montpelier, 0., were killed and an unidentified man seriously injured in the derailing of Wabash passenger train No. 12,-eastbound from Chicago, near Dillon, Ind. * * * The little Puget sound steamer Verona, from Seattle, speeded Into the harbor at Everett, Wash., with part of her superstructure ablaze and passengers in a state of panic. ♦ * *

E. F. Hutton of E. F. Hutton & Co., New York brokers, swore at the “leak” Inquiry at New York that six hours before the publication of the note they were warned of its coming by F. A. Connelly & Co., their Washington correspondent. R. W. Bolling, brotherdnlow of President Wilson, is a member of the firm of F. A. Connelly & Co. * * * A warning to Americans not to take passage on ships armed by the enemies of the central powers is expected at Washington. * * * A jury in the federal district court at New York, after deliberating ten hours, returned a verdict finding Franklin D. Stafford guilty Of perjury when he swore that James W. Osborne, former assistant district attorney, was the “Oliver. Osborne’ 5 who accompanied Miss Rae Tanzer to a Plainfield (N. J.) hotel. '* * * Four persons were killed, three being burned to death, and eighteen persons Were ''injured, several seriously, when two interurban cars, 'one a passenger and the other a package car, collided near Strongville, O. * ♦ ♦ , Pliny Fisk, the New York banker, whose name has been connected with that of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo in thb so-called peace note “leak,” emphatically denied at New York that he was in ariy way connected with the president’s son-in-law, or that he had advance knowledge of the peace note.

Francis A. Connolly, the Washington broker and partner of R. W. Bolling, a brother-in-law of President Wilson, E. F, Hutton & Co., New York - brokers, an accurate resume of the president’s peace note before it was published, failed in examination by the congressional inquisitorial committee at New. York to name the exact source of his information. He exonerated Bolling from, all blame for the' “leak” on the Sixty-eight million dollars was offered by the Federal Reserve bank of Spn Francisco to its six member national banks in Seattle, Wash., in case they should need it, in connection with ; bank- failures there. ♦ * * Governor Whitman of New York offered to pardon Mrs. Ethel Byrne, the New York birth-control hunger striker, if she would agree not to break the law again, disseminating birth-control information in the future. * * * Barnard Baruch, Wall street speculator and heavy short Seller in the stormy days preceding the issuance of President Wilson’s recent peace note, testified at the “leak” inquiry held at New York that his profits on the market between December 10 and December 23 were $476,168. * * * The government filed a suit in the federal court at New York against the Pan-American commission corporation, Sol Wexler and others, charging conspiracy under the antitrust laws to restrain interests and foreign trade in sisal and to increase the market price of sisal throughout the United States. ♦ ♦ * Five persons in one family are dead at Ashkum, 111., and another is seriously ill as a result of eating pancakes which it is believed contained poison, accidentally mixed with the flour. The dead are: Fred, Theodore, Irwin and Nina Meintz and their seven-year-old nephew. Mrs. J. O. Meintz, mother of the boys, is ill. *1 • * * Oregon’s “bone-dry” prohibition bill was passed by the lower house of the legislature at Salem, Ore., by a vote df's3 to 7.

• • » Acceptance of physically unfit National Guardsmen made necessary by last summer’s mobilization cost the federal government not less than $2,000,000 according to a report of the executive committee of Mayor Mitchel’s committee on national defense at New York. ♦ ♦ ♦ John Jutura and two'jof his children were. burned to death and the mother is dying of burns sustained when their home burned to the ground at Cleveland, O. The mother and father were burned trying to rescue their children. ♦ * * Mayor Hiram C. Gill, Chief of Police Charles L. \ Beckingham and former Sheriff Robert T. Hodge of Seattle, Wash., were indicted by the federal grand jury charged with violation of the federal liquor laws. * * ♦ Mexican War News Rioters in Juarez, Mex., stormed four street cars during the day and seized eight American street car men. They are being held by the Mexicans. * * * The delegates to the constitutional assembly concluded its labors at Queretaro, Mex., and signed the constitution on which they had been working for two months. Under the new constitution on which they had been allegiance to the countries whence they come to acquire title to real estate, insofar as foreign citizenship concerns such property. ' ♦ ♦'■•. ■■ - Foreign Four persons were arraigned quietly in the police court at the Guild hall, Derby, England, charged with plotting the murder of Premier Lloyd-George and Arthur Henderson, the premier’s right-hand man in the war council. The accused persons indignantly “denied the charges. * * ♦ The report of the committee off, electoral reform at London confirms the main features of the forecasts published regarding votes for women. By a majority of the committee it was decided that some measure of woman suffrage should be conferred! More than 100 Roumanians of high rank lost their lives in a train wreck npar the Roumanian station of Tshura, according tb a dispatch to Berlin. D * * *

Washington The administration’s $800,000,000 defense budget began to take final shape in congress at Washington. The house passed the fortifications bill", carrying a total of more than $51,000,000 for coast defenses, and thg house naval committee completed its 1918 naval appropriation bill with a total of more than $351,000,000;, ♦ * President Wilson at 'Washington nominated the following captains in the navy to be rear admirals: Harry McL. P. Huse, Robert S. Griffin, George W. Burd, James 11. Oliver, John Hood and William S. Sims. •• • ■ * * -’• The debate on President Wilson’s world peace proposal was brought to an abrupt end in the senate at Washington when Senator Cummins’ motion to call up his resolution for its exclusive debate was tabled by a Vote of >3B to 30. ’ • —‘