Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

European VFnr News Carrying 199 passengers, 130 of them American*, the White Star liner Lapland arrived at New York from England 48 |iours overdue. The Lapland was caught in a 100-nnle gale 'and blown off her course while waves 40 feet high dashed over her. •' ■ ' ■ King George of England in opening parliament in London said that the response of the allies to lh<‘ invitation of the president of the United States outlined their aims as far as could be done at present. Tin* king added: •‘Threats of further outrages upon public order amt the common right of humanity serve to steel our determination.” • • • The captain and 12 men of the Spanish steamer Algouta. which was sunk by a submarine, have been landed tit London by a steain t rawler. They were adrift for 40 hours before being rescued, and two sailors died its a result of privations. The other refugees had their hands and feet frozen. • * • ★ .. Lloyd's retorts at London that the British steamship Port Adelaide, carrying passengers, has been sunk, Ninety-six of tlie passengers and crew have been picked .tip at sea. The captain was taken prisoner. * » » The British ship Isle of Arran, of. 1,918 tons, has been sunk by a submarine. two of her crew being injured by shell fire, Lloyd's announced at Lbn* don. The agency also reported that the Russian fonr-masted bark Garnet Hill, of 2.272 gr<>ss tons, is helieved to have been sunk, • • • South of the Somme a German raid near BarleUx was repulsed, the Paris war office announced. The French made several -Incursions into the German lines in the Chanibrette nird Pont-A-MoussbiUsectors and-in Alsace without suffering losses. • • *

Domestic Franz Bopp, former Germa.n,consul, general at San Francisco, and four aides, under prison sentences for conspiring against American neutrality, were ordered to furnish increased bail of SIO,OOO to $25,000 eacp by Judge William H. Hum. Theodore J.' Roche, Bopp’s counsel, said it probably meant Bopp would go to jail. * » * The Holland-American liner Ryndam, which sailed from New York January 29, is returning, a cable message from the Holland-American line’s ottices abroad informed the New York office. * * • Fifteen Germans employed in the foreign department of the Guaranty Trust company at New York,2 one of the largest banking organizations in the country, have been given indefinite leave of absence with pay. it was announced, pending the outcome of the break between the United States and Germany. • *. J The refugee German steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilie. built at a cost of $4,500,000, has been rendered useless for months by the disabling of her engines, It was reported at Boston by Capt. John B. Coyle, an engineer of the United States coast guard service. He tol<l Assistant Secretary of the •Treasury Peters that hiVexamination indicated” a deliberate attempt to cripple the liner. James Buchanan Brady's failure to respond to treatment for several ailments, of which a seriously affected heart is the most serious, is giving his physicians at Atlantic City much concern.

■ »■ * * Orders for the homeward movement of the Second Wisconsin infantry and other regiments at San Antonio, Tex., have been canceled. * * • 1 Six men were found dead nt St. Joseph. M<e asphyxiated by gas escaping from small lotting stoves. Four, packing house laborers, were in one hotel room. * * ♦ Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the btyldings of the Sr. Louis Seed company and the Heydt bakery. The scene of the tire is in the heart, of the shipping district. The loss is estimated at §7><Hi.<XXt. * * * Kentucky suffered in the worst blizzard in years. The temperature fell to three degrees !><4pw zero. ; - - ' ' • ♦ ■ » ■. Orders were received at Philadelphia from Washington instructing members of the naval . militia to “prepare for action.” wit!) the expectation of going into service. > Engines and boilers of'all'nine German merchant vessels tied Up- in the Hawaiian islandhave been disabled by their crews. The crews of the North German Lloyd .steamers Pommorn and Prinz We.ldemar have been formally taken into custody, add crews of the other sever, .vessels are detained at the immigration station.

With'tlie arrival at Tuckerton, N. J., of a squad of marines from the Philadelphia navy yard, the United States government assumed charge of the Tuckerton wireless station and removed its German operators. " z * * * Plans are tinder way at Newport News to move the German prize ship Appani from Newport News to Norfolk. It leaving his ship, Lieut. Hans Berg, prize commander, turned over to the marshal in charge £606 ($3,000) in English money and two English orphans’ fund boxes heavily laden with coin. » * * • Fire at the Janies ifobertson shipyard on San Pai do Bay, Cal., caused damage estimated at SIO,OOO. The blaze sfarted in an explosion of a gasoline tank. ■ ♦ ' • Styles for men's clothing are to be adopted by the International Custom Cutters' association, which opened its thiri v-scvenrh annual convention at Columbus, <>. According to William G. Witlirt of Philadelphia, chairman of the fashions committee, military cuts may be expected because of the threatened war. * ♦ * The orchestra played “The StarSpangled Banner" ami other patriotic airs aboard the American liner Philadelphia from New York, when the news was received of the severance of diplomati<- relations bet ween the United States and Germany. Passengers on the Philadelphia at London from Liverpool. i ♦ * * r 4 Fire destroyed the building occupied by the Stilson Manufacturing company at Dubuque, la. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. The city hall caught tire once. •* * * ! Mexican War News Orders were issued to the First aero squadron at Columbus, N. M., directing .that airplanes be held in readiness for immediate reconnaisancc over hostile territory. ♦ * ♦ Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing rode out of Mexico at the head of more than 10,000 soldiers of the American punitive expedition. Columbus,'N. M., welcomed the expeditionary forces, which marched away to Mexico March 15, 1916. The little border town that was the scene of she Villa raid was decorated in their honor. , » ♦ •

Foreign It was 1 announced at Home the dukp of Abruzzi has requested that he be relieved of' 1 iimwommand of the Italian fleet. He will be replaced by Vice Admiral Paolo Thaon di Revel, who will also assume the duty of chief of the general spiff of the navy. ** ♦ ’ It is semiofficially stated at Berne that Switzerland, in reply to President Wilson’s note, will decline to depart from the line of strict neutrality, which is a vital principle of Swiss policy. Count von Revent low, commenting in the Berlin Tages Zeitung on reports that the United States has seized German vessels in American ports, declares that such,a step would have no effect on the German submarine war. The writer adds that such a seizure of German vessels would be a hostile act. ♦ ♦ ♦ Washington Letters of warmest commendation for the manner in which the punitive expedition into Mexico carried out its work were sent to General Funston and General Pershing by Secretary of War Baker of Washington. ♦ * ♦ German crews on vessels interned in American ports have a right to damage the vessels to any extent they see fit, so long as in so doing they do not injure other shipping and property interests or obstruct navigable waters. This was made plain by Secretary of War Baker in a statement issued at Washington. *» ♦ # The first dissenting voice heard in congress at Washington since the break with Germany was that of Senator Works of California, who delivered a vigorous protest- against risking war with Germany, on the floor of the senate. * * * The Supreme court at Washington recessed until March 5, without deciding the eight-hour railroad law case. * * • The navy department at Washington shut down the lid on the matter of location of warships, heretofore published daily. Secretary Daniels held that “it would not be advisable at this time" to reveal where the American vessels were located. ♦♦♦ ' V

Formal announcement that the state department is not refusing to issue passpovtT“because of the new German war zone decree was made at Washington in an official statement. . * ♦ * The house at Washington approved the conference report on the $60,000.000 fortifications bill, passed by the senate With- minor iimendmquts. It now goes to the [(resident. The senate,at Washington by a vote of 62 to 19. repassed the immigration bill oyer the veto of thb president, despite a warning fn>m the state department that the Asiatic exclusion section might result in disturbing amicable relations with Japan. The measure, containing the’ literacy test, now becomes a law. ' '