Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

U. S—Teutonic Break Vice Admiral von Capelle, German minister .of the navy, told the reichstag at Berlin that the submarine warfare had not only realized but surpassed the navy’s expectations. There was no reason to suppose, he said, that it single U-boat had been lost since, the beginning of the unrestricted campaign. ... - ♦ .* ■ » .■ Full authority to take any action necessary to meet any eventuality growing put of. the German crisis will be demanded of congress at Washington by President Wilson next week. ♦ * ♦ “All these reports about American consuls and consular officers detained by force in Germany are malicious inventions, just as were so many other reports we have had during the last few weeks,” said a German official at Berlin to the Overseas News agency. ♦ ♦ ♦ » The Swiss minister advised the state department at Washington that 20 American consular officers, with their families; comprising from 30 to 35 persons, left Munich via Lindau for Switzerland. where they arrived in the afternoon, some stopping at Rorschach and others at Romanshorn on Lake Constance. * * * Frederic CL Penfield, American ambassador at Vienna, is said by Reuter’s Amsterdam correspondent to have delivered to the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister a request for a clear and final definition of Austria-HYingary’s attitude regarding submarine warfare. ♦ ♦ * Two' Americans were survivors of the Norwegian steamer Dalbeattie, sunk by shell fire of a German submarine, and not picked up until they had suffered from exposure on the open sea for 13 hours, says a dispatch from London. Peremptory demand for release of the 72 Aineric n Yarrowdale prisoners, now held in Germany, has been sent to the imperial government, the state department anounced at Washington. * ♦ ♦ , President Wilson .sent a .letter to Chairman Stone of the senate foreign relations committee at Washington urging action during this session of congress on the treaty to indemnify Colombia for the separation from Panama. The presidents request was based on fear 0f... complications that may arise on the canal if the relations between Germany and this government result in war. The president made it clear that German agents in Colombia are active with a view to making trouble along the canal.

Destruction of a German submarine in an engagement lasting 40 minutes was reported by the French steamer Guyane on her arrival at New York. ♦ ♦ ♦ While government boats were at work in the- outer harbor at New York lowering a great steel’ net for protectlon against submarines, 14 vessels, totaling nearly 50,000 tons, cruised easily past the Statue of Liberty and came to anchor. All had come from the war zone and had passed safely through the submarine field. Domestic Led by a woman with a baby in her arms, a mob of striking sugar employees of the Franklin Sugar refinery at Philadelphia in an effort to back up their wives and mothers who had engaged in a food riot,- attacked a squad of police. In the battle that followed the police killed one and wounded nine others. » * ♦ Minnesota's house of representatives at St. ‘Paul, Minn., passed the A. M. Peterson bill granting full suffrage to women by constitutional amendment. If passed by the senate the amendment will be submitted to the electorate in the November election in 1918. The cry of New York housewives unable to meet the advancing cost of food was heard in the city’s seat of government when several hundred women from the tenement districts stormed the city hall, screaming: “We want bread!” They came to place their plight before Mayor John P. Mitchel. ♦ * * Samuel Jenkins, for 14 years trusted employee of the government, the only man who' knew the location of every motor station and electrical device at the Frankfort arsenal in Philadelphia, was beaten and then shot to death. •• ♦ A Mayor R. O. Johnson, Chief of Police William F. Forbls, County Sealer Howard Hay and City Sealer C. M. Renolett, indicted by the federal grand jury on charges of violating election laws, were arrested at Gary, Ind., by United States Marshal Mark Storen of Indianapolis. The men gave bonds for $5,000 each. ♦ » ♦ . ; —, ■■ . a • The assembly of the New York legislature, by a vote of 124 to 10, passed the proposed amendnient to the constitution granting equal franchise to wcwfaen.

Midwest congressmen at Washington became alarmed over telegrams sent out to eastern railroad heads by J. P. Griffin, president of the Chicago)board of trade, that riots and anarchy would come in the big central cities if there was not relief from the food shortage. This telegram, together with reports of food riots in New York, led to discussion of the subject in congress and by federal authorities. The interstate commerce commission is moving with all the machinery at their command to Insure the delivery of< food supplies to all cities. The Ward line steamer Monterey, which sailed from New York for Havana, was forced to turn back because of a fire which was discovered in her afterhold. ♦ • • Personal .1. J. Richardson,' publisher of the Davenport Democrat, died at Davenport, la. He failed to rally from an operation performed Wednesday, and his death had been momentarily expected. He was nearly seventy-eight years old. ■* * ♦ European War News The Official Gazette, issued at London, contains an order in council, dated February 16, for tightening the blockade of the countries with which Great Britain is at war, as a result of the German blockade memorandum of .January 31 and similar enactments of other hostile countries. ♦ • • Small attacks and counter-attacks, mostly by raiding and reconnoitering parties, and artillery duels, violent on several sectors of the Italian front, continue in all the war theaters. Nowhere has a big battle been started. ♦ ♦ ♦ Lloyd’s shipping agency announced at London the sinking of three British steamships of a total tonnage of 12,008 and first information was given out in Berlin of the sinking of the Italian steamship Bisagno of 2,250 tons in the Atlantic ocean January 12. . : * * ' ♦ ■■ Mexican Revolt Three duck hunters, supposed to be Americans, who crossed the border into Sonora, were reported to have been seized by Mexicans and two shotguns and a rifle confiscated and about SI,OOO taken from them. , * * * A Villista force under Sylvestro Quevedo captured the town of Pearson, near Casas Grandes, Mex., killing 20 Carranzistas-. * *• ♦ The entire force of National Guardsmen, estimated at about. 53,000 men, has been ordered by the war department at Washington, to be returned from the border.

Washington Whether members of the state militia who are now being mustered out of service and who have not taken the federal oath under the terms of the Hay national defense act will be liable to call by the president in case of a new emergency was answered affirmatively by Judge Advocate General Crowder at Washington. * * * ' - “The way to dpal with bread riots,” declared Senator Thomas in the senate at Washington, "is to take those who corner food supplies by the throats. I * dislike to see food riots in free America,, but I can see that| it might be the first step toward relief.” ** * • The senate “bone-dry” amendment tothe postal bill, prohibiting shipments of liquor into states which have prohibition laws, was accepted by the house at Washington, 321 to 72. It will make absolutely dry states which now permit shipments in limited quantities. * • • The senate foreign relations committee at Washington determined that the long-pending treaty to compensate Colombia for the partition of Panama could not be ratified at this session. This decision was reached after President Wilson’s letter urging ratification had been reacj. * • • The senate at Washington passed the Porto Rico self.-government bill, one of the measures urged by the president in his annual message, without a roll call. » * ♦ Final approval of the naval appropriation bill was voted by the senate naval committee at Washington, with the total raised to about $500,000,000 by adding $128,000,000 to the measure as it passed, the house. ♦ * * Capt. Harry S. Knapp was nominated by President Wilson at Washington as a rear admiral. ♦* * . The senate at Washington finally killed and buried the proposal to raise secpnd-class mail rates to two cents a pound and reduce drqp-letter postage to ♦ * ♦ William B. Colver, a St. Paul newspaper publisher, and John Franklin Fort, former governor of New Jersey, were nominated by President Wilson at Washington as members of the federal trade commission. * * * In protest against the continued picketing of the White House at Washington by suffragists during the present international crisis, Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, noted suffrage worker, resigned from, the Congressional union. She has taken up the work of making bandages for use in case of war.