Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1917 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEtK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Mo meni In All Parts of the World—* Of Interest to All th© People Everywhere. U. S. —Teutonic Break It was learned at Miashington that American merchant ships are to be armed by „the United States government and sent on their voyage regardless of submarines. President Wilson definitely decided on this step.. • • * The German government is urged to adopt all means to obtain an nonorable peace guaranteeing Germany a political and economic future comparable with the secrifices her- armies have made, in a resolution introduced in the Prussian herrenhaus (house of lords) by .Count Hoenseroech, according to Berlin dispatches to The Hague. • • • Dr. C. Hanaldor Chakiaberty, a Hindu physician, and Dr. Ernest Sckunner, described as a German, were arrested at New York on charges of conspiracy to set up a military expedition against a foreign country. The police say the men-confessed that they had plotted to Invade India by way of China. The expected criticism of the government’s ill-starred German-Mexican project failed to materialize in the session of the relchstag budget committee at Berlin. The committee unequivocally Indorsed the action of the foreign office by unanimous vote.

A dispatch to Amsterdam from Berlin says that practically all the German submarines that left ports when the ruthless warfare was decided upon have now returned to their, bases to be overhauled and supplied with more torpedoes. • • • Austria’s reply to the American request for a clearer definition of her attitude in the submarine situation was stated officially at Washington to leave the door open for further negotiation. The long commnication upholds and defends the unrestricted warfare waged by Germany. It is couched in most friendly terms and points out that “Austrian submarines solely are opgrating in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and therefore an encroachment on American interests hardly is to be feared.” With the arrest at Hoboken, N. J., of Fritz Kolb, a German reservist, the authorities expressed the belief that they had frustrated a well-developed plot to aid Germany by blowing up munition plants ,in this country engaged In turning out contracts for the entente allies. f ", Mexican Revolt Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing took what Is said to have been the first step toward establishing exchanges of courtesies between American and Mexican military commanders by arranging to visit Matamoros, Mex. • • * One faction of the Villa junta at El Paso, Tfcx.. Is authority for the statement that Villa has died from pneumonia in the mountains near San Andres. The other faction says he Is still alive. Return of the National Guardsmen to their home stations and their mustering out before April 1 was ordered from military headquarters at San AnI tonio. Tex., as a result of the failure of I congress to pass the army appropriation bill.

Domestic \ Ten members of the crew of the coast guard cutter Yamacraw lost their lives at night in going to the rescue of the stranded oil steamer Louisiana off Ocean City, Md. The elevator of the Elwood Fanners’ Grain company, near Joliet, Hl., contSAing 30,000 bushels of corn and oats, was destroyed by fire. ■_ ■ . - * * * Herman von Hagen, charged with desecrating the American flag, was held in SSOO ball for a hearing at Boston. Von Hagen, who was bom In this country-, has been employed recently in a local machine shop and Itwas alleged he used a small flag to wipe grease spots from the work bench. *' The action of the 12 United States senators in preventing the passage of tne armed ship bill by a filibuster in the closing hours of congress was denounced by mass meetings and legislatures in a number of states. ' * • • . Thomas A. Edison, chairman of the, naval advisory board, may resign if the naval experimenting laboratory is not built at Sandy Hook, it was reported at Annapolis, Md.. when the Inventor filed a minority report with Secretary of the Navy Daniels favoring the New York site, ' .

Ben G. Brinkman, vice president of i Sjt- Louis bapk, was elected president the St. Louis Nationals. European War News British cavalry has 4 advanced to a point within nine miles of Clesiphon, an the Tigris front, it was announced afficially at London. The British are now less than thirty miles from Bagdad. The town of Laji is 28 miles from that City. • • • The Russian armored cruiser Rerik! (or Rurik) of 15.U00 tons, struck a ■nine- in Finland bay and was heavily damaged, said a Stockholm dispatch to the Transocean News agenCy at Berlin. ■ ’ The torpedo-boat destroyer Cassini Of the Mediterranean patrol service was torpedoed by a submarine. According to the official announcement at Paris the powder magazine also exploded. The'captain, six other officers, and 100 of the crew perished. • • • » Eighteen hostile* airplanes were brought down by German guns, says an Overseas News agency review of recent operations issued at Berlin. German hydroplanes dropped 21 bombs on merchant vessels anchoring in the Downs and on the railroad at Ramsgate March 1, it was officially announced at Berlin. *** \ / One of Germany’s newest Zeppelins blew- up while making a trial trip over Belgium, and ten of its crew were turned alive, says a London dispatch. Two Belgians, who witnessed the disaster, were arrested by the Germans.

• * * An armed transport steamer of 34,494 tons, with about 500 colonial troops, artillery and horses on board, was sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean on February 24, the admiralty announced at Berlin. Some of the troops on board were lost. _ , A British destroyer was sunk wdth all hands in the North sea, the British admiralty announced at London. If is believed she struck a mine, the an-' nouncement states. * • * Foreign President Menocal of Cuba sent a message to congress at Havana requesting authority to suspend the constitutional guarantee and asking for appropriations necessary to quell the rebellion. The bill was passed by congress after a two-hour session. * * * The Fabre line steamer Roma (French), which sailed from New York February 18 with 77 passengers, arrived safely at Lisbon on March 2, the line announced at New York. It was announced officially at Havana that Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, fomenter of the present revolution in Cuba,-has been captured, together with his entire staff. With Its leader and his chief lieutenants prisoners the backbone of the revolution is regarded as broken.'

Premier Lloyd-George, in a debate on the Irish question in the house of commons at London, said: ‘This house would welcome any settlement which would produce a better understanding between Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, but considers it im-possible-to impose by force on any section of Ireland a form of government which has not their consent.” ■♦ • * The Swedish ministry resigned, according to a dispatch to London from Stockholm. At the request of King Gustave, however, the ministers consented to remain in office in the hope of composing the crisis. Hoyt Thayer, American school-teach-er, convicted by a Japanese preliminary court at Tokyo of trespassing on a fortified place, was released on bond pending retrial later by a higher court. He was arrested following the destruction by an explosion of the Japanese warship Tsukuba. Washington '» Tn ■ re-argument before the Supreme court at Washington of the federal dissolution suit against the International Harvester company, Attorney General Gregory declared that if the intent of congress to prohibit undue concentration of capital and restraint of commerce control if not ownership in all likelihood would follow. Such “colossal combinations” of capital are illegal and harmful, the attorney general argued.

A bi-partisan alliance in the senate of the United States is prepared to overthrow the traditions of more than a century and limit debate in the upper house to meet the present international crisis. A modified form of cloture was agreed upon by both Democrats and Republicans in independent caucus at Washington and it will be laid before the senate at once. • • • British claimants of the German prize ship Appam at Newport News, Va., won their suit in the Supreme court at Washington to regain possession of the vessel and cargo. The court held that the /British owners are entitled to restitution because the Appam violated American neutrality. President Wilson at Washington nominated Hunter Liggett," now a brigadier general In the regular army* as a major geneaal, to take the place made vacant by the death of Major General Funston.