Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1917 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

U. S.—Teutonic Break A United States soldier, now being detained in the guardhouse at El Paso, Tex., on a technical charge, is connected with a German plot involving Mexico and Germany in war with the United States, according to admissions by army officers; The soldier is pf the Seventh cavalry. A fleet of armed vessels is being prepared quietly by the navy department for the protection of the port of Chicago and other important Great Lakes points against raids from the water by foreign sympathizers in case the United States goes to war. The American steamer Algonquin has been destroyed by a German submarine. The crew was saved, J. C. Stephens, the American consul at Plymouth, reported to Washington. Capt. A. Nordberg declared lie had no warning before the submarine opened fire with live shells. The Algonquin was a freighter. The submarine refused assistance. Four bombs were used to sink the ship. • • *

Confidential diplomatic reports to Washington from the representatives of a neutral government in Mexico passing through Washington on their way to Europe say the German bank in Mexico City and the German legation there are guiding virtually the entire financial and diplomatic affairs of Mexico. » • • AdJL Gen. Louis W. Stotesbury of the New York National Guard received a communication at New York from the war department requesting him to notify commanders of units in that state to be prepared for quick mobilization. The governors of the New England states, after several hours’ conference at Boston dn the “present disturbed condition of affairs,” adopted resolu tions pledging their support, and the support of the people of their states, to the president in carding out his announced policy of protecting United States lives and property on the high seas. • * • The American freight steamship Navajo arrived at New’ York after running the German submarine blockade. The Navajo left Liverpool on February 19 in ballast. ♦ * • " Seven lives were lost and one American played in jeopardy in the sink-' ing without warning by a submarine - of the -Cunard freighter Folio of 6,705 tons gross off the Irish coast Sunday.! Consul Frost at Queenstown cabled a report to the state department at, Washington. * ♦ ♦ Formal notice that American ships traversing the German submarine zone are to carry “armed guard for the protection of the vessel and the lives of the persons on board,” was sent by the state department at Washington to embassies and legations of all eign governments in Washington. * • • Navy department officers at Washington are preparing for the defense of j the nation against war by buying! 16 nonrlgid dirigible airships for coast; and harbor patrol work. They will cost $649,250. . v • • • Members of the crew’s of German Interned ships will probably be removed soon to quarters such as comfortable army barracks, it was indicated at Washington. K--_ ; J * * Fritz Wolf, taken into custody at Chicago on the suspicion of being an escaped member of the crew of the interned commerce raider Prinz Eitel Frederich, and thought also to have been a German spy, was released by the department of justice. * ♦ *

Domestic Harry K. Thaw was adjudged a lunatic by the common pleas court of Philadelphia, and under the law cannot be taken to New York on requisition to stand trial on charges of assaulting Frederick Gump, Jr., a high school student of Kansas City, Mo. Thaw will be kept in St. Mary’s hospital here pending his removal to a Pennsylvania asylum. v William Clayton, vice president and managing director of the Spreckles’ companies, was shot twice and probably family wounded by Lorenzo Bellomo, a bootblack, at San Diego, CaL • • • Seven persons were killed with an ax by Addie Green, an insane negro woman, near Nashville, Ark. She killed her husband and their six chib dren. - The woman surrendered and confessed she killed her husband, but she has no recollection of killing the children. , , ' .- The resolution to provide for a referendum on the woman suffrage question at the state election next November was passed in the senate at Albany, N. Y., by a vote of 38 to 7. The measure now goes to the governor.

Max R. Class, director of a bank at "Brownsville, Minn., was killed and -nine other persons were hurt, when the three coaches of the La CrosseI’reston passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & SL Paul railroad left the rails on the Camp creek bridge near Preston, Minn., and plunged into the shallow water below. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, stirred by a criticism of comimlsory military, service in an address at New York, , turned on the speaker. Rev. Adolph A. Berld of Boston, and declared the doctrine he preached “means the murder of our sons and the dishonor of our women.” ‘

European War News The Chilean minister to Great Britain has'Tieen instructed to lodge a vigorous protest with the British foreign office over violation of Chilean neutrality by British warships. Authentic information received in Chicago says that the allies'are landing tl)op.sarids of Japanese troops on the western Canadian coast and transporting them by rail to Quebec and thence to France. • * » It is officially announced at Tokyo that a converted German cruiser has been sighted in the Indian ocean and that it is now being chased by Japanese and British warships. The German has sunk a Japanese freighter. ♦ ♦ * . About sixty German submarines were captured and destroyed between January 1 and February 15, according to reports reaching Washington, the first authoritative word of the entente success in coping with the undersea boats. ••• i ' •J. lie official report to London from British headquarters in France announces the abandonment by the Germans of their main defensive system west of Bapaume on a front of three and one-half miles. The British troops occupied Grevillers and Loupart wood. It was announced at Copenhagen that the Danish steamer Rosburg, carrying a cargo of corn from Baltimore to Denmark, has been sunk with the loss of six lives. The captain and 11 men were landed on the Norwegian coast. After announcing the fall of Bagdad in the house of commons at London, Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, said there was every reason to believe that two-thirds of the Turks' artillery hail fallen into the hands of the British, or had been thrown into the Tigris. ■ „ Bagdad, the chief Turkish city in Mesopotamia and formerly the capital o£ the empire of the caliphs, has been

captured by the' British forces. Announcement of the capitulation of the city was made by the British official press bureau at Londoh.

PForhmgTon Another step toward making the United States navy the equal Of any in the world was taken wpen Secretary of the Navy Daniels opened bids at Washington for six new scout cruisers. \ • The senate foreign relations committee at Washington approved in modified form the treaty with Colombia by which the - United States would pay that republic $25,000,000 for the separating of Panama froih Colombia. It will be pressed to a vote in the present special session of the senate. * * ♦ Despite the submarine dangers and other risks, nearly as many Immigrants came to the United States during the last six months as in the entire year 1916, when 298,826 entered, the federal bureau of immigration reported at Washington. It was announced at Washington that President Wilson is fully recovered from his recent cold, due to exposure during the inaugural. » ♦ * ’ i

Foreign Gen. Paul Maurice Emmanuel Sarratt's engagement to Mlle, de Joannls, a member of the French nursing staff with General Sarrail’s army, was announced officially at Saloniki. Sarratt, who is sixty-one years old, is commander of the allied forces in Macedonia. * * * American Minister Reinsch at Peking reported to the state department at Washington that China had severed diplomatic relations with Germany and that the German minister had been handed his passports. China hastaken possession of all German merchantships in Shanghai. Count von Bernstorff, former Ger 4 man ambassador to the United arrived at Christiania, Norway, om board the steamship Fredertk VIIL ' Premier Tuan Chi-Jul of China, accompanied by the entire cabinet, appeared before the house and the sen-, ate at Peking and stated that the cabinet and the president had decided that China should sever diplomatic relations with Germany. The house approved severance of relations by a vote of 431 to 87. The funeral of Count Zeppelin was held at Stuttgart, Germany. King. William it was present at the ceremony, which was brief, owing to the. Illness of the coyntess.