Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1917 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHOUT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHOUT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption* U. S—Teutonic Break Announcement was made that Vassar college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is in a state of “principal mobilization,” with nearly all of its 1,120 girl students signed up for war service in the National League for Women’s Service. Vice President Marshall in an address at Montgomery, Ala., said that a state of w r ar between the United States and Germany actually exists and made a plea for the people of Montgomery to stand behind “the sadeyed man in the White House, who is trying to determine what is best for the republic.” «•* > . The - administration at Washington has under consideration plans for a new revenue act conscripting all personal incomes in excess of SIOO,OOO a year during the period of war with Germany. ♦ • • Secretary Daniels held a conference with his naval chiefs at Washington. Following the conference it was stated: “We have stopped talking ; the navy is now in motion.” \ ♦ ♦ ♦ The first naval base hospital of the American Red Cross, stationed in Brooklyn, has received word to hold Itself in readiness for active service, it was announced. ’♦ * * The Newport (R. I.) hospital has offered to give 100 beds to the American Red Gross for use in the care of wounded soldiers in case the United States? should go to war. Agents of the federal secret service at Chicago awaiting momentarily a war announcement from Washington, acknowledged the difficulty of their task in suppressing the German propaganda which has taken root in .all parts of the nation. * * ♦ The administration’s feeling toward Germany was made clear in a note dispatched by the state department at Washington to Mexico rejecting the suggestion of General Carranza that all neutrals declare an embargo on all supplies to Europeim belligerents. German diplomacy was bitterly arraigned by Secretary Lansing. * * • President Wilson and his cabinet spent more than two hours at Washington reviewing the incidents of the German submarine campaign which brought the United States to the edge of the great war in Europe. The members of the president’s cabinet said that no change in the attitude of the United States toward Germany had yet been ordered. It became known at Philadelphia that the German sailors who escaped from the interned raiders Prinz Eitel Friedrich and the Kronprinz Wilhelm had a list of outside conspirators who were ready to aid them and that they had been supplied with thousands of dollars to finance their escape. Two of the raiders were shot while attempting to escape. ♦ • • According to a letter received at Washington by Senator Overman of North Carolina from E. B. McKinney of Pelham, agents of the kaiser’s government have been at work among the negroes of the state spreading the doctrine of secession.

Domestic J. M. Studebaker, Sr., of South Bend, Ind.; left an estate valued at more than $1,000,000. This became known when his last will and testament was filed for probate with the St. Joseph circuit court. He provided handsomely for Trinity Presbyterlon church, $55,000 being left that institution. - Twenty-six bags of mail addressed to Washington and the British embassy at Washington were found to have been rifled on board the Cunard liner Saxonia upon its arrival at'New York. I♦ ♦ ♦ Governor Gardner signed the bill abolishing capital punishment in Missouri. Life imprisonment will be the maximum penalty , for crimes now punishable with death. * * . Military training will be adopted for the convicts in the Oregon state penitentiary within a fewmo'nths, Warden Charles A. Murphy announced at Salem. Ore. The training will consist chiefly of marching and setting-up exercises. * * * Before the United States district court at Indianapolis adjourned 67 of 153 men accused of violation of the election laws in, Indiana had entered pleas of guilty. Seventy-nine entered pleas of not guilty. The majority who pleaded guilty were negroes.

Five persons were killed and fvur others seriously Jnjured fu the tornado which swept a small section near Delark, Ark. ' • * Switchmen on the New York Central railroad will be given the benefit of the Adamson law dating from January 1, by the voluntary act of the company, on the same basis as the members of the four brotherhoods, it was announced by the ’road at New York. ♦ ♦ • State police reported at Plymouth, Mass., that an unexploded dynamite bomb, with a fulminating cap and fuse attached,was found outside the chapel of the Plymouth Cordage company’s local plant. . \ - . ♦ ♦ * Four aged persons were burned to death and thirty-three others were injured in a fire which destroyed the Scottish Old People’s home near Riverside, 111. \ » ♦ • \: It became known at New York that a divorce has been granted Mrs. William McCombs from her husbapd, former chairman of the Democratic national committee. The principal American copper producers have agreed to furnish the American government all the copper needed for the army and navy during the coming year at 16.6739 cents a pound, about one-half of the current market price. Forty-five million pounds is the amount to be delivered. This is the first big concession in response to the appeals to the patriotism of the country’s industries. \ ♦ ♦ ♦ Activities of the stock commissioners will come under the scrutiny of the grand jury at Chicago, according to plans which were announced by Thomas Marshall and Otto B. Schram, special assistants to Attorney General Brundage. Charges have been made of gross irregularities in cattle inspection, resulting in considerable losses to cattle raisers. ♦ * * The Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation company has given notice of suspension of its boat service between Baltimore, Boston an&'Erovidence. The scarcity and high price of coal at this port are given as the reason. ♦ ♦ * The American Steel Foundries at Indiana Harbor closed the ammuni-tion-making plant and laid off 400 men. The plant, which made shells, ran out of orders., Other plants hired the men.

European War News Germany has started a new and elaborate recruiting campaign in Poland. Under the new scheme 17 main recruiting offices, 74 district offices and 400 local bureaus have been opened. ♦ * * A large French battleship of the Danton class was sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean, it was officially announced at Berlin. » ♦ ♦ A dispatch from Reuter’s Petrograd correspondent to London states that Lieutenant General Korniloff, who has been appointed commander of the troops in Petrograd, has issued a proclamation to “the soldiers of the people’s army and the citizens of free Russia.” in which he says that the great Russian people have given the country freedom and that the army must give her victory. Replying to a question in the house of commons in London, Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, said the daily- average expenditure of the British government from April 1, 1916, to March 31, 1917, would work out at $30,000,000. ♦ ♦ * A British destroyer and a merchant vessel were sunk, and another destroyer was damaged in the German naval raid at Ramsgate, the British admiralty announced at London. * * * Paris reports that since the German retreat began France has regained, it is estimated, 620 square miles of territory. One hundred towns and villages have- been occupied by French troops in three days on the western front. * * * A British patrol. boat pounced on and sank a German submarine which launched a torpedo at the White Star liner Lapland as it was putting into Liverpool on its eastern trip. ♦ ♦ °

Washington A flat rate, of 3 per cent for insurance on vessels leaving American ports for ports of belligerent nations was fixed by the government war risk insurance bureau at Washington. The highest rate has been< 2 per cent, * * » Immediate nationalizing of railroad control was urged by Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the board of the Union Pacific, in testifying at Washington before the congressional committee, investigating all phases of the railway., problem. » • » John Franklin Fort, former governor of New Jersey, and William P. Colver of Minneapolis were sworn in as members bf the federal trade commission at Washington.

Foreign Full right of Jews to citizenship and abolition of the pale was the further progressive step which democratic Russia took, says a dispatch from Petrograd’. Jews throughput Russia hailed the new order with great rejoicing-