Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernel* Culled From Events of Mb* ment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All th* People Everywhere. IZ. Ten tonic War News .StEd<3.ts f Hamilton college at N. Y_ • f their own volition, . deci lt-: r. " *e to give up athletic sp-rts f : r military training. . .« a a Twenty-Sre hundred applications Were ler'ativeiy accepted by the central army'd-parnnept at Chicago for th- six' camps now being ■ estatiisLed :• -m ply lu.dod officers ■*■ • ■ ' # 'Elinhis is itg’mtg the. country In re- ; . cmitj”-■ th- .;,ririy. Figures issued- 1 Et W -HJt- /.. ' ni'-n en•lichee ihe'period, of the war on I April m. y lo p.-rted 999 net ; C"- "f - .. : : ::s 2*4 hours. . | I* was -ri' .”y announced'' at the 1 T , ml that no credence ygs ; . l in reports from three, <■•• ~t. gu'..-i 'Station.- on Cape Cod that ; .Jg'ivT h. I been heard off the 1 : nt was fcsde *'■ st - ltd beer no naval en- . <- • • • AsFt-raEces reached Washington | that .tg. 'r no cwTßions now conceiv- ■ Eble will rhe provisional government ■ of Russia yi .’d to the overtures from : Goman and Austrian S •• ilistic rep- j reset, tatives t, negotiate a separate! peace. - - ' Tse American Bankers’ association | asked congress at Washington to ' err.-t. ’ th- federal reserve act, so as : :th fri- -:s with rhe country teaks -'off the cation in an effort to r t- easier ffr the government to f’er the' forthcoming $7,000,000,000! V . iFTh r's W:.r seerjri ties. Jf.i.b’r .General Wood, speaking at a xx—• 'ng f :h- American Cotton Waste 'endten^e'at-Boston.-said that the United S:.g:-s -- -’.i not fulfill itsJdnty in this war until' it had sent men to the front .. ■ " ? ■ • • • I; was -’mwsmvd officially a't Washing - r. rim.’- ft German submarine fired on th- -.yer Smith about 100 miles- - xth New 'York. The torpedo missed “the'destroyer by 30 yards.

European TFar Neu’s A■_ -* : Madrid say< that ? the Spanish <■- !’•>>”.. 11l num,' 1 - .-*-7 -r; : i-y G-- . a:i submarine ' a -< - i: •..--.. . \ - H A * ■*■> : • ' * ■■ ■’ ■" iMv-miriu.W. writing in the i I .7- _•■ - ".W. .A-*—ts that vic- I Nr. - 7 th-'German mon-' r ■ « •» « Fl r„ , j U I of -7 - ■ ’ : f ,ve cap1~ ,t<>- ’ ■ ■ ; ■ ; -I by the 1-.■ . ■ ■ ■ * < F ’ • _r nn <>ff muv >to • _ • -at.. Fraheo-*’ I T “ ime; from S - largo number • ' : •. - ■ ■ .! : ■■• l vy w - ' . ‘ > ' .Trite I Itaii'lrt gUII- ■ '■ 7 '.7 A < 7 ' ■ It - - - - d :»r r ‘ iris th it in ■' ■ a -■ n —■ ’ miles’ of the 7 . ■ 7 7", 7 - , - ■ f I -l.tiiM kilh d, ■ - ■ “ r< ah France L A,' . ' t ~a i iaht <lom<>ns'~ 7 -t . f -t. p’.citi of b.-r generals • and the courisge of her troops. ’ The British tank steamship Narra--7 L 7 f-.', the largest ~ Cy-ri-r* ■■<' 7" F k oil in the: world. has been torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast, according to word brought to th- J 7.7-7 Stipes by officers of a Brit--777 ;v. 7' ; tDomestic “ es'rsb-.shed limitations on certain foodstuffs beyond which individual purctasers will not he permitted to buy. The p u—. of the order is to foil boarding of foodstuffs." Canada's order patting wheat and wheat products on the freelist will be decidedly to the advantage of Dominion producers, officials at Washington said. The American duty ‘on imports of Canadian wheat will disappear automatically. 7 ;\7. T. 7 •'■ : »7\ James D. Craighead, millionaire stock broker of .New York city, was stricken with a slight fever at a San Francisco hoteL Miss Vivian J. Hofhger. a trained nurse, was called in attendaiiee. Ob Monday Craighead married Miss Ftoffinger. 1

American farmers are starting under a handicap in their efforts to car- • ry out President Wilson’s appeal for increased production of foodstuffs. Almost everywhere throughout the country during the last week temperatures were unfavorable and the season is generally backward, according to the weekly review of the national Weather and cropbulletin of the weather bureau at Washington. s Forty persons were hurt when the left-field bleachers’ rail gave way shortly before the Louisville-Columbus game at Columbus, O. * * * The heads of the Chicago meat packing establishments ‘ promised the president at Washington their co-operation in increasing and conserving the meat supply' and in controlling prices. ♦ • •

Washington The Webb bill to permit foreign governments at war with Germany to recruit their citizens in this country' for their armies passed both houses of Congress at Washington without roll call. , • ■ * • • ‘ The location of citizens’ training camps at which America’s new gigantic army will be trained, was announced by the war department at Washington. They embrace every sectiori of th.- country. On May 1 they will be resdy for the reception ;un reserve bflici rs ami camlidatcs fbT commissions. * • • The senate military affairs committee at Washington rejected all amendments to the measure advocated by the president and decided to favorably recommend it for passdge. But the house committee, by a vote of 12 to 8, rejected the compulsory plan and decided that it should recommend a Lili that will provide for the volunteer system in-raising the army. The action of’the house Committee greatly displeased the president, ♦ * • Republican senators wish congress' to adjourn the first of .Tune. Senator Gallinger, the Republican senate leader, said after his party’s caucus, that the Republicans, had agreed that it would be best to pass’ only war legislation at this session. * * • Congress is asked to enact immelegislation empowering the government to regulate food prices, and exercise such other authority as the president deems necessary to control the production, distribution and marketing of foodstuffs to meet, war demands, in a report completed bySecretary of Agriculture Houston of Washirffcton. | • • * President Wilson used the power of his great office to induce the house of representatives at Washington- to pass substantially unamended the administration's military conscription bill. ♦ » *

All persons in the United States, citizens and aliens, arc warned in a proclamation Issued at Washington by President Wilson that treasonable acts or attempts to shield those committing such acts will be vigorously prosecuted by the government. In most casi<s the death penalty will be inflicted; Secretary of Agriculture Houston anuonneed. at Washington that he would seek legislation empowering the council of national defehse to fix maximum and mmitnuin prices for f'Oi!< 'Z Tie- secretary proposed that the operations of middlemen be controlled bv the lieon-mg of food dis- • trihuthig; agencies by the . department <>f agriculture. ,"T p ' „ . '» *7 * ' Secretary of the Interior Larle ap--1 pealed to congress at Washington to j fo>-(-o the utilization- of more than 700,i > acres pf fuel in reclainnt ion proj- ' cuts and iivtensive cultivation of pri;\g>te lands throughout the country. \ Personal . Pref, lii-rliert WHlia.fii Conn. Di A., Ph. P. AT. A.. <>m' of the foremost bac- : tcriologisis in tbe United States, dipd • suddenly-: at Middletown. Conn/ » » ♦ ! Willem Cobb Thorne, for years _ goners.il manager ofs Montgomery t\:ir ( l & Co. and y ftil recently Its prcident, edit'd of ptienmonin at dips.-residence i» ' CTtlcago. lie w:is fifty-two years old.' ;** * ■ i - Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D.. died at •’level:!ml. O. Death 'followed ah operation performed several months sign. Mrs. 'Rockefeller and ,’dauahters were at’the bedside. .Frank Rockefeller’s life was punctuated by an intense hatred for his multimillionaire brother. John D. He was born in Rockford. X. Y., in 1§45. * * *

Foreign _’p_ A, message to The Hague from Berlin says that 125,000 workers are now .oh strike in Berlin. The Tageblatt ‘ admits that a considerable number of these are munition workers. r .» ♦ ♦ Reuter’s Amsterdam correspondent says that, according to a Brussels dispatch General von Bissing, German governor general in Belgium, died Wednesday evening. General s von Zwehl lias been named as his temporary successor. The German legation and consulate at Buenos Aires, Argentina, have been attacked by a mob, as have the newspapers Deutsche La Plata Zeiturjg and t La Union. The windows of the buildings were broken. <