Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE . ■■ ' ■ ♦■*<■■ ■ . . . I Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. U.S, —Teutonic War News The British admiralty announced at London iliat American destroyers hud arrived in British waters. A crowd of several hundred cheered the destroyers. The American navy’s actual entry into the war zone has already been productive of a brush between a destroyer and a German' underwater boat,- but the result of it has not been made public. The destroyer squadron put to sea again for the hard work that is before it. ■ ' . * ♦ ♦ ' the conclusion ’of a two-hours’ conference with Governor Whitman, Col. Theodore Roosevelt announced at Albany, N. that lie would accept the governor's offer of a major general’s commission in the state service if the federal army bill were passed without the provision to permit him to go to Europe with an expeditionary force. Labor and capital must co-operate in sacrfice. This was the keynote o£ the address of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, before a great gathering of American capitalists and labor leaders in Washington. * * * Vigorous action for the overthrow of the German secret service in America was begun at San Francisco by the federal authorities acting on information they said had beqn furnished by Rudolph Flamindinghe, alleged German master spy on the Pacific coast. Flamindinghe is under arrest in Los Angejes. <’ • . >. * * * President Wilson, following a conference with Secretary of War Baker, issued an executive order at Washington authorizing the raising of 183,000 men, in four increments, to bring the regular army to full war strength. * • • European War News y In the Canadian casualty list posted at Ottawa? Ont., are the names of two Americans who died of wounds, W. C. Clark, 140 Arcadia street, San Francisco, and A. - Diningan, Springville, Mich. The Rome war office announced that as a result of the offensive began this week the Italians thus far have captured 3,375 prisoners; a mountain battery and 30 machine guns. * * * The capture of trenches on a front of 000 meters east of La Neuville, is announced in the official statement issued at Berlin. • * • The British have captured most of the ground they had lost in Bullecourt and have established new posts on the west side of the village, says a dispatch to London from Reuteris correspondent at British headquarters. • * • A manifesto to the Russian army issued by the council of soldiers’ and workingmen’s delegates at Petrograd urged the continuation of the war against the central powers and stated that a separate peace is impossible. ♦ ♦ ♦ Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg in his speech in the reichstag at Berlin virtually made a peace offer to Russia, saying that if Russia renounces her aims of conquest, Germany would not prevent a permafient friendship by making impossible demands. The chancellor declined to set forth any program of conquest. * * ♦ A fleet of at least seven German subpiarines has been sunk or captured by the British navy while on its way to United States waters to raid Aiherican shipping. The submarines were on their way into the Atlantic when overhauled by British men-of-war. ♦ ♦ * British naval forces destroyed Zeppelin L-22 in the North sea, according to an official statement issued by the admiralty at London.

Domestic

The condition of oats in Illjnois is good and wheat is improving, according to the weekly crop bulletin issued by the federal weather bureau at Springfield, 111. Vegetables are in favorable condition. “1 Lieut. Melchoir Eberts, United States army aviation corps, was killed when his airplane fell at Columbus, N. M. Capt. James L. Dunsworth was injured, but 4-ill recover. ♦ * * Police recovered practically all of the SIO,OOO taken from the First National bank of Castle Shannon, Pa., by four bandits, who entered the bank, shot to death Cashier D. E. McLean and Assistant Cashier F. W. Erb of the bank and in attempting to escape wounded two persons. The bandits <*rere arrested.

, Agreement to spread the ban on wheat buying over tin* United States and Canada was reached in Chicago at a conference of representatives of leading grain exchanges of this country ami of the Winnipeg mart.’ An indefinite ban dn trading in futures was agreed)on arid, the only new buying allowed) will be that to close existing contracts.. <■"/.. Thg entire "north country,” embracing the, three iron ranges of northern Minnesota, is smoldering after a day ofi constant battle'between fire-fighters Hind forest and brfish firesk No loss of life was reported. . John D. Rockefeller has subscribed for S'.tK*'.lKMl of The gov« rnment liberty loanI’bonds, 1 ’bonds, it was announced at [New York by tip-committee, having the subscript ions in charge. American inventive g<nia< has triumphed in' the. production of optical glass. Secretary' of Commerce Redfield officially announced at Washington that litis achievement had been made by the federal bureau of standards. • • • Delegates from six boards of trade met in Chicago to stop speculation in wheat futures and to curb wild fluctuation in all grain markets of the United States. All trading in future deliveries of wheat, including July and September, was forbidden for two days. A special committee fixed the maximum price for July at $2.75 and for September at $2.45. May futures have been similarly controlled. Personal Joseph H. Choate, eminent lawyer and former ambassador to the court Of St James, died at New York. He was eiglity 4 -five years old. * * * Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood reached Charleston. S. C.. to take command of the southeastern department of the army, comprising the South Atlantic and Gulf states. Foreign It was announced at Petrograd that Paul N. Milukoff, minister of foreign affairs, has resigned, leaving the cabinet altogether. H. Tereschtenka, minister of finance, has been appointed foreign minister, and A. F. Kerensky, previous minister of justice, has been named minister of war and marine. • • • The death at the front of General von Victinghoff, former governor of Strassburg, is reported in a dispatch to Amsterdam from Berlin. • • • Walter 11. Long, secretary of state for the colonies, introduced in the house of commons at London the franchise bill which embodies the recommendations of the speaker’s electoral reform conference. The bill provides for the enfranchisement of women, which now depends upon the vote of the two houses of parliament. / • • * The executive committee of the council of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates at Petrograd, after discussing the internal situation in Russia, decided by 41 votes against 19 to favor the participation of representatives of socialist parties in the provisional government. * • • Washington B. S. Cutler, a Buffalo manufacturer, was made assistant chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce’at Washington. • • • The army bill was again sent back to conference by the house at Washington, with instructions to Include an amendment for a graduated increase in the pay for privates during the war, beginning June 1. American consumers will have to deny themselves canned beans and canned soups of all kinds for a time, under a decision of the war can committee at Washington, which cuts off the supply of cans to packers of those foods. The committee holds that the shortage of tin makes it imperative that cans be supplied only to packers of perishables and of foods absolutely necessary to the national existence. The order will be effective for 60 days. * * * Carrying no press cenorship nor war prohibition clauses the senate at Washington passed the administration espionage bill by a vote of 77 to 6. Important sections curbing activities of enemy , spies remain in the bill. The amendment forbidding the use of cereals and grains for the manufacture of intoxicants was stricken from the bill by a vote of 4 to 37. Public hearings on the war revenue bill before the senate finance committee at Washington were concluded with statements by the last of more than 100 representatives of industries heard since Friday in protest against heavy taxes proposed in the measure. • « • Representative Gardner of Massachusetts has resigned from congress to enter the army. He has been ordered to active duty as a reserve officer. •• • . All of the members of America’s diplomatic, military and naval mission to Russia held a conference with President Wilson at Washington. Headed by Elihu Root, former American secretary of state, the members of the mission went to the White House to receive final instructions from the president. *