Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

U, S. —Teutonic War News The American schooner Margaret B. Rouss was sunk by a submarine near the French-Italian coast and the crew robbed by the Germans, according to Capt. Fred L. loot, master of the schooner, who arrived at an American port from France. ,\* ♦ ♦ President Wilson, speaking at Memorial exercises in Arlington cemetery, declared the time had borne for action by this nation and that he had no fear of the part America would play in the great world war. “In the providence of God,” ho said, “America once more has an opportunity to show the world that she was born to serve mankind.” ♦ * * Smash France before the United States, goes in. Tl>is_.isGennuny’s chief hope of victory, and it is tire policy on which the Gerhian government is concentrating all its energies. » * * The Westminster Gazette publishes a message from a correspondent who r says the submarine menace is being mastered by a simple method, which the correspondent indicates is the invention of an American. * * • It was announced at Washington that the National Guard must be recruited by draft'to Its war strength of 409,000 men. States are showing a falling off in volunteer enlistments. The prospects also are that men between twenty-one and thirty years, inclusive, will have to be drafted to enable the government to bring the regular army to its full authorized war strength. * • * Four thousand men and women In the Auditorium theater at Chicago demanded that the government set forth in simple language the terms upon which it will make peace with Germany. And 5,000 other persons held a peace meeting at Grant Park, which resulted in a riot and the arrest of eight speakers who had denounced President-Wilson.

» * • A mob of several hundred antiwar advocates, aroused by Socialist orators, rioted at Cleveland, O. A hundred police battled the disturbers before subduing them. Five arrests were made. • * * Henry Reuterdahl, marine artist and writer on naval subjects, Was enrolled in the naval reserves, class 4 at New York. * * * Secretary Daniels announced at Washington that word of the sailing of an American destroyer flotilla for Europe had been wired ahead to Germany, and that German submarines . had succeeded in scattering mines at the entrance of the harbor for .which the American warships were bound. » * * * Three Americans are believed to have lost their lives in the sinking by German U-boats of the Cunard liner Feltria and the British steamer Corfield. * * * More than 5,000 Polish residents of Detroit, Mich., bearing banners denoting allegiance to America’s cause marched with Civil war veterans and other organizations in the Decoration day paraue. About 1(X) -6f the Polish marchers enlisted in the army and navy. • • * Domestic Despite utmost efforts of the government at Washington, a large group of skilled mechanics who cannot be quickly replaced quit work on warships being rushed to completion in the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock company on Hampton Roads. ♦ * ♦ Fred W. Zimmer, an aviation instructor, died at Buffalo, N. Y., from injuries received when his liydroairplane crashed into a telegraph pole. Seymour H. Knox, Jr., a wealthy young resident of Buffalo, was hurt. v * ♦ *. Seven people were killed and 22 or more injured in a tornado which almost demolished the mining town of Mineral Point, Mo. * ♦ * One hundred'carloads of eggs, said to contain 14,400,000 eggs, were found in storage in Denver by James R. Noland, secretary of state, with three storage plants not yet investigated. * * * After a thrilling escape from death in' a sawmill accident near Jonesville, La., William Lorimer, former United ' States senator and banker, is confined to his home at Chicago, his right arm broken in three places. • • * Almost 350,000 Boy Scouts of the United States have enlisted at President Wilson’s request, to circulate 10,000,000 Liberty loan circulars. Scouts and their recruits have 2,830,000 garden plots under cultivation. * * • A jnob of 3,000 persons, determined, as they shouted, to rid the city of negroes imported to work In factories and munition plants, swept through the streets of East St. Louis, IIL, attaching and beating negroes wherever found. Several negroes were seriously injured.

Foreign An official telegram to Zurich, Switzerland, from Budapest says that Empero'r Charles has appointed Count Julius Andrassy premier of Hungary. The Brazilian chamber passed the first reading of the government measure revoking Brazil’s neutrality in the war between GermanJ’ and the'United States. The vote was 136 to 3. * ♦ * The Industrial crisis in Russia is so Acute that, according to the minister of finance, M. Shingaroff, only a miracle can save the country from economic ruin. The socialist ministers at a ministerial council in Petrograd said that the only possibility they saw of settling the difficulties was to bring the war to a close. * . • '♦ The agrarian disorders, wholesale confiscation of property, incendiarism and other dangerous symptoms of anarchy which followed the overthrow of the old authority in many important Industrial centers and agricultural districts of central and southern Russia are becoming more serious, according to dispatches to- Petrograd from various points. * » » Washington Another fundamental change in the war tax bill was agreed upon unanimously by the senate committee at Washington, which decided to strike out the whole section levying $200,000,OOU by a general tariff increase of 10 per cent on an ad valorem basis. As a substitute the committee proposes direct -excise, or consumption taxes, on sugar, tea, coffee and cocoa. Every federal agency throughout the country has been ordered to attend and report on any anti-registration meeting that may be held. Attorney General Gregory at Washington has determined that vigorous prosecutions shall follow in every instance where such meetings develop disloyalty in speech or action. s * • • The senate at Washington ordered a searching inquiry into the Mongolia accident which caused the death of two Red Cross nurses on their way to Eu-< rope. The investigation will be gonducted by the naval affairs committee. * * * Without a roll call, the Lever bill for a food survey was passed by the house at Washington. The bill allows the secretary of 'agriculture to spend $14,522,000 for a food survey and stimulation of production.

Official announcement was made at Washington of a plot to hinder registration and to resist conscription by an armed uprising against the government. Eleven arrests have been made. Th 6 conspiracy is declared by the department of justice to have had its. origin in Texas, where a society was formed for the ostensible purpose of co-operative buying. • * • * President Wilson issued a proclamation at Washington designating the week ending June 23 as Red Cross week. The proclamation calls upon the people to give generously to the fund for the support of the national relief needs. • * • European War News French troops captured a German post north of Vacherauville in the Verdun region, according to an official announcement issued by the Paris war office. Two German attacks on the Champagne front were repulsed. ♦ * ♦ The London war office communication, says that British troops carried out a successful raid east of Riche-bourg-L’Avoue. Two German airplanes were brought down ami six others were driven down out of control. Five British machines are missing. • * * It was announced officially at London that the British hospital. ship Dover Castle has been torpedoed and sunk. All of the patients were saved. The British armed merchant cruiser Hilary also was torpedoed and sunk, and a British destroyer was sunk after a collision. * ♦ * Petrograd announces that Russian ■sailors of the Russian Black sea,fleet made a landing at Chivi, east of Samsun, on the Anatolian coast, destroyed the Turkish post there and burned a store of grain and two large sailboats. TWO other ves.sels were taken to Treblzond. * ♦ ♦ An official statement .issued at London says that counting the Americans * serving in the British and French ■ armies and the additional units ordered to France? there will seen be 100,000 Americans in France. * * * Forty-eight passengers and 85 of the crew of the Spanish steamer Eizaguirre are believed to have perished as a result of the sinking of the vessel. A dispatch received by Reuter’s at London reports the loss of the Eizaguerre. ♦ ,♦ • The Amsterdam Telegraaf says entente allied airplanes dropped bombs J on Ghent, Belgium, partly demolishing St. Peter station, one of the most imi portant railroad stations in Belgium, i The newspaper adds that many per- ■ sons were killed or wounded. - I* * • | The Italians have ’crossed the Timavo river and occupied the village of Pan Giovanni, northwest of Dulno, near the Gulf of Trieste, the Rome ■ war office announces. They have captured nine six-inch guns. The civil evacuation of Trieste has been ordered.