Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S. —Teutonic War News A force of 25,000 Filitio troops wherever they may be needed was offered to'President Wilson at. Washington by Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate. ♦ * • There can be no “peace without victory,” Premier Ribot declared at a special sitting of the chamber of commerce at Paris,'”Kfarice.V lie said France and thb United 'States are in complete agreement concerning the Vital issues of the war. ..♦ * * An official announcement by the state department at Washington syys an American steamer’s filial shot struck a German submarine Which raised clear out of the water and stood stern end up for if few seconds and then disappeared. ♦ * • Secretary Lane, in a speech before the Home club of the Interior department at Washington, said : “America is at war in self-defense and because she could not keep out; she is at war to save herself with the rest'of 'the world from tile nation that has linked Itself with the Turk and adopted the method .of Mahomet.” * -- - * * * The real work of creating a modern fighting unit was started on the municipal pier at Chicago, where the volunteers fin "the Third Illinois reserve engineers are being, mobilized. ♦ * * Contracts have been awarded to an American firm for the construction of a , two-squadron aviation field in France where American army fliers wifi receive fluid preparation before taking their place at the front. * * * The American commission to Russia; headed by Elihu Root, arrived at a Russian port. Announcement of the safe passage of the commission was made by Secretary Daniels at Washington. ♦ ♦ * Plans for issuing $4,000 free government insurance on the life of every American soldier and sailor during the war in lieu of pehsion arrangements will be taken up by the council of national defense at Washington. The plan also would provide insurance for partial or total disability. ♦ ♦ ♦ Domestic While Fritz Urban, a German, living at Philadelphia, is locked up in jail on a charge of treason, secret service men are searching for the two other men who, with Urban, are accused of cutting government telephone wires between New York and Washington. * • • Seven persons were killed and much damage was done in the rich Wright county apple belt in Missouri when a tornado swooped down between Mountain Grove and Norwood. All wires are down and only meager. reports have come from the stricken district. * * * Capt. J. R. Klatenhoff, former master of the German steamship Llebenfels, which he pleaded guilty to sinking in Charleston harbor when the break with Germany was imminent, was sentenced at Charleston, S. C., to a year in Atlanta penitentiary.

Immigration officials at El Paso, Tex., announced that on Sunday 11,644 persons went to Juarez, Mex„ and only 7,487 returned. The majority were Mexicans between the ages of twenty-one ami thirty-one. Many are believed to have crossed the line to avoid registration. Six men are dead as the result of the casing head gasoline explosion in the plant of the Moon Gasoline company near Bixby, Okla. * * * Ji Charged with using the mails in conspiracy to defraud, tour Corporations, including the Emerson Motors company,'lnc., together with 14 individu- . als, including president: George Emerson,were indicted by the federal grand jury at New York. Nine dead and two injured were the definite toll, ascertained, of a gas explosion at No. 2 mine of the W. P. Rend Coal and Coke company north of Herrin, 111. . • • • It was announced at Detroit that the city had oversubscribed its, allotment of $33,000,000 Liberty bonds. Henry Ford assisted the local committee In its’flnal drive-by making a $5,000,000 subscription. * ♦ ♦ . George Meyer, messenger for the Stockmen’s Trust and Sayings bank of Chicago, was'held up by two bandits and robbed of $6,800. , ♦ * « John R. Lawson, former labor leader, convicted May 3, 1915, of murder in the first degrefe in connection kith the death of John Nimmo, a deputy sheriff, in .the so-called “battle of Ludlow,” in the Colorado coal strike district, is free as a result of supreme court action in sustaining a confession of error filed by the attorney general’s office.

Winnebago county (Ill.) jail i§ packed to the roof with members of the I. W. W., Socialists and other's who demanded that they be locked up for not registering for military, service. 'Later when they were being transferred to jails in other towns they fought the officers, but were quickly subdued. A storm cyclonic in intensity that swept over central lower Michigan caused the deaths of three persons and injuries to 30 others, and did property damage estimated at $1,000,000. Several persons were hurt at BattleCreek and the damage estimated at $500,000. ♦ • • -The American Federation of Labor has subscribed SIO,OOO to the Liberty loan. Samuel Gompers, president of the federation, sent a'letter to Secretary McAdoo’s office at Washington making application for a registered bond in that amount. For the third time within two weeks tornadoes spread dearth arid destruction through rural districts of Missouri and Kansas. Reports showed 15 killed in Missouri and nine in Kansas. The property loss 'is placed anywhere from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. * * * One prisoner was killed and eight persons, iwo of them guards and one the prison chaplain, were injured in a mutiny in the penitentiary at .Joliet, 111, Nearly 1,000 convicts took part in the uprising. Several buildings were destroyed by fire. The battle between convicts, guards and militiamen raged in the prison yard for four hours. The ' riot was caused by an order that bar- ' red woman visitors. * ♦ • A procession headed by a corps of police and a band escorted the body of I Les Darcy, the boxer, to a steamer at San Francisco for shipment to his home In Australia. * ♦ ♦ Mexican Revolt Annihilating the small Carranza garrison, Francisco Villa, at the head of I 600 bandits, has captured La Cruz, Chihuahua, according to government agents at El Paso, Tex. The bandit forces looted the town. * * * Foreign It was reported in London that Lord Northcliffe, England’s most noted “firebrand,” will shortly come to the United States to be in charge of the various British missions here. He has accepted an offer of the war cabinet to succeed Arthur J. Balfour whose duties in the foreign office deinandhis return. * ♦ ♦ The chamber of deputies of Brazil voted on the motion of rico Lacerda to authorize the cabling of a message of congratulations.to the congress of the United States on the arrival of an American squadron. \ , * * ♦ By a vote of 453 to 55 the French chamber of deputies at Paris adopted a resolution declaring that peace conditions must include the liberation of territories occupied by Germany, the return 1 of Alsace-Lorraine to France and just reparation for damage done in the invaded regions. The resolution, which was accepted by the government, also favors the creation of a league of nations for the maintenance of peace. ♦ * ♦ Washington Nearly 2,000 soldiers of the Confederacy were present at Washington when the first meeting of the United Confederate Veterans convened—and everyone of them pledged his loyalty to the Union. President and Mrs. Wilson paid their respects to the courageous men of the South. ♦ * * Comptroller Williams announced at Washington that on May 1, the-date of the last bank call, the assets of the national banks aggregated $16,144,000,000, and increase of $165,000,000 since the last call, March 5, and of nearly $2,000,000,000 since a year ago. * » ♦ Prohibition legislation was approved by the senate finance committee at Washington as a new feature of the war tax bill. In addition to the present tax of $2.20 per gallon, a tax of S2O per bushel (from $5 to $9 a gallon) upon all grain used in manufacturing whisky was written in the bill. * ♦ ♦ In response to the senate’s resolution of inquiry, Secretary Redfield notified congress at Washington that on May 1 there were under construction in the United States 537 steel vessels, with tonnage of 2,039,000, and 167 wooden vessels, aggregating 214,700 tons. ‘ A European War News Roumanian troops on two successive nights have delivered attacks upon the Teutonic lines on the Moldavian front. Berlin army headquarters announced that these attacks had been repulsed. * * * Russian troops have made an advance south of Baneh, near the frontier between Persia and Turkey, the Petrograd war office reports. : * * Announcement was made at Paris that the French steamship Yarra, 4,163 1 tons gross,was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on May 20. Of the 600 persons, on board 36 are missing. Italian troops withstood a heavy attack by the Austrians on the western ' slopes of San Marco iff the Goritz area, ; sajs a Rome dispatch. '