Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 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 Charged with being an agent for ihe German government, Joseph Graber, thirty-three, organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, was arrested at Scranton, l’a. • ♦ * Concern over the German spy system in this country is spreading in military circles at Washington. It is feared that to the thoroughness of this system can be traced the advance information given Germany of the routes and sea lanes to be traveled by the Pershing troops on their way to France. • * * An American transport joined in the firing at the German submarine which' bombarded Ponta Delgada, the Azores, says an official announcement by the Portuguese minister of marine. The transport aided the land batteries in forcing the submarine to withdraw out of range. ♦ ♦ ♦ Paris went wild with enthusiasm on the Fourth in acclaiming its gratitude to America. Its millions cheered themselves hoarse as a battalion of General Pershing’s bronzed veterans swung along in parade, eagerness to get at the foe appearing in every snappy step.

♦ * * Secretary of War Baker announced at Washington the National Guard Will be ordered out in three groups on July 15, July 25 and August 5. The entire guard will be drafted Into the federal service on August 5. * ♦ * The last units of the American expeditionary force, comprising vessels loaded with supplies and horses, arrived at a French seaport amid the screeching of whistles and moaning of sirens, * * * American destroyers convoying transports with troops for France fought off two submarine attacks. The first news of the fights was given out at Washington with the formal announcement of the safe arrival of the last of the transports with their convoys. At least one submarine was sunk. Both of the attacks’ were made in force, showing that the Germans had information of the coming of the transports and planned to get them. • • • All war prisoners, whether military or naval, are to be placed in custody of the war department at Washington. Three war prison barracks have been established, at Fort McPherson, Ga.; Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and Fort Douglas, Utah. Each is commanded by a colonel of the regular army. Shifting its original plans, the war department at Washington announced that instead of holding National Guard troops in the home quarters in the North after they are called out, they will be sent directly to southern camps. Calls are arranged for July 15 and 25 and August 5, but it may be necessary to make the general call August 5. • ♦ ♦

“The regiments from the southern states and the other units now being formed under the jurisdiction of the Department of the South will go to the front in France between the first and middle of November,” said Major General Wood upon his arrival at Memphis, Tenn. « • • s Domestic — A dispatch from Washington to Madison, Wis., says that Guy D. Goff of Milwaukee has been appointed assistant to the attorney general, with headquarters at Madison. He will assist in the prosecution of “slackers.” • * • Twenty-eight persons were drowned when a Great Gorge route car was hurled into the Niagara river at Niagara Falls, N. Y. -Many others were injured. The accident was due to a landslide under a trestle, caused by recent rains. * * ♦ O. C. Meredith, sixty; of Newton, la., former mayor of that city and former Jasper county attorney, died in a hospital at Des Moines from injuries suffered w r hen his automobile -was struck by an interurban trolley ear. ■ ■-< ■ ■ ' ■■■ *' * * ■■ , Possibility of immediate government control of the nation’s milk supply and limiting of retail prices was indicated in a statement by 0. H. Potter of Elgin, 111., chairman of the milk board of the Milk Producers’ association. He said representatives of the organization had been called to Washington for a conference with Herbert C. Hoover, food administrator. •• * * Armed citizens working in conjunction with Sheriff Greene of Oakland county, Michigan, are scouring the woods near Detroit in pursuit of an unknowm fnan who killed Hope Alexander, agtfd thirteen, and shot Elizabeth Stilvers, aged ten. The two girls were attacked after they had been shot. » Four persons were killed and one injured when a Cleveland & Pittsburgh passenger train struck an automobile at the Jeddo grade grossing, five miles north of Steubenville, 0. ;

' Losing control of her airplane 200 feet in the air, Miss Hettie Nixpn, twenty-five-year-old woman aviator, was killed near Marlin, Tex., while making a practice flight. ! Two women were killed and twenty persons injured as a result of a collision at Manistee, Mich., between an excursion train on the.Manistee & Northeastern and a trolley car. East St. Louis, HI., was placed under martial law following the worst j race war in the history of the slate. It was reported that 250 negroes were killed. Property damage was estimated at $3,000,000. Almost the entire negro section of the city Was destroyed by fine started by mobs. One hundred blacks were wounded. Several were hjmged. Several white men were killed. The fight followed the killing of two police officers by a crowd of blacks. • * • Personal ■ J* •' Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, the actor, is dead at London. Sir Herbert, who only a few months -ago returned from America, where he made a tour in Shakespearean repertoire. Sir Herbert was' born December 17, 1853, in London. • • *

Foreign A special mining commission of the ministry of trade of Russia has decided to recommend the transfer to American hands of a«great part of the empire’s mines and other mineral deposits. General Chang Hsun, says a Reuter’s Limited dispatch from Peking. China, lias informed President Li Yuan Hung ipat he must retire because the Mancini emperor, Hsuan Tung; has been restored to the throne. Hsuan Tung issued a rtandate announcing his succession to the throne of China. * * * Washington A suffrage demonstration by members, of the Woman’s party in front of the White House at Washington on the Fourth resultihl in a comedy riot, 18 arrests and much amusement for a holiday crowd. . President Wilson was yachting on the Potomac at the time. • • • Announcement was made at the White House at Washington that President Wilson does not expect to take a vacation this summer, but plans to remain in Washington whether congress adjourns or not. * * ♦ The senate at Washingtori, sitting as a committee of the whole, adopted, 43 to 23, an amendment to the food bill presented by Senator Brandegee of Connecticut, adding cotton and its products, which would include clothing, to products that the government would control.

♦ * * » It was announced at Washington that President Wilson has commissioned William A. Brady to mobilize the movies. Official camera men will accompany United States troops to France; others will aid the food administration. • • ♦ Yielding to the request of President Wilson, dry leaders in the senate at Washington reached an informal agreement with administration chiefs to modify the prohibition amendment of the food control bill so as to save beers and wines. * * * The house at Washington passed the priority shipment bill, giving the president authority to demand preferential transportation of all freight as a war necessity. The bill already has passed the senate. • * • ♦ European War News

A German court-martial sentenced t<r death Mlle. Grandorez and her broth* er, both of Stavelot, Liege Province, Belgium, and caused them to be shot within twenty-four hours, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch to London. • * * One German submarine was sunk and one captured by American and British war vessels during the last week, according to reports received by the French scientific mission at Washington. Members of the mission said the report came from the French admiralty. The captured U-boat was taken to a British port. Russian cavalry pursued the fleeing Turks and occupied ‘the village of Engidja, in the Caucasus, north of Lake Deribar, and also occupied the Turkish stronghold of Kalsmirivan, southeast of the lake. Russian troops have captured Koniuchy, on the Galican front, together with 10,173 prisoners, the Petrograd war office announced. South of Brzezany the Russians occupied strongly fortified positions of the enemy. The official announcement says that the Russians have advanced to the Koniuchy stream and also have captured seven heavy guns. '~j ■ * ♦ • ■ It was announced in Paris that the Greek destroyer Doxa, manned by French officers and crew, has been blown up in the Mediterranean. Twen-ty-nine men, including all the officers, were lost. Petrograd says Russian troops have occupied the Galician villages of Presovce, Zboroff and Korshiduv. The : Austro-German forces have retreated : westward across the Little Stripa I river. The new Russian offensive has . resulted in the capture of 6,000 more 1 prisoners. .