Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1917 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

Ibest of the news boiled DOWN TO LIMIT. {ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Uotes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. •{7. S.—Teutonic War News Four Americans were among those post on the British steamer Belgian iPrince, which was sunk July 31 by a (German submarine. The submarine [submerged while the men were on the [deck. The Americans who lost their (lives were William Crissy, James Shew, [Detroit. Mich.; Thomas Gilmore,' Men (rick, Mass.; Ben Cain, negro. * » •

The first one-third of the quota of |678,000 men drafted for army sendee 'tinder the selection bill will be called to colors September 1 and sent to draining camps between September 1 tend 5, according to announcement made feat Washington by Provost General [Crowder to governors of all states. • • • A report that “ a U-boat had been Righted near the transatlantic lanes foff New York caused the war departttnent authorities to close the gate in fethe net protecting the harbor mouth. .. s . • • • More than 75,000 troops, comprising the final increment of .National Guards>men, were mobilized on Sunday. Some National Guard regiments will be sent to the southern training camps before August 15, but most of them will remain at home until September 1 or later. ♦ • •

The shipping board at Washington ilias telegraphed orders to .24 of the country’s largest shipyards requisitioning all ships of 2,500 dead weight tonnage or more now building. Management of the yards will be in the hands of the present owners, but under. government direction. ♦ * * " The war tax bill finally revised to meet latest estimates was favorably reported by the senate finance committee at Washington. It proposes to raise $2,006,970,000 by taxation. * • • Domestic Apache Indians in the Sierra Anchas mountains, 50 miles northwest of Globe, Ariz., are on the warpath, and two asbestos mines are completely tied up. * » • Dr. Floyd Bates, first lieutenant of the Second infantry, Missouri National Guard, was killed when lightning struck his tent at the military post at Fort Riley, Kan. His home was at Adrian, Mo. • ♦ ♦ American citizen soldiers may vote at the fall elections if their respective states establish voting machinery at the camps, says a statement issued by provost Marshal Crowder at Washington. ♦ » »

Thomas D. Jones. Chicago business man and capitalist, was appointed a member of the exports administrative hoard at Washington, succeeding Edward N. Hurley, who became chairman of the shipping board. * • * The indicated corn yield this year, according to the August government crop report, is 3,191.000.000 bushels—a larger crop than was ever raised in a single year before. The winter wheat yield Is estimated at 41.7,000.000 bushels. The promise for the whole nation Is 653,000,000. The oats crop is a rec-prd-breaker. It is estimated at 1,456.000,000. The indicated yield of white potatoes is 167,000.000 bushels, compared with 285.000.000 last year. * ♦ ♦ Heads of union labor called out 1,000 men employed at Brooklyn navy yard. Last week the men employed on construction work at the Miiieola a\iatlon grounds were called out. • • • Every text-book used in Cleveland’s schools will’be read personally by Dr. F. E. Spaulding, superintendent-elect, who is determined to -weed out any stray bits of German propaganda that may have crept into the texts. ■ * * •

Resistance of the army draft, if attempted when the army seeks to apprehend deserters, “will constantly encounter troops of the federal government.* This laconic message was flashed over the country by Provost Marshal General Crowder at Washington as a warning to persons who are seeking to Interfere with the creation of the selective army. The trail of Elmer Hague, wanted in connection with the murder of Mrs. Cora Miller, a wealthy West Salem (Wis.) widow, whose body was found buried in the cellar of a house he rented from her, led into the harvest, fields of North Dakota and Montana. * * * The man hunt for draft resisters in three counties of southern Oklahoma is nearing a close. Officers believed they had placed more than half of the Working Class union membership—estimated at between 500 and 600—in the state penitentiary and county jails.

I Four persons were reported killed, including a woman, and three negroes seriously injure*! when a shell from a Held artillery piece which was being isedln target practice by studept ofScere of the. Fort McPherson (Ga.) officers’ training camp missed its mark • ind exploded. l - « • • TOver 200 slackers, handcuffed in j three corrals in the federal building at ’ Chicago, while awaiting arraignment, • secured little sympathy from United States commissioners. The cases were 3i.-i-sed of at the rate of about five lailnutes to a case. Charles Magowan, president of the Trinity Federation of Labor, was arrested by United States .agents. - He was addressing u meeting of striking ‘ R* ■ k Island railroad shopmen in East Moirne. Hl. Oliver Griffin, an alleged L W. W. agitator, also was taken into ! custody.

| Five hundred soldiers of southern Illinois are on guard duty tn Spring- ‘ field. HL, following incipient riots in various parts of the city in connection i with the street car strike. Adjr. Gen. Frank S. Dickson assumed personal , command of the Ninth infantry, and j mobs in all parts of the city were dispersed. The riots followed the shooting of Policeman Noah Bell. * * * The Illinois state council of national defense at Chicago recommended to Governor Lowden that the state of Illinois seize the coal mines in the commonwealth and operate them during the war. It further called the councils of defense of the states of Indiana. Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Ohio and other states to meet in Chicago August 16. to consider the feasibility of joint action by all coal-producing states to reduce the price of Coal. Provision to protect harvesting from shortage of hands due to the mobilization of the national army has been made by the government at Washington in regulations now going out to district • xeinpiion boards. Men needed in the fields to complete harvesting will be permitted to remain at work until the need for. them passes, when they will join rite colors.

• • * Washington The American steamship Navajo has t>een burned at sea. according to adrices reaching the navy department at Washington. The entire crew .and naval arme! guard were rescued and have been landed at an unnamed port. Oversubscription of the $300,000,000 issue of short-term treasury certificates of indebtedness. Secretary McAdoo announced at Washington, was $61,525,000. more than 20 per cent. The senatf at Washington confirmed the nomination of Bainbridge Colby of New York to be a member of ffie government shipping board. • » » It was announced at . jVashlngton that the treasury’s offer of $300,000,000 in certificates of indebtedness maturing November 15. first financing under the projected second offering of Liberty bonds, was largely oversubscribed when subscriptions closed.

• • • European War News French troops broke into the lines of the German crown prince on the Champagne front at three places, inflicting losses on the Germans and bringing buck prisoners, it was announced officially by the war department at Paris. '/ ■ • ■ * • » Official announcement was made at the admiralty at London that Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, second sea lord, had been replaced by Vice Admiral Sir Roselyn Weinyss. Alan Garrett Anderson, hitherto vice chairman of the wheat commission, succeeds Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, the new first lord of the admiralty, as controller of naval construction. • » • Russian troops operating east of Czernowitz, Bukowina, attacked the AustneGerman forces and captured a wood near Balari. together with more than 50 prisoners and three machine guns, it is announced at Petrograd. Foreign

Lawyers of Brussels have unanimously elected Adolphe Max, the heroic burgomaster of Brussels, imprisoned by Germans, president.of the Bar association, according to news received at Havre. . Acting President Fong Kwo-Chang of China approved the unanimous decision reached at a special meeting of the Chinese cabinet .at Peking to declare war on Germany and AustriaHungary. • • • According to Norwegian advices to London 53 Norwegian vessels of an aggregate of 58.000 tons were sunk during July. Eighteen lives were lost as a result of the sinkings in this period. • • • Demanding an increase of 30 per cent in wages. 10,000 workmen employed at the Mitsubishi shipbuilding yards at Nagasaki. Japan, went out on strike. The men claim they should share in the nation’s prosperity. There was a slight increase in the loss of British merchant vessels by submarines or mines during the last week, according,to the official summary issued at London. Twenty-one British vessels of more than. 1.600 tons and two vessels of less than - 1,600 tons were sunk last west-