Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1917 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S,—Teutonic War News Enlisted men of the National army, National Guard and regular army will be given every opportunity to fit themselves for commissions, it was learned at Washington. / The possibility that Austria and perhaps other allies of Germany may soon declare war against the United States because of the financial aid given to Italy is recognized by administration officials at Washington. • « • The first death of an American naval flyer in France was announced at Washington in official dispatches to the navy department. He was George Herbert Manley, and was killed in an airplane accident. » • • Capt. Cyrus W. Crooks, master of the American bark Christiane, which was sunk by a German submarine August 7 near the Azores, says he was told by the German commander that he "hated to sink American ships.’’ <■ *** - A A catalogue compiled by the Harvard Alumni bulletin at Cambridge, showg about 5,400 Harvard graduates and undergraduates engaged in war work. Nearly every page bears the asterisk that designates death In action. Unpatriotic utterances, especially by men of prominence, are more likely to be due to a wrong attitude of heart than an error of the mind, according to an Interview with William Jennings Bryan in Chicago, * .♦ * By direction of President Wilson at Washington practically every married man upon whom his wife is actually dependent or who has children will be exempted from the draft act. Only 5 per cent of the men drawn for the new National army will be sent to camp on September 5, Instead of 30 per cent, as previously ordered. ♦ * ♦ The officers’ reserve camp at which are to be trained leaders for the Second lot of 500,000 trained soldiers of the National army opened at Fort Sheridan, 111. ->• Domestic Thomas P. Flynn of Chicago was elected president of the American Federation of Catholic societies in the annual convention of that organization.

* * * Andrew Lupe, fruit dealer, his wife and three daughters, were burned to death in their apartments over Lupe’s store at Bad Axe, Mich. - * ♦ * Two men were shot and killed at Chicago by pay-roll bandits who demanded a satchel of money belonging to the Winslow Bros, company. The bandits escaped with $9,100. * * * One thousand miners, on strike at Wilkesbarre, Pa., for five days, refused to obey their leaders and return to work. Sj. - j * ♦ ♦ ■ J# * A battalion of the Twenty-fourth United States infantry arrived at Columbus. N. M., under guard of two companies of the Nineteenth. The men charged with implication in Houston riots were placed in a stockade. Dr. E. J. Duncan, a physician of Olive Branch, 111., was shot and killed at Cairo, 111. Will Wllbourne admitted that he fired the shot. Wllbourne said Doctor Duncan had attacked and choked his sister. .

♦ • • The police raided the Hamilton Detective agency in New York and arrested the head and the two employees on charges of holding as prisoners American sailors in order to claim SSO reward offered in each case of a deserter delivered to his ship. ♦ » * A contract for 1,074,000 gas masks to equip the army has been awarded to a inanufacturing company of Philadelphia.‘The contract Valls for an expenditure of $1,502,000. The government will furnish the material. • * * Herbert C. Hoover, federal food administrator, told the farmers of the nation the part they are asked to play in helping the United States and its allies win the war. He outlined the agricultural features of the administration’s policy. Hoover made ,his statement in Chicago, where he spoke before representatives of 126 farm journals. Capt. Joseph W. Mattes of Battery A, Second Illinois Field artillery, who died for the Stars and Stripes in the Houston riot, was buried at Chicago with full military honors. 1 ♦ ♦ * Peaceful settlement of labor disputes Involving longshoremen was forecast at Washington by the appointment of a board representing the war department, the shipping board, the Longshoremen’s association and the principal carriers to handle all disputes and appoint local boards in prin- 1 dpal cities. . . .

John J. McGraw, manager of the New York National league baseball team, was fined SI,OOO and censured by the board of directors of the league at New York for attacking President Tener of the National league. Byron Nelson, son of Congressman John M. Nelson of Madison, Wis., is to be arrested “somewhere In Canada” as . a slacker. The warrant for the arrest | was issued by United States District ; Attorney A. C. Wolfe. Nelson is work- 1 Ing on his father’s farm in the Cana- > dian Northwest. I Membership of the American Red Cross has reached the 3,500,000 mark and is Increasing at the rate of 25,000 to 100,000 a day, according to a head- ■ quarters announcement at Washing- • ton. I Negroes of the Brazos river valley district are organizing for an uprising against the whites. Representative J. D. Neill, who also is a member of the state council of defense, declared on the floor of the house at Austin, Tex. Nearly 1,000,000 women in New York ’ state have signed enrollment blanks signifying their desire to vote, according to figures submitted to the state conference of the woman suffrage party at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.' A message from President Wilson, in which he expressed his hope for a suffrage victory in New York state this year, was received with applause. • • • Washington It was announced at Washington that the United States is to have the strongest destroyer fleet in the world. Under Old Glory these vessels, which are held in many quarters to be the doom of the submarines, will Insure the safety of the American merchant marine. The senate at Washington, by a vote of 39 to 29, defeated the finance committee’s plan to raise $50,000,000 by increasing the two-cent letter postage to three cents. • » •. The explosion of a black powder magazine at the Mare Island navy yard July 9 was. not an accident but “the deliberate act of some person or persons unknown,” the naval investigation board reported to Secretary Daniels, It was announced at Washington. ’» ♦ » President Wilson issued a proclamation at Washington giving the government control over all commodities exported from the United States. The president said he aims at control, not at actual stoppage of exports. « • *

European War News Reports are again current in London that Japan may send an army to France to assist in a mighty joint offensive. Advices from Paris quoted Senator Lucien Rubert as saying that Japan is keeping 2,500.000 men under arms. • • • A Russian division abandoned its position In the region of Farshani, on the Roumanian front, and fled in disorder, the Petrograd war office announces. ■- . Reports that strong Japanese forces have been concentrated in Manchuria are given currency in Bavaria by the Neuete Nachrichten of Munich, which also speculates on the possibility of transporting such troops to the Russian front. An increase in the number of British vessels sunk by mines or submarines is shown by the weekly admiralty statement issued at London. Eighteen vessels of more than 1,600 tons were sent to the bottom.

The Italian troops pushing forward on the Bainslzza plateau, have reached a powerful Austrian defensive line and are now attacking it, the Rome war office announces. On the heights beyond Goritz the Italians made gains. Altogether 247 airplanes participated in the battle. • • • A dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph from Rotterdam says the German steamer Renate Leonhart, bound from Rotterdam for a German port, was torpedoed off the Dutch coast, and sunk in deep water. • • * The torpedoing of the British steamer Trelissick. loaded with 350,000 bushels of oats for the French government, was reported by the officers of a British steadier which arrived at gn Atlantic port. The crew was picked up by an American warship. Forcing the passage of the Isonzo aft 14 points and taking 23.600 the forces of Victor Emmanuel HI are hurtling toward the Istrian objective,. with the Austrian troops falling back. The swing from the north, which was marked by the seizure of Monte Santo, with legions of captives and much booty, goes on unabated. The total losses to the Austrians are reckoned at 100,000. Foreign Mathias Erzberger, centrist in the reichstag in Berlin; Philip Scheidemann. socialist, and Conrad Haussman, Bavarian radical, doubt the success of the submarine campaign of ruthlessness. ‘J • e • ’ -I President Wilson’s message to the Russian conference at Moscow electrified that assembly. His promise that America would aid New Russia “with all moral and material power” was greeted with thunderous cheers.