Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 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 Secretary of War Newton D. Baker 1 Issued at Washington the first of a I series of weekly statements comment- ■ ing on military activity in Europe. The ; secretary declares that the ascendancy > on the western front has definitely I passed to the allies. The government at Washington has advanced §35,000,000 to Great Britain, bringing the total advanced that cquni try thus far up to $1,190,000,000, and I the total of all credits to the allies up ! to $2,426,400,000. ■ ■■ • • * American troops for the first time ! are under German fire in France. Two American soldiers have been slightly | wounded. They were struck by frag- , ments of a bursting shell. A certain I contingent of the American army is , now located directly behind the British line, well within range of the enemy guns. I < ' * * * '' : -Shoot the traitors in this country I” is the advice of Senator King of Utah. | * *' * Domestic Four members of the Forty-fifth infantry in garrison at Fort Sheridan, HI„ were instantly killed by an electric train at Highland Park. But two of the men have been identified. They are: Chester Gilbert and H. T. De ! Hart. * ♦ * The New York World says that hazing in its worst form has again broken i out at West Point. Upper class men have forced newly appointed cadets to strip to the waist, stand on tiptoe, with i chins in and heads back, and to hold ! that position until they fainted. Twelve ‘ cadets will be tried. • • • Acting under orders from Washington. the entire detective force of the i police department of the city of New York, directed by Capt. William M. Offley of the department of justice, aided • by Deputy Police Commissioner Scull ' and representatives of the army and , navy, started a roundup of enemy ; aliens in all the five boroughs. More I than 500 have been arrested. I** * . Colonel Roosevelt brought his mes- , sage of Americanism, “Children of the | Melting Pot.” to Chicago. Speaking as > “a child of the crucible myself,” he adi dressed a crowd of 12,000 at the Stock- ! yards pavilion. He tore loose against the pacifists and propagandists with naked phrases. He alsa ripped out an • indictment of Senator La Follette. The | etdonel also made an address to the members of the National army at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111. * * » Four white men, believed to be I. W. W. agents, were taken -from the county jail at Stuttgart, Ark., by a mob of 150 rice farmers, who whipped them and then tarred and feathered them. The men were arrested on complaint of farmers that they were inciting laborers to cease working in the rice fields. • • • Military authorities seized the electric light plant supplying Chillicothe and Camp Sherman, the military cantonment at Chillicothe, O. The seizure followed an order from city authorities to cut off the electric light current. * • . * International oncers of the labor unions involved ffn the strike of more than three thousand mechanics at the Norfolk navy yard have advised the heads of the local unions there to return the men to work, pending negotiations. Fifteen workmen were injured when two interurban cars collided in a fog one mile from the government cantonIment at Camp Custer. Mich. Mrs. Julia Mikula of Hamtramck, ‘ Mich., hanged three children and her--1 self in their home. A revolution of 2,000,000 malcontents, [nation-wide jn scope, backed by I. W. ' W. and 48 affiliated organizations, In- • eluding the Working Vlass union, in ■ which it was planned to apply the, torch to small cities, shoot officers of . the government and demoralize com- • munication. was planned for July 27 last, according to the testimony of Will j Hoover, state witness in the trial at I Enid. Okla., of 11 alleged antidraft ‘ agitators. Pursuant to action taken at a mass meeting of workmen, 4.000 men employed in steel shipyards at Portland, Ore., went out on strike. About 3,000 men employed in wooden shipyards already are on strike. • ♦ * Nearly 20,000 of the leading bankers of the United States gathered in Atlantic City to discuss the tremendous financial problems raised by the war. A temporary wage schedule which . will permit 30.000 ironworkers to work. I immediately upon ratification of the ■ agreement by the unions concerned, j ; pending final adjudication of their dis- i | Terences by the federal board of con- j filiation. was signed at? Sah Francisco ' at a conference between representatives of the men, their employers and federal mediators.

Expulsion of Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin from the United States senate is demanded in a petition addressed to that body by the Minnesota public safety commission. Senator La Follette is accused of making an address of a dislopal and seditious nature at the Nonpartisan league convention at St. Paul, Minn. A- * * « European War News Passengers arriving at an Atlantic port on a steamship from a British port told of the sinking of two German submarines, one of which had attacked a transport convoyed by British destroyers. • ♦ • In an attack along a six-mile front the British troops captured an important position around Tower Hamlets and strong field works, according to the official report to London from Field Marshal Haig. ♦ ♦ * Advices have been received at Amsterdam from the frontier by the Telegraaf to the effect that about 30 residents of Ghent, Belgium, have been put to death in the last three weeks on charges of espionage. ♦ ♦ * A squadron of German airplanes swept over the French trenches. Capt. Georges Guynemer was officially reported “as killed in action” and all France mourns the loss of its idol, the hero of France. He brought down 52 airplanes. ♦ * • General Cadorna’s forces made progress during the night at several points on the Julian battle front, says a dispatch from Rome. * * ♦ A British destroyer has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the approaches of the channel, ac- - cording to an admiralty announcement at London. There were fifty survivors. * * * After a battle on the Riga front Russian forces pushed forward in the region of the village of Rudna and pressed back the German advanced guards, it was officially announced by the Petrograd war department. * ♦ ♦

Foreign The Peruvian government has Instructed its minister at Berlin to present to the German government a demand that .satisfaction be given within eight days for the sinking of the Peruvian -bark Lorton. If the demand is not met diplomatic relations will be broken off. ♦ * * General Soukhomlinoff, former minister of war of Russia, was sentenced to hard labor for life after conviction on the charge of high treason in the court at Petrograd. Mme. Soukhomlinoff was acquitted. * ♦ ♦ The Uruguayan congress at Montevideo has been called to meet in special session to vote on the question of severing relations with Germaiy. * * * By a vote of 53 to 18 the Argentine chamber of deputies voted to support a break in relations with Germany. The vote was on a motion “to proceed to break relations with Germany.” ♦ » ♦ Captain Laureuti of the Italian army, accompanied by an observer, made a nonstop airplane flight from Turin, Italy, to London. He covered the 656 miles in seven hours and twelve minutes. ♦ * * Washington Within a little more than a year the United States will have an ocean-going merchant fleet of more than 1,600 ships, aggregating 9,200,000 tons, the shipping board at Washington announced in a statement giving details of the government’s shipbuilding program. * * * A charter rate of $5.75 a ton a month has been decided upon by the shipping board at Washington as a base the govmont will pay for requisitioned oceangoing merchant vessels. Within a short time the board will take over for government use every American vessel available for overseas service. * * * Creation of a house committee on woman suffrage was ordered by the house at Washington by a vote of 181 to 107. ♦ * ♦ The death warrant of seditious newspapers was signed at Washington. The house finally passed the trading-with-the-enemy act, giving Postmaster General Burleson almost unlimited powers for the suppression of treasonable publications. ' * * The hbuse at Washington had a wild and noisy session over the disclosure that Count Bernstorff, while German ambassador here, asked his government to authorize the expenditure of $50,000 to influence congress. Representative Norton attacked Representative Hefln, who was quoted in a newspaper as saying he could name a dozen congressmen who “had been acting suspiciously.” Heflin denied that the interview attributed to him was correct. * * * Confirmation of Col. Carl Reichmannl of the regular army to be a brigadier general was recommended by the senate military affairs committee at Washington by a vote of 8 to 2. ♦ • • -'A The senate passed the $8,000,000,000 urgent deficiency bill without a roll call at Washington. The house granted the army $3,509,736,735, and the senate added $749,247,394. The navy was given $573,019,623 by the house and the senate added $24,049,500, a total of $597,069,123. i • _ _ . ' 1

Harley Lamson left Thursday for his home at Bluffton after a visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. - ’ Jay Lamson. Don Wright and Don Beam, members of the Grant Park Naval band at Chicago, were home over Thursday night and yesterday, returning to the city last night. Mr. and Mrs. George Wenrick came down Thursday from near Kouts |o visit relative's _until yesterday. Mr. Wenrick says that his oats were goefd and he has eighty to ninety acres of fine buckwheat, which he expects to thrash next week, j His corn, however, was quite badly damaged by the recent frost.