Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1917 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

17. S. —Teutonic War News At the plenary sitting of the reicfistag at Berlin Dr. Georg Michaelis, the imperial German chancellor, asserted that peace was impossible as long a,s Germany’s enemies demanded any German soil or endeavored to drive a wedge between the German people and their emperor. ■♦ * * “Americans who are discussing early peace with Germany forget that it would mean crushing the democratic ideals for which the United States has always stood,” declared President Wilson to the organizers of a patriotic educational movement who called at the White House in Washington. He said the only way to end the war is by corm plete victory of the nations representing those ideals over Germany’s doctrine of force. * • • Vice Admiral Sims cabled the navy department at Washington that tin American patrol vessel, on duty at night in the war zone, had tired on an Italian submarine, which failed to answer recognition signals, killing one officer and one enlisted man. Daniels sent a message to Rome expressing the deepest regret over the unfortunate occurrence. * • * An American patrol vessel on duty In foreign waters has been lost, the navy department announced at Washington. A dispatch from Admiral Sims states that the ship foundered, but the entire crew and officers werb saved and safely landed. * * * Domestic

Oscar Landmelsser, an itinerant evangelist, killed one man and wounded two other persons in a crowded courtroom at Hammond, Ind., then was , brought down, wounded in turn by the fire of two court attaches. Landineis- i ser was being tried on the charges of Aldina Hartman. The man he killed. Fred Bayne of Indiana Harbor, was testifying against him. * * * With the arrest of three men Captain Tunney of the bomb squad of New York, said that detectives had at last i reached the heart of the conspiracy to place bombs on ships carrying supplies to the allies. They caused damages estimated at $5,000,000, the police say. -l/ ! * * * A federal warrant was issued at St. Louis for Harry B. Krenning, until recently president of an automobile manufacturing company, charging violation of the espionage act, because of remarks he is said to have made at a theater. » • ♦ “I killed him to free our family of his tyranny," were the words attributed to Alice Karlson, aged twenty-four, governess in a Dewitt (III.) banker’s home, who is alleged to have killed her father, Werner Karlson, on their farm near Scotts, Mich. L- * * Just before Coroner W. D. Elliott opened his inquest into the death of Jesse Barker, millionaire banker and clubman, who was found dead in his mansion at Peoria, 111., W. G. Roberts, a cousin of the dead man, announced that relatives were satisfied that Barker had been murdered.

Plans have been perfected by Harry A. Wheeler, food administrator for the Chicago district, by which the housewives are to be informed evbry day Just what the price of staple articles ! of food, such as potatoes, flour and sugar, should be. These figures will > be given out as a safeguard against overcharging. ♦ * * The customs division of the treasury department at Washington announced that wheat and wheat flour from Australia will be admitted to the United i States without duty. **.*. .. - I Two persons were killed and four others injured when an automobile they occupied upset in a ditch near Beecher, HI. The dead—William Piepenbrink. millionaire farmer of Beecher, and his mother. ■♦ * * Five interned alien enemies escaped ■ from the nnnrrdh'6'hsr at Fort Mclntosh, Tex., where they had been interned since August 15, One was found dead and three captured. ♦ * ♦ Maximum penalties of a sentence of six years in the federal prison at Leavenworth and a fine of SI,OOO were given to each of the eight men convicted of conspiracy to resist the selective draft law at Enid, Okla. \. • * • Fire, believed to have been of in- • eendiary origin, destroyed the fivestory frame grain elevator of the Acme Elevator company at the National Stock Yards in East St. Louis, 111., with a loss estimated at $200,000. * * * The first Liberty motor for the United States army, product of the greatest motor truck designers of the country hnd the combined genius of 12 motor truck plants and 62 automobile parts factories, was completed at Lima. O, It a local manufaeturtns

Jesse Barker, millionaire of Peoria, 111., who was found shot to death, ended his own life, a coroner’s jury held. He requeathed $2,000,000 to the widow, Mrs. Chamie Robinson Barker. • * • : Arthur W. Nix. alleged chief of southwestern Oklahoma draft resisters, was arrested in Chickasha by federal officials and held in SIO,OOO-bond for the federal grand jury. • • * Foreign j The German foreign secretary, Herr von Kuehlmann, will proceed at an early date on a visit to Vienna, Budapest, Sofia and Constantinople, says a dispatch to Amsterdam. It is said his mission has important political and peace significance. i* * * I Uruguay has severed diplomatic relations with Germany. A presidential ■ decree announced the rupture follow- • ing a vote in favor of it passed by the chamber of deputies. The vote was 74 to 23. The German minister has been handed his passports. « • • Washington Government control of foodstuffs is extended to-take in virtually all the essential articles of diet by a proclamation issued at Washington by President Wilson directing the food administration to license after November 1 the manufacture, storage, importation and distribution of some twenty 1 modifies. Many small dealers are ex- ' erupted, as are farmers, who were especially excepted in the food control law. * • • Virtually all the staple foods consumed by the American people will be 'put under government control November"). The food administration anInpunced at Washington that within a ( few days President Wilson will issue an executive order requiring that manufacturers yMlTdistributors of some 20 fundamental foods operate under license restrictions designed to prevent unreasonable profits and to stop speculation and hoarding.

The American navy’s war construction program consists of 787 vessels, including all types from super-dread-naughts to submarine chasers. In making this announcement at Washington Secretary Daniels said some of the vessels have been completed within the last few weeks and are now in service. ♦ * • Despite an estimated loss of 37,000,000 bushels during ‘September, the country’s corn crop still will-be the greatest in its history. Latest figures issued by the dpeartment of agriculture at Washington show the crop will be 3,210,795.000 bushels, and also that the spring wheat crop will exceed last year’s. Other crops approach bumper records. • « • The work of the congressional session adjourned was praised by President Wilsoiv.at Washington. The extraordinary session which began /Xpril 2, generally regarded as the most momentous In American history, was adjourned sine die at 3 p. in. Saturday. Vehement criticism of Senator La Follette and his policy, marked the close of the war session.

♦ ♦ ♦ Additional loans of $40,000,000 each to Great Britain and France were made by the government at Washington. With this transaction the total thus far lent to the allies is $2,613,400,000. * • • Contracts for tjie huge number of destroyers for which an emergency appropriation of $350,000,000 was provided very recently have all been signed, it was announced at the navy department at Washington.

• » ♦ European War News A further advance has been made by the French troops, which took the offensive in Belgium in co-operation with the British. Papegoet farm has been captured, the Paris war office announces, and more prisoners have been taken. , ♦ ♦ ♦ After a desperate hand-to-hand battle, Australians captured Celtic wood, southeast of Broodseinde. from the Germans, says a dispatch to London from France. * « * A revolutionary outbreak on four ' German warships'at Wilhelmshaven Is reported in a Central News dispatch to London from Copenhagen. This uprising Was suppressed only with the ’ greatest difficulty. The sailors threw the captains overboard. Emperor William went to Wilhelmshaven and or--1 dered that one out of every seven mutineers be shot: Chancellor Micbnolha. protested with the result that only three were shot. Heavy sentences were imposed on the others.

Giant Caproni airplanes rained bombs at night upon the great Austrian naval base at Cattaro, starting fires among the buildings in the nevy yard and causing da'mage to Austrian ships in the harbor. * » * The capture of the villages of St. Jean de Mangelare and Veldhoek, with numerous blockhouses, is reported in the French official communication dealing with the operations in Flanders. More than 700 prisoners were captured. * • ♦ ——- ■ - An uncensored dispatch to Copenhagen from Berlin says Heinrich Dove, Radical Socialist, who has returned from the front, reported to the members of the reichstag that the soldiers everywhere had expressed the desire that the war speedily be ended.