Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 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 The American schooner Fanny Prescott was attacked by a submarine in the war zone. It was taken in tow by the submarine after being abandoned by the crew. ♦ * * Government agents at New York are bringing to account enemy aliens who circulate false reports concerning subjects connected with the country’s prosecution of the war. ♦ ♦ * The steamer on which were United States Senators John D. Kendrick of Wyoming and William S. Kenyon of lowa and Representatives John J. Rogers of Massachusetts and James S. Parker of New York, was attacked by a German submarine off the coast of Wales. The gunners on the steamer opened fire and the submarine submerged. • * ♦ The first German prisoner of war taken by the American expeditionary forces died in an American field hospital, having been shot when he encountered an American patrol in No Man’s Land in front of the American trenches. * ♦ ♦ Pershing’s batteries along the American front waged a fierce projectile duel with the German guns on the other side of No Man’s Land In France. The Gormans sent streams of shells nt the American emplacements at steady intervals, which were answered shot for shot by Pershing’s gunners. ♦ ♦ ♦ The second Liberty loan, Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo announced at Washington, is an ‘‘ocerwhehuln£ sue-, cess.” There seems not the slightest doubt that the maximum quota of $5,000,000,000 was exceeded.

* ♦ ♦ A nation-wide German plot to destroy thousands of cattle In stockyards and grain elevators was revealed by National Food Administrator Hoover of Washington’ in a telegram to State Food Administrator Harry A. Wheeler of Illinois. The telegram urged the vital importance of guarding all yards in the state. * * * ■“America’s first to fight” are ready. This was the verdict of Secretary of the Navy Daniels after he had inspected and reviewed the marine corps at Quantico, Va. The marines will be the next to go to France, he said. ♦ * * Personal Gen. Charles 11. Grosvenor, former representative from the Eleventh Ohio district, died at his home at Athens, 0., aged eighty-four. ♦ * * Congressman Charles Martin, one of the most picturesque characters in the political life of Chicago, died at the home of his son, James Martin, in Chicago. • • • Domestic Ten stevedores are missing, $5,000,000 damage has been done, and many ships, loaded with cargoes for the allies were burned in a fire which started at the water front at Baltimore, Md. Allen enemies are suspected of starting the blaze. The fire broke out almost simultaneously at five different places at Locust Point.

- * * ♦ Count James Minotto, son-in-law of Louis F. Swift, the Chicago packer, is accused by the government of being a confederate of Count Luxemburg, the German charge in Argentina; an Intimate of Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador at Washington; and one of the active promoters of German propaganda in the country. ♦ ♦ ♦ The suit brought at Detroit, Mich., against the Ford Motor company and Henry Ford by John F. Dodge and Horace E. Dodge to compel Ford to disburse accumulated dividends to the stockholder's Instead of using the money to increase the company’s business was .decided in favor of the Dodge brothers. * ♦ • ; v - Food Administrator Hoover at Washington will cut off the supplies of retail food profiteers until the end of the war. A new regulation goes Into effect November 1. It provides that no manufacturer, wholesale or other handler of foods will be allowed to sell to any retailer who makes unreasonable profits or buys quantities of food for speculation. i* * ♦ An answer to the proposed action of the milk distributors In Chicago to lower the price of milk to $3 a hundredweight was made by delegates representing more than 1,000 dairies in Boone, Winnebago and McHenry counties, who decided that the November price for milk was to be $3.71. ♦ * ♦ ■ Four automobile bandits in Chicago hurled red pepper into the eyes of Policeman James Malone, shot him in the left arm and escaped with a pay roll es $7,047.26 belonging to the Sefton ptanufacturing company.

Herbert S. Bigelow, pacifist leader of Cincinnati, who was whisked away by his white-clad captors, was located near Florence, Ky. He had been taken into a wood and thrashed with a blacksnake whip. The party of men that administered the chastisement was dressed in long white robes resembling those described as being worn by the renowned Ku Klux Klan. * * * Washington America can help Italy repel the Teutonic invasion and save the allied cause by speeding supplies, Gen. Pasquale Tozzi, head of the Italian military mission to this country, pointed out at Washington. He was assured by tlie state department that America would help Italy in every possible way. * * * Washington’s Halloween celebrations were tinged with sadness this year, for, at the stroke of twelve Wednesday night, the city entered the dry column, and the saloons closed their doors, after 100 years of uninterrupted existence.

* * * Russell C. Leflingwell, a New York lawyer who has been assisting Secretary McAdoo at. Washington as special counsel in the flotation of the Liberty loan, was appointed assistant secretary of the treasury. * * * The vast store of German scientific information in this country was opened td American manufacturers in regulations issued by the federal trade commission at Washington under which enemy-owned patents and copyrights will be licensed for use by citizens of the United States. * * * Secretary of War Baker announced at Washington the appointment of Maj. Gen. Biddle, former president of the Army War,, college, as assistant chief of staff when Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, the present chief, retires December 31. * • * Wage increases approximating 50 to 78 per cent are in store for coal miners of the United States. To enable operators to meet the higher scale, President Wilson at Washington authorized a general increase of 45 cents per ton for bituminous coal at the mines.

• • • President Wilson in a statement issued at Washington, urged every home and public eating place in the United States to pledge its support to the food administration and to comply with its requests. * • • European War News U-boats in the last week sank 14 British merchantmen of more than 1,000 tons and four small vessels. These figures were given out by the admiralty at London. This is seven less ships than were sunk the previous week. ♦ ♦ ♦ The British and French armies are rushing with all possible haste to reenforce the Cadorna line. Every resource of the allies is being thrown into the conflict, and confidence is expressed in London that the invaders will meet defeat on the Tagliamento in bne of the most decisive battles of the war. * * • British casualties reported to London during the week totaled 24,091. They were divided as follows: Officers killed or died of wounds, 883; men, 4,056; officers wounded or missing, 1,102; men, 17,950. • • • Udine, the former Italian headquarters, has been occupied by Austro-Ger-man forces, army headquarters announced at Berlin. The Austrians and Germans are pressing forward irresistibly in the northern Italian plain toward the course of the Tagliamento river, the statement says.

* * * Commodore Luckner, commander of the German raider Seeadler, was captured off the Fiji Islands (British possessions) by Fiji constabulary, according to word brought to a Pacific port by a steamer arriving from a trans-Pacific p<rt. Five German members of the Seeadler’s crew were taken with their commander. * * ♦ The stained glass windows - of Cologne cathedral, according to German newspapers, are being replaced with plain glass as a precaution in case of air raids. * * » Air squadrons of the entente raided industrial districts in Lorraine and Luxemburg,on the night of October 24-25, according to ’an official statement made public at Berlin. Five persons were killed and four injured at Esch, while one was killed and six Injured at Saarbrucken. • * ♦ A German submarine sunk the Norwegian steamship Stare, 1,805 tons, off the 1 Spanish coast, according to advices received at Copenhagen. Seven of the crew were injured. ■ * * • ’ Foreign The keeping of markets in Argentina open to Germany, the separation of the province of Rio Grande de Sul from Brazil and the cultivation of friendly relations with Chile, were the amazing films of Germany in South America. Count Luxburg, Germany’s disgraced minister to Buenos Aires, believed as late as August 4 that he could attain these alms. To do so he wanted a submarine squadron at his disposal. The notes were made public at Washington. .