Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

17.5. —Teutonic War News A dispatch from Amsterdam says (that the newspaper Les Nouvelles leays, that allied airplanes dropped a thousand copies of President Wilson’s imessage to congress in occupied areas in Belgium. * * * Government detectives arrested Lieutenant Spoonnan of the German army as he was trying to apply a match to ithe magazine in the navy yard at Portsmouth, Va„ which would have caused a disastrous explosion that nought have wrecked the city and many iwar vessels. Spearman wore the unlIform of an American naval officer. (He came to America in 1916 on the German submarine U-53. ;* * * Another German raider is loose in ithe Pacific, according to the report of tan officer of a Dutch merchant ship rwhich arrived at Tokyo. The officer *mid that the Japanese ship Hitachi CHaru was captured by Germans. * * * Foreign An automobile carrying Nikolai LeTtine, the bolshcviki premier, was fired upon at Petrograd. One of the bullets missed its mark and another lodged. In the hand of a Swedish socialist, who was in the automobile. Scores of ur,rests were made. * * * • The diplomatic corps, headed by David It. Francis, the American ambassador, went to the Sinolny institute at Petrograd and laid before Premier Lenino a protest against the arrest and Imprisonment of Constantine Diamandi, the Roumanian minister, and attaches of the Roumanian legation. Premier Lenine directed the release of the prisoners. * * • The resignation of the Hungarian cabinet on account of failure to opfain necessary support for the military [program is reported in a Budapest dispatch to Copenhagen. * # • i Frankfort lias followed the example of other German cities, and has refused a hearing to the fatherland party, according to reports received at 'Amsterdam. As soon as the chairman ;of a big meeting that had been called in Frankfort mentioned the fatherland party a tumult broke out and rioting followed. The police dispersed the meeting. * * * The British labor party in a message jto the Russian people, made public in "London, announced that the British people accepted for the British empire the Russian principles of selfdetermination of peoples and no annexations, particularly in tit l ' middle East, Africa and India. * * * i The arrest of former Premier Caillaux at Paris. FranciS.was due principally to a cablegram from Secretary [Lapsing at Washington saying that in 1X915 M. Caiiln’UX lutd been in communication with tlie Berlin foreign office. * * * According to advices to Loudon from Berlin Count von Hertllng. the German Imperial chancellor, is ill and will probably resign shortly, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch. * * * Another outbreak has occurred In 'Portugal. Crews of Portuguese war 'Ships mutinied and bombarded Lisbon forts. The army remained faithful to the government and tranquility has been restored. * * •

Domestic More than S.OOO tubs of coni at n ■ refinery of the Stand-in! Oil near 'ivah'^as' ( ’ity, r-.1r0.. was Seized t»y officials of the local fuel administration. The coal will he distributed among local manufacturing concerns. * * * ' The money taken from the army ■hank at Camp Fuustoti. Kan., by Copt. Lewis Whisler, said to have been more than $62,000, was found hidden in the ( walls of Whisler’s quarters in the barracks there. * * * •.!" The recent heavy snows may give the country its greatest Winter wheat ■ crop, according to Eugene Davenport, dean of the Agricultural college of Illinois. ■* * • ' A government powder plant to cost $60,000,000, and to employ about 15.000 'men is to be established by the war department on the Cumberland river, ,'about twelve miles from Nashville. iTenn. <_ t * * * ; Chris Hank, his wife and three small cWfdreili' perished when fire destroyed their home near Marion. OHank was a farmer. j* * * ( Scott Franklin, a farmer, his wife and five children were incinerated when their home, near Bowling Green. Ky„ burned. * * * a ■ - . ' I Many trains between Chicago, Denver, St. Louis, St. Paul and points west and south are eliminated by western irailroads In revised schedules given lout at Chieaero.

I Charles C, Healey, former chief of | police of Chicago, was found not guilty of charges of graft and bribe-taking by !• a jury in Judge Saba tit’s court. Detective Sergeant ... Stephen J. Barry and William R. Skidmore, saloonkeeper, also were acquitted. • • • I Both houses of the Kentucky general assembly ratified the proposed prohibition amendment to the federal Constitution. • * * Two persons were killed and sixteen others injured when a Louisville and Southern Indian.-* Traction car bound ■ from Indianapolis to LouiAdlle crashed into the rear of a Jeffersonville, Ind., and Louisville interurban car at Louisville, Ky. • • •

European War News Japanese warships have been dispatched to Vladivostok for protection of allied Interests there, according to official announcement made at Tokyo. The action follows appeals from Japanese and other citizens in the Russian port for protection not only to their own lives hut to great quantities of aliied supplies there. * * • A marked decrease in the sinkings of British merchantmen by mine or submarine in the past week is noted in the report of the admiralty issued at London. In this period only six merchantmen of l;©0O tons *>r over were sunk, and in addition, two merchantmen under I,oom tons and two fishing vessels. • • * The enemy craft which bombarded Yarmouth. England, presumably was a submarine or a light cruiser. Owing to the blackness of the night tlie enemy was not seen. He fired 20 to 25 shells. Many windows were shattered and a number of roofs and chimneys were wrecked. Three persons were killed and ten Injured. * * * Italian prisoners of war have been transported to Flanders, where they are being compelled by the Germans to work in the fire zone, says a dispatch from Amsterdam. Already several have been killed and wounded, * * * A plenary meeting of the supreme war council, with the premiers and military representatives -of iranee, Great Britain and Italy in attendance, will be held shortly at Versailles, France, to discuss and plan military operations on the western front, which now includes Italy. • • • According to reliable V atiean information, papal nuncios to Austria and Germany have informed Pope Benedict at Rome that there is no encouragement for peace hopes at the present time. • * • British casualties reported to London during the week ending on Monday totaled 24.979 officers and men. divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds: Officers. 11 «> men. 5,140, Wounded or miss.ag: Officers. 304, men. 19.4M0. * » * A successful daylight air raid has been made on Karlsruhe, according to a British official communication issued at London. Karlsruhe, sometimes Carlsrulie, is an Important railway jtinctiitii in Germany. • • * The central powers have withdrawn their peace terms made public at the Brest-Limy sk conference on December 25. it was ahnduuce*! by Dr. von Kuehliiuinn. tlie German foreign secretary, in liis speech at the ISrcst-I.itovsk conference with the Russians, Owing to the noiiaccejitance by all the enemy powers of those terms, I>r.von Kuehlinann stated, that document had become null and void." • * • Personal Senator James 11. Brady of Idaho (lied at Washington of heart .disease. Senator Brady was born in Pennsylvania June 12. ISH2- * • • Washington ■ A plan for general regulation of the Coal industry was submitted to the senate committee at W ashington by Francis S. 1 Vub<*dy. of t’liifago, Coal production director of the council of national defense. C«»;ll operators profits since ia.st .PdV “have he*-n euoruioU:.s,"* Mr. I ViilKHly tehirtil- » # • Rationing for tlig American people is provided in an administration hill, presented by congress at Washington by Senator Roinerene and Representative Lever of South Carolina- It is the most radical f<sid legislation yet projwsed in tins country. The bill is aimed principally .. at public eating places and food retailers. • • • Daniel Willard, chairman of the war industries board, testified in the senate military committee's war inquiry at j Washington that he had advocated creI ation of a government minister of munitions. hut now he was in favor of tryj ing out the new war department reorganization. * • * Dissolution of the German-American | alliance, having a membership of hun- ! dreds of thousands of German descent, I is provided for in a bill Introduced in j the senate at Washington by Senator King of Utah. The bill would repeal . the act incorporating the alliance. * * * Ships carrying food and munitions for the American overseas forces and tlie allies must be supplied with bunker coal even “at the expense of domestic consumers and factories manufacturing war supplies.” This ruling was announced at Washington'