Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

lU.S.— Teutonic War News Bishop John N. McCormick of the Western Michigan Episcopal diocese has been gassed while working with the American troops in France, according to word received by his wife at Grand Rapids, Mich. , ♦ » » ; Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of Ithe exchequer, told the house of comtnons In London that the Austrian drive was a part of the German Scheme to use up the allied reserves before the arrival of the American troops. “This has failed," he said. ‘‘America is not coming into the war, **but is in the war.” The chancellor said that American troops were pouring into France. * • • The war department authorized formally the announcement of the fact that the Thirty-second division (National Guard) is now fighting in Alsace, oh German territory. The Thir-ty-second division Is composed of Michigan and Wisconsin troops. * * * “Since January 1 our navy has sunk 28 German submarines and our sailors should have the credit for it.” declared United States Senator John W. Weeks, in addressing the Massachusetts Laundry Owners’ association at Pemberton, Mass. • • • • Documents that may lead to the discovery of U-Boat bases on the Venezuela coast were brought to an Atlantic port for presentation at Washington by Dr. Carlos Lopez BushmantL editor of the pro-ally newspaper in Venezuela, when he arrived upon a steamer from Central American ports. • * * Because of German submarine activity off the American coast shipping board has ordered a bonus of 24 per cent of .their monthly wages paid to nil seamen employed in coastwise trade. • • • l Six National Guard Cavalry regiments now being raised in Texas will be inducted into the federal service Immediately upon their organization, ifor service on the Mexican border. • » » Eddie Riekenbacker. America's daredevil auto race driver and now an aviator with the American armies has become America's second ace in France. * ♦ ” Brig. Gen. C. C. Williams, acting ichief of ordnance, has reorganized administrative methods in ’ten districts. & district chief has been named for each to co-ordinate the efforts of the field forces. * • • Domestic Found guilty by court-martial at Camp Dlx, N. J., of having been asleep ■ while assigned to sentry duty at that camp, Private Boy B. Jackson (colored) has been sentenced to five years at hard labor at Fort Jay. • • • ■> Lieut. F. W. Heller ami Sergt. Eugene Chapman were killed when hie airplane in which they were flying from Park field, near Memphis. Tenn., to Camp Shelby, Miss., fell from a height of 100 feet. Three soldiers were killed and 17 Others were seriously injured when an army motortruck fell through a bridge into the Etowah river in Cherokee county, near Atlanta. Ga. Ail the men were from Camp Gordon. /♦♦ . • Jeremiah A. H 1.-ary. a fugitive from justice since the eve of the date ■set for his trial on a chaos violating the espionage net, was arrested at Sara, Wash., ami is on his way back to New York. , A. D. Speth, Minneapolis attorney, found guilty by a jury in Minneapolis of advocating that citizens should not aid the government in the prosecution of the war, was sentenced to one year in the. Minneapolis workhouse. » * ♦ Lieut. Joseph Rose, an instructor at Barron field, near Fort Worth, Tex., was killed and Lieut. Floyd E Davies of Galesburg, 111., was injured in an airplane 'crash. Lieutenant Davies will recover. Sensational disclosures of alleged graft conspiracy in connection with government contracts were made by the department of justice in announcing the indictment in Philadelphia of John Fleming, John T. Cavanaugh, Eugene Sullivan and Joseph Kohn. • * * Declaring that “the exigencies of the times call for the renomination and (election in 1920 of Woodrow Wilson,” Samuel M. Ralston, former governor ,of Indiana, permanent chairman of the Indiana state Democratic convention, helddit.lndianapolis, fired the opening ; third-term gun. The demonstration lasted for several minutes. Property in Oakland, Cal., owned by Franz Bopp, former German consul, and now seeing a prison term, was attached by the federal government in a’ move to collect a fine of SIO,OOO.

Hundred- of thousands of pounds ot meat intended for use on American battleships, ftirnished by Wilson & Co., Chicago packers, has be-n rejected because not in’good condition, (’apt. C. S. Williams of the navy testified at the inquiry held in New York by the federal trade commission into charges that bad meat is being furnished to die navy. • • European War News The Czechoslovak forces in Siberia have captured Samuranosto and Nikolaevsk in Omsk and have {inaugurated a provisional government, said a Petrograd dispatch to the London Express. • • • The Austrian battleships Wlon and Braherzog Ferdinand have been sunk, the Italian minister of marine, Delbome, Is quoted as saying in the newsl»aper S|«echa. said a Central News dispatch to London from Rome. • • • Twenty-one German destroyers, a large number of submarines and numerous auxiliary craft In the Bruges Canal docks were penned in by the British raid on Zeebrugge, the German submarine base in Belgium. Thomas J. McNamara announced in London. Sacking of the American hospital at Tabitz, Persia, and seizure of the American and British consulates there by invading Turkish troops was reported to the state department by the American minister at Teheran, If the report as it reached the minister is officially confirmed the outrage may be considered an act of war, X great revolt has begun at Kiev, according to an intercepted wireless uiis-sage transmitted from Moscow to the Exchange Telegraph company in London. Artillery stores have been exploded and there is continuous ■street fighting. The revolt is spreading to the Poltava and Tcherpigov districts. Forty thousand peasants armed and organized are participating in the revolt. • • • German troop- in southern Russia l»egan an offensive eastward on the Voronesh front «»n Jupe 15, says a Russian government wireless received in London. The Germans are advancing in; the Varnisko, Rustic arid Vetlnuisl regions. ♦ ♦ General Knoerzer in a telegram to General Eichhorn, the German commander in the Ukraine, reports, ac--rwding to a me«agr from Kiev, that forces of abit . bolshevik Red sniards, c»>iuniarided by Czech officers, have 7 lareri-XliMritri wiped out by German troops west of Taganrog. Lieut. It. W. Parker, an American pilot "With the French flying corps, w hile serving as a si-otit for a bombing expedition, was forced to land and was taken,prisoner by the German-. » • ♦ Washington By an executive order, President Wilson delegated to'the emergency fleet Corporation the powers conferred upon him by congress to take over shipping, -hipping lines and shipping plants. ' • « • Tlie express inounpdty Created under government auspices must be dissolved after the war emergency is qmst, under provisions of the contract signed at Washington. * * • Only five minutes were required for the passage by the senate of the annual general‘.-pension bill, carrying >■■><*■» the largest pension measure by sl2.»»»>.‘»»» in the government’s history. "* ■ ♦ ■ ■ The deeiiriation of President NewMmh Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph company to abide by the de--ision of the national war labor board that telegraph eotypany employees had the right to organize and strike formed the »übject of discussion at the regular meeting of the cabinet at Washington. The matter of governmental eon- ’ rol of telegraphs for the period of the war Was taken up. X * * Should < otigress decide that it is necessary at this time to extend the draft :ige limit either below t wenty-orie or above thirty, or both, rib opposition will be offered W tin? war department. The pr»—-Fit tentative schedule is said to contemplate the arming of 4,000,000 men by ■'" 7 \- " • • • Count V. Mr ■<.id di Cellere, the Ital•fitri 1 aid's ss; L) ’ tl ,s ealletl on Secretary Baker rind. statement was made, it is umh-rst<»sl that the recently iiunounced rieiri'siori of the war del«anriient to -etrii American troops to Italy was discussed. * '■ * / , Tl»e house of representatives agreed to the senate amendment increasing the navy 1-ersonnel to 131,45j> officers and enlisted men. The house refused to confer upon Maj. Gen. Barnett, commandant of the marine corps, a rank equivalent to that of lieutenant general in the army. • • • The sundry civil bill, carrying sl,751,701.000 for the shipbuilding program, for the president’s emergency war fund, and SL2SO;OOQ for the committee on public information, was jessed by the house without a record vote. It now goes to the senate. • • • x Unanimous approval of the house provision authorizing the president to call all nien of draft age who can be rrain«-d and equipped, was voted by the u.iil'ary subcommittee considering the appropriati'iu biiL > -.