Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1918 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

European War News Lieut. Roland Garros, the famous French aviator, reported as missing, was shot down and killed, according to b Berlin message. • • • British casualties from January 1, £9lB, to September 30 were over 700,000, Including killed, wounded and missing, it was announced at New York by the British bureau of Information. The figures covered 39 weeks of actual fighting. The lowest week for casualties listed 4,120 killed, ■wounded and missing, and the highest week listed 40,000. • * * Italian troops hitve occupied Duraz--80, the Albanian port at which British nnd Italian naval forces recently raided and destroyed the Important Austrian naval base. * • • The London Times prints the following from The Hague, dated Monday: “Violent antidynastlc manifestations occurred In Berlin Thursday. Great crowds gathered the whole length of Unter den Linden, also In front of the imperial palace, smashed several famous. Hohenzollem statuep and surged around the Bulgarian legation, shouting: ‘We want peace!’ ‘‘Stop the war!’ ‘Down with the Hoihenzollerns!’ ” • • • In a literal transport of joy the 6;000 inhabitants remaining In Laon rushed to the gates of the city to greet General Mangin, who made his entry Into the city. • * * The Portuguese government at Lisbon has declared a state of siege for all Portuguese territory. The president, as commtinder in chief of the military and naval units, has taken direct command of forces. • • * The ministry of finance nt Paris announces that the amount of the national defense bonds subscribed for during the last fortnight of September was 1180,000,000, beating the record of any previous fortnight.

• * * After capturing Nish on Saturday Serbian forces took possession of the enemy’s positions north of the town, according to the'Serblan official statement, French cavalry have occupied the Bela Palanka. • • * “Since September 15, Including the Bulgar-German troops' surrender, according to the armistice,” says a Paris war office statement, ‘‘the allies have captured 90,000 prisoners, Including 1,000 officers. Among the officers are five generals. Two thousand guns and enormous quantities of material also have been taken.” • ■* • Monsignor Chollet, archbishop of Cambral, was carried away by the Germans when they evacuated that c'ty. • * • Domestic There were G. 122 deaths from Spanish influenza in 30 cities the week ended October 12. :ts compared with 19 the week ended September 14, when the disease got its first foothold In New England. In the same period there were 4,400 deaths from pneumonia. These figures, announced by the bureau of the census at Washington, do not Include figures from army camps. » * * Paul L. Marvell of Wareham, Mass., quartermaster, is missing from the V. S. S. Seneca and John T. Mathers of Washington, la., electrician, has been reported lost from the steamship Lake City. • « •

An emergency medical staff from the Great Lakes Naval Training station arrived In Milwaukee to assist In the fight against the Influenza scourge. • * * Arthur Brisbane, editor of thd Hearst newspapers and owner of the Washington Times, has become owner of the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. * • * Between $15,000 and $20,000 payroll money was stolen by five armed men, who entered the office of the Mount Olive-Staunton Cool company, two and one-half miles south of Staunton, Hl., at 1.45 In the afternoon. The robbers escaped in -an automobile toward St. Louis. *• • . All theaters In Illinois, Including moving-picture houses, will be closed for an indefinite period. The action was ordered by the executive committee of the emergency commission to combat Influenza. • * • Wilson & Co., Chicago packers, have been cleared of charges alleging sale of bad meat to the army, which have been pending before the federal trade commission since last March. AJI churches were ordered closed at Louisville, Ky., because of the influenza epidemic. The National Bank of Nicaragua has transmitted $35,000 in subscriptions to the fourth Liberty loan. Loan subscriptions will continue to be received until the ens of the month.

The Minneapolis federal reserve district claims the honor of being the first in the United States to oversubscribe its allotment of fourth Liberty loan bonds. The districts allotment was $210,000,000. * * •

PFaj/wngton Immediate consideration was given by the house at Washington to the military deficiency bill carrying $6,345,755,000, reported by the appropriations committee, to provide for the enlarged war program during the coming nine months. It provides $6,152,062,000 for the army, $107,217,000 for the navy and $70,000,000 for family allowances of soldiers and sailors. An army of about 5,000,000 men, 80 divisions in France and 18 in training at home by July 1 next Is what the new program calls for. . To prepare and maintain it the amount now proposed brings the total appropriations and authorizations for the year up to $36,000,000,000. * • • Final returns from all states show that 12,966,594 men registered for military service September 12, This was 187,836 in excess of the estimate of 12,778,758 made by experts in the office «of General Crowder at Washington, based on projections from census figures. ♦ » * American shipbuilders were called upon by Secretary Daniels at Washington to speed up their output of destroyers to nice? the menace of the new and greater submarine effort which Germany is known to be planning; if* • * • President Wilson will let his decision regarding the German peace maneuvers sink into the minds of the Austro-Hungarian people before sending his answer to their government’s appeal. • ♦ • Turkey’s long-delayed note asking, like Germany and Austria, that President Wilson take in hand the restoration of peace, was received at the state department at Washington. The note, differing only slightly In phraseology from those of the greater central powers, was delivered by the Spanish ambassador. * » •

Personal Mrs. Irma Cody Garlow, daughter of Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), died at Cody, Wyo., following an attack of influenza. » • * Congressman Jacob E. Meeker died at St. Louis of Spanish influenza, following his marriage at midnight to his private secretary. Dr. Patrick Hues Mell of Atlanta, Ga., .who devised the system of weather signals now used by the United States weather iJureau, died at Fredericksburg, Va. He was slxty-elght years of age. * • • Miss Sadie Gompers, twenty-three years old, daughter of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, died at her, home at Washington of Spanish Influenza. G. A. Knapp, chairman of the board of directors of the First Fond du Lac National bank, died at Fond du Lac, Wis.. aged seventy. Mr. Knapp was a member of the assembly of 188 G-87. ♦♦ ♦ . U. S.—Teutonic War News Maj. William J. Bland, formerly an attorney of Kansas City, was killed in action in the St. Mihiel salient on the French front September 12, according to a war department telegram. * * * The now Knights of Columbus club for the allied soldiers was opened at Paris by Edward L. Hearn, general commissioner for Europe of the Knights of Columbus, In the presence Of several prominent Americans. * • •

Foreign The duchess of -Marlboro, formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt of New York, was elected a member of the London county council to represent West Southwark, a working-class district of London. ♦ • • The Bulgarian minister of the Interior at Sofia has Issued a decree liberating the Greek and Serbian subjects interned in concentration camps In Bulgaria and allowing them to return to their own country. • • • Petrograd newspapers report that 250 hostages have been shot at Penza, 130 miles northwest of Saratov, as a reprisal for the assassination of M. Jogeroff, a member of the extraordinary commission, and an attack on the prison warders. Belgian authorities have delivered orders to Belgians resident In England, directing them to return to their native land, according to the Sheffield Dally Telegraph • • ? All schools In Rio Janeiro are closed because of the epidemic of Spanish Influenza. • • • The Spanish government at Madrid has decided to put into Immediate service 62 German ships lying in Spanish ports as the equivalent of Spanish ships torpedoed. • • • Two French scientists have succeeded In isolating the Infectious agent which causes Spanish Influenza, according to a Tunis dispatch to the Paris Matin. _