Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

L 7.5. — Teutonic War News ! Lieut. Sidney White of Elizabeth City, N. C., brought down a German two-seater airplane and fought off five other enemy machines which came to Sts assistance. Lieut. Wler Cook of Llnderson, Ind., brought down a balkoon in the Verdun sector. * • « European War News Italian naval aviators have bombarded an enemy submarine from a low Shejght and believe that the U-boat kvas sunk, says a Rome official statement. J • Austrian rear guards In Albania, (hard-pressed by Italian cavalry and Albanian detachments, have retired to the north of the Matia river, 30 miles Horth of Elbasan, according-to an official statement from the Rome war office. * » ♦ The German troop transport Hapsburg, bound from Riga for Danzig, Struck a German mine and was sunk. A panic resulted and more than 100 soldiers were lost, it is reported, according to a Copenhagen cable. • * * Franco-Serbian troops have entered Ealetchan, 28 miles from 4he River Danube, at Negotla, and 45 miles portbeast of Nish, according to a Serbian official statement. • • • fcDomestic y - What is said to have been the largest airplane exhibition ever given in this country was witnessed at San DU ego, ('al., when 115 airplanes, piloted fey army aviators from North Island to park the success of the Liberty loan campaign, swept in massed formations Over the city. i* * * ■ John Doe proceedings were begun before Justice Fowler at Fond du Lac, Wls„ to determine why 21 townships in Fond du Lac county failed to meet their quotas in the fourth Liberty loan.

Leslie Krueger, one of the brothers who figured In a sensational shooting duel with a posse near Owen, Wis., recently, is In custody at Brainerd, Minn. The youth, a draft evader, confessed. -•• ♦ - The 57 counties in Illinois and the jtates of Wisconsin, lowa, Indiana and Michigan, which comprise the Seventh federal reserve district, report an Oversubscription of many millions, according to Hernan Gifford, federal reserve director of sales for Illinois. . * "• * The Lee county (Ill.) Liberty loan Committee closed up business at noon Saturday, and out of 8,500 people listed for subscriptions two weeks ago only eight failed to take their allotment. The committee had erected a large slacker board on the public Square at Dixon, 111., and the eight names were placed upon the board. » ♦ « While examining an auto in their garage at Springfield, 0., Warren H. Edwards and his son, Floyd, were electrocuted by an extension line attached to a high-voltage wire. The position of the bodies showed the gon was killed when he tried to help his father. ♦ * * The Spanish influenza-pneumonia epidemic at Camp Custer, Mich., seems under control. A notable decrease in pneumonia cases and an almost complete eradication of Influenza Is evident. Foreign In no circumstances is it consistent with safety, security and unity of the British empire that Germany’s colonies should be returned to her, declared A. J. Balfour, the British foreign secretary, in a speech at the luncheop of the Australian and New Zealand club in London. " • * * The German-Austrian deputies In the Austrian reichsrath have formed an assembly for the purpose of conducting the affairs of the German people in Austria and have Issued a declaration announcing the creation of the “German state of Austria," says a Basel dispatch.

* * • The house of commons at London passed a motion allowing women to sit in the parliament. The vote was 274 to 25. Ex-Premier Asquith supported the motion. British casualties reported by London for the week that ended Monday numbered 37,150, compared with 35,710 for the previous week. They are divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds — Officers, 517; men, 4.97 L Wounded or missing—Officers, 1,464; men, 30,198. • • * Prince Umberto, count of Saleml, cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, Is dead at Crespano, near Monte Grappa, where he commanded a battery in the Italian army. He was twenty-nine years old.

I Shipping losses due to submarine warefare during September were smaller than those of any month since August, 1916, the "London admiralty announces. The losses were: British, 151,593 tons; allied, 88,007 tons; peutral, 239,000 tons; total, 479,200 tons. British sailings during September ag* gregated 7,515,061 tons. • ' • • Sevehty persons were killed and 50 injured in an explosion in a factory in Dessau on the Elbe, 67 miles northwest of Berlin. Other victims are believed to be still in the ruins, says a Basel dispatch. • • • German provincial and Socialist newspapers continue their campaign against the “'‘chief culprits” responsible for the war, says an Amsterdam dispatch. The Franklsche Tagespost of Nuremberg, the first paper in Germany to, demand openly the abdication of the emperor, declares that the accession of the crown prince is entirely out of the question. “The German people are searching for the guilty,” says the Volks Zeitung, the organ of the Nuremberg socialists., “To the gallows with the guilty, whoever they may bel” • * * There have been severe earthquakes in Guatemala and 150 persons are dead, according to reports received at Panama from Guatemala. Much property damage has been done. • • • Violent demonstrations have occurred in Jassy, the temporary capital of Roumania, according to advices received at Faris. A mob broke into the offices of the Issllor Gazette, the government organ, and the printing plant was demolished. ' • • • Personal John David Mulvane, thirty-seven, who recently inherited an estate valued at more than $1,000,000, upon the death of his foster-father, John R. Mulvane, died at Topeka, Kan., from pneumonia, following Spanish Influenza. • • • Washington Sinking of the American cargo steamship Lake Borgne, off the coast of France without the loss of life, was announced by the navy department at Washington. The ship foundered after striking a rock. * * •

Two officers and 99 enlisted men of the army lost their lives in the sinking of the American steamer Ticonderoga In the war zone September 30. This announcement by the war department at Washington brought the total loss of life to 213, the navy having previously reported ten officers and 102 of the crew dead and two officers carried off as prisoners by the enemy submarine that sent the vessel down. • • • Congress at Washington has been been asked by the navy department to authorize a second three-year naval building program to provide ten additional superdreadnaughts, six battle cruisers and 140 smaller vessels at a cost of $600,000,000. This was disclosed by Secretary Daniels after his appearance before the house naval committee to explain the appropriation. * • • X President Wilson at Washington conferred the Distinguished Service medal on Marshal Foch, Marshal Joffre, Field Marshal Haig. General Petain, General Diaz, General Gillian and General Pershing. • • • No further effort will be made by congress at Washington to continue the existing daylight-saving law and the hands of the clock will be turned back an hour on October 27, as originally planned. • • • Between 15 and 20 yards engaged in building wooden ships will be eliminatedfrom the shipbuilding forces because of Inefficiency, Chairman Hurley of the shipping board announced at Washington. • • •

In revising the war excess profits tax feature of the house war revenue bill, the senate finance committee at Washington struck eut the alternative system of taxing war and excess profits and adopted a compromise plan designed to raise somewhat less than the $3,200,000,000 estimated from the house provisions. • • • Senator Poindexter of Washington read to the senate at Washington a letter from Dr. T. H. Howard of St. Louis, stating that a brother of Sergt. A. B. Cole’of East Liverpool, O, who served with the Canadian forces in France, had affidavits to prove the ■widely circulated story that the sergeant was crucified upon a door with German bayonets. •• • . Estimates and figures showing the success of the fourth Liberty loan poured into the treasury at Washington, Indicating that there were about 25,000,000 subscribers during the campaign which closed Saturday night afld that the $6,000,000,000 goal was passed by several hundred millions. • • • . New credits of $200,000,000 for Italy and $100,000,000 for France ‘were established by the treasury at Washington, making the total loans to Italy sl.600/)00,000 and to France $2,165,000,000. For all the allies American loans now amount to $7,520,476,666. Maj. Gens. Hunter Liggett and Robert Bullard were nominated by President Wilson at Washington to be lieutenant generals. Liggett commands the First American army in France and Bullard the Second.