The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, May 14, 1916, Page 40, Image 40

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Brief Review of Week's News Events at Home and Abroad
Condensed for the Convenience of the Reader Who
! ' WnnlH Refresh His Mpmnrv.
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T OI90I--From the beginnlnn of
I tha Irish uprising until last Tues
i 4.y 180 rebels or civilian non-
eotnbatants were killed and 614 wound
4, Fremler Asqulth announced.
There have been 16 executions and
two death sentence have been com
muted. Seventy-three rebels were sen
tenced to prison, six to hard labor,
and t70 prisoners were ordered de
ported. Dtt Mia. James Connolly, general of
tha Irlah republican army, and S. Mc
Diarrnld, another rebel leader, were
executed this afternoon, it was of
ficially announced.
I erUa Additional German advances
I on the western front andjepulse of
i th . French at several points were
: announced in an official statement
i Issued from the -war office hero
i Thursday.
i ' BomtvPerslatently and steadily,
but wlthout noisily advertising his
achievements. General Cadorna is now
winning his way to Trent. His cam
paign is passing almost unnoticed out
side of Italy, attention being fixed on
the : fighting on the Isonso line.
Where, however, operations are re
duced to small and unspectacular lo
caj Affair for the present.
. ' loat Though the Vatican was sil
ent. It waa reported Thursday that
Pepe 'Benedict, through Monsignor
Bonsano, apoatolic delegate In Wash
ington, had requested President Wil
eono initiate a peace movement.
- Xndoa. Lord Wlmbourne, lord lieu
tenant of Ireland, resigned Wednes
day. Premier Asqulth announced that
no rebe leaders had been executed in
Dublin aince Monday. He said he
hOped It would not be necessary to
execute more.
Dahlia -Tohn MacNeal, president of
the Sinn Feiners' organization, has
been arrested and charged with com-
- pllelty In the recent Irish revolt.
Xadba The White Star liner Cym-
rtc waa torpedoed by a submarine in
the English channel, according to
. word received Monday. The Cymric
left New fork April 28 with a -general
cargo and munitions of war for Liv
eTpool, -. She had no passengers.
Iadoa Official dispatches Tues
day , confirmed the report of United
States Consul Frost of Queenstown
that flvo members of the crew of the
- torpedoed liner Cymric perished.
ertla--Two German torpedo boats
reeonnouerinr Monday off Ostend en
gaged five British destroyers, it was
off iclallv announced Wednesdav On
i of the enemy vessels waa severely
damaged. The Germans returned un-
i harmed
' V tioadoa. A Copenhagen dispatch to
; the exchange Telegraph cays vessels
r arriving at Copenhagen report meet-
j ing a large German squadron and sub-
; marines in jne North sea.
etaKgrad Reports were in circu
j latlon here Tuesday that the Germans
are evacuating towns and villages be
; hind tht Dvlnsk front. .
! Berlin AU Dinar Iman of Darfur. a
J country; of Moutfcwestern Egypt, with
several 1 minions innaoitants, nas pro
' claimed a. holy war against the Brit
Jsh, - according to Constantinople re
ports.
tondoa More than, 70.t)00 Germans
, have been killed and 1,783,31? wound
j edrthe press bureau declared Wednes
' day In an official announcement based
pn German official' lists. The total
number of German prisoners and miss,
ing is 34,82. These. figures do not
Include naval and colonial josses.
aria fJenaraV RohArt n . Nlv.ru.
who succeeds General Petain as com -
mander la chief of-the army defend
ing Verdun, is "60 years old and is
one of the diacoverles of the war..
Berlin. Half of France's fighting
strength is concentrated at Verdun
front, according to Major Moraht,
foremost German military critic.
Berlin. It Is understood that BJwin
Emerson an American correspondent,
who wrote a harsh attack on Ambas
sador Gerard In a Berlin newspaper,
has been expelled.
Mexican Situation
TIT aJSKXWQTOW. Mexican Ambas-
17 sador Arredondo called on Sec
" restary of State Lansing Thurs
dayl for a general discussion of the
Mexican situation.
El Paso, The Mexican situation re
verted to Washington Friday follow
ing the failure of negotiations be
tween Hugh Scott and General Alvaro
Obregon. Provisional President Car
ranza s veto of the tentative agreement
governing the occupation of Mexican
territory by American troops and
Bicu.ui.aai. ueiiianu lor a lime nmu on
hit; oi.y ui liiq Aiiieriuan expcauigu
split the conference.
Marathon, Texas. Forty Americans
were killed by Mexican 'bandits, who
roesed the border near Brownsville.
Texas, Thursday night, according to
Kurus Stirling, a customs inspector,
who arrived here Friday from Sander
son, a number of women and chll-
rcn are among the dead. Stlrllna- said.
He was unable to furnish details.
Washington. The state department
through its consuls Thursday again
warned Americans to quit Mexico. -
Alpine, Texas. American troops
Monday rushed through the "barren
and desolate Big Bend country in pur
suit of the Mexicans who raided towns
n that territory May 5. killed three
United States soldiers and a boy and
kidnaped two American cltlaens. The
raiders crossed the Brewster county
line and Invaded American soli. Sev
enteen Mexicans were Reported killed
n me auacg. -
Washington. The bodies of J. A.
Deemer and Coy. who were captured
by the Villistas who raided Gleen
Springs, were found with their throats
cut, after the Mexican raid. Consul
Blocker at pagle. Pass wired the
scaie department Monday arternoon.
This report was later denied.
&os Angeles. Determined to avenge
the capture and probable murder of
her husband, Jesse Deemer, the Amer
ican rancher and justice of the oeaca
of Boqullla, Texas, by Mexicans who
raiaea -uienn springs and 'Boqullla.
Mrs. Deemer left her home at La
Jolla at 10 o'dock Tuesday morning in
an automobile for the Mexican border.
Marathon. Eight Mexicans are" re
ported to have been killed In a run
ning fight with Texas rangers and
Sheriff Walton's posse, according to
advices received her Tuesday after-
noon. Arrivals from Glenn Rnrinirs
acid ther. war. 1 Mi.- i
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Marathon, Texas. Colonel F. W.
Sibley win command the new "re
tallatlve expedition" into Mexico after
the Big Bend raiders. .
1 Paso, Texas..' General Hugh
Scott sent to Washington Monday the
suggestion of General Alvaro Obregon
that American and Mexican troops co
operate in patrolling the bror'der, the
soldiers of each nation being confined
to their own side of tho line. v ,
Waahington-Seven thousand fresh
troops. 4000 militia and 1000 regulars,
were ordered to the Mexican border
I Tuesday.
1 Marathon. TexasJDemetrio Da La
Qarza, noted bad man, leader" of tho
Glenn Springs raiders, waa killed in VfJ , 1 u V Al
a fight with two American cavalrymen f , V . 5? t; - T. - ' r Sfl ' k -til " (M
at Deemers, Texas. Tuesday, according I , 5 - ' ' ?V B" I It I f ,.
to an American wno arrived here. V 'it' ' " V ' " I - i rJ"V
Marathon. Taxaa. Eight armed 1 A t Xlv . ' - Jr T 4 ..T. .. . B f-T 55 f fS?'Va
Mexican, were killed' by an American 8 Lr X r , S'V ; i , 44" li
posse late Tueaday at the town of If -, -': A 'Z 1k M I . Wf Vf rJ,TOl
Rio Grande, lying between Boquillas I If UjtAV t?W,V ,'A ' V I VO
and Ban Vlncente. according to ad- Q xrwl W$ jTf 7i CV ' - I C1 IT IttTA'A
vices received here. II A'dJ '' " I" ? ' 1 V W 1 Tfl fcwW
National Capital. YH&htCl r ' t' - - I TA T V
WASHINGTON The state depart- felTV' T'twu , I A I I I I 'rfe I I r'-; 1
ment announced Thursday that I rfm tOW ' '11 l'"-! L Vl'
it was considering sending a
formal Inquiry with regard to the na
ture of the punishment Inflicted on
the commander of the German sub
marine which attacked the Channel
packet Sa&sex.
Washtngtoni The message ifrom
Pope Benedict to President iVilson,
it was learned authoritatively Monday,
makes it -clear that the German em
peror and the Vatican have an under
standing cn the subject of peace.
Washington The United States gov
ernment considers the submarine con
troversy with Germany closed. This
was the consensus of opinion here
Tuesday following publication of
President Wilson's note accepting
Germany's reply,-
Washington There is a strong in
dication here that the United States
will take no action in the case of the
British liner Cymric, destroyed by
submarine. Secretary Lansing's pol
icy heretofore, in cases where Ameri
cans were not jeopardized, has been
not to .protest.
Washington President Wilson will
not move to bring about European
peace at this time. The veiled sug
gestion that he do so in the German
not was not heeded at the White
House. At the White House it was
learned on high authority that act
ing on the advice of the American
embassies In London and Paris, tho
administration will not make , any
peace proposals until the promised
great offensive of ' the allies has been
launched.
Washington The government has
accepted Germany's submarine conces
sions and declined to accede to ihe
suggestion linking 'the German-American
situation with the British-American
controversy. A brief reply to the
German answer has been forwarded
to Berlin.
Washington Germany has official
ly acknowledged that the channel
warning by one of her submarines
In violation of assurances given to
the United States last September fol
lowing the destruction of the liner
Arabic.
Washington The senate passed the
Shackleford good, roads bill appropri
ating $75,000,000 for the next five
years. The house had already
passed it.
Washington a Confirmation of the
reported resignation of President Jim
ines of Santo Domingo was contained
in a dispatch received Monday from
Admiral Caparton. Everything, how
ever, was reported quiet. Three Amer
ican destroyers and a force of marines
on the Prairie are en route, to Santo
Domingo Jity.
I . . . .
w-aiuagvoa x ne senate juaiciary
committee in executive - session Mon
day was served with a letter from
President Wilson virtually demanding
confirmation of Louis D. Brandeis as
associate Justice of the- supreme court.
' Washlng-toa By a vote of 221 to
142 the house refused to concur In
the senate's amendment to the army
bill, providing- a regular army of 250,
000 men.
General. - - ..
SAJT XjUIS OBXbTO The steamer
Roanoke, which left San Francisco
. at midnight, May . for Valparaiso,
foundered at s4 About 100 miles south
of San Francisco, according to the
Story told toy three survivors," who. to
a lifeboat wUh tho .dead bodies of five
1 Monitions and supplies following the trail into Mexico. 2 Baton Reading lord chief justice of England. 8 Russian troops, aboard a transport, upon their arrival at
Marseilles, where they were warmly greeted. 4 Scouting party of U. S. cavalrymen following a, trail through the Tres Hermanos mountains in Mexico. 0 An auto
mobile division with its cargo of soldiers on their vay to a base In Mexico. 6 Russian soldiers bedecked with flowers on their arrival in Marseilles. 7 Commander
Roger Welles and Lieutenant Commander Adolphus Andrews, in command of the U. 8. S. Oklahoma, recently completed at a cost of $7,0OO,0O0. 8 G e n e r a 1 W. A.
Soukhomlinoff, former Russian war minister, who is reported a prisoner on a charge of criminal negligence and high treason.
of their shipmates, drifted ashore here I
Wednesday. Forty-seven persons ore
believed to have perished.
Alexandria, Va Aviator Thomas
McCauley and Machinist Udder are in
the hospital and their two passengers
were missing Thursday, following the
fall of their hydroplane 600 feet-fnto
the Potomac river.
Baa Bernardino, CaL Cracksmen es
caped with 110,000 in gold and several
thousand dollars in checks after loot
ing the store of James Illingsworth at
Randsburg, on ,the .desert Thursday.
The money was part of the payroll for
the Yellow Aster mine, it is believed.
Zsos Angeles. Called to the witness
stand in his own defense, David Cap
Ian, charged with murder in connec
tion with the Times dynamiting in
1910, Thursday denied any participa
tion in the Times plot and; said that
he was never in Los Angeles until
brought here by officers.
Saratoga Springs, H". T. It was un
derstood here tha( the Methodist
Episcopal committee will report about
May IB recommending eight new bish
ops.
Solas, Xdano Flood caused by the
breaking Of a dam, which released the
water in the Pack Saddle reservoir,
caused a heavy loss to farmers in a
remote section of Teuton county May
. News of the flood reached here
Thursday.
Hew 'Torkv Lieutenant Robert Fay,
former German army officer; Walter
Scholz and Paul Daeche, convicted of
conspiracy to destroy munitions ships
by bombs, were sentenced Tuesday by
Federal Judge Howe to eignt, iour ana
two years respectively In the federal
prison at Atlanta. ,
Trenton. At least four persons wore
killed and 30 are reported to have been
seriously injured when an explosion
shook, the Atlas Powder Works at Hop-
atcong Tuesday afternoon.
X,os Angeles By a vote of to 1,
the county supervisors have decided
to pay Detective William J. Burns lie.
000 reward for the epure of Matthew
A. Schmidt, convicted dynamiter and
David Caplan, now on trial for connec
tion with - the Tlms dynamiting in
mo.:, - - - ' .
: Hew YOrk Adminsitrators -of the
estate- of Charles Fro h man. who lost
bis Jife when the Lusltanla waa tor
35$ciQ rr-Clr V 4Vi A4 tI lira
pedoed gave notice in the United States
district court that they intended to file
suit against theCunard Steamship
company, Ltd. '
Sault Ste Marie. The steamer Kirby
with its crew of 20 was reported Tues
day to l)ave been lost in last night's
gale on the lake.
2Hego Hundreds of delegates
attended the annual convention of Odd
Fellows and Rebekahs which opened in
this city Wednesday.
Eureka. Leopold Waldo, one of the
three convicts who escaped from a
Mendocino road camp Sunday, was tak
en single-handed by George Patmore
Wednesday afternoon near Dyervllle.
Baa Trandsoo. Information here
said that J. B. Starr Hunt, an American
seaman, was held prisoner by British
authorities in Singapore on a charge of
trying to incite rebellion in India.
Hunt's father is an attorney in Mexico
City.
Bnlntlu Boys playing with matches
were blamed for the $500,000 fire in
the Alger and Smith Lumber company
yards.
Oregon.
GBAJTXB PASS. At 10 o ciock Tues
day morning. State Grange Mas
ter Smence of Oregon City, called
to order the forty-third annual ses
sion of the Oregon State grange. At
Wednesday's session Spence was re
elected president.
Grants Passj United States Senator
A. B. Cummins, of Iowa, candidate for
tho Republican nomination for presi
dent, was given a rouslny reception on
his arrival in Oregon, his first stop, at
Grants Pass, being marked by a noisy
demonstration.
Igarshxleld Adjutant General White
of the O. N. G-, Tuesday night met
at the Chamber of Commerce local
people who are interested in the
formation of a coast Artillery com
pany or a branch of the naval militia
here. .-
Baker. The Baker school board has
accepted the final plans for th$ new
3125,00 high scnooi ouiiaing.
Frlne-rllle Two hundred and twen
ty-five members of .the Paulina. La
pine, Bisters. - mmaio, M'erreooBne,
Bend and Redmond commercial clubs
gathered Monday as k guests ; of - the
PrlnevUle Commercial club to .discuss
a course of Joint action in develop
ing the various projects and resources
of central Oregon.
Salem. Malheur county bids fair to
do more development this year along
the lines of Irrigation and drainage
than any other county in the state,
according to Deputy State Engineer
Cupper, who made a trip to the east
ern part of Oregon recently. Two
Irrigation districts and one drainage
district are now being organized Jn
the county.
Bugene. Junior week-end festivities
started Thursday afternoon. Eight
hundred visitors were expected on the
campus, arid . every fraternity . house
was subsidised for housing the visitors.
Wasttrtfffori.
T T ABCOUTBBv The second battal
y ion of the Twenty-first Infantry
and company c, of the first bat
talion, left here Thursday for border
points. In compliance with orders re
ceived Wednesday ordering them to
proceed at once. The secondbattallon
1s destined to go to Yuma, Ariz., and
Company U win go to Nogalea, where
It will probably Be joined by the
other companies of its battalion.
Tanoouver. John Franklin Johnson.
aged resident of this city and pioneer
settler of Oregon, died Tuesday at
his home in East Vancouver. He was
a native of Texas and was more than
74 years old.
Bnoka.na.-fe Whit A two detectives
waited for him in the 'shadows of a
nearby building- to catch him, a hold
up, : wno nas roooea nan a aosen
streetcar crews here during the last
three weeks, early Monday morning
"stuck up" Conductor R. H. Langdon
and Motorman Duncan of the East
Sprarue avenue car, fired a fuatlade
at the officers and escaped, .driving
. Vi & -MAvmAn K A A Htm
" Portland .
rrVOCXUTGt off the glasses of R,
K P. Hutton 6f . the Anti-Saloon
ss ' league and kicking him cost El
mer L. Amidon, a Republican politi
cian and .supporter of C. N. McArthur.
ZS I Thursday morning after he had
attempted to stare a fight with Hut.
tofNln Judge Gatens courtroom. The
trouble occurred in the courtroom
shortly after Judge Gatens had con
vened court to : hear witnesses la the
libel suit of Representative C. N. Mc
Arthur against Hutton.
Millions of dollars damage has been
done fruit crops along the Pacific
coast during the last 10 days by the
unseasonable cold weather, and in
some sections reports indicate that
the production will be nominal.
Maurice Barrymore Smith, well
known for years in local theatrical
circles, is dead.
IJoyd'Bates, eldest son of the late
George W. Bates, the former presi
dent of the Lumbermens National
bank, has been elected a director of
the bank.
The Morrison street bridge draw
was out of commission for a time and
the steamer Grahamona badJy dam
aged as a result of a collision between
the draw and boat Tuesday night.
Annoancehient is made by the forest
service that the district forester,
Portland, Or., has Just approved the
contract for the sale to Brown Bros.
of Hubbard of 3,000,000 feet of timber
in the Crater national forest in south
ern Oregon.
Woolen Ulls may work their wom
en employes 10 hours a day five days
a weekj and four hours on the sixth
day, with a maximum of 64 hours a
week, according to a decision of the
conference committee of the Indus
trial commission.
4?athollcs, Hebrews and Protestants
of numerous denominations convened
at the Central library Wednesday for
the fourth annual convention of the
Pacific cbast division of the Religious
Educational association. ,
Rev. Hugh Elmer Brown of Seattle
was elected president and Seattle was
selected as the next convention city at
the conciudinrseasion Thursday.
roar aanared girls, selected from
the seventh, eighth and ninth grades
of 25 different schools, will dance
about 25 Maypoles as a feature, of the
May festival to be held on Multnomah
field. May 17. Nearly 6S00 school
children wilt take part in the festival.
r. W. Woolworth, head of the .cele
brated chain of b. 10 and IS cent
stores, arrived with a party of half
a dosen business associates from San
Francisco Wednesday . afternoon on
the Shasta limited.
Bi." Q. X. Jobb was sentenced to
7S days in Jail yesterday by Municipal
Judge Langfuth. He was found guilty
of selling the liquor which C. 11. In
gram and Myrtle Ingram are auegea
to have retailed to others.
Pleading guilty to the charge of lar
ceny, a. J. Burns and John Brennan
today admitted their Intention to
swindle R. B. Wassou and H. L, Turn
er outof their money by selling them
an Interest In a scheme to transmute
base metal into gold.
B. M. Irving of Flelschner, Mayer
& Co., submitted before the members'
cotfTTcil of the Chamber of Commerce
a resolution calling upon the board of-
directors to take up the premotion Of
a railroad line from the Goluendaie
branch of the North Bank to the Yak
ima valley.
May 28 is to be "go to school day"
for the parente of Portland's 60,000
school children. Huperlntendent L. R.
Alderman has invited all the parente
to visit the schools on that day. Me
hopes that not less than 35.000 pa
rents will accept the Invitation.
Original Bloomer
Girl Passes Away
Mrs. Mary s. Orlsoo, who Ooneetved
Costume, Created sensation Waes
Ike Tlrst Appeared oa Streets Is It
Passaie, N. J., May l Mrs., Mary
Soper ; Crlsco, who was the original
"bloomer girl," U dead at hervhome
here, aged 68 years. She was a daugh
ter of the Rev. Benjamin Soper. ' 7
She conceived the bloomer costume
while helping around the farm,' and
her first aoDearance on the streets In
it created a sensation. She attempted
to attend church services, but was
stopped at the door. Once she ap
peared in a man's evening suit, ana
silk hat. carrying a cane. v
If Hair's Yotir Pride
Use Herpicide