Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1920 — NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Foreign. Ottawa, Aug. 14.—The Dominion board of railway commissioners today granted increases in. through rates to United States roads in Canada to conform with those recently approved by the interstate commerce commission at Washington. These increases apply to all commodities except coal and coke. London, Aug. 14.—The American Red Cross depots at Podgoritza, Montenegro, have been burned, a Central News dispatch from Rome reports. * Manila, P. 1., Aug. 14.—William C. Atmore, Ala., was killed when his airplane fell here today. His mechanician was injured seriously. Buenos Aires, Aug. 14. — A. bomb was exploded this afternoon in the Palace of Justice, at the door of the Criminal court, where eleven alleged anarchists accused of plotting for a Communist revolution last March were being tried. There was a panic in the building, 'but no one was injured by the explosion.

Domestic. Toledo, 0., Aug. 14.—The Times announced that beginning Monday, Aug. 16, the price of the daily edition will be 3 cents a copy, instead of 2, the present figure. Increase in cost of white paper and labor were the reasons given. Washington, Aug. 14.—The general commanding Camp Custer, near Battle Creek,, Mich., has been directed by the War Department to gradually abandon and eventually salvage the camp. The 10th infantry, now at the camp, will be sent to Camp Sherman, 0., for permanent station, and the 14th infantry to the Panama canal zone. All other personnel will be sent to stations in the central department __ The transfer of property will be started at once in order that the work may be completed before winter sets in.

Washington, Aug. 14r—An informal inquiry into the, character and policies of the anti-Bolsheyist leader in southern Russia, Gen. Wrangel, has been begun by government officials. Marion, 0., Aug. 14.—Labor, the League of Nations, agricultural issues and the tariff are to be made headliners of Senator Harding’s campaign during early September, under a program revealed here today in connection with announcement of definite plans Republican nominee’s first speech outside of Ohio. ' ■to?' Wheeling, W. Va.. Aug. 14.— Goveyior Cox today threw his foree into the presidential campaign with five speeches here and through . Ohio, all flaying what he termed the Republican “reactionary candidate and leaders” and supporting the League of Nations as the premier Democratic cause.

Washington, Aug. 14.—Indianapolis business .men are approaching the time when they will have a home of their own an the national capital. Word has gone to the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the that the site upon which tins nation a Ihome for business is toMbeerected has just been completely P«d for from subscriptions so far nr Aug. to Washington after 000 miles by train by automobile, the tnp consuming

forty-two days’ time, Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana is a confirmed convert to irrigation and reclamation projects as financed by the government and carried on by the people of the great West. Baltimore, Aug. 14.— A motor track loaded with whisky was hold up by four armed men early today near Fullerton, Md., and 126 cases of the liquor carried off in another truck by the robbers, according to the driver of the looted truck, Walter Sklon of Newark, N. J. Later four men were arrested here charged with larceny of the liquor, which was the property 'of the ZuckerSteiner Company of Newark, N. J. The police said that three cases of the whisky had been recovered. Washington, Aug. 14.—Increased consumption of raisins in the United States since the advent of prohibi--tion is believed to account for the 1,400 per cent increase in imports of this commodity from Spain durong the first six months of 1920. Nearly 8,000,000 pounds were exported from Malaga to the United States up to June 30, according to the Department of Agriculture’s bureau of markets, “a quantity that exceeds the total raisin exports from that port for the seven-year period 1913-1919 inclusive.” '

State. Rushville, Ind., Aug. 14.—Democrats had their inning at the Rushville chautauqu* today when • Dr. Carlton B. McCulloch, nominee for governor, and Henry N. Spaan, nominee for Congress from the Indianapolis district, were the speakers. Goodrichism, as they term the present state administration, was the theme on which they dwelt. Both speakers flayed Governor Goodrich and his administration so hard and so often that one might have been led to believe that Mr. Goodrich, instead of Warren T. McCray, is the- present Republican candidate for Governor. Indiana State Capitol, Aug. 14.— Twenty-two Indiana cities have advanced in classification as a result of population increases appearing in the 1920 census or because of greater property valuations, according to statistics of the legislative reference bureau. Twelve of the cities pass into high classes because of population changes, and ten cities receive high rating from the reappraisement of property! made in 1919 under the new tax law. Change in the classificatten of cities affects the salaries of city officials and provides for different orIganization of the city government.

Wabash, Ind., Aug l4.—The twenty-eighth annual reunion of the 14th Indiana battery will be held here in Memorial hall Sept. 1. In* vitafions have been sent out to the 1 twenty-eight surviving members of the battery. „ Evansville, Ind., Aug. ing furniture workers at the plants of the Furniture Company and the Evansrille Furniture Company. at a meeting held, today, decided to return to work Monday. They h*™ cepted the proposition two companies for a » Ptr e*ni increase in wages. More >han ty of the furniture factories city that are affectedby the furniture workers’ strike will work Monday as the men and manufacturers have not bymyue to reach an agreement up to this time. manufacturers nave renwu with committees from the union in a hope of reaching an agreement. Cotton is a wonderful plant. It provides coton cloth, stockings, and aH-woot ciowung. Associated Editors (Chicago). A new-revolt h reported to be on in China. makes SSF oK.