Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1919 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWB BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Note* Covering Mort Important Happening! of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Ferm for Quick Consumption. Washington Out of a total of more than 100,000 applications for naturalization in tjio last year, only 116 cases are pending Involving cancellations, the Washington bureau of natural.'zatlon says. - - A- Washington dispatch says Uncle Sum's war bill to date for the army »1S presented to the house by Chairman Dent, house military affairs committee, totals $10,257,384,248. • • • Success of the .anarchist movement in Russia was attributed to aid from the lower East side of New \ ork by Rev. G. A. Simons, former head of the Methodist Episcopal church In Russia, testifying at the senate judiciary subcommittee's Inquiry at Washington into lawless agitation in the United States. In accordance with long established custom, Lincoln’s Gettysburg address was read in lite house at Washington. Representative Russell of Missouri for the first time In many years was unable to read the address, illness preventing his attendance. By designation of Speaker Clark the address was read by Mr. Russell’s colleague, Representative Rubey. • • •

1 House voted 194 to 142, to approve the new three-year building program of ten battleships and ten cruisers and Immediately afterward adopted the entire naval appropriation hill. Vote on adoption of bill was 281 to 50. The measure carries a total of $77 < l ,000,000 for the naval establishment during the »nxt fiscal year. • • • Departure from France of seven Transports and two warships carrying approximately 12,000 home-coming Troops was announced by the war department at ‘Washington. They will arrive between February 16 and 20. • • * President Wilson has cabled to Washington his approval of the haTional budget system, as proposed in the house by Chairman Sherley of the appropriations committee. A Washington dispatch says the time for filing reports of income at the source probably will be extended by Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper for 30 days or more beyond March 15, when they ordinarily would be due. * * •

To maintain facilities for training merchant seamen the shipping board at Washington lias decided to turn six of the ’wooden cargo steamers built during the war into training ships. * , • • • * Woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment was beaten again in the senate at Washington. The house resolution for submission of the amendment failed of adoption with 55 votes in favor of it and 29 against, one less than tie necessary two-thirds. - ' * * The four big brotherhoods of railroad men, embracing a working membership of 1,900,000 employees, nre for' permanent government ownership of the railroads as s he only practical solution of .the problem, according to a statement at Washington by A, G. Garretson, president of the Order of Railway Conductors. • • • Points of order by Republican Leader Mann against Introductory paragraphs of the new three-year building program section of the naval appropriation bill were sustained In th® house at Washington. Tills virtually eliminated the program. • • •

Foreign A Melbourne dispatch says Australia has sold 72,000 tons of wheat from the government pool to Sweden at $1.37 a bushel, f. o. b., Melbourne. * * * The German national assembly, meeting at Weimar, elected Friedrich Ebert president of the German republic by 277 votes out of 379. Herr Ebert accepted the office. The assembly adopted a constitution. An agreement has been reached by the assembly on the composition of tho new ministry which will consist of 14 members. Philipp Scheldemann has been selected as chancellor. ♦ * * Reports from Omsk state that the Russian government there has accepted an offer- from Japan of men, money to settle the anarchist difficulty- _ 5 ’ * * Conscription of various classes of men, up to thlrty-flve years, will be decreed soon, according to information trom Berlin. r A London dispatch says all the Ckers in the Clyde district have been ructed -by their leaders to return to work.

An Archangel dispatch says anarchist forces have resumed the offensive in the region of Hredinakrenga. For a brief time they occupied several allied blocklmuses, after penetrating the town, but they were driven out. The conference of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain at a meeting at Southport, decided against acceptance of the terms offered by the government for a settlement of the demands made by the federation. • * * There will be no allied intervention in Russia because America would send neither men, money nor material for such an undertaking, Premier George told the house of commons at London. • ♦ ♦ A Stockholm dispatch says an army of 70,(XX) Russians has been formed In Finland to march on Petrograd and overthrow the anarchists. The anarchists are said to be evacuating Petrograd now. • • • Serious rioting has occurred at Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, and the minister of the interior, Francisco J. Mejia, Ims been killed, accord ing to a dispatch from Tegucigalpa. • • • A Warsaw dispatch says in the inontii of November nione there were pogroms of varying dimensions In I<X> different towns and townlets. In all of them shops were plundered, In many of them Amises were looted ami In Poland several synagogues were desecrated ami in. every riot Jews were brutally assaulted, often severely wounded and in several towns killed. • ♦ •

Personal Dr. Richard Ernest Kunze, Internationally famous as a naturalist, Is dead H t Phoenix, Ariz., at the age of eightyone. • • • European War News , Representatives of the German government, according to ari Amsterdam dispatch to the Central News at London, have asked permission from the armistice commission at Spa to be allowed to use warships against Russ an archists. who are seizing towns, on the Baltic coast. Peace Notes A Paris special says the Society of Nations came into formal existence nt noon Monday. At that hour President Wilson and the other members of the League of Nations committee had concluded their reading of the first draft of the constitution of the society and were agreed on all points. • • • Domestic The Lawrence Duck company nt Lawrence. Mass., normally employing about 2.WX) operatives, resumed operations on a fifty-four-hour schedule. Officials claimed that ’’a good working force” reported. ♦ • • lowa’s house at Des Moines unanimously passed the Flenniken bill making it unlawful publicly to exhibit the red Hag. Federal Judge Landis nt Chicago will give his decision in the case of Congressman-Elect Victor Berger and Ills four co-defendants recently convicted of violating the espionage act, 'on February 20. ♦ * •

The government at Washington Is going to make use of one of the most powerful Instruments put Into its hands by congress—the anarchy act to wipe out anarchism in this country. A • • • A temporary military establishment of 28,579 officers and 509,000 enlisted men Is provided for in the annual army appropriation bill reported to the house at Washington by the military committee. • • • The army freight transport Arakan arrived at New York from Bordeaux with 13 casual officers, six enlisted 1 men of detachment casual company No. 17 of New York and two civilians. Interpreting the franchise of the Des Moines City Railway- company, Federal Judge M. J. Wade ruled the street car fare chargeable ts fixed by the franchise and therefore cannot be raised. Twenty-five of the sixty-five public schools of Denver, Colo., are closed as a result of a strike of the stationary engineers employed.by the school district, which went into effect at eight o’clock. Three naval flyers, Ensigns Duane Rutledge, Robins, La.; D. Mingle, Tyrone, Pa., and Ralph McCormick, East Boston, Mass., were killed when their hydroairplane from the training station ot Pensacola, FJa., fell 500 feet into the bay and was demolished. ♦ ♦ ♦ Deportation is the answer of the United States government officials at Chicago to the challenge of I. W. W. and anarchist agitators who came to this country to stir up trouble in Industry and social life. ♦ ♦ • Roy Van Tress, president of the McAlester (Okla.) real estate exchange, and 15 associates charged with conspiracy to defraud by the use of the mails, in the sale of Indian lands, were found guilty by a jury in the United States district court at Cincinnati. O.