Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1919 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Washington In the first prepared address on the league of nations delivered in the senate at Washington since the constitution of the proposed league was made public, Senator Poindexter (Rep.) ‘of Washington declared the entrance of the United States into the league would mean a surrender of American rights, privileges and sovereignty , the abandonment of the Monroe doctiine and a violation of the constitution. » * * The fortifications appropriation bill carrying SI 1.199,291, was passed by the house at Washington without a record vote, and with but one inconsequential amendment. It now goes to the senate. * • * American exports in January set a new high deconi. During the month goods to the value of $623,000,000 were shipped to foreign was announced at the department of commerce at Washington. * * • The 1920 army appropriation bill passed the house at Washington by a viva voce vote. It now goes to the senate, carrying appropriations aggregating $1,070,000,000. • * • The senate, at Washington passed the rivers and harbors bill to spend $33,000,000, or $0,000,000 more than the house measure. The bill goes to conference. • * • Under anarchism, murder and starvation are exacting a terrible toll in Russia, and in Petrograd alone the population has decreased from 3,000,000 to 1,000,000 in a little more than a year. Theodore Krystofovltch, former member of the Russian department of agriculture, told the senate judiciary committee at Washington!

• * * Short-term notes, maturing in from one to five years, would be offered in the forthcoming Victory Liberty loan campaign, instead of long-term notes, under a tentative agreement reached by the house ways and means committee at Washington to fix the terms of the loan by legislation rather than to give Secretary Glass wide discretionary powers to determine them, as he had asked. • • * The casualty list of the American coal mining army for 1918, reported to Secretary Lane of the department of the interior at Washington by the bureau of mines, includes 2,575 men killed.

• • • An appropriation of $750,000,000 for the operation of railroads under government control was approved by the house appropriations committee at Washington. • • • Allens advocating destruction of property or overthrow of the government by force will be deported under the provisions of the Immigration act of February 5, 1917. This announcement was made by Secretary of Labor Wilson at Washington, in a ‘letter sharply rebuking Micrometer lodge No. 400, International Association of Machinists of Brooklyn, for protesting against the deportation of 58 “alien radicals.” ♦ ♦ ♦ ” An agreement just reached at Washington between the United States and British governments on the amount to be paid for the transportation of American troops to France during the war in British ships is based on cost of transportation, with no margin for profit. Steps toward strengthening the position of American and allied troops in northern Russia as a preliminary to their safe withdrawal in the near future are under way at the direction of the supreme war council. To facilitate the withdrawal, additional forces are being dispatched to the scene. Secretary Baker notified the house military committee at Washington that President Wilson had informed him of the plans.. * * •

Foreign A Warsaw dispatch says Gen. Joseph Pilsudski has announced his intention of resigning as chief of the Polish state. • * * Gas and electric service at Belfast, which had been cut off for three weeks because of strikes, was resumed under military protection, the troops haying? taken posession of the gas works and the electric plants. * .* * Sixteen soldiers were killed and fifty injured when a troop train collided with a freight train near Vienna. • • * Esthonian troops have begun to fall back before the bolshevlkl in the region of Pskov, according to an official statement issued by the Esthonian London headquarters. « ♦ ♦ Geftnan troops on the Lithuanian front surprised the bolshevlkl and captured the town of Murawjevo, near Shavll, according to a report received at BaSle, Switzerland, from Llbau.

An Amsterdam dispatch says Ritter von Mann, German minister of marine, has resigned, according to the General Anzeiger of Dusseldorf. • • e Premier Georges Clemenceau was shot three times as he was on his way to confer with Colonel House in Paris. Emile Cottln, the man who shot the premier, says he planned to kill the French statesman because he "was an enemy to humanity and was preparing to start another war.” The French premier is expected to make an early recovery from the three wotlMs Inflicted on him by the assassin. • • • Addressing the national assembly at Weimar, Philipp Scheideinann, the chancellor, said the first essential of the government’s policy was maintenance of unity in the nation by a strong central authority. Immediate restoration of peace came next, which should be secured by adherence to the program of President Wilson and the "rejection of a peace of violence.” The program, he said, called for the restoration of the,German colonies and the admission of Germany to the League of Nations with equal rights. • • •

The German people generally do not yet understand clearly the financial situation in which the war has left them and they nre too optimistic, declared Doctor Schiffer, the minister of finance, in an address to the German national assembly at Weimar. He apparently astonished the house when he gave the statistics to show that the war had cost 161,000,000,000 marks ($40,250,000,000). • » * An Odessa dispatch says the antibolshevik army of General Denikines has reached the Caspian sea after advancing 350 versts (233 miles), capturing 31,000 prisoners, 95 guns and eight armored trains. In the victorious advance General Denikines’ army scattered a bolshevik force of more than 100,000. • * • Final suppression of the revolutionary movement in Portugal has been proclaimed by the government at Lisbon, according to dispatches received at the state department at Washington. * • * Personal Appointment of Lieut. Col. Robert E. Olds of St. Paul, Minn., as Red Cross commissioner for Europe was announced in a dispatch fffim Paris. • » • Sir Wilfrid Laurier, former premier of Canada, who was stricken. with paralysis, died at Ottawa, Ont., Monday afternoon. » • • Peace Notes

A Paris dispatch says the Italian delegation states in an official note to the peace conference that Italy cannot accept arbitration with the Jugo-Slavs of Italian claims in Dalmatia. * * • Formal rejection of the proposal that they meet with delegates of the bolshevik! and other Russian governments at Princes islands was handed to the peace conference at Paris by representatives of the governments of Siberia, Archangel and southern Russia, according to a dispatch to the Russian embassy nt Washington from Ambassador Bakmetieff at Paris. . » * » Domestic Twenty-fix’® persons were injured, twelve seriously, when an open switch caused a northbound trolley to collide with a southbound car at Frankfort avenue and Arrott street at Philadelphia. ♦ * ♦ A Dallas (Tex.) dispatch says Lieut. M. J. Plum established a new flying record, driving a Curtis plane from Fort Worth to Love field, a distance of 32 miles In ten minutes. » * * Thirty aliens, advocates of open revolt according to federal authorities, and all under indictment for dissemination of revolutionary propaganda throughout northern Ohio, are to be deported from Cleveland by the United States government. * * • A robber, armed with a revolver, lined up the president, vice president, cashier and teller of the First National bank of Herington, Kan., grabbed $2,000 from the teller’s drawer and fled. A posse Is In pursuit. * • •

Six armed bandits entered the East side branch of the First State bank of Detroit, Mich., held up the cashier, clerks and several patrons and escaped with $10,500. * • * A Sacramento (Cal.) special says a supply of California ladybugs will be shipped to France to be used in combating the mealybug, which has been damaging fruit trees there. • • « A Los Angeles dispatch says an earthquake shock lasting almost a minute was felt at 8:45 a. m. at virtually every point in southern California. No damage has been reported from any section, however. Charles F. Sprague, stock breeder of Lima, 0., sold 60 Duroc hogs for $33,195, an average price of $553.25. Buyers from 17 states attended the sale. ♦ ♦ • Arrests on charges of bribery and graft in the personnel of, the Third naval district have been made at New York following an Investigation ordered by Secretary Daniels, nlng Post says.,' Seven naval officers and forty yeomen, including Ensign Paul Beck, of the paymaster’s corps, and an officer of high rank, are under arrest.