Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

• Theft of $20,000 in currency from ♦the vaults of the Cosmopolitan bank, a Bronx institution, was made known at New York by the police. The robbery occurred some time Monday night. • • • John Martin Kantor, Mayor Thompson's political lieutenant and former city real estate expert of Chicago, was held to the federal grand jury in $30,000 bond by Judge Landis on charges of perjury. _ • • • Fire destroyed the steel plant and the stone works at the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, JCan., entailing a loss,estimated at not ftess than $200,000. • » • New York police, secret service men and Immigration officials raided a. buildlng In East Fifteenth street and arrested 198 men and two women. Ten patrol wagons were required to take the prisoners to the criminal courts building. The building raided was occupied, according to the police, by the Union of Russian Peasant Workers of America.

J. A. Kittley, forty-flve years old, thief train dispatcher for the Louiskllle & Nashville railroad, was shot and killed by his eleven-year-old son •t Roebuck Springs, near Birmingham, Ala., while defending his mother. • • • United States Marshal McCarthy at New York was directed by Federal Judge Knox to seize $4,000,000 in railway stocks and bonds held in trust there for the Munich Reinsurance company of Munich, Bavaria. Two children, brother and sister, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the farmhouse of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Webb, five miles from Tucson, Arlz. • • • I When Chicago firemen were driven back by dense clouds of smoke at a government warehouse fire, soldiers equipped with gas masks, took their places and subdued the flames. Meat nnd lard valued at $200,000 was destroyed. • • •

Six hundred carpenters struck at Denver, Colo., as a result of the refusal of general contractors of Denver to grant an increase in wages. Almost all of the building in Denver Is affected. • • * f Five hundred and thirteen persons hccused of violating the federal law prohibiting the transportation of intoxicating liquor from wet territory of Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, into dry Indiana, were arraigned in Uriited States district court at Indianapolis. • * • * The bandit who held up the Silver Lake (Wis.) bank shortly after noon Monday, locking the cashier and bookkeeper in the vault, and escaped with was shot and.killed by a posse under Sheriff Joseph Meyer of Kenosha, Wis.

♦ ♦ ♦ With 85 officers and 2,674 troops of the Twenty-seventh division—former New York state national guardsmen — the steamship Mount Vernon arrived at New York from Brest. The vessel brought altogether 5,784 troops. The steamship Ohioan arrived from Bor-, deaux with 1,627 troops, a majority of them of the Three Hundred and Eighty-fourth Infantry of the Eightyseventh division. ♦ ♦ * With 5,500 troops on board, the transport Nansemond arrived at New York from St. Nazgire.

* » • Foreign Ukrainian soviet forces stormed and captured the city of Kherson March 8. it was reported in the official communique of the white- Russian republic received at London. ♦ ♦ ♦ A Berlin dispatch says the Spartacists have surrendered unconditionally to the government. They are giving up all arras and ammunition. ♦ ♦ ♦ A Berne dispatch says the Swiss government decided to recognize the Polish and Czecho-Slovqk states and to establish diplomatic relations with them. Poland already has appointed Baron Modzetewskyunlnlster at Berne. » * •

The government at London announced in the house of commons that the total strength of effective and noneffective British troops in the armies of occupation in all theaters of war amounts to 902,000 men. ♦ ♦ ♦ An Archangel dispatch says the bolshevik forces, operating ten guns, Shelled the village of Vistavka, on the Vaga river, almost completely destroying it. Repeated heavy infantry attacks followed, but these were repulsed with heavy losses by the Americans, British and Russians. A P<rW’ dispatch says there is no prospect o? lower prices for wheat this year, according to Herbert 0. Hoover, United States food administrator, if supply and demand continue in the present ratio.

German propaganda in Egypt la blamed for recent disturbances at Cairo, which resulted in the arrest and deportation of a number of political agitators. The state department at Washington was advised that the disturbances had been suppressed with a number of fatal casualties. • • • Silesian troops, acting In agreement with the central soldiers’ council, have occupied nil public buildings of Breslau, according to advices from that city. • • • A white paper has been Issued at London showing the national debt on March 31. 1918. was $29,605,479,095, compared with $3,530,770,550 at the corresponding date in 1914. • • • A serious riot took place In London In which American soldiers and sailors, Canadian and Australian troops made common cause against the British police. Policeman P. C. Field is tn a critical condition with a fractured skull. Four other policemen are suffering from scalp wounds. Five American soldiers and sailors are nursing wounds nt n Lancaster Gate Red Cross hospital. The trouble started when a policeman raided a sailors’ "crap” game. • • a Personal Martin A. Morrison of Indiana and George R. Wales of Vermont were appointed to the civil service commission at Washington by President Wilson, succeeding John A. Mcllhenny and Hemion W. Craven. • • * Amelia E. Bnrr, the author, died at her home In Richmond Hilf, New York city. She was within a few days of being eighty-eight years old. • • • Word reache<l Chicago of the death at St. Louis of Edward F. Kearney, president of the Wabash road. He had been head of the WabasH since 1915. • • •

Peace Notes Tin- Paris correspondent of the London* Chronicle says the allies have agreed to limit the German fleet to>six battleships, five <-mlsers, 12 800 Mon destroyers and 26 destroyers. • « • Recommendation that the navlgat on of the Rhine be fqwned to all nations without discrimination was made in a report to the pence conference at Paris by the conunissiou on the international regime of waterways, railways and ports. • • • An invitation Iras been sent to alt’ the neutral nations tn Europe, Asiaand South America asking them to attend a private and unofficial conference at Paris on Thursday, March 20,. with the object of giving neutrals ana opportunity to express their views on’ the league of notions. • « • Information has reached responsiblequarters In Paris that the Austriangovernment is contemplating the enactment of a law banishing former Emperor Charles. • • • Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Balfour have sent word to their colleagues at London that the peace conference has nearly completedits work, the London Evening Newssays it understands. r ♦ * ♦

Washington The Victory Liberty loan campaign will open Morality, April 21, and end' Saturday night. May 10, according ti> an announcement by Secretary of Treasury Glass at Washington. ♦ ♦ * The food administration at Washington announces it has repealed its regulations prohibiting licensees from selfing, delivering or having in their possession food commodities in excess of a reasonable 60 days’ supply. By previous orders these regulations had been removed from all foodstuffs except meats. ♦ * * Sjmkcsnien for about 500,00<) .railroad shop employees presented! arguments to the board of railway wages and working conditions at Washington in support of their demand for a general wage increase from the basic rate

of 68 cents per hour. » ♦ ♦ Double censorship of cablegrams is abolished under the terms of an agreement between the United States and Great Britain made public at Washington. • • • Removal of peanuts from the list of restricted imports was announced by Idm war trade board at Washington. ,

Solicitor General Lamar of the post office department at Washington submitted a memorandum to the senate propaganda committee stating that the (. W. W., anarchists, socialists and others were “perfecting an amalgamation with one object—the overthrow of the government of the United States by means of a bloody revolution and the establishment of a bolshevik republic.” * • * High prices of materials and high wages remain as the most Important factors in preventing increased building activities, the department of labor at Washington said after compiling the answers to questionnaires from 74 cities. The Supreme court at Washington Sustained the conviction of Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, found guilty of violating the .espionage act through statements made in a speech in Canton, 0., last June, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment.