Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Personal David M. I’erine of New York. superIntendent of motive power of the Jersey division of the Pennsylvania railroad, died at Baltimore, Mil. • » • Lord Cottenhain died at London, aged forty-five. He was married to Patricia Burke, a California heiress, In 1916. • • • * Julius H. Barnes, president of the Federal Grain corporation, has been appointed wheat director of the United States by President Wilson, It was announced at the office of the food administration at New York. • • • Des Moines. la., was selected for the next meeting place of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at a session of the book committee at Cincinnati. • • • Peace Notes In a statement Issued by President Wilson at Paris explaining his position on the Adriatic question he declares that Flume cannot become a part of Italy. • • • David Lloyd George, British prime minister, has agreed to receive former pov. Edward F. Dunne of Blinds, Frank P. Walsh, former chairman of the national war labor board, and Michael J. Ryap of Philadelphia next week at Paris. The Americans were chosen by the Irish societies in the United States to appeal to the peace conference on behalf of Ireland. • • • A Paris dispatch says the council of four has notified Germany that the associated powers cannot receive messenger representatives at Versailles who are merely messengers. The German government mrtst appoint representatives with plenipotentiary powers. • • • Washington On April 21, said an official announcement by the war department at Washington, 120,278 men from the army overseas were at sea on their ■way to this country. Sales of surplus supplies to April 11 the war department at Washington announced totaled $140,723,850. The largest single item was railway rolling stock, sales of which reached a total of nearly $70,000,000. • • • Announcement was made at the navy department at Washington that the superdreadnaught Tennessee would be launched at the New York navy yard on April 30. • • •

From nn airplane flying 2,000 feet overhead an army officer read President Wilson’s Victory Liberty loan message to a throng of 15,000 persons, assembled at the south steps of the treasury at Washington by the use of the wireless telephone and a newly invented sound amplifier. » • • Foreign A London dispatch says Ural Cossack troops, acting in conjunction with the Siberian forces of Admiral Koi-, chak, have begun an offensive in the region of Uralsk, in southeastern Russia, south of Samara, and have captured several villages west of Uralsk. * • • The Yorkshire Post of London understands that General Pershing will visit London next month, arriving there on the third. He will be received with military honors. * » ♦ A Paris dispatch says the French government has appealed to Italy to furnish 1,000,000 workmen, mostly laborers, to assist in rebuilding northern France. ♦ • ♦ A Limerick dispatch says an alliance between the Limerick strike committee and the Irish trades union congress and labor party was arranged at a conference and a statement has been issued declaring the strike now had become national. » * ♦ A Wellington dispatch says the majority against prohibition in the New Zealand plebiscite is placed at 1,800 by official returns. * • • A Paris report says a revolution has broken out in Turkey and a soviet government has been declared. » * * Five thousand dock workers went on Strike at Liverpool. A Simla dispatch says martial law has been proclaimed in the Gujerat district of India. » • • The law providing for..tlie .nationalization of women in northeast’Russia has been suspended in one province as the result of popular outcry, according to a Stockholm dispatch. • • • An agreement was reached at Paris by the associated powers to send food to Russia under neutral control. The agreement stipulates that the bolshe▼ikl must cease hostilities.

Herbert Hoover, chairman of the In-ter-allied food commission, arrived at Berlin In company with a large staff. • • • All France will be cleared of American troops by August, the London Pali Mall Gazette learns. Certain units of tiie American army of occupation may remain in the Rhine zone after peace ia signed. • • • An Archangel dispatch says by an advance of 20 miles southward paralleling the Murmansk railroad line Russian troops operating with the allies have reached a point within easy striking distance of Lake Onega, which Is connected by lakes and canals with Petrograd. • • • Gen. Francisco Alvarez of the antigovernment forces was executed at Vera Cruz, Mexico. He met death at the hands of a Oring squad with the utmost bravery.- • • • The Important city of Vllna has been recaptured from the bolshevik!, according to official admission In a Russian wireless dispatch received at London.- • • • An Amsterdam dispatch,says n warrant has been issued in Berlin for the arrest of Prince Henry of Prussia, the former kaiser’s brother, charging him with concealing arms. • • • German government troop® have occupied Augsburg in Bavaria, after a sanguinary battle with the reds, says a dispatch from Munich. The leader of the Bavarian communist army, former War Minister Relchart, has been arrested. • • • A settlement of the strike troubles in Berlin was reached, after negotiations lasting 48 hours between representatives of the strikers and the employers and the minister of labor. • • • A Weimar special says the German cabinet has unanimously decided to take a referendum on peace if the terms deviate from President Wilson's fourteen points. • • •

Domestic Governor Sleeper at Lansing, Mich., has signed the bill forbidding the display of the red fiug at any public assembly, parade or demonstration under penalty of five .years' imprisonment or SI,OOO tine. • • • A Park field “flying circus” will leave Memphis, Tenn., April 28, for a recruiting tour of Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and points north of St. Louis and Peoria. 111. • • • Five hundred striking electrotypers at Chicago, who have been idle for the last five years, will return to work following a readjustment in their favor. They held out for a flat scale of S3B per week and 44 hours. A senate criminal syndicalism bill has passed the assembly at Sacramento, Cal., 59 to 9. Attempts to add a provision specifically exempting “lawful purposes or acts of labor unions in conducting strikes” failed. * • * The house at Providence, R. 1., adopted the bill declaring beer containing not more than 4 per cent of alcohol a nonlntoxicant. The action was in concurrence witli the senate. - • • * Capt. Charles J. Glidden, an officer In the United States air service, military aeronautics, said in a statement issued at Washington that all men who wish to take part In the development of the nation’s air service should send their nnnuyjind address Immediately to the department air service officer. 104 Broad street, New York, and they will receive an important communication on the subject. * * • The severest penalty provided in the Michigan criminal statutes, solitary confinement for life, was imposed in circuit court at Kalamazoo upon George E. Bird, fifteen years old, and Arthur W. Sterling: twenty, when they pleaded guilty to murdering Walter W. Mattison. » • • About 7,000 officers and men of the Forty-second (Rainbow) division sailed from Brest April 18, on the transport Leviathan, due at New York April 25. ‘ • Gov. Alfred H. Smith at Albany, N. Y., signed a bill authorizing Sunday baseball and moving picture shows. * • • Edward Lawrence, fifteen, was Instantly killed at Chester, Pa., when he fell 200 feet from a balloon rope in which he became entangled as it shot upward. Thousands saw the youth dashed to death. • * * Five persons, comprising an entire family, were found dead In their home on the West side at Detroit, Mich., apparently as the result of ptomaine poisoning. The dead are James Deluvlo, his wife, infant son, brother and aged father. . . • • * A seaplane used in the Victory loan campaign plunged info Lake Michigan, off Chicago, as its pilot was trying to make a landing. The aviator, Lieutenant Brown, and his mechanic, Robert Lee, were both rescued. * * * Detroit, claims the honor of being the first large city to exceed Its Victory loan quota, the figures reaching $57,000,000 at 4:15 o’clock Monday afternoon against a quota of $55,404,113, it was announced officially. An effort will be made to double the qouta. - _ -