Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WOULD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WOULD

BIQ HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS K*m«l* Culled From Events of Moment In All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All the People Everywhere. Washington Finland was recognized ns an independent de facto government by the United States in a brief announcement made by Acting Secretary of State Polk at Washington. • • • Secretary Baker announced al Washington that by August the last man of the American expe<ntlouary force will have been withdrawn from France. He said this estimate wae based on the movement of 300,000 men a month to the United States. • • • President Wilson in an executive order cabled from Paris has directed the civil service commission at Washington to exempt soldiers, sailors and marines from physical requirement* for any civil service position. • • • President Wilson has Issued a call by cable for a special session of congress to meet Monday, May 19. Secretary Tumulty, in making the announcement on Wednesday, said it would be impossible for the president to be present for the opening of the special session. • • • Orders were Issued by the war department at Washington for the recruiting of 8,000 men to serve as replacement troops for American soldiers now in Siberia. * • •

A Washington dispatch says it requires $2,500 a year to keep the average American family, government investigators have found. Furthermore, the cost of living throughout the United States still is soaring. • • • Sale of eight National Guard and four miscellaneous camps for a total of $548,000 was announced by the war department at Washington. The bidders assumed all damage claim* against the government. • • • There is an acute shortage of men for the United States navy, according to Franklin D. Roosevelt, acting secretary of the navy, who telegraphed to Lieut. Com. D. P. Wickersham, in charge of recruiting at New York, urging a vigorous campaign for enlistments. n « * • Roger C. Treadwell, the American .consul who was captured by the bolshevlki, has reached Stockholm, the state department at Washington announced. Restrictions on the export of silver and standardization of the price at $1.01% per fine ounce were removed by the federal reserve board at Washington, thus in effect establishing a free market for silver in the United States and throughout the world. * » • The situation In northern Mexico is again reflected as serious In advices received at Washington from Mexico City and the border. The state department has been advised that 3,000 employees of an American mining company at Santa Eulalia have been removed to Chihuahua City because o£ threats by Villa, the bandit leader. * * *

Foreign Michael J. Ryan of Philadelphia and former Gov. Edward Dunne of Illinois, participated in a Sinn Fein procession at Belfast. They expressed themselves as being entirely satisfied with the reception they received in the unionist stronghold of North Ireland. A Stockholm dispatch says north Sweden is experiencing the worst floods in many years due, to abnormal rains and snowfalls. The damage is estimated at more than $8,000,000. • ♦ • All Munich celebrated the victors over the soviet government. The streets were crowded with people, who cheered the passing troops oi gave them refreshments. Captured Spartacides were hooted as thej passed. ♦ * * British troops broke up a forbidden meeting at Athlone, Ireland, by charg Ing upon the crowd with bayonets. A number of persons were wounded and armored cars have taken possessior of the place. Defeated along the entire eastern front by the Siberian forces, the bolshevik forces are retiring in disorder, the Russian newspaper Russkavt says. A Vienna dispatch says Bela Kun, Hungarian premier, has accepted th« allied demands for the surrender oi Budapest. ' e w „ General Griffin, military commander' has Withdrawn his proclamation constituting Limerick, Ireland, a specla' military area.

A Brussels dispatch says the Belgian government has decided to ask the allies or the United States for an Immediate loan of $500,000,000. • • • The giant Farman airplane Goliath, which has been flying between Paris and Brussels, Tuesday night ascended to a height of 5,100 meters (approximately 10,732 feet) while carrying 25 passengers. • • • When Polish forces captured Vilna recently they seized and shot Adolph Joffe, the former Russian bolshevik ambassador at Berlin, according to Polish newspapers received at Copenhagen. • • • It is understood that the duke of Devonshire will soon retire as governor general of Canada, and the London Mull says that the office will be offered the earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary. • • • A Managua dispatch says the Costa Rican revolutionists Issued a proclamation naming Julio Acosta provisional president and have solicited recognition of the new administration by Central American republics. • • • The bolshevlkl in great strength have begun an attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania, which was captured several weeks ago by the Poles, according to a Kovno dispatch received in Berlin. • • •

Peace Notes In opening the congress at Versailles Premier Clemenceau, the presiding officer, speaking to the German plenipotentiaries, said: is unnecessary to express newless words. You have before you the plenipotentiaries of the small and great powers united In this most cruel war, which was Imposed upon them. The hour has arrived for a heavy settlement of the account.” * • • Immediately after the session at which the treaty of peace was handed to the German delegates at VersaillesCount von Brockdorff-Rantzau, chairman of the delegation, gave a copy of the document to a trusted aerial courier, who at once started on the flight to Weimar, where he delivered the treaty to the Ebert cabinet. • • • “We declare that we do not deny the extent of our defeat. We know the power of the German armies is broken.” In these words Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the German delegation to the peace congress, received the terms of the victorious allies and associated powers in the Hall of Mirrors of the Trianon palace at Versailles. The allies presented a solid front, with the Italian envoys back In the conference. • • •

Domestic Two hundred stationary engineers employed in breweries and large manufacturing plants at Peoria, 111., went on strike foe*lo per cent increase in wages. • • • John Greber, a farmer living near White Deer, Tex., shot and killed his mother and a younger sister, wounded, probably fatally, an elder sister and then shot himself. He is expected to die. ♦ • • Disrespect for the American flag and a show of resentment toward the thousands who participated in a 1 lctory loan pageant at Chicago may cost George Goddard his life. He was shot down by a youth in the uniform of the United States navy when he did not stand and remove his hat while the band was playing the “StarSpangled Banner.” ♦ • • At a Victory loan rally at New York Mme. De Cisneros sang and then exchanged a series of kisses for $1,000,000 subscriptions. * * • Joseph H. Shea, the American ambassador to Chile, will leave Santiago for New York on a four months’ leave of absence. * * * Lieut. H. C. Muckey of Cleveland and Lieut. J. P. Haddock of San Diego, Cal., were killed at Deer park, near Houston, Tex., when their airplane fell. • • • Paul Frederick Volland, president of the P. F. Volland company, art publishers at Chicago, was shot and killed in his office by Mrs. Vera Trepagnier, widow of a wealthy sugar plantation owner of New Orleans. 1 • » • A first contingent, 1,000 men, of the 50,000 troops volunteering to relieve an equal number of doughboys now with the American army of occupation in Germany, sailed from New York for Europe on the transport Agamemnon. * • • Two masked men robbed the Clark County bank at Washougal, Wash., of $7,000 in currency and silver and escaped in an automobile. • • • Two naval aviators, Ensign Adams and Chief Machinist’s Mate Corey, flying a naval scout plane at the Rockaway Beach naval air station, were killed when the machine collided with the top of a hundred-foot high hydrogen tank. . ♦ ♦ * The bodies of Joseph O. Tolbert, sheriff of Lafayette county, and John McDonald, his deputy, were found by a posse seven miles southeast of Lexington, Mo., in a wheat field. The men were the victims of three motorcar bandits.