Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Sporting “Howdy" Wilcox of Indianapolis piloted hla Peugeot to victory in the 500mlle automobile race at the apeedway, in Indianapolis. Arthur Thurman of Washington was killed and his mechanician, M. Molinaro, was seriously Injured. Louis Lecocq and his helper, It. Bandlnl, were burned to death when the gasoline tank on their Itoamer exploded. • • • Personal Miss Helen Herron Taft, daughter of former President Taft, has been chosen by the board of directors of Bryn Mawr college to serve as acting president of that institution next year. Howard Chandler Christy, artist, was granted a decree of divorce from Mabelle Christy at the close of a brief hearing in common pleas court at Zanesville, O. • • • Detroit’s millionaire mayor, James Couxens, announced that he would donate $300,000 to build a home for the nurses of Harper hospital. Couxens is a trustee of the institution. • • • Washington Checks amounting to $33,933,962 were mailed to 959,906 dependents of men in the military service in May by the bureau of war risk insurance. Appealing to the house judiciary committee for repeal of the war prohibition law, Adolph Neurad, chairman of the legislative committee of the Family Wine and Liquor Dealers’ association, said that Senator Simmons told hlin lust November the law would take care of itself July 1, and that he might as well "return to New York and not worry.” • • • Unanimous approval was given by the house to a' resolution increasing the war expenditures committee to fifteen members so that five separate investigations of disposition of funds by the war department may bo made. The $31,600,000 agricultural appropriation bill was passed by the house at Washington, with only one dissenting vote, and sent to the senate. • • • The house woman suffrage resolution was adopted by the senate and the proposed constitutional amendment now goes to the states for ratification. The yote was 56 for adoption and 25 against, or one more than two-thirds majority required. • • •. Favorable report on the bill of Senator Kellogg, Republican, of Minnesota, for the Immediate return of the telephone and telegraph wires to private ownership was ordered by the senate interstate commerce committee after the measure had been amended so as to continue existing telephone rates for GO days after final action by congress. Secretary Baker told the house military committee he had authorized the sale of $25,000,000 worth of surplus food stocks held by the aftny to the Co-operative Purchase society of Russia. Mr. Baker said that some of the food probably would reach the bolshevikl. Only by increased ra|es can the government controlled railroads meet operating expenses, Director General Hines told the house appropriations committee. He is opposed to any Increase at this time, however, because it might advance the cost of necessities of life. Laxness in the cancellation of tax stamps will not be tolerated by the internal revenue bureau. Failure to comply is punishable by a fine of SIOO, says an order Issued by the bureau. Continued use of naval ships In returning troops from France was urged before the house naval committee by Secretary Baker. With the aid of the navy, the secretary said, practically every soldier will be out of France by August 1 and the French expedition closed. a

Foreign American Marines have been landed at Puntarenas and Port Limon, Costa Rica, because of the revolution against the government headed by General Tinoco, according to dispatches printed in newspapers at San Salvador. • * ♦ The Rhine republic was proclaimed Sunday m various Rhine cities, says a dispatch from Mayence. The new government is headed by Doctor Dorden. It has been installed provisionally at Wiesbaden. Spokesmen for a big delegation of returned soldiers opposed to the general strike at Winnipeg told Mayor Gray that if the strike forces persisted in their efforts to curtail food supplies in Winnipeg they “would tear the Trades and Labor council to pieces.”

Austria placed ita fate in the hand* of the allied and associated powers, following receipt of the peace terms, which wore presented to the Austrian delegation. Under the terms of the treaty Austria Is reduced from a nation of some 50,000,000 population to a country of between 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 nationals, occupying a territory something less than 40.000 square miles in area. From the old AustroHungarian eiifplre are carved out the states of Hungary, Cxecho-Slovakla, and the new Serb-Croat-Siovene nation, the Independence of all of which Vienna is required to recognlxe. The remains of the old Hapsburg empire is to be known as the republic of Austria. • • • At the last meeting of the council of four in Paris President Wilson made another effort to bring about an agreement as to the principle of the reply to the German counter-propos-als, but the meeting ended without an agreement It Is understood that Premier Clemenceau maintains a firm attitude against any revision of the treaty. • • • The Austrian government has decided unanimously that the peace terms presented at St. Germain are unacceptable, the Neues Abenblatt of Vienna says. • • • Six companies of the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry, aggregating 1,600 men, or approximately one-third of the American force on the Archangel front, constitute the first detachment to leave Russia. They embarked at Economia, the "Winter port of Archangel. • • •

Two changes in the German peace terms, one territorial and the other financial, are being considered by the council of four, it became known In Paris. The financial question Is the possibility of the acceptance of Germany’s proposal to bind herself to pay a total indemnity of $25,000,000,000. The second proposal is for a plebiscite in Silesia. • • • Petrograd has been captured by the Esthonians and the Finns, according to an unconfirmed report received by the newspaper Tldens Tegn of Christiania from Vardoe. • • • That Consul General Garcia, representing the Mexican government at El Paso, Tex., left hurriedly for Mexico City In pursuance of orders wired him from President Carranza immediately following the report that Chihuahua City had fallen is taken by Carranxa and Villa officials as proof that the situation at Torreon. Jlmlnex and Chihuahua City is critical. • • • The allied forces of occupation will take no part in the movement for the establishment of a Rhine republic, the Paris Journal says. The allied powers will observe an attitude of watchful waiting. • • • The ranks of the Toronto strikers were re-enforced by several hundred members of the Marine Workers’ Federation, who stopped work following the decision of the union on Saturday night to call a sympathetic strike. Domestic A reign of terror, with wholesale bombings and killings, to be followed by the calling of a general strike throughout tlie country and seizure of cities and towns isolated by the tieup of transportation facilities, was planned by the plotters to follow the bombing raid. This is the declaration of a member of the military intelligence bureau at Pittsburgh, Pa. • « * ' Three men were killed and four injured at Hopkins, Mich., when the boiler in the creamery there exploded, wrecking the plant and shaking the entire village. • • •

The striking employees of the Southern Bell fWid Atlanta Telephone companies were warned by Postmaster General Burleson that strikes are not permissible in the government service. * • • The “flying circus," comprising six army airships, landed at Chicago, after a flight from Indianapolis. The machines will give exhibition flying in Chicago for several days. * * * Two men were shot to death and two were seriously wounded in a riot growing out of the labor disturbances involving 13,000 employees of the Wil-lys-Overland Automobile company at Toledo. The victims, presumably idle employees of the company, were killed by discharged soldiers who are guarding the plant. Mayor Schreiber wired Gov. Cox for troops to restore order. • • • The entire One Hundred and Twen-ty-ninth Infantry, which reached Camp Grant for demobilization, Is under quarantine as the result of the death of Private Ed Johnson of Belvidere, 81., who died at Camp Merritt, N. J., from spinal meningitis. « • * In an address before the. United Spanish-American 'War Veterans at Cedar Rapids, la.’, Gov. W. L. Harding of lowa accused the city government of Chicago of being un-American and pro-German. • * * Railroad freight and passenger rate increases made by the railroad administration last June were upheld by the United States Supreme court. Increased telephone and telegraph rates put into effect last January 21 under an order of Postmaster General Burleson also were upheld.