Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1919 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

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DOWN TO LIMIT. XRRANQEO FOR BUSY PEOPLE Hotw Covering Moat Important Hap* panlnga of the World Compiled «. In Briefest and Moat Buo«lnct i Ferm for Quick Canoumptlon. P«oc4 Notes The German government at Weimar ■formally communicated its willingness to sign the peace terms unconditionally, it was announced by the French foreign office at Paris. • « • Sporting Frank M. Trech of Vancouver. "Wash., broke 402 targets out of a ik>ssible 500 and won first honors in four days' shooting at the Northwest Sportsman’s association annual shooting tournament at Portland, Ore. see Personal Samuel Gompers was re-elected 'president of the American Federation of Labor in convention at Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. Gompers in a speech said the selection was American labor’s answer to its traducers. * • • William S. Devery, former chief of police of New York, fell dead at his home In Far Rockaway during a thunderstorm. Mr. Devery was sixty-five years old. Washington One of the consolations offered by the government at Washington for July 1 is the return of the two-cent stamp. The one-cent postal card comes back also, persons caught with a large supply of three-cent stamps may exchange them. • • • The army appropriation bill, carrying $888,000,000 and providing for an average army of 400,000 men next year, an incrtjpse over the house bill of $171,000,000 in funds and 100,000 In personnel, was passed by the senate at Washington without a roll call and aent to conference. • • • ' Agreement was reached by senate and house conferees on legislation at Washington to repeal government control of telegraph, telephone and other wire systems. « • • Total casualties es the American expeditionary forces reported to date was announced by the war department at Washington as 289,016. • • • Without a record vote the senate at Washington approved a coiyjnlttee amendment to the annual army appropriation bill, authorizing the war department to proceed with the purchase of camp sites, negotiations for which are pending. • * * Provision in the bill for enforcement of war-time prohibition which would have prevented the “use” by a ■citizen of liquor in his own home was stricken out by the house judiciary committee at Washington. President Wilson cabled Secretary Tumulty at Washington that he expected to leave Brest on his homeward journey Wednesday or Thursday. * * *

Carrying $646,272,000, an increase of $44,863,000 over the house total, the 1920 naval appropriation hill was completed by the senate naval committee at Washington and will be taken up in the senate after passage of the army appropriation measure. ♦ * • War department expenditures from the time war was declared until June 1, 1919, totaled $14,544,610,213, Secretary Baker advised the special house committee at Washington investigating the department’s activities. ♦ • ♦ The navy department at the request of the state department at Washington will furnish the dreadnaught Idaho to convoy President Pesson and his official party back to Brazil. * • • The Smoot bill establishing Zion National park, comprising 76,000 acres, In Utah, passed the senate and was sent to the house at Washington, • • * Foreign King Victor Emmanuel has requested Francesco Nittl, former minister of the treasury, to form a cabinet, the Rome Glornale d’ltalla announces seml-offlcially. Former Premier Tittonl will be foreign minister. ♦* • . Serious rioting occurred at Hamburg when mobs attacked food preserving factories, It being alleged that the bodies of dog and cats had been found In them. The managers were dragged to the streets and roughly handled. • • • President Poincare of France will visit Brussels July 21, which Is Belgium's national fete day. He will be by Marshals Joffre, JToch and Petain nt a review of the Belgian army July 22, according to a Brussels dispatch.

An Esthonlan official communication received at Copenhagen says the E»thonlans on Sunday recaptured the towns of Wenden and Hooper from the German landwehr and are advancing along the whole front • • a It is reported at Paris that the French army demobilization will be carried out with all possible speed and that the classes of 1007, 1908 and 1909 will be mustered out the day after the treaty is signed. • • • A number of soldiers have been arrested In Weimar, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen, on charged of having planned to seize and murder Philipp Scheldemann, the former premier. • • • A London dispatch says most of the great German fleet lies at the bottom of Scapa Flow, scuttled by the men who surrendered last November without firing a shot The German crews opened the seacocks of their vessels after hoisting the imperial ensign to the mastheads and attempted to escape to shore in small boats. Some of the boats were caught by gunfire from the British guardships, and a number of their occupants killed. • • • American soldiers concentrated in the Coblenz bridgehead awaiting orders received news regarding the German national assembly's vote for peace at Weimar through extra editions of German newspapers. • • • Domestic Three unmasked men robbed the Vfileda State bank at Valeda, Kan., of $4,500 in cash and Liberty bonds. • • • Massachusetts completed ratification of the woman suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution. The house at Boston, by a vote of 185 to 47, declared In favor, and the senate voted 34 to 5 a week ngo. . _ - ' - £. 1 1 - • Arthur W. Lehmann, a Wheatland (la.) farmer, reported to Chief of Detectives Mooney at Chicago that he had been swindled out of SIO,OOO by three confidence men whom he met in Chicago. • • • One man was shot to death, another probably fatally wounded and about $2,000 is missing In a holdup by four men at the saloon of Andrew P. Bowman, 447 West Twenty-second street, Chlcagb. Bowman Is dead. The dying man is Benedict J. Wendele, an electrician. • • Demobilization figures at Camp Grant have reached a total of 205,168, It was announced there. This is believed to be the record for all demobilization centers in the United States. • • • Earl Dear, convicted murderer, who has cheated and tricked the gallows so many times that the police named him “The Immune," lost his last fight for life and wllh be hanged the county jail at Chicago Friday?***

• • • The American Federation of Labor at the closing session at Atlantic City, N. J- of its annual convention pledged Itself to obtain a general 44-hour week for workers In all crafts throughout the United States. • • • The American steamer Sarnam, from Baltimore, has been sunk by a mine explosion, according to reports from Gothenburg to London. Forty-seven persons are known to be dead, 160 are Injured and in emergency hospitals and property valued at $6,000,000 has been destroyed as a result of the tornado which swept through Fergus Falls, Ming,. • • • A cablegram was forwarded to President Wilson by the California state vltlcultural commission appealing to him to proclaim demobilization Immer dlately on signing the peace treaty In order to remove war-time prohibition. • * * Governor Lowden of Illinois signed the search and seizure dry bill. * • » Twenty thousand grain cars for use In handling the grain crops of Kansas, Oklahoma and northern Texas have been accumulated In the Kansas City territory, It is announced by Holden, regional director for the railroad administration. He added that 40,000 cars will be available In this territory by July 1. • • • A copy of an extra newspaper bearing the headline: “The Days of Carranza Are Numbered,” was brought to El Paso, Tex., by an American who said the edition was suppressed as soon as it appeared on the streets In Mexico City. • • • Six officers and 212 men of the sev-enty-eighth base hospital were among the 1,897 troops arriving at New York from Marseilles on the transport Alighieri. The others were casuals. Julius Barnes, United States wheat director, announced at New York, that President Wilson has signed a proclamation putting under license of the wheat director persons, firms, corporations and associations dealing In wheat, wheat flour or baking products. * * «. Sixty-three Villa rebels were killed and many more wounded in a fight between federal troops and Villa forces for possession of Villa Ahumada, according to an official military dispatch given out at El Paso, Tex.