Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WOULD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WOULD

OIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kemal* Culled From Events of Moment In All Parte of the WorldOf Internet to All th* People Everywhere. Personal James K. Hackett, the actor, sustained a compound fracture of the left leg above the ankle at Brookville, Ont., when he slipped on the wet floor of a bathroom. • * • Washington The Mexican government'has committed an overt act of confiscation in presenting American oil well drillers working on lands owned by American Individuals or companies by sending soldiers into the fields and driving nway the workmen, state department Officials at Washington said. • * * Without a record vote the house at Washington passed the army appropriation bill, carrying a total of $764,000,000. •• • • Demobilization will be completed by August 1, in the opinion of army officials at Washington. The final decision In the matter, they say, will rest with the general staff 75f the army and not with the department of Justice. , After protracted discussion, the house at Washington adopted the conference report on the $604,000,000 sundry civil appropriation bill without opposition. The report is yet to be approved by the senate. * * * Attorney General Palmer announced at Washington that as long as the wartime prohibition law remains in force it must be obeyed, and that the department of Justice would do Its utmost 4 ‘to perform the duty which the congress has placed upon It” in enforcing the law. • • • Reductions of appropriations aggregating $200,000,000 were made In the sundry civil bill by senate and house ■conferees at Washington. The principal cut was In the shipping board’s construction fund. Washington official reports say 18 American soldiers were killed, one officer and eight men severely wounded, and 18 slightly wounded in an engagement with antl-Kolchak troops near Roumanovka on June 25. • • • President Wilson, en foute home from Europe on board the U. S. S. George Washington, signed the Indian appropriation bill and the railroad deficiency bill. Two more measures aimed at anarchists, bomb throwers and other enemies of law and order were included by the senate in the sundry civil appropriation bill at Washington. * * * Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddle, legislative superintendent, of the Anti-Saloon league at Washington, declared that the dry forces Iqok to the department of justice to carry out the enforcement of the war prohibition act. « • • Foreign The former crown prince, according to a wireless press dispatch from Amsterdam, has renewed his lease on the parsonage of Wleringen for another three months. * * • Antl-bolshevik forces are advancing against Kursk, 250 miles south of Moscow, and Voronezh, hoping to find a •way to Moscow, according to a Russian wireless message received at London. * * * A London dispatch says Hamburg, which has been in the possession of Spartacans and communists for a week, was occupied at five o’clock Tuesday morning by the government troops. There was no fighting, r- ♦ • • One hundred and twenty persons are estimated to have been killed in and near Vlcchlo, the center of .an earthquake, Sunday, in the Florence district, according to the Rome Tempo. » ♦ • The army of Kuban Cossacks operating in the bend of the Bon river, has captured 4,000 bolshevikl and ten guns. The Don Cossacks have capfured 1,500 prisoners and three trains, according to an Ekaterlnodar dispatch. „• • ♦ Italian and Serbian troops have clashed near Dizral, according to an report received at Paris. Bolshevist activities have increased in Siberia so alarmingly that additional troops are to’be sent there, the,.,Tokyo war office announced. ♦ • ♦ It is reported from Prangins, where former Emperor Charles of Austria is staying, that his health is causing anxiety. He has not left the house for a Week. He is attended by a Swiss doo

Two French civilians were killed ■nd five American soldiers and Bailors were injured severely and more than a hundred wounded in riots at Brest Sunday night. Two of the American soldiers are expected to die. • • • A Berlin dispatch says Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. former German chancellor, has formally asked the allied and associated powers to place him on trial instead of the former emperor. The former chancellor ■ays that he assumes responsibility for the acts of Germany during his period of office and places himself at the dlaposal of the allies. Greek re-enforcements have been sent to Smyrna to aid the Greeks who have been attacked by strong Jinkish forces, according to advices received at Paris. ( • • • Peace Notes A Paris dispatch says assurance of good faith in signing the treaty was given by Doctor Mueller and Doctor Bell, the German plenipotentiaries. At the same time they expressed die hope that the terms would be nflodlfied later. President Wilson, the treaty with Germany signed, sailed from Brest on his return to the United States. The U. S. S. George Washington, carrying the presidential party, steamed from the harbor at 2.20 o’clock Sunday afternoon. * • • The peace treaty has been signed. The world war, which for more than four years ravaged the greater part of Europe, was ended officially at 3:45 o’clock Saturday when cannon boomed, announcing that the last plenipotentiary to the conference had affixed his signature to the peace treaty. The delegates, in addition to signing the world peace treaty, also affixed their signature to the Rhine protocol and the Polish undertaking. • • • The peace treaty was taken from Versailles to Parts and deposited at the protocol office. • • • The Franco-American convention was signed on behalf of the two governments, according to Paris newspapers. It Is said that the covenant Includes several articles and specifies that violations of the peace treaty by Germany will give France the right to request American and British assistance. • • •

Domestic The big navy dirigible C-8, commanded by Lieut. N. J. Learned with a crew of six men and two passengers bound from Cape May, N. J., to Washington, exploded with terrific force Just after landing at Camp Holablrd, near Baltimore, Md., at 12.30 to adJast rudder trouble. Seventy-five persons, mostly women and children, were burned or otherwise injured. • • Ten persons were killed and more than a score were.lnjured In a rearend collision between New York Central Train No. 7, known as the Westerner, and the second section of train No. 11 at Dunkirk, N. Y. • ♦ * There were 27 officers and 708 enlisted men on the steamer Stelgerwald when It sailed from Archangel on June 27 for Brest v>ith the last of the American forces in northern Russia. • » ♦ While the .street mobs were howling their good-by to John Barleycorn in Chicago members of the city council were passing an ordinance authorizing the issuance of 50-day licenses for the sale of 2% per cent beer and also wines, Edward J. Brundage, attorney general of Illinois, Issued a statement to the effect that the sale of beer and wine will be legal, so far as the state laws are concerned, until national statutory prohibition becomes effective next January 16. * * * Governor Lowden at Springfield, 111., vetoed the boxing bill. He held It is unconstitutional. • • * Dr. Walter Keene Wilkins, under sentence of death for the murder of his wife, hanged himself in the Jail at Mineola, N. Y. He was alive when discovered Gy keepers, but died shortly after six o’clock In the evening. ** * . Three-fourths of the business district and two blocks of residences in Rlckardton, Stark county, North Dakota, were wiped out by fire. • * * * Trailed for ten days through southern Mississippi by posses which included several hundred members ol his own race, John Hartfield, negro, confessed assailant of an Ellisville (Miss.) young woman, was captured, desperately wounded, In a canebrake, rushed by automobile to the scene of his crime, hanged to a gum tree and burned to ashes. His victim identified him and witnessed his execution. • • • Losses ranging from SBOO,OOO to sl,000,000 resulted from a fire which completely destroyed the plant of the Armour Fertilizer company at Baltimore. • * * Calls for harvesters aggregating 10,000 have been received at the United States employment bureau at Topeka, Kan. • • e Tons of Bolshevist and Socialist literature were seized in a raid on the foreign quarters of Montreal conducted by 130 patrolmen under the direction of Chief of Police Belanger.