Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Personal John Fox, Jr., well-known novelist, ■died at bls home at Big Stone Gap, Va., after a brief illness of pneumonia, • • • Frank L. Rain of Fairbury, Neb., was elected grand exalted ruler of the Elks at Atlantic City, N. J., defeating Albert T. Brophy of Brooklyn. The convention will be held at Chicago next year. • • • Sporting A world’s record for two-year-old trotters was broken at North Randall, O„ when Mr. Dudley, a bay gelding, was timed 1:02% in a half-mile dash during the grand circuit races. • • • Jack Dempsey is taking bows as the latest champion of the heavyweight boxing brigade. He won the championship at Toledo, 0., before 50,000 spectators. Jess Willard quit in his corner after three rounds, during which he was knocked down seven times and punched into a bloody mass around the face. He was w’hipped from the jump and never had a chance. • • • Washington The Fourth division of the army of occupation Is now en route for Brest and the Second will sail before the first of next month, it is announced at Washington. • • • Payments by the war risk bureau at Washington to soldiers and their dependents amounted to $30,882,726 In June, 862,322 checks being mailed. Payments this year have amounted to more than $250,000,000. • • • Signing the peace treaty with Germany has resulted in a decision by the department of justice at Washington that the great majority of German and Austrian enemy aliens now at large on parole may safely be released from all parole obligations. • • • The war cost the United States $30,177,000,000 up to June 80, 1919. Secretary Glass made this estimate In submitting to the congressional appropriations committee at Washington the preliminary statements of the treasury on the condition of the nation’s finances. • • • Total casualties in the American expeditionary forces. Including all corrections and alterations published to July 2, were given In an official report at Washington as 297,147. • • • Secretary Glass was asked in a resolution adopted to inform the senate -at Washington what ,1s the amount of currency now In circulation, and as to what steps are being taken to “reduce the present inflation." * » • The Czecho-Siovak republic received a credit from the treasury at Washington of $5,(XM),000, making a total of $55,330,000 advanced to the new government. Advances to the allies have ' reached a total of $9,459,525,981 out of a total of $10,000,000,000 authorized by congress. <* * *

Foreign The federal committee at Berlin han approved ratification of the peace treaty with the allied and associated powers. • * • Approval of a plan for concerted attack on Petrograd by Finnish troops and the forces of Kolchak was given •’by the council of five at Paris. « • « Dispatches from Home report continued improvement in the situation In most of the Italian cities where •orders incident to the high cost of living have been occurring. ''•y •♦ ♦ ’ Anarchists’ riots are continuing to spread through central Italy at an alarming rate, and outbreaks have occurred in the north and south as well. Genoa, Naples, Turin and Rome are effected. • * • A bolshevik plot to attack the central part of Rome by means of hand grenades and other explosives has been exposed by the arrest of 16 of the conspirators four hours before the tltne fixed for carrying out the plans. About the same time 30 of the reds motored to Fort Pratalata, four miles from Rome, and tried to Induce the garrison to Join in an attack on the Rome market places. The soldiers fired on the bolshevists and seized several of them. The others fled. .* * * The London Daily Mail announces the opening of a prohibition campaign throughout the United Kingdom. It will be aided by the Anti-Saloon League of America, the paper says. • • • A proclamation has been issued from Dublin castle declaring all Sinn Fein organizations and all Irish volunteers 4n Tipperary unlawful associations.. • • • General Pershing, it was announced at military headquarters at Paris, has Issued instructions that the military censorship be abolished inimedlately.

, Gustav Noske, German minister of defense, was asked by the Cttlxens' league to call for volunteers to maei the surface and subway lines in Berlin and to provide military protection on the trains. e • • • Quiet has been restored in Florence and several other cities where disorders have marked the food situation, acordlng to Rome. • • •

Peace Notes ' The German national assembly tn Weimar has adopted the resolution ratifying the peace treaty. The vote was 208 to 115. Ninety-nine, deputies abstained from voting. “The master is responsible for his hireling's acts." Tills will be the burden of Premier Clemenceau's reply to Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, former imperial Germkn chancellor, it was learned semiofficially at Paris. The council of five at Paris appointed an Interallied commission to investigate the recent troubles in Flume and other Adriatic ports between Italian and other allied soldiers of the forces of occupation, j • • • Austria must pay $300,000,000 In gold, the treaty reparatlonal clauses, now completed, provide, according to the Paris L’lntransigeanL • • • A Copenhagen dispatch sayfc Field Marshal von Hindenburg, former chief of the German staff, has written Marshal Foch, appealing for his support of efforts to prevent the extradition of the former German emperor. • * •

Domestic The R-34 is on her way back to Scotland. The gulnt airship cast off her moorings at 11:56 Wednesday night at Mineola, N. Y„ and soared away toward the east. • • • United States Attorney R. L. Crawford filed Information at Pittsburgh against the Pittsburgh Brewing company In the United States district court charging violation of the war prohibition law. • • • Sentences to the house of correction at Boston and tines were imposed upon 17 men connected with the financing and management of the fish Industry of New England. They had been found guilty of conspiring to raise the price of fish In war times, and of creating a monopoly. • • • A force of 100 deputy sheriffs are patroling the streets of Argo, preventing gatherings of striking employees of the Corn Products Refining company. • * • A resolution to co-operate with the three other railroad brotherhoods for the creation of a national labor party was adopted at a session of the annual convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen at Denver, Colo. • • War-time prohibition has not prevented the navy department from obtaining rum, which is part of the official ration of the «U34’s crew. Twenty gallons of the liquor were stowed aboard at Mineola, L. I. Five transports—the Nansemond, from Brest; the Marcia and Re d'ltalia, ’ fr< i Marseilles, and the Santa Olivia and Deepwater from Bordeaux —arrived at New York Wednesday with 301 officers and 10,584 troops. » * » Seven persons were drowned in a cloudburst at Dubuque, la. • * * President Wilson in a speech at Carnegie hall, in New York city, after his return from the peace conference In France, declared that the peace concluded at Paris was “a just peace which. If It can be preserved, will safeguard the world from unnecessary bloodshed." The only reference the president made to his political opponents was when, in referring to the negotiations at Paris, he said: “I am afraid some people, some persons, do not understand that vision. They do not see It. They have looked too much upon the ground.” * • *

The bill restoring capital punishment In Missouri was passed by the house at Jefferson City by a vote of 87 to 16, with the amendment that punishment shall be by hanging. £ Another aerial triumph was recorded when the huge British dirigible R-34, the first llghter-than-alr machine to fly across the Atlantic ocean, rounded out its voyage from Europe to America and landed at Roosevelt field at Mineqla, L. I. After being in the air exactly 108 hours and 12 minutes from the time it left East Fortune, Scotland, on the history-making air trip, it descended to the ground at Mineola without mishap, to the vociferous cheers of thousands. • * * A strike at the Argo plant of the Corn Products Refining company, near Chicago, turned into a riot, in which two men were shot to death and seven others and two children shot and seriously wounded. • • • Harvest hands’ wages were jumped to $1 an hour when 50 men at that price were asked for 12 miles south of Smith Center, Kan. • • * Street car service was resumed at Cleveland, O. Settlement was reached after a four-hour meeting.