Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1919 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Approximately 175 ships with tontaage of 500,000 will constitute the aewly organized Pacific fleets it was Btated at the navy department. The fleet starts on Its voyage from Hampton Roads. • • • President Wilson at Washington signed an executive order Increasing the guaranteed price for the 1919 wheat crop to $2.80 a bushel at Galveston and New Orleans. • • • Prospects for a vacation by the house of representatives at Washington about August 1 Is seen In the program of legislation mapped out by the Republican steering committee. • • • President Wilson at Washington has (decided to invite Republican senators to call at the White House to discuss the peace treaty and the League of (Nations, Secretary Tumulty announced. • • • Final plans for the reorganization of the National Guard on the 16-dlvlslon basis, with divisional aretys following the same limits as did those from jwhlch Guard divisions were organized tor service against Germany, were approved by Secretary Baker at Washington. • • One officer and six enlisted men were killed in the destruction of the American mine sweeper Richard H. Buckley by the explosion of a mine In the North Sea, according to a Washington dispatch. • • • Over 4,000 Chicago post office clerks are affected by an Increase in wages of SIOO annually, which was authorized by the post office department in Washington. • • • Without a- record vote, the senate at Washington adopted Senator Lodge’s resolution asking the president for information as to afl alleged treaty negotiated between Japan and Germany in 1918. • * • Resumption of mail service between the United States and Germany, effective Immediately, was provided in an order signed by Postmaster General Burleson at Washington. * • • The house at Washington failed to pass the agricultural appropriation bill, with Its rider repealing the daylight saving law, over the veto of President Wilson. • • • President Wilson at Washington discussed the peace treaty at some length with Senators King of Utah and McKeller of Tennessee, who were among half a dozen White House callers. • • • ’’Vastly improved conditions” were found in Mexico by Ygnacio Bonillas, Mexican ambassador to the United States, he said upon his return to Washington after a month’s absence. • • • Preparations for the early jeturn of General Pershing and his personal staff from France Is indicated, army officials at Washington said, in recent dispatches from abroad.

An amendment to the war-time prohibition bill which would have permitted the sale of 2% per cent beer was voted down in the house at Washington, 128 to 84. • * » Appropriations of at least $25,000,000 Will be needed this year for rehabilitating and educating wounded soldiers, sailors and marines, the house appropriations committee at Washington was told by James P. I&unroe, vice chairman of the federal hoard of vocational education. • * * The Pacific fleet, it was announced at Washington by Admiral Rodman after a conference with Secretary Daniels, will sail for the Pacific coast on July 19 from Hampton Roads and will in all probability be at San Francisco August 15. * • • Foreign The Irish Nationalist association of Dublin, composed largely of followers of the late John Redmond, who fought during the war, decfded that its members would not march In the Victory parade in London. A small crowd of Germans gathered "before the Y. M. C. A. at Berlin, threatening Americans who were attending an entertainment. •»• . . A Berne dispatch says some of the Swiss cantons, including Zurich and Thurgau, have forbidden automobiling oh Sunday. • * * The waiters’ strike in Paris has been settled, an agreement being reached between representatives of the strikers and the employers. All cases and restaurants will reopen. ' • * » When the Victory day parade was In progress at Paris the roof of a house oh the Boulevard St. Martin collapsed. Eighteen persons were injured.

Ekaterinburg. 100 miles southeast of Perm, has been captured by tha bolshevik!, according to a Russian wireless dispatch received at London. The town was occupied Monday. • • • The Spanish cabinet, headed by Antonio Maura, which was formed April 15 last, has resigned, according to a Reuter’s dispatch from Madrid* • • • Engineers on the Northeastern railway system of England went on strike, seriously stopping the operation of the railway. e • • The national assembly at Weimar rejected the socialist motion to abolish ranks of nobility, but declared In favor of a constitutional proviso decreeing the equality of all men and women. • • • A Vienna dispatch says a great battle is reported to have beers in progress for several days in eastern Galicia between Ukrainians under General Gregow and two Polish armies. • • • Three thousand Gallclan Jews have been arrested in the streets of Budapest, according to advices received at Vienna. • • ♦ Notwithstanding strong opposition by the government, a house of commons committee at London approved by a vote of 15 to 12 a clause In the alien bill restricting the employment of aliens In Great Britain. • • • Argentine government reports show that 1,000,000 sheep and 100.000 cattle have been drowned In floods In the southern part of Buenos Aires province. • • • The national council of the socialist party at Paris decided to oppose ratification of the peace The vote was 1,420 to 114, with 387 abstentions. • • • The American First division completed the taking over of the outline post of the bridgehead from the Second division, which is preparing to start entraining at Coblenz for home. • • • Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the American forces in France, arrived at London with his staff to take part in the peace celebration. He was met at Dover by Gen. Sir Henry S. Horne and a guard of honor. • • • Strike disorders occurred at various places in Italy, according to a Rome dispatch. At Lucera eight persons were killed and thirty wounded.

• • • The government of Premier Nittl at Rome, which took office several weeks ago, received a vote of confidence In the chamber of deputies. The vote passed 257 to 111. • • • The British airship NS-11, which left Pulham tn a 48-hour flight, was struck by lightning and its crew of 12 men lost, according to a London dispatch. The NS-11 was engaged in mine-sweeping. Germany, not Holland, will be asked by the allied and associated governments to hand over the ex-kaiser for trial, according to the latest semiofficial imformation received at London. • • • Domestic Four thousand employees of the International Harvester company, the McCormick harvester, tractor and twine works,, and the Weber Steel company at Chicago, went on strike. « * * • —* • Lieut. Charles G. Mauzy of Fowler, (nd., an army aviator from Rockwell field, San Diego, was killed at Los Angeles, Cal., when his airplane caught Are at a height of 900 feet and fell Into a tall spin. * * * .....• Carrying with them wealth estimated by immigration officials at $24,000,000,' almost 8,000 Italians sailed from New York on three Italian liners —the Caserta, Giuseppi Verdi and Re d’ltalia. * * * The Calumet and Hecla and the Mohawk Wolverine Mining companies announced at Calumet, Mich., the restoration of war-time wages, allowing an increase of 15 per cent in the wages of 12,500 men. • • • Twenty-six men are reported by London to have been killed In an explosion on board the American oilcarrying ship Roseleaf at Cardiff, Wales. The vessel was In drydock at the time. • • • Capt. William S. Jones, twenty-five and George Duzane, thirty, mechanician, both of McCook field, at Dayton, 0., died as a result of Injuries received when the biplane in which they were riding crashed to earth. • * • A jury In Judge Brentano’s court at Chicago found Mme. Vera Trepagnler guilty of killing Paul E. Volland. It fixed the crime as manslaughter, carrying a sentence of from one year to life In the penitentiary.

A man and woman are dying and many others are nursing wound® as the result of the renewal of rioting and' a battle between guards and strikers of the Corn Products Refining company at Argo, 111. ♦ • • In a moment of petulence while on the witness stand at Mount Clemen®, Mich., Henry Ford, plaintiff in a llf--000, 000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune, admitted he was "an Ignorant idealist.” Subsequently he reversed his statement.