Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1919 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Foreign An El Paso (Tex.) dispatch says Francisco Villa and Gen. Felipe Angeles have disbanded their forces until September, and announced to their troops they will go to Japan in an effort to obtain ammunition for the Villa revolution. The Japanese delegation to the peace conference at Purls made denial of assertions that the treaty clause giving Japan the concession In Shantung was In exchange for the withdrawal of the racial clause. • • • France may again be put on bread rations in September. It was said at Paris the system of bread cards probably would be re-established in that month, because of a possible shortage of wheat. • • * The First battalion of the Three Hundren ami Tenth American engineers reached Brest from Archangel. The Three Hundred and Tenth engineers are from Michigan and Wisconsin. * • • Troops were moved' into Yorkshire area affected by the coal strike. Sir Eric Geddes, the government’s representative at London, explained that the move was for the protection of the navy men engaged in keeping the mine pumps in operation. • • • Austria’s army is reduced to 30,000 on a purely voluntary basis, by one of the military terms of peace which, together with the reparation clauses and a number of minor terms, were handed to the Austrian delegates at Paris. • • • The American consulate at Juarez received a report from Carranza military authorities that 250 Villa followers had surrendered to federal commanders and had been given amnesty. By a vote of 272 to 181 the chamber of deputies at Paris sustained the Clemenceau cabinet. At Cork a crowd of Sinn Felners attacked police and soldiers. A constable was wounded. There was much street rioting. • • • | The state of siege in Pomerania has been raised, according to advices received at Copenhagen from Stettin. The counter-strike of citizens in Stettin lias ended. * • * Peace riots are reported from various English towns. At Luton, Bedfordshire, the town hall was burned by rioters. One hundred persons were injured in peace riots at Melbourne. • • • A policeman was shot while attempting to stop a fight between soldiers and civilians at Dublin. * * * The bolshevik government at Petrograd refused to release members of the Swedish legation at Petrograd, recently arrested, it was announced at Stockholm. • • • German espionage is reported from Warsaw to be thriving throughout Poland. -The Polish government has for* bidden the sale of German newspapers and also has prohibited the publication of personal and family announcements, except death notices. • • • Theodore Patterson, a British subject and superintendent of the mines of the Mazapil Copper company, was murdered by Mexican bandits, according to a dispatch received at Laredo, Tex Washington Federal regulation of the navigation of the air is provided in a bill introduced in the senate at Washington by Senator Sherman of Illinois. • • • . By a vote of 368 to 47 the house at Washington passed the bill providing a minimum wage of $4 for all government employees except those in the postal service. The wage is exclusive of the war-time bonus. y A motion to strike from the prohibition enforcement bill the provision permitting storage of liquor in the home for personal use was. defeated in the house at Washington, 10 to 3. The Mexican government has informed the state department at Washington that it will exhaust all means to prosecute and punish the bandits who murdered John W. Correll, an American citizen. • * • The prohibition enforcement bill, described by opponents of the measure as drastic enough to invite a veto by President Wilson, was finally passed

Ly tne house at Washington. The vote was 287 to 100. The resignation of Col. Samuel T. Ansell, former acting judge advocate general of the army, was accepted by Secretary Baker at Washington. Colonel Ansell has announced that he will continue his fight for a radical revision of the army court-martial system. President Wilson at Washington denied published reports that he had told senators he was responsible for the Shantung settlement in the treaty with Germany. An official statement issued nt the White House said the president had “exerted all the Influence he was at liberty to exercise in the circumstances” to obtain a modification of the Shantung provision. Thomas J. Mooney did not receive full justice in his trial at San Francisco for alleged connection with the preparedness day bomb explosion, for which he is serving a life term, according to a report to the house at Washington by John B. Densmore, whff investigated the case for the govern-,, ment. • • • The United States will sign the peace treaties with Bulgaria and Turkey, It was announced at the state department at Washington. Although the United States never has been actually at war with Bulgarin and Turkey, it will sign the treaties to show its concurrence in the terms imposed upon those allies of Germany and Austria. • • •. A Washington dispatch says all interned civilian enemy aliens except those guilty of advocating anarchistic doctrines and those who desire to be repatriated will be freed soon by the United States. • • • Deportations of 513 enemy aliens for violations of various war statutes is proposed In a bill unanimously reported by the house Immigration coujmittee at Washington. * President Wilson’s recommendation that the American legation at Brussels. Belgium, be raised to the rank of an embassy was approved unanimously in the senate foreign relations committee at Washington. • * • It now costs no more to send a letter by airplane than by train. Under an .order issued by Postmaster General Burleson at Washington all firstclass mail is placed on the same basis. • • • - Henry P. Fletcher, American ambassador to Mexico, told the house rules committee at Washington that since his appointment three years ago about fifty Americans had been killed in Mexico without a prosecution being made by the Mexican authorities. • • • Personal x Cardinal Gibbons observed z his eighty-fifth birthday Wednesday. He passed "the day very quietly at the home of Robert O. Shriver at Union Mills, Md. • • • Following an illness of one month, George Primrose, famous minstrel died at San Francisco. Primrose was born in London, Ont., In 1853, He began his stage career at fifteen. Frank L. Polk, undersecretary of state, sailed from New York on the steamship Imperator for France to take the place of Secretary Lansing at the peace conference. • * • Domestic By 271 to 104 the Minnesota Federation of Labor at New Ulm voted down a formal proposal, introduced by State Representative Frank Miner of Minneapolis, to participate in a general strike, starting September 1. Governor Sproul at Harrisburg, Pa., vetoed the Ramsey prohibition enforcement act, which would permit the manufacture of 2.75 beer. Officials of the federal prison at Leavenworth will begin a thorough investigation of the fire which damaged the west cell wing Saturday night, believing that the fire was of Incendiary origin. The damage Is estimated at SIOO,OOO. • • • Twenty-five hundred military prisoners in the disciplinary barracks at the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., went on strike and have repeatedly resisted attempts of the guards to force them to work. * * * ’ Two bandits held lip Phillip Fleming, a messenger of the Austin National bank of Chicago and robbed him of $45,899c • * * A complete confession that he has made away with approximately $900,000 from the North Penn bank, of which he was cashier, was made by Ralph T. Moyer at Philadelphia. The cashier appeared at the city hall and surrendered himself. • « * Twelve were killed and twenty-eight injured when a gigantic dirigible on its test flight caught fire and fell 500 feet, crashing through the glass roof of the Illinois Trust and Savings bank

of Chicago* snortiy before nve o’clock In the afternoon. Nine of the dead were employees of the bank, trapped and burned to death in a withering rain of fire caused by the explosion of the balloon’s gasoline tanks. see Fresh outbreaks between the whites and blacks occurred at Washington. One white man was killed and one was mortally wounded. A third man was attacked and stabbed. OSS The State bank of Donnellson, HL. ten miles south of Hillsboro, wnj robbed of about SIOO,OOO in Liberty bonds and $90,000 in securities. s s s Patrick Limerick, forty, a farmer, near La Crosse, Wls., was gored ''to death by a bull when he tried to feed him salt.