Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Victor Kozakiewlch, a representative of the Ukrainian government, arrived at New York on the steamship Helllg Olav from Copenhagen. He said he is on his way to Washington on an official mission. • • • Sporting Johnny Kilbane, monarch of featherweights, outpdlnted Joey Fox, England’s best, in five of the six rounds at the Philadelphia National league ball park. * • * Jack Britton scored a victory over Ted (Kid) Lewis in their eight-round bout at the Armory A. A. at Jersey City, N. J. • • • Foreign The proposed extraordinary tax on wealth was voted upon favorably by the council of state at Weimar. * • • The Brussels Sohr announces that the $100,000,000 loan concluded by the Belgian government with American banks will be made through the American government,’ the latter having asked that the loan be reserved. • * • An attempt to settle the Yorkshire coal strike proved unsuccessful. The conference of mine owners and strikers, held in Leeds, at which it was hoped a solution of the difficulty might be reached, failed. • • • The split which has been foreseen for some time by those in the labor movement, occurred when the Winnipeg Trades~and Labor council, by a large majority, adopted the constitution of the “One Big Union.” • • * All British troops will be out of Russia before winter sets in. War Minister Winston Churchill told the house of commons at London in response to attacks by laborites on the government's Russian policy. • « • Frank L. Polk, the American undersecretary of state, who will take the place of Secretary Lansing at the .peace conference, has arrived in Paris. • • • A bolshevist rising in Bulgaria is reported in a wireless dispatch from Moscow. The outbreak is declared to have occurred in a garrison town, the .garrison joining the revolutionists. • * • A Paris dispatch says a French regiment belonging to the allied army in the Balkans has been sent into Sofia to quell the disturbances prevalent in the Bulgarian capital in the last few days. • * * Alexander Garbai, president of the Hungarian soviet government, killed himself in the assembly building at Budapest after delivering a speech ■against the soviet. * * • Wireless reports from Moscow announce that, “owing to enemy pressure.”, the bolshevik! have retreated along the Archangel railway to their point of departure.' .* » • Army headquarters at Coblenz gave permission for five American commercial travelers, to proceed through the Coblenz bridgehead on business, in the interest of Germany. * * * The Hungarian soviet troops have been thrown back in disorder across the Theiss river by the Roumanians at Szolnok and other points, according •to reports received at Vienna. « • * An American loan $100,000,000 has "been obtained by Martin Nordegg, representing the Deutsche bank of Berlin, according to a dispatch from Berlin. Five million eggs brought to Genoa, Italy, by the American steamship Sun, early in the present month, have since been decaying on the dock. The port authorities say they were consigned to Switzerland. * • • Dispatches from Agram and Gratz report a serious military revolt in Croatia. The Croatian troops have proclaimed an independent Croatian republic, demanding separation from Serbia, according to a dispatch from Agram, the capital. • * • Washington , The house at Washinton voted to repeal the 10 per cent tax on soda water and Ice cream. * * * President .Wilson transmitted to the' senate at Washington the special treaty with France by which the TTnited States pledges itself to come immediately to the aid of that republic In the event of an unprovoked attack by Germany, and asked for its early ratification “along with the treaty with fjermany.” ♦ *. • Relaxation of restrictions on the issuance of passports to European countries, except Germany, Austria and Russia, is announced by SecretaiJ -Lansing at Washington.

No “radical defects" were found in the present court-martial system of the army by the special army board appointed by Secretary of War Baker at Washington, to make an investigation, the war department announced. • • • German propaganda may be an Important underlying factor of the race riots in various parts of the country, Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, declared in an Interview at Washington. • • • A rechecking by the war department at Washington of the figures up to June 8 shows the total number of Americans captured by the enemy in France was 4,480, of whom 810 were officers. • • • A Washington dispatch says demotions and prison terms ranging from one to twelve years have been meted out to seven officers and enlisted men who figured in the recent graft scandal in the Third naval district Without a record vote, the senate at Washington passed and sent to the house the administration bill authorizing an Increase from 9,500 to 18,000 in the number of commissioned officers to be retained in the army. • • • Domestic A Stony Brook (N. Y.) dispatch says a special endowment fund of $2,000,000 for Presbyterian colleges In the United States and another of sl,000,000 for aged and disabled pastors will be Included in next year’s budget. • • • Roy Emerson of Creston, la., convicted July 19 of the murder of his mother, kille<l himself by hanging. Emerson had been at liberty for a week, pending his appeal to the lowa supreme court. • • • Chancellor Avery of the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, announced he had denied the application to admit to the University of Nebraska for technical training a number of students identified with the federal soviet republic of Russia. • • • « Wage Increases have been asked by about 100,000 railroad trainmen, shop mechanics and track workers employed on rail lines of the middle West, according to a Chicago dispatch. • • • A capsized rowboat in Rice lake, near Lake Linden, Mich., leads to the belief that four Lake Linden ex-sol-diers and their guide were drowned. • • • The Taylor State bank at Emington, northeast of Pontiac, 111., was robbed. The safeblowers opened 200 private safety deposit boxes and took Liberty bonds valued at SIO,OOO. • e •

George Near, twenty-two, London, Ont., shot and killed his young wife and then committed suicide in a field near the state hospital for insane at Pontiac, Mich. • • « A submarine,- said to be G-2, suddenly went down with hatches open, according to persons at Pleasure beach, Waterford, Conn., and it is said two men were drowned. • • • Ilbland Kohlfe established a new altitude record at Roosevelt field at Mineola, N. Y., by ascending to a height of 30,700 feet in a 400-horse-power Curtiss triplane. » ♦ * The transports Kroonland and Montpelier arrived at New York from St. NazalKc with more than five thousand men. After a week of fruitless conferences between heads of the Chicago trolley men’s unions and company officials the order was given for a walkout and the surface and elevated cars were run into the barns. The men demand 85 cents an hour, an eight-hour day, GO per cent of the runs to be straight time and time and one-half for overtime. • * * Central Illinois has entered qpon the third week of intense heat and without any rain, and the farmers near Bloomington say that unless there is immediate relief the damage to corn will reach tremendous proportions. * • * Sam Bloom, a farmer living near fcelsey, la., was shot and killed by his son-in-law, Aaron Boelkes. After killing Bloom Boelkes shot his mother-in-law and wife. • * • Rioting that ended in looting, arson and murder broke loose In Chicago’s “black belt” Monday evening. Before midnight fifteen had been killed and 156 injured. Of the dead, nine were white and five colored. Fifty-six white persons were hurt and 100 negroes. • • * Four boys and a man were crushed to death under the wheels of a passenger train near Wauwatosa, Wls. The dead are: Matt Lewandowski, John Niedziakowski, Frank and Sigmund Niedziakowskl. • • • Governor Lowden has ordered the state militia to take charge of the riot situation at Chipago. Eight thousand troops are mobilized, under arms and ready for any emergency that may arise. Five regiments began to patrol the “black belt" at once and were Immediately fired upon by negroes. The fire was returned. Hundreds of negroes are going to Milwaukee from Chicago. Trains are dally bringing great numbers of them to that city, where they are seeking refuge with relatives and friends.