Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Washington Representatives of 14 different railroad unions now have joined in a communication to Director Genera) Hines at • Washington asking Immediate increase In wages. So far as known this is the first instance on record In which all the railroad unions, representing 2,000,000 employees, have acted as a unit. • • • Secretary Lansing told the senate foreign relations committee nt Washington that the American plan for a League of Nations was “not pressed" at Versailles and never presented to the full peace conference, • • • Norman Davis, one' of the financial advisers to the American peace delegation, told the senate foreign relations committee at Washington that he regarded It Is likely that Russia would participate In the indemnity to be paid by Germany In the event that it organized a stable government. • * ♦ By the payment of $35,176,123, Great Britain has settled her obligations to the American government for munitions negotiated for during the war, the war department at Washington announced. • • * General Pershing cabled the war department at Washington that on July 81, 98,487 troops were overseas. The maximum number of American troops In Europe was 2,200,000 November 11, 1918. MB* .• 'y —*.*«X, gj , -’’i ’ 4 ■V - - ♦ • • "*** --- Seven hundred and fifty-six of the American soldiers killed In action were victims of gas, according to an announcement by the war department at Washington. The average age of all the men killed was twenty-three years. Maintenance of one field army with a war strength of 1,250,000 men is proposed In a bill establishing a permanent military policy which was sent to congress at Washington by Secretary Baker. The active force of this army would be 510,000 regulars. Officials of the six big railway shopmem’s unions told President Wilson at Washington they could not approve of his plan for the settlement of railway wage problems and asked the Immediate granting of Increases. b• • •

Foreign The National Union of Railwaymen of England declined to call a general strike in support of the police union, which ordered a strike recently over the government’s refusal to withdraw it£ bill affecting the police organization. * The Roumanians, gfter Budapest, have,, served an ultimatum on the Hungarian government, according to messages reaching the peace conference at Paris. The ultimatum, it is stated, makes demands far in excess of the armistice terms, _, •% ■ ♦ * * - King George at London conferred Upon Premier David Lloyd George the Order of Merit as a sign of his appreciation of the premier's w T ar services. • * • Great Britain purposes to establish a central authority to deal with profiteering, the house of commons at London was informed. • • • A Berlin dispatch says Germany has cut the cost of living in half. The reduction applies to all rationed food, principally flour, potatoes, meat and fat. The government is spending one and a half billion marks ($575,000,000) in an attempt to bring food prices to a permanently low level. The cutting In half of the cost of living is the direct result of the railroad strike. The railroad men asked for higher wages and accepted cheaper food as a compromise. • • • Five persons .were killed at Basle, Switzerland, during the recent strike riots there, according to ofllcial reports on the disorders. Fifteen persons were wounded. * * * The German government at Berlin is now getting ready to §hlp 140,000 milch cows to France and Belgium, as required by the treaty of peace. According to a government statement, there are now 7,700,000 milch cows left in Germany. • • • Bela Kun, the deposed Hungarian dictator, took 5,000,000 crowns ($1,015,000) with him when he left Hungary, Bays a Berne dispatch. ♦ * • 1 Viscount Uchlda, Japanese foreign minister at Tokyo, says that Japan does not Intend to claim any rights affecting the territorial sovereignty of China In Shantuflg. He promises that the Japanese troops will be withdrawn immediately an agreement is concluded with China. •• • / Coblenz will become the headquarters of the American forces In Europe when American grand headquarters in Paris is closed about August 20, it became known when General Pershing arrived there.

In their occupation of Budapest the victory of the Roumanians was decisive and complete. The First Hungarian army has been, captured Intact with all its supplies and artillery, says a Budapest dispatch. • • • Diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Argentina are dfcllcate as a result of the purchase by Argentina of the German steamship Bahia Blanca, according to the Buenos Aires La Naclon. A resolution setting forth Chile’s acceptance of the League of Nations covenant was approved by the senate at Santiago de Chile without a dissenting vote. • • • Personal Col. John Quincy Adams, noted Indian fighter and for many years United States instructor at Culver Military academy, is dead at Norwalk, 0., aged seventy-six years. .... Domestic Chicago’s new rates of fare on the surface and elevated lines were announced by the state utilities board as follows: Surface lines, 7 cents for adults and 4 cents for children between the ages of seven and twelve years. Elevated lines, 8 cents to all points within the city limits of Chicago and to the western suburbs; 14 cents to Evanston. *—«—— —i Between S,O<K) and 6,000 men went on a strike at the four plants of the Standard Steel Car company at Butler, Pa., to enforce their demands for higher wages. • • • Thirty-one French and British brides arrived at New York aboard the transport Leviathan, which brought 6,383 officers and men, including the last of the Second division.

Steaming in silence and with the majestic dreadnaughts surrounded by a cordon of darting destroyers, Admiral Hugh Rodman’s epoch-making Pacific fleet entered the San Diego (Cal.) harbor. *-♦ * • A strike of Brooklyn Rapid Trarfsit company employees affiliated with the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees, was voted unanimously at a union meeting. Negroes employed on paving work at Lexington, 175 miles west of Lincoln, Neb., were forced to leave town by a white mob. A negro shack was riddled with bullets. - . * • • Governor Philipp at Madison, Wis., Issued a proclamation to the people of the state asking that dealers in the necessities of life desist from charging abnormal prices. • •" * Warrants were Issued for the arrest of three officers of the Pittsburgh branch of the Central Sugar company of Chicago, charged with profiteering. • • • August Kayser, forty-five years old, a St. Louis (Mo.) butcher, killed three of his children by slashing their throats and then attempted his own life. ♦ * • Robert and Ralph Lambert, twentyone and twenty-six years old, were drowned when swimming in a gravel pit pool on the banks of the Sangamon river at Decatur, 111. * * * Because officials of the Chicago A Joliet Electric railway would not grant their demands for a 29 cents wage increase, Joliet (Ill.) street car men went on strike. They refused an increase of 10 cents an hour. * * * Mrs. John Brownlee and infant son died at their home in Posey county, Indiana, from burns received by an explosion when the mother used gasoline to build a tire in the kitchen. Thrde persons are dead and three others, one of whom is not expected to live, are in :: serious condition as the result of drinking wood alcohol at an informal birthday party given at Hannah, N. D.

The University of Nebraska extension service at Lincoln, Neb., which has been investigating drought conditions in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, announced that there will be little lose of live stock. • • • It took Cook county’s prosecuting machinery just one week to sufficiently unravel the tangled evidence In the Chicago race riots to Indict 17 negroes on specific charges of murder, assault to kill, conspiracy to riot, etc. • • • Six dreadnaughts of the Pacific fleet were severely shaken by a double earthquake shock 20 miles off the west Mexican coast near Colima, according to n dispatch from the flagship. None of the ships reported any damage. • • • Four persons known to be dead, probably six seriously wounded, property and crop damage estimated at more than $2,000,000 and 200 families driven from their homes was the toll of the electrical storm which swept northern Ohio, near Tiffin. ♦ ♦ • Twenty-two men. fourteen stills and several hundred gallons of illicit whisky were taken to Chicago after Internal Revenue Agents L. C. Keter, Mathew Weydoll and Perry Fulhner descended on Elgin. 111., and rallied ar allege,-! Illlclr -dill.