Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Personal Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, Cled at his Lenox, Mass., summer ome, “Shadow Brook," at 7:10 MonKlaj* morning after an Illness of less "than three days with bronchial pneumonia. So sudden was his death that ibis daughter, Mrs.. Roswell Miller, was tunable to get to her father’s bedside before he died. His wife and private •secretary were with him at the end. • • • Washington Material aid for Admiral Kolchak’s retreating army In Siberia is being -rushed to Vladivostok by the American government. It was said officially ■at Washington that 45,000 rifles and several million rounds of ammunition had been sent from San Francisco and hddltlonal equipment ■would go forward this week on an tarmy transport. * * • The first federal conviction for profiteering was reported to the department of justice at Washington. District Attorney Lucey telegraphed Attorney General Palmer from Binghamton, N. Y., that a retail grocer had been fined SSOO in the federal court for selling sugar at 15 cents a pound. • • • Attorney General Palmer announced at Washington that he had asked congress for an appropriation of $1,200,000 to be used in the H. O. L. campaign. _* • • Representative Heflin (Dem.) of Alabama charged In the house at Washington that “German money and munition money ‘and manufacturers’ money is back of the propaganda to defeat the League of Nations.”

• • • Another group of railroad workers — the conductors, have asked the railroad administration at Washington for increases in wages. —• • The plan for a League of Nations used as a basis of discussion at Versailles was not any of the drafts submitted by the United States, Great Britain, France or Italy, but was a combination of all of them, the senate foreign relations committee at Washington was told by David Ilunter Miller, legal adviser to the League of Nations commission in France. • • • Final casualty reports from the A. E. F. central records office made public by the war department at Washington, gave the.total battle deaths as 49,498, total wounded 205,690, and prisoners, 4,480. • • • First heroes of the world war to be reviewed in America by President XV 11son —the marines brigade of the Second division —marched up Pennsylvania avenue from the capitol to the White House at Washington. * « » President Wilson at Washington in a message of condolence sent to Mrs. Andrew Carnegie said the death of the philanthropist constituted a serious loss to the forces of humanity. * • * Hoarded food stocks will be taken ■over by the government and placed upon the market to help re-establish the operation of the law of supply and demand, the department of justice made known at Washington. ♦ • * Complete collapse of the Kolchak movement in Siberia w r as forecast in reports reaching Washington. Kolchak forces have fallen back almost 200 miles from their formet advanced tines and Omsk was said to be threatened with evacuation. * * • Foreign The house of commons at London, after heated debate, adopted an amendmtnt to the profiteering bill empowering the board of trade, after an investigation, to fix wholesale and retail prices. The vote was 132 to 95. • • • A London dispatch says executives of Britain’s triple labor alliance of railway men, miners and transportation workers decided to postpone its direct action” referendum on political demands.

* • • The whole food supply system of Paris is paralyzed by a novel strike. The wholesalers supplying the central markets suddenly refused to turn a wheel, as a protest against the activities of the Consumers’ league in forcing down prices. The peace conference, it became known at Paris, is changing entirely Its attitude toward the Roumanian army in Budapest.' The conference, it Is learned, is not disposed to ask the Roumanians to leave the Hungarian capital Immediately. Invasion by the bolshevlki of. all legations and consulates in Petrograd and Moscow and the wholesale arrest of foreigners, regardless of nationality, early in June, was reported to the state department at Washington from Danish sources.

The general strike which has been in progress for some time in Guayaquil, has been settled. The workers in the gas and electric works secured all their demands. • • • A decree prohibiting the exportation of sugar was promulgated by the Argentine government at Buenos Aires. • • • Dispatches from Warsaw carry the announcement by . the newspapers there that Polish troops have occupied the city of Minsk. Minsk is some 200 miles east of the borders of the old province of Poland. • • • Domestic Three persons were seriously wounded, three others were shot and a score of other persons received cuts and bruises when several hundred strikers and sympathizers charged upon the Keystone Wire and Steel company's plant io South Bartonville, five miles from Peoria, 111. • • * Gov. F. O. Lowden at Springfield ordered the Tenth Illinois infantry of Danville to Peoria for riot duty nt South Bartonville. The Seventh regiment, stationed at Peoria, was also ordered to the scene of the strike. • • • In Its drive to reduce the high cost of living, the federal government began the seizure of huge amounts of foods in storage houses. The first seizures were reported from Chattanooga, Tenn., and Jacksonville, Fla. • • • Believing that a revulsion of feeling against prohibition can be concentrated for a repeal of the liquor statutes, the brewers of the nation have called a big conference at Atlantic City, N. J., for September 28. • * • The Interborough Rapid Transit company, which operates the subway and elevated lines in the borough of Manhattan In New York, has granted a general wage increase of 10 'per cent to its employees. • • • A suit in equity to dissolve the “cement combination” was announced by Attorney General Palmer at Washington. The action Is to be brought in the district of New’ Jersey against 19 individual companies.

• • • Use of airplanes In locating Illicit distilleries In the Alabama mountains was inaugurated. Deputy Marshal J. A. Wall of Montgomery made a trip over the territory. He expects arrests. • • • Charles Gruener, forty-two years old, a Cincinnati gardener, shot and killed his wife, Flora; probably fatally wounded his stepson, Noble Thleman, twenty-two, and then shot and killed himself. t • • • Liberty bonds valued at $130,000 were stolen from a firm In the New York financial district, It was learned at police headquarters. • • • The war labor board at Its final session at New York granted an Increase of 12 per cent In wages to employees of ten traction companies centering In Boston, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. * * * Deputy Will Farley of the state prohibition department was shot and killed by three moonshiners as he lay In bed at his home on Dart’s cr<g?k near Charleston, W. Va. • ♦ ♦ The inheritance tax on Andrew Carnegie’s estate of $500,000,000 is $144,181,000, it was estimated at Cleveland, 0., by T. E. Peckinpaugh of the Cleveland office of the United States revenue department. . * » * The actual demobilization of the American army, In so far as the combatant troops are concerned, will be practically completed by the last of October, Secretary of War Baker announced at Washington. • » • Cap makers employed in 23 cap factories at St. Louis went on strike to enforce demands for Increased wages, a 44-hour week and recognition of the union.

• • • Fifteen leaders of the conspiracy to cause mutiny in the Chihuahua City federal garrison and to deliver the city over to Gen. Francisco Villa, were executed, according to an El Paso, Tex., dispatch. • • • Clarence Kaiser of Moline, 111., was killed; Mrs. Sam Kell of Belleplalne suffered internal injuries and a broken leg in an automobile accident near Burlington, la. * • • Five were killed when an Atlantic City express train on the Reading railway crashed into their automobile at Stratford, N. J., about five miles from Camden. • • • Ninety per cent of the striking miners in the Belleville district returned to work, Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois Mine Workers, announced at Springfield, Hl. * • * —. H. J. Brown and Arthur J._ Clements, charged s<th embezzlement of $36,000 from the Alamo National bank, were held at San Antonio, Tex., under $lO,000 bond each. •, • • Edward Campbell, fifty years old; his sister Katherine, twenty-six, and Mrs- Anna Beebe, twenty-two, drowned while bathing near Chester, HI. • • ♦ The Underwood Typewriter factory at Conn., closed its doors following a strike of more than 2,000 employees.