Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1919 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

pIG HAPPENING* OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS oC*m*l* Culled From Event* of M*» m«nt In All Parts of the World—• Of Interest to All th* People Everywhere. iPerjonol General Pershing spent part of tTuesday In Venice. In the evening he left Venice for a tour of the battlefields and the liberated regions. o e o William JI. Clare of Joliet. DI., was dominated by President Wilson at Washington to be collector of customs for the port of Chicago to succeed Rlvers McNeill, who died recently. • • • Frederick Layton, aged ninety-two, |the oldest meat packer in the country, filed at Milwaukee following a week’s Illness. • * • 'Washington Repeal of the daylight saving act lias been accomplished. The senate at Washington voted to sustain the house In passing the repeal measure over president Wilson’s veto; The vote was B 7 to 19. • • • A resolution directing the federal trade commission to Investigate the high cost of shoes and determine the cause for increased prices was adopted by the house at Washington. , • * . • Advices reaching Washington reveal that American intervention in Mexico ■is the all-absorbing topic in Mexico City and that Its possibility Is admitted In official circles there.. • • •

In a conference at the White House at Washington unpreced’ented In American history, President Wilson discussed the peace treaty with the senate foreign relations committee, answered questions put by senators and gave out a stenographic transcript of the proceedings to the public. Making a plea for ratification of the treaty that the world might be turned wholly back to a peace basis, the president said he saw no reasonable objection to the senate expressing Its interpretation of the League of Nations covenant so long as those Interpretations •did not actually become part of the ■act of ratification. k e e e ■The railroad administration at Washington, was notified that the strike of shopmen was at an end and ■was asked to take up wage demands Immediately. e e e Foreign An Omsk dispatch says two thousand bolshevik! and Magyars who had escaped from prison camps at Krasnoyarsk were surprised by Siberian, troops, 200 being killed and the rest, with the exception of 60, being captured. ♦ • • The Japanese transport SlHjlkl Maru struck a rock and foundered south of Sanerasldma, according to a Nagasaki dispatch. One hundrded and ten of those who were on board are reported missing. • * • Disorders between French and Italian soldiers have broken out at Taranaccording to dispatches to the Rome newspapers. • • • A race riot, in which whites and negroes battled In the streets, firing freely, was quelled at Montreal when police reserves rushed to she negro quarters. * » * Roumanian military authorities are preparing for an offensive east of the Dniester river for the purpose of joining forces with General Denik Ine’s army in southern Russia, according to the Echo de Paris. ♦ • • Militarization of German police, contrary to the terms of the treaty of peace, has already begun, according to Information reaching the American authorities at Coblenz. In the city of Casel the police were recently completely organized on military lines by the Prussian government, and are now equipped' with steel helmets and rifles and follow the routine of a military company in their barracks. • • •

Anxipty is felt at Paris over the lack of nevre of the arrival of the giant airplane Goliath at Dakar. The airplane was last reported Saturday morning, August 16, passing over Portetlnne, 50 ■Biles from Dakar. • ♦ •. A Helsingfors dispatch says the new cabinet of the Finnish republic has formed with President Stahlberg peeing the war portfolio. • • • The Canadian wheat board has decided to fix >2.25 as the minimum pries tor the 1019 wheat crop, it has been learned from an Unofficial source at Winnipeg. .* * # , The Louvre/Ae national museum at fterfa,, which M been -closed to the public since the of hostile will be reopened shortly.

Cholera has broken out In Formosa and the Tokyo government has declared a quarantine against the Island. More than 200 cases have been found. • • • Hostilities broke ,ont between the Germans and Poles on the southeastern Silesian frontier, the Gormans gradually attacking the Polish lines and occupying two villages. The Polish population rose and drove them out and occupied two villages on the German side of the line of demarcation, says a Warsaw dispatch. see A big air attack against the defenses of Petrograd was carried out by British aviators and part of the city of Kronstadt, formerly the chief fortress defending Petrograd on .the sea side, was destroyed, according to a London dispatch. e '• • A contingent of the Czecho-Slovak forces that fought with the Italian army during the war began leaving Italy for Bohemia, says a JJome dispatch. e • • Domestic Six persons, all members of train crews, were almost Instantly killed and sixteen passengers Injured when Pere Marquette freight train NO. 355, northbound, plowed head-on into southbound Traverse City-Grand Rapids passenger train No. 6 at Grawn, Mich. • • * The Barnegat Power and Cold Storage company and the Bay State Fish company of Boston have been summoned before the state department of health to show cause why 57,000 pounds of fish which had been in storage for over a year should not be destroyed as unfit to eat • * * Andrew Carnegie died worth $50,000,000. His will Is to be offered at New York for 'probate. Mr. Carnegie stipulated that the Home Trust company of Hoboken act as executor. ,• • • One hundred tanks of the one-man type and 3,000 rifles have been shipped from the army reserve depot at Columbus, 0., to forts on or near th* Mexican border within the last week. • • • The Third Aven.ue Railway company, operating 14 surface lines in New York city and West Chester county, announced it voluntarily had granted a 25 per cent Increase to its employees. • • • A walkout of the stage hands and musicians, ordered in sympathy with the striking actors, made performances an impossibility at Chicago. Every theater was closed, except vaudeville, burlesque and movie houses.

Street cars have resumed operation in Des Moines, la. Announcement was made after the striking motormen and conductors had considered plans suggested at a meeting of a citizens’ committee. • • • One hundred and eighteen Russians, alleged bolshevlsts, are held in the county Jail at Youngstown, O„ as the result of a raid by federal officials on a meeting in East Youngstown. * • • One man was killed, eight others were shot, one probably fatally, and scores were more or less Injured in ridts of striking workers from the Cudahy Packing plant at Milwaukee. • • * One man has been rescued alive and about 18 men are believed to be dead in the Oakview mine of the Oakdale Coal company near Laveta, Colo., which was wrecked by an explosion. * * • A sentence of life Imprisonment in the state penitentiary was imposed on Mrs. Minnie Ryan, forty-three years old, in circuit court at St. Louis, on a charge of first degree murder. * • • Lieut. H. G. Peterson, one of the two American aviators held by MexIcanJjandits for $15,000 ransom, crossed the border to the American side at 1:15 in the morning. The ransom money was taken across the border to the band rendezvous by Captain Matlack of the Eighth cavalry. Shortly after Lieutenant Peterson crossed the border Captain Matlack returned bringing with him Lieutenant Davis. The voters of Nebraska have the right to vote to reject or approve the action of the state legislature in ratifying the federal prohibition amendment, the district court at Lincoln held. • * • Two automobile bandits held up Miss Augusta K. Limack, bookkeeper for a fruit company at Cleveland, 0., and escaped with a $4,000 pay roll she carried. • • •

Two stills, one of which was warm from recent operations, were raided in the basement of the new $1,000,000 post office now being built at Birmingham, Ala. Two persons were killed and many others injured by a shell explosion at the government proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md. • • * Membership in the American Legion has now passed the 250,000 mark, it was announced at New York. Charters have been Issued to 1,833 local posts, An American airplanb returned to Marfa, Tex., from a scouting trip into Mexico with two bullet holes through a wing of the machine. The aviator observer said he was fired on by three Mexicans. He returned the fire with a machine gun and believes he killed one. The cavalry is pursuing the ban* tdlta, he said.