Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1919 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notea Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. Safe-blowers cracked a strong box in the West Hide branch of the Amerlcan Railway Express company at Chicago and escaped with cash and jewelry valued at $20,000. The safe of the tilling Station of the Standard Oil company at East Moline, 111., was cracked and S3OO in cash, a large numbe? of checks and coupons stolen. • • • Carl A. Larson, widely known as a referee of wrestling matches, was killed at Rockford, DI., when an automobile in which he was riding crashed Into a horse and carriage. The national committee for constructive Immigration legislation and the third world Christian citizenship congress will meet in joint session In Pittsbprgh, Pa., November 9 to ML

Sporting Joe Beckett, English heavyweight champion, defeated Eddie McGoorty, the American light heavyweight, by a knockout In their 20-round fight at the National Sporting club at London. The knockout came In the seventeenth round. * * * Foreign Admiral Kolchak, head of the government at Omsk, has issued an appeal to all Russians capable of bearing arms to join the ranks, declaring the destiny of Russia is at stake. Admiral Cowan, commander of the British squadron in the Baltic, has arrived at Helsingfors, in connection, it Is understood, with preparations for an attack on Petrograd. •• • • The federal authorities hi Tan/Jf.co report the capture of five rebels, among whom were the assailants oi John N. Correll, an American of Ada, who was slain south of Colonia In June. • • • The bolshevik! have occupied the town of Dubovka, on the Volga, 180 miles south-s<Aithwest of Saratov, according to an'ofticial statement issued by the soviet government at Moscow. • * • The supreme council of the peace conference at Paris decided to send a note in forceful terms to the German government pointing out the contradiction with the Versailles treaty of the provision in the new German constitution providing for the representation pf. Austria in the German relchsrath. The council demands the suppression of the article within a fortnight.

The Lithuanian legation at Copenhagen announces that the bolshevik! have been surrounded on the Lithuanian front. They are offering to make peace with the Lithuanians, whose advance continues. • • • The Communist Labor party, openly aligned with the bolshevik! of Russia and the Spartacans of Germany, was born at a convention of malcontents who split away from the National So cialist convention at Chicago. • • • Fritz Seidl, the former Spartacan leader, who is accused with responsibility for murdering Munich hostages during the soviet regime, was placed on trial at Munich with 15 alleged ao complices. Reports from Budapest say that the crops in Roumania are the largest in 20 years. . The Germans are already offering 20,000 marks a carload of 20 tons of wheat. A Paris dispatch says a German army of 40.000 men with modern equipment Ad 300 airplanes, has assembled in Lithuania to march into Russia to help Admiral Kolchak. .:* * * Deposits In the savings banks of Siberia .continue to increase. During the month of July the Increase amounted to 25,000,000 rubles, according to an Omsk dispatch. • • ♦ Forty thousand Italian soldiers sentenced to long periods of imprisonment during the war, were granted amnesty by King Victor Emmanuel at Rome. * * * The Poles have captured the fortified town of Bobruisk, 85 miles southeast of Minsk, and 500 prisoners, says a Polish official bulletin.