Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington The first of the high cost of living laws asked of congress at Washington by President Wilson took form when the house agricultural committee ordered favorably reported a bill to control cold storage. Chairman Kahn of the military committee at Washington introduced a resolution appropriating SIO,OOO for a Pershing sword “on behalf of the people" and also tendering the thanks of congress. Extra compensation of S3O for each month df service performed during the war by soldiers, sailors, marines and nurses is proposed in identical bills intmAiwed 1® the house at Washington by the ten members of the Wisconsin delegation. • * * By a vote ot 244 to 16, the bin conferring the rank of permanent admiral on Admiral Benson and Rear Admiral wfis passed by the house at Washington and went to the senate. Herbert S. McGill, an American citizen, Whose home was. In Chicago, was titled by Mexicans at Coapa, in the state of Chiapas, August 80, according to advices received at the state departmeat at Washington. ♦ ♦ * Domestic Senators Hiram Johnson of Callfor-

nia, William B. Borah of Idaho and Medlll McCormick of Illinois took up the gage of battle at Chicago tn behalf of the reservatlonlsts to the League of Nations covenant and the peace treaty. Their attacks were launched directly upon the claims made for the covenant and treaty by President Wilson during his speeches in middle West cities. • • • A tornado of great intensity almost entirely demolished Goulds, u town of 500 Inhabitants, 22 miles south of Miami, according to reports reaching Miami, Fla. Ten persons were Injured. • • • Characterising as an alliance and not a league, which “will breed wars Instead of securing peace," the German peace treaty, Including the covenant for a League of Nations, was formally reported to the senate at Washington by the foreign relations committee with forty-five amendments and four reservations. • • •

• Whether lumber prices go higher depends entirely on the demands of labor, according to a member of the executive committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers’ association, meeting at Detroit, Mich. « • • An Athens (Ga.) dispatch says Obe Cox, negro, alleged murderer of the wife of an Oglethorpe county farmer, was captured by a posse, taken to the scene of the crime, his body riddled with bullets and burned at the stake. • • • If North Dakota wants a League of Nations it gave no tangible evidence of the fact to President Wilson at Bismarck. Fifteen hundred persons heard his argument practically in silence In the auditorium. • * * Three men were killed and 13 In all, Including three women, were shot In the riots at Boston, according to report. At a session of the National Association of Retail Druggists at Rochester, N. Y., the executive committee reported against the taking out of liquor licenses by druggists during the prohibition period. • • • Asserting that pro-Germiuilsm again had lifted Its head In this country, President Wilson said In an address at Sioux Falls, S. D., that "every element of chaos" was hoping there "would be no steadying hand" placed on the world’s affairs. “I want to tell you," said the president, "that within the last two weeks the pro-German element In the United States again has lifted Its head." • • • May Messmer, twenty-three, and Norman W. Shear, twenty-eight, of Buffalo, were found dead on a lonely road Just north of the Buffalo (N. Y.) city line. Both had been shot

“The American ‘doughboy’ is the finest soldier in the world, and it didn’t take the Germans long to find it out,” declared General Pershing in ah interview with newspaper men at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. * * • One soldier was fatally burned, four others seriously and ten were overcome by smoke in a fire at Jefferson barracks, St. Louis. * * • About 400 package freight handlers who work on the Northern Pacific docks at Duluth, Minn., struck for a wage adjustment. • • • A large sulphuric acid unit of the Grasselli Chemical company at East Chicago, Ind., was destroyed by fire and the entire plant endangered. The loss is $150,000. With Pershing at their head and with the Cross of War twinkling on their storied banners, the first division of regulars marched down Fifth avenue, New York. • • • A Washington dispatch says 24 international unions in the steel industry announced that by unanimous vote It has been decided to go on strike September 22. • • •

A strike involving 28,000 miners which lasted six weeks was brought to a close at Cobalt, Ont., when the miners’ union voted to accept the terms of settlement offered by the mine managers. • « • The first sailing vessel to leave for the United States since the outbreak of war, the three-master Relhersteig, sailed from Hamburg in ballast for Philadelphia. The vessel will return with oil. Two hundred men accused of gambling and 100 men and women charged with conducting or patronizing disorderly houses were police prisoners following dozens of raids in all-parts of Chicago. * • * Three men are reported dead as a result of a fire on the battleship New Mexico, flagship of the Pacific fleet. In San Francisco bay. • • * Fourteen thousand employees of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal company in , its mines within Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, obeyed the strike order of their grievance committee. * * * • The Minnesota house of representatives, shortly after the sepeclal session opened at St. Paul, ratified the federal suffrage amendment. The vote in the house was 120 to 6. The senate ratified the federal suffrage amendment, 60 to 5. • • • Mrs. J. H. Thompson of West Plains, Mo.,- was instantly killed while, walk-

Ing along the Burlington trticks in hdr sleep at Shelbina, Mo., near Quincy, 111., early Tuesday morning. The retail price of milk will be raised from 15 to 16 cents a quart at St. Louis, milk producers announced. Increased cost of production is given as the reason for the new price. • * • Three men were killed Tuesday at Hammond, Ind., in a battle between the strikers and a platoon of police and special guards, and more than a score, it is estimated, were wounded. * • * Personal Before leaving for Baltimore, Cardinal Mercier issued the following signed statement: "The American army won the war. General Pershing is a genial leader. To him our respect. To him our universal gratitude.” • • • John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America and one of the most widely known labor leaders in the United States, died at the Post-Graduate hospital at New York. • • • Cardinal Mercier, primate of Belgium, reached New York on board the naval transport Northqjn Pacific to thank America for. the aid it sent to his country during the war. • • • Veterans of the Civil war are at Columbus, 0., attending the fifty-third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. • • *

Foreign The Hungarian cabinet is reported to have signed a unanimous demand for the extradition of Bela Kun. Two thonannd five hundred persons ard awaiting trial in Hungary for complicity in soviet crimes, according to a Vienna dispatch. * • • German troops have completely evacuated Lithuania southward of the Memel river, according .to a telegram from Koenlgsberg. . • • • Five persons are known to be dead and several others are missing as a result of a cyclone which swept over Havana, Cuba. • ♦ • Dr. Karl Renner, head of the Austrian delegation to the peace conference, signed the treaty between the

allied and associated powers and the Austrian republic at St. Germain. • • • Germany has her first woman mayor. She is Frau Schuchardt, the wife of a saloonkeeper, who has just been elected by the people of Steinberg, in the Rhine province. • • • Ten persons were killed and 11 wounded during food riots in Glogau, Silesia, on Tuesday. Troops used, machine guns and hand grenades against the rioters. • • • Advices received from . BritlA agents in Russia reveal in detail an. open rebellion against the central soviet government at Moscow, which threatens to overthrow the LeninaTrotsky combine. * • • A Basle dispatch says the American steamship Tanamo, from New York with a cargo of frozen beef, burned at a dock near Bremerhaven, Germany. * • • Evacuation of Archangel by the British expeditionary forces is in progress, it was officially announced at London*