Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1919 — Happenings, of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings, of the World Tersely Told

Foreign A Paris dispatch says the deconcentration of the French army Is now etatlrely completed, all troops except those In the Rhine territory having returned to their usual garrison posts. • • • A bolsheviki wirejess dispatch to London reports the discovery of an unti-bolshevik plot with ramifications,' throughout Russia, which led to the capture and execution of 60 men on charges of conspiracy. • • * The British cabinet, after a meeting at London, sent a communication to the railway unions declaring there had been a misunderstanding and agreeing to further negotiations. An Italian detachment with several armored motorcars has crossed the line of demarcation nt Poguere, Dalmatia, and penetrated the town after having overcome the resistance of Ju-go-Slav soldiers, according to a dispatch from Belgrade. • • • The doctors of Dundalk, Ireland, went on strike to enforce demands for a minimum salary of seven guineas (about $35) weekly for all public services. While a battery of field artillery on shore boomed a royal welcome, the prince of Wales sailed into Victoria, B. C., harbor aboard the steamer Princess Alice. The rush of applications by Germans for passage to South America is so great that announcement has just been made at Berlin that passage facilities are taken up to February. • • • Domestic Monday before noon three unmasked men robbed the bank at Gilliam, about twenty miles north of Shreveport, La., of SIO,OOO and escaped in a motorcar toward the Arkansas line. * • * ' More than SII,OOO worth of whisky was stolen by burglars during a series of raids at Chicago. • • • King Albert, Queen Elizabeth and Crown Prince Leopold left Brussels for Ostend, where they ■will go on board the steamer George Washington for their voyage to the United States. • * * Troops under Gabriele d’Annunzlo, the insurgent Italian commander at Flume, have penetrated seven miles into Jugo-Slavia, occupying the heights at Pleniak, dominating the surrounding country, according to a Paris dispatch. • • • A number of corn cutters employed on the Curtis brothers farm, north of Prospect, 0., have gone on strike for $9 a day and» lodging. This is an increase of $1 a day over present wages with lodging. • * • On the first roll call on the peace treaty, the senate at Washington adopted, 43 to 40, a motion by Senator Lodge to postpone until next Tuesday consideration of the fortyodd amendments proposed by- Senator Fall. Following a request from Lackawanna officials that state troops be sent to assist in preserving order. Governor Smith at Albany, N. Y., ordered troopers to proceed there at once. • • • President Wilson announced at Sacramento, Cal., that he would not for the present interfere in the steel strike and that he had done everything possible to prevent the walkout. Two men were killed and two others were wounded in another clash between state police and strikers and their sympathizers at Farrell, Pa. » • • Three special trains guarded by soldiers arrived at Hoboken, N. J., with 1,431 prisoners of war and Interned enemy aliens. They were started back to their native lands on the steamship Pocahontas, bound for Rotterdam. * • * Fifteen passengers were injured, none seriously, when west-bound train No. 1 on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad collided head-on with a light engine near Kennedy, N. Mex. * * * The Gardena State bank, 11 miles south of Bottingeku, N. Dak., was broken into, the thlevbs escaping with $25,000 in cash and liberty bonds. * * * Agricultural interests are organizing for a determined drive on congress at Washington for the passage of the Capper-Herman bill permitting collective bargaining by farmers. . see The Polish bureau at Berne Announces that the Polish army has achieved a complete victory over the bolsheviki after a ten days’ battle on the Duna river. • * * Twelve were injured and two mounted police were mobbed in strike rioting that broke out at Youngstown, O.

Indlumipolls wus chosen unanimously as the 1020 meeting place of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, which are in session at New Orleans, La. / e • • Mrs. Wanda Wallack is under arrest at Oskaloosa, la., charged with having shot and killed Mason Wallack of Chicago, her divorced husband. Mrs. Wallack is quoted as saying her former husband threatened to kill her. King Albert, Queen Elizabeth and Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium will be welcomed Informally when the transport George Washington reaches New York. The formal welcome will be given at Washington. Five yefrgs blew the safe in the bank at Mulliken, Mich., and escaped with $20,000 in cash and a number of Liberty bonds and other securities. The robbers cut every telephone wire leading out of town. William Gatlin, a convict, who was shot by a guard in the prison when he refused to obey orders, died in the penitentiary at Joliet, 111. • • • The Italian government has appealed to the allied powers to send an allied force, exclusive of Italians, to drive D’Annunzio out of Flume, according to a report at London, which is considered reliable. • • • Gunnery Sergeant Hurry Ruble of Sugar Grove, 0., and Corporal Frank Sampson of Minneapolis, Minn., United States marine corps, were killed in Haiti September 21, when a detachment of marines fired on a constabulary squad to which the two men were attached. The constabulary unit, the navy department at Washington was Informed, was mistaken for a bandit party. The official reports of the Corpus Christi relief committee now place the total death list at from 500 to 700. Several prominent persons have estimated the total dead at 1,000, however. Police of Chicago began a systematic search of farms northwest of Chicago for $141,000 in federal reserve bank notes, part of the loot in a $234,000 holdup at Whltlrtg. Ind., last Thursday, after wringing confessions from three men following their arrest. ♦ • •

Sporting Joe Jackson pushed out a regular hit in the ninth inning of a game with St. Louis and made a regular world’s series ball club out of the White Sox. As a result Comlskey’s team is champion of the American league once more. • • e Cincinnati won the toss for the opening game of the world series at the meeting of the national baseball commission at Cincinnati. The first game will be played Wednesday, October 1. • , • St. Paul won the American association pennant by taking one game of the double-header with Columbus Monday. Personal Word has been received at Mason City, la., from Des Moines that T. B. Hanley, president of the Modem Brotherhood of America, fraternal Insurance society, with offices at Mason City, Is dead at his Des Moines home. * • • Houston Thompson of Colorado was reappointed by President Wilson as a member of the federal trade commission at Washington. • * • Lady Beatty, formerly Ethel Field of Chicago, has begun a campaign for a maternity home for the wives Qp British sailors at London. • • ♦ Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, who has been with the Pacific fleet for about six weeks, returned to Washington from Seattle, Wash. Mr. Daniels will resume charge at the navy department. • e e Miss Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of the late President Benjamin Harrison, was admitted to the Marion county bar at Indianapolis as a practicing attorney by Judge Louis Eubank of circuit court Washington Washington is advised that the British government has decided to release at once a great quantity of package mail held up In England during the war. ♦ * » Secretary Daniels at Washington, announced the appointment of Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz to be chief of naval operations, the highest office In the navy. • * • Reports of excesslVe profits by manufacturers and wholesale dealers of clothing are being investigated by the department of justice at Washington. ♦ ♦ , Without a record vote the house at Washington passed and sent to conference a bill granting authority to the Interstate commerce commission to regulate rates as prior to government control. * ♦ ♦ America’s trade balance continued to Increase in August, exports totaling $646,000,000 and Imports only $308,000,000. Exports were $76,000,000 greater than in July, and $119,000,000 greater than In August of last year, says a Washington disnatch.