Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington Elbert H. Gary, testifying before the senate committee at Washington, said the Steel corporation and himself, as chairman, never ifad recognized the unions and never would; that the real Issue In the fight was the “open shop” versus the “closed shop;” that the “closed shop” was a fundamental Issue and not arbitrable, and meant curtailed production, higher prices and national decay; that the “open shop” means precisely the reverse. •' • • Boris Bakhmeteff, the Russian ambassador at Washington, informed the state department that General Rozanoff, the superior Russian commander in Siberia, had apologized to Major General Graves for the incident at [man, Siberia, September 6, involving the arrest by Cossacks of an American officer and enlisted man and the flogging of the latter. « • • In answer to numerous Inquiries government officials at Washington have pointed out that clocks may not lawfully be turned back until the last Sunday of October, or October 26, at one o’clock In the morning. ♦ * ♦ The senate at Washington has confirmed the nomination of Brand Whltlock to be ambassador to Belgium. • « • Authority has been given commanding generals of military departments by the war department at Washington to furnish troops necessary for the protection of lives and property in case of disorders in the limits of their departments. » * • There is much anticipatory apprehension in Washington that one result of the British railway strike will be a coal famine in Europe. • ♦ * Planning to elose Its hearings this week, the house budget committee has called as witnesses William Howard Taft, former president, and Governors Goodrich of Indiana and' Harrington of Maryland. • • • Sporting Cincinnati Reds defeated the White Sox, 9 to 1, in the first game of the world’s series at Cincinnati. • • • Shreveport took the 1919 Texas league championship by winning the seventh and deciding game of the postseason series with Fort Worth, 6 to 5. • • •• Domestic Senator Reed, when he was introduced 1 at Ardmore, Okla, to speak against the League of Nations and the German peace treaty, was pelted with rotten eggs and run off the stage. Tw white men, Clinton Lee and J. A, Thppen of Helena, and seven neare known to be dead at Elaine, near Helena, Ark, as a> result of a pitched battle between fr posse searching fbr the persons who from ambush fired’ upon and killed W.. D. Adkins. • • • TUgmen of the Whitney Brothers, Bafhet & Record company and Eng-. land’ Towing company went on strike at Duluth, Minn, in response |0 a call son- a strike on the Great Takes. After visiting 19 cities on a tour that will carry them to the Pacific coast, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium wHT arrive in Washington, October 24, to be guests at the White House. The Middle Fork coal mine at Benton, 111, owned by the United States Steel corporation’ and employing 400 men, closed down. The mine sends most of its output to the Joliet mills. Employees of the San FranciscoOakland Terminal railways, which operates traction lines at Oakland and Berkeley, Cal, struck to enforce their demands for higher wages; * ♦ * The iron trades of the bay cities are on strike and all the shipyards, foundries and manufacturing plants in San Francisco and neighboring cities are effectually closed as a result of a walkout. • • ♦ Grand jury investigation sot prosecution of those responsible for race rioting at Omaha, Neb., last Sunday will be started soon. Judges of the district court decided to call a special grand jury in the case. * * • Arrangements for the use of sailors from the Great Lakes naval training station to suppress rioting and preserve order in Waukegan were completed. • • • Immigration officials at Laredo, Tex., have rounded up and deported to Mexico 298 Mexican laborers smuggled into this country. • • • All sailings to ports In Great Britain have been canceled by the shipping board at Washington because of the strike of railway workers.

Omaha, Neb, is again quiet following the rioting which resulted in the Injury to the mayor, the lynching of William Brown, a negro, accused of recently attacking Miss Agnes Lobeck, a white girl; the death of one white man, the injury to several score of whites and negroes and the partial destruction of the new fl ,500,000 county courthouse, which was set on fire by members of the mob. With federal troops patrolling the streets it was believed that the authorities would be able to prevent any possible fresh disorders, which began when a mob set out to lynch Brown. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood has taken charge of military operations. •* * . Two thousand striking steel workers with their wives andchlldren rioted at Waukegan,, 111. They attacked 300 police and special deputies, tore off their stars, bombarded them with bricks and stones and threatened to burn the home of one of their number. The trouble started when 300 non-union men left the plant of the American Steel and Wire company for home. • * * Three bids were submitted at Philadelphia for the purchase of the government built powder plant city of Nitro, W. Va. The highest was $5,800,000. The city cost the government s7or 000,000. « • • Two negroes, Miles Phifer and Robert Grosky, the latter a discharged soldier, were taken from county officials about five miles from Montgomery, Ala, and shot to death by a mob. Both negroes were charged with having attacked white women. • * * Decision to lock out 7,000 pressmen at New York and halt the publication of book, periodical and job printing was reached at a meeting of employing printers. » • • Frank McEntee, an official of the International Association of Machinists, said 20,000 machinists, carpenters, pipe fitters and outside workers in the Brooklyn shipyards had left their jobs. Rock county milk producers will receive $3.63 per hundred pounds for their milk, according to announcement made by Alva Maxfield, secretary of the local association at Janesville, Wis. • * • The first fatality of the hunting season in central Illinois was reported from Trowbridge, Guy Peterson being killed by an accidental shot fired by his cousin, Arthur Storm. • * * Four men were burned severely in an explosion In the boiler room of the destroyer Greene, off Key West, Fla. * * •

Personal Rew. Maj. Edward V. Vattman, old L est ranking Roman Catholic chaplain, In the United States army, is dead at Evanston, HI. He was appointed an army chaplain by President Hayes la 1877.: • e e Foreign A Flume dispatch says there has been a fresh clash between Italian and Serbian troops in the streets of Spalato. About 200 were killed and many injured'. • • • The breaking of the bolshevik lines at Bulata by the troops of the Finnish General Balakovltch is reported by the Novo Rossiya, says a dispatch from Helsingfors. • * * Floods in the northern part of Chiapas state caused great damage. The town of Chilon is reported by Mexico City to have been wiped out entirely;. The number of dead has not been estimated, but it will be large. ♦ ♦ * Flour supplies in Vienna are sufij* dent'for only two weeks, according to, the city food controller of that city. * * * The blockade of Germany, which was threatened by the allies in ease the German troops of Gen. von der Goltz were not removed from the Baltic region, has begun, according to th* Paris Intranslgeant. ... Gen. M. M. Dieguez, commander of the Carranza forces in Chihuahua, Mex., reported that six Villa followers had surrendered to his troops and sought amnesty. Their pardon was granted, it was said. • • • Mount Mauna Loa on Hilo island, Hawaii, "burst into new eruption and a wide stream of lava began pouring down the Kona side, destroying many homes. * . • American aviators flying into Mexico will be fired upon by Mexican troops, said a message received in*Bl Paso, Tex., from Mexico City Naclonal, a newspaper here. • * • British forces have landed at Odessa and occupied the city, says a dispatch from Vienna, quoting advices received there from Budapest. ... Troops have been put on duty in the national railway strike In England. Sqldiers were posted about the railway stations and armed guards were placed In departing trains at London. • * * It is rumored in Coblenz that an independent republic, has been declared In Alsace.