Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1919 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Washington Fifty dollars a month should be the minimum pay for naval enlisted men, the house naval committee at Washington was told by Admiral Wilson, commander of the Atlantic fleet, and Rear Admiral Washington, chief of navigation. The bill for enforcement of war-time ami constitutional prohibition as* agreed to In conference was adopted by the senate at Washington without discussion. • * * Confronted with an estimated deficit of government revenues tills fiscal year of from $2,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000, leaders In congress at Washington have projected program for the reduction of taxation and are seeking means of increasing the federal income. * • ♦ News from the White House nt Washington, encouraged the belief that President Wilson is on the road to recovery. “The president Is mending slowly," said Rear Admiral Grayson. Mr. Wilson’s personal physician, adding that he believed it reasonable to expect that the patient would continue to gain strength under enforced quiet and rest. • • * Secretary Lane was elected permanent chairman of the Industrial conference at Washington. ♦ • ♦ Rear Admiral Philip Andrew’s. In command of the American squadron, has Issued orders for the wlthdraw’al of the American ships from Spalato. American food supplies are being removed from the city, says a Rome disco tch. • • • With Secretary Lansing presiding, the president’s cabinet met at Washington to consider questions In which more than one department was concerned and also to discuss the Industrial conference. « • • The embargo placed on shipments to British ports, because of the transportation strike, has been lifted. It was announced at the division of operations, United States shipping board at Washington.

• • • Discussion of the peace treaty in the senate at Washington, ended abruptly when Vice President Marshall had the clerk read a letter from one of his Indiana constituents asking congress to name his new baby. • * • Domestic Six hours and forty-five mintutes from Mineola flying field, New York, to Ashburn flying field, Chicago—Bl3 miles in 405 minutes. That’s just a little better than two miles a minute; and Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard. R. N. A., made the record in a De Haviland 4. ♦ • ♦ Three men were killed by the fall of a seaplane In the harbor at Pensacola, Fla. The victims were: Roy Williams, Rochester, N. Y., pilot; Paul Relchel, Hamilton, Colo., boatswain, and Charles H. Seibold, Pensacola, machinist. —a* * e • Maj. D. H. Chrissey was kilted at Buena Vista field, near Salt Lake City, when he attempted to land. First Class Sergeant Virgil Thomas, observer, died on the way to the hospital. * • • Heads were broken on Fifth avenue, New York, when mounted police charged a mob of several thousand radicals who attempted to parade up the avenue without a permit. * * * Two persons were killed and 25 injured as the result of a tornado which struck the business district 6f Hoisington, a town of 2,000 people, near Great Bend, Kan. e e e Pleading guilty to 97 charges of selling liquor Illegally, E. E. Haller, Foreston, Hl., druggist, paid a fine which, with the costs, amounted to $2,480, in the Ogle county court at Oregon. * * * Fire in the famous Hdpiestake mine In South Dakota, one of'the greatest gold producers in the world, which has been raging for several days on the 700-foot level, is-still out of control. ... Tobacco growers, leaf dealers, warehouse men, manufacturers, jobbers and retailers met in Cincinnati and effected permanent organization of what will be known as the Allied Tobacco League of America. * • ♦ An attempt was made to wreck the plant of the American Sheet and Tinplate company at McKeesport, Pa., when a missile, believed to have been a bomb, was thrown on the shipping department building. It exploded, tearing a l&rge hole in the roof of the structure. No one was injured. * • * King Albert of Belgium passed through Chicago on his special train ac dusk on his way to the Pacific coast. From Toledo/ 0., to Goshen, Ind., the king rode,in the cab of the locomotive.

Robert Vecsou, Yukon miner and “sourdough," recently received a letter from his sister, Mrs. Mary Cannan, stating he had become heir to the title and estate of the d&rl of Milltown. • • • Jack Gordon, a negro, charged with w’ounding Deputy Sheriff Freeman and Boyce Forton near Lincolnton, Ga., and Will Brown, another negro, were lynched near the scene of the shooting and their bodies burned. • • • Five men, Including Police Captain W. F. Woods, were shot In the rioting consequent upon the attempt of the San Francisco-Oakland terminal railways to resume street car traffic at Oakland, Cal. Personal John W. Garrett of Baltimore, for more than two years American minister to the Netherlands, has forwaded his resignation to-Presldent Wilson at Washington, with the request for Its early acceptance. • « • Henry Mills Alden, editor of Harper’s Magazine since 1869, died at his home in New York after a long Illness. He was eighty-two years old. • • • Don Ricardo Palma, a widely known author and a chronicler of Peruvian traditions, died at Lima, Peru. ♦ • • Foreign Thirteen bolshevist commissars were killed In the Kremlin by a bomb thrown into a meeting of the Moscow soviet on September 25, according to u message received at the state department at Washington from confidential sources in Russia. • * * Deput/ Hugo Haase, leader of the Independent socialist party of Germany, was shot and wounded when entering the reiehstag at Berlin. His assailant, a native of Vienna, was arrested. • ♦ • Confirmation of recent reports that Gen. Simon Petlurn, the Ukrainian military leader, had declared war on General Denlklne, the Cossack antl-bol-shevlk commander in south Russia, 'vas given by the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in London. • • •

Coblenz will, be the headquarters of all operations for the resumption of trade relations between Germany and the United States after the peace treaty becomes effective, the Berlin Tageblatt says It is informed. • • • Damages amounting to $200,000 were paid by the United States to Luxemburg citizens who were Inconvenienced In one way or another by United States occupation, according to a Luxemburg dispatch. • * • A new ministry for Jugo-Slavia has been formed in Belgrade, according to dispatches received at Paris. M. Trikovltch has been named premier, It is stated, and M. Trumbltch minister of foreign affairs. * • * A Berlin dispatch says Captain Rose, who commanded U-53 when It touched at Newport News, has sought engagements on the American lecture platform. He has been informed that lie would not be welcomed. • « • A commission of German experts who have visited the mines of northern France which were devastated during the war believed that it will take from two to eight years to restore them, says a Paris dispatch. • • • The capture of 15,000 bolshevjkl during operations around Voronezh by General Deneklne’s troops Is reported in a communique received at London by wireless from the general headquarters. e • e The Bulgarian peace delegation at Paris asked for a ten-day extension qf time to make their reply to the treaty recently presented them by the allies. * * *

Dispatches to Helsingfors, Finland, report that Nikolai Lenine, the Russian bolshevist premier, has been placed under arrest in Moscow. * ♦ * A new cabinet has been formed in Turkey to succeed that of Damad Ferld Pasha. The new grand vizier is Gen. All Riza Pasha, according to a Paris dispatch. * • « Great Britain’s railway system Is again in operation as the result of the settlement at London of the great railway strike, averting what threatened to develop into an ominous spread of the nation’s labor troubles. ♦ • ♦ General Denikine’s troops are within 80 miles of Orel, on the road to Moscow, and the bolshevik! who have been opposing him are surrendering in great numbers, according to a dispatch. • • • A royal decree has been issued at Rome ratifying the peace treaties. * * * Gen. von der Goltz, commander of German forces in the Baltic provinces, whose activities there have recently led to sharp exchanges between the allied powers and Germany, has, with his staff, joined the Russian bolshevist forces, according to a Berlin dispatch. • • • The coal situation in Austria is unimproved and the city of Vienna .is literally on the brink of starvation. The cars have stopped running on Sundays and run only a few hours on weekdays.