Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 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 Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of ths* World Compiled In Briefest snd Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. Washington The United States did not join with the entente powers in asking Germany to co-operate in a blockade of soviet Russia, and the American delegation at Paris does not admit any American participation in an actual blockade against Russia in the Baltic. The prohibition enforcement bill was signed at Washington by Vice President Marshall and Speaker Gillet for immediate transmission to President Wilson. —» . * . Secretary of Labor Wilson at Washington announced that he had assumed jurisdiction under the law as mediator in the dispute with the coal miners and operators in the central field. « « * The cabinet met at Washington and prepared to assume as many as possible of the activities of President Wilson for the remainder of the period ofhis illness. This means, in short, cabinet operation of tlie executive branches of the government until the president is well enough to resume his duties. * * • Secretary Glass at Washington recommended to congress an appropriation of $20,000,000 to enable the fedhoard for vocational training to carry out tlie purposes of the vocational training act. ♦ * >-• The railroad administration at Washington was notified that the striking railroad shopmen at Altoona, l’a., would return to work. The strike ■was local and unauthorized by the union. * • ♦ increases in pay of postal employees to the extent of approximately $39,' 900,<)■ > were passed by the senate nt Washington. Tlie senate adopted an •amendment providing for expenses for fourth class postmasters.

Domestic A tle-pp of street car sendee at Ottumwa, la., is announced by the ememployees of the local railway and light company as a result of a rejection by the company of the new wage Schedule. * • » Federal authorities at Detroit, Mich., announced that in a raid on the apartments of Aaron Loewry, opium and morphine to the value of more than $70,000 was seized and Loewry arrested. • • • Lieut. French Kirby, pilot, and Lieut. Stanley C. Miller, observer,, of airplane No. 44, In the transcontinental air derby, were killed at Castle Rock, Utah, when their plane, traveling westward, fell. * * • William H. Wldulg, druggist and former deputy county clerk, was killed In an automobile accident on the Port Washington road near Milwaukee. • ♦ • First Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, piloting a De Haviland 4 airplane, won the air derby, arriving safely in San Francisco. His flying time was 25 hours from Mineola, N. Y. • « • Ten thousand one hundred dollars was paid at Hannibal, Mo., for Big Ben, weighing 1,100 pounds, said by stockmen to be the biggest hog in the world. • • • Sult to test the constitutionality of the war-time prohibition law was filed in the federal district court at Louisville, Ky., by Attorneys Levy Mayer of Chicago and Marshall Bullitt of Louisville. - _ i ♦ ♦ • The American steamer Governor John Lind, with a cargo of phosphate, has gone aground among the Nldingarna islands, in the Kattegat off Gothenburg. ♦ * ♦ Police clashed with strikers who were stoning cars loaded with men on their way to work in Brier Hfll, near Youngstown, O. A Croatian striker, Peter Buyeli, had a leg broken by an officer’s bullet. • * • Freight traffic between Hamburg and New York was resumed Monday when the Keroles sailed for the United States with a mixed cargo. • • * A well-laid plan to rob the finance office at Camp Grant, 111., of more than $1,000,000 kept there in anticipation of camp pay day, was frustrated in the arrest of three ex-convicts—James Novak, alias "Three-Fingered Nolan;” James Dwyer and Dan Hayes, all employed as watchmen at the cAnp.

An attack on the United States troops doing strike duty lu Gary aud the overthrow of the United States government, to be followed by a “dictatorship of the workers," were called for in a proclamation of the Communist (Red) Party of America scattered throughout the streets of Gary, Ind. Judge E. 8. Smith at Carlinville, HL, upheld the right of the people of Illinois to express themselves on the initiative and referendum and like questions of public policy on the ballot of November 4. Industrial and social unrest will be discussed at the flve-day congress of the Salvation Army of the United States, which will open at New York. e e • A. B. Davison, aged seventy-four years, president of the Citizens’ bank, a veteran of the Civil war and a Mason of state-wide reputation, died at Wapello, la. * * • James N. Wallace, president of the Central Union Trust company of New York, and a leading American financier, died suddenly at his country home at Nyaok, N. Y., from heart disease. ” ■> • • • Personal Samuel Goinpers, president of the American Federation of Labor, Is con'fined to his home at Washington In a Nate of nervous exhaustion. • * ♦ Rear Admiral Richardson Clover, U. 8. N., retired, died on a train west of Cheyenne, Wyo. He was on his way to his home In Washington, D. C., from California. • • • The degree of doctor of literature was bestowed upon Brand Whitlock of Toledo, ambassador to Belgium, by the Western Reserve university at Cleveland, 0., "because he was a maker and a recorder of history.” • • • John H. Harrison, well-known owner of racehorses, was found dead in his apartment at Oskaloosa, la. • • • Brig. Gen. William Trent Rossell, U. S. A. (retired), who served for nearly fifty years tn the engineering corps, died at his hopie at New Brighton, N. Y., on his seventieth birthday anniversary. • * • Mrs. David Lloyd George, wife of the prime minister, Inaugurated a “dry” -campaign in Scotland. Foreign It is announced by the war office at Tokyo that a brigade of Infantry and a battalion of engineers from the Thirteenth division will be dispatched to Siberia and to north Manchuria. • • * The Clemenceau ministry was sustained in the chamber of deputies at Paris by a vote of 324 to 132. • • • General Denlklne’s anti-bolshevik army has captured the Important city of Orel, together with thousands of prisoners and enormous quantities of material, it was announced in advices received at London. • * * The northwestern Russian army Is reported at Stockholm to have pushed some 35 miles beyond Yamburg, which it captured recently, and to be within 20 miles of Gatchina, which is only 30 miles southwest of Petrograd. * • * The soviet government of Russia has ordered the entire population of that country to train immediately for military service, according to reports reaching Helsingfors from Russian sources. • * * “Bloody fighting has broken out in Albania between the natives and the occupying troops,” says a Paris La Liberfe’s correspondent at Annemasse, on thb JTanco-Italian border. • * • Assignment to Warsaw of Louis E. Van Norman, as the first American trade commissioner to Poland, was announced by the department of commerce at Washington.

♦ • ♦ President Poincare of* France decorated the city of Nancy with the crolx de guerre and the legion of honor. The populace of Nancy accorded the president an enthusiastic reception. * » * Six German merchant ships have been captured during the last two days by the British torpedoboat destroyer Westcott, whlcfi took them to Reval, says the London Daily Mall’s Reval correspondent. * * * Premier Georges Clemenceau has de--clared to a number of deputies at Paris that he has made up his mind to leave the cabinet after, the coming elections. • * * The Russian soviet government at Moscow has been making preparations to evacuate that city ever since the fall of Kursk, according to a report from Helsingfors. ♦ • * “The Germans are attacking Riga with poison gas and also bombarding the town with trench mortars,” says a Lettish communication via Copenhagen. “Great damage has been done to quays and the harbor,” the report adds, “and there have been many civil-. ' ian casualties.” J • * • Twenty-seven war vessels were lost, by France during the period of hostilities it is shown by an order of the day issued ]t?y Georges Leygues, the minister of marine at Paris, citing this number of vmrcraft destroyed.