Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington Railroad employees are prepared for a finish fight with the railroad administration for Increased wages, time and a half for overtime and Improved working conditions before the government surrenders the roads to private control, according to a Washington dispatch. • • • A bill extending war-time restrictions on passports for one year to exclude from the country radicals and other undesirable aliens was passed by the senate at Washington without a record vote. • • • The Industrial conference at Washington blew up. The labor . group withdrew after the employers’ bloc had killed a new resolution on collective bargaining. Public and labor supported it, but capital’ cast a negative vote. •» • • The prohibition enforcement bill was signed at Washington by Vice President Marshall and Speaker Gillett for immediate transmission to President Wilson. • • • Prices charged by retailers for food stuffs at Washington frequently are from 200 to 3,600 per cent in excess of the wholesale prices, a senate investigating committee declared in its report. • • • The sending of bombs through the mails would be made a capital offense under a bill by Senator King of Utah, the senate judiciary committee at Washington. • • • Beet sugar refiners were notified by the department of justice at Washington that a charge for sugar in excess of 10 cents a pound wholesale would be considered in violation of the food control act. • • • Recognition of the right of workers to bargain collectively was swept aside by the national Industrial conference at Washington, In defeating first a proposal by the employers, next a substitute declaration by the conference’s general committee, and third, the original proposal of the general committee. The proposal from the labor group to arbitrate the steel strike was next disposed of, both the employers and the public’ representatives voting against it.

The house pawed the federal budget bill by a vote of 283 to 8. It now goes to the senate, where it is planned to take it up early in the regular session, which begins December L Laying aside the peace treaty temporarily, the senate at Washington, took up the urgent deficiency bill carrying $42,000,000. The industrial conference at Washington, having failed to settle the steel Strike, strike leaders are now planning to strengthen their fight by extending it to the railroads, their plan being to tie up all the transportation facilities of the United States Steel corporation. American troops will not be used polite Silesia or any other country ■ - which a plebiscite Is proposed un- ... the treaty of Versailles has been rifled by the senate, Secretary Baker - ■ ■' ounced at Washington. • * • Arbitration of the steel strike, de- ... mdefl by the labor group, should not be considered by the national industrial conference, Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation and a member of the public group, told the conference at Washington. • • • Representative Monden, the Republican leader, told the house at Washington It wta the Intention of the Republican leaders to have congress adjourn between November 8 and 10 so members could have a brief rest before the beginning of the regular session early in December. Foreign Formal ratification of the German peace treaty probably will be accomplished at Paris October 80 and a call Will be issued that day for the first meeting of the council of the League of Nations, to take place within ten days. * • • A disaster in the Levant mine at St. Just Cornwall, England, caused about 40 deaths. Many miners were injured. • * * Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff testified at the opening seslon of the national assembly at Berlin, investigation into war guilt, that the German government late in 1916 deliberately wrecked President Wilson’s efforts for peace. • * • General Yudenltch has encountered strong bolshevist resistance beyond Pulkovo, about seven miles south of Petrograd. He. has, therefore, halted his advance to concentrate his forces while awaiting re-enforcements and heavy artillery.

According to a Berlin dispatch German labor has decided to send representatives to the forthcoming International labor .congress in Washington. • • • Greek troops hare occupied Xanthl. It was officially announced at Athens. • • • The capture of Krasnala Gorka, on the Gulf of Finland, nearly opposite Kronstadt, by the northwestern Russian army, is announced via Helsingfors from that army’s headquarter*. • • • A Stockholm dispatch says that for the second time the pre; tation of the annual Nobel peace prizes will be postponed. The prizes for 1918 and 1919 are still to be awarded. Severe fighting is in progress in th* vicinity of Zanghlzur, in the Russian Caucasus, between Armenians and regular troops from Azerbaijan province, it Is reported at Constantinople. • • • Mayor Hylan of New York, instructed Jhe police coinmlsioner to prevent further performances of German opera at the Lexington theater, following the riots of Monday night ' • • • -Personal Alfred T. Ringling, head of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, died at his Oak Ridge estate at Dover, N. J., He was fifty-six years old. Mr. Ringling was born in McGregor, la. • • • Count V. Macchi di Cellere, Italian ambassador to the United States, died "at the Emergency hospital at Washington, Inhere he had been taken for an operation. • • • Former Congressman Martin D. Foster (Dem.) died at his home at Olney, 111., after several months’ illness. He served six terms in congress as representative from the Twenty-third Illinois district and retired’ last March. • • •

Domestic The presence of federal troops in Gary guarantees the constitutional right of - free speech and assembly and is welcomed by the leaders'bf the steel strike, according to John Fitzpatrick. • • • J. T. McCoy, seventy-five, prominent oil man of Oil City, Pa., was killed at Tulsa, Okla., when struck by a motor car near the home of his daughter, Mrs. F. A. Gillespie. • • • Ray Baker, director of the United States mints, said at a conference of assay experts at Philadelphia that all the mints In the country are turning out 76,000,000 pennies monthly and that there are now 3,500,000,000 in circulation. • • • Criminal prosecution of at least a dozen army officers and civilians will be asked by the congressional subcommittee which completed Its inquiry into the $27,000,000 munition contract scandal at Chicagp. • • • A general strike of all labor to help the steel strikers win was advocated by speakers before the convention of the Illinois Federation of Labor at Peoria. • * • The Mount Carmel (Hl.) Trust and Savings bank was closed by the state auditor’s office. • • • Between twenty and thirty men were badly burned by an explosion of gas on board the Standard Oil company’s tank steamer W. H. Tilford at the yards of the Baltimore Dry Docks company at Baltimore. • • • Three safeblowers robbed the Burr Oak (Mich.) State bank of a sum of money not yet determined. One of the robbers was shot and dangerously wounded by his companions by mistake. • • • Resolutions opposing the granting iby congress of further bonuses to discharged soldiers were adopted at a meeting of the American Legion of Oklahoma at Oklahdtnfl Qty. * * •

William O. Jenkins, American consular argent at Puebla, Mex., was kidnaped by three masked bandits at Puebla and is being held for $150,000 ransom, the state department at Washington was advised. • « • Bandits held up the Perrysburg Banking company’si. bggk .at.J?erjy?burg, near Toledo, 0., and escaped Iwlth $5,000. Eight hundred men and womeft employed In the meat-packing industry In Baltimore, Md., went on strike for an eight-hour law and an Increase In wages. Five hundred soldiers of the regular army were landed at New York from the transport George Washington to attempt to end the congestion at the army piers In Brooklyn caused by the longshoremen’s strike. ♦ * * Judson Montgomery, who was found guilty of killing Mrs. William Blanchard, one of three persons, by his automobile, was takgn from Milwaukee to Waupun to begin his fourteen-year sentence. -• • • • Three persons were killed at Niles Center, Hl., when a touring car struck a safety Island, careened over against a lamp post, telescoped, and turned over. The dead: Arthur W. Hill, Chicago; H. S. Miller, address not •known; Mrs. Ray Taylor of Wichita, Kan., sister of Mr. Hill.