Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO L.ABT ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Moment In All Parts of the World—• Of Interest to All the People Everywhere. Personal William McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, has dipped into oil. He has bought a 30-acre lease near Wichita Falls, Texas, paying SI,OOO an acre. “I am willing to take a chance,” he said. • • • Dr. Alexis Carrel will leave France tills week to resume his work with the Rockefeller institute In New York. He has completed four years of service with French army hospitals. • • • Col. James R. Bell, commander tn chief of the G. A. R., died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. • • •

Domestic Charles Webster, fuel administrator for lowa at Des Moines, sent a telegram to W. D. Hines, director general of railroads, tn which he said lowa officials will endeavor to find means to obtain coal unless some of that confiscated by railroads Is released quickly. * * • Albert C. Ritchie (Dem.) was elected governor of Maryland over Harry W. Nice (Rep.) by a plurality of approximately 900 votes at Tuesday’s election, according to unofficial returns at Baltimore. • • • Rioting broke out at the plant of the Youngstown (O.) Sheet and Tube company again, when 50 women attacked the sheriff and his deputies when the officers tried to keep them from preventing workmen entering the plant. • • * The amendment to the federal Constitution giving women the right to vote was ratified in the house at Augusta, Me., in concurrence with the senate. The vote was V 2 to 68. Ten union mines in the New River, West Virginia coal fields resumed operations, according to reports to Washington headquarters of the operators, see The value of last year’s raisin crop in the Fresno (Cal.) district Is $25,000,000, It is announced by the California Associated Raisin company, the organization of gtowers. ■ • * * Two deaths from “sleeping sickness” have occurred In Portland, Ore., this week, and another case of the strange disease is under observation. • * * A Columbus dispatch says Ohio has adopted the prohibition program Ln toto. It has ratified natlbnal prohibition by more than 75,000, upheld a drastic state law In a referendum and defeated two liberal proposals. One was to repeal state prohibition and the other was to permit 2.75 per cent beer and wine. • • • A Jackson dispatch says the Mississippi Democratic ticket was elected In the general election by a plurality of approximately 50,000. The Socialist state candidates, which furnished the only opposition to the Democrats, polled less than 10,000 votes. see

The Knoxville (Tenn.) police, the first In the country to affiliate their organization with the American Federation of Labor, by a vote of 6 to 1 have decided to surrender their union charter. • • • Enough dynamite to blow up several city blocks was stolen from the magazine of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., at Lambert, 111. * • • The first break among the union miners occurred in the northfirn West Virginia fields, according to a message from Huntington to Washington headquarters of the operators. In that district 15 mines were reported In operation. e e e The longshoremen’s strike, which had paralyzed shipping at New York for over three weeks, ended Monday. All the strikers returned to work, although no official settlement was announced. e e e A provisional battalion, 800 strong, composed of veterans of the First division, was ordered to proceed immediately from Louisville, Ky., to the coal fields of West Virginia. The largest Inheritance tax ever collected in Missouri, $204,864, will be paid on the estate’ of Andrew Drumm, Kansas City cattleman, who died last April at San Antonio, Tex. e « e Auctioneers at Rochester, N. Y., have generally agreed to adopt a blue flag In place of the red emblem, so long associated with their profession. » » e George Wilkerson, a farmer,, was killed when his automobile rolled ofl an embankment along the Sangamon river near Springfield, 111.

I Lignite miners In the Burlington (N. D.) area, returned to their work after being on strike one day. e e e Lieut. Col. Duncan Elliott, commandant of cadets ut St. James college at Annapolis, Md., and formerly prominent in New York society, committed suicide by shooting himself In the head. o o e Robbers broke into the real estate office of A. Edward Freer at Chicago and blew the safe. They obtained SSOO In cash, S3OO tn Liberty bonds and silverware valued at $2,000. see The National bank at West Lebanon, Ind., was robbed. Liberty bonds and the contents of 15 safety deposit boxes were taken. The officials refuse to announce the amount e e o Foreign Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the former German chancellor, stated in the course of his testimony before the subcommittee of the national assembly at Berlin that he did not believe during the war and does not now believe a lasting peace possible. • • • A Copenhagen dispatch says that a conference has been agreed upon by Great Britain and the bolshevlkl to discuss the exchange of prisoners. It will be held in London. « • • The first meeting of the council of the League of Nations will be held in Paris, the supreme council decided. It did not, however, fix a date for the gathering. e e o The treaty of Versailles and the peace settlement with Germany will become effective, It Is asserted In wellinformed circles at Paris, November 28.

Col. George H. Emerson, at Omsk, has ordered the withdrawal of the American railway mission corps from Siberia. The withdrawal will take place simultaneous with the withdrawal of the Czech forces. Brig. Gen. A. C. Crltchley Is going to take a chosen party of 50 fellow British officers to settle on a mllllonacre ranch about 400 miles north of Mexico City, according to a London dispatch. e e e An eight-year naval program, costing $824,000,000, has been decided upon by the Japanese government, It was announced In a cable message to the Shinpoub a Japanese daily newspaper at Honolulu. • * * A Geneva dispatch says the Germans have started dismantling the fortress at Isteln, on the Rhine, about eight miles north of Basel. The work Is being conducted under the supervision of allied officers. e e o Washington

President Wilson from his sick bed at Washington dictated a telegram to Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts, congratulating him on his re-election and saying It was a victory for law and order. see The government appealed to the Supreme court at Washington from the decision of Federal Judge Evans of Kentucky, declaring unconstitutional the war-time prohibition act and ox* dering release of distilled spirits. e e e Government operation of the coal mines for one year, or as much longbr as may be necessary for the public good, was proposed In congress ajb Washington as a solution of the coal strike. , v see Six employees were murdered and more than in American ■stolen from oil Companies operating in the Tampifip oil region during Jtfm August ana September, according to reports received ht Washington. 9 • * Authority to regulate the price, dl£ trlbutlon, production, sale, shipmetny apportionment and storage of all coal. Including anthracite, and coke was given Federal Fuel Administrator Garfield at Washington. The government at Washington cannot accept the proposal of organized labor to end the coal strike by vacating the injunction against the officials of the United Mine Workers of America. • * * There will be no change at present In maximum coal prices fixed by the government, Doctor Garfield, fuel administrator at Washington, told a delegation of operators. •• • I Seizure of coal now in transit was authorized at Washington by the railroad administration. Director General Hines announced that he had ordered all regional directors of railroads to accumulate coal to meet the threatened crisis, purchasing the coal, If possible, but if necessary, to hold coal now in transit. j | President Wilson at Washington set aside Thursday, November 27, as Thanksgiving day In a proclamation which said the country looked forward “with confidence to the dawn of' an era where the sacrifices of the nations will find recompense in a world a peace.” • • • Without debate the senate at Washington voted down a motion by Republican Leader Lodge to strike from the peace treaty the provisions giving German rights In Shantung to Japan. The vote was 41 to 26.