Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1919 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington The treaty of peace with Germanj was rejected by the senate at Wash' Ington. On the final vote taken on the Lodge resolution ratification wat refused by the vote of 43 to 51. Th« senate then adjourned sine die and. the house having taken similar action earlier in the day, the extra session called by President Wilson to consider the treaty came to an end. • * President Wilson at Washington, vetoed the BUI restoring to the interstate commerce commission its prewar ratemaking power. • • • On virtually a party vote of 203 to 159, the house at Washington passed and sent to the senate the Esch railroad reorganization bill. Final action came after six days of continuous debate. • * • President Wilson was downstairs in a wheel chair and rolled out on the White House lawn at Washington, where he basked In the sunshine for a short time. ' , • • • While arguments on the validity of the war-time prohibition act will be heard by the Supreme court at Washington, a decision Is not expected before December 8. '• • • The railroad administration at Washington offered the railroad brotherhood chieftains representing enginemen and trainmen a compromise increase of wages for their men aggregating $36,000,000 a year. The brotherhoods, it was announced, have taken the matter under advisement • * * William S. Broughton of Illinois has been appointed commissioner of the public debt, Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass announced at Washington. This is a new position.

Domestic Sixteen teachers in New York city public and private schools who are suspected of radical tendencies were summoned to appear before the legislative committee which is investigating communist activities. • * * ■Governor Harding of lowa was advised by Attorney General Havner at Des Moines, that the governor had power to declare martial law in an effort to relieve the coal shortage in the state. * * * A crowd that sang “Good-by Forever,” “Farewell, Booze,” “How Dry I Am,” and other laments saw internal revenue agents move away $200,000 worth es whisky confiscated at v ßucyrus, O. Two men and a woman were taken into custody under the narcotic law by federal authorities following a raid on two downtown hotels at Detroit, Mich., In which drugs said to be valued at $60,000 were seized. One of the navy’s big destroyers, under construction at the Philadelphia yard, will be named the Edsall, for N. E. Edsall, native of Columbus, Ky., a seaman killed by hostile natives near Apla, Samoa. ♦ ♦ ♦ Reports on the first year’s operation of the state hall Insurance, made public at Bismarck, N. D., show that losses totaling $3,418,770 were adjusted, according to T. J. Sheehan, deputy hall Insurance commissioner. The special grand jury at Omaha, Neb., investigating the riot of September 28, reporting after returning 120 indictments, said the cause of the riot was crimes against women and undue criticisms of public officials. • * * The theft of SIO,OOO worth of jewelry—platinum and diamonds—from the show window of Marshall Field & Co., at Chicago, in what detectives term the most mysterious robbery of the year, was reported to the police. • ♦ * Every industrial plant in Cleveland, Ohio, with the exception of those coming under the head of “public utilities,” was cut off from its coal supply by the Cleveland coal commission in an effort to relieve the acute fuel situation. ♦• * , Forty more Chicago passenger trains were cut from schedules of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, bringing total reductions of Chicago roads because of the coal shqrtage to 146. * * * Suspension of 40 Chicago passenger trains by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad Is a forerunner of heavy reductions in service due to the coal strike. * • * A bale of long staple cotton was sold by Capt. W. A. Swift of Swifton, Miss., At $1 a pound, believed to be a record price for spot cotton this season. Mrs. Marla Warren, divorced wife of an actor and formerly a resident of Indianapolis, confessed that she killed Mrs. Clara Branch at Lynbrook, If. Y.

Eddie Mitchell, noted throughout the world as a driver and horse trainer, died while motoring from Toledo to his farm near the Ohio-Michigan boundary line. •• • / Discovery of a “red” plot to elay officials with explosive Christmas packages was announced by James Robinson, superintendent of police at Philadelphia. The best grade of fresh eggs in the market at New York cost $1.16 a dozen at retail. By January 1 dealers predict a price of $1.50. Housewives, dealers say, the best. • • • Six Hog Island shipyard workmen were killed and nine Injured when a motortruck on which they were riding to work was struck by a train at a grade crossing near the yards. • • • More than 34,000 gallons of real beer, held by a Minneapolis (Minn.) brewery for some time with the hope that the prohibition bars would temporarily be lifted, was emptied into the Mississippi river. * • • Two men are reported to have been killed and several injured in an explosion in the finishing mill of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours plant at Wayne, N. J. * • • Federal Judge George A. Carpenter at Chicago upheld the constitutionality of the war-time prohibition law and the Volstead enforcement act In the case brought by Hannah & Hogg. * • * Orders were Issued at Boise, Idaho, by Robert O. Jones, state commissioner of law enforcement, for immediate arrest of all members of “that outlaw organization," the L W. W., found in Idaho. • * * Three flags of the so-called “Irish republic” were torn from automobiles in which Eamonn de Valera and members of his reception committee were riding at Portland, Ore., by members of the American Legion. » » * A farmers’ posse captured the three safe-blowers who tried to crack the safe in the Palmyra (Ill.) State bank. They gave their names as William Carter, George William and William Gray. Mrs. Jessie Vea, aged thirty-six, was killed Instantly when struck by an automobile as she was wheeling her two and one-half year old baby across Main street at Davenport, lowa. The child was not injured. • * * Seven occupants of an automobile, including six nurses, returning from a social affair, were killed when the car was struck by a train at a grade crossing at Buffalo, N. Y. * * * S. J. Lowell of New York was elected national master of the National Grange nt the annual election at Grand Rapids, Mich. John O. Ketcham of Hastings, Mich., was re-elected national treasurer. * * • The United States transport America has been placed at the disposal of the American delegation to the peace conference at Paris for Its voyage home. They probably will leave Brest early in December. • * • Richard J. Reynolds, tobacco manufacturer, left an estate valued at $17,119,439, according to an Inventory completed at Winston Salem, N. C. The state will receive an inheritance tax of over $500,000. • • *

Foreign Mme. Therese Jacquemaire, daughter of Premier Clemenceau, arrived at New York from France on the steamship La France to begin a lecture tour in the United States. The revolution at Vladivostok has been quelled, dispatches to the state department at Washington said. demonstrators cojllded with tnepollce at Cairo. The officers used their revolvers, wounding two of the manifestants. The crowd later set the police station on fire. • * * The bolshevik! claim the capture of ten generals and more than 100 other officers at Omsk, according to an official statement Issued by the soviet government at Moscow. * * • War material valued at $1,000,000, consigned to the Chilean government, has been destroyed by fire aboard the wooden ship Alpan In the port of Singawa, Japan. • * * The Belgian cabinet has tendered Ita resignation. King Albert asked the ministry to continue in office until the results of Sunday’s elections are definitely known, * * * Thirty-two thousand guineas (slßl,000) was pd'id at an auction sale in London for a picture of St. Eustace by Vittore Carpaccio, the famous fifteenth century Venetian painter. • * * The prize court at Antwerp, has decided that 53 German boats, aggregating 150,000 tons, seized by the Belgian authorities in 1914 in the port of Antwerp, are lawful prizes. * • • A Paris dispatch says the French and Belgians have established their customs barriers on the Franco-Ger-man and the Belgo-German frontiers. • * *. The grand jury at Winnipeg, Man., returned true bills against eight alleged leaders of the general strike which tied up Winnipeg this spring.