Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1919 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Note* Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Ferm for Quick Consumption. x — " J ' Foreign The withdrawal of the American troops from Coblenz, In occupied Germany, is not considered in American peace conference circles at Paris as necessary in consequence of the failure of the United States senate to ratify the German peace treaty. The police have arrested a gang of 20 men who have been pillaging American 1 stock at Saint Sulpice, near Bordeaux, among them five French soldiers. • • • An Increase in the already stupendous price of furs is announced at Paris. In the market there, furs which, in 1915, sold for S2OO, are now up to $1,400. • • • The airplane Kangaroo, under command of Capt. G. H. Wilkins and carrying a crew of four, left the Hounslew airdrome near London on the first leg of a journey to Australia. • • • Stephen Lausanne, editor of the Paris Le Matin, remarked to an American: “I see the United States senate has decided to keep America out of European affairs. We all hope they succeed.” • * • The coal shortage has forced the courts at Weimar, Germany, to abolish their sittings. The jails are without heat Prisoners serving mild sentences have been released and others have been transferred. • • • Beginning December 1 Antwerp will supersede Brest as the American port of embarkation. On the same day the United States postal service will be transferred from Paris to Coblenz. • • • Erection of wooden barracks in the courtyard In the chamber of deputies at Paris is proposed to provide accommodation for the hundreds of newly , elected members of the chamber of deputies who are wandering about the city homeless and without a place of sleep. . * M « • • Chancellor Renner of Austria has appealed to the Austrian national assembly at Vienna to “awaken the consciences of our neighboring states and of the world to the terrible condition of the people of Vienna.” Describing the situation to the assembly, the chancellor said: “In a city of more than 2,000,000 people, the great masses of the people sit in unlighted, unheated rooms, hungry and cold. • * * Goods valued at 17,000,000,000 marks fiave been smuggled into Germany through a “hole in the west” since last spring, It was stated at the office of Herr Wissel, minister of economics at Berlin. , • • •

A Sofia dispatch says large elevators are being constructed at Varna, on the Black sea coast of Bulgaria, to handle wheat crop, whicfMs estimated as being the largest in the history of Bulgaria. • * • Twelve prominent Jugo-Slavs have been arrested and held as hostages by the’ltalian forces of occupation in Dalmatia, according to advices received from Sebenice, 30 miles southeasteof Zara. • ♦ • A Vladivostok dispatch says the Siberian government has resigned and Admiral Kolchak has asked Pope Laless to form a new government. Kolchak himself has gone to Barabinsk. The supreme council at Paris agreed upon December 1 as the date when the German peace treaty will be formally ratified. • • •. Domestic Tiring of waiting for city, company and court officials to end Toledo’s street car paralysis a “league for the public ownership of public utilities” began spreading their propaganda. • • • An international organization to encourage evangelism and equal ecclesiastical rights for women has been formed at St Louis and will be known as the Women Preachers’ association. * e * Loss of life in the dance hall fire at Vfile Platte, La., will exceed 25 persons, ’ according to reports. Twentyfive persons were Injured. • * * A girl believed to be Miss Tina Kelberg of Omaha was found murdered in a -ravine 12 milesrhorth of Omaha. She had been shot through the head. • * • A New York dispatch says Secretary of State Lansing has accepted chairmanship of the general committee of the 'inter-OTurch World' Movement of North America.

— ii*i The main buildings of the University of Montreal, betted known as Leval university, containing the medical department, were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $400,000. • • • Settlement of differences over the peace treaty to permit its ratification as soon as possible after the senate reconvenes is urged in a statement Issued at New York by the League to Enforce Peace. Retail clothiers, in accounting for the prevailing high prices of men’s clothing, at a hearing before the commission on necessaries of life at Boston. said that spring suits would cost even more. • • • Every Industrial plant In Cleveland, 0., 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. * In the last ten months the Amerlcatr Red Cross extended financial aid totaling $8,711,937 to families of men in the service, national headquarters at Washington reported. • • • Beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic content was declared to be nonintoxlcatIng In a decision handed down by Judge Pollock of the United States district court at St. Louis. • • * Robbers rifled the private boxes In the Freelandville bank at Freelandville, Ind., of $53,000. • • • Virtually every coal mine In the Sheridan (Wyo.) field was shut dbwn when the miners failed to repprt for work Monday. * • * Countess Primo Magri, known as Mrs. Tom Thumb and one of the best known Lilliputians in the world, died at her home at Mlddleboro, Mass., after a long illhess. She was seventyseven years of age. • * •

The Immigration bureau’s recommendation that Alexander Berkman, by his own admission an anarchist, be deported, was approved by the department of labor at Washington. • • • Ox drivers went on strike at Louisville, Miss. They threw their whips on the ground and announced they would haul no more logs to the sawmills until given an increase in wages. ♦ * * Meat cutters, packers, butcher workmen, drivers and laborers numbering approximately 3,000, according to an estimate, went on strike in the plants of Plankington Packing company at Milwaukee. The prevalence of “moonshining” in the vicinity of Green Bay is the principal reason for the establishment in that city of the headquarters in Wisconsin for the enforcement of prohibition. * * * Six hundred coal miners employed in the Sheridan fields in Wyoming are on strike in sympathy with miners in the East • • • Mrs. David Clayton and her two-year-old son were murdered at their home, 2157 Park avenue, Chicago, with an ax. Boyce Love, who has made his escape, is accused. The Guaranty State bank of Murphy, Kan., was entered and $25,0Q0 worth of Liberty bonds and SI,OOO cash stolen. • * • Sporting Fred Fulton, the giant Minnesota heavyweight arrived at New York from England aboard the Mauretania. While in England he met and defeated three of Britain’s heavyweight boxers. • • •

Washington The passage of each week finds President Wilson materially stronger, In the opinion of Dr. F. X. Dercum, Philadelphia neurologist The Supreme court at Washington took a recess until December 8, when It Is expected to render a decision as to the constitutionality of the war. time prohibition act ♦ • • A final study of the selective draft records, made at Washington, fixes the military strength of the United States at 19,000,000 potential military man power. • • • The 65,000 American dead in France must be left in the graves they now occupy until the French are ready to exhume their own dead, which, it Is hoped, will be before January 1, 1922. The following official announcement was made at Paris: “It has been definitely decided that the allies who fell together for the same cause should remain together until circumstances permit of the returning of the bodies to the families for whom they sacrificed themselves.” \* • • The department of justice at Washington is concluding a campaign against the high cost of living. Practically all of the functions of the food administration have been turned over to the department of justice. * • • in a statement at Washington, Senator* Hitchcock predicted that, with resubmission of the treaty by the president, a compromise could be effected between senators favoring ratification lb some form. _