Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington Senator Fall (Rep.) of New Mexico offered in the senate at Washington a resolution approving the strong stand of the state department in the Jenkins case and providing for withdrawal of recognition of the Carranza government by the United States and a complete severance of all relations. Investigation of the Ford-Newberry senatorial election contest from Michigan was authorized by the senate at Washington, which adopted a resolution by Senator Pomerene (Dem.) of Ohio providing for the Inquiry. * * * Maj. Gen. William J. Snow, chief of field artillery at Washington, recommended in his annual report that his office be made permanent and that artillery units be organized into brigades for training purposes. • • • No appreciable reduction in taxes for the next fiscal year Is to be thought of, Secretary Glass declared Ln his annual report to congress at Washington. • • • General investigation of the federal trade commission was ordered by the senate at Washington. • • •

More than $ 1,000,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds were bought by the treasury department and retired during the last twelve months, yielding the government a profit of approximately $35,000,000 and reducing the public debt. Secretary Gigs* reported to congress at Washington. • • • General recommendations on legislation to combat the cost of living, labor unrest, radicalism and a readjustment of the nation to peace-time basis were the features of President Wilson's annual message to congress at Washington. Increase of nearly $50,000,000 in receipts over 1018 was noted in the report of the treasurer of the United States nt Washington for the fiscal year of 1910. • • ♦ A postal airplane, carrying 30,000 letters, flew from Washington to New York in one hour find thirty-four minutes and traveled at the rate of 138 mil£B an hour. « • • • • Railroad legislation will occupy the time of the senate at Washington until the first of the year. • * • The record billion-dollar congresses of ordinary peace times faded into the past when Secretary Glass, presenting the annual estimates at Washington, proposed appropriations of practically $5,000,000,000 for conducting the peace time activities of the government during the fiscal year 1920-21. • • • The government at Washington proposed to fight out the coal strike with the miners if It takes all winter. Evidence that this was the situation at the beginning of the second month of the strike is given by a statement Issuad by Attorney General Palmer standing for no compromise. • * • President Wilson was described by White House officials at Washington as being stronger and in better condition generally than he has been at any time since he was taken ill on the Western tour. • • •

Many months' work on a great variety of Important-»ubjectw—interna-tional and domestic —are before the Sixty-sixth congress which met at Washington for Its second and “regular” session, which 18 expected to close only with the presidential campaign next fall. Domestic John Burkhead was found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Riley Marrs, hie stepdaughter, by a jury at Marshall, Hl. The murder was committed with a German trench knife brought back from France by Burkhead’s son. The plant of the International Shipbuilding’ company at Pascagoula, Mass., was ordered permanently closed as a reprisal against the machinists who walked out when their* were refused. • * • A drastic order cutting the business and working day In Chicago/ to 6% hours was Issued by the state public utilities commission as a temporary step to meet the crisis brought about by the Coal strike. Information charging 84 International and district officers of the United Mine Workers of America with criminal contempt of court for alleged violation of the injunction issued by United States District Judge A. B. Anderson, was filed at Indianapolis. • • • Trappers in the Adirondack region, due to the unprecedented high prices paid for furs, are making from SBOO to SSOO a week, and some schoolboys there have made as much as $65 a : Week, says a dispatch from Saranac lake- N. Y. .

The Anaconda Standard, one of thel oldest dally newspapers in In a statement announced Its suspen-l slon, due to a walkout of all except) three printers over a wage dispute. • • • Six men were killed by an explosloo in Bogle mine No. 3 at Jacksonville five miles west of Clinton, Ind. Three others were seriously injured. Officer* of the company were among the killed. • • • The state of Missouri will take over and operate the strip coal mines of Barton county, Governor Gardner announced at Jefferson City after an aU-j day conference with operator*. e e • The river packet C. O. Bowyer hit a submerged stump and sank In tha Cumberland river off Vicksburg, Tenn. The crew made shore safely. • • • The St Louis Republic, which, under various names, has been published for 111 years, has published Its last issue, the plant having been purchased by the Globe-Democrat. • • • The alleged I. W. W. who have conducted a hunger strike In the Tacoma (Wash.) jail since last Wednesday at noon, declared the strike off and ata ravenously of their noon meal. ♦ e e The furnishing of bunker coal for) foreign ting steamships will be discontinued at all United States ports. It! was announced by the Tidewater Coal exchange at New York. • • •

“Bill” Carlisle, the train bandit, la lying Ln a hospital at Douglas, with a bullet through his right lun< and three armed guards standing over his cot. Carlisle was wounded by. Sheriff A. S. Roach of Wheatland after he had been surrounded In the cabin of Frank Williams. • • • Churches, schools, theaters and public buildings were given a reprieve byi the Chicago fuel committee Ln an order closing nonessential plants and! placing the city on a rigid war-time coal ration. • • • A constitutional amendment provld. Ing for a referendum on national prohibition was proposed in a resolution) introduced In the house at Washington by Representative O'Connell, Democrat, of New York. • * • In the face of a blizzard that ordinarily would have brought a halt to work In the strip pit mines the volunteer coal diggers of Kansas leaped Into the pits at Pittsburg, Kan., and began turning out fuel. • * * The American Woolen company of Boston announced an advance kL wages in all Its mills. The increaao became effective Monday. The amount was not stated. The company haa 40 mills In several states. see Justice Farmer of the Supreme court of Springfield, TH., granted a writ es supersedeas releasing Charles B. Munday, convicted in wrecking the IaSalle Street Trust and Savings bank of Chicago, on $15,000 bond until tha state court decides whether It will review the evidence in the case. see Forty thousand packinghouse worth ers In Chicago and 80,000 tn other cities were disappointed when Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler granted only a per cent increase in wages instead of the 20 to 50 per cent they demanded. • • e Death by burning at the stake Is the punishment Francisco Villa has sworn for all connected with the capture trial and execution of General Angela*, according to word reaching El Paso, Tex. • • • Governors and attorneys general art seven states, after a seven-hour conference on the coal strike at ChlcagUu sent a long telegram to Washington, urging drastic regulations fpr the conservation of fuel. * * • The hoiise of the North Dakota l<o> Islature at Bismarck assembled In ea> traordlnary session, voting to ratify the federal woman’s suffrage amendment, 102 to 6. The senatp already had voted for ratification. • • • Foreign The supreme council of the peacn conference at Paris decided to extend by six days the time allowed Roumanla in which to remit a reply to the latest note of the allies. • • * By an overwhelming vote the Moxfe can chamber of deputies at Mexico City passed a bill restoring bull fightaj • * • The South Wales miners In England have voted by a slight majority Ln favor of a strike over the question of enforcing the raising of the Incompetent relief limit. . see The prince of Wales arrived at Portsmouth, England, on board the British warship Renown, following * visit to Canada and the United State*, • • • . Rome, Milan and' Florence are In) the throes of a general strike. At Milan two persons were killed and many were wounded, two of whoa* died in a hospital, and in Rome, aft** a demonstrator had fired at th® carabineers, the latter replied, killing one person and wounding si* others. ♦ • • The house of commons at Londa* voted down the proposition to Issa® I British loan on a gambling baste, known as “premium bonds.’’ Th* vot® against the proposal was 276 to 84,