Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1920 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington Two American salldrs who have been In jail at Mazatlan, Mexico, since November 12 on the charge of assaulting a Mexican, will be released at once, the state department at Washington was advised. Parcel post sales from army retail stores, discontinued December 10 to relieve the mails during the Christmas rush, will be resumed on January 1, it was announced by the war department at Washington. • • * • Organized labor united at Washington to direct an unrelenting fight against return of the railroads to their owners March 1; and, if that cannot be averted at this time, to prevent enactment of railroad legislation whiqh will include anti-strike provisions and penalties against workers who cease their employment. • • * • The creation of a national industriar tribunal and regional board of inquiry and adjustment for the settlement of all disputes between labor and capital is the chief recommendation in the preliminary report of President Wilson's second Industrial conference at Washington. • • • Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of Internal revenue at Washington, is considering means to curb the unrestricted sale of wood alcohol which, in the guise of whisky, already has caused many deaths. Domestic Henry Ford and his son, Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor company of Detroit, Mich., announce a plan by which approximately $10,000,000 will be'" distributed as a bonus, together with an opportunity for every Ford worker to purchase Ford investment certificates. rvs* ~ • Robbers almost destroyed the building of the Beattie bank of Elwood, 111., a private institution, but were unsuccessfol in opening the safe, which contained several thousand dollars. • • • Victor L. Berger, Milwaukee Socialist, attacked the American Legion in a speech Detroit as the “catspaw of capital,” and declared big business “stole” half the money spent by the United States during the war. • • •

Thirty-two thousand employees of the Western Union Telegraph and Telephone company will receive a 15 per cent increase dating from January 1, It is announced in New York. ।• * • Firemen at Lowell, Mass., have voted to withdraw from the American Federation of Labor at the request of the fire commissioner. A secret ballot was taken. Sheriff Caldwell of Mount Clemens, Mich., arrested Lloyd Prevost and Mrs. Ruth Brown, who are suspected of having murdered J. Stanley Brown, the son of a deceased millionaire Detroit cigar manufacturer. ♦ » • i One huhdred and fifty cases of whisky concealed in a carload of hay in transit across the border at Vanceboro, Me., from New Brunswick, were seized by a United States customs officer. * » » A white woman was shot and kUled and a white soldier probably fatally wounded in a fight between negroes and soldiers on a street car near Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. * * • The United States army transport Logan departed from Vladivostok December 11 for the United States. The vessel carries 842 soldiers, which leaves In Siberia 53 drafted men. ♦ • • Seven men held up the People’s bank at Ottawa Lake, Mich., and escaped with $7,000 in cash and Liberty bonds after shooting Herman Rothfuss, the cashier. In their haste the raiders overlooked $20,000. • * • Burglars forced a safe in the office of the Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical company at Perth Amboy, N. J., and escaped with platinum and gold valued at $7,500. * • • Vice Admiral Hilary P. Jones, now in command of the First division of the Atlantic fleet at Newport, R. 1., has followed the example of Admiral Sims In declining to accept the award of the Distinguished Service Cross. • * * . Fixing a retail price on fresh eggs at 50 cents a dozen by the county fair price commission at Topeka, Kans., caused retail grocers there to announce that they will have no eggs for sale after the price becomes effective, January 2. They declare they cannot buy them for that price. • • * Crazed with jealousy, Oapt. R. C. Potter, U. S. A., of Camp Custer, BattleVreek, Mich., shot down his wife, her escort, and accidentally wounded two girls In a Venice beach street car •ear Culver City, yal.

The Tingley (Iowa) Savings bank was robbed of SIOO,OOO in cash and securities by who opened the door of the vault by cutting out the lock with an acetylene torch. • • • The state tax commission at Springfield, 111., announced that the equalised value of all property in the state, excepting capital stock of corporations, is $4,055,700,386. The value last year was placed at $3,891,897,444. • • • Three armed men stopped a truckload of woolen goods valued at $lO,000 as it was leaving the store of Mike Kohn at Chicago, Intimidated the driver with pistols and escaped with the goods. • • • Personal Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy, who commanded the Second division in France, was badly bruised when thrown from a horse at Camp Lee, Va. • • • Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury, retired, dropped dead at his home at Washington. • • • Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry, retired, former commander of the central department and the department of the East, died at the Walter Reed hospital at Washington of uraemic poisoning. *• • • Pauline Hall, long noted as a light opera singer er h° me Yonkers, N. Y. of pneumonia. She was on the stage for more than forty years. • • • Boaz W. Long of Las Vegas, N. M., the new American minister to Cuba, arrived at Havana. Mr. Long was accompanied by his sister, Miss Theresa Long. Sir William Osler, noted physician, who had been ill for several weeks, died at Oxford. England. Foreign Fourteen thousand persons were shot by the bolshevik! of Russia, during the first three months of 1919, by order of the extraordinary committee at Moscow, according to an official note published in the bolshevik organ Isvestla of Moscow, says a dispatch received at Bern. • * • Fierce fighting in the Narova region, with a heavy gas shell bombardment by the Esthonlans, which forced the bolshevik! to retire over the Narova river, is reported in an official statement issued by the soviet authorities in Moscow. • • • Bolshevist forces have occupied Bakhmut, capturing several cannon, while beyond Novo Nikolaevsk they are pursuing Admiral Kolchak’s troops and have occupied Alexandrovlky, a Moscow statement claims.

Gabriele d’Annunzlo has ordered a new plebiscite at Fiuine to determine the future of the city, according to the Rome Epoca. Two plebiscites have already been held. * • * Official statistics made public at Berlin place the number of Germans killed in battle at 1,500,000. These figures do not include those who died in prison camps. ♦ • • X Political circles at Paris believe that the namerof Premier Clemenceau will be the only one submitted to parliament when the election for president takes place, according to the Echo de Paris. • • • Alexander F. Kerensky, successor to as ruler of Russia, is now working in a “pork and beanery” in London, according to a statement made in New York by Gregory Zllboorg, who says he was Kerensky’s secretary of labor. • • * Odessa Is being evacuated by the civilian population owing tq the rapid advance of the bolshevlkl In southern Russia, according to a Constantinople dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company at London. • • * Sentence of two years' imprisonment was given to R. B. Russell, one of the labor leaders in Winnipeg’s recent general strike. Russell was found guilty recently of seditious conspiracy. • * * A cable to the Vancouver World from Sydney, N. S. W., says the latest New Zealand licensing poll figures wipe out the prohibition lead and give continuance a majority of 1,327. * * * The French minister of agriculture at Paris, has lodged with the commission on war damages a claim for 26,000 dogs alleged to have been stolen by the Germans during the war. • * ♦ A Buenos Aires dispatch says German immigrants have been pouring into Argentina on every ship that came from Holland. One ship brought 400 of Teutonic nationality. One man was killed and one woman and five men, including two policemen, were Injured during a clash between the police and a crowd engaged in a demonstration against the high cost of living at Havana. • * * Arabian volunteers and French detachments have clashed at Balbeg, Syria, according to a dispatch from i Cairo. ♦ * * Exchange of ratifications of the treaty of Versailles will take place Jan--1 uary 6 at the Qua! d’Orgay at Paris.