Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1920 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Domestic Robbers entered the First National bank at Pleasantville, la., and took federal bonds and stamps estimated to be valued at SSO,(XX). » ♦ » The New York Herald, the Evening Telegram and the Paris edition of the Herald have passed into the control of Frank A. Munsey, who now controls the New York Sun, morning and evening editions.

IndlctmeCV uxalnst seven men, officials of three wholesale grocery houses, were 'returned by the federal grand Jury before Federal Judge Carpenter at Chicago, charging them with profiteering in sugar. • • • Rivalry for a girl’s hand was responsible for the shooting of Henry O'Brien, recently discharged fromthe British army, hnd the arrest of Dr. Thomas Campbell of Wickenburg at Phoenix, Ariz. • • • One hundred new cases were added to the toll of Influenza at Great Lakes naval station, Commander Rufus F. Zogbaum, Jr., executive officer at the naval training station announced. This brings the total to 292 in 60 hours. t • • * Judge Edmund K. Jareckl of Chicago established a recdrd in the boys’ court when he held five youths charged with robbery on 15 counts, in bonds of $420,000. * • • The Great Lakes Naval Training station was placed under strict quarantine as the result of a sudden outbreak of influenza. Dr. R. T. Crandall, in charge of the station hospital, reported there were more than eighty cases under treatment ♦ * * Xnnouncement was made at the Detroit clearing house that state and national banßs of Detroit made increases in their capital and surplus accounts aggregating $11,000,000. • * * Indictment of Dr. Christopher G. Scott on a murder charge in connection with the death of Elizabeth Griffiths, his office assistant, was refused by the Jeffersort' county grand, jpry at Louisville, Ky. The Oregon legislature, In special session at Salem, ratified the amendment to the federal Constitution granting suffrage to women. Oregon is the twenty-fifth state to ratify the amendment. • • • The last contingent of troops quartered at the military camp at Brest arat New York on the transport George Washington, which brought 237 officers, war workers and civilians and 615 troops. * • • A steamship service from Boston to San Francisco by way of the Panama canal will be inaugurated about March 1 with the sailing of the steamer

Jurfteau x from Boston. Six vessels will maintain the service. • • • Washington Shipping board vessels earned about SIOO,OOO each In 1919, according to estimates completed by board officials at Washington. Twelve hundred ships were operated during the year. • * • Herbert Hoover told the house ways and means committee at Washington that the United States should serve notice to the world that this government, after the Immediate emergency, can no longer extend relief to Austria. While it was the duty of the United States to come to Austria’s relief this year, he said, European nations responsible for her downfall by the treaty terms should bear the burden thereafter. • • • Victor L. Burger, Milwaukee Socialist, was denied a seat In congress at Washington for the second time In record time. In spite of a fight in his behalf led by Representative Mann of Illinois, only six votes were cast against a resolution refusing him the privilege of taking the oath. The vote on the resolution, which was offered by Representative Dallinger of Wtssachusetts, chairman of the committee which recommended Mr. Berger’s exclusion last fall, was 328 to 6. - ♦ * * Authority to advance $150,000,000 for food relief in Austria, Poland and Armenia was asked of congress at Washington by Secretary Glass. ■• * * The United States, according to official information at Washington, has rejected the apportionment to this country of 2 per cent of the ships to be taken from Germany in retaliation for having destroyed her ships at Sea pa Flow. • * * The 8,000 American troops in Siberia will begin their homeward movement soon after the middle of February, leaving to .Tapan the protection of the Siberian railroad and the anti-bolshev--Ist Russians in eastern Siberia, It was learned at Washington. Director General Hines at Washington has signed a national agreement covering rules and working conditions with the brotherhood of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers and express and station employees. * * •

Personal John F. Dodge. Detroit automobile maker, who had been 111 for a week with pneumonia in his apartments at the Ritz-Carlton in New York, is dead. • * * Guy F. Allen of Somerset, Md., was nominated by the president to be assistant treasurer of the United States at Washington, vice Hand, resigned. * * • Former Premier Paderewski will leave AVarsaw for Switzerland on January 17. ♦ • • Col. E. M. House, a member of the American delegation to the peace conference, reached Houston, Tex. He declared he went there merely for a brief rest. He was silent on Issues of the day. • • • Gen. Edwin S. Greeley, who was brevetted a brigadier general In 1865 for meritorious conduct in action and one of the best-known bankers in Connecticut, died at New Haven in his eighty-seventh year. • * • Foreign Jose Batille y Ordonez, twice president of Uruguay, was wounded in the arm during a duel with swords with Senator Leonel Aguirre at Montevledo. * * • Evacuation of the first zone of the province of Schleswig has been started by the Germans, as required by the peace treaty, according to a Washington dispatch. * ♦ • Lloyd George and Clemenceau reversed their position taken on Monday at Paris and accepted the nett plan placing Flume under Italian sov ereign ty.