Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1920 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

iuTG OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Sotu Covering Mott Important Hap» ponlnga of tha World Compiled In Brlofaat and Moat Suoalnct Farm for Quick Canaumption. Washington Validity of the federal prohibition constitutional amendments is to be determined by the Supreme .court at Washington, which granted the state of Rhode Island permission to Institute original proceedings to test it and enjoin Its enforcement in that «tate. * * * The government at Washington will compel coal operators who are not living up to the Indianapolis agreement, by which the strike was settled, to take back miners who have been refused reinstatement. • * * Secretary of War Baker announced at Washington that American troops in Siberia would begin embarkation . for the Philippines February 1 and would be out in less than a week. * ♦ * A further grant of $10,000,000 for machinery to be exported to England France, Italy and Belgium was announced by the war finance corporation at Washington. * * • The navy department’s plans at Washington call for a threefold Increase in the number of men now being trained at the Great Lakes naval station. • • »

Domestic William Spindler, aged seventy, shot and killed his son, Christ Spindler, aged thirty-two, his daughter-in-law, and his three grandchildren at the family’s home near Harlan, Ind. He then killed himself. • • * The special “red” grand jury returned indictments against 38 members of the Communist Labor Party of America before Chief Justice Robert K. Crowe in the criminal court at Chicago. * • * An nlleged bank robber was shot and killed and Probationary Policeman Harry Shea wounded in a pistol battle with five bandits who attempted to hold up the Waterworks Tower bank St. Louis. * * * The steamer China is ashore five miles from Nagasaki, Japan, and its cargo is being lightered, according to a cablegram received at San Francisco by the Chamber of Commerce. * * * , John M. Farker of New Orleans, La., was nominated for governor by a majority ranging around 13.000 over Frank P. Stubbs. Parker represents the Progressive Democrats. He formerly was a Roosevelt partisan. * * * Adam Eidemuller, secretary of a building and loan association at Pittsburgh, Pa., was held up by a heavily veiled woman and robbed of $7,000 in currency and checks and a gold watch. i • * * Influenza has become epidemic among American soldiers at Camp Grant and Rockford, HI., and, the Great Lakes naval training station, Surgeon General Ireland of the army announced at Washington. • * * Whisky, wines and cordials valued at from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 have been seized at New York in the last 48 hours by government agents. One hundred federal officers spent the day searching saloons, warehouses and piers for contraband liquors. * » *

Department of justice agents and Seattle police made more than 700 arrests oh deportation warrants in a raid which officers said was iqtended to “break the backbone of radical activities in the Northwest.” * * * L D. Cornish of Rochester, Minn., ■was arrested at St. Paul, Minn., by United States secret service agents -charged with forging federal treasury checks issued to disabled soldiers in Minnesota. • * * Quick, hospital treatment for every pallor whose temperature showed the (least rise has checked the spread of Influenza at the Great Lakes training station. * * * The house of representatives of the Mississippi Itegislature at Jackson defeated ratification of the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment. The vote was 116 against to 25 for. * * * Influenza is spreading in 'Chicago at jthe rate of 1,000 new cases a day, Commissioner Robertson estiunates. * • ♦ iFlve men are known to have lost their lives in a fire in .the Diamond district at New York, and two others were reported dying from injuries.

The lakes-to-gulf waterway soon will be a reality. Governor Lowden of Rllnola received from Secretary of War Baker a permit for construction of a permanent navigable waterway, Including the necessary structure and Improvement of the Desplalnes and Illinois rivers. • • • Personal Prof. Paul Guesfeldt, famous for his explorations in South America, especially Chile, died at Berlin. * • • Francis Marion Gray, seventy-seven years of age, cousin of President Wilson, died at San Diego, Cal. Mr. Gray was formerly a Michigan banker. • • • Foreign Japan’s object In agreeing to cooperate with the United States In supporting Czecho-Slovnk troops in Siberia lias been attained and the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Siberia will follow, it was decided at a meeting of the advisory diplomatic council at Tokyo. * * * General Semenoff, commander In chief of the all-Russian armies, has Issued a proclamation declaring that he has assumed the supreme rulership of Siberia, according to a Harbin dispatch. • * * New 1,000 franc notes of the Bank of France of the value of 20,000,000 franca went down recently in the Bay of Biscay, when the French steamer Afrique sank, according to a Bordeaux dispatch. • • * A Paris dispatch says martial law is being enforced in the principal dtles of Italy as a result of the general railway strike. The streets are patrolled by cavalry and are under the guns of artillery units. * * * Assistant Commissioner of Police Redmond was found dead in his home in Hnrcourt street fn Dublin. He had been shot. • • • Eighteen passengers were killed and twenty injured in a railway collision outside of Schneidemuhl, Prussia. * * * A total of $082,032,215 was subscribed to Canada’s Victory loan, It was announced at Toronto. There were 380,602 subscribers. The government asked for a total of $300,000,000. • • • Many cases of influenza have been reported in Huvana, Cuba, but no authoritative statistics are available. A newspaper report states that 1,000 cases have been found. • • • Arlan Youssef Said was found guilly of attempting to assassinate Premier Yussuf Wuhba Pasha, December 15, at Cairo, and was sentenced to ten years’ Imprisonment at hard labor. • • • Canadian trade at the close of the first nine months of the fiscal year ended with December, 1919, showed an increase of $31,580,565 over the same period of 1918, it was announced at Ottawa. * * • The cabinet of Premier Clemenceau nt Paris resigned. President Poincare asked Alexnndre Millerand, governor of Alsace, to form a new cabinet. The outgoing minister has been in office since November 16, 1917. * * * Officers of the United States battleship North Dakota entertained the governor, captnin general and a large number of citizens on board the warship at Valencia, Spain. The North Dakota goes next to Gibraltar. # * * Protests against the reported intention of the peace conference to dismember the Turkich empire and to internationalize the city were voiced at a great mass meeting at Constantinople. * * * Five influenza cases were discovered on board the French line steamer La Lorraine, which arrived at New York from Havre. They were taken to the isolation hospital on Swinburne island. * • •

Two men were suffocated, five firemen were injured and a lo§s sustained of nearly a half a million dollars in a fire which destroyed the Empire and Grand Central hotels and three stores at Calgary, Alberta. • * * A Stockholm dispatch says that 49 members of the crew of the American steamer Macona, which struck a rock off Nidingen light and foundered, were lost, the only survivor being the second mate of the ship. 0 0 0 Paul Deschanel was elected president of Francp by the national assembly at Versailles. He received 724 votes. The session was crfled to order by Leon Bourgeois, president of the chamber. * • • Strong belief was expressed In diplomatic circles at London that Great Britain Is preparing an army of 200,006 to be used against the bolshevik! in the near East. * * * News reached London of a heavy engagement on the frontier of India in which the British suffered severely. * • * Dr. Stephen Szlrmay and Ludwig Szemere were hanged at Vienna for their activities during the communist regime.