Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Keports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many IxicalltlenUnder a .plan agreed on over a week ago the peace treaty was placed before the senate again for consideration. Its fate is very problematical at this writing. The worst snow blockade years has paralyzed transportation facilities in central and northern New York. Not a train moved Monday in the section of the state north of the New York Central malm line between Schenectady anh Syracuse.

Fire early Sunday virtually destroyed the Marion block, a fourstory structure, the First National bank building adjoining it and damaged several other 'buildings in the heart of the dpwntown business district at Marlon, causing damage estimated at (500,000. The threatened tie-up of the railroads, scheduled for yesterday, has been temporarily postponed by ths appeal of the president to the railroad men, and the whole wage proposition is to be taken up at a general conference of the union committeemen to be held in Washington next Monday. L. Milligan, Democrat and league of nations adrvocate, was elected to congress to the Third Mlisspuri district, over John ®. Host,. Republican and league oppouent, hy over 2,500 majority. The togue -was clearly drawn and strongly debated In the campaign preceding the election. Plans are being f .made for erection of a |50,>00, soldier mortal building at Knox, in Btarkn county, following the favorable re» port of the investigation committee recently appointed by the Starke county commissioners. The proposed building will have an a/uditorhim with a seating capacity of 700. The contract for dredging Sugar creek' has been awarded’ to the Wolcott Dredging company. The creek Is 15 miles in length and the contract will amount to (110,250. the largest ever let in the county. A floating dredge will be used. Work will begin as soon as the weather permits, and the contract is to* be completed by June, 19215. —(Benton County Tribune.

There is growing talk that Will R. Wood will have formidable opposition in the primary this spring for renomlnatlon to congress on the Republican ticket. It is said that a 'prominent manufacturer has Just about concluded to enter the ring and that his friends are engaged now in ‘‘feeling out” conditions in different parts of t/he district and that they are meetlpg with considerable encouragement.— Tippecanoe County Democrat. The name of Herbert Hoover will be placed "on the Republican presidential preference ballot in Indiana, it wan announced Monday night by Dr. Harry E. Barnard, former state food administrator. Dr. Barnard, who (hud just returned from New York where he conferred with friends, of Mr. Hoover, stated that petitions now are being prepared which* will bd" distributed over the state in accordance with the state primary laws. Tbte county council and county commlstoioners of White county met last Thursday in joint session 09 business connected with the proposed hard-surfaced, (highway extending from the Tippecanoe county line on the south —where it connects with a hard-surfaced county unit road already ordered constructed through Tippecanoe county to the Montgomery county line — and extending north to Brookston, Chalmers and Reynolds to Monon. Several taxpayers, representing ‘ every township in the qownty, were hlso .'present at the