Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Denying on behalf of the railroad administration the demands of the brotherhoods and other railway unions for wage advances ranging from 5 to 40 per cent, Director • General Hines terminated the conference with the labor leaders at Washington and announced the reference, at the request of the union leaders, of the whole matter to the White House. * * * Robert Underwood Johnson of New York, author and editor and one of the founders of the League to Enforce Peace, has been selected by President Wilson as ambassador to Rome, to succeed Thomas Nelson Page of Virginia, who resigned several months ago, * * * Cincinnati was the first city to complete Its fourteenth* decennial census enumeration, it was announced In the census bureau at Washington. • * * Frederick William Hohenzollern, former crown prince of Germany, in a cablegram received by President Wilson at Washington, offers to surrender himself for trial by the allied governments in place of the approximately 900 Germans whose extradition has been demanded. * * • Losses by taxpayers through fires, storms, shipwreck or other casualty, or theft, were held by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Roper at Washington to be fully deductible, if sustained during the taxable year. • * • Senator Lodge reported the treaty to the senate at Washington from the foreign relations committee with the 14 original Lodge reservations attached as the condition of- ratification. • * * Speaker Gillett announced at Washington tliat he was not disturbed by reports that organized labor had placed him on its political black list. *• • I Two hundred thousand members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen served notice on Director General of Railroad Hines at Washington that they will go on strike. • • • The senate at Washington granted a reprieve to the peace treaty. By unanimous vote the treaty was returned to the foreign relations committee on motion of Senator Lodge, the Republican leader.

♦ ♦ • Official dispatches received at Washington said a force of 2,000 Koreans, armed principally with equipmeht furnished by the bolshevikl, crossed into northern Korea from Kirin, Manchuria, and attacked a Japanese post of 700 men at night, killed 200 of them and routed the remainder. ♦ * • Representatives of bituminous operators in Montana and Washington told the coal strike settlement commission at Washington that permanent- application of the recent 14 per cent wage advance to coal miners might force them *to close their mines. * * • Democrats of the house In caucus at Washington went on record as opposed to compulsory military training or service at the present time. ♦ ♦ • A Washington dispatch says three of the four high-power bfival radio stations on the Atlantic coast were commission as the result of the recent storm. ♦ * » / Secretary Lane tendered bis resignation as secretary of the interior department at Washington. Some time ago it was known that he had intended to resign when convenient. * * • Foreign The drink question was briefly discussed in both houses of parliament in London. Earl Curzon told the lords that the bill on this subject to be introduced would contain provisions for shorter hours of sale. * • • Two regiments of Italian soldiers, accompanied by several batteries of light artillery, have sailed from Trieste, Istria, for Dalmatian ports. Their transports were convoyed by a flotilla of destroyers. « • * The declaration of an armistice between the Letts and the bolshevists Is announced in a Riga dispatch. The war office announces that the bolshevikl In southern Russia have crossed the Sea of Azov. / * Announcement is made at London that January 10 is the official date upon which the war with Germany terminated. This date was fixed by royal order. * * • The falling exchange rate with America threatens to cause a famine at Kingston, Jamaica. ~ , - •£ • • Annouhcement of the death of Fedot Ivanovitch Kalinin, one of the \most prominent organizers of the soviet government, is made In a wireless'dis | patch from Moscow.

There Is a remarkable protest in the eadlng editorial in the London Daily Express against the recurring use of the word “my” In the king's speech from the throne, such as “my army, •ny navy, my people, my possessions.” The Express says the word is contrary to the democratic spirit of the age ind ought-to he dropped with the other archaisms which serve no useful purpose and only irritate. • * *. Two hundred thousand men employed In chemical factories at Milan, Italy, including 60,000 workmen in pharmaceutical plants, went on strike tor higher wages and a week’s annual vacation. • • • A Calgary (Alberta) dispatch says Montana farmers are paying $3.25 a bushel for seed wheat In Alberta, said to be the highest price for any part of last year’s crop. Between 100,000 and 150,000 bushels are being shipped. • • • A general strike lias beA declared । In the industrial region of Solingen, an iron and steel center of Rhenish Prussia. All the works In the. area are at a'standstill, according to.reports from Berlin. • • • America has sounded France on the subject of the tobacco monopoly for France being farmed out to the United States for 25 year?, according to a report current on the bourse, says the Journal at Paris. * « * Serious consideration of economic conditions throughout the country was urged upon the house of commons at London by King George in his speech from the throne, which opened the session of parliament. ♦ ♦ ♦ Prince William, second son of King Gustave of Sweden, arrived at Panama on the liner Kronprinzessin Margaret He will board the Swedish cruiser Fylgia for a scientific expedition to Central America. <* ♦ ♦ British warships have begun tire bombardment of Odessa, ‘he big Black seaport recently captured by the Russian sbviet forces from the Ukrainians, according-to Moscow wireless dispatches. • • • Definite decision has been reached at Warsaw that Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the allies’ armies, shall go to the Polish capital to confer with , the military authorities regarding the bolshevfst menace. » ♦ *. • Personal * Charles Frederick Gunther, eightythree years old, world renowned art collector and founder of one of the biggest candy manufacturing concerns in the West, died of flu-pneumonia at Chicago. Miss Lucy Morill Spelman, sister of the late Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, died at the estate of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., at Pocantico Hills, N. Y„ of an illness due to old age. « • •

Domestic Theft of the $30,000 pay roll of theAguila Oil company at Tampico, Mex„ by robbers who killed the ihessenger carrying the money was reported tothe state department at Washington. * * ♦ A flat increase of SSOO over the 1918 salary’ schedule for teachers in the Chicago school system and the shortening of the promotional period required to reach the maximum, has been granted. * * * Mrs. Uzell K. Ivy died at Memphis, Tenn., making the seventh fatality resulting from a luncheon at which ripe olives were served. A complete analysis of the olives showed the presence of botulinus germs. * * • ' Mayor William Lord of Orange, N. J„ issued a proclamation calling upon the people to decorate their homes in honor of Thomas A. Edison, who Is seventy-three years old:. • * * Thirty-five applicants for citizenship papers were refused naturalization by Federal Judge Landis at Chicago because of their pro-German actions during the war. • • • Twenty-two hundred barrels of 4 per cent beer, valued at $15,000, was emptied Into the sewers leading to the Mississippi river at Winona, Minn. The beverage was the property of the Dark Brewing company. * ♦ • Lieut. Harry B. Smith and Harry Brokaw, both of the Ninety-fourth aero squadron, were instantly killed when their machines collided 125 feet above the ground and fell at San Antonio, Tex. • » • Army surplus food sales to the New York zone through municipalities, institutions, dealers and army retail stores totaled $14,080,974, Col. C. Nixon, in charge of the sales, announced. ~ ♦ ♦ * • Five to ten years in state prison was the sentence imposed in the supreme eourt at New York on Benjamin Gitlow, former Bronx assemblyman and manager of the Revolutionary Age, who was convicted of violating the state’s criminal anarchy statute. Martial law was declared ol Leming ton, Ky., following’ a riot which exacted a toll of five dead and fourteen wounded. The disorder started over an attempt to lynch a negro who had confessed to the murder of a tfn-year-old girl. _ _