Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1920 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE \ Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. Washington President Wilson at Washington went for his first automobile ride in five months, and surprised all who saw him by his physical appearance. He rode around the capital speedway and through the city. * * • Action on President Wilson’s nomination of Colby to be secretary of state was deferred by the senate foreign relations committee at Washington. • • • President Wilson at Washington asked the railway executives apd emITloyees to join In selecting representatives for a bipartisan board “for the purpose of attempting by conference to agree’' upon a solutlbn of the railwfty wage problem under section 301 of tlie railroad bill. • « * Without the slightest change either of meaning or phraseology, ‘he senate At Washington readopted the Lodge reservation safeguarding the Monroe doctrine by the decisive vote of 58 to 22. • * • Acting on the recommendation of the new secretary of agriculture, the senate agriculture committee at Washington voted to eliminate from the annual agricultural bill the $240,000 voted by the house to continue the time-hallowed custom of distribution of free seeds.

♦ * * The eighteenth amendment "is a direct Invasion of jurisdiction and powers of the state and the rights of Its people,” the state of Rhode Island declares in Its brief filed In the Supreme court at Washington. ♦ ♦ • The British government has been formally notified by the state department at Washington that the appointment of Sir Auckland Geddes as British ambassador to the United States would be thoroughly • • • The Supreme court at Washington upheld formation of the United States Steel corporation and subsidiary combinations in the iron and steel industry, by refusing to dissolve the so-call-ed “steel trust." • • • Domestic Twenty-two of the twenty-eight towns in Rutland county. Vermont, voted for license Tuesday as compared with a total of eight towns voting wet last year. In Rutland city the wet majority was increased "SOK votes. * * * Maj. Hugh M. Caldwell, ex-A. E. F. man, defeated James A. Duncan, Labor temple president and leader of the radical element, in the Seattle (Wash.) mayority election, 50,850 to 34,849. * * * Judge Sessons in federal court at Grand Rapids, Mich., freed 15 more defendants in the Newberry election conspiracy case. Twenty-three were dismissed Tuesday. This left 85 defendants in the field.

* * * Mary Bickford,*inotion picture star, was granted a divorce from Owen Moore at Minden, a small town near Carsori City, Nev., on grounds of desertion. * * * W. B. Dawes and John Ryan were killed tnd Herman Miller was seriously injured when a handcar in which they were going to work was struck by a train at Janesville, Wis. • * * The superdreadnaught Maryland will be launched at Newport News, Va., March 20. It is the largest ship yet constructed for the navy, being 600 feet long and having a displacement of 32,000 tons. * • • General Pershing was the guest of honor and Bainbridge Colby was the principal speaker at the concluding exercises of “loyalty week” at New York. The meeting was held in the historic “white room” at city hall. * • * After deliberating 30 hours a jury at Cedar Rapids, la., found Henry Tonn., Chicago I. W. W. organizer, charged with criminal conspiracy and syndicalism, guilty. * • ♦ Governor Edwards at Trenton, N. J., signed a bill that permits the manufacture apd sale, after peace with Germany is proclaimed, of liquor containing 3.5 per cent of alcohol by volume. .* • * Damage estimated at over $5,000,000 was done to fruit and vegetables In south Florida by the lowest temperature ever officially recorded at Miami, * • • Fire, believed to have been caused by defective wiring, destroyed the large Wellington Glass company's plant at Cumberland, Md.

Petition for the quashing of Indictments against William Bross Lloyd and 15 other alleged members of the communist party, on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States, was denied by Judge Hebei at Chicago. • • • Manufacture and sale of 2.5 per cent beer In Wisconsin was legalized in a decision handed down by Federal Judge Geiger at Milwaukee, in the test case brought by the Manitowoc Products company for an injunction to halt enforcement of the Volstead act • • • Politics Gov. Edward J. Edwards of New Jersey became Illinois wets’ candidate for the Democratic nomination for president with the filing with the secretary of state in Springfield of petition required. \ • • • Attorney General Palmer formally announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president in a telegram to HTram L. Gardner, secretary of the Georgia Democratic state committee at Atlanta, Ga. • * • Personal Ake llummerskjold; first secretary of the Swedish legation at Washington. will leave for London soon to accept a post under Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League of Nations. • • « Foreign The military and police at Dublin railed Liberty , hall, the headquarters of' Larkin's transport workers; Banba hall, headquarters of the grocers* assistants’ organization, now on strike; the Gaelic league offices, the rooms of the, Leinster College of Irish, and numerous private houses. The principal arrest was that of William O’Brien, leader of the transport workers. Reports from the Portuguese frontier declare that the workingmen in Portugal have proclaimed a soviet republic. The postal, the telegraphic and other workers are said to have joined the railroad men. • • • The Greek legation at Paris made public a telegram announcing the slaughter of a large numbed of Greeks and Armenians by the Turks in Rodesto, 60 miles northeast of Gallipoli, on the Sea of Marmora.

• • « The disposition of the Turkish navy was definitely settled by the allies’ supreme council at London when it decided the peace treaty will provide that the warships be broken up. The Turkish army will be reduced. * • • The death is announced of Karl von Martins, noted chemist and founder of the Berlin aniline dye ( works. • • ♦ An attempt was made at Budapest to assassinate Stephen former premier and minister of war in the present Hungarian cabinet. Several shots were fired at the war minister’s motorcar. • * • A London dispatch says that the cost of all principal articles of food in England rose in January to 136 per cent over the prewar level and is 125 per cent on rent, clothing, light and fuel, according to statistics. * * * Martial law has been declared In Peking and soldiers are camped all over the capital. The situation is hourly growing more tense, because of the anti-Japanese sentiment. Typhoons can only rise in hot, damp still air, and therefore do not occur outside the tropics.