Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Domestic The first walkout In what threatens to be a general strike of city employees occurred at Chicago when 506 teamsters and chauffeurs quit work, tying up the collection of garbage and refuse throughout the city. • • • Ratification of the proposed suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution was completed by the Washington legislature at Olympia, when the senate unanimously passed a ratifying • • • According to word received at the national headquarters of the lodge of Camels at Milwaukee, Reno, Nev., installed a caravan of 500 members. The Camels are opposed to the eighteenth federal amendment. • * * Union cement finishers nt St. Louis [Will be given a wage Increase of from !90 cents to $1.25 an hour beginning lAprll 1, it was announced. About 300 men will be benefited. * * • i Warning that radicals are trying to obtain membership in the American Legion was given in a statement issued by Arthur Woods, chairman of the national Americanism commission at Indianapolis. • * • Preferring death to duty in the radio [school. Great Lakes, Arthur Hugh ImIler, eighteen, jumped over a 75-foot (cliff at the station overlooking Lake [Michigan. The leap resulted only in istunning and bruising him. More than a score of church deIrfominatlonal organizations have [formed an alliance to fight the red [menace. Fire starting In a leaking “tar line” swept over the plant of the Constantin Refining company at Tulsa, Okla., causing damage estimated at $500,000. An appraisal of the estate of Ella Wheeler Wilcox has been filed In the probate court at Branford, Conn. It places the total value at $77,223. • • • Forty owners of Chicago moving picture theaters are facing arrest for having defrauded the government out of money received as* 10 per cent war tax. • • • 1 One nun was burned to death, nine .others were burned or injured and the Wilkesbarre (Pa.) convent of the Order of Mercy was practically destroyed by fire of unknown origin. • * • Truman H. Newberry, junior United ' States senator from Michigan, was convicted at Grand Rapids by a jury ,of having conspired cijminally In 1918 to violate the election laws. He was sentenced by Judge Clarence W. Sessions to two years’ Imprisonment and fined SIO,OOO and released on bond pending an appeal. * •* •

The senate at Albany, N. Y., by a ■vote of 30 to 19 adopted the Walker ,bill, designed*to legalize boxing in the state under the auspices of the army, navy and civilian board of boxing control. * * • Three officers of the Eighty-second field artillery stationed at El Paso, Tex., have been recommended for court-martial in connection with the loss of many thousand dollars’ worth of supplies. ♦ • • The Canadian dollar was quoted at 90.80 cents, a new high in the present upward movement on the foreign exiChange market at New York. • • * The candidacy of Gov. James M. Cox for the Democratic presidential nomination was formally announced at Columbus, O. ♦ ♦ ♦ Washington Government control over the maxi,mum price of bituminous coal was iwlthdrawn by President Wilson at Washington, effective April 1. At the same time the president wrote the 'operators and miners transmitting the majority report of the coal commission and informing them that this report was “the basis upon which the wage-scale agreements between rhe j/nine workers and operators shall be ■made.” • * • The Supreme court at Washington announced It would recess after conclusion of hearings on the liquor case, set for next Monday, March 29, until iMonday, April 12. * • * i Permission has been granted the company by the Interstate commerce commission at Washington ’to file special tariffs Increasing rates approximately 20 per cent ; • • • Armored cars, police with drawn swords and an Infantry guard wearIng helmets, escorted judges of the Assizes court at Galway, Ireland, to ■the courthouse. a meeting of the railway men al Madrid ft was unanimously decided to declare strike on all rail ways in Spain.

The senate committee on foreign relations, that has been considering for several days the appointment of Bainbridge Colby to be secretary of state, reported favorably on the nomination, says a Washington dispatch. • * • An agreement under which all American dead In France may be removed to the United States has been reached at a conference between representatives of the French and American governments at Washington. • • • Personal William Jennings Bryan celebrated his sixtieth birthday in New York Friday. • • • Thomas W. Steele, former congressman from the Eleventh lowa district, dropped dead at Sioux City, la. • • * Representative W. J. Browning of Camden, N. J., dropped dead In the barber shop at the capltol In Washington. • • * Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist, died of heart disease in a London hospital. • * *

Foreign Fifty American .Rhodes scholars, residents of Oxford university, have been invited to spend their Easter vacations in English homes in order that they may gain a more intimate Insight into English family life. « * * More than 16,000 antibolshevlst soldiers have been found frozen to death on the steppes, it is announced in a soviet military communique received from Moscow. • * • Dutch manufacturers are going to Introduce the wooden shoe to the American people. Representatives of several large factories have left for the United States with samples, says a dispatch from The • * « A Berne dispatch says a referendum on the proposed prohibition of gambling houses in Switzerland showed a majority of only 50,000 in favor of prohibition In a total vote approaching 500,000. • • • Major General Luettwitz, the military commander in the Kapp revolt, has been arrested, it is officially announced at Berlin. Admiral Troths, chief of the admiralty, also has been arrested. • • * Russian bolshevist forces which have attacked the Polish front with great fury in the vicinity of Bobruisk, have been repulsed everywhere, according to an official statement Issued at Warsaw. • * • The government of President Ebert, which left Berlin a week ago when Dr. Wolfgang Kapp and his reactionary troops entered the city, is again in power in the capital. President Ebert and the members of his ministry reached Berlin at H o’clock Sunday morning from Stuttgart, and soon afterward the order for a state of intensified siege was withdrawn. Meanwhile the signs and symbols of the Kapp dictatorship, the wire entanglements and the barricades, were being removed. • • •

The Ebert-Bauer government at Berlin definitely rejected the demand of the trades unions and the two socialist parties (independents and moderates) for a “centralized workingmen’s government.” * • * A Warsaw dispatch says the bolshevlkl launched repeated attacks along various parts of the Polish front. The attacks were repulsed by the Poles, 900 bolshevlki being taken prisoner In the two-days’ fighting. » » » A committee on economics, to be a part of the financial ministry, has been formed at Paris for the purpose of curtailing the national expenditure. The committee has bepn Instructed to conduct investigations. * * • The British and French governments have notified Prince Felsal, son of the Hedjaz, that they cannot recognize the validity of the decision of the Damascus congress which proclaimed him king of Syria. * * • Prince Bismarck’s mausoleum at Friedrichsruhe was entered by burglars, the thieves carrying off silver wreaths attached to the casket. Two suspects have been arrested at Buechen. * ♦ » The Bauer cabinet, a coalition of social democrats, centrists and democrats, presented its resignation to President Ebert at Berlin. • » » The city’s grief over the murder of Lord Mayor of Cork, Is intense. All business was abandoned, crowds standing in the streets for five hours waiting for the funeral cortege to pass. All Said Pasha, military governor of Constantinople, has been arrested by the British forces In that dty. • * * Gustav Noske, minister of defense at Berlin, presented his resignation to President Ebert and the president accepted it Other cabinet changes are imminent • • • ' The Turkish chamber of deputies at Constanlnople has adjourned as a protest against allied occupation of the city and the deportation of a number pf Turkish national leaders. ■