Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1920 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington According to a Washington dispatch ballots cast by women in the coining presidential election will fall short of the potential men’s vote by over 2,500,000, provided the suffrage amendment is ratified and laws enacted. • * * It is announced at Washington that President Wilson will pass the summer at the summer home of Charles R. Crane, former Chicagoan, at Woods Hole, a village on the southern coast of Massachusetts. * * • Charles A. McQueen of Cleveland, 0., was appointed by the department of commerce at Washington as commercial attache at Santiago, Chile. Population statistics announced by the census bureau at Washington included Kankakee, 111., 10,721; increase, 2,735, or 19.6 per cent over 1910. • • * Senator Newberry of Michigan, who returned ‘to Washington, will not reHume his seat in the senate until questions as to his status in the Michigan election conspiracy cases have been disposed of. A committee amendment to the post office appropriation bill providing for A transcontinental air mall route between New York and San Francisco, via Chicago and Omaha, Neb., was adopted by the senate at Washington. Nearly 700,000 persons have been added to the population of Chicago within the last ten years, bringing the total number of Inhabitants of the city to 2,884,827, the census figures just completed for the government reveal, according to Washington reports. • • * Domestic The Chicago city council passed the $180,560,963 approjtriatlon bill for 1920, provided $36,255,830 for meeting city hall expenses and allowed the 18,050 city employees an average Increase in salary of 10 per cent. Five hundred Chicago firemen, representing all except 36 of the 175 fire department companies, voted unanimously to resign en masse In protest over the

small increase. • * • Simplified spelling, which has been used in the publications of the Modern Language Association of America since 1911, was abandoned by the association at Columbus,*O. Three persona were killed and one Injured when the auto in which they were 'driving from Bay City to their home stalled on a railroad track at Quannlcasee, Mich., and was struck by a train. Harry E. Simon, a former army flyer of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Arthur L. Peterson of Viborg, S. D., a student aviator making his first flight, were killed at Sioux City, la. • • The bituminous coal miners accepted a 27 per cent Increase In wages and an eight-hour day, which was awarded by President Wilson’s coal commission. The joint .wage scale committee of the miners and operators signed an agreement at New York. Eight persons were killed and 40 seriously Injured when the roof of the O’Farrell theater in San Luis Potosi, Mex., collapsed during a theatrical performance. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Mississippi house of representatives at Jackson again refused to ratify the suffrage amendment by a vote of 94 to 23. The measure passed the senate. • » • The Bay City Foundry and Machine company's plants at Bay City, Mich., were destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at between $65,000 and $70,000. ♦ ♦ * Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Md., Is considering a trip to Rome, In conformance with a new ruling requiring the presence there once In five years of each cardinal. ♦ * ♦ Following years of friction between the “Big Four” of the railroad unions and the American Federation of Labor, it was announced at New York that the two bodies will join forces. • • • Patrick Cudahy, wealthy meat packer, left an estate valued at approximately $2,500,000, according to the Inventory of appraisers, filed in the county court at Milwaukee, Wls. • • • Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealth} young Philadelphian, recently courtmartialed for desertion because of his alleged failure to report for military service, was sentenced to five years in prison at New York. The action -of President Wllson’f

coal commission lm granting bltumlm ’ oos mine workers a wage Increase ol 27 per cent means the price of coal at the mines will advance 65 cents tc $1.25 a ton, it was announced at New York. Material augmentation of the known death list of over 161 and property damage running to many million dollars loomed when restoration of wire communication would permit compilation of accurate reports from the wix central West states struck by a series of tornadoes. The storm also did much damage In Georgia and Alabama. The known dead in the South totals about seventy-five and may be double that number, according to a Chicago dispatch. • • • By a walkout of all employees of the municipal reduction plant at Chicago collection of city garbage was tied up. The strikers included the drivers of the wagons, workmen at the plant and clerks. • • * A Sioux Falls, S. D., dispatch says high winds, accompanied In many places by a pelting rain and snowstorm, have virtually paralyzed wire communication to all points in the eastern half of South Dakota. • * * A snowstorm accompanied by a wind, swept across central and western Kansas, covering the wheat belt. From several points a 45-mile wind was reported which razed silos and outbuildings, according to a Concordia dispatch. • * • An armed caravan moved through New York’s financial district with a treasure of ten tons of gold in rough, metal-bound boxes loaded on five twohorse trucks. The gold, valued at $9,300,000, arrived from England. * » • Four employees of the Atlantic Refining company at Philadelphia were killed and ten Injured in a collision between a passenger motorbus and a Philadelphia' & Reading Hog island train. Obstructions in the Culebra cut district of the Panama canal were removed and the great waterway is again open for traffic after a six-day Interruption, according to a Panama dispatch. • * ♦ George Sherlock of Orange, N. J., flying a post office department airplane, was instantly killed while trying to land on Heller field at Newark, N. J., after completing a trip from Washington. • • • An agreement was reached between the Carpenters’ District council apd

the Carpenter Contractors’ association ar Chicago whereby the carpenters are to be given a minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. * * • Brig. Gen. William H. Harts, who was commander of American troops in the Paris area after the armistice, arrived at New York from Paris. He is expected to answer charges that he was responsible for cruelties. ♦ * * Jess Walker, nineteen years old, of Evansville, Ind., was sentenced at New York to die in the electric chair the week of April 25 for the murder of Samuel Wolchok, March 11, 1919. Personal Miss Minnie Webb Curtis,. former national president of the W. C. I. U., died at Dallas, Tex. ♦ * ♦ Elmer Apperson, fifty-eight, of Kokomo, Ind., formerly president of the Apperson Motor Car company, was stricken with apoplexy while watching the automobile race at Los Angeles, and died a few minutes later. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE Henry C. DeKock et ux to John D Alexander, Meh. 1, It 16, bl 1, McDonald’s add, Demotte, $350. Michael Kanne to John M. Kanne et al, Meh. 1, ne sw, e% ne, se, 8-31-6, ne ne, 17-31-6, 312.15 acres. Walker; pt 25-29-7, 198.30 acres, umi % n pt ne, 36-29-7, 77.50 acres, Marion, $2. Grisilda Barzdys et baron to 'William H. Minor, Meh. 30, its 4,5, 6, pt it 7, bl 7, outlot 6, pt outlot 5, Wheatfield, $4,300. Notice special meeting of COUNTY COUNCIL Notice is hereby given that the county council of Jasper county, Indiana, ''will meet in special session Monday, April 5, at 1 o'clock p. m., in the auditor’s office, to consider additional appropriations for 1920 and such other matters as may legally come before them. • SCHUYLER C. ROBINSON, Auditor Jasper County. Azi armload of old papers for 5c at The Democrat office.