Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Washington Agreement to abolish the subtreasuries at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis, San Francisco, Cincinnati and Chicago on July 1, 1921, was readied by senate and house conferees on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill at Washington. • * * The “outlaw” railroad strike is a direct, well-pjanned attempt to overthrow the United States goevrnment by means of revolution. This was the official view taken of it at the cabinet meeting at Washington. • • • An order was issued by Secretary Wilson at Washington suspending the Immigration laws so as to admit laborers from Mexico and Canada for the exclusive purpose of cultivating and harvesting sugar beets. • • * President Wilson is asked in a resolution introduced in the house at Washington to urge Great Britain to afford trials to Irish political prisoners or give them their liberty. *• • i For the second time since he has been president, Mr. Wilson has become the center of attention by an organization of women pickets. American women striving for Irish freedom picketed both the White House and the Treasury building at Washington. * • • Tentative agreement has been reached at Washington on details of the plan to be recommended by the house way and means subcommittee considering the cash bonus feature of the proposed soldier aid legislation. Under the terms of this plan bonuses of $1 a day for each day served will be given to about 3,000,000 ex-service men. • ♦ • Former Senator Theodore Burton of Ohio was nominated at Washington to be a member of the tariff commission. Martin J. Gllan of Wisconsin was nominated to be a member of the shipping board.

• • • Frederic A. Delano of Chicago was appointed by the Supreme court at Washington as receiver In the Rod River Valley oil land controversy between Oklahoma and Texas. • • • The census bureau at Washington reported the population of St. Louis as 773,000, an Increase of 85,971, or 12.5 per cent. * • • President Wilson will not establish the Summer White House at Woods Hole, Mass., as had been expected. It became known at Washington that the announcement that the president had selected the estate of Charles R. Crane, minister to China, for the summer home, was premature. • • • Population statistics issued at Washington include: Flint, Mich., 91.599. increase 53,039. or IS7 per cent over Adrian. Mich., 11.878, increase 1,115, or 10.4 per cent; Wabash, Ind.. 9,872, increase 1,185, or 13.0 per cent. • * •

Reductions of more than $600,000,000 in the estimates of the war department are made in the 1921 army appropriation bill to be reported out by the house military committee at Washington. * • • Although standing on the 1921 naval building program as authorized by the house, the senate riaval affairs committee at Washington has decided to recommend an Increase of $39,000,000 over house appropriations, for a larger navy.

Domestic Gabriel Shipley, a lock tender near Hagerstown, Md„ has received word from a probate court in California that he and his five children are heirs to $7,000,000 from an estate of $22,000,000, left by a cousin. Two hundred women, wives and sympathizers of strikers at Kewanee, 111., attacked 800 workers with bricks and stones. In the melee 15 workers suffered broken noses and arms and a score of women were trampled under foot. • • * The Chicago express, eastbound, one of the prize trains of the Erie, was abandoned by its crew at Port Jervis, N. Y„ 90 miles from New York. The train carried 250 passengers, milk and United States mail. “ William C. Bryan, promoter of stocks and bonds, was found murdered in the offices of the Insurance Trust company, in the First National Bank bnllding at Chicago. Four hours later X Ellsworth Griffin, his business associate and president of the concern, cmfesscd that he shot Bryan. • • • Dertek walked Into the enonty Jail at Athens, Tenn., and surrendered for trial on charges of having tpurdered Hugh Duggan 14 years ago this month. The case had almost been forgotten. 1

Shortage of white paper has compelled the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the only Gentian morning paper in Chicago, to suspend publication. * • • Four young children and their mother, Mrs. Julius Kutz, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed their farm home. one and one-half miles from Delavan, Wls. • • • After a conference with Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Representative Mondell of Wyoming, the Republican leader In the house at Washington, said he believed congress would adjourn June 5. • • * More than 1,000 girls arrived at New York from Ireland. Rev. Anthony Grogen of the Home for Irish Immigrant Girls said their arrival would help relieve the shortage of domestic servants. < * • • The New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Boston voted to lift the ban on dancing, card playing and theatergoing. The forbidding words will be dropped from the book of discipline. * • ♦ Leaders of the striking switchmen In the Chicago district were informed by federal representatives that they must go back to work or stand aside to let the railroads hire men to take their places. • • • The Central Railroad of New Jersey suspended all passenger service on account of the strike. The road covers the state of New Jersey and the suspension order affects 55,000 commuters. • • • James Miles, missing vice president of the Standard Trust and Savings bank of Chicago, who Is accused In connectloa with a $200,000 shortage in the bank’s funds, surrendered at Rockford, ni. • • • Personal Roger C. Sullivan, for many years Democratic boss of Cook county, died at his home in Chicago, Mr. Sullivan’s end came as a result of a sudden heart attack, superinduced by bronchial pneumonia. • • * Dowager Viscountess Wolseley, widow of Viscount Wolseley, field marshal and former commander-in-chlef of the British army, died at London. • • • Politics General Pershing’s first formal announcement that he would permit himself to be considered as a candidate for president was made at a banquet of the Nebraska society at Washington. • • •

Gov. Frank O. Lowden, though beaten by 30,000 by Maj. Gen. Wood in Chicago, has won the Illinois Republican presidential indorsement by an estimated plurality of 80,000. • * • Foreign i Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, leader- of the recent unsuccessful coup d'etat in Berlin, and other men prominently conthat movement, have gathered at Danzig, which is a free city. • * * The unionist members of the Londonderry city council withdrew from the session when a resolution of sympathy with the hunger strikers In Mount Joy prison was proposed. • * • Soldiers fired ball cartridges over the heads of crowds gathered at the Londonderry station at Belfast and two civilians were wounded by ricocheting buddets. • * •

Slxty-four hunger striking prisoners have been released at Dublin, apparently unconditionally, and as a result the strike was called off. * * ♦ Evidence is accumulating that Paul R. Def Mott of Paterson. N. J., who was killed in the Ruin- district by German soldiers, had close connection with bolshevist groups in various countries, says a Berlin dispatch. *. ♦ * Ten of the “hunger strikers” were released from Mount Joy prison at Dublin. All are in a precarious physical and mental condition. • » • A pronounced victory for the Poles over the bolshevikl on the southeastern front was reported by the general staff at Warsaw. After several days’ fighting a bolshevik division was put to flight/ • • • A proclamation has made its appearance at Agua Prieta, Sonora, call? ing citizens to arms against the Carranza government. It Is signed by the president of the municipal council of that city. • • • Despite the optimistically worded editorials In the French press, unbiased observers at Paris do not disguise the gravity of the situation created by Great Bitain’s firm attitude toward France. • • * The Japanese casualties in the fighting between Russian and Japanese forces on April 5 at Khabarovsk, in the Amur region, totaled 84 killed and 183 wounded, according to an official statement Issued at Tokyo. The Russians lost 400 killed and 1,500 men taken prisoner. • • • The German government froops in the Ruhr district threaten to go on strike unless the Berlin cabinet relnstitutes the death penalty through drumhead court-martial, according to a Dusseldorff dispatch.