Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1920 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Personal > Rear Admiral Albert G. Winterhalter, U. S. N., died at the Naval hospital at Washington of pneumonia. Ue was born in Detroit, Mich., October 5. 1856, and was formerly in command of the Asiatic fleet. * * ♦ Vai Winkler, minister of agriculture for Manitoba, died' suddenly at Morden, Manitoba. • • • A gift of SI2S,(MX) from the Rockefeller Foundation to Milliken university was announced at Decatur, 111. This leaves but $310,000 to be raised in the $2,000,000 endowment campaign. • * ♦ Senator Robert M. I«i Follette of Wisconsin was operated upon at St. Mary’s hospital at Rochester, Minn., sos removal of the gall sac. The operation was successful, according tJ announcement made by surgeons. *. * ♦ Politics Senator Lodge was chosen as permanent chairman for the Republican convention at Chicago by Jhe committee on permanent organization. * * • Senator Watson of Indiana won h’s fight for chairman of the resolutions committee of the Republican convention at Chicago. ♦ ♦ * Des Moines, la., June 10.—Estimates based on unofficial returns gave Sena-

tor Albert B. Cummins a plurality of 25,000 votes for renomination for the United States senate. * • • Domestic Eleven persons were killed and 21 injured when a train* of express cars crashed into the rear of a passenger train which had stopped about two miles from Schenectady, N. Y. ♦ ♦ ♦ Alex Miller, deaf-mute, was found guilty of first-degree murder at Greeley, Colo,, In connection with the killing of Adam Shank, his wife and four children on the Shank farm near Gllbrest, last December. • • • A The torpedo-boat destroyer Satter-. lee broke all/ American records for speed in her standardization trials off Rockland, Me., when she made a mile at the rate of 38.257 knots an hour. ♦ • • Masked bandits entered the Hayes National bank at Hayes, Pa., ten miles from and after locking the cashier in the vault looted the bank and escaped* • • • The country home of Enrico Caruso, the tenor, at East Hampton, N. Y., was entered by burglars and jewels valued at $500,000 were stolen, the police report. • ♦ * Four men were killed, one Injured and nine arrested at Atlanta, Ga., as the result of a police raid on a house in the negro section of the city, where It is alleged gambling was in progress. * • • Fire followed by an explosion did damage estimated at $300,000 to the Perry G. Mason mail-order house and adjoining buildings at Cincinnati. The cause of the fire is unknown. • * * A bill has been introduced in the Louisiana legislature at Baton Rouge to make every man in the state marry at twenty-five or go to jail for five to ten years. * * ♦ — Reductions of from 25 cents to $2 a pair in the wholesale prices of various styles of shoes were announced by officials of three of the largest shoe manufacturing establishments at St Louis. ' * * * Masked bandits boldly entered the Hayes National bank at Hayes, Pa., ten miles from Pittsburgh, and after locking the cashier in the vault looted the bank and escaped. ♦ ♦ • Congressman Flood of Virginia and half a dozen lawyers and witnesses in the famous Portner will case engaged in a free-for-all fight in the Prince William county circuit court at Manassas, Va. * ♦ • The resolution providing for ratification of the federal suffrage amendment was defeated in the senate ol the general assembly of Louisiana at Baton Rouge, La., by a vote of 22 to 19. K * » * Gaining 256,282 inhabitants in ten years, Los Angeles, with a pppulatiorZ of 575,480, has stepped ahead of San Francisco, according to 1920 census figures made public at Washington. The population of San Francisco is announced as 508,410, a gain of 99,498. • • • Eight persons killed, more than 100 injured and property losses that will aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars was the toll taken by the terrific wind and electrical storm that ■wept northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Tuesday night

Three are known to be dead and forty-five Injured, many seriously If not fatally, as the result of an explosion of a 15,000-gallon tank of benzoin at the plant of the Mason Tire and Rubber company, near Akron, O. • • • Five people were instantly killed 17 miles south of Grand Rapids, Mich., when a touring car was wtruck by a Michigan railway interurban train. The automobile was completely demolished. 1 • * • Aviation Cadets Roy W. Ellington of McCroy, Ark., and Harold Crowley of Mildred, Mont., were instantly killed at Kelley field, near San Antonio, Tex., when their airplane went into a tail spin and fell 2,000 feet. • * * Henry B. Osterman of Detroit Mich., secretary of tlie Lincoln Highway association, was killed Instantly when his automobile skidded near Tama, la. He was known from coast to coast. • * ,* Two members of the crew of a freight train were killed at Gardener Cass county, when several cars were swept from the track by a tornado, telephone reports received from Fargo, N. D., said. • • • Foreign The Polish counter-offensive against the bolshWlki between the Dvina and Upper Beresina, under General Pilsudski, president of the republic, is developing favorably, according to an official statement issued by the general staff at Warsaw. • * * Irish sympathizers in the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor at Montreal, Que., declared war on the League of Nations ratification program recommended by the executive council. * * * Three Spanish airplanes have»bombarded strongholds of rebellious tribesmen at Adouares and Sagara, dropping more than 100 bombs and causing great damage, according to advices received at Madrid. * * * Premier Nittl announced in the chamber of deputies at Rome that the cabinet had resigned. Former President Vittorio Orlando also resigned as president of the chamber. * « * The government tendered its resignation to President Ebert at Berlin, who requested it to remain in office provisionally. • * • According to information received at the foreign office anti-Semitic outbreaks occurred in Budapest around June 4, on which date, the advices stated, one man saw 12 Jews killed. • * * Three persons were killed and six wounded in a clash in the southeastern neutral zone when an attempt was made to disarm a company of RelchsSvehr, according to Information received at Berlin. * * * Russian bolshevist forces have been driven back in a panic along the front between the Duna and Beresina rivers, according to an official statement issued at Polish army headquarters at Warsaw. • • • The share of the United States in the first 20,000.000,000 marks gold of reparation bonds Germany is required to issue under the Versailles treaty will be about $500,000,000, : it was stated at Paris. * ♦ * Vandals invaded the grand ducal vault in the cemetery at Weimar in which lie the bodies of Schiller and Goethe, the famous German poets, and did considerable damage. ♦ ♦ * Gregory Krassln, emissary to London of the Russian soviet government, definitely succeeded in putting over an agreement for the resumption of trade between England and Russia. • ♦ ♦ Washington o Breckenridge Long, third assistant secretary of state at Washington, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted by President 'Wilson. * • * A drive on delinquent tax payers all over the country is being planned by Internal revenue officers, it was announced at Washington. * * * Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby

will probably ne the official spokesman for President Wilson on the floor of the San Francisco it was learned at Washington. * * ♦ Increases of 24 per cent in freight rates between points east of the Mississippi and points west of the Mississippi were asked by representatives of the carriers at the hearing of the Interstate commerce commission at Washington. • * • Total wheat production this year will be about 781,000,000 bushels, according to the United States department of agriculture at Washington. s » ♦ Pending a full report of the burning of the British flag in front of the treasury building last week by Irish women sympathizers, Secretary of State Colby has informally expressed regret for the Incident to Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador at Washington. ♦ * * Both the federal prohibition amendment and the enforcement act passed by congress were held constitutional by the Supreme court at Washington. Permission to file a motion asking for a rehearing was granted by the court.