Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Philadelphia’s population was announced by the census bureau at Washington as 1,823,158, showing the country’s third most populous city to have a numerical increase for the ten years of 274,150. • • • President Wilson at Washington sent a message to the railroad labor board at Chicago urging that It make an immediate award in the wage controversy. • * ♦ The president at Washington, in a telegram to Gov. A. N. Roberts of Tennessee, urges that a special session of the state legislature be called to vote on the Susan B. Anthony amendment. Thirty-five states already have ratified the amendment; and only one more is needed to make it possible for the women of the country t'o vote at the coming presidential election. ♦ * ♦ With a view to restoring confidence In the wool industry, the federal reserve board at Washington lias offered to finance wool growers during the present market emergency. * • * Exports for May increased $55,000,000, while imports fell otT $04,000,000, as compared with the trade figures for April, it was announced at the department of commerce at Washington. * * » Edward Capps of New Jersey was hamed by President Wilson at Washington as minister to Greece, ft recess appointment. • » » Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, who far more than 15 months has been in the United States as the Russian soviet “ambassador” lias been recalled by the soviet authorities, it is learned in official, circles at Washington. Estimated strength of the army on

June 17, was 213,135 officers and enlisted men, of which 15,089 held commissioned grades, according to figures made public by the war department at Washington. * * * President Wilson at Washington has received the first “victory medal,” an emblem which will he issued to all those entitled to It who served in the world war between April 6, 1917, and Armistice day. • • * • Domestic Preliminaries to establishment of trade relations between soviet Russia and Canada have been completed, according to announcement at New York by Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, soviet “ambassador.” • • • A nonstop flight to New York will be undertaken on the return trip of the all-metal airplane which arrived at Omaha, Neb.. John M. Larson, the owner said. Mr. and Mrs. Larson came to attend a wedding. * * * A St. Paul dispatch says A. J. Volstead, representative from the Seventh district, and sponsor of the prohibition enforcement law which bears his name, has been defeated in the primary election for renomination. • • * Beloit college, at Beloit, Wls., will receive $300,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, it was announced at the seventy-t hi rd annua l commencement, if the college increases its endowment by $1,000,000. ♦ ♦ ♦ Seventeen thousand dollars’ worth of liquor and groceries was stolen from the warehouse of A. Rusno & Co. at Cldcago. The theft was discovered when the warehouse was opened. ♦ ♦ » Phillip Gaithers was lynched near Rincon, Ga., after he had confessed to the murder of Miss Anza .Tandon, seventeen years old, last week. Gaithers was’ arrested near Stilson, Ga. * * * President Wilson’s nomination for a third term was declared to be an Impossibility, because of the condition of hfs health, in an interview given out at Kansas City. Mo., by Jouett Shouse. * * * A call for a convention of railroad workers to be held in Chicago June 29 “one big union” of rail-

road workers has published In the Butte Dally Bulletin. Albert Russell van Dussen of Wilton, la., was instantly killed and Burklman. a Moscow farmer, was seriously Injured when the car In which they were riding was struck by a train. » • * Two white men charged with being members of the mob that “tried" six negroes in the eounty jail before the lynching of three of them arc held in the county jail at Duluth, Minn. _ * ♦ * Foiirtc -n persons awaiting deportation as alien radicals were ordered released by Judge George W. Anderson In the federal court at Boston. * * • Bern a slave in 1813, Alec Taylor negro. died at Ardmore, Okla., at tli< age of 107 years. A gift of $500,000 by August Heckedier of New York city was ahnoiinced at Itha<a, N. Y„ by President Schurman ut the university’s fifty-second commencement. The university conferred 685 first degrees. • * * Gimbal Brothers oT New York, operators of a large department' store there and controlled by Interests which own similar establishments in other cities, were indicted <m 207 counts for profiteering in clothing. * * • Partisan politics must be kept out of the General Federation of Women s Clubs, Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, president of the federation, said in her address at the biennial convention at Des Moines, la. • • • A sailor and a civilian were killed and many other persons, including a city patrolman, were injured in a riot Sunday night between whites and negroes on Chicago’s South side.

• • • Politics Nomination of Frederick 11. Parkhurst of Bangor for governor on the Republican ticket was assured with the completion of a tabulation of revised returns of Monday's, primary at Portland, Me. The Democratic party organization is to be reconstructed so as to give women an equal voice with men in the direction of all party affairs, Cliairman Homer Cummings announced at San Francisco. Senator Harding will be notified at his home at Marion. 0., at 2 p. m. on July 22, and Governor Coolidge at his home at Northampton, Mass., at 2 p. m. on July 27, of their nominations for president and vice president. » * * * William Gibbs McAdoo at New York wired Burris A. Jenkins. Kansas City clergyman and newspaper publisher, requesting flint his name not be sug- | gested for the Democratic presidential j nomination. j Personal 1 Tiie thirteenth meeting of the northI ern Baptist convention opened at Buf- । tf.lo, D. C. Shull of Sioux City presid- : Ing. ♦ ♦ ♦ « Mrs. T. G. Winter of Minneapolis was chosen president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, it tVas I announced oflieialy at the Des Moines (la.) biennial convention. Mrs. Winter received vote<. ♦ M * Foreign-. A dispatch to the London Times I from Belfast says iroops are pouring ! into Belfast and that'some of them already have started for Londonderry. ♦ ♦ * I A call for mitm-ml elections issued | bv' the secretary of the interior at

Mexico Citi- the <iare iur the congressional elections tor Sunday, August 1, and a now president is to he chosen on Sunday, April 5. • • • Street car service at Toronto, Ont., except in the outlying district, was completely snsjwnded when the longheralded strike of trolley i ien went Into effect to enforce demands for 66 Instead of 35 cents an hour. * * * One hundred persons wQ/e killed or wounded in the fighting in Londonderry Wednesday acconling to semi-offi-cial Information received at London. I . . Louise Favler. a well-known French aviator, broke the world's altitude record for women al Paris by reaching a height of 6,500 meters (21,325 feet). » ♦ * Great danwige wns caused at Naples, Italy, by a violent cloudburst; The children’s hospital at Posllipo was damaged, a wall collapsing before the flood. Several villas were demolished. • * * Germany will pay a minimum annual Indemnity of three billion gold marks, over a period of 30 years, according to an agreement reached by the allied council of premiers and made public at Boulogne. • ♦ • The London Express prints a dispatch from Prague in which it Is said that the police of Geneva had frustrated a plot of Hungarian communists to kill Archdukes Eugene and Frederick. * * * The bolsjieviki in a communication received at London claim to have flung the Poles across the Dnieper river to the east of Rezhitse,'and to be driving them back toward Korosten and Ovrutch. A Warsaw dispatch says the bolshevik! are reported to have assembled 50 divisions for the midsummer drive against Poland. The reds are attacking along a 1,200-kllometer front. i ♦ ♦ ♦ Three persons were killed and 40 wounded in a riot at Milan, Italy, during a socialist demonstration over the railway situation. The marching socialists refused to disperse and promiscuous shooting followed. Numerous arrests were made. • * • Serious fighting between Albanian Insurgents and Italian arditi and Alpini occurred near Drasciovitza, when the Italian troops attempted to make a reconnaissance in force with motdrcars, according to an Avlona dispatch.