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

Personal Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood tore after Nicholas Murray Butler In a sizzling statement Issued nt Chicago over his own signature. General Wood branded Butler as a fakir. Butler’s declaration of Monday night that a “motley group of stoc.k gamblers and others” tried to buy the presidency for Wood, General Wood denounced as a fake. • * • Warren Gamaliel Harding, United States senator from Ohio, wag nominated for president and Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts, was named for vice president by the Republican national convention at Chicago. Ti e choice of Senator Harding was effected on the tenth ballot of the convention when he received 074 votes, Coolidge was chosen on the first ballot, receiving a like number of votes. • • * Announcement Is made at Chicago by the “committee of forty-eight" that a national convention to select candidates to head a third party ticket will be held In the Auditorium hotel July 10. * * * Forever United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois declared at Dallas, Texas, tint he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for vice president at the San Francisco convention. • * * Washington Twenty-four commercial treaties with the other nations which are affected by a provision in the new merchant marine act are being closely examined by the state department at Washington. Secretary of State Colby said that it might be necessary to abrogate sorrle of the treaties tn their entirety. • * * Washington dispatch says Senator Warren G. Harding has definitely decided to conduct a “front-porch” campaign for the presidency similar to that carried on by former President McKinley. « • * The Chilean government is seeking to buy In the United States $8,000,000 worth of railroad rolling stock for use on the government-owned railroads, according to word received at Washington. / • ♦ • The administration at Washington

Ins nporoved senator Phelan's bill deSigned to provide for an adequate future oil supply for the United States. • • • Domestic A student quarrel over whisky resulted in the killing of Henry E. ManmeSr of Medford, Mass., a senior at Dartmouth college at Hanover, N. 11., and Uh* arrest of Robert T. Meads of La Grange, 111., a Junior, charged with murder. ♦ • * Milwaukee suffered the heaviest rainfall In the history of the local weather bureau, when 2.19 inches of rain fell In one hour and five minutes. Some of the western part of the city was under ten feet ot water. Flurries of snow nt Omaha, Neb., melting before they readied the ground attended the ending of a heat wave which had extended for eight days. The temperature dropped 22 degrees. With the Kansas wheat crop started, the need of Kansas for 50.1 MM) harvest hands was announced at Topeka by J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture. • • • Mrs. Lutle Belle Mitchell, In the circuit court, nt Kansas City, Mo., was granted $70,000 alimony following a decree* of divorce from Thomas C. Mitchell, reported to be a millionaire land owner. % • • • Pensacola, Fla., started a rat-killing drive with a view to stopping the spread of what local physicians have pronounced bubonic plague. Two deaths have occurred from the disease. A. D. Roullard was shot and Instantly killed when he resisted a band of five automobile bandits who attempted to raid the Dresser Conimee clot and Savings bank at Chicago. One man was killed, two Injured and 48 loaded freight cars were destroyed by fire near Ellensburg. Wash., when a Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul freight train ran wild for 17 miles. • • * Following the announcement by state laboratory experts that the death of George Gardina at Pensacola, Fla., was undoubtedly due to bubonic plague, steps were taken for an Immediate cleanup campaign in an effort to prevent a spread of the disease. One man was killed and a score Injured, six seriously, when a Pere Marquette passenger train tore into a freight train in the Chicago yard*. B. Bartuna, conductor of the passenger train, which came from Petoskey, was killed. • • • William Harjlson (Jack) Dempsey, world's heavyweight champion boxer, was found not guilty on a selective draft evasion charge by a Jury in th* United States district court at Sais Francisco. • * • Authorities nt Oklahoma City, are prepared to take dfastic action if necessary in preventing disorder In connection with a strike of wago* drivers employed by two Ice company panics. • • • Fred Beckmann, an oil driller, after slaying his wife and four children at Shirley, W. Va., near Sistersville ended his own life by, slashing hl» throat with the razor he had used upon his victims. • * * The general education board of the Rockefeller foundation lias contrlbutodl $500,000 to complete the fund oC $1,500,000 being raised by Grinnell college, Grinnell, la., it was announced at New- York. • • • Alex Miller, deaf-mute, was found guilty of first degree murder at Grew* ley, Colo., in connection with the kill* Ing of Adam Shank, his wife and fowT children on the Shank farm near Gilcrest, last December. A summer camp for women, conducted by the United Training Corp* for Women, will be held at AshevtilOi N. C., July 15 to August 20. • • • Personal Mrs. Ella Eaton Kellogg, well know* as a writer of magazine articles on child welfare and domestic science, died at Battle Creek, Mich., after a long illness. She was the wife of Dr. John R. Kellogg. • • • Rev. W. W. Page, last living member of the staff of Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confederate arnly, and rector of St. Paul’s church, Cornwall, N. is dead at New York at the age el eighty. * * ‘ Col. E. M. House was a passenger on the steamship Lapland, sailing from New York for England. He said his trip abroad was for purely personal reasons and had no political significance. • • • Foreign The bolshevik forces in the Kiev river region are still pressing back the v Poles, following the capture of the city by the soviet army, an official statement from Moscow announced. * * * A Peking dispatch says Changsha, capital of the province of Hunan, on the Slangklang river, has been occupied by troops of the southern Chinese republic. Northern troops retired toward Yochow, 50 miles northward.