Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1920 — ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

The Tennessee legislature will be called to meet Aug. 9 to consider the federal suffrage amendment, it was announced Monday at the capitol. The proposed amendment to the Georgia state constitution giving women the right to vote was killed Monday In the senate. The vote was 19 to 15. I Ten persons were killed and three probably fatally injured near Huntingburg, Ind., Sunday morning when a truck carrying a load of picnickers was struck by a passenger train on the Southern railroad at a grade crossing. H. H. Loring, judge of the Porter circuit court, on the recommendation of Prosecutor Jensen, has Impaneled the grand jury. The session was caused by many complaints from Kouts residents concerning liquor sales in the southern part of the county.

The Northern Baptists’ convention

at Buffalo, N. Y„ Monday adopted resolutions urging President Wilson and the senate to ratify the treaty of Versailles “with suitable reservations" at the earliest possible moment and pledging the Baptists to support strict enforcement of federal prohibition laws. Mr. and Mrs. William Lltherland, four children and one of the three other people who were in the car with them, were killed and the two other occupants probably fatally injured at a railroad crossing 10 miles west of Franklin, Ind., Sunday evening when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by an Illinois Central passenger train.