Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Secretary Baker at Washington, issued instructions prohibiting any person in the military service from taking part in political campaigns or using his official position to Influence the result of the election. • * ♦ Abandonment of Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky.. was announced by the war department at Washington, with the notice that the First division, now stationed there, is to be transferred to Camp Dix, N. J. Cotton exports during the fiscal year ended last June exceeded those of the year before by more than 1,500,000 bales, trade statistics issued by the department of commerce at Washington show. * » * The nation's greatest tax bill —$5,410,284,874 —was collected during the fiscal year ended June 30. The collection of this sum cost the government about 55 cents for each SIOO, says a Washington dispatch. • • • An Increase of 20 per cent In passenger fare and 50 per cent in Pullman charges was asked of the interstate commerce commission at Washington by the railroads to cover part of the $600,000,000 wage award. The Brazilian government has granted an extension of credit of $25,000,000 to Italy for the purchase of Brazilian products, the department of commerce at Washington was advised. Sporting The America’s cup races ended in victory for the defender when Resolute won the necessary third race, defeating Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock IV, by 13 minutes and 5 seconds actual, and 19 minutes and 45 seconds handicap time, over a thirty mile windward and leeward course off Sandy Hook, N. J. Domestic New trials were denied to A. C. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan league, and . Joseph Gilbert, former league organizer at Fairmont. Minn. They were convicted on charges of conspiracy to encourage dlslovalty during the war. ♦ • ♦ Wheat from last year’s crop carried over into 1920 totaled 109,318,000 bushels on July 1. compared with 48,561,000 bushels of the 1918 crop on hand the corresponding day last year, said an announcement by the department of agriculture nt Washington. * * * Mrs. Alfred Mellor, aged thirty-sev-en, and her three-year-old son, were found dead in their home at Burlington, lowa. The gas was turned on, the house ransacked, and the woman’s hands and feet were Reflecting the slump in wheat prices,

flour dropped nt all large mills at Minneapolis, one of the largest mills reporting a reduction of 70 cents a barrel and another a 75-cent drop. • ♦ • Two oil gushers were “brought In” at Ix)s Angeles by an earthquake shock which Jarred the city shortly before noon. The oil suddenly burst through the pavement and shot high into the air. • • • Four men were killed when an automobile In which they were riding was struck by an Alton limited car of the Alton, Granite City & St. Louis Traction company at Mitchell. 111. • • • / Four men were killed and four more fatally injured as a result of an explosion of a powder magazine at Sublet Mine No. 6 of the Kemmerer Coal company at Kemmerer, Wyo. • • * Ruppert D. Jonas, flfty-two, sought as one of the leaders in the Abyssinian riots in Chicago, June 20, In which Joseph Holt and Robert Lawson Rose were killed, has been arrested at New York. • • • Two persons were killed and eleven Injured when a speeding automobile, driven by Jack Marelll, overturned at Rural and Prospect streets at Rockford, 111. The dead are Jack Marelli and Marie Scandrait. Frank Smroka, 43 years old, was shot and Instantly killed at St Louis by Mrs. Ida. Shea, 24, while In a fight with Mrs. Shea ; l ? *H»Aband, George B. Shea. • • ♦ At San Francisco dispatch says the Japanese foreign office has requested an investigation of a fire which destroyed several Japanese business houses at Marysville. Cal., July 21. • • • Mrs. Julius Fritz, residing near Potosi, Wis., shot and killed her six-year-old son Walter and then killed herself. ♦ * • A sharp earthquake shock awakened Los Angeles, Cal., at 4 o’clock In the morning. Throughout the city chimneys were knocked down and dishes rattled, but no serious damage is reported. • • • An 8-year-old girl and two boys, aged 6 and 2, children Charles W. Wright, were burned to death when the family home at Wrightstown, Minn., was destroyed by fire. • • * Four men were wounded, one perhaps fatally, and half a hundred shots fired In a hot battle when five Chicago bandits swooped down on pay roll messengers and made off with SIO,OOO in cash. • * • Six men, who represented themselves as federal prohibition agents, entered the home of W. S. Ireland at St. Louis, and after blowing the safe escaped with cash, Jewelry and papers valued at $13,000. • • • With $350 “chipped in” by the 3,000 witnesses to his execution at Crestview, Fla., at his request from the gallows platform, Robert Blackwell, twenty-seven, was given an elaborate funeral. ♦ • * A Chicago dispatch says that plans, have been practically completed for a $10,000,000 merger of lake steamship companies, which will control 15 of the largest lake steamers under one flag, and dominate the lake trade.

* ♦ ♦ Politics Judge Nathan L. Miller of Syracuse was nominated for governor by the unofficial Republican convention at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. His selection came on the third ballot. • * • Rescue from the reactions of war was described as the transcendent need of the nation in an address which Governor Coolidge delivered at Northampton, in accepting the G. O. P. nomination for vice president • * * Montgomery county fair grounds, within the city limits of Dayton, 0., has been definitely decided upon as the place for holding the official ceremonies of notifying Gov. Jhmes M. Cox that he has been selected as candidate of the Democratic party for the presidency. • • • Personal Roald Amundsen,Norwegian explorer, arrived in Nome, Alaska, from the Arctic ocean. He arrived there on a tug and said he left his vessel, the Maude, At Sledge island. He reported all well with his expedition. * • ♦ William Marlon Reedy, St. Louis’ widely known editor, died at San Francisco. He went to San Francisco to attend the Democratic convention and was taken 111 following Its close. * * * Maj. D. C. Jones, former mayor of Topeka, Kan., and for 18 years chief surgeon in the National Soldiers’ homes at Leavenworth, Kan., and Danville, Hl., is dead at the home of his daughter at St. Louis. * * • Mrs. Ellen M. Cyr Smith, known as the author of school text-books, is dead at Brooklyn, N. Y. She wrote the first series of what are now called “Modern Readers for the Public Schools.” • e • Foreign Francisco Villa, bandit leader, surrendered unconditionally after an allconference with Gen. Eugenio

Martinez, commanding the Torreon military zone, according to advices received by the Mexican consul at Eagle Pass, Tex. • • • The liberal government at Halifax, N. S., headed by George H. Murray, which has been in power continuously for 38 years, was returned with a majority of 17 in a house of 43 members at the general election. • • • An armistice agreement has been reached between the two commanders of the Russian and Polish armies in the field, and it is understood that fighting In the Russo-Polish theater of war Is to cease, London hears. • • • Archbishop Daniel J. Mannix of Melbourne, Australia, will not be allowed to land in England because of his recent utterances, Premier Lloyd George announced In the house of commons at London. • • • A London dispatch says that insurgent Albanians, numbering about 4,000, attacked the Italians on a front of ten kilometers, between Clakoclnert and the Castle of Canlna, but were driven back. • • * Col. Jafar Tayar, Turkish Nationalist commander at Adrianople, and his entire staff were captured by the Greeks when the latter entered Adrianople. Consequently Nationalist resistance in Thrace virtually has ended. • • * Brody, an important town of Galicia, fifty-eight miles east-northeast of Lemberg, has been occupied by the bolshevik!, according to an official statement from Moscow. Three British cruisers hftve arrived at Danzig. Word to this effect has been received at the Warsaw foreign office. • • • Italy has decided to abandon Avlona to the Albanians, according to reports printed In the Glornale D’ltalta and the Corriere D’ltalia at Rome.