Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington President Wilson at Washington In a proclamation “suggested and requested" that December 21 be celebrated throughout the United States as the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bock. • • • The gross national debt was reduced a total of $76,404,453 during July, according to the Washington treasury statement. • • • Collection of charges for unloading and loading live stock in addition to the rates on live stock to find from Chicago stock yards was found by the interstate commerce commission at Washington to be unlawful. * * * president Wilson at Washington In a telegram to John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America stated that if mine laborers now on strike in Illinois and Indiana would return to work he would invite the Joint scale committee of the miners and operators to meet to work out any inequalities in the present wage scale for the central competitive fields * * • The greatest single advance of transportation rates In the history of government regulation was granted to the railroads of the United States in a unanimous order of the interstate commerce commission at Washington. The award will increase the annual revenue of the railroads by about a billion and one-half. • • * Increase of more than a million bales in the prospective production of cotton over the Indicated yield a month ago was forecast by the department of agriculture at Washington. • • • President Wilson at Washington has decided to retire from the sheep business. The White House flock of 48 prize sheep, which has kept the lawns cut for three summers, Is to be sold. A sharp drop in wool consumptionamounting to approximately 17,000,000 pounds In June, as compared with the average consumption for the preceding months of this year, was announced at Washington. Domestic

News was received at Little Rock, Ark., that William Crutcher, aged forty, a farmer, threw his four little children into a bayou, drowning them, and then drowned himself. • ♦ • Greetings on the sixth anniversary of Great Britain’s entry into the World’s war were calbled to Field Marshal Earl Haig by Franklin d’Olier, national commander of the American Legion qt New York. • * * All the personal property of Chicago and Cook county listed by the board of assesors for taking purposes this year is worth $914,552,308, according to figures completed by the assess ors. • • • Existence of anthrax among stock on several plantations In Miller county, Arkansas, has been discovered by government veterinarians at Texarkana, Ark. Several clothing manufacturers in New • York reported a reduction In their working forces because "of lack of orders and general trade.” Indictments charging violation of the Sherman and Lever acts were returned by a federal grand jury at Chicago against 41 of the leaders in the “rebel” yardmen’s strike that paralyzed railroad transportation throughout the country last winter.

Roy M. Shayne and his fiancee, Ruth Eleanor Wood, were exonerated from all blame In connection with the death of Samnel T. A. Loftis, wealthy diamond merchant, by ft LlXt. Omer Locklear, noted “stunt” aviator, and Lieut. Milton Elliot, his killed when their plane crashed from a distance of 1,000 feet at Los Angeles. •"**'— Hol on the Iran of Iwo auto banbits, Deputy Sheriff Nat Maltin of Tama, la., accidentally shot himself, dying within a few minutes. • • ♦ Lige Daniels, negro, said to have confessed to the murder of Mrs. Hall, was hanged by a mob In the courthouse square at Center, Tex. • • • The Detroit & Ironton railroad, Henry Ford’s new Une, asked the interstate commerce commission at Washington for a “certificate of public convenience” to build an extension of the Une in Wayne comity, Michigan. • • • Hailstones seven inches in circumference, according to C, E. Peterson, United States weather forecaster, feU in • a storm which swept Wichita, Kan., and vicinity, doing damage estimated at between SIOO,OOO and s2oo< 000.

Capt R. W. Schroeder, holder of the world’s altitude record, was Injured when the fast racing plane which he was testing crashed into an automobile at Wilbur Wright flying field, Dayton, O. • • • William Bross Lloyd and his 19 fellow advocates of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" were found guilty of sedition by a Jury In Judge Oscar Hebei's court at Chicago. All were sentenced to Imprisonment. ( • • • Six armed men, unmasked, entered the Commercial Savings bank at Moline, 111., backed two tellers Into a vault and all others Into the cashier's office, swept $20,000 Into sacks and inude their escape. • • • Eight hundred cases of bonded whisky, valued at $200,000, were stolen from the warehouse of Benjamin Segal, 907 South State street, Chicago. • • • John Jozwlak, aged slxty-five, a fanner of Sigel, Wls., died as a result of being gored by a bull. Jozwlak had entered the barn to feed the bull when the animal charged him. •* • - Politics Governor Cox accepted an invitation from Judge D. M. Latham of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce to speak before that organization early in October. • • • Senator Harding's front-porch campaign for the presidency opened at Marlon, 0., with an address to a delegation from Mansfield. O. * • • Personal

Mrs. Mildred Harris Chaplin filed suit at Los Angeles, Cal., for a divorce from Charles ChapliQ, moving picture comedian. Mrs. Harris charges extreme cruelty and bodily Injury. She also asks that her husband be restrained from disposing of his Interest in motion picture films valued at $750,000. • • • Thomas L. Kennan, the oldest practicing attorney In Wlconsln, died at Milwaukee. Mr. Kennan, who was ninety-three, was also one of the state’s veteran Masons. • • • Percy Sholto Douglas, ninth marquis of Queensberry, Is dead at Johannesburg, South Africa. • • * Foreign x The suspense under which Warsaw has labored for three days was heightened by the news that the negotiations at Baranovitlch between the Polish and soviet Russian armistice commissions had been without result. The report that the Russian soviet government insisted that peace conversations begin at once caused a sensation in political circles. Announcement was made that General Romer's party was authorized only to confer with the bolshevlkl on the question of an armistice. • •. • A wireless dispatch from Berlin says the Russians have now advanced within 62 miles of Warsaw an the east and about forty miles east of Lemberg. The dispatch adds there is panic in Warsaw and all wealthy residents are fleeing. • • • A Berne dispatch says electric trains are now passing through the St. Gothard tunnel. The St. Gothard railway is to be entirely electrified, a further section, Erstfield to Goeschenen, just having been completed. • • * Turkish national forces opened a bitter offensive against the Greeks along a slxty-mile battle front in Asia Minor. The battle lines extend along the Bagdad railroad westward to Slmav, says a Constantinople dispatch. • • * The mobilization at a moment’s notice of two army divisions has been arranged for by the army council at London in view of the Polish situation. The disposal of surplus army stores has been temporarily halted. • • *

Refugees arriving at Allensteln, East Prussia, declare that the bob shevllfl are shooting all landownen and property holders, and others suspected of having money. The wearing qf a white collar, they assert, is sufficient evidence for a death warrant. Th^sochlisf Congress in session at Geneva, Switzerland, voted to remove its headquarters from Brussels tc London. A. (Jrajev (Poland) dispatch says the"* Russian fourth army in two cob umns Is advancing from Blelsk and Bialystok g a NggoyUgckj carrying wlti) it heftvy"artillery for “a bombardment of Waysaw. Offlap jit the Russian bolshevik army have dFdeffiWhTch direct them to continue along the East Prussian frontier until they are directly north of Warsaw, thus cutting off the Danzig corridor (Poland’s outlet to the sea). • * • I The nationalist Turkish forces are 'fleeing into the mountains in Anatolia, according to advices received by the state department at Washington from the American legation at Athens. A Panama dispatch says Dr. D. Pers ras, candidate of the liberal conservative party, was elected president of the Republic of Panama. * « « Polish forces, comprised of 40 officers and 2,000 men, crossed the East Prussian frontier, according to dl>< patches published Jn London..