Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Lindley M. Garrison, federal receiver of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company at New York refused to grant demands of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees. • * • Three bandits entered Sol Bergman’s jewelry store at Cleveland, 0., shot and seriously wounded two employees, looted the safe of jewelry and diamonds estimated at $30,000 in value and escaped in an automobile. ♦ * * Two men were killed by lightning near Fredonia, Kan. H. F. Wilson, a young farmer, near Coyville, was struck while working with a hay baler. Donald Richey, nineteen, was killed at Altoona. * * • Aerial mail service between Chicago and the Twin Cities —Minneapolis and St. Paul —became an actuality when Pilot Walter Smith, in a Martin bomber, with four student pilots and a mechanic, arrived nt the Twin Cities landing field, near Fort Snelling, Minn. * • • A Cleveland (O.) dispatch says that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has withdrawn Its application tor membership in the American Federation of Labor. Warren S. Stone, grand chief, declines to comment. ♦ ♦ * An attempted robbery of silk goods valued at several thousand collars from a Northwestern freight train was frustrated at Sioux City, la., and six men alleged to be concerned In the affair were arrested. * • * Three bandits In a motorcar held up and robbed Ralph Williams, seventeen-year-old messenger for Wilson & packers In Kansas City, Kan., obtaining $3,179 In currency. • * • Personal James O’Neill, the actor, died at; New London, Conn., after a two, tponths’ Illness. He was seventy years old. • • • Gen. Richard Neville Bowerman, ninety, probably the oldest ranking retired officer of the Union army, died at Baltimore, Md. He was decorated on the battlefield by General Grant for gallantry. D C. Shepard, friend and business associate of the late James J. Hill, and for more than fifty years a builder of railroads, died at his home at St Paul, Minn., after a long illness. An estate of $16,000 was left by J. Frank Hanly of Indianapolis, former governor of Indiana, recently killed in an automobile accident at Dennison, O. ♦ • * Galll-Curcl was one of the numerous prominent persons who arrived at New York on the Cunard liner Imperator. Other notables on board were Mrs. Vincent Astor and Mrs, William K. Vanderbilt. Foreign / The French government has decided to recognize Gen. Baron Peter Wrangel as head of the de facto government of South Russia. In making this announcement the ministry of foreign affairs at Paris said this recognition implied rendering General Wrangel all possible military assistance. ♦ * • The Polish legation at Paris states, Trotzfiy arrived at Bialystok, established general headquarters, and delivered a speech, saying: “Within a year all Europe will be bolshevik.” The reds commandeered food from the Poles In Bialystok, shooting leading citizens when none was delivered. ♦ • • Six thousand bolshevikl have crossed the Dnelper at Aleski and captured Coursonskey, Montanla and Kharka. A column of re-enforcements Is moving southeast of Alexandrovsk, according to a Constantinople dispatch. • • • President de la Huerto will meet Francisco Villa, the bandit whose forces were mustered out at San Pedro de las Colonlas, in the* near future, according to a dispatch to El Universal at Mexico City. * • • The American boy scouts who have reached Parts were given an official reception at the city hall. The scouts will leave Paris this week for a short visit to the battlefields. • * £ A Seoul (Korea) dispatch says 600 deaths have resulted from the epidemic of cholera in Korea, and 3,125 cases have been reported. • * * Great 'Britain took nearly half of the 6,915,408 bales of cotton exported by the United States during the fiscal year 1920, the department of commerce at Washington announced. ♦ * • A Helsingfors dispatch says that as a consequence of the demoralization of the bolshevlst fleet the naval commissary has dismissed all of the higher officials and replaced them with women. _ _

Thirty-two persons were killed and several wounded In the explosion of a munitions depot at Florence, Italy. The explosion resulted from a Are. • • • The Russians have captured the town of Clenchanow, thus cutting the Warsaw-Danzig railway, according to reports from the French military mission to Warsaw received by the Paris foreign office. A London dispatch says that because of the high cost of living, King George has suspended the rule forbidding members of the family to engage In business. One of the princes has a magnificent offer. The bolshevik government has refused the proposition contained In the British government’s last note to conclude a ten days’ truce with Poland. On the receipt of this decision David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, and M. Millerand, the French premier, began discussion at Hythe, England, of the best means for immediately assisting Poland.

The Polish government is leaving Warsaw, its capital. It is asserted in a wireless dispatch from Moscow received at London. The place, to which the government is being removed, the message says, is Kalisz. • • * The peace treaty with Turkey was signed at Sevres, France. • * • A Paris dispatch says the British detachment holding Kasvin is reported to have been overwhelmed and the bolsheviks and Persian rebels are advancing on Teheran.