Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1920 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington < < Postmaster General BurjeSon at Washington ordered the discharge of 11 clerks from the Chicago post office for “soliciting money from the public and causing to be published false und slanderous reports.” * • * i The resignation of W. B. Colvin, chairman of the federal trade commission, was received at the White House at Washington. • • * Secretary of Labor Wilson at Washington Is concerned to find that Immigrants are arriving In New Y'ork at the rate of 4,000 per day. * • • Estimated to have cost the government at Washington $100,000,000 monthly for the lust six mouths, the clause of the transportation act ceased to be effective Tuesday. The roads again are on their own resources. • • •

Records of the department of commerce at Washington for the fiscal year 1920, just ended, show that automobiles and parts of automobiles valued at $232,252,378, were shipped from this country. This was nearly nine times the total value of such exports before the war. • • • The census bureau at Washington announced a revision of Chicago’s census. The new figure Is 2,701,705, as compared with 2,701,212, previously announced. \ * * • Airplane mall service between the United States and Cuba will be inaugurated this fall, said Postmaster General Burleson at Washington. • * * A gradual and natural readjustment of business conditions without financial disorder is predicted by the United States Chamber of Commerce In its semiannual bulletin on general business Issued at Washington. • • * President Wilson at Washington approved the majority report of the anthracite coal commission Increasing the wages of contract miners 20 per cent over present rates. , * • • The secretary of t}>e navy at Washington announced that at the request of the state department, the American cruiser, now at Reval, has been ordered to Danzig to protect Americans. • • • Retail prices, In the opinion of the federal reserve board at Washington, will decline slightly during the coming fall and winter months and will slump next spring to still lower levels. * * Hundreds of prohibition agents in New York and other cities have been guilty of taking bribes from saloonkeepers for protection. This was admitted at the office of Prohibition Commissioner Kramer at Washington. • • m Domestic At least 60,000 workers in the anthracite region are idle, following a strike vote taken at Wilkesbarre, Pa., by 800 delegates representing 65 locals of the United .Mine Workers of America. The delegates voted to take a “vacation” until the operators accede to their demands. * * • John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, issued an order at Indianapolis for a general Btrlke In the bituminous coal fields in Alabama. ./ • ft - r The application for an Injunction ngainst the issuance of the suffrage proclamation, filed In the Supreme court of the Qlstrlpt of Columbia at Washington by the American Constitutional league, was dismissed. • • *

Two aviators, W. L. Smith and Edward Haight, carrying mall from Chicago to Nevy York, were severely burned when their plane broke Into flames 5,000 feet above ground near Deshler, O. * * • Pilot Max Miller and Mechanician Richardson were burned to death when a United States all-metal mail airplane fell at Morristown, N. J„ in flames. * * * An unusually severe typhoon recorded* at Manila, P. L, caused hundreds of thousands of dollars damage. * * • Two St. Louis army officers are being sought by the military authorities in connection with the disappearance of $48,789 from the quartermaster corps. 1 * * * A Philadelphia dispatch says the Pennsylvania railroad distributed to employees the bulk of the back pay ordered in the decision of the United States railway labor board July 2ft. Approximately $28,000000 will be distributed to the 275,000 to 280,000 workers. • * * Fifty persons were killed and 100 injured in the railway wreck near Ciudad Victoria, state pf Tamaulipas, according to latest reports reaching Mexico City. Most of the Victims were soldiers.

Airplanes that pass In the early dawn have caused farmers north og Chicago to report that they bellev* “airbooze” is being transported front' the Canadian border for Chicago con* sumption. • • * After a running revolver fight eight miles northwest of Springflelj), IU« Prohibition Agent Brown and two deputy United States marshals arreste® two of three moonshiners, one of them a woman. *’--*> c *. * * * r' More than 10,000,000 barrels of flour will be sent to foreign countries *>« Canada this year, according to estimates by agricultural and milling experts at Winnipeg. # • • Farmers in the vicinity of York, £U C„ are giving away watermelons and feeding them to hogs. Three week* ago watermelons were selling as prices ranging from 60 cents to sl-28 each, • * « Politics

A woman, Mrs. Culln J. Vayhingee of Upland, Ind., was nominated a candidate for United States senator by, the Indiana Prohibition party, which concluded Its annual convention at Indianapolis. • • • Governor Cox lu a statement at Columbus, 0., declared as “absolutely untrue nnd false,” statements attributed to Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican nntlonal committee* before the senate body. • • • Congressman Britten made no aflfort before the senate committee at Chicago to prove that British money was finding Its way into the Democratic chest. • * • Pat M. Neff has defeated J. W 4 Bailey for governor of Texas, according to returns received at Austin from the primary. Approximately 350,000 votes out of an estimated total of 425*000 give Neff a lead of 00,000. Bailey opposed the League of Nations. • • • Personal 1 Without formal announcements, Mra» Hugo Retslnger, daughter of Adolphus Busch, St. Louis brewer, was married at New York to Charles E. Greeoough, New York and Newport society man. • • • Foreign

According to Lloyd’s Register s® London of shipping for 1020-21, the sea-going tonnage of the United Stated apart from Great Lakes shipping, hae Increased since 1914 by more than 500 per cent. —— • • • -5 General Semenoff, commander of the remnants of the all-Russian force* in Siberia, has been seriously Injure® In a mine explosion In China and 31k of his followers also were hurt, according to advices from PSking. • * * The repulse of Polish attacks a® along the line Is reported In the Ruaslnn soviet official statement of Tua*day, received at London by wlrelesa. •• - • Four persons killed In the last M) hours have brought the death roll fio* the Belfast rioting for a week up t* 25. • * * The official ballot of the coal mtnsnt announced at London, shows the following results: For a strike, 606,783 1 against, 238,865. The two-thirds marJority which Is required to sanction R strike has thus been exceeded. * * • Five hundred Filipino residents of San Juan Heights, a suburb «< Manila, marched to Gov. Gen. Pramcls Burton Harrison’s residence Ml protest against a 200 per cent lncreaa* in ground rent., • * * Prohibition of all drinks having a* alcoholic content exceeding 2.8 pat cent Is recommended at Stockholm tal a report of a government committee appointed to 1917 to consider tll« liquor question. ; v i •• * > Italy has informed the United Stats* that the two governments are practically in accord as to sentiments concerning Russia and Poland In the recent American note, Seem* tary Colby announced at Washington, * * • Dispatches from Constantinople r%» port the massacre of 400 Armenians by Kurds in Anatolia. The Kurds shot the men, but the women and children were locked In a church and burned t* death, the dispatches say. * * * The German government has advised the Polish government at Warsaw that there are now 70,000 fugs< tlves of the red army interned in German territory since the last Polish offensive started. • • •

The Shankill district of Belfast Is si blazing Inferno. Nearly twenty flrss have been started, and virtually all the grocery stores and public house® owned by Catholics in the district art being destroyed. • • • Russian bolshevik forces have recaptured Grodno, says a Koenlgsburft dispatch. The report adds that tfcft Poles also have been forced to evacuate the city of Blalystok. • * • Polish forces have attacked Llthua.nlan troops near Augustowo, according to a telegram from Kovno to the Lithuanian representative at London. ■* * • A party of armed men burned th* magnificent country residence of Deputy Lieutenant of Cork County Joseph Pike, near Cork. _—-