Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — WORLO’S EVEIITS IN SNORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLO’S EVEIITS IN SNORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notea Covering Moat Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Farm for Quick Consumption. Washington President Wilson at Washington in a proclamation urged state governors to set apart Saturday, October 9, as Fire Prevention day and to request a general observance by the public. _ » • • In an effort to end Illicit distilling of Intoxicating liquor, the treasury al Washington decided to tighten regulations around the sale of stills and add another check to its means oi tracing down their users. • • • One of the big surprises in the congressional race In Wisconsin was the defeat of Representative John J. Esch for renomination. Mr. Esch was tle author of the railroad bill bearing bis name. Corn prospects improved during August and promised on September 1 a crop of 3,131,000,000 bushels, the department of agriculture at Washington announced. Vermont Is the first state in the 1920 census to show a loss of population in the last ten years. The census bureau at Washington gave Vermont a population of 352,421, a decrease qf 3,535, or 1.6 per cent. The United Mine Workers of America telegraphed President Wilson from Scranton, Pa., requesting him to direct that the wage agreement signed Thursday by* operators and miners be reopened for the purpose of giving the miners an additional increase in wages. Sporting Jack Dempsey knocked Billy Mlske cold one minute and thirteen seconds after the gong started the third round of their scheduled ten-round battle at Benton Harbor, Mich. 1 • • • Domestic Reports at union headquarters at Birmingham, Ala., indicated that more ! than 10,000 men, half the number employed in the bituminous coal mines In that section, had obeyed the strike calL . • • ■ Almost complete returns from the Wisconsin primaries at Milwaukee indicate that Irvine L. Lenroot, moderate reservationist," has decisive y defeated James Thompson, mouthpiece of Robert La Follette for the Republican nomination for United States senator from Wisconsin. * ♦ * Dashing through the throng of Mich|gan avenue promenaders at Chicago, h squad of prohibition agents raided the Auditorium hotel and seized two trunks suspected of containing liquor. “Piece work” men In the stock yards make as high as $lO6 a week It was shown at the wage hearing before Federal Judge Alschuler at Chicago. ♦ ♦ •

Three men were killed at Clinton, find., by a gas explosion in the Subimarlne mine while they were feeding ithe mine mules about 200 feet from the hoist Seventeen mule" were killed. • • • Fifty police officers at the state fair at Indianapolis were called upon early in the day to Quell a camel which wandered into a soft drink booth and drank ten gallons of red lemonade. The Spanish cruiser Alphonso XIII has arrived at New York from Annapolis It is the first Spanish naval vessel to visit Cuba and the United States since the Spanish-American war. ♦ ♦ ♦ >.«•**** w A Gardiner, a citizen of the United States, who was captured by Pedro Zamora, the TaTlsco bJhdit, on August 2Q at Cuale, has escaped, according to official advice received at Mexico Clty } • • • .। i.-wt'sne*' 1 A grand jury investigation of alleged baseball gambling' and the recent nearsc'adal that resulted from it in connection with the Cub-Phlladelphia X&e, wa7 ordered by Chief Justice Charles A. McDonald of Chicago. Four officers and 33 enlisted men of the United States submarine S-5 were rescued after 36 hoprs' imprisonment tn the disable! underseas boat, 55 miles south of Cape Seqlopen. _ Alight ear3S[Bake* shock in outlying parts pf Dos Angeles, Cal., Friday. No damage was reported. Fire almost destroyed the town of Chincoteague, Va., making 2,500 persons homeless. No estimate of the loss has been received at Richmond. • * • The Illinois and Indiaha fair at Danville, Hl., closed the most successful week’s exhibition In the four years of Its existence, attendance records and exhibits surpassing the old marks by large margins. 1 <3 I — . J... •

Ten charred bodies have been recovered from the ruins of a fire which destroyed the Hotel Houston and opera house and burned two blocks of dwellings and business’houses at Klamath Falls, Ore. • • ♦ Thieves carted away the safe at the Majestic theater at Des Moines, la., and took between $2,500 and $3,000. The safe was on the third floor. 1 t • * * An Illicit-Htill of 130 gallons daily capacity has just been found at Mount Pleasant, Tex., upon the farm of United States Senator Moris Sheppard, author of the national prohibition amendment. Three persons were killed and two men Injured at Niagara Falls, N. Y., when a slide of shale rock forced out the fourth bridge leading to the old Biddle stairway at the Cave of the Winds, on Goat island. Politics T An agricultural program designed to keep the nation self-sustaining and to Improve the condition of the farmer was outlined by Senator Harding In a speech at the Minnesota fair at St. Paul, Minn, . Corruption in politics and the League of Nations were the mam themes of Governor Cox, Democratic presidential candidate in opening at Lansing, Mich., his long western tripj Personal bishop or the United Eputgelleal church and editor for tnany years of the Evangelical, organ at denomingUfin, died at his bgmj at »• • _ The Chicago Tribune’s spondent cables as follows. day’s earthquake caused a loss of life of perhaps 5,000 and tremendous damage in the region bounded by Florence, Milan and the coast, it became known, despite the efforts of the Italian government to hold up the newA” A small shipment of cbal left one of the pit heads at Lens, France, Wednesday. This coal was the first

that had been taken out of the Lett mines since they were flooded by the Germans during the war. • • • Gabriele d’Annunzlo has disapproved the seizure of the American steams* Cogne by his officers, and will order its release, says a Rome dispatch. • • • Premier Minerand of France, Marshal Foch, General Degoutte and General Lecomte, escorted by a company of American cavalry which met them at Welssenturn, visited Coblens. More than 8,000 Chinese on Om Islands of Mindanao and Sulu, who entered the Philippines from will be deported, says a Manila dinpatch. • • • A Manchester, N. H., dispatch says Senator George H. Moses, opponent of the League of Nations and of woman suffrage, was renominated by the Rspubllcnns In Tuesday's primary by 4 plurality of about 12,000. Several serious revolts against ths Russian soviet government have broken out In the neighborhood ot Moscow and have been suppresse<ovltb much bloodshed, says a Copenhagen din patch. ‘ »***" In the' last Wo weeks in August General Wrahgel. the antibolshevik commander, In South, Russia, took 5,000 greeners and captured Wcan'non and bi machine guns, he rpporfs from. Sebastopol. i A delegation from the Tokyo Ipal assembly Is planning to visit the United States to study clyil Improvement and particularly roads and tran£ ways, The mutilate! bedfSTof seven Russian women Incased In a hempen bad were found In Vladivostok harbor, according to special dispatches received at JTokyo. The Moscow official statement for September 6 Says General WrangeL was repulsed by the soviet forces and sustained heavy losses, including threat tanks. A new Invoice ot correspondence box stationery in all the latest shade* and tints just received in Ths Democrat’s fancy stationery department.