Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1920 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF. THE WEEK , CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kamels Culled From Events of Moment In All Parte of the World— Of Interest to All the People Everywhere, Politics Republican and Democratic candlElates who received the indorsement of the unofficial state conventions at Saratoga won decisive victories in ail state-wide contests in Tuesday’s New York state primary. • • • A Portland dispatch says Maine ■went Republican by a plurality of 65,000 in Monday’s election. An Augusta (Me.) dispatch says Col. Frederic H. Parkhurst, Republican nominee for governor, defeated Bertram G. Mclntire, Democrat, by a plurality of 65,000. All four Republican candidates for congress wen easily; both branches of the legislature are strongly Republican. Women voted in full force. * * ♦ Reversing his former opinlop on ■woman suffrage, Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Md., urged all women of the nation to vote,, not alone because it was their right but because it was their duty. * * * Washington Labor leaders asking general amnesty for political prisoners were told by Attorney General Palmer at Washington that the government would continue its policy of “considering the cases individually.”

♦ ♦ * Directors of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs at Washington ■unanimously adopted the recommendation of Mrs. Thomas G. Winters of Minneapolis that the activities of the clubs be continued toward the Improvement of the home. • • • The United States government at Washington has sent a new note to Mexico City demanding that the lives and property rights of aU Americans In Mexico be accorded fullest protection by the newly elected government. .•* * • ' Rifle strength of the bolshevist army ■on the Polish front was reduced by more than one-half as a result of the Polish counter-offensive, according to Washington. The soviet armies, the advices stated, have suffered heavily .from desertion. '• • ♦

A reduction of 25 per cent In the navy-yard forces will he necessary unless the machinists accept the 5 per cent wage increase^awarded naval employees, Secretary Daniels said at Washington. Three new air-mail routes between New York and Chicago, New York and Atlanta and between Pittsburgh and St. Louis, are planned for about January 1 by the post office department at Washington. * ♦ ♦ Gen. Alvardo Obregon, presidentelect of Mexico, Is guarded night and day to prevent assassination, according to officials close to the Mexican embassy at Washington. ♦ • * President Wilson at Washington, in a telegram to representatives of the anthracite workers in Pennsylvania, refused to grant their request to reconvene the joint scale committee of •operators and miners. • • * Foreign King Alfonso’s great racer Brabant . won the grand prize event at the race track at San Sebastian over 13 other starters, the distance being approximately a mile and a half. ♦ * ♦ A dispatch from Kovno reports the arrival at Lida, Lithuania* of Leon ‘Trotzky, Russian bolshevist minister of war. Lida is occupied by Russian troops. * * ♦ The Lithuanians and the Poles are sgaln engaged in hostilities, it Is announced in the Polish official statement at Warsaw. Fighting has been resumed between the two forces in the •Suwalki sector, near the German bor«der. « ♦ ♦ A Lima (Peru) dispatch says’ that 50 persons are reported to have been killed or injured in an explosion which -occurred in Calloa bay recently when two dynamite barges collided. ♦* * ■ * George Kessler, the “American champagne king,” died at Paris following an illness which confined him to his home. ‘Funeral services were lield at the American church. • • • Many Koreans and Japanese police have been killed in attacks by Koreans vb the police, according to press messages received at Tokyo. Announcement was made by the Charleston Gazette at Charleston,- W. Va. that it has Increased the price of theWlY Issue from 3 to 5 cents.

Consent for Austria to spend without restriction the recent credit of 5,000,000 pesos given her by Argentina has been accorded by the interallied reparations commission, according to a Vienna dispatch. • * e Exclusion of all Japanese immigrants was urged in a resolution adopted unanimously by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, holding their annual encampment Igt Washlngtpn. - * * The headquarters of the League of Nations at London made public the text of the project for a permanent court of international justice, adopted by The Hague committee of jurists, of which Elihu Root was a member. • * • Six of the bolshevik commissioners, It Is asserted In advices from Berlin, have been drowned in the Neva tn the antl-bolshevlk uprising, while the others have been compelled to seek refuge. • * * “Until further notice no ship 6r vessel carrying passengers eastern bound is to enter the port or harbor of Queenstown,” says a notice by the British admiralty printed In the Official Gazette at London. ♦ ♦ * Supplies valued at many hundreds of thousands of dollars have been stolen from the American organization for relief In the near East recently, according to official reports from Constantinople. • * * John Toner of Belfast was shot dead while proceeding along the Newtowpards road after curfew, making the thirty-second riot victim at Belfast. • * * The United States cruiser Pittsburgh, which went aground on the rocks off Libau in the Baltic sea, was towed Into Libau roads after her coal, ammunition and provisions had been lightered. • * • An official autopsy was held at Paris on the body of Miss Olive Thomas. American moving picture actress, and revealed that her death was due to mercurial poisoning. No trace of violence was found. • * * •

Domestic . Governor Holcomb at Hartford, Conn., doubting the legality of the ratification of the nineteenth amendment, which was voted by the legislature Monday, lias withheld certification of the action. « • • The mutilated bodies of three young men, all wearing American Legion buttons and carrying cards indicating they had been employed by a circus, were found lying along the Union Pacific tracks near Salina, Kan. « * * Liquor bandits, in two raids on warehouses at Chicago, escaped with whiskies and rare wines totaling $37,000 in value. u • * * ' Complete and official announcement that the strike of tiie outlaw switchmen is at an end was made at Chicago by John Grunau, president and chairman of the board of directors of the United Association of Railroad Employees of America. “It is now declared fair to work on any railroad on and after September 13,” the statement reads. “With reference to seniority rights, though we have lost our seniority we have won one of the greatest battles in the history of the railroads by forcing the government to appoint the United States railroad labor board."-. * ♦ ♦ Federal Judge Garvin In Brooklyn upheld United States commissioners’ decisions that seizure of liquors without a search warrant Is a “clear violation of the fourtli amendment to the Constitution.” • • » Plans for spreading the unionization movement among the members of the municipal fire department were considered at the third annual convention of the International Association of Fire Fighters at St. Louis. ♦ ♦‘ ♦ - Jack Johnson, negro, pugilist and former heavyweight champion of the world, was resentenced to a year and a day in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., aud fined SI,OOO by Judge Carpenter at Chicago. • * •

The United States mine sweeper Swallow is reported to have grounded in Snow passage, 90 miles from Ketchikan, Alaska. The vessel is In no danger, according to the report. ♦ * • The body of Mrs. Gertrude Virger Kuehling, drowned accidentally on Wednesday night, according* to Roy Harper Kuehling, her husband, was found floating dh the Potomac near Washington Sunday. ♦ ♦ ’ Two hundred employees of the Herbert hosiery mills at Conshohocken, Pa., have agreed to accept a 10 per cent ’ reduction in wages, so that the mill will not close, says an announcement. , . . , - • * * Nearly $900,000,000 in giold bars, said to be the largest amount of gold in any one place in the world, were transferred from the New York subtreasury building to the new assay building next door. Most of the gold was melted from English sovereigns and French 20-franc pieces. • • * Miss Florence Welskopf, sixteen years old, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Welskopf of Chicago, was notified that, through the death of an aunt, she had been given a legacy of $500.000. : , .