Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Investigation of the naval government of the Pacific island of Samoa wag ordered by the navy department at xWashington. It will be conducted by Rear Admiral Charles F. Hughes. • * * D. C. Wills of Cleveland, 0., was appointed a member of the federal reserve board at Washington by President Wilson. • Secretary Colby at Washington has refused to grant the request of antisuffragists from Tennessee that he rescind his action in proclaiming ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. * « • Hearings on Increased intrastate passenger rates in Illinois were set by the interstate commerce commission at Washington for October 11. Briefs must be filed with the commission before October 9. Vast quantities of liquor are being smuggled over the Canadian border Into the United States, according to statements made at Washington. * * • Secretary Houston of the treasury department at Washington hopes to see the government buy In upward of $200,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds during the current fiscal year, which ends next June 30. • ♦ » The total population of the United States, exclusive of outlying possessions. will be found to be almost 105.768,106, according to unofficial estimates by statisticians of the census bureau at Washington. The allied governments will owe the United States nearly $12,000,000,000 for loans made to them during the war by the time they are scheduled to resume interest .payments in 1922, according to a Washington dispatchl. • • • Domestic Seven thousand barrels of whisky, real Kentucky bourbon, wept up in flames at Law’renceburg, Ky. The whisky, valued at $4,000,000, was destroyed when fire wiped out the Cedar Brook warehouse. Governor Cox’s train on the way to Prescott from Phoenix, over the Santa Fe, was wrecked one mile north of Peoria, 16 miles from Phoenix, Arlz. Neither Governor Cox nor any memberof his party was Injured. * • • Decision to accept the wage agreement made between operators and miners’ committees about two weeks ago was reached by the representatives of the men in session at Des

Moines, la. * * * J — Missing his train at BuffaloTSamuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, went to Rochester, N. Y., by airplane. A reduction of 33 1-3 per cent in the price of manufactured cotton goods was announced by the Amoskeg Manufacturing company of Manchester, N. H. * • • Four armed bandits held up-a branch of the First State hank at Mount Elliott and Mack avenues at Detroit, .Mich., and escaped with an amount estimated by bank officials at $30,000. * • * The general assembly of Connecticut at Hartford, ratified the nineteenth amendment in accord with a message of Governor Holcomb to the second special session in a week. V • • An unidentified negro, believed to be from Chicago Heights, was shot to death by a posse which had surrounded him after he had been caught robbing the home of William Walters, near Bonfield, Hl. ♦ * • Theodore Schude, who confessed to impersonating Arthur Kincaid, American army lieutenant, was sentenced at Fort Sheridan to three years in th# federal prison at Fort Leavenworth. Twelve extra guards, armed with rifles, patrolled the roads adjoining the estate of John D. Rockefeller -at Tarrytown, N. Y. No statement could be obtained at the Rockefeller home. Pilot John L. Eaton, missing several days,after leaving Reno, Nev., eastbound in a small plane, is alive and safe at Shafter, Nev., according to advices received at San Francisco. * * * To be In style In Boston one must carry his lunch. Mayor Andrew J. Peters Is doing It. So are several thousand other business men and women who believe that the lunch box Is the only weapon left to fight the pro* iteering Restaurant keepers. • • * Fire originating over the kitchen of the main clubhouse of the Peoria (Ill.) Country club burned the structure to the-ground. The loss is estimated at $150,000, exclusive of the private stock in lockers. ..

Thirty per cent of Europe’s population is still on bread rations, Herbert Hoover told the American association of the baking industry at Atlantic City, N. J. • • • Nearly 3,000,000 acres of land in Wyoming, California and Montana, were classified during August by the department of interior at Washington under the stock-raising . homestead, law. ♦ ♦ • The Cincinnati Yardmen’s association voted to end the strike begun last April. Leaders said that as the men in Chicago had decided to return to work it would be futile to continue the strike there. Mrs. Myrtle Stiles, who has been on trial at Rotan, Tex., was found guilty of manslaughter following the slaying of her divorced husband, Roy Winters, and given ten years in the penitentiary by a jury. * * • Re-establishment of prewar prices on all products of the Ford Motor company, effective immediately, was announced by Henry Ford at Detroit, Mich. * * • Personal

Dr. Eric Doolittle, distinguished astronomer, died at Philadelphia. He was director of the Flower observatory of the University of Pennsylvania. Doctor Doolittle was born in Indiana in 1870. * * • Edwin C. Dinwiddle, former legislative superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, was elected chairman of the Fifteenth international congress against alcoholism, which convened at Washington for a six days’ session. * * * Miss Clara D. Noyes of Washington, director of nursing of the American Red Cross, sailed for Europe for a tour of inspection of the nursing activities. • * ♦ Brig. Gen. William J. Nicholson, former commander of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh infantry brigade, Seventy-ninth division, was elected president of the Army and Navy club of America at New York. * * *

Thomas E. Wilson of Chicago was re-elected president of the Institute of American Meat Packers at Atlantic City, N. J. • * * Miss Mary Super, formerly a nurse in the Children’s Homeopathic hospital in Philadelphia, is back home, considerably shaken by her experience at the hands of Turkish nationalists in Had jin. • ♦ J Sporting “Babe” Ruth, home-run champion, broke another record at St. Louis, scoring his 148th run of. the season in the eleventh inning to give New York a 4 to 3 victory over St. Louis. * * • Foreign Six thousand bodies of American soldiers who died in Europe have now been sent back to the United States, according to Major Sampson, assistant the head of the graves registration service at Paris. France will pay every dollar of the $250,000,000 loan due in New York October 15, M. Francols-Marsal, minister of finance, officially announced to the cabinet council at Paris. It is reported at Copenhagen that conflagrations are raging all over the Russian governments of Tver, Goroslav, Kostroma, Archangel, Vologda, Vladimir, Moscow, Rjaesan, Vjatka. In Vologda 500 houses were burned and 150 persons perished. In Saratow 300 perished and 25,000 are without shelter. In the suburbs of Petrograd great fires are raging. * • • County Councilor Lynch, a prominent Limerick Sinn Feiner, was shot dead in his hotel apartment in the center of Dublin. His assailants are alleged to have been “black and tan” police. • • • Two Japanese have been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment on conviction of an attempt to sell documents' stolen from the Yokosuka naval station to Americans, according to newspapers at Tokyo.

* • • An agreement has been reached between the government and the railwaymen at Rome by which the men will receive Increased wages amounting to 200,000,000 lire (normal value. $40,000,000). * • * Premier Alexander Millerand agreed to be a candidate for the presidency of the republic, to succeed President Deschanel, who has tendered his resignation, according to an official announcement at Paris. Bolshevism is showing Its hand at Turin. Four persons were killed, a score wounded and general rioting followed the murder of policemen. Auxiliary police forces wrecked the town of Balbriggan, near Dublin, in retaliation for the shooting of two police officers. • * * A dynamite bomb exploded ifi front of the club, in Talayera, a suburb of Madrid, doing enormous damage, but inflicting no casualties.