Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — Page 8

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Important News Events of the World Summarized

Sporting Great pitching by Stanley Coveleskie featured the opehing game of the world’s series at Brooklyn, N. Y., in Which the Cleveland Indians, chanv pluns of the American league, were triumphant, 3 to 1. * * * Personal Charitable bequests- totaling approximately $1,300,000 were made in the will of the late Jacob H. Schiff, filed at New York in the surrogate court. • • • Threatened with a physical breakdown after seven years of ppblic life, Franklin K. Lane, former secretary of the interior, has been ordered by his physicians to take a complete rest, It was learned at New York. • • • Leo Stern, a Milwaukee educator, who arrived in Hamburg for a visit to Germany, died suddenly there. * ♦ ♦ Washington ' ’ s''' The 1920 population of Alabama is 2,347,295, an increase since 1910 of 209,802, or 9.8 per cent. Nevada’s 1920 population, 77,407; decrease since 1910, 4,463, or 5.5 per cent, according to the census bureau at Washington. * * * President Wilson at Washington wrote to Senator Spencer (Rep.), Missouri. that the statement recently made by the senator that she president had promised American military aid to Roumania and Serbia in the event of the invasion of those c<Mintrles, was "false.” • • • Anti-suffragists carried their fight against the woman suffrage amendment to the United States Supreme court at Washington. t ♦ • » About one(>ut of every five soldiers whose enlistments expired during September have re-enlisted, the army recruiting service at Washington reported. ♦ • ♦

In a statement issued from the White House at Washington and understood to have been written by his own hanfl.iPresident Wilson made a personal appeal to the country on behalf of the League of Nations. New 1 York state’s population was announced at the census bureau In Washington as 10,384.144, an Increase of 1,270,530, or 13.9 per cent. ♦ ♦ ♦ Domestic Lieut Charles B. Austin started from Panama for a flight to Washington in a remodeled army airplane by way of Jamaica and Cuba. ♦ * • Right of dry officers to search private premises or seize personal property without a search warrant was denied in an, opinion handed down by the Kentucky court of appeals at Frankfort, Ky. The Cleveland players have voted a full share ’Of their portion of the receipts to the widow of Ray Chapman, who was killed by a pitched ball' In a game between Cleveland and New York. • • • One hundred and six students of Cornell university at Ithaca, N. Y., have tried and found guilty of “cribbing” in their examinations last June, it became known. All but five were dismissed from the university. ** * . 1 Two slight earthquake shocks were felt at Eureka, Cal. The first was at 5 a. m., and at 9 a. m. a prolonged and severe quake was felt. No damage was reported from either. * * • Prosperity is on the wing in the United States. Profiteering is dying a timely death. This is the consensus of bankers from widely separated places In the country, at Boston for a conference. ”* * James Thompson of La Crosse, Wis., although defeated by Senator Lenroot for the Republican nomination for the United States senate, re-entered the face, filing at Madison, Wis., as an independent. " • » • Lieut. Sydney Pedott of Chicago was drowned and Lieut. Henry Bachelor of Saginaw, Mich., narrowly escaped death when a navy plane in which they were flying plunged into Lake Michigan five miles off Great Lakes training station. • • * Three men were injured severely In a fight between about 300 white and negro soldiers stationed at Fort Leavenworth, according to an announcement at Leavenworth. Kan. » * * * The sentence imposed on William D. (“Big Bill”) Haywood and 98 other L W. W.’s was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals at Chicago. x f ♦ ♦ • \ Deputy Sheriff -H. C. W. Laubenheimer at Chicago began for the execution of eight men, on October 14, and two more on October 15.

Len Smail was declared the Rspab lican nominee for governor by tba state canvassing board, in seesion at Springfield, 111. x • • * Seven thousand clerks, freight handlers, station masters and other employees of the Canadian National railways and the Grand Trunk Pacific railway are affected In a general wage Increase 25 per cent, retroactive to May 1, says an Ottawa diepatch. • * • There was another break of half a cent a pound in refined sugar when the Federal Sugar Refining company at New York announced a reduction to 12 cents for fine granulated. • ♦ • C. P. Bates, prominent attorney of Sioux Falls, S. D., and Jack Bronzfer, a local fisherman, were drowned when the boat In which they were rowing capsized on Green lake, near Spicer, Minn. • • • Mrs. Anna Rogers Parr of Vera, Fayette county, Is the only woman in the race for member of the state legislature. Her petition was filed with the secretary of state at Springfield, 111. The W. A. Morgan store at Buffalo, N. Y., was destroyed by fire with a loss of $1,000,000. The store was purchased by Mr. Morgan about six months ago from the Siegrlst & Fraley company. • • « Devon Bartholomew of Waterloo, Ind., and Cecil Keyes of Orland, Ind., were killed 12 miles south of Coldwater, Mich., when their plane fell 3,500 feet after stay wires snapped. • • • William (Billy) Swift, son of the Chicago millionaire packer, declared himself as being “cured’ 1 when, after seven continuances on a charge of violating the auto speeding laws, he was fined $6. • • * The Hare’s Motors, Inc., operating company for the Locomobile and Mercer concerns of New York, announced the price of standard Locomobile cars had been reduced $1,850 and Mercer models SI,OOO. • e • Foreign The Italian government has refused permission to former King Constantine of Greece to enter Italy, according to information at the French foreign office at Paris. * • • Spanish fortes have won new successes against Moroccan tribesmen, according to official dispatches to Madrid from the Spanish commissioner in

that country. The tribesmen have been driven from four positions. • • * An agreement for the signing of an armistice, preliminary to peace, not later than October 8, was reached at Riga by M. Joffe and M. Dombskl, "heads of the Russian and Polish delegations, respectively. • • * Richard Cqrish, lord mayor of Wexford, Ireland, and Ed Foley, a merchant, who were acting as judges at a Sinn Fein court in the town hall there, were arrested by the police. • • • A Constantinople dispatch says that forces commanded by General Wrangel have Joined the armies led by General Makno, the Ukrainian chief, which have been operating against the soviet troops in the region of Kharkov. • ♦ • The Sinn Felners incarcerated In prison at Cork are continuing their hunger strike, and reports stated their condition was without change. They are on the fifty-sixth day of their fast • • • Italy and Jugo-Slavla, it is reported at Berne, Switzerland, will open direct negotiations in Switzerland at an early date with a view to reaching a definite settlement of the Adriatic question. • • • The Polish' government will take all steps to secure civil equality for the Jews of the country, Ignace Daszinski, the vice premier, told the delegates to the Pollsh-Jewish conference at Warsaw. ~ . • Japanese naval and military forces have begun evacuation of Nikolaevsk, Siberia, withdrawing to the Northern portion of the Island of Sakhalin, according to cable dispatches received at Honolulu. • • * ~ " — Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovltch of Russia, younger brother of the late Emperor, Nicholas, was not assassinated by the Bolshevikl, as has .been reported, but is now in Siam, according to a Paris dispatch. • * • The United States destroyer which was reported to hUve hit a mine Outside Riga, suffered damage to It* engines, but is not In need of assistance, according to a wireless message received at Riga, Latvia. Berlin Is without light or telephones, according to a London Central News dispatch. A strike of electricians has plunged the city in darkness Mhd crippled the entire telephone system. A Tokyo dispatch says that Japanese troops have been sent to RanChun, a town in Manchuria near the Korean frontier which was raided by bandits. • •• * Soviet Russia and Finland have signed a treaty of peace at Dotpat, says a Moscow wireless dispatch.

WOULD ENJOIN LABOR UNION

Mine Orewt la want VtofMa Unianirinf OeStoMM Charleston. W Fa, Ort t —StaMMa has beta asrv*d by **• Rad JkertNsi Coosolldated Coal cnmpaay and Pond Fork Colliery mmpaay tha« a* injunction restraining officials of **• United Mine Worker* from asHasMahal the petitioners' mine*, will b* MMSaM tn federal court October 11.

Federal Sugar Cute 11½C.

New York, Oct. B.—The Federal Sr. gar Refining company has Jest announced another reduction of half a cent a pound lu Its price on ruSaad sugar to llftc, less 2 per cent Rar cash. & ' * ’rtWBBB«

JEW EXODUS FROM POLAND

Report Says 250,000 Are on Their Way to the United States. Graudenz, Oct B.—An exodne of Jews from Poland which has been steadily increasing for many weeks, has reached such a proportion that Polish army officers say It is certain that more than 250,000 goon will have left. Most of them are hound for Um United States.

Villa Debts to Be Paid in Full by Government

All personal loans obtained by Francisco Villa, Mexican bandit leader, who surrendered to the provisional government, will be paid by the_govemruent. it has been learned. The loans amount to $40,000, Mexican. Villa is said have given receipts for all the loans he obtained and these will be refunded upon presentation of the papers to the government by claim aifts. Villa still Is at Sablna% awaiting the arrival of the suwj ply train which was to take mB and his men to Torreon. I

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