Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Personal Agnes_Williamson Wilson, wife of Secretary of Labor Wilson, died at the Wilson home at Washington, aged six-ty-on# years. • • • Anatole France, seventy-six, noted French author, was married at Tours, France, to Mlle. Emma La Precotte. ♦ » * Camille Flaininarlon, the astronomer, announced to his friends In Paris his marriage to Mlle. Gabrielle Renaudot. Mr. Flammarion is seventy-six years old. • • • Sporting Cleveland is the 1920 baseball champion. It won that title by beating Brooklyn, 3 to 0, fit Cleveland, In the seventh game of the world’s series. Cleveland triumphed by taking five of the seven contests. » * * Man o’ War, champion three-year-old of America, won the thoroughbred championship of the continent from Sir Barton over a course of a mile and a quarter at Windsor, Ont., in 2:03. • • • Georges Carpentier, idol of the Paris boulevards, knocked out Battling Levinsky in the fourth round nt Jersey City, N. J. • • ♦ Washington Approximately 3,250 “armed Haitian bandits” have been killed by United States marines or Haitian gendarmerie during the five years of American occupation, Brig. Gen. George Barnett, former commandant of tiie marine corps, says In a report made public by Secretary Daniels at Washington. * • * The Supreme court nt Washington refused to reconsider Its decision of last June 7, sustaining validity of the prohibition amendment and provisions of the enforcement act. • • •. Prosecution of anthracite coal operators for profiteering has been decided upon by Attorney General Palmer at Washington, who .ordered that evidence be gathered against mine owners in the central Pennsylvania field. Domestic Sale of the Old Hickory powder plant at Jacksonville, Tenn., to the Nashville Industrial corporation for $3,505,000 was announced by the War department at Washington. • • • Evidence showing that bootlegging in Chicago, conducted by a powerful organization of high and low officials, perhaps even two congressmen, Is in the hands of the federal authorities. • • * —. —- — — ■ ■ . : t , . *1 Maine women must give their exact age and date of birth before being registered as voters, Associate Justice Scott Wilson of the Maine Supreme court at Portland hasdeclded. * • * The town of Lowell, a suburb of Bisbee, Ariz., is seeking to bring order out of the chaos caused by a disastrous fire which destroyed half the town, sweeping through a dozen or more business places. • • • Earl Roop, a farmer living near Lansing, Mich., confessed, according to Sheriff Silsbee, that he chloroformed his two daughters, aged two and three years, and hurled their bodies in the bed of the Red Cedar river. • • * The Chelsea Ticket office, a small private bank In Chelsea, near Boston, of which Isadore Wlntman was the sole owner, was closed by Bank Commissioner Joseph C. Allen. It has liabilities of $92,000. » * * Isaac Mendelson, forty-eight years old, a wealthy .silk merchant, was fotind dead In his office at 44-00 East Twenty-third street. New York. Beside him was a bottle which had contained poison. • • * The railroads running Into Chicago are discharging from 10 te 15 per cent of their employees. This statement was made by Slason Thompson, head of the railway news bureau at Chicago. • • • Physicians working with the aid of one flickering lantern amputated the right leg of Henry Helms, a motorman, in order to rescue him from the tangled wreckage, of two £Jew York street, cars. r ** ■ ♦ Five persons were killed when section two of the California Limited crashed into an automobile at a crossing of the Santa Fe railroad near Glendora, Cal. " • • * Manager Tris Speaker of the world’s champion Cleveland Indians deceived a telegram of congratulation at Cleveland, 0., from Prescient Wilson. • * * The, enrollment at Harvard university tor the fall term Is 5,481, says an announcement from the registrar’s office at Cambridge, Mass.

William Jennings Bryan earnestly advocated cancelling the debt of *l<k--000,000,000 owed the United States by; England, Fzunce and the other former allies, in an address at Washington. • * * Four heavily armed unidentified bandits held up the Bank of Alameda. County at Alvarado, Cal., shot and rlously wounded August H. May, pre®tdent of the Institution, and escaped' with $50,000. a. • * Miss Esther Rogers, the daughter of Samuel Rogers, director of the United' States census bureau, died in a Philadelphia hospital. It Is-believed aha took some kind of poison. • • • ’ r Loss estimated at $1,000,000 was tha toll taken by fire which destroyed 70,000 bales bt eotton and the compress and warehouses of the Ctimeron Cotton Press company at Cameron, Tex. • • • The entire force of state law enforcement officers, as well as the militia, will be used to atop the burning® of cotton gins In the northern part of the state, according to Governor Kilby nt Montgomery, Ala. • • * A New York dispatch says that tha long arm of the law tn New York state will reach out for taxes due from about 125 ball players sharing tn tha receipts of the world's series.. ♦ * » Maj. Gen. Charles V. E. Townsend, who commanded British forces which surrendered to the Turks at Kut-El-Amara In 1915, Is going to join Gen. Baron Wrangel on the Crimean front, says the London Dally Sketch. • * ♦ A gift of *IO,OOO by the Rockefeller Foundation to the American Hospital association on condition that 45,000 la obtained from other sources was announced nt the association’s convention at Montreal. » • * * Elmer Linker, twenty-three, member of one of the wealthiest families of La Crosse, Wls., was shot to death in a cornfield at Sparta,, after a gun fight with the sheriff of Monroe county. • • * William D. Haywood, general organizer of the Industrial Workers of tha World, left New York city for Chicago, saying he would seek a ing of the decision against himself and his associates. * • ♦ Delbert Ileffay, twenty-six, was shot and killed nt Casper, Wyo., as bia wife and eight-year-old son looked on. Mrs. Jessie Ackerman, twenty-twa» was arrested. No explanation wu given by Mrs. Ackerman. • » » Foreign The American flag which Commodore Peary planted nt the north polo has been found 4(H) miles away from its original geographical point, according to a Copenhagen dispatch. • • * In an attempt to Induce Ireland to accept home rule, the British government has decided to give Ireland the control of Irish customs, says a London dispatch. . , . , ♦ * • ** / Rev. O. Mehan, senior Catholie curate of Castlebar parish, County Mayo, Ireland, was arrested in the presbytery of his church for alleged connection with extensive raids in that district. Coal miners in the Agujitas district of the state of Coahuila, Mexico, led by Bolshevik leaders, have seized three coal mines and have placed than under soviet control. Federal troops were sent to restore order., • • * A secret arsenal of the Sinn Fete at New Ross, Exford county, Ireland, blew up, killing five young men and injuring five others so badly that thay are not expected to live, v* I ■ £ .* Dispatches from Portugal declare Ihat the railroad strike is ended and services generally have been resumed after a few disturbances In ttye southern provinces. Nothing .serious han happened. - • • • Ukrainian insurgents have occupied Kiev, the Russian Bolshevist forces that were holding the city abandonin< it, according to advices received at Warsaw. * * * Proclamation of a moratorium effective until December 1, a period of SB days, was made In a decree issued by: President Menocal at Havana. Issuance of this decree-followed confer ence of bankers and officials. The Russian soviet government has sent a delegate with peace proposals to the headquarters of General W range], commander of the anti-Bolshevik army in southern Russia, according to a Warsaw report. * * * A Constantinople dispatch -says Turkish nationals are reported to be attacking the, Armenians at the headwaters of the Araxas river' (east of Erzerum). They appear also to bo planning an attack on Ilatum. • * * Constables Kenny and Crawford were shot dead and a sergeant and two other constables were badly wounded when a police motorcar running between Roscommon and Ballaghadereen, - County of Mayo, ta Ireland, was fired Upon. * * • While arrests were beinjg made during the military raids on Drumcondra, a suburb of Dublin, two officers were shot dead, orle non-commissioned offfieer was wounded and one civilian Was killed and another wounded.