Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Exports of grain and flour fell off more than $1,000,000 during September, as compared with August, the Departjnent of Commerce at Washington reports. * * • Two American citizens have been killed In the Tampico oil fields, dispatches to the State department at Washington say. The Americans are Arthur L. Moslej? and Gustave E. Sailer (dr Sailer). ♦ ♦ ♦ Sporting Jack Dempsey, heavyweight pion of the world, and Georges Cty> pentier, heavyweight champion of Europe, will fight for the world’s championship sometime between February 1 and July 4,. 1921, In Cuba, according to a New York dispatch. Personal Frank L. Polk, former undersecre-, tary of stated underwent an operation’ for appendicitis in a New York hospital? His condition Is said to be satisfactory- * ♦ * Terence MacSwlney, lord mayor of Cork died at Brixton prison, London. BU death followed a hunger strike of ।

T 4 days, eclipsing any in the annals of the medical world. Bert; J. Vandervett, aged fifty, died suddenly at his home In Normal, Hl. He was president of the Corn Belt Nursery and quite wealthy. ... Oliver Doud Byron, veteran actor of the American stage, who had appeared with Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth, Joseph Jefferson and other famous stars, died at his home at Long Beach, N. Y. . Dr. E. D. Craighead, editor of the New Northwest, former president of the University of Montana and at one lime head of Tulane university at New Orleans, died suddenly at Missoula, Mont. ... Domestic .Forty-three alleged; “night riders have been arrested in’ Cullman,' Marshall ami Blount counties within the last few days, according to announcement at the state law enforcement department at Montgomery, Ala. - • • * Wages have dropped and the prospects are they will continue to drop. Hundreds of skilled and unskilled laborers have been laid off in C hicago and there is practically no tlemand for labor. , ... George Cushna, fourteen years old, messenger for the Southwest State hank, was held up and robbed of a satchel containing $1,186 by a lone robber at Fiftieth street and Racine avenue, Chicago. David McNeal, who several months ago obtained his release .from a mob bent upon lynching by a speech demanding “fair play,” <as acquitted at Welland, Ont., of a charge of murdering a four-year-old girl. * ♦ ♦ After /binding a watchman and trainmaster ten thieves broke into a freight car at the rear of the American Distilling * company at Chicago and escaped with 252 cases of whisky valued at $25,000. ■1 * * * Four amatehr fishermen captured a 250-pound deer swimming in the Patapsco river, about five miles from Baltimore. Md. How the animal got there is a mystery. It died in a few hours. , -■ * * Mrs." Zell a Hille, Mrs. Lena Service and Miss Fern Hoffman were drowned when their automobile overturned, throwing them into a drainage ditch and pinning them down in the water at Ashland, Neb. . ‘ ♦ * ♦ Placing his coffin on the family lot of the cemetery at Winsted, Conn., lannis Kennedy, seventy-two, crept inside, pulled the lid down and shot himself through the heart. .-. ■ . * * » - Theft of SO,OOO worth of Jewelry from the honie of Sir Robert Borden, former premier of -Canada, was reported to the police at Ottawa. Cotton ginned prior to October JB, amounted to 5,712,057 bales. Ginning last year to October 18 amounted to 4,929,104 bales, says a Washington official report. •„ .

William A. Spurrier, Jr., son of Judge and Mrs. W. A. Spurrier of Des Moines, la., was killed when dynamite exploded in a bam at his farm near Pine River, Minn. Maj. A. V. Dalrymple, supervisor nt prohibition enforcement agents in the Central states at Chicago, has quit “Politics” is the reason given. Seven trans-Atlantic liners arrived in port at New York Saturday with 11,285 passengers, of whom 7,8G0 came in the steerage. Elmer- S. Maione, Springfield, 111., an alleged automobile bandit, was tshot through the heart and killed by Fritz Stantz, deputy sheriff at Wakeeney, Kan. • • • Foreign In dispatches from Kovno by way of Helsingfors it is announced that a state of siege has been p at Moscow. * * * ♦ Many thousands Of pounds, alleged to belong to the Irish republic, were discovered and confiscated when milU tary forces raided the Munster and Leinster bank at Dublin. A brief, but unsuccessful revolution broke out in Bolivia, according to advices received at Buenos Aires. The movement was immediately suppressed and 27 of its ringleaders were executed. • • • Die Freiheit at Berlin asserts that 120,000 monarchistic “white guards” are mobilized in East Prussia and that intrigue is proceeding between Bavaria and East Prussia for co-op-eration to throttle the republic. * ♦ ♦ A jury of ten'men, after 12 minutes’ deliberation, returned an open verdict over the body of Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork at London that the deceased had died from heart failtire due to exhaustion from prolonged refusal to take food. | * * * Dr. Karl Helfferich, formerly vice chancellor during the imperial regime, was vigorously applauded during an address before the nationalist congress at Berlin when he asserted the necessity of re-establishing the monarchy. j * ♦ ♦ The chamber of deputies at a special session at Mexico City officially announced the election of Gen. Alvaro Obregon as president of the republic. The chamber named December 1 as the date for his Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of former Emperor William, is visiting Holland. He is dividing his time between Wiefyngen and Doorn, being at the latter place at present. , **7 • ’ < .7 . The municipal employment bureau at Berlin announces that 733,000 men and women In Germany are unemployed. The labor ministry estimates. tjiat soon 3,000,000 will be unemployed or on short time. 1 • A brief, but unsuccessful revolution 'broke out in Bolivia, according to advices received at Buentis Aires. The movement was Immediately pressed and 27 of its. ringleaders were executed.

I I Rqtifleatiou of the preliminary peace 'treaty betveto Psdand and Bolshevik Russia was voted by the, all-Russian soviet Monday, according to a wireless message 7 from Moscow. The city of Trieste was occupied by Italian troops Sunday, according to telegrams from -that place to the Rome ' Courier d’ltalia and the Izra Nazional. * • » | Deportatiofi of Armenians and Greeks has been resumed by the Turks, according to reports received l by the State department at Wushlng- ‘ ton from Constantinople. * * » ■ Two members of tl.e harnber of 1 deputies pf the state of Tabasco were killed when federal soldiers, seeking to arrest one of the deputies, opened tire upon the chamber while it was in session. says a Mexico City dispatch.