Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Personal Dr. Alston Ellis, seventy-three years old, for the last 20 years president of Ohio university, died suddenly of heart disease at his home at Athens, O. • • * Washington All Americans have been safely evacuated from the Crimean peninsula, South Russia, according to advices received by the State department at Washington. The total quantity of synthetic dyestuffs, including Intermediates, received in Great Britain from Germany In the first nine months of this yAtr Was 1,574 tons, valued at about $280,- - 000, according to advices received at Washington. .• • * No corporation, on group of corporations nor any group of individuals is going to “deliver American recognition to Mexico,” it was stated authoritatively at the State department at Washington. * • • More than 31 per cent of all American soldiers admitted to hospitals overseas during the World war were gassed, according to a statement made public by .the chemical warfare- service at Washington. • * * The Japanese population of Hawaii was announced by the census bureau at Washington at 109,269 out of a total population of 155,512. The Japanese constitute 42.7 per cent of the 1920 population of the Island. • * • The Japanese population of California was announced by the census bureau’ at Washington as 70.196, an increase of 28,840, or 69.7 per cent, compared with 1910. • • * Predicting that labor throughout the United States is due to suffer “a hard winter,” Herbert Hoover arrived at Washington and went into conference with Samuel Gompers. Expenditures of $2,940 wen* made in the campaign on behalf of Miss Alice Robertson of the Second Oklahoma district, the second woman to be elected to congress, according to a report made to Washington. • * •

A Washington dispatch says all available American warships in the Black sea are to be used to assist refugees In leaving the Crimea in advance of the Bolshevik! armies. • ♦ .♦ , Domestic Compensation for twelve years’ service as a domestic was set at .$4,200 at Spokane, Wash., in the Superior court when Elizabeth Bounds was awarded that sum in a suit against Minnie E. Galbreath. * * * S. Glenn Young, a federal prohibition officer, was indicted-at Edwardsville, Til., on a murder charge in connection with/he killing of Luke Vukovjc during a raid on the Vukovlc home for liquor. • * • Two bottles of beer, one dark and one light, with a plate of pretzels, have been placed on display at the Milwaukee Public museum, preserved for future generations. « * * Five hundred men and women employed by the Unique Knitting mills at Chicago have been laid off and the plant closed, due to a “slack season.” The company hopes to resume work after January 1. * * * Thirty-flyfc cents isr too much for a baked apple, so said the Nevada public service commission, at Carson City in an order to the Southern Pacific railroad directing that rates in its dining cars be reduced. ♦ ♦ ♦ California gold, currency, bonds and stocks, variously estimated as worth anywhere from SIO,OOO $10,000,000. were stolen from the transcontinental fast mail train between Omaha and Council Bluffs.

♦* * , A record crop of corn, exceeding the previous largest crop by 75,(300,000 bushels, was announced by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, placing production this year at 3,199,192,000 bushels. *,♦ * Immediate cuts in the wholesale prices of men’s fall and winter suits ranging from 33 1-3 to 40 per cent were announced by Rochester (N. Y.) clothing manufacturers. „ * • * Following refusal of the city council to grant an increase in fare from 5 to 6 cents to the Clinton (Ta.) Street Railway company, employees of the company struck. Bandits who robbed transcontinental train No. 8 at Council Bluffs, Ta., Saturday night are believed to have escaped In an airplane.* Ten miners were rescued from burning Arnold- mine near Earlington, Ky. Bodies of five others were recovered. j

Gov. William D. Stephens at Sacramento. Cal., received a telegram from General Obregon, President-elect of Mexico, Inviting him to be present at the presldeutal Inauguration at Mexico City December 1. * • • Illda Plztf, beautiful Costa Rican bride of Herbert P. Crane, millionaire Chicago and New York clubman, was granted absolute divorce in the Kane county court at Geneva, 111. Mrs. Crane was given SIOO,OOO settlement. • • • A Paw Paw (Mich.) dispatch says the charge of manslaughter against Mrs. Sarah Tabor, eighty-two, years old, who was accused of-causing the death of her daughter, Maude Tabor Virgo, will be dismissed. • ♦ • Charles Young, declared by Omaha physicians to be afflicted with leprosy, has disappeared from the Madison county farm in Nebraska, where he was placed by the state board of health. * • • Officials of the Phelps Can company at Welton, W. Va., announce that their plant, employing 200 persons would be shut down immediately, due to lack of orders. • • • Arrival at New York of five ocean liners and a number of smaller transAtlantic craft, carrying more than 10,000 passengers, gave the Ellis Island immigration station the largest “family” In its history. -*• * . Sporting Members of the United States tennis team sailed from Victoria, B. C., for Australia to play the challenge round for the Davis cup. • • •

The National and American baseball leagues settled their differences at Chicago and agreed that Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis shall represent them jointly in all Interleague dispute's. Judge Landis accepted the position and told the magnates that he is ready to assume his duties at once. He will retain his office as federal judge and will receive a salary of $43,500 per year from the American and National leagues. An additional SIO,OOO per year will be allowed for traveling expenses. • • * Foreign - Four of six men arrested at White Gate, County Clare, Ireland, under the restoration act were shot dead while trying to escape from their escort, according to an official report. • » • The United States shipping hoard freight steamer West Eagle, loaded with naphtha, kerosene and coal, caught fire in the harbor at Montevideo, and probably will be a total loss. The Ukrainians have evacuated Kiev and other towns they had occupied and are fleeing defeated before the new Russian soviet offensive, says a Warsaw dispatch. According to a dispatch received from Budapest, “eternal mourning” has been ordered In Hungary* hs a consequence of the “peace of humiliation.” • * • J. T. Cremer, Dutch minister to the United States, has tendered his resignation to Queen Wilhelmina at The Hague. Poor health is given as the reason for the resignation. * * • Troops fired from a number of points on several occasions to disperse afterelection trouble makers at Athens. Stores, theaters and banks have been closed. Soldiers patrol the streets. The people are keeping indoors. ♦ ♦ * Paul Hymans of Belgium was elected president of the League of Nations at the first meeting of the assembly of the league, which convened at Geneva. He received 35 of the 41 votes of The nations represented. * * *

Anti-Christian mobs broke up Salvation Army jubilee celebrations at Tokyo. Gangs of students dispersed an open-air gathering, while a mob invaded an indoor meeting. * * ♦ A blockade of the Russian Black sea coast has been declared, according to the Constantinople correspondent of the London Exchange Telegraph company. • • * Demand has been made by former Premier Karl Huzar for a proclamation establishing martial law in Budapest. . He declares this is necessary to insure the safety of the streets at nighs. ♦ ♦ ♦ It is reported at London that five houses of Sinn Feiners in Tipperafj? were burned. The military assisted In extinguishing the fires»- reports said, and there was some rifle firing. ■ » * * The government at Athens in an official announcement virtually admits the defeat of the Venizelists in the general elections throughout Greece. ♦ * • Two fishermen were reported drowned and four others missing in the wreck of the schooner Lou Blossoms at Dancing cove, near St. Johns, N. F., in a westerly gale which is sweeping the coast. ♦ * * The Idea Nazionale at Rome reports Gabriele d’Annunzlo, dissatisfied with the Italo-Jugo-Slav agreement, has occupied the islands of Veglia and Arhe in the Gulf of Quarnero at the .entrance of Flume harbor.