Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1920 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Personal George M. Smith, managing editor of the New York Tribune, diet! suddenly at his home In New York from .ptomaine poisoning, complicated with iheart disease. • • • Dr. Charles H. Vilas, regent of the ! University of Wisconsin, died at his । home at Madison. • • • Mrs. Carolyn Votaw, sister of Presi-dent-elect Harding, has been appointed head of the social service department. United States health bureau, by Surgeon General Hugh S. Cummings at Washington. • • • John Beall, ninety years of age, Inventor of the Beall degerminator, known wherever com Is milled, died at Decatur, Hl., of pneumonia. His Inventions are known throughout the world. • Congressman Mahlln M. Garland of Pittsburgh, a Republican representa-tive-at-large from Pennsylvania, was found dead In the bathroom of his home at Washington. Death was due to heart disease. • • • Washington Campaign expenditures of the Republican national committee between June 14 and November 19 totaled $4,022,580, and receipts amounted to $3,833,152, according to a final report received by the clerk of the house at Washington. • • • Herbert Hoover was elected president of the Federated American Engineering Societies by the federation’s council in session at Washington. • • • Despite the loss of 74 members of the country’s milllon-a-year income class, the taxable Incomes of the United States Increased in 1918 by oyer $2,272,000 000, as compared with 1917, according to a Washington report. Domestic Six men were burned to death in a 'fire at the Parish mine of the Railway ,Fuel company, nine miles south of ’jasper, Ala., following a gas explosion. Ten others were injured, six of them seriously, and four of them died later. r* • •

r• • * Three bank examiners are working on the books of the State bank of Filmore, N. Y., following the disappearance of C. J. Howden, president, and the discovery of an alleged shortage of $50,000. * ♦ • Mr«. Julia Drewrey, thirty-five years old, was shot and killed in her home at Carlisle, Pa. The district attorney Is holding two soldiers from the field service school here, on suspicion. • • * Edna Hollingsworth, twenty-one years old, and Florence Russell, aged sixteen, of Summitville, Ind., were Instantly killed when they were run over by a Big Four freight car. • • • Lack of (Jemand for cotton. pH and

meal is given by of Heers of the But., eye Cotton Oil company at Memphis Tenn., as the cause for tin* doshr. down of its plant* here. About 5<X men are thrown out of work. • • • A state bank at Atherton, Mo., wih held up and robbed of all Its availabk cash, according to telephone advices • • • The private bank of Wiggins & Wig gins at Homer, 111., closed. It Is said the bank has failed to the amount of $280,000. K. H. Rehrbaugh of New York, who served as a Y. M. C. A. secretary overseas during the World war, was found dead in a hotel at Pittsburgh, Pa. • • • President-elect Harding arrived at Crlstobal'in the morning on board the steamship Parlsmlna. He received a noisy welcome from the ships in the harbor. • • • An iceberg in the steamship track east of Newfoundland was reported tc Boston by a wireless dispatch. The appearance of ice in midatlantlc at thie season is unusual. • • • — Congressman-elect Charles F. Vandewater, a Republican of Long Beach, Cal., and his secretary. Miss Jammess Louvln, were killed when the automobile in which they were riding struck a truck at Pomona, Cal. • • 4 Grains sold at the lowest price this season at Chicago. Corn and oats are now under prewar levels. Lack of buyers was responsible for the decline of wheat, December closed at >1.72 a bushel, and March at $1.63% a bushel. • • • Because she rejected his attentions, Sam Lee, twenty-four years old, shot and killed Miss Stella Bankston, her mother, Mrs. A. L. Bankston, and her brother, Fink Bankston, and then ended hts own life near Mount Tex. Governor Cox received a majority of only 41,191 votes out of 188,059 cast at the Novembtfr election in Arkansas, according to an official compilation at the office of the secretary of state at Little Rock. • • • More than 500 Russian radicals remain to be deported, it was said at the Department of Labor at Washington. All except 40 of these are at liberfy on ball, but the others are held in confinement at Deer Island. • • *

Attacked by thousands of crows while duck hunting on the Missouri river near Sioux City, la., M. L. Murray of Salix killed and wounded more than 500 of the angry birds In three hours. Foreign . Preparations have been made by the German aniline syndicate to erect Qitrogen plants in the United States and Japan, and directors of the syndicate have already opened negotiations with these governments, says a Berlin dispatch., • • * The world’s wheat and rye crops of 1920 show a slight Increase over last year’s figures, says a bulletin Issued by the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. > • • • One of the sentries at Dublin castle was attacked by armed men. The sentry opened fire, killing three of the attacking party.' Two other deaths occurred during the raids which were carried out in the city throughout the day. • • • The Russp-Pollsh peace negotiations were resumed at Riga. • • • Two members of the house of commons at London came to blows during the question period with the Irish situation under discussion. They were Joseph Devlin, nationalist, and Maj. John Molson, unionist. • • * Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ireland, declared In the house of commons at London that plans of “paid assassins,” discovered recently, Included destruction of life and property In England.

Miss Ruth Sweetser, representative of the American suffrage organisation, has notified the police at Geneva that while attending the League of Nations meeting she was robbed of furs valued at $250. • _ France and Great Britain, the Petit Parlsien of Paris says, “will refuse to recognise Constantine if he reascends the throne” of Greece, and adds: "The friends of our enemies are not our friends.” w H • • • Announcement Is made at Paris of the engagement of Count de Castellane, son of Count Boni de Castellane, anil Mlle. Paternotre, daughter of Jules Paternotre, formerly French ambassador to the United States. • • * A Warsaw dispatch says great soviet armies are being gathered to crush General Balakovltch, commander of "irregular” forces which have been operating east of the armistice zone between Poland and Russia proper. • • • Theodosia, East Crimea, has been shelled by a French warship, following the firing by the Bolshevlkl on French destroyers carrying refugees, says a Constantinople dispatch.

Dispatches received at London from Berlin say that an American, Colonel Morell, was made a prisoner by the Bolshevik army during the rout of General Wrangel’s army in the Crimea. A Moscow wireless message says the Polish military command reports complete demoralization of the troops of Gen. Simon Petlura, the Ukrainian leader. The German government has protested officially to the League of Nations at Geneva against the system of distributing mandat.es under the treaty of Versailles. According to news which reached London an attack on an aerodrome guard at Bardmore, near Limerick, was beaten off after one soldier was killed and another seriously wounded. >• • • Dublin is in the grip of the military. Its main roads are held by armed cor dons. Motor traffic has been stopped and the cordon gradually is closing in "and raids from house to house are proceeding. The city hall and hotels have been commandeered for the accommodation of the military. The Bolshevlkl have resumed their attacks against the anti-Bolshevist forces In eastern Siberia and have captured Borgia, on the Trans-Siberian railway, 225 miles southeast of Chita, according to a Peklng.dispatch. Dublin dispatches say “black and (tans” raided the palace of Archblshsop Walsh and arrested William Kelly, the archbishop’s valet Forty persons are known to have been killed or seriously Injured In a collision between a freight train and an express at Braunswalde, Germany. • - • • Francisco Rivas Vicuna, at present Chilean minister to Japan, was nomllnated by the president at Santiago f Chile, to be minister to Cuba and Venezuela. _ . - 1