Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1920 — HOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]
HOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD
•IQ HAPPENINQB OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS • Komota Culled From Events of Moment In All Parts of ths Wort*— Of Interoat to All ths Poopio Everywhere. Personal ne Alfred T. Ringling estate is valued st $1,056,543, according to a statement filed in the county court of Bank county at Baraboo, Wls. • • • PrMident-elect and Mrs. Harding will spend the coldest weeks of the winter in Florida, leaving early in the new year and not returning until shortly before March 4, says a Washington dispatch. • • • Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state -of the United States, arrived at Rio de Janeiro on board the battleship Florida. • • • Jane Addams of Chicago has been designated as chairman of the memorial service to pioneer suffragists with which the national convention of the Woman’s party will open at Washington on February 15. * • • B. F. Harris, nationally known for his activities in behalf of a better agriculture and country life and for his public leadership, died at his home in Champaign, Hl., after an illness dating from last May. • • • Washington Carrying $14,000,000 less than was appropriated for this year, the annual pension bill was reported out by the house appropriations committee at Washington. The total in the bill Is $265,500,000. • • •
By a vote of 196 to 86, the house at Washington passed the emergency high tariff bill protecting agricultural products. The measure now goes to the senate where it will be aujected to such prolonged discussion that it may fall of passage. • • * The senate coal investigating committee at Washington unexpectedly uncovered charges involving a ring of government officials in a rakeoff of millions of dollars In coal transactions during the recent fuel shortage. George H. Cushing, general manager American Wholesale Coal Dealers’ association, while testifying, disclosed that government officials, profiting by advance information of fuel stringencies, declared themselves In on coal price boosting. Cushing said government officials participated in a $675,000 ®plit-up in one case. The President is without power under existing laws “to shut out wheat Imports,” but he "apparently has certain powers under the Lever act to stop future trading in wheat," the federal trade commission at Washington says in special report, f* * * John F. Nugent of Boise, Idaho, was nominated by President Wilson at Washington to be a member of the federal trade commission. The nom? Ination was immediately confirmed by the senate. Senator Nugent’s term as senator expires March 3. K• ♦ • * A Washington dispatch says exports for November were valued at $675,000,000, a falling off of more than $76,728,570. Imports, on the other hand, declined only a little more than $13,.000,000.
Attorney General Palmer nt Washington ruled that maker has right to keep and consume cider, even after it becomes hard. * * • Foreign According to a dispatch from Dublin there was a pitched battle in that city between the crown troops and the Irish republican army. In the course •of the fight eight soldiers and ten republicans were killed and thirty republicans w'ere I\ken prisoner by the troops. Another report says that in another battle at Mullinahone, near •Clonmel, in County Tipperary, thirty republicans were killed and ten capitured.
* * * In a battle between civilians and a ■group of military, who were ambushed at Eunistympn, in County ■dare, Ireland, six soldiers were wounded!. Three 'of the attacking were killed, four were wounded and two others were taken prisoner. * • * A Udine dispatch says Flume, the stronghold of Capt. Gabriele d’Annunxfo, the insurgent Italian leader, is being besieged "by regular Italian forces. * * * Military forces occupied the Dublin City hall and municipal buildings la accordance with the demand of General Boyd. * Alberto J. Pan! expects to leave Mexico City tbr Washington the first week in January to assume the duties of Mexican ambassador to the United States. -— -
A Dublin dispatch says that crown forces burned the village of Ballinalee, County Longford, as a reprisal for the recent attack on the police barracks there, in which one constable was killed. Tiie Ixmdon Central News’ Perth (Australia) correspondent says that an armed Japanese, asserting racial equality, ran amuck at Brooke and a riot resulted. During the fighting two Japanese were killed. • • • A Shrewsbury (England) baby born three months ago weighed but one and a half pounds. At the end of the fourth week she weighed nearly three pounds. She now weighs five pounds, and Is well. • o • All taxes on luxuries in Canada, with the exception of alcholic liquors, confectionery and playing cards, have been abolished by the Dominion government through an order In council at Ottawa. • • • Hugh O. Wallace, the American ambassador at Paris, refused to meet Wilhelm Mayer von Kaufbeuron, the German ambassador, because the United States still is technically in a state of war with Germany.
• • • Eight policemen were ambushed by 100 armed men at KUcommon, in County Tipperary, according to reports received at London. Four of the police are said to have been shot dead, e • e Italian government forces commanded by General Cavlglia and Admiral Millo have established a close blockade of Flume by land and sea, says a Rome dispatch, i • • • A Helsingfors dispatch says that several hundred persons were killed or Injured in a railway wreck near Petrograd. The wreck Is said to have been due to over-crowding, but details are lacking. • • • An American airplane driven by Fernando Proal, a Mexican aviator, flew from Mexico City to Vera Cruz, the distance of 225 miles being made in 2 hours and 20 minutes. • • • Extreme anxiety Is felt by the British people over conditions of unemployment, and In some quarters the opinion is held that the crisis Is more serious than any of its predecessors, says a London dispatch. • • •
Two men wTFo had been held In custody by the military at Cashel police barracks, Ireland, four days, were shot dead. No details of the killing of the prisoners have received at London. *• • * Domestic The Indian population of the United States, according to Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs at Washington, Is 336,337, as against 304,950 ten years ago, showing an Increase of 31,387. • • • O. H. Peckham, seventy-five, chairman of the board of directors of the National Candy company, died at his home at St Louis. He was president of a sugar refinery in Clinton, la. • * * More than 200 deer were killed in Elk county during the season which ended lust week, Game Warden E. W. Turley announced. ' Twenty-two does and one male deer were killed illegally, says a Ridgway (Pa.) dispatch. '• * • The wages of more than 200,000 w.orkers In the textile industry of Philadelphia are to be reduced from 10 to 20 per cent in the near future, officers of associations in the trade eaid.
Walter R. Alexander, son of Secretary Alexander of the Department of Commerce, was -killed instantly at Bolling field, at Washington, when the propeller of an airplane struck him on the bead. * * * The government has brought suit at New York against John D. Rockefeller for $292,678, charging his income tax report was “incorrect, misleading and false.” Charles Sumner Burch, bishop of the New York diocese of the Episcopal church, died suddenly at his home. Heart disease is thought to have caused his death. • • • A blanket indictment against 52 defendants, charging violation of the state antitrust law, was returned at New York in connection with investigation of the “building trust.” Indictments now number 120.
The Christmas rush Of immigrants and other passengers anxious to pass the holidays on American soil reached its height Sunday when eight transatlantic liners arrived at New York with more than 12,000 passengers. ♦ * ♦ Edward V. Gambier, vice president of the Atlantic National bank of the city of New York fell or jumped from his office on the tenth floor of the bank building on Broadway and was killed. • * • - Authority was granted by the interstate commerce commission at Washington for permanent consolidation of the transportation busings and properties of the Adams, American, Wells Fargo & Co. and Southern express companies into the American Railway Express company.