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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - January 10, 1920, Madison, Wisconsin Weather fair in Utt Chewisco the journal vol. 134. No. Too. 81st year. Madison wis., saturday afternoon january to 1920. Ten pages Price two cents House again ousts Berge peace protocol is signed Sam socialist is ratifications exchanged by Allied envoys treaty in effect immediately american ambassador Wallace not present at ceremonies signing does not end War for All time warns Foch urges preparedness on nations t arise peace became effective at 4 11 p. In. Today when Allied a and German representatives exchanged ratifications of the treaty of Versailles. Previous to the Exchange of rat-1 i ideation the germans signed the j protocol covering enforcement of the terms. American ambassador wipe out towns we Ullar Quot As Quot top Rrapi get lava and quake Cresh volcanic outbursts ado to mexican horror shrines vani8h in Earth by Ralph Turner Mexico City fresh volcanic outbursts late last night were reported to threaten the stricken District Southwest of Jarupa. Where thousands of people already have been killed or r via erred Home by earthquakes and volcanoes. The Volcano Conrede pc Rote West of Jalapa. A reported in official government to he she wine tug is of renewed activity while the Crater of can Miguel still was sported belching Mojo i and lava. Tit official advices tended to confirm earlier report of terrible loan of life and property in me stricken a a. Many have been completely demolished Only handfuls of their population remaining alive. Jalapa late advices showed suffered even worse than it was at first believed. Many Public buildings were destroyed including the state and municipal palaces the municipal College and i regimental Barracks. One Village it was said was completely crushed when a Hill. Near which it was situated collapsed literally burying the town. At one place according to government advices. 150 rebels were killed who to the volcanic outburst destroyed their Camp. At Toledo it was said Only one House remsitw/1 standing. Great chasm have opened in the Earth in Many places too feet wide it was said. In lie work is difficult the pack trains being forced to Detour around Many of these enormous fissures. The shrine of the favorite Saint of zips aha was Swallow up in the Earth a government despatch said. Adding to the terror of the superstitious Indiana who looked upon the disappearance of their Saint As a particular manuf station of divine Wrath. Government officials were worried Over Teh effect the a Goth quake and volcanoes will have on the Vera Crux Petroleum Industry. Joaquin Kanta talc. Chief technician of the department of Petroleum pointed out the disturbances have altered the entire geological formation of the affected area and May Render the great Oil Fields valueless. First league meeting Jan. 16 Paris the supremo Council today fixed the Date for the inaugural meeting of the league of nations As Jan. 16, St 10 30 a. In Leon Bourgeois of France will preside and will deliver an address As will Earl Curson of great Britain. Premier Clern Encrum in closing the Weston said a the protocol ending the armistice has been signed ratifications have been exchanged and the treaty is effective following the ceremony several of the Sill d delegates bowed to the organs but did not shake hands with them. Wars not ended i Znaj ratifications of the treaty of Versailles will not forever banish was i rom a weary world. Marshal l Oci. Warned in interview today. It would be foolish to believe there will by no More War merely because j to do not wish to och declared. A i Ranee Aud the world must draw a lesson from the struggle we have lust finished it must be u it 33011 of prudence with Best Good will. A War is not always avoidable. It can begin on the frontiers of the most inc fisc Peoples perils a it begins easiest in such places. A Elf it is True two Are necessary to make a tight. It if equally True the one Best prepared will win. I know this statement May seem obvious but that very question is causing great discussion now a Days. There Are ingenious people who believe that to leave the key in the door is the surest Way to prevent Entrance of thieves. A i think it Wiser to lie ready for any unfavourable event. War is science War no longer May be called an a a Art Quot Pooh declared it now is a science and an Quot War will be evolved indefinitely As Long As there Are people to pro Are for the Field Masai continued. Quo thus. Who wish to avoid violence cannot afford to ignore anything in the Way of scientific and Industrial Progress. Strike of teachers is unavailing Darlington a the school a ams of the Blanchardville graded schools Are disappointed. They contracted to teach during the school year of 1819-1920 for >85 a month. But the High Cost of living struck them along with everybody else so they decided to strike and demand higher wages and if their request was refused to quit. Accordingly in a body they swooped Down upon Tho members of the Board. They were All Busy at work in their places of business but being kind men listened. They did not want to lose Fihler teachers and close the schools neither did they feel disposed to raise the wage scale unless they knew it was the wish of the taxpayers. A special meeting was coiled and the school a ams were satisfied. A Large crowd assembled there was a splendid representation of the populace. But a motion to increase the wage of every teacher was voted Down by a Large majority. The school a ams Are still on the Job. First Moonshine Case tried Here Barron county Man Given sentence had All machinery for Quot still the first a a Moonshine Quot Case Ever in Wisconsin was tried in Federal court this morning. Arnold Alt Vitson of Dallas Barron count pleaded guilty of running an illicit stil. He was sentenced by judge a. L Sanborn to six months in the Milwaukee House of correction and was a red $500. Work of All night orgies in which Albertson Aud hts friends would become violently drunk and a whoop a or up Quot keeping the n a ii Bor Hood awake culminated in m be it son s artist list september by Baul Tine internal Revenue officer. All appurtenances of the typical Quot Moonshine still the Mach a Goose and stores of blackberries rasing and prunes were. Found in Albertson s garage. Revenue officers report the whiskey As Exoe Lent. The Case was tried by District attorney a. C. Wolfe. Road detective committee to hear socialists n i. A tit Lay her ail be a company in t Abl i Burden of the expo i univ. A Thaddeus Sweet streets Ami then it Tho state Bouse of repro due the City since a sent at 1 ves Here Over the week end. In connexion with Cnogge-7. . Former Iii is us rout 4mcuv. For. To j1 ded my i in. The. my a oily Fred i u. Manas a Street railway system Effi 1 the wiil a api to it a monday i cleanly. Or. Ryan answered with a statement of what had been accomplished by the City in maintaining a is acquitted is a j i r i f to i City urged to Purchase car system Ryan assails railways company before Council committee authorized to report plan Muni if Al ownership of the Street railways to obtain for Madison a transportation Servile the City needs and has not been Able to get City attorney William Ryan declared in a sweeping arraignment of Hie Madison Street railway company alleging Gross mismanagement is the Only solution of the City s transports. I turn difficulties a citizen s committee named by the i mayor and reappointment of the old i Council Street railway committee whose i term had lapsed Loat april to report on a scheme for obtaining adequate Street railway for Mason was provided for in a motion in reduced by or. Ryan and pass Dun i animus. The 1 etl ment among the councilmen scene d to be that of the railway company would not come across with the facilities Madison requires the Eity would have to buy and operate Hie system. Quot tile Madison Street hallways com puny Baa reached the limit of its pow it r to serve the people of Madison Quot or. Ryan declared. The Street car com puny cannot borrow another cent Ana it is now earning to per cent of its valuation a ii guru by Hie Raff 1 Road commission. The property of Hie railway company is not Worth Over $866,600, a lording to Railroad commission Angures and the company on those assists Lias borrowed Over a dollars. A that $1,006,600 dollars represents watered Stock and it would be unfair to ask the people of Madison to pay fares to provide payments of interval in such fictitious values. Quot the City of Madison by bringing ult against hic Street railways co a any fur $ non owned since 1912 As a result of a suit probably Druid put the company Iii the hands of a Reedy a or. Ryan explained. Quot but Tho City does no to want a bankrupt company on its hands that would j not Salve our transportation would lie left without a Street car a company. What we want is a real Street car company and real service. The Street car company has been i blocking City improvements for years j we Are not Abl to pare streets that Are in an in possible condition we can a j we cannot fix a ans Iii Street ear to Bear its proper ise of tearing it the repaving. Money is j 1916 for work Don j eel improvements Victor again Given Boot by Congress Victor l Quot be be car co. Adopts Transfer rules new order to trolley Crews approved by rail commission kicked out for second time by representatives same fact which brought about former action by Congress still exist says Resolution barring Milwaukee an from seat vote is 328 to 6 Washington Victor l. Horner Milwaukee socialist convicted under the espionage act was excluded from the membership in Congress today for the second time in two Mouths. Following is the text of the res a communication wan received today by c. I a Mon Engineer of the Railroad comm Billon. From Dudley Montgomery vice president of the madmen railways company outlining the new tinier issued by Tho com any to conductors and Motorman relative to streetcars making Transfer connections. The order in effect is that solution prepared by representative Dallinger providing for Jerg crts expulsion 1 Quot we Kebab on nov. To 1919 the House of representatives by a vote of 399 to i adopted a Resolution declaring that a a actor a. Berger is not entitled to take the oath of office As a representative in this House from the fifth congressional District of the state of Wisconsin or to hold a seat therein As such representative by reason of the fact to has been convicted of violating a Law of the United states and having previously taken an oath As a member of Congress to support the Constitution of the United states had Given Ald and Comfort to the enemies of the United states and for the Good and sufficient reasons and whereas the Laid Victor l. Berger now presents his credentials Tumu the vacancy caused by his own in eligibility and Quot i thick As the same farts exist now which the House determined made to said Victor l. Berger ineligible to a a a eat in said House is a representative from said District now therefore be it �?obksc1a i. That by reason of the facts herein state and by reason of the action of the House heretofore taken the said Victor i Berger is hereby declared not entitled to a seat in the sixty sixth Congress As a representative from the said fifth District of the state of Wisconsin and the House declines to permit him to take the oath and qualify As such the vote was 328 to it with one mom tier voting pres tit. Guards in galleries extra guards were stationed in All Demontra reds claim big Siberia Victory soviet forces bag 60.000 prisoners and huge store of supplies London the town of Krasn Yarslaw a astern Liberia has been captured by the bolshevik according to a Moscow wireless dispatch. Quot the remnants of the first second and third enemy armies have surrendered and 60,000 prisoners already have been says the dispatch. car is to leave any Transfer Post if the i a car of another route galleries to prevent any approaching from the rear within action or disturbances distance of on Block until the Crew on 1 in offering the Resolution Dallinger Tho leading car have satisfied them j Declar d Berger was not being sex Elva s that there Are no passengers on eluded because he was a hoc Aust. But the approaching car Transfer to their Cai. A a Vav Lien there Are approaching car who Fer to a leading cur Point. The Crew on the win desire to thou id make to advisor the of hut fact. Such Crew in efforts v on Hutto Case a singers on the desire to trans at a try Isle approach log car As possible leading pm should any la Milwaukee Day of the charge of murdering Zunker. The Man a. It Railroad Yards Here March 1ituehl j pleaded self defense. Barents of Zunker have started civil action against the Road. I railway company should pay argument the $1,000,000 fire loss to liner weather a a Prophet sends Wilson threats Detroit a accused of sending 40 threatening letters to president Wilson Over the signature Quot Kajah do Norden Prophet of Oscar bather Detroit stood indicted by the Federal grand jury today. According to Tho Federal authorities Kather sent Many messages to persons of prominence. Including foreign ambassadors and Public officials. Irish attack police Barracks Dublin a body of armed men last night attacked the police Barracks at Thistle Hackett. The police hastily summon d reinforcements succeeded i a driving off the attackers. City waterworks the Street railway company he said. H it riot Given us any of the so called benefits of the private owned company. Quot the Madison railways company could be purchased by the City for not new i ukr a i anlage to the american liner by. I Amis by fire which swept the vessel thursday night Ana yesterday was estimated at it More than $00,006, lha Price Tabo de 1 la nothing it it a Tummill by the Railroad co Sumicion lha ship remains. Which would not consider the watered workmen remodelling the ship it Tock presented by the $l.o�0,w0� in Tor passenger service when site caught debt new or. Ryan continued. The tire. Presumably from a gasoline lurch. J Ivy a pump 4>. Of Public util i in approach a a Aln id on the same track at a Kieler Speed that it ordinarily uses in Case there ire no pass a tigers to Transfer. The responsibility of making these Transfer connection Crew of the leading duty to be on the Lookout to Render such service. Because of the consequent Del it is not required that any car should wait at a Transfer Point unless an a 1 preaching cur is either one Block Dis a Tant at the time the leading car is ready to proceed a Thi handling of the situation was approved by the Railroad commission. Or Paarson is making arrangements Tor a Survey of Trade conditions in Madison with n View of facilitating Street cur transportation. Because he was disloyal and thus ineligible under the Constitution. Berger announced his intention of again becoming a candidate in the. Fifth District of Wisconsin and expressed a belief that his majority in the next election would greatly exceed that in the last. This is lha people s fight for their ideals and a principle. The y Are just As Good americans As Abraham Lincoln and George Washington and the time has come when representation of 1 the people for the people must be Dennis with Tho j nullified a Berger said. A. As it is their those voting against excluding Berg Ier were Griffin new York Bisson j Mississippi Sherwood. Ohio a ought. Aye a i hiring the i port Louisville. Was the trans far tonight colder sunday. And sunday. Slightly fresh southerly winds a hitting to Westerly sunday temperature yesterday noon 17 3 p. Rn., 22 6 p ill 9 p. M., it. Today Midnight. To 3 a in 4,6 a. In 13.9 a in 11. Maximum during 14 hours ending 9 a. Rn., 22 at 3 p. In. Minimum during 24 hours ending 9 a in. I at 4 a. Mean. 15 Normal. 16 relative humidity i p. In. 86. 7 p. In. Is 7 a. In. 91 precipitation during 24 hours ending 7 a. In. 0 Normal 06 in. Accumulated departure Anion Jan i a Ial in. Did no to know four hubbies against Law new York a mrs. Edna i be j to 23 was arrested to Day on a charge of bigamy. Her husbands according to the complaint included Charlet Hoffman 28, Robert Simmons 30 George faucets 22 John Leal in 22. According to the police she started St 16 by marrying Hoffman. She is alleged to have admitted marrying the four men but pleaded she did t know it wee against the Law. Tax reaches $47 for each citizen Chicago every citizen of the United states must ony up $47 this year to run the nation s business congressman j. W. Good. Iowa to an address to manufacturers Here named that figure asserting the hand of the tax gatherer will fall harder than Ever upon americans in 1926. He urged adoption of a budget sys fam for the Nati Orf. Wed by wire or the fickle Bride Dot Koitz Telephone marriages in the a Molies a were quite common 1$ year old Louin Cody knew so when her Friend. Carl Ackerman called her one Day with the information that he had a Quot Parson Quot in the Booth with him and asked Quot would she marry him immediately a she thought it quite a 10,000 couples urged to remarry Milwaukee a following Tho ruling of Tho Illinois District attorney yesterday that in Arriaga at Waukegan of people from outside the state to avoid Tho marriage Laws of their own states were illegal Wisconsin judges and attorney general j. J. Blaine today wars advising Tho 10,000 Badger couples married it Waukegan to be to married at ones. It also was estimated Here today that half of Tho Milwaukee ans wedded within the last two years had pledged their vows at places South of the state line. Court officials also anticipated an increase in suits to annul marriages and a decrease in divorce suits it Lea by cities has been recently Amend j no to that of the Price set by Tho com i Mission Wain too Iti ii hic City could refuse to Purchase the Railroad. We can now buy the Street railway company of Madison and operate it j without it coating Tho taxpayers a Dot a liar Quot or. Ryan asserted. Quot the City a i share of the proposed $10,000,060 Road i Bond Issue would have been $3,800,000., this amount would Purchase the rail j ways and operate them for to 1 a t in for acquit my the rail Lark. Was win Outlin d by i. Ryan. The j they lived happily together Steps arc. Day 1�?til� Council would have to pass favourably on the project. 2�?people would vote on it 3�?�?onecessity�?� for the Purchase would have to be proved by Tho City in Tho courts in Tim railway commission would set a Price amp a action by the Council a Cor it tug or rejecting the Purchase of the Railroad at the Price fixed. The alternative if we do not Pur chose the railways. Or. Ryan said it for Tho people of Madison to dig Down into their pockets and give the railway company enough Money to carry on necessary extensions and improvements. The railway company in order to extend its lines to the Mayer p eking Plant had to obtain a subsidy from the packing company and the pit Perty Holder along the route. Alderman j h. Brown who Rov trl j that or. Rvan s motion be adopted declared Madison people Are tired of being compelled to wait to to 15 minutes for cars at Junction Points. A assailed there was no Prospect of relic from the railway company. For five during that period Louise told authorities today she Begarif to suspect the ceremony had not been quite in order. She went horns and thought it Over and came to the conclusion she hid been fooled. A ooh. She s just like the rest of a a Rny you can t depend on any of them Quot Ackerman declared in his Coll today. Quot she was such a Nice girl doubt Rumor of London a no information had been received Here today with regard to a Rumor that the German government had been overthrown. Wisconsin. Han a by. Oklahoma and Mann Illinois. A press stat Ivesa Bath Illinois. Von present. Berger s statement after the vote follows Quot it is evident the House today takes its stand merely because it is alleged that i am disloyal on account of my position against this War. Similar opposition to War was made by Webster Lincoln and others and their loyalty never was twelve men. It is True convicted me of disloyalty but 25,606 voters vindicated my and it wan the duty of the House to seat from speeches arguing immediate action on mergers ca.-�, it was evident that the House probably will exclude him an Many times As the fifth Wisconsin District sends him Hack. Every attack on Berger was applauded. Krasnoyarsk is situated on the trans siberian railway about 206 Miles East of Tomsk. Another Moscow dispatch says the Booty captured by the reds on till Smithern front in Russia in the present offensive includes 400 guns 1,000 machine guns 11,060 Niles eighteen armoured trains 260 locomotives 10, 000 wagons and Large stores of food and munitions together with 35,000 prisoners. Reds forces gain Washington d. threatened spread of the bolshevik forces in South Russia and Kimberla was reported to the state department on Friday in official advices. The a show that the eastward Advance of the bolshevik forces through Siberia has reached the Edge of Irkutsk. On the Western shores of Lka Baikal which the foreign representatives have now been forced to quit foe safety. It had been the Hope of the followers of Admiral Kolchak that he would by Able to make a stand with lits government at Irkutsk but this was a for Lorn Hope anti there is no cd rat Intje now that Kolchak will be Able to Aavo himself from personal danger As he has been Cut off and it is not know whether he will be Abl to escape hts whereabouts even Are not definitely known. Jap guard tunnels the state department advices show further that the Railroad tunnels of 1 the Tran-8iberian Una at i Ike Baikal Are now guarded by the japanese to prevent these tunnels falling into the hand of the red army Secretary Lamping has been advised that the bolshevik Are now partial in unopposed at taiga and that the reds Are also advancing in South Russia. Where the forces of Gen. Denikin a making a further retirement. The bolshevik Are resting in the Vicinity of taiga and the state department s advices Are that there is no organized Force opposing them. Poles advancing in the Northwest an Semi stick a been signed Between St Honda and soviet Russia and fighting in that Section has reused the poles and Letts have captured Dvinsk which Straightens out the line of those forces and gives them direct rail comm in Leat to a Between Poland and Riga. In the Ukraine polish troops have advanced Aud have taken Over territory abandoned by Denikin the pole have occupied Jitomir and Prokurov. The pole have undertaken a Large work in southwestern Russia in pc cup Yang and policing territory Evascu Berger was defended Only by representative Mann Illinois Sherwood Ohio and Voight. Wisconsin. Attacked by colleague representative Kleczka. Milwaukee attacked Berger calling him a a revolutionist working with the International for to overthrow Law and representative Voight Wisconsin called him a Quot High minded and Noble gentleman Quot and the House broke into laughter. Voight then said Quot if you Call Berger a traitor you must Call the people of the fifth District traitors Quot Quot they representative Blanton Texas said. Quot they Are As patriotic As anybody Quot Voight said. A no they re not Quot cries came from All Over the House. _. Several times later the House laugh foe revolution1 g�?Tsjss1 a Quot a us it ,0 name Berger again Milwaukee the socialist party j Central committee for the fifth wis i cocain District in session Here today announced the. Re nomination of Victor l Berger As representative the committee which had been in vision awaiting word from Washington. Gave out this statement As soon As the wires carried into Milwaukee the news that Berger had been excluded. A cablegram from Carl d. Groat United press correspondent filed from Berlin at 11.51 yesterday morning and received in new York this morning gave no intimation of trouble in Germany. Ated by forces of Lien Denikin according to advices from Warsaw. The aim is to tub Ali the situation in that Region in an Effort to prevent bolshevik its ending a foothold there. The evacuated regions Are reported As infested with hands of robbers and plunderers who have been sacking and burning villages robbing inhabitants and capturing and holding Many persons for Ransom soviet Ark at Dock a t Kiel Purling the american transport Buford the a soviet arks reached Kiel tonight and docked for repairs. Or was not known How Long the vessel will remain there but her ultimate destination was reported to be either Libau or Riga. Rumor 700 lost in mine sinking London a an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Genoa today said the liner Princess Asfalda from America had struck a min and Auric an unconfirmed report said 700 were lost the dispatch added

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