World News Roundup From the Week’s End
A long list of international and U S events across economics, diplomacy, and conflict. Rail wage disputes rise as Brazil loans Italy credit. Poland seeks US support. London and Washington report on ambassadors, munitions, and policy moves. Notable deaths include Vanderbilt and Mrs Cornwallis-West. crimes feature robberies and accidents. earthquakes disrupt Los Angeles and Guayaquil. Villa and Pancho Villa headlines. global tensions mix with elections and party notices.
International turmoil and policy shifts dominate week
Edward Pickard reviews Russo Polish crisis with Bolshevik offensives and Polish resistance, Allied stance from Lloyd George, Feisal yields in Syria as France asserts mandate, Balkan tensions rise, and U S policy on League of Nations and wages sparks debates amid rail worker wage talks and notable deaths in Paris and Berlin.
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King Feisal
Syria
Watkins—Harding
Cox
Wilson
League
Bolseviks threaten invasion as Germany mobilizes troops
In Lithuania the Bolsheviks press toward East Prussia while Germany lines up 50 000 Reichswehr near the border to repel an invasion. Fears rise of Bolshevik spread in Germany as troops could disperse. Ignace Paderewski named Polish plenipotentiary to Paris signaling peace efforts with Russia. Britain and France vow support to Poland with arms and men if needed.
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Edward W. Pickard
Moscow
Poland
London
Great Britain
Warsaw
Roumanian
Pripet
Grodno
Red Cross
Cracow
East Prussia
Reichswehr
Berlin
Germany
Arly
Ignace Paderewski
Paris
Lloyd George
Millerand
Pilsudsky
Baranowitz-Pinsk-Dubno
France
Turbulent Week in Ireland Sees Attacks Looting and Belfast Strife
Reports from Ireland describe a week of upheaval with British officers assassinated, at least one town looted and burned, and heavy fighting in Belfast. Clashes pitted Sinn Fein against Orangemen workers in shipyards, leaving several dead.
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Ireland
Belfast
Sinn Fein
Orangemen
Rebels Defeated After Bloody Battles Near Pe King
Civil war reports say fierce fighting around Pe King ended with rebels surrendering, clearing the way for government forces to gain control. The week’s action followed by news of rebel defeat and cessation of hostilities in the region.
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Peking
China
Prohibition Party Nominates Bryan At Lincoln Convention
The Prohibition national convention in Lincoln Nebraska nominated William J Bryan for president by acclamation after a delegate stampede following a resolution to honor the Nebraskan Bryan declined the nomination on Thursday and Rev Aaron S Watkins of Germantown Ohio was named as candidate with D Leigh Colvin of New York in second.
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Ohio
Lincoln
Neb
Aaron S. Watkins
Germantown
William J. Bryan
Prohibition Party
Wiliam ‘J. Bryan
Bryan
D. Leigh Colvin
New York
Republican campaign opens with Thadding in Marion
Senator Thadding accepted the Republican nomination in Marion amid a large crowd and party leaders. He urged party government over personal rule and endorsed a capable cabinet with the vice president involved, pledging swift peace through a Republican Congress and cautioning against surrender to world councils or alliances.
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Tharding
Marion
World Council
Special Session in Indiana Legislature Prolonged
Indianapolis July 27 Special session of the Indiana legislature continues into a second week as leaders clash on home rule tax levies bond issues a war memorial coal price regulation and county road law reform Senate Republicans balk at sending the tax care bill to the house until a home rule measure is agreed and appellate jurisdiction on contested taxes remains in dispute.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Bush
Eschbech
House
Senate
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Farmer-Labor party nominates J M Zion for Indiana governor
Indianapolis July 27 J M Zion of Clarkshill was nominated for governor by the Farmer Labor party at its closing session over Francis J Diller of Indianapolis who was its U S Senate choice Zion a seventy two year old farmer active in the Chicago 48 committee and labor movement A full state ticket was named with two offices to be decided later The platform backs the 48 Nonpartisan League Labor party and World War veterans plank calls for free school text books public ownership of utilities farm price guarantees and opposition to universal military training
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Cox
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wilson
White House
League of Nations
America
Democratic National Committee
Columbus
Edmund H. Moore
Moore
George White
Marietta
Homer 8
Cummings
White
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Farmer-Labor Party
J.M. Zion
Indianapolis
Committee of 48
Nonpartisan League
Labor Party
World War Veterans
Chicago
Farm Fire Loss Hits J M R Hendricks Farm
Fire on the J M R Hendricks farm eight miles north of Frankfort destroyed seven buildings including a house barn and five outbuildings with loss estimated over 25000 dollars. Three head of horses chickens two automobiles tractors farming implements hay and 500 bushels of new wheat were burned. Fire started from sparks from a threshing machine and spread too fast to save any structures. Hendricks was burned while attempting to rescue an automobile. Loss is partially insured.
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Frankfort
J. M. R. Hendricks
Hendricks
Indiana Miners Strike Paralyzes Terre Haute Coal Fields
Indiana’s coal field is partially paralyzed by an unauthorized strike of day laborers and drivers near Terre Haute. About fifty mines are idle as the United Mine Workers press for a conference to seek a settlement with miners and operators. Day laborers claim wage award discrimination.
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Indiana
Illinois
Witty
Terre Haute
Ed Stewart
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Engine Sets Fire to Barn in Chesterfield and Boone Township Losses
A fire started by a threshing machine engine on the Francis Findling farm near Chesterfield destroyed a barn, outbuildings, 40 tons of hay and farm implements, totaling about 10000 dollars. Another blaze on the Benjamin Lukens farm in Boone township, north of here, consumed a barn with an estimated 2000 dollar loss.
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Anderson
Francis Findling
Chesterfield
Benjamin Lukens
Boone Township
Here
Four Fort Wayne Men Killed in Altoona Train Crossing Crash
Four Fort Wayne men were killed and another injured when a Fort Wayne and Eastern traction car struck their scene at a crossing near Altoona. Witnesses said the car was traveling at high speed and could not stop in time to avoid the crash.
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Fort Wayne
Altoona
Here
Fort Wayne & Eastern
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