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Show Vi;h one man dead 1 fiif:i 1 1 a rao j in,.' automobile ;i ml ;i:i.l '.ht in cr.s-j cr.s-j tody follnwiii.' ;i S'eclacu'.ar holdup I of the .I;h-'.;i.ii s;rce: pos'.office al ! lai:as. Texas, in which urn postal clerks wore ..hot anil a federal re-' re-' sitvi' l ank .-ii: ; iiiifiii siuli'ii. additional ! arrests arc expected. Six men participated par-ticipated in I lit robbery. Eight-year-old Adeline Fisher is dead us a result of injuries received when a .'loo-pound hellclapper fell upon her lis ihe hell was ringing fur recess i at the school she ailemleil at Weston, Neh. The fanners of America stand ready to give enough corn to appease the hunger all over the world, if the people peo-ple of cities and towns will transport it to the mouths of the starving, rresident J. R. Howard of the American Ameri-can Farm Kureau federation declared at Chicago. r 3 History of Past Week 'ljiw him w-m-wf." ui ii'.!njcJB ww mi naomnwmrn- rtuv nmtarr, n .rwmm The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed " """" "ti3 INTERMOUNTAIN. J. F. Kramer, who pleaded guilty at Spokane to a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Charles Super, whom he ran over with his automobile, was sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment and fined $-."0. Kramer admitted he had "taken a few drinks" before r ho accident. The Portland post of the American legion is asking the Oregon legislature to allow Oregon ex-service men tb option of for each month of service serv-ice in the world war, or $."0K! -.arm or home loan. WASHINGTON. The president and even senators and representatives' might have to take to the streets to enjoy a cigar, cigarette or a pipe as an aid lo statesmanlike states-manlike reflections, if a bill offered by Senator Sinoot becomes a law. It forbids smoking in government departments de-partments or "any independent establishment estab-lishment of the government" as a fire protection measure. Death penalty fur persons convicted of committing crimes by the use of weapons was proposed Saturday by Representative Summers of Texas, as a means of checking crime. He said such action was necessary to make human life more secure. Nearly 41) per cent of the discharged disabled veterans of the world war are suffering from some form of mental derangement, according to estimates made on the basis of public health service reports by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lal'orte. Over the protest of the majority of its' military affairs committee, tin: senate on January 14 passed the resolution reso-lution directing the secretary of war to cease army recruiting until the size of the regular army is cut down to 150,000 men. Mrs'. Clara Sears Taylor, member of the Washington rent commission through appointment by Rresident Wilson, has suggested that congress levy a tax on bachelors. FOREIGN. What the police allege to be another big Sinn Fein plot, to destroy property in London was uncovered in court at London, when Patrick Kenney, an Irishman, was charged with participating participat-ing in an attempt to murder two policemen and trying to ignite barrels of oil on the premises of the Vacuum Oil company, where 00,000 Ibarrels, containing 2,500,000 gallons of oil, are stored. There are 115,000 tubercular children child-ren in Vienna, acording to a statistical study of the child health situation there, made by the American Red Cross. Of this number, it was said that 16,000 were in urgent need of surgical treatment. -o trace ot the mail steamer Joseph Pulitzer, missing in Alaska waters since December IS, has Ipen found after a week's search by the coast guard cutter Snohomish, according to advices received at Seattle. , The war department has no idea whatever of abandoning Fort Douglas, Doug-las, Ulah, as an active military post, but, on the contrary, proposes whenever when-ever the detail of troops along the Mexican border is reduced, to increase its garrison to full regimental size, it is announced. One child was burned to death and another suffocated when fire destroyed de-stroyed the home of Arthur Rurgener in Empire canyon at Park City, Utah. Four bandits fought a pistol duel with policemen at Seattle, resulting in the fatal wounding of Patrolman V. L. Stevens. They were captured. Two of the bandits were wounded. A beautiful young woman who rushes up to an unsuspecting man, throws her arms about his neck, kisses him vigorously and then picks the pockets of the surprised but happy victim, is the latest mode of robbery to be reported in Denver. DOMESTIC. Sadie Harrington of Danville, Ills., broke her fast Saturday, after abstaining abstain-ing from food for forty-eight days. Mrs. Harrington was fasting to force her husband to join the Church, of God. Ernie Harrington, the husband, has steadfastly refused to join the church. Two of four bandits who attempted to hold up the East Side bank in an outlying district of Kansas City were shot and seriously wounded by a motorcycle patrolman who waited in the bank. Police had received a tip that a robbery was planned. His body hacked nearly to pieces, John Dagg, GO, , wealthy cattleman, was found in the ruins of a room at bis home near Alvin, Texas. The room had been set fire to cover the crime. William G. McAdoo, Jr., has been electetl vice president of the Marion County State bank at Florence, Kan., and will be actively connected with the hanking house. At the same time he will attend to some oil interests he b.a'i in this field. ' Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dammann and the latter's father, all residing near Grand Island, Neb., were killed when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Union Pacific motor train. Mrs. Louis Green, 38, and her three boys, aged 1, 3 and 6, were burned to death when their little two-room house was destroyed by fire on the outskirts.; of Chadron, Ohio. After several practice shots at the family cat, Irving Morton of Muskegon, Mich., forced his wife to become his target and spent thirjty minutes in firing fir-ing twelve shots into her body, according ac-cording to the police. Then he turned the rifle' on himself and fired once, dying instantly. Mrs. Morton may recover. re-cover. Blindness caused by wood alcohol was the ground for a verdict of $30,-000 $30,-000 damages returned in circuit court at Chicago in favor of Sam Green-berg. Green-berg. The award, which was said to he the first of its kind in Chicago courts, was against the saloon partnership partner-ship of Cohen & Aitken. Four sacks of registered mail, one reported to have contained $80,000 for use in making tip payrolls at Franklin county coal mines, were stolen at Mt. Vernon, III. President Obregon contemplates an immediate reorganization of his cabinet cabi-net which will affect at least seven portfolio, it is said by newspapers at Mexico City. Newspapers declare the changes are merely a readjustment readjust-ment such as was predicted when the personnel of the cabinet was first announced. an-nounced. Japan has agreed to an indemnity as a result of the killing of Lieutenant Warren S. Langdon of the U. S.' S. Albany in Vladivostok by a Japanese sentry, it is understood at Manila. The matter is before the foreign office of-fice at Tokio. The Philippine senate has passed a bill providing for flotation of ten million mil-lion dollars of bonds' in the United States. Funds thus raised will be spent in construction of irrigation systems sys-tems and other permanent public works. Severe fighting between Bedouins and Druses in Syria is reported in a Cairo dispatch to the Central News. The Druses are said to have lost 1500 killed, but it is asserted that fha remnants' of their forces are preparing prepar-ing for a counter-offensive. The Greeks have made another importance im-portance advance in their offensive i against the Turkish nationalists on the Brussa front in Asia Minor, according ac-cording to the Greek legation at London. Lon-don. The authorities in Egypt are said to have discovered another conspiracy similar to that of the "Avengers' society," so-ciety," an alleged anti-British society, uncovered last fall, says an Exchange j Telegraph dispatch from Cairo. The Russian soviet government has decreed a warning to nil strikers that unless they return to work immediately im-mediately they will be imprisoned for I terms of from one to five years and j that their families will be deprived of j food cards." ! The wearing of monocles by officials or members of the security police at Berlin is forbidden in an 'order issued recently, on the ground that it is an "affection and a reminder of the monarchal mon-archal days." General Erich Ludendorf f, former I first quartermaster general of the ; German army, has denied that he had presented a memorial to the allies con-j con-j raining a plan for a joint offensive ; against Russia, by England, France and Germany. j Garrisoning of the United States I naval base at Hawaii has been done I by Japanese, recruited into Ihe American Ameri-can national guard. Senator Phelan, I California, declared in the senate during dur-ing discussion of the new resolution to fix the limit of the strength of the army at 175,000. Forty miners were rescued from the fume filled shaft No. 8 mine of the Old Ben Coal corporation near West Franklin, 111. Ten were seriously injured and taken to hospitals. The Rev. Edgar Page Stites, author of '-Reulah Land" and other hymns, was buried at Cape May. N. J., Monday. Mon-day. He was 8-1 years old and in early life was a Delaware river pilot. From 1ST0 to isno he was a Methodist missionary in' Dakota. The world's largest single collection of bachelors now is included within the population of continental United States, a forthcoming official analysis of census bureau reports is expected to show. The analysis , may reveal nearly 10.OOO.0O0 bachelors, estimates indicated, counting all unmarried males over U0 years old. . sentence of from one to fifty years ! in prison was imposed on James j i Cany, criminal gangster of San Fran-j Fran-j (! convicted on December 20 of 'in attach on Miss Jessie Montgomery ' of Reno. Nev. ! |