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Show NEWS OF A WEEK III CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Hsppenlnfl That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. A proclamation iiMmuinrliiK that the Hlrlkc, which has enforced idleness in Ilic Tonopah and Divide mines since Anj-'iisl 17, has boon called off, has been issued hy Governor l.oyle. What Is regarded as tin- lirst re-taliatory re-taliatory move on the part of the resident resi-dent Japanese against the anti-alien league lias left .1. F. Kolierg, one of the direetors of the newly formed league, minus his Japanese workers ami with a Irmk farm nn his hands at the busiest busi-est season of the year. One of the largest deals in roses in Portland's experience was concluded a few days ago, when K. G. Hill of Iiichtnond, Ind., purchased fiOO.UUO cuttings cut-tings and offered to take 2,0U0,0OO next year. The engineer was killed and two liremen badly hurt when a light engine en-gine and a passenger train on the itimlnl branch of the Northern Pacific Pa-cific collided head-on near Helena, Mnnt,, In a fog. A score of passengers passen-gers were injured, none seriously. The lower house of the Utah legislature, legis-lature, in special session, adopted, a memorial favoring the ratification of the treaty of peace and league of nations na-tions covenant, without amendments. DOMESTIC. lleeause of the illness of President Wilson, King Albert of Belgium has ih'cided to cancel all his engagements In connection witli his tour of the l ulled States after those in Boston and Buffalo, up to October 14. Bodies of all American soldiers interned in-terned in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Great Britain, Luxemburg and Northern North-ern Itussia will be returned to the Vnited States as soon as necessary transportation can be arranged. Kioting broke out at the Universal Portland Comet plant at Indiana Harbor, Har-bor, Ind., and a union picket was shot by one of two armed negroes, who, wiih nearly twenty-live other negroes, attempted to return to work. Five dead and live wounded made up the list of white casualties as a result of the uprising of negroes in the vicinity of F.laine, Ark. United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson at a luncheon at San Francisco Fran-cisco told more than one thousand, of San Francisco's most prominent women wo-men that the peace treaty with its Shantung provision is a blot on American Ameri-can honor and that the league of nations na-tions as now constituted would make America a parly to perpetuating this and other wrongs. "If the league of nations is to break (low ti we must prepare to tight," Herbert Her-bert Hoover, formerly economic director direc-tor for the supreme war council, told tin' students of Stanford university in an addr. ss at Palo Alto, Gal. Two white men. Clinton Lee and J. A. Tappen of Helena, and seven negroes ne-groes are known to be dead at Elaine. Arkansas, as a result of clashes between be-tween a posse searching for the persons per-sons who from ambush fired upon and kilieil W. D. Adkins, railroad special agent. United States Senator James A. Peed was egged from the stage at Convention hall. Ardmore. Okla.. as he was being introduced by the mayor in preparation prepara-tion for liis speech against the treaty tad the league of nations. . Thousands of skilled ami unskilled workmen in Pacitic coast shipyards siruck on October 1. to enforce demands de-mands for wage increases. The walkout walk-out foilowed the failure of the employees em-ployees to grant the men a wage increase in-crease of S cents an hour. Ten thousand members of New York ' i i y printing trades vinionss went on strike. October 1. for a 44-hour week ar.d a weekly increase of $14 in the j wage scale. I'he strike is without the sanction of the international officers. It is estimated 'J.'.u plants are affected. John .Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Woikcrs of America, li ft an estate of S-."0.(00. mostly in slock and bonds, according to a petition peti-tion for letters of daministration at White Plains, X. Y. Troops are now on duty at Omaha, und officials tire confident there will be no further outbreak of the race rioting which on Sunday resulted in the death of two persons, injuries to several score of others, an attempt to lynch Mayor Ed I'. Smith and partial destruction by fire of the county court-Louse. Approximately 7000 more' Americans Immigrated Into Canada In the lirst eight months of 1019 than In the 'corresponding 'cor-responding period last year, according to official figures made public at Ottawa. Ot-tawa. Of the r!S,222 persons w ho this year crossed the border, more than half were farmers. The king and queen of the Belgians, Willi Prince Leopold, heir apparent to the throne, were the guests of the United States in New York on October Octo-ber 2. They have come, as his majesty ma-jesty expressed it, to voice their gratitude grati-tude and that of their people for the generous aid given them hy this country coun-try In years of direct need when their nation was threatened by Germany. It took less than thirty minutes to try ami sentence to from twenty to thirty years in state's prison James Whitings, the negro for whom a posse searched continuously for three days, because of an attack near Morchant-ville, Morchant-ville, N. J., on a white woman, the wife of a shipyard worker. WASHINGTON. William Z. Foster, secretary of the general committee conducting the steel strike, when confronted before the senate labor committee with his writings writ-ings advocating various forms of revolutionary revo-lutionary Socialism, declared under a grilling tire of questions that his views had changed. Prayer for the restoration of health to President Wilson was offered in the house on October 3 by its blind chaplin, the Rev. Henry D. Couden. Consideration of all bills dealing with revision of internal revenue or tariff laws will he deferred until after the senate disposes of the peace treaty, under a decision of the senate finance committee. According to a statement issued October Oc-tober 2 by Dr. Cary T. Grayson, the president's physician. President 'Wilson Is a very sick man and must have absolute ab-solute rest. The house elections committee has decided to recommend the unseating of John F. Fitzgerald as' representative from the Tenth Massachusetts district, holding that Peter P. Tague was entitled en-titled to the seat. Both men are Democrats. - FOREIGN. The railroad strike situation in England Eng-land has become the gravest in the history of any labor crisis of the British Brit-ish empire in the present generation. All efforts of the transport workers' federations to find a bridge to enable a renewal of negotiations between tne government and the national union of railway men failed. The Socialist deputies in the Italian parliament just dissolved have addressed ad-dressed a manifesto to the country, strongly condemning the war, which lias left behind it a threatening preponderance pre-ponderance of professional militarism. The source of the lava flow from the volcano liauna Loa, which hegtt) to erupt last week, has been, located S-"HK) feet above Puokeokeo, an offshoot off-shoot on the mountain Manna Kea, which has an elevation of 13,S2.j feet. Brest and Paris will be the only sectors in which active American garrisons gar-risons will be maintained after October Oc-tober 10, the war department has announced. an-nounced. Mnall detachments of railway rail-way and signal corps troops will be busy for some time in outlying districts dis-tricts and a contingent of about lifty-tive lifty-tive officers and men will remain in England attending to liquidation matters. mat-ters. Stoyan Protitch, premier of Jugoslavia, Jugo-slavia, lias failed in his effort to form a new cabinet to take the place of the one which resigned a short time ago. Cablegrams from Taris, the Lithuanian Lithu-anian executive committee in Washington Wash-ington announces, have brought the information in-formation that the British government lias promised provisional recognition to Lithuania. Complaint that France had been slighted in the makeup of the league of nations, because the French colonies colo-nies were not represented in the league, although each British colony would have a delegate, was expressed by Deputy Augagneur in the in the debate de-bate on the ratification of the peace treaty in the chamber of deputies. Attempts to resume the conference between delegates from North China and South China at Shanghai are likely like-ly to prove abortive. For the first time since the railway rail-way strike began in England, there has been a serious attempt at mediation, media-tion, undertaken by the powerful transport worker's federation. Floods in the northern part of Chihuahua, Chi-huahua, Mexico, caused great damage. The town of Chilon is reported to have been wiped out. The number of dead has not been estimated, but it will be large. Practically the entire male population popula-tion of Armenia will be exterminated unless the Turks and Tartars are checked by some outside force, it is asserted. The blockade of Germany, which was threatened by the allies in case the German troops of General von der Goltz were not removed from flie Bul- tic region, begins at once. |