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Show NEWS OF A WEEK If) CONDENSED FORM RICORD OP THE IMPORTANT VENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happanlnga That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quartsra of tho Glob and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Declaring Unit. the system in vogue In itiosL of Ilic pen i HM 1 1 i:i rics of America Amer-ica Is wasteful, extravagant, incrti-dotit incrti-dotit anil Inhumane, an organization lias been formed al Seattle for the purpose of bringing ahonr necessary changes In these Institutions. Alonslgnor .lames ltauw, vicar non-cm non-cm I of tin: diocese of Oregon anil sn-lieiliitemlent sn-lieiliitemlent of I lie hoys' orphanage at St. Mary's' home, near lieiiverton. Ore-K'n, Ore-K'n, (lied after an exlemleil Illness. He "was 05 years old. Governor lien Oleotf of Oregon, in ii letter received hy tiovernor Stephens, Steph-ens, of California, declared he did not nee any necessity for calling at once a special session of the legislature to rutlfy the federal woman suffrage amendment. James .1. Read, deputy collector of revenue at Aherdeen, Wash., was sentenced sen-tenced to two terms totalling live years In the federal penitentiary and lined $1024 after he had pleaded frailty to charges of embezzlement and extortion throughout western Washington in connection con-nection with liquor traflic. One iiuiii is dead, one fatally injured and two others are In the hospital as the result of an attempt to hold up u poolroom at l'usco, Wash. Orders have been received at Fort D. A. Itussoll, Wyoming, closing down all army welfare organizations at the fort on November 1. Half nn Inch of snow fell in Umatilla Umatil-la county, Oregon, on October 23, it being tho earliest snowfall there in forty years. The white pellets melting quickly, having the .effect of good rain. DOMESTIC. Tho international conference of women wo-men physicians, which for six years has been holding sessions at New York adjourned Friday. The convention went on record as favoring "educational "educa-tional and economic conditions which make early monogamous marriage possible." pos-sible." Another resolution denounced "regulation of vice." The last government effort to avert the coal strike set for November 1 failed utterly, anil 500,000 miners will quit work ou the very eve of winter, with the nation's bins running dangerously danger-ously low. Kric P. Yen-ill, a former army officer, offi-cer, who recently pleaded guilty to having defrauded the government out of .?U2,tXK), was sentenced to six years in the Atlanta penitentiary. Twenty-three mariners, rescued from four ships sunk in storms which swept the Atlantic during the last two weeks, were brought into New York by the Vessels which picked them up or to which they had been transferred. Loans made to cattle growers in the southwest to aid them during last year's drouth have been called in by the war finance corporation for payment pay-ment November 1.". The amount outstanding out-standing October IS was $.'i.l82.34(i. Thirteen men were badly burned, two" of them dying, when fumes from a tank exploded on the Standard Oil company's tank steamer William H. Tilford In the yards of the Baltimore Dry Docks and Shipbuilding companies. com-panies. Although Lieut. B. W. Maynard was the first to complete the transcontinental transcontin-ental air race, t'apt. J. O. Donaldson made the flight in about ten hours less flying time, according to the latest calculation. Recommendations of a majority of the members of I he Harbord mission, which has been devoting seven weeks to a close-up investigation of Armenia and the middle east, that the United States should decline to accept a mandate man-date for Armenia or Turkey are based largely on the argument that America's Ameri-ca's duty lies closer at home. rublishers of approximately l.i0 periodicals per-iodicals and trade papers having headquarters head-quarters in' New York City, who suspended sus-pended publication several weeks ago because of labor difficulties have decided de-cided to resume publication, "at once, either in New York or elsewhere." About 5000 bookkeepers, stenogra- hers and other clerical employees of the Borden Condensed Milk company went on strike in New York City and suburljB, having recently formed the Bookkeepers. Stenographers and Accountants' Ac-countants' union. King Albert of the Belgians und Queen Eli.abel h arrived in New York October 2 1. Their arrival conipleied a journey of S5;i!) miles across the continent con-tinent and back in 'Jit days. Assurance dial the iiiimtint necessary neces-sary for the purchase of the site of the birthplace of Theodore Koosevell in New York has been raied was contained con-tained in nn announceuieni made by the Women's Itooseveh .Memorial association. as-sociation. Acting on orders of Mayor H. I.. Davis, prohibiting importation of strikebreakers, the police escorted out of Cleveland 112 men who were arrested arrest-ed Wednesday. The men said they were brought to Cleveland to work in steel plants. The Investment Bankers' Association Associa-tion of America, in session at St. Louis, adopted reports urging private ownership of railroads and other public pub-lic service corporations and national legislation lo protect investors from swindlers. WASHINGTON. Kxolusion from congress of Victor L. Berger. Socialist representalive-elect representalive-elect from Wisconsin, for disloyalty to his country, was recommended to the house by a vote of 8 to 1 of the special connnitt.'e which investigated his right to a seal. A .dramatic appeal by Secretary of Labor Wilson, himself a miner, prevented pre-vented temporarily an open break between be-tween miners and operators, almost ready to go home after failing to settle set-tle the strike of 500.000 soft coal miners min-ers set for November 1. Without a record vote, the house unseated Representative John F. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts, former mayor of Boston, and seated former Representative l'eter F. Tague. Both Fitzgerald and Tague are Democrats. Labor withdrew from the national industrial conference on October 21, after its final effort to obtain adoption of a collective bargaining resolution had been defeated by the vote of a majority of the capital group. Concurrence of producers representing represent-ing 90 per cent of the beet sugar output out-put in this country has been received by Attorney General Palmer in reply to. his suggestion that 10 cents a pound to wholesalers was a fair price for the new crop. FOREIGN. Failure of the municipality of Xeres to pay the municipal doctors their salaries sal-aries may precipitate a strike by nil the dolors in the province of Seville, Spain. Gen. Francisco Gonzales, commander of the Juarez garrison, until six years ago a laborer, has been appointed governor gov-ernor of the State of Tamanlipas by the Mexican senate at Mexico City. So acute has become the rice situation situa-tion in the Philippine islands during the four weeks that the government has placed an embargo on all stocks of the cereal in the achipelago, and is attempting to import 3000 tons of rice. F.ngland is suddenly faced hy the possibility of a change of government, or dissolution of parliament, owing to the quite unexpected defeat of the government in the house of commons by a majority of 72. Premier Hughes has told Australians Austra-lians that if they want trade relations with Germany they had better get a new premier. The announcement comes from London Lon-don that Karl Curzon has been appointed ap-pointed foreign secretary in succession to Arthur J. Balfour. Mr. Balfour retires after almost half a century of public service. Three hundred and forty-six lives were lost when two Bolshvikist destroyers, de-stroyers, in an attack ou Estbonian craft and British destroyers in the Gulf of Finland, struck mines and were sunk, according to an Kthoniau ol'ti-cial ol'ti-cial communication. General Fournier, former governor of Maubeuge, is to be tried before a special court-martial on a charge of capitulating to the enemy and surrendering surren-dering Maubeuge. Marshal Foch has informed the Belgian Bel-gian government by telegraph that -to. OHO Belgian freight ears have been found on the left bank of the Rhine. I Another American citizen lias been j captured by Mexican bandits and is 1 now being held for ransom, the slate 1 department announced Wednesday. He ! is William (i. Jenkins. American eon-I eon-I sular agent at l'uebla, Mexico. The condition of Hugo Hasse, leader ! of the independent socialists, who was shot recently as he was entering the reichstag. has grown worse since a second operation performed at Berlin. A general strike has been declared at Santos, Brazil. As Santos is the world's greatest coffee port, the strike is expected to affect materially the coffee trade. Plans for a revolt in Alsace to take place November LI have been discovered discov-ered at Strasborg. according to the Kcho de Paris. The alleged arch-conspirator, an engineer named Koessler, has been arrested with two uceoni-, uceoni-, plices. |