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Show NEWS OF ft WEEK If! CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. A liill providing for double election bourils, one boiiril to receive ballots mid another board to lie-in counting nt 1 i. in., on election days lias been introduced in tlitf Washington legis-lalnre. legis-lalnre. Three lives were h..st and considerable consider-able (liuimge was caused in tlie mining town of Ladd, Wash., when a great jam of logs and debris, loosened by flood waters, swept down the canyon of East creek and carried the entire settlement with It. v liesolutions opposing government ownership of the railroads and urging early return of the railroads to private control under adequate federal regulation; regula-tion; favoring federal licensing and regulation of packers and stockyards but opposing government ownership of marketing facilities; advocating universal un-iversal military training and endorsing the federal woman suffrage amendment amend-ment were adopted at the closing session ses-sion nt Denver of the twenty-second annual convention of the American National Live Stock association. Cattlemen contributed $4;!,S43 to the American Red Cross through auction of n herd of 1053 heifers exhibited at the Denver stock show by lied Cross chapters of Wyoming and Colorado. The average price was $15.50 a hundred. hun-dred. Formation of a "Soldiers, Sailors nnd Worklngmen's council" by strik-. strik-. ing shipyard and metal workers appeared ap-peared the predominant development In the shipyard strike at Tacoma. DOMESTIC. Mrs. Clara Hanson aged 35 years, shot and killed her five children nnd then attempted to take her own life at 'the family home at Sherman, S. D. Misses Gladys and Dorothy Cromwell, Crom-well, listers, of New York, leaped from the rail of the French steamer La Tor-raine Tor-raine as the steamer was in the Garonne Ga-ronne river bound for New York. Both were drowned. Brig. Gen. Frank Ilines, chief of embarkation em-barkation for the army has sailed from New York for London to work out with Lord Heading, British ambassador -to the United States, a financial settlement settle-ment for American troops carried to France in British ships during the war. The Chicago, Itock Island & Pacific llaiiway company has terminated its liti'tioa with the Colorado & Southern South-ern :-.'.ilwny, and on payment of $4,-000.:'(K) $4,-000.:'(K) will own outright n half interest inter-est in the Trinity & Brazos Valley railway, with a permanent outlet to the gul:' ports. Weather bureau officials declared lhat records show less snow to have 1'aHeu in New York City thus far than during any previous winter since records re-cords have been kept, although it is not the warmest winter. Two soldiers out of every thousand who fought with the American army overseas lost an arm or a leg. Thirty-eight Industrial Workers of the World have been sent to Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kan., from Sacramento to com- i mence serving prison terms of from one to ten years, after being convicted of conspiracy to obstruct the government's govern-ment's war program. Thirty-one. acts' of heroism were recognized by the Carnegie hero fund commission at its fifteenth annual meeting held at Pittsburg. Nearly all the recipients of medals were easterners. east-erners. Leaves of absence from the American Ameri-can army in France are hereafter to be granted on a more liberal basis. In addition to the previous regulations allowing seven days' leave every four months, four classes of other leaves will be granted. James G. Blaine, Jr., of rrovidenee, K. 1.. has retired as director of the department de-partment of development of the American Amer-ican lied Crosr to become a vice president presi-dent of the Liberty National bank of New York. Calmly referring to "the next war," Major General Leonard Wood made a strong appeal before a joint session of the Kansas legislature for a system of universal training for national defense. de-fense. Establishments of a "labor bureau" to study and report on all industrial problems of the clothing trade, was authorized in a resolution adopted at the twenty-third annual convention of the National Association of Clothiers, j Jielil o V""- v..'-v I Losses of the 35th division (Kansas' and Missouri national guard) in killed and died of wounds during its entire service in France up to November 7 were 81i7 men. A decision of the superior court held the ordinance closing the theatres at Stockton, Cal., as an Influenza preventive pre-ventive measure is legal. Theatre owners anil members of the Churches of Christ Scientist, brought the legal action. Thomas B. Smith, mayor of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, is on trial in the common pleas court charged with misdemeanor in office of-fice and violation of a state law prohibiting pro-hibiting the participation of officeholders officehold-ers in politics. A huge gun costing $125,000 and having hav-ing a range of thirty miles, was shrunk at the Watervliet, N. Y arsenal on January 2'. The process of shrinking was witnessed by the mayors of Troy, Watervliet and nearby cities and many other officials and invited guests. WASHINGTON. After a week of spirited debate, the senate, by a vote of 53 to IS, passed the administration bill appropriating $100,000,000 for food relief in Europe and the near east. Louis F. Swift, president of Swift & Co., told the house interstate commerce com-merce committee that the food administration admin-istration in stabilizing the live stock market had accomplished "wonderful things both for the producer and consumer," con-sumer," and that its control was needed now as much as ever. Railroads in 1918 under government control and unusual, war conditions earned about $718,000,000, or $250,000,-000 $250,000,-000 less than in 1917, $370,000,000 less than in the record year of 1916, and about the same as in 1915. A bill introduced by Representative Radall of California, Prohibitionist, to define the term "intoxicating liquor," as used in federal laws, says' it means "containing alcohol in any degree whatever." America's exports during the year lOIQ .n,! li'il 1 r.A AAA OAO r.- $83,000,000 below the total for the preceding pre-ceding year and more than double the value of imports. The import total was $3,031,000,000 compared with $2,-952,000,000 $2,-952,000,000 in 1917. FOREIGN. The German social democracy polled more than 10,000,000 votes In the elections elec-tions of January 19, according to the Freiheit, as aaginst 4,250,000 in the last reichstag elections. Twenty added mandates would give them an absolute working majority in the national assembly. as-sembly. Forty-eight officers of the American air service and one officer of the medical med-ical reserve corps who served in Italy have been authorized by the Italian minister of war to wear the Italian service ser-vice ribbon the war department was informed last week. The body of Rosa Luxemburg, the Spartacan leader who was killed by a mob recently has been found in the landwehr canal, according to a" report from Berlin. The body was terribly mutilated. Three American mine owners of Chi-hauhau Chi-hauhau Holmes, Mathewson and Doavitt were captured recently " by Pancho Villa and released after they had given up a supply of powder and listened to a lecture from the bandit on better pay and shorter hours for their employes. According to dispatches' from Lisbon, Lis-bon, the situation is developing . adversely ad-versely for the government. The monarchist mon-archist cause is gaining many adherents adher-ents in Lisbon nnd is rapidly extending extend-ing the field of operations to the north. Revision of the Chi no-Japanese treaties of 1915, signed after the presentation pre-sentation by Japan of her twenty-one 'demands, will be asked at the peace conference by the Chinese delegation. A campaign against Jewish residents is in progress in several South American Ameri-can cities. Billboards in Buenos Aires have been covered with the inscription, "Down With the Jews." In the discussion of labor problems which will come before the peace conference, con-ference, it is said that the British labor la-bor leaders are preparing proposals to be handed to the conference. The Sinn Fein assembly met at the mansion bouse at Dublin, January 21. The assembly stood while a declaration declara-tion of independence was read, announcing an-nouncing the establishment of an Irish republic and demanding the evacuation evacua-tion of Ireland by the British garrisons. garri-sons. It is provided in the draft of the proposed new German constitution that the president of the empire is to be elected by the entire German people and that lu's term shall be seven years. The chancellor will be appointed by the president and be responsible to the chamber. The final statement of the Russian Bolshevik government for 191S. according ac-cording to a Petrograde dispatch shows that the expenditures for the year were 47,000.000,000 rubles and there would le a probable deficit of 4:;,000.000,000, owing to (he inability of the government to collect the prop-I prop-I ert.v tax. |