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Show NEWS OF a WEEK If! CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Miking History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe ana Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. Three persons were killed at Bing-liiini, Bing-liiini, U tnh. when a train bucking down liie hill on the Utah Copper workings with seven loaded cars of ore crashed inlo an engine. Explosives under the rails on the Stout street car line at Denver damaged dam-aged the truck and crippled a car Friday. Fri-day. No one was injured. Joe Shackley of Ogden, Utah, was seriously injured in a wrestling match with Jack Fisher of Emporia, Kan. Shackley fell off the platform. His skull was fractured and hemorrhage of the brain followed. Preliminary plans for the establishment establish-ment of a daily paper to be printed by the Colorado state federation of labor in Denver were made at the annual convention of t lie federation at Pueblo. Pu-eblo. ' Col. C. C. Ballon, commanding military mili-tary forces called to Denver, following follow-ing riots growing out of the strike of street car men, announced that troops will be held in Denver until street cars were being operated by Denver men and the strike-breakers sent out of the city. j Three serious fires are burning unchecked un-checked in the Flathead National forest for-est in northwestern Montana and two others in the same preserve have been surrounded by fire-fighters, the forest for-est service headquarters at Missoula announced August 11. DOMESTIC. More than KXI diamonds, supposed to have been a part of the famous jewels of the Russian royal family and addressed to "Comrade Martens." have been intercepted by customs officials while en route from soviet Russia to the United States. Four fires in northern California forests for-ests are beyond control and the situation situ-ation is as serious as at any time in the last few years, said a statement from federal forest service headquarters headquar-ters at San Francisco. ,' Two cases of illness, diagnosed by quarantine officials as typhus, were discovered among the SSG steerage passagors who arrived at New York on the Niagara from Bordeaux. The first blow in Chicago's new war ,; against rent profiteering was struck by tiie city council on Friday, the 13th. when a motion was passed requesting Governor I.owdcn to call a special session ses-sion of the stale legislature to give the aldermen the power to regulate the rents. The old bogey "Friday, the Thirteenth." Thir-teenth." lias no terrors for John Smulsky of Gruton, S. I. He was born on that date, and last Friday received re-ceived word that ne was heir to a third share of a S."io,0O( estate. He wants to name his latest baby "Friday." The Tennessee senate on August IS ratified the woman suffrage amendment. amend-ment. The vote was -." to 4. F.rnest While, L'9. is dead and Jack Mead. :S0, is in jail at Forsyth, Mo., following a pistol duel between the farmers, culminating in a quarrel over SI Mead is said to have owned White us part of wages for working at the Mead farm. Senator Harding has decided to make his first important speech away from Marion on the occasion of the Minnesota state fair at Minneapolis daring the first week of September. The body of Maj. Co-i. William O. Coi-gas. late surgeon general of the United Stan's army, arrived at New-York, New-York, August 1J, on board the transport trans-port Pocahontas from Southampton. Charles I'onzi, whose spectacular career ca-reer as an investment banker was cut short by the authorities, has surrendered surren-dered to the United States marshal at Bast on and was placed under arrest. He was charged with having used the li, ails to defraud. Twenty-five human skeletons have been found fourteen miles south of Corpus Christi, Tex., on the west bank of the l.aguna Madre. Old residents recall tlit? sinking of a Spanish treasure treas-ure ship in the early '-Ids near this place and suggest that this is tile erew. Conrad .lanke, brought to Hartford. Conn., by federal officials from New ork City, charged wit 1 draft evasion, eva-sion, hanged bimelf by his necktie l-o;n the bars of his cell tit Hart lord, lie v. as dead when found by the jani- le Frieda Bostlenian. 19-year-old Chester, Ches-ter, Neb., girl, died of poison administered adminis-tered by her own father, Fred Rosrlo-man, Rosrlo-man, on the day before she was to have become married to V . J. Butske, j a young teacher, according to a verdict ver-dict rendered by a coroner's jury. When be was held up by a bandit, Samuel Segal, jeweler's clerk. New York, turned in a fire instead of police po-lice alarm. The firemen responded to the call and captured the bandit. F. Frash. chief pharmacist mate on the U. S. S. Prairie, was held by the police in connection with the discovery discov-ery last month of the body of bis wife buried in the sands of Mission valley, near San Diego, Calif. A bolt of lightning struck a tent in which a revival was being held at I. a Porte, Ind., killing two ministers and severely burning a third. Many of the worshippers were knocked down. WASHINGTON. Imports of sugar into the United States during the fiscal year of 10"0 exceeded exports by over G.000.000,000 pounds. The American Railway Express company com-pany has made application to the interstate in-terstate commerce commission to increase in-crease their rates so as to cover the recent wage increase to employees. The department of justice is conducting con-ducting an investigation into the textile tex-tile industry to determine whether the closing of cotton and woolen mills is due to a conspiracy by manufacturers to continue high prices. Japanese are getting large tracts of land in Mexico, because they fear they are about to be barred from California, according to reports to the state department de-partment from Senator Pbelan. An organization for the international internation-al labor office of the league of nations na-tions has been completed and is now .functioning, the department of labor has announced. President Wilson on August 10 recalled re-called the joint scale committee of operators and miners of the central competitive coal field to reconsider the wage award of the bituminous coal commission. Recommendations that express rates be increased ::f0.000.000 to absorb the wage award announced by the railroad labor board, will be filed with the interstate in-terstate commerce commission soon. FOREIGN. The assassin's bullet, which split the shoulder blade of Premier Venize-lous Venize-lous of Greece into four pieces, was removed in an operation which was declared successful. The French government is sending a note to the United States expressing pleasure that the French and American Ameri-can views on the Russo-Polish situation situa-tion are "in complete accord." Canada's 1920 wheat crop is estimated estimat-ed by officials of the agricultural department de-partment at 2G:l,3."S.00O bushels as compared with the final estimate of 103.260,0(X bushels last year. In the north the Poles are still falling fall-ing back, an official statement announcing an-nouncing they have evacuated Mlawa and Pultusk. Five paymasters carrying 300,000 pesos left Mexico City on August 13 to pay off followers of Francisco Villa, it is officially announced. A personal escort of fifty men will be given Villa, the soldiers being paid by the government. govern-ment. Antwerp Belgians who suffered in the war have launched a radical movement move-ment against the few score (,'ermans who, since the peace treaty became effective, ef-fective, have managed to re-establish themselves in business there. Polish forces defending Warsaw are outnumbered about two and a half to one. Details as to the bolshevik military mili-tary organization, received in official circles, place the ration strength of. the soviet army at 3,10,000 men. The strength of the roles has been estimated esti-mated at 1-40,000. Walter Winans, widely known American Amer-ican resident of London, collapsed and died w hile driving his horse, Henrietta Guy, in a race at Parsloes park. Following announcement that government gov-ernment agents had discovered large boards of sugar, alleged to be controlled con-trolled by speculators, the Argentina government has asked congress to sanction a law permitting expropriation expropria-tion of 200,000 tons. Poland, in an official proclamation issued at Warsaw, bus solemnly warned the world that, if she is overthrown over-thrown by the Russian bolsbeviki, her fall will be due not only to "overbearing "over-bearing might," but to the "indifference "indiffer-ence of a world which calls itself democratic." Tens of thousands of rats which infest in-fest Paita, Peru, have caused the Peruvian Pe-ruvian government to order the town destroyed and rebuilt in a ratproof manner. The construction in Japan of thirty vessels for the United States shipping board has virtually been completed and the board's force of inspectors and others is preparing to return to the United States, ulthough a small force will remain in 'i'okio to take charge of repairs and oilier matters. |
