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Show NEWS OF A WEEK If CONDENSED FORM ! RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. I Happenings That Are Making History, Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOJNTAIN. "Women cundidntes fur political offices of-fices In .Nevada did not fare very well, except In one or two isolated instances. Miss Annie Martin, Independent whose aides were confident, finished third in the senatorial race, heating the Socialist So-cialist candidate by only a few votes. Five states senators, three liepubli-cans liepubli-cans mill two Democrats, elected in Montana, were indorsed by the nonpartisan non-partisan league. Considerable indignation was aroused at the meeting of the city commissioner.-, at Onden, Utah, when it was reported re-ported that floral designs placed on graves In the cemetery were being removed re-moved by florists and others and used over again. (iovernor Alexander has urged every boy and girl in the state of Idaho between the ages or 12 and IS years to enroll In the "Victory clubs," which will have for their purpose a part in financing the forthcoming United War Work campaign. Several thousand Idaboans were deprived de-prived of casliug their ballot at the general election through being quarantined, quaran-tined, and hundreds of "flu" victims were likewise unable to vote. ('apt. Walter Fitch of the British mission at Camp Lewis, veteran of three years' service in France, and wearer of the military cross, died of influenza at the Camp Lewis base hospital hos-pital Saturday. DOMESTIC. "We have come back to our country more thoroughly convinced that out-people out-people and our government stand out as a wonderful object lesson to the peoples of the whole world," declared Samuel (Jompers Friday in his "report to the American people," on the work of the labor mission to Europe. .New Mexico elected four women county school superintendents. Four steel workers were plunged 188 feet to death inside a huge smokestack smoke-stack at Chicago when a scaffold collapsed. col-lapsed. One still was alive when found, but died soon afterwards. it is planned to make the Great Lakes (Illinois) training station larger with expectation there will be more than 50,-(IIX) 50,-(IIX) men here the uoming winter. Lieut. Col. William Parker of New York, listed as killed in action, was one of the cavalry officers who organized or-ganized the famous Philippine scouts, with which he served as major from l'JIU until this country entered the war. The engineer, fireman and . front brakemau of a Missouri, Kansas & Texas freight train' were killed when the engine boiler exploded at a point ten miles northeast of Olothe, Kans. False reports that Germany had accepted ac-cepted the terms of the armistice and that lighting had ended threw the country Into a delirium on November 7 and turned out to be the greatest hoax of recent years. A contribution of ?3,(K)0,000 to the united war work campaign, said to be the largest gift ever made to such n cause, was announced at New York by the United States Steel corporation. The same corporation gave .f 2,001), (J00 to the Ked Cross during its last campaign. cam-paign. German industrialism is as much a menace to world peace as German military autocracy, A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, said in an address at Philadelphia, reviewing the work of his office in taking over and Americanizing enemy-owned property. Several thousand dockmen, firemen, and mates employed on approximately 200 railroad tugs and lighters in New Yorkharbor. quit work November G, to enforce an eight-hour day and pay for overtime. Jack L"empsey, the heavyweight, knocked out Battling Levinsky of New-York, New-York, Wednesday night at Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, In the third round of what was to have been a six-round bout. Home products only on the Thanksgiving Thanks-giving dinner table this year is the program pro-gram of the food administration. Hotels, Ho-tels, restaurants and other eating places have been asked to save transportation trans-portation by using only food produced locally, antl the administration has Issued Is-sued an appeal to householders to observe ob-serve the same rule. Four persons chosen from a gathering gather-ing of score or more who attempted to hold a service In the Ninth Church of Christ Scientist at Los Angeles on Sunday Sun-day were placed under arrest by city policemen and charged with violating a health ordinance. The Central Federated union of New York has approved a report of its committee com-mittee on reconstruction in which it was asserted that "the same patriotism which induced women to enter industry indus-try during the war should Induce them to vacate their positions after the war," to make room for returned soldiers. Peace with victory which now seems near could not have been made possible pos-sible without the patriotic efforts of the workers at home, said Chairman Hurley of the shipping hoard at an entertainment and reception at Philadelphia Phila-delphia given by Director General Schwab for employes of the emergency fleet corporation. There are now thirty-three "dry" stall's in the union. California was the only state in which the issue was before be-fore the people Tuesday that voted "wet." WASHINGTON. Provost Marshal General Crowder has called into conference the heads of all sections of his office to discuss possible suspension of the November draft calls, under which more than 300,000 men have been ordered to army camps. A Republican majority in the next congress of at least 2 in the senate and not less than 43 in ttie house is assured from returns from the scattering scat-tering doubtful districts. Further and immediate aid from the allied and American governments in ridding liussia of Bolsheviki control and re-establishing order is asked iu an appeal addressed to President Wilson Wil-son by the consolidated Russian provisional pro-visional government at Omsk. The war department on November 7 authorized the construction division to proceed with thirteen . war projects costing $1S,000,)00. The largest appropriation ap-propriation of $7,500,000 was made for enlargement of Camp Grant, III. Contracts for S51.000 leather jerkins to cost $3,703,400, have been awarded to twenty-three manufacturers by the war department. Fixing of prices on raw cotton is unnecessary and impracticable, President Presi-dent Wilson has been told by the cotton cot-ton investigating committee of the war industries board. Senator Martin of Virginia, Democratic Demo-cratic leader in the senate, has announced an-nounced that congress will call on the executive departments of the government govern-ment to curtail war expenses immediately immedi-ately on the signing of an armistice by Germany. FOREIGN. Two hundred thousand prisoners were taken by the British on the Western West-ern front from January 7 to November 5, inclusive, according to an official announcement an-nouncement made in the house of commons. com-mons. In the same period the French captured 140,000, the Americans 50,000 and the Belgians 15,000. The latest figures on Australia's cas-ualities cas-ualities show dead 54.S00, wounded 158, 109. The significance of these figures fig-ures will be realized when it is' remembered remem-bered that the whole population of Australia is only 5,000,000. Thomas Hinkley, secretary of the American embassy in Rome, died in London November 6 of pneumonia. A general railway strike was begun in Germany, according to a Copenhagen Copen-hagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph company, quoting Berlin advices to the Social Demokraten of Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. - The Cologne Yolks Zeitung says the revolution at Bremen was affected in two hours. The marines enticed the soldiers to join them, after which a meeting was held. This assembly demanded de-manded the creation of a social-democratic republic. Women joined with the marines in opening the prisons. Belgium has been compelled to pay a total of $500,000,000 to Germany iu the form of a monthly "war contribution" contribu-tion" in the four years since the war began, it was shown by an official compilation received by the Belgian legation le-gation from Havre. American troops entered the historic French city of Sedan sit -1 o'clock Thursday afternoon, General Pershing reported. All that portion of the city west of the river Meuse was occupied. There is reasoti to believe, according to a Berne dispatch to the Temps, that the premier of Bavaria has sent an urgent note to the German government govern-ment to the effect that if an armistice is not concluded without delay be will be obliged officially to order the Bavarian Ba-varian troops to return from the front in order to protect the Bavarian southern south-ern frontier. Virtually all the Greman fleet has revolted, according to a dispatch received re-ceived from The Hague. The men are complete masters at Kiel. Wilbelm-sbaven, Wilbelm-sbaven, Helgoland, Borkum and Cux-haven. Cux-haven. German soldiers at one point during the retreat in Belgium carried off a stock of flour, lard and pork purchased pur-chased by the Belgian relief commission commis-sion and destined to feed the Belgian civilian population. Germany has c.-manded the withdrawal with-drawal of all Russian representatives In Germany, a Berlin dispatch announced. an-nounced. The German representatives in Russia, it Is added, have been re-i re-i called. t |