| Show RIEF REVIEW F A WEEKS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT happenings IN ITEMIZED FORM home and foreign news gathered from all quarters of the world and prepared for busy men intermountain federal laid and municipal officers joined in raids of downtown resorts at seattle which resulted in ili about 00 arrests including alleged draft evaders evanders ev aders 1 I W W anil and unde undesirable senator brady of idaho lins has introduced hills appropriating 3 for the purpose of completing the big fo fort rt hall irrigation project near Po locatell catell and authorizing uie the creation of town sites on the reservation the seattle cit city y council by a vote of 5 to 3 declined to adopt a tiou tion containing impeachment charges against mayor C gill governor Oo vernor houx hous of wyoming lias has issued extradition papers tor for george M promoter of a string ot of private banks in four wyoming counties who disappeared last september after three of liis his banks had been closed by the state examiner mcdonald has been located in san francisco it cot the state of idalio idaho sa per cupita callita to forward to cantonment camps for training in lie hie new national army anny a total of 2103 2403 men there will be no increase in the price of coal in utah unless evidence adduced at a public hearing in salt lake is sufficient to convince the state fuel administrator and the federal fuel administrator that an advance is justified DOMESTIC an abortive attempt to L kill 1111 gov wil linin D stephens of california by means or of a pou powerful erful explosive bomb at al 11 II 55 35 p in sunday night resulted in lie wrecking ot of the executive mansion at air Sae sacramento the entire rear end cud oi 0 hie file building being blown out ill AH ol 01 ilu occupants of the house escaped injury lnier with will the alleged purpose of preventing her son from being accepted into the draft irray army sirs mrs charles magnu sain 01 01 two minn according to the police threw acid into the face of her ber ton oil arthur while lie laya beep at the family home dionie the residence of john D rockefeller in the suburbs of cleveland was totally deb destroyed troyed by fire monday night the rapid spread of the flames led to the belief that the fire was of incendiary origin f president wilson will not act on the railroad problem before the christmas recess of congress it Is authoritatively stated that he probably will take ake t liis his plan tor for tile resolution to foa coa gress immediately after tile the holidays bliss harriet A varney varne v the upton nurse murse was acquitted in the norfolk superior court at dedham Ded liam mass blass of tile the murder of mrs pauline A keyes of bt brookline although american soldiers we even now in the trenches of france no single piece of heavy artillery equipment used by fighting men Is interchangeable with that of tile the french or of any other of our allies tills this was disclosed to the sen senate ato military committee by gen william crozier Croz ler chief of ordnance three soldiers members of the aero squadron united states signal corps lost their lives cheri hen the guardhouse at middletown ila ia where the squadron is quartered was destroyed by fire early sunday ten miners are known to have bee been killed by an explosion in the mine anine of the yukon poca pocahontas hontas coal company at susanna IV va reports of almost nationwide nation wide suffering due to lack of coal has stirred fuel administration officials to redoubled efforts to release supplies held on tracks by car congestion the food administrations prohibition against canning of beans pending a survey of tile he available supply of tin plate has been lifted to permit penult canners to put up 25 23 per cent of their capacity up to the first of starch march next nest for the first time lime in history the chicago milwaukee ce st paul rall road on december 14 sub suspended trains on oil account of a shortage of coat coal freights bound east cast were annulled arid and other traffic was cut down or delayed president wilson was called upon to remove postmaster general burleson in the resolutions adopted sunday by the chicago federation of labor it was declared that tile postin postmaster abter generals recommendations to congress that the unions of government em aloyes should be forbidden lias has tt a tendency to destroy their morale and the reverence given our president in c his heroic struggle to emancipate the i workers of the police and frequenters of a negro club fought a three hour battle with riot guns said and revolvers at bridgeport conn eliell police attempted attel opted to lo enter tiie the club to investigate a complaint of a white roan man that lie had been roughly handled there one policeman two white while men and three negroes were mounded voun ded persistent repetition of a story that a woman spy had been excited in the united states has caused the state department part ment to send an official denial to american consuls and legations in the european neutral countries mexican federal soldiers fired on nil an american cavalry patrol ahl which ch ac accidentally cl crossed the border borde on the I 1 island near r abens texas killing one cavalry horse and wounding another Elgh eighteen teen men were arrested in a n raid by federal authorities on chicago 1 I W W headquarters on december bor li 17 reports that tile the society was planning plan biln lining il lo olence lence was the reason for the raid one hundred and three alleged members of the industrial workers of the he world probably the largest hirgelt number dumber ever assembled in one courtroom to answer to charges of against the federal gin eminent pleaded not guilty ailien han arraigned before judge landis at chlea chicago go washington the house of representatives on oil 1 de cember 17 passed the resolution providing v idin for Nub submission mission of a national prohibition prohibition amendment to tile the states by a vote of 2 to president wilson lias written former secretary a letter to refute the frequently bublis published hed statement that lie asked for the secre were resignation because of the celebrated celebi anted so colled conver conversation in ili which mr bryan the hie sending of tile the lust lusi tant tanti i note is said to have told the lie former austrian ambassador not to take it too seriously pay the tax or the beuto ns take your choice is one of tile the slogans to be used in uie the campaign of publicity which in january and february will aid the collection of the income tax col K N M house back from froin europe where he attended the he great war conference as head ot of the american inis mission sion came to washington monday and drove directly to the white house to make a personal report to president wilson increased seriousness in the coal situation may force fresl president dent wilson to take summary action with respect to control of the railroads in some official quarters action Js Is e expected at any moment A peace was never discussed at the inter aillem war council in paris which cemented together alie allied nations for the vigorous prosecution of the war declared colonel E M 11 house head bead of the american mission secretary ot of war baker has announced the formation of a n war council within the war department to coordinate all supplies for the armies in ID tile the field FOREIGN ona british and five neutral mer chantlen chant men a british Critis li destroyer and four mine sweepers were sunk in ili afi the north sea ly by german naval forces on december 1 12 the union government won ivon a decisive victory in the election in canada and conscription lias has been confirmed at the polls dr richard nic liard von Kiu ehlmann the german foreign secretary says a berlin dispatch Is proceeding to brest Litov litovsky sk during the course of the lie week to take part in pence peace negotiations with Ru szla an armistice agreement between the government in russia and the teutonic allies was signed c a at brest saturday according I 1 ing to in an official communication from berin aln the armistice becomes effective at noon monday and Is to remain in force until january 14 forces have taken over the chinese eastern rall railway way ind and the administrative area in northern manchuria according to a telegram from f rom harbin the price of placed by the austrians Aust rians on oil the head of our nero aeroplane plane inventor signor signer J caproni Capro nl proves how right lie he Is in ills his demand for the construction of a vat fleet of aero acro planes for tile bombardment of the enemy says a dispatch from paris seventeen of tile the american englI engineers lio ho dropped their shovels to pitch into the lighting fighting when they were caught by the german advance in front of camarat Cain bral are rooi reported ted as missing in action notwithstanding I 1 ill standing the terrible losses they have sustained the german and austro hungarian armies in the th e mountainous talt ious region of northern it staly ally continue their efforts to break the italian line and open a passageway to tile plains below press dispatches from petrograd Petro grad throw little light on the military situation in southern russia the official statements issued in petrograd Petro grad grid are confusing and there are various reports regarding general Kille dines and general korniloff whose present whereabouts and fortunes are not known def definitely finitely ini tely former emperor nicholas of russia has escaped from his confinement fit at Tobol tk bk according to advices advises to have been received at the in statute sti tute the headquarters ut nl petrograd Petro grad the cuban senate has unanimously adopted a resolution declaring a state of war between cuba and austria hungary exists the resolution was wa the same as that passed by the house A generally increased confidence in lr germany based on the russian russia n armis lice and other obvious factors 1 is shown in extracts from the latest ger man newspapers telegraphed fro from an 1101 land the new portuguese government lias has promulgated a decree that president machado Macli ado against whose regime the recent successful revolution was directed must reside outside of portia kai gal until the expiration of 0 the period for which lie was elected there was LL a great demonstration in the italian parliament when prem Ireni ler iw orlando men mentioned honed americas achara clam tion of war on austria hungary the whole house rote robe and applauded and was joined t i by the public in the galleries in crying viva america 1 viva wilson V 1 |
