OCR Text |
Show IhlEF REVIEW OF A WEEKEVEWTS I 1 RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENING8 IN ITEM-IZED ITEM-IZED FORM ' Horn and Foreign New Gathered From All Quarters of the World) and Prepared for duty Men intermountain: Shipyard workmen at Portland, estimated esti-mated to number several thousand, lulil down tliclr tools at noon Saturday and refused to work out tliu day. Tho workmen said tlioy wcro dissatisfied bocauso tlio summer .Saturday half-holiday half-holiday had not been extended through the fall nnd winter. There wcro only fifty cases of com-tnunlcnhlo com-tnunlcnhlo discuses In Camp Lewis during the past week among tlio 35,-E03 35,-E03 men stationed there, idurlng that period, tho weekly health report of MaJ. L. I. McGlnssun, camp sanitary Inspector, shows. There wero no deaths. Charged with desertion, Impersonating Impersonat-ing an officer of tho United Stutes army nnd passing hud cnecks, Private E. J. Simmons, who said his home , Ik In Ogdcn, Utah, was arrested at u fnshlonalilo hotel at Denver by u United States secret servlco agent. When a train on tho Uintah railway leaped from tho track at a sharp curve cnr Atchec, Colo., and rolled down tho mountainside, tho conductor, 1. J. Kltrpatrlck of Ulmurron. Colo., wax crushed to death and the engineer, George Lymnnn of Bingham, Utah, was.' severely Injured. George Mnnglos, a section hand, wax killed nnd George Kusonlus, section foreman, was seriously Injured near Aberdeen, Idaho, In avoiding a colli-slon colli-slon between their fast-driven power rectlon car and a school wagon containing con-taining twelve children. I DOMESTIC. Colonel Horatio Gntes Sickles, U. S. A., retired, shot and killed himself In bis homo In St. Louis. Ho was Ct years old, fcon and nnmcsnko of a civil war general' and formerly wn? In charge of tho Twelfth cavalry. He was in charge at Columbus, N. M., dur-lug dur-lug tho Mexican trouble. A man who registered at a hotel ns' L. N. Schcnnorhorn of Des Moines, In., ( Is being held today by tho pollca In connection with tho shooting at Kansas Kan-sas City of it woman who said her nntne was Miss- Ituth Shoemaker, .12, of Itockwrll City, In. To conserve gold for essential mono-lory mono-lory purposes tho government hus for-' for-' bade Issuance of gold bullion from tlio , mints at Philadelphia, Deliver, San Francisco nnd from tho New York ns-pay ns-pay office, without license from tho Jvnr Industries board, federnl reserve board or tho secretary of tho treasury. Under n now policy of reporting ens-Rattles ens-Rattles of tlio American expeditionary forces adopted by tho war department, depart-ment, tho name of tho men wounded (will bo Kent to tho United States by J fcourlcr twlco a week und only tho names of tho dend and missing will bo Fabled by General Perilling when tho System Is fully In effect. Ton und seven-tenths per cent rejections re-jections for all causes wero figures klvcn out by tho medical examination board ut Camp Kearny us Indicating I tho high physical qualifications of fl about 7000 recruits whoso exumlnu- lions bad been completed. Plans for collecting fruit pits and hut shells to be used In. making gus masks for tho army havo been extend-d extend-d to the homo und all persons uro lirged to deposit their collections In ro-ceptncles ro-ceptncles provided by hotels und res-taurunts, res-taurunts, according to an imnounce-lucnt imnounce-lucnt made n( New York. Ninety-three meinbors of tho I. W. NV., Including Secretary William D. Haywood, wero placed aboard n spe-rial spe-rial train on tho Itock Isliiud road ut Chicago, Friday night, under heavy tuard, to be tuken to Fort Leuven-worth Leuven-worth prison. Persons writing poetry, fiction nnd advertisements uro engaged In essen-Hal essen-Hal Industries and aro not affected by the "work or light" rules, according to Information by tho provost murshnl general's office to a Boston draft board. Ouo man was killed and forty-three .Were Injured, 'several seriously, when three couches of a Itock Island train were derailed at Comanche, Okln. Tho dend und Injured wero members of a party of eighty drafted meu from Gar-field Gar-field county, Oklahoma, on their way to training camp, j Nearly a million railroad employes, including clerks, truck laborers and maintenance of way meu, aro to ro-j ro-j eclve wage Increases of $25 a month, the equivalent of $1 n day or 12 cents j an hour, over the pay they received L last January 1, tinder u wngo order I Issued by Director General McAdoo. I i A bomb exploding In tho entranco 1 of tho federal building ut Chicago, on a Wcdnesduy afternoon, killed four per- i' pons nnd wounded 75 others. Tho blast ? was attributed to tho I. W. W. by Philip .T. Parry, acting chief of tho J local federal Investigation bureau. r- On the ground of German owner- ' ship, tho Amcrlcun Truns-Atluntlc Co., ?, which, until it's ships wero coinman-deored coinman-deored by tho shipping board last Oc- I tober, operated a lleet of eleven steam- H L fhlps Hying tho Sturs and Stripes, has H been taken over by tho ullcn property H ! cusU -Jlun at New Ycrls. . Tho Deinocrnts nunle d.,,-p Inroads lu tho llepubllcnn vote In the election In Maine on Monday, but early returns Indicated that Ihe.v had failed to wrest tnntrnl'from the Hepiibllcans. Prmluclloii of motor ears by tho Ford Motor company has been suspended sus-pended entirely, It was officially announced an-nounced nt the plnnt at Detroit on Monday. Tho movo will enable tho compahy to devote Its entire facilities to government work, the announcement announce-ment snld. Fourteen katcs In the union havo abolished tho teaching of the German language In tho schools, nnd In sixteen other slates n campaign to ellmtnii'o German Is under way, according to an nmiminccmcnt made at New York by the American defense society. Jules JusHcrand, the French ambassador, ambas-sador, In an. address before tho banquet ban-quet of the Franco-American societies nt Now York, asserted that "Iho enemy Is doomed" nnd wo "shull choose and appoint tho day for peace." WASHINGTON. Fuel Administrator Garfield hus announced an-nounced that he expects soon to fix a price for gasoline for domestic con-Mimers con-Mimers ns well-as the government nnd tho allies, at a flguro lower than tho present market price. Without n dissenting vote, tho houso passed, after u few minutes' consideration, consider-ation, tho seimto resolution empowering empower-ing tho president to estatitlsh prohibition prohi-bition zones around munition factories, mines, shipyards' and other war production produc-tion plants. Warm congratulations to tho navy upon tho conduct of tho crew of tho transport Mount Vernon, which returned re-turned safely to a Frcncn port after being torpedoed 200 miles nt sea, cuuio to Secretary Daniels on Monday by cable from Secretary Ituker, who Is now In France. Tho war department has announced tho arrival lu Franco of Secretary Maker, accompanied by an official party, Including John D. Ityan, assistant assist-ant secretary lu charge of aircraft, mid Major General Gorgus, surgeon general gen-eral of tho army. A new priorities list of Industries nnd plants essential to tho war or civil populutlon was announced Sunday by Chalrmnn Iliiruch of tho wur Industries Indus-tries board. Without evidence of political division, divi-sion, congress on Friday begun work on tho greatest revenue measure In all history, providing for the raising of twenty-four billion dollars ?S,(KW,-000,000 ?S,(KW,-000,000 In taxes und twlco ns much In bunds to pay America's share of tho cost of tho wur next year, nnd for loans to Its co-belligerents. FOREIQN. Another shot from tho Teutonic peaco propaganda artillery hus been fired by Count Czcrnln, the former Austro-Hungurlnn minister of foreign ' uffnlrfc'. In nn article In tho Vienna . Ncito Frclo Prcsse, he favors tho Idea of a league of nutlons. Ilrltlsh nnd French consular nnd other officials throughout llolshovlk-contrbllcd llolshovlk-contrbllcd Itusslu aro under nrrest ponding tho outcomo of negotiations now going on between tho allied governments gov-ernments and tho Soviet authorities. Drlg. Gen. Henry A. Greene, commander com-mander of tho department of tho Philippines, Phil-ippines, United States unny, tins picked Purnnnquo, six miles' from Manila, us tho site for tho cantonments of 1110,000 Philippines gunrdsmen, who will bo subject to call November 1. A nephew of tho kulner Is among soventy-ouo prisoners tuken by tho Americans, according to n front dispatch. dis-patch. HIh name is not mentioned in tho dispatch. Tho only detallv about hi in so fur known Is that l;o wears a monocle. General Pershing on September 7 decorutcd u largo umber of men belonging be-longing to divisions which hud distinguished dis-tinguished themselves during tho summer. sum-mer. All tho men received tho distinguished dis-tinguished service cross. Tho lnrge number o' German officials offi-cials in Uclgluui havo been culled for military service, according to tho Nleuwo ltotterdam Courunt. Their places uro to bo tuken by women. Tulnut Pasliu, tho Turkish grand vizier, in nn Interview published in tho Vienna Ncue Prcsse, said he firmly firm-ly bclloved that peaco would como bo-foro bo-foro tlio winter. Taluat Is now In Vienna. Japaneso forces havo occupied tho town of Khabarovsk, Slberlu. according accord-ing to advices received from Vladivostok. Vladivo-stok. Concentration of Araerlcnn troops In tho Amcrlcun sectors In Franco Is proceeding pro-ceeding rapidly and General Pershing now has under his direct command moro than 00 per cent of tho troops who havo reached the other side. Iiecauso of tho shc-rtugo of working horses in Merlin, coal Is to bo transported trans-ported from tho coal yards' to tho homes of consumers by trolley, according accord-ing to the ISerlln Tugeblatt. Tho coal will bo conveyed in trailers attached to Clio street cars. Nikolai Lcnluc, tho Uolshevlki premier, pre-mier, is recovering from tho wounds recently Inflicted on him, according to a medical bulletin received nt London. Lon-don. Thirty-flvo members of tho crow of tho American army transport Mount Vernon, formerly tlio North German Lloyd liner Kronprlnzessln Cecllle, wero killed by tho qxploslon of u torpedo tor-pedo which struck the vessel when slio wus 200 miles from tho French coast, homownrd bound. Count F, von Herding, the Imperial Gorman chanceljor, has resigned, glv. Ing bad health us tho cause for his retirement, according to tho Geneva correspondent of tho London Dally Express, Ex-press, quoting u dtipnfch received in Gcncvu from Munich, BavsrJa. |