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Show . The body of little "HI My" Dniisey, for whom a nation-wide s'-iiivh hud j been conduct oil since his disappearance i from his home at Hammotiton, X. .1., several weeks ago, was found by a iiuiiter in a swamp, the child bavin;,' been murdered. Trainloads of whisky are being rushed to Chicago from Kentucky di--lilleries to .supply the demand if the war-time prohibition lid is lifted. Investigation of charges of profiteering profiteer-ing on the part of the master butehers which were made during the stritre at Chicago which ended Thursday after I a duration of three weeks, disclosed that tin; four retail shops opened by the strikers have been selling meat at a lower price than the wholesale price. National grangers in annual convention con-vention at Grand Itapids, Mich,, passed pass-ed resolutions in opposition to government govern-ment ownership and took a decided stand against universal military training. HEWS OF A WEEK IN" GDNDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIELE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe nd Given In a Few Line. INTER MOUNTAI N. PI ens of not guilty were entered in the superior court at Cliehalis, Wash., by ten alleged Industrial Workers of the World charged with the murder of Lieutenant Warren O. Grimm, one of the four former American soldiers killed in an Armistice day parade. A restraining order preventing the strike called for November 21, of Colorado Colo-rado coal miners was Issued nt Denver Den-ver by District Judge Frank J. Morley. Police claim that evidence found In the ipmrlers occupied by eight alleged radicals arrested at Seattle indicate that (he men were attempting to form u soviet organization and also were working with the Industrial Workers of the World. A lone bandit, believed to be William Wil-liam Carlisle, notorious train robber and escaped convict, boarded the Los Angeles Limited, near Medicine Bow, Wyo., Tuesday night, robbed passen gers of a tourist sleeper of money and valuables and escaped. Bert Bland, I. W. W. fugitive and -suspected Armlstic day slayer, was taken Tuesday by Sheriff John Berry and a company of deputies from Cen-tralia, Cen-tralia, Wash. A four-mile chase through stubble fields resulted in the capture, near Pendleton, Ore., of Joe Martin, alleged tto have stolen a touring car in Salt Lake City October 29. A strike of coal miners in Colorado has been called by George O. Johnson, , " president of the United Mine Workers, district No. 15, unless the operators reinstate re-instate all striking union men. WASHINGTON. Embargoes on wheat and wheat flour will be lifted December 1"), it lias been announced by the United States grain corporation. Compromise efforts to ratify the peace treaty have been thrown into the background by developments strengthening strength-ening the possibility that the whole controversy might be transferred to the political arena for a decision by the people in 1920. President Wilson has again placed the government in control of the nation's na-tion's food supply by transferring the authority of food administrator to Attorney At-torney General Palmer. Attorney General Palmer is reported on the verge of a nervous breakdown and under orders from his physicians to get away from work and take all the rest he needs. While the supreme court was hearing hear-ing arguments on the validity of the war-time prohibition act, word went out from the 'White House that President Presi-dent Wilson would not rescind the "dry" act until peace formally had been declared. Mexico has been warned by the American government that any further fur-ther molestation of William O. Jenkins, Jen-kins, the American consular agent at Puebla, who recently was kidnapped by bandits, would seriously affect the relations between the United States and Mexico for which the government of Mexico must assume sole responsibility." responsi-bility." FOREIGN. The specialists who examined William Wil-liam E. ("Pussy-foot") Johnson, the American Anti-saloon league campaigner, cam-paigner, whose eye was injured during a students' demonstration against him recent in. London, found Mr. Johnson utterly unable to see with it. The Kosciusko squadron, composed of American aviators serving in the Polish army, has begun active operations opera-tions against the Bolsheviki. Madame Landru, wife of Henri Lan-dru, Lan-dru, who was arrested in April in connection con-nection with the disappearance of twelve women who it was charged he either had married or promised to marry, has brought suit for a divorce in the Paris court. Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, has been matched to fight Carl Morris of Tulsa, Okla., at San Luis, Mexico, it is announced. an-nounced. The first political convention of the presidential campaign opened at Mexico Mexi-co City, November 20, with 500 delegates dele-gates from all parts of the republic. The Democratic league was established. estab-lished. . The American delegation to the peace conference will sail for home on December 5 or 6. The British delegation dele-gation will probably leave Paris about the same time. The election in France is a veritable landslide against the Socialists. It means not only the downfall of the disorganizing element in France, but the beginning of a concerted final attack at-tack against anarchy all over Europe. A Swiss brewery has adopted the custom of pasting on its bottles, instead of labels, Austrian one-crown notes, which are valued in Switzerland at less than the former label of the brewery. Control of the British railways by ; joint management of workers and own-i own-i ers became an accomplished fact on November 15, through the indorsement DOMESTIC. Discovery of a plot to assassinate federal, state and police officials who have been active in prosecuting I. W. W. and union of Russian workers members has been announced at New York. Cooks, maids and servant girls who recently formed a union at Chicago, have decided upon demands for a ten-hour ten-hour day and a five-and-one-hnlf-day week. Eight o'clock would be the latest lat-est they would work. German marks are in demand in Chicago. They are being bought as a speculation by persons who believe they will rise materially in value within with-in a year. On the ground that beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic content is not intoxicating, in-toxicating, Judge John C. Pollock, of the United States district court at St. Louis handed down a decision granting a temporary Injunction to restrain the United States district attorney and the collector of internal revenue from interfering in-terfering with the manufacture and sale of this beer by St. Louis brewers. Checks totaling ?100,000 donated to the Communist party of New York by some of the city's "parlor Bolsheviki" are in the hands of Chief City Magistrate Mag-istrate McAdoo, it has been learned. Franz ltocteke, publisher of the World, the official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World in Oakland, has announced that the paper pa-per had suspended publication indefinitely, indefi-nitely, as the Oakland police depart-men depart-men had not guaranteed to protect the paper from threatened raids from the American Legion and other organizations. or-ganizations. -" From a platform six feet high, 13S,- 997 bottles of 2 per cent beer were emptied into a specially built trough that ran to an open sewer at Zion City, Ills. Mayor W. H. Clendenin poured the first bottle and Chief of Police Theodore Becker and his aides finished the operation. The empty bottles bot-tles were sold to a junk dealer for $2148. by the National Union of Kailwaymen of the proposal presented to them. Denial that Mexico is connected in any way with radical groups in this country was made in a statement issued is-sued by Itamon V. De Negri, consul general of Mexico. A bureau to promote tourist travel from Europe to America will be opened in I'iiris shortly, according to an announcement an-nouncement made at the annual meeting of the superintendents of national na-tional parks at Denver. With snow a foot deep in Paris and a blizzard sweeping over the country, misery exists in France. According to reports received by the American Red Cross, many towns are without bread, moat or fuel as a result of the tie-up of transportation. The grand jury at Winnipeg, Canada, has reported true bills against eight alleged leaders of the general strike which tied up Winnipeg this spring. The indictments charge seditious conspiracy con-spiracy and the grand jury report declared de-clared the men were "public nuisances." nui-sances." The parliamentary elections in Italy were marked by serious rioting in Cenoa and Milan Sunday. Numerous casualties were reported from both cities. Early returns indicate an overwhelming victory for the Soci ti-ists. A crowd took Wallace Baines, a j negro, from his home near Madison, j Ga., and shot him to death after he j had killed Kay Ozburn, railroad sta- ! lion agent, who bad assisted an officer : in an attempt to arrest him on a minor . charge. . i Seventeen members of the sopho- i more class of Franklin and Marshall i college charged with hazing Charles Dutteultoffer, a freshman, a week ago, j were held for court at a hearing before j a magistrate at Lancaster, l'a. j Dr. Charles E. Cnntroll. a surgeon 1 In the United States public health ! service, died at Greenville, Texas, j from illness following exposure in the ; .September tropical storm at Corpus i Christi, where he was in charge of the public health service hospital. Back from the hazardous task of cleaning up more than 50,000 mines planted in the North sea, -thirty-two mine sweepers have arrived at New York. Iiigid enforcement of laws' to check the spread of radicalism, uniform production pro-duction of coal throughout the year to allay labor dissatifaction and establishment establish-ment of a fiuil by the mining interest to educate the people against radical doctrines were urged in resolutions adopted by (he coal section of the K-onvenflon of the American Mining congress ut S'.. Louis. |
