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Show NEWS OF A WEEK If CONDENSED FORI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlatery Information Gathered from AU Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. "All persons should obey tin; Co'lden Rule. Tliey should nut keep bad company, com-pany, shouicl not ill-ink. ami. above all, should live within their means." These were the dying words of l.ouis Warner, War-ner, handed at New Orleans for murder. mur-der. A carload of sugar originally consigned con-signed from Nashville, Tenn., to Chicago, Chi-cago, rolled about undelivered for a month, was resold four times and piled up 4 '2 cents a pound additional cr)st to the consumer, according to It. J. I'oole, city food director of Chicago. Chi-cago. City attorneys lost their fight before the state utilities commission for the return of the 5-cent fare on surface cars at Chicago, but the commission in its decision ordered the traction companies to sell ten tickets for 6y2 cents each and fifty tickets for 0 cents each. WASHINGTON. I NTE R MOUNTAI N. Two masked bandits entered the office of-fice of the American theatre at Butte, Mont., and after beating Into insensibility insensi-bility Miss Emma Peterson, the cashier, and John Kelly, the janitor, robbed the safe of all its contents. The city council at Tacoma agreed to let the twenty-two alleged I. W. "s. who are on hunger strike in the c-lly jail starve if they want to, following fol-lowing a report from Assistant City Attorney Frank Carnahan that the city cannot be held responsible. H. B. Ilately, 80 years of age, living liv-ing near Pullman, Wash., has been presented pre-sented with a 14-pound baby boy by his wife. The newcomer makes twen-tf twen-tf -four children who call Hately daddy. Carneyville, Wyo., coal miners voted to return to work after federal troops had arrested fifty-two of their number num-ber and ordered union officials to call a meeting to vote on ending the strike. David Smith and Walter Banaster, charged with murder in connection with the shoeing of J. N. Burgess and George Peringer, Oregon stockmen, during a holdup of the Claretuont tav ern, near Portland, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to life imprisonment " Otis McGuire, who brutally murder ed his wife and two little daughters, was found hanging from a rafter in boathouse on Drayton harbor, near Belllngham, Wash., dead with a knife wound in his breast. McGuire is presumed pre-sumed to have gone suddenly insane. Six miners were arrested at Sheridan, Sheri-dan, Wyo., for violating the strike injunction in-junction of Federal Judge A. B. Anderson Ander-son of Indianapolis. Two of the six big mines of the Sheridan district are idle. The others are working with part forces. DOMESTIC. The government has served notice on soft coal miners and operators that interference with coal, production would not be tolerated, A government plan for settling the soft coal strike which embodied a 14 per cent wage increase for miners and the stluplation that there should be no increase in the price paid by the public, will not be accepted by the miners. Declaring there is "no legal foundation founda-tion nor principle of international law" upon which the United States bases Its demand for the immediate release of William O. Jenkins, United States consular agent at Puebla, the Mexican government has declined to accede to the request of the American Ameri-can state department. Like the miners and operators, whose troubles it is trying to adjust, ad-just, President Wilson's cabinet seems hopelessly deadlocked on the question of a wage increase in the bituminous coal Industry. A final study of the selective draft records just made public fixes the military mili-tary strength of the United States at 19,000,000 in potential military manpower-. Postmaster General Burleson has approved ap-proved pending bills to reduce the rate of local first-class letter postage to a penny an ounce. A letter for delivery within the postal limits of the office in which it is moiled would take a 1-cent 1-cent stamp instead of a 2-cent stamp. FOREIGN. An agreement has been arrived at between the Belgian and German governments gov-ernments whereby Germany during a rjeriod of twentv vears will redeem $1,200,000,000, which were issued by the Germans in the occupied territories. terri-tories. Plans for a new campaign against Francisco Villa, the bandit chieftain, rapidly are taking shape in a mountainous moun-tainous region of eastern Chihuahua known as the "range of the doves." An American corporation has erected a large plant at Papeete, Tahiti, for the making of cocoanut oil from copra. Heretofore the copra has "been shipped from the islands in bulk. The supreme council has adopted the British suggestion for partition of the German war fleet. Under the arrangement ar-rangement Great Great Britain will receive re-ceive 70 per cent the total tonnage, France 10 per cent, Italy 10 per cent, Japan 8 per cent and the United States 2 per cent. Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison has urged the Philippine legislature to enact a prohibition law to conform to the constitutional amendment amend-ment adopted in the United States, which some assert does not apply ia the islands. It is stated in authoritative quarters quar-ters at Berlin .that Germany will not comply with the demand of the entente for 400,000 tons of dock dredges and tugs as an off-set to the German wars-hips sunk at Scapa Flow. -The Chilean parliament has authorized author-ized a loan for the construction of port works at Valdivia, Lebu, Constitution Consti-tution and Tnlachuano. The public works committee of the chamber of deputies has approved the construction construc-tion of a trans-Andean railway through Lonquimay pass. Cardinal Amette, archbishop of Paris, has issued a pastoral letter protesting against the immodest toilettes toil-ettes of women and indecent dances. The wooden steamer Flush has been wrecked south of the Aland islands, Snow. fell at Phoenix, Ariz., on No-rember No-rember 28. Officials of the weather bureau said It was the first November Novem-ber snow since the station was established estab-lished at Phoenix in 1895. Two women who say they are widows wid-ows of the late Philip Kellogg, live tock commission man recently killed la an automobile accident at Omaha, have filed claims to his estate. After a journey of fifty days, six young men have arrived at San Francisco Fran-cisco from Bolivia on their way to enter en-ter the University of California and Stanford university. They are said to be the first Bolivians to attend college col-lege in California. Schools of Omaha were ordered closed for one week following an order or-der by the fuel committees that no coal be used by nonessential industries. indus-tries. George Washington Ellis, lawyer nnd writer and for eight years minister minis-ter from the United States to Liberia, s dead at Chicago. Mrs. Tom Thumb, who with her first husband, Gen. Thomas Thumb, attained at-tained world-wide fame as midgets in the Barnum circus, died at Middle-boro, Middle-boro, Mass., November 26, at the age of 77. Letters showing a sympathetic attitude atti-tude on the part of Frederic C. Howe, formerly commission of immigration at Kills island, toward radicals who had been ordered deported were read at on inquiry by the house immigration committee. More than $7,000,000 will be expended expend-ed in alterations and special equipment equip-ment for the seven former German passenger liners, aggregating 07,369 tons, recently nlloted by the United States board for a fast passenger and mail service between the United States and South America. Prospects of a "bread strike" loom at San Francisco. The Housewives' league of San Fraucisco, just organized, organ-ized, adopted resolutions pledging all members to refuse to buy 16-ounce loaves of bread at 12c and 24-ounce loaves at 17c, the prices How effective. A showdown on profits made by bituminous bi-tuminous operators is needed for the American people to form a just opinion opin-ion on the coal situation, William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, treas-ury, declared In a statement issued at New York. Fifty 155-millimeter Schneider howitzers, how-itzers, said to be the biggest gun ever brought to the border, have been added add-ed to the millions of dollars' worth of ordinance stores at Fort Dliss. Texas. Mayor Charles E. I'oorman of Canton, Can-ton, O., suspended by Governor Cox a month ago for failure to preserve order during the steel strike in that city, has been permanently removed from office by tho governor, following u forniul hearing before the chief executive. ex-ecutive. Moose hunting was resumed In daine on November '2-1, after a suspension sus-pension of four years. The large number num-ber of these animals killed in former cars when there was an open season annually caused fear of their exter-tuiuation. exter-tuiuation. , off the east coast of Sweden, witn the loss of all the crew, according to a dispatch to Lloyds. Bumper world crops of corn, potatoes, pota-toes, barley, rye, sugar beets and rice for this year are shown in estimates compiled by the Intenational Institute of Agriculture at Rome. Twelve prominent Jugo-Slavs have been arrested and held as hostages by the Italian forces of occupation in Dal-matia, Dal-matia, according to advices received from Sebenico, thirty miles southeast of Sara. The socialist press of Paris is threatening threat-ening a general strike for Christmas in protest against exorbitant prices asked for French toys which are entirely en-tirely out of reach of the working people. The interallied commission has stopped hostilities between the Lithuanians Lith-uanians and the Gemans and Russians and has directed the combatants to retire to the demarcation line o.'t October Oc-tober 30, according to advices t c the Lithuanian press bureau from Kovno. The government has issued an order or-der restricting riu; export of fat cattle from Ireland to tho P.ritish markets to G'.tOO beasts per week. Last year ihe average number exported from Ireland was 12,o00, nnd in the last two months of the year the average rose to 11,000 a week. |