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Show O .. , y History of Past Week The News Ha ppeningsor Seven Days Paragraphed c -a James M-llugh. convicted at Oak-Iniiil. Oak-Iniiil. of criminal syndicalism, was r rciK i'il to serve from one to four-l four-l --n years In San Ouenlin penilcii-;i.')-v. This i the first conviction under un-der tin- sttite criminal .syndicalism law. The National Association for the Protection of American Rights in .Mexico has sent out for publication in newspapers throughout the country a map nnd statement showing that Tj51 Americans have been killed in Mexico since November 20, 1910. Fifteen minutes before be was to start to the gallows to die for the murder mur-der of his wife, Arthur Haensel, former for-mer soldier, was trrunfed 11 renrieve INTER MOUNTAIN. OUarles Thomas, a rancher, was shot and Instantly Willed by hlg father-ln-Charles V. Euglet, in the cellar of the la t tor's home at Lyons, Colo. formal call for the convening of the state legislature In special session ilu Salem, Ore., on January 12 was ls-ued ls-ued by Governor Olcott on Decera-Ijer Decera-Ijer 13. An automobile load of Tacomans was plunged. Into the Icy waters of (Puget sound, and one woman, Mrs. K. H. Sprague, was drowned when a car smashed through the guard gate of a drawbridge while the span was lifted. Jaiues Oakley, 75 years old, was frosen to death In his cabin at Uklah, Ore., some time Wednesday night or Thursday morning. The body was found seated In a chair. The heaviest December snowstorms 4a the history of the city of Butte halted all operations of street cars Thursday. Twelve Inches of snow fell In sixteen hours. The mercury fell from 20 degrees above zero to 12 below. be-low. Twenty-five thousand dollars Is the value fixed by a jury In the district court at Logan, Utah, upon the affections affec-tions of Mrs. L. F. Smith, in the alienator! alien-ator! damage suit brought by the husband, hus-band, L. F. Smith, against Robert Sheffield. Shef-field. With its heart lying outside the chest wall, a child weighing about nine pounds, born at Willard, was received re-ceived at nn Ogden, Utah, hospital. It is being watched by the Ogden physicians, physi-cians, who declare the case to be the first of its kind on record as far as medical works disclose. by Judge I'ain, of Chicago, who had sentenced him to die. WASHINGTON. President Wilson on Sunday intervened inter-vened in the peace treaty dilemma with the announcement that he had "no compromise or concession of any kind In mind," would make no move toward the treaty's disposition and would continue to hold the Republican members of the senate responsible for results and conditions attending delay. de-lay. The resignation of Dr. Harry A. Garfield, Gar-field, fuel administrator, sent to President Presi-dent Wilson because of his views regarding re-garding the coal strike settlement, was accepted with those of one or two of his associates. Continuation of the nation-wide steel workers' strike was voted by the conference at Washington on Sunday of the twenty-four president of unions connected with the steel industry. A proclamation by President Wilson calling on all the people of the country to give aid to the taking of the fourteenth four-teenth decennial census, which is to begin January 2, has been made public pub-lic by the census bureau. President Wilson is now permitted to walk about his room and along the adjoining hall for a. short time each day, Rear Admiral Carey T. Grayson, his physician, has announced. Advocates of freedom for Ireland, headed by Justice Cohalan of the New York supreme court, appeared before the house foreign relations committee on December 12, to urge passage of a bill by Representative Mason, Republican, Repub-lican, Illinois, to authorize appointment appoint-ment of diplomatic and consular repre- DOMESTIC. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California Cali-fornia announced formally on December Decem-ber 13 that he would be a candidate ifor the Republican nomination for the presidency. The senator said he would make a personal campaign in every state, explaining that he did not intend in-tend to have his candidacy determined by "politicians in convention." Great excitement has been caused among the less educated and older members of Indian tribes in southwestern southwest-ern Oklahoma as a result of predictions predic-tions of the world's end December 17. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president f the National Woman Suffrage association, as-sociation, In an address at New York, urged women of all political faiths to Join with male voters "equally, disgusted dis-gusted with the present political system" sys-tem" to lift the nation to a realization of the principles for which it stands. The yacht, Grey Duck, on which David W. Griffith, motion picture pro-motor, pro-motor, and a party of thirty-six left Miami, Fla., Wednesday, arrived late Sunday at Nassau, Bahama Islands, with all on board safe, four days late and following a trying time as a re-ult re-ult of storms. Vice President Thomas L. Marshall will not be a candidate either for the presidency or vice presidency in the 1920. campaign, according to information informa-tion coming from Democrat state headquarters at Indianapolis. "Twenty-four dollars and a half is a fair price for a man's suit or overcoat, over-coat, the federal price regulating commission, com-mission, working under direction of District Attorney Clyne, announced at Chlcaio. sentatives to the republic of Ireland. FOREIGN. Thre is every indication of an imminent im-minent crisis in Ireland, with the Sinn Feiners showing signs of retaliating against the Britisli campaign of repression. re-pression. Reports of sharp fighting between Mexican federal troops and Yaqui Indians In-dians at El Capitan, south and east of Buena Vista station on the main line of the Southern Pacific of Mexico, were received Saturday at Nogales. Frank Hugo, an American citizen, manager of the J. M. Dobies ranch near Muzquiz, state of Coahuila, is being be-ing held for ransom by the Villastas who raided Muzquiz. The cathedrals of Rheims will be restored within the next ten years and the work will cost 50,000,000 francs (normally $10,000,000), according to the estimate of the architect in charge. It Is announced unofficially that an agreement between Gabriele D'An-nunzio D'An-nunzio and the Italian government has been reached. D'Annunzio, it is stated, stat-ed, will leave Flume immediately, as well as his troops, who will be replaced by regulars. Prince Cyril of Coburg, second son of ex-King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, is mentioned in Budapest newspapers just received at Amsterdam as a candidate can-didate for the throne of Hungary, where a big movement for the restoration restor-ation of the kingdom is afoot. Manuel Allende Salazar has formed a cabinet to take the place of the ministry min-istry headed by Premier Toca, which resigned, says a Madrid dispatch. Results of the first year of the revo- Pancho Villa's troops, who attacked and captured Muzquiz, have been driven driv-en eut by Carranza forces, according to Q. M. Seguln, Mexican consul, who reached Eagle Pass on Friday. Regional directors of railroads have been given authvtty by Director General Gen-eral Hlnes to remove restrictions on the use of light, heat and power derived deriv-ed from coal, as soon as the fuel situation sit-uation warrants. Rather than b separated from Alexander Alex-ander Berkmau, her companion for years, Emma Goldman announced tlixough her attorney that she had abandoned her fight in the supreme court to prevent her deportation to soviet Russia with Berkman and some eighty other radicals. A charge of murder was eutered at Lawton, Mich., against Joseph C. Virgo, Vir-go, a former South Bend, Ind., undertaker, under-taker, by Van Buren county authorities authori-ties who are investigating the death of Maude Tabor. Complete blame for the killing of James Wallace, an American citizen, by a Mexican soldier two weeks ago near Tamplco, Mexico, is placed upon Wallace himself by the Mexican government, gov-ernment, in its note replying to the urgent inquiry made by the United States. High waters that have flooded low-lying low-lying sections of Alabama. Georgia and Mississippi, generally are beginning begin-ning to recede, but Montgomery, Ala., and Mucon, Ga., are still in the grip of the flood. The coal miners' strike is ended. With but one dissenting vote, the general gen-eral committee of the United Mine Workers of America on December 10 Toted to accept President Wilson's proposal for immediate return to'work pending final settlement of their wage controversy with operators by a commission com-mission to be appointed by him lution in Germany are summarized by the Socialist Monthly as comprising a decline in the value of the mark, increase in-crease In the cost of living, decreased production of coal and steadily mounting mount-ing public debts. Bolshevik attacks continue along the Esthonian front south of the Gulf of Finland and east of Narva, according to an official Esthonlau statement. Crop failures and a hard winter have added to the war sufferings of the little group of villagers at Obera-mmergau, Obera-mmergau, Bavurla, known to the world as actors In the Passion play portraying portray-ing the crucifixion of Christ, which Is presented every ten years. "There is pressing danger of a counter coun-ter revolution in Germany," said Col. Lambert Ward, M. P., on his return to London from Germany. "The Royalists Roy-alists are steadily growing in strength, and unless the kai.er is tried and exiled ex-iled he will be back as king of Prussia." Prus-sia." Francisco Gomez, a policeman, Is being be-ing tried in civil court at Mexican, Mexico, on a charge of killing Eugene Lack, an American last month. The chief members of the American peace delegation left Paris, December 9, on the first stage of their return journey to the United States. The British government does not purpose to take any special measures in connection with the fall in American Ameri-can exchange beyond continuing its policy of withholding artificial support by borrowing abroad and doing everything every-thing possible to stimulate British export ex-port trade, according to Andrew Bonar Law. Britain and France will take the settlement set-tlement of peace inlo their own hands, with Italy a subsidiary at least temporarily tem-porarily when Georges Clemenceau premier of France, nrrives at London says a cablegram!) from London. |