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Show )i'!'ic;;ii reluin- mY: t!::lt :l!l st:it; I .-ni'n'i-:i : ir eb-cti,r in Ki-n: t. :;y won I in llii- prt-sM'-!ii ial eliM-::un. Sl.'Trly alter the election mmf fiend P'luni.' iii . I : I 1 I . -ri SOIne Uepllbl icall electors had been rho-a-n and that Kentucky would east a split vole in the electoral college. Sixteen men were drowned in Che.s-utifook Che.s-utifook lake, in thehearr of the lumbering lum-bering di rict -of Maine, when a motor boat took fire. Many leaped overboard over-board when efforts to .subdue the fire failed, ami were drowned. I'cnnis Chester, accused of killing Florence Barton, a Kansas City society so-ciety girl, was captured four miles south of Oconto, Neb., after he hart escaped from officers. Chester was alone and unarmed and offered no resistance. re-sistance. WASHINGTON. Kocent suggestions that payment of the Doc-ember l.j installment of income and excess profits taxes should be postponed were strongly discouraged by tin; treasury in a statement which declared "that no change should be enlertained which would render uncertain un-certain tin; bulk of the government's tax receipts." It. W. Boiling, brother-in-law of President Wilson and treasurer of Die shipping board, was named in connection connec-tion with a .$4,0.01)0 bribe alleged to have been paid by a Staten Island shipbuilding company to procure unusual un-usual favors from the board, in testimony testi-mony before the congressional committee com-mittee investigating shipping board affairs. af-fairs. Bankers and business men throughout through-out the country are urged in a prospectus pros-pectus made public by the American Bankers' association to consider inauguration in-auguration by the first of the year of the foreign trade financing corporation corpora-tion under the Edge act for the protection pro-tection of home industries and proper financing of American foreign trade. Itemoval from France of the body of one of the unidentified American soldiers sol-diers killed in the war for burial in a memorial crypt in Victory hall, New York, will be asked of Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels by a committee representing thS Victory Hall association. FOREIGN. An international military force, with an international staff, was proposed to the assembly of the league of nations na-tions Saturday by Senator Henri La Fontaine of the Belgian delegation. Senator La Fontaine had somewhat startled the assembly by declaring that the world was not yet ready for disarmament. Newspapers at Stockholm declared Sunday that President Wilson probably will be awarded the Nobel peace prize. Differences between Great Britain and France do not amount to a quarrel, quar-rel, and the views of these two nations have in no way prejudiced the alliance alli-ance which held them together during the war, said Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain, in an interview at London. EJ History of PastWeek WTIB II im !! Illl Will II ! The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed -LJ INTERMOUNTAIN. Yee Gow, Chinese murderer in Jail at Cheyenne, broke his hunger strike of six days when he ate a hearty meal. At Hie conclusion of Ills feast lie iiegged for more food, but was refused. re-fused. Gow killed two white men several weeks' ago. Leslie C. Stalling', formerly United .Stales land commission at Encampment, Encamp-ment, Wyo., has been found guilty of nibezzlement of government funds in his care. Representatives of the Western Pacific Pa-cific railroad bought the properties of .1) i Denver & Rio Grande railroad at forccolsure sale at Denver. The sale price was !fr,,0(MI,lllO cash. The purchasers pur-chasers also agreed to assume ?141,-ITfi.IKH) ?141,-ITfi.IKH) obligations of the Itlo Grande. Joe O'Brien, alleged slayer of two men, one at Gary, Incl., and the other at Cheat Haven, Pa.r is said to have boasted he never would be taken alive. .Sheriff D. C. Oakley went to O'Brien's cabin in the Cumberland Mining camp, .Wyoming, wailed his chance and entered en-tered (lie cabin, placing O'Brien under arrest before O'Brien knew what happened. hap-pened. The trial of the stale vs. Victor and Virgil Daniels, charged with the murder mur-der of Roscoo Dorsey at Wallowa, February 33, resulted In a hung jury. The Daniels brothers are under 14 years of age. Willi Portland experiencing a crime wave that probably unprece lenied for thlj city, and charges before Mayor Baker that some of the police officers offi-cers are in collusion witlt vice, the city's police bureau is in a turmoil. Immediate investigation has boeu ordered or-dered by the mayor. Refusal to permit postponement of the sale of Colorado property of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, was announced in a decision by the circuit cir-cuit court of appeals at St. Paul, Minn. DOMESTIC. The Socialist-Labor party has reported re-ported campaign receipts of $1S,000 tvp to November 12 and expenditures of $10,146. The report to the clerk of the house of representatives stated that loans and donations had been made to party activities in Oregon, Michigan, Kentucky and Washington. August Pascal, alias Pasquale, "The Crank," In the Coughlin kidnaping case, was sentenced to life imprisonment imprison-ment by Judge Swartz at Norristown, Pa. Bascule had pleaded guilty to second sec-ond degree murder and kidnaping for Premiers Georges Leygues and David Lloyd George of France and Great Britain probably will meet in London soon for a conference which is considered necessary because of the serious situation in the Near East. A staff of experts will, it is understood, under-stood, take part in the meeting. Two hundred and fifty emigrants bound for the United States are stranded at Cherbourg, France, penniless penni-less because the ocean steamship tickets provided them by the supposed agent of a navigation company in Paris proved to be forgeries. A commission of silk manufacturers from China will attend the international interna-tional silk exposition in New York next February to demonstrate Chinese processes. Admiral Coundouriotis resigned as Greek regent November 19, and was succeeded by Gueen-Mother Olga. Immediately Im-mediately a message to the Hellenic people was issued by the new regent, announcing she has assumed office in conformity with the constitution "on account of the absence of my beloved son, Constantine." In honor of 11.062 employees who fought in France, 1100 of whom were killed in battle or died of wounds, the Canadian Pacific railway will erect a statue of bronze in its stations at Montreal and Winnipeg. TTTe town of Balbriggan, Ireland, was virtually destroyed by British "black and tans" because two of their number num-ber were shot in a bar room brawl, John Perham, an official of the town, testified before the unofficial American Ameri-can commission on Ireland. A mob of about 1000, said to be mostly laborers, attacked the city jail in Nogales. Sonera, hurled stones, cursed Mayor A. C. Villasenor, who was a prisoner in the jail, and threatened threat-ened to hang hint. The crowd did not break into ti e jail, however. The illness of the former Empress Augusta Victoria, of Germany, has again taken a critical turn, and the former for-mer Crown Prince Frederick William is said to have madd a hurried trip from Wieringen to her bedside. The Italian chamber of deputies by a vote of 2-10 to 10 has granted women the suffrage. Striking Mexican coal miners who seized the mines in the Montclova district dis-trict of Coaluiila have notified all Americans to leave the district. No Americans have been victims of violence, vio-lence, but there is an exodus toward the border. Cher thirty Korean women members mem-bers of the -Great Korean Women's association have been arrested in connection con-nection with the Korean independence movement. extortion. Nine persons were killed Saturday In a fire which swept a tenement ' house in Harlem. All breweries manufacturing beer .' containing more than one-half of 1 y per cent of alcohol will be sei.ed by - . . the federal government, it was indicated indi-cated Saturday at the bureau of internal in-ternal revenue. One man is dead and several injured ns the result of a fire which swept-the swept-the Savoy hotel at Detroit. The hotel was occupied chiefly by sailors and dock workers. More than 100,000 American legion officers will be elected between now and the first of the year in the approximately ap-proximately 10,000 posts of the American Amer-ican legion, it has been announced at legion national headquarters at Indianapolis. In-dianapolis. Mrs. Mary Tierney, who shot and killed Kay Dunlap, aged 27, her son-in-law, on September 24, has been acquitted ac-quitted by a jury at Omaha. Mrs. Tierney shot Dunlap when he came to her home to ask forgiveness after eloping with her lS-year-old daughter. daugh-ter. The making of toys has increased fivefold in the United States since 1013, according to W. A. Coleman, a director of the toy manufacturers of the United States. In 1913 this country coun-try was turning out ?20,000.0O0 worth of toys yearly and today the business has reached the $100,000,000 mark. District Attorney Mathew Brady of San Francisco Is quoted as having said that if the courts should order a new trial for Thomas Mooney, now serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary as a result of the preparedness pre-paredness parade bomb explosion in 3916. he probably would move that the case be dismissed and Mooney be freed. Mail bandits boarded a train between be-tween Des Moines and Council Bluffs, Iowa, and rifled two insured parcel post mail sacks in the "storage" car. No estimate of the amount of loot has been obtained. Six men i.Pd one woman, officials and employees of the Consumers' Packing company, were given lieavv fines and prison sentences by Federal Judge Evans at Chicago, as a result of their conviction of conspiracy to ire the ni'iils to defraud. Evidence showing that more than a quarter million dollars' worth - of whisky, brandy and sacramental wines have been illegally withdrawn from bonded warehouses in Los Angeles An-geles has been developed by government govern-ment officials in close touch with tin sit mil io- |