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Show Mr-. Jane Johnson. C" yett.rs of has bi-i -n tlwti-d sh'-riff of RuS'-onim.'.n com, ly, Michigan, succeeding her Im-:-biind. Mrs. Johnson lias announced mm Hhi- can land a bad man or a bad uornaii lo-rsi-lf, if necessary, but us a precautionary measure she will appoint ap-point her husband as her deputy. Edna Kllis, aged IS, a stenographer, was found mysteriously slain in a clump of weeds In a vacant lot In St. Louis. Her throat had been slashed and a broken razor was found by hr body. Robert Taft. son of former President Presi-dent William Howard Taft, will be a member of the Cincinnati delegation In the Ohio house of representatives In the new legislature elected Tuesday. He will take his seat when the legislature legis-lature convenes early in January. Socialist headquarters at Chicago expressed ex-pressed satisfaction over the showing the party made in Its effort to elect Kugene V. Debs president, although he is in Atlanta prison for violation of the espionage act. WASHINGTON. It is announced that President Wilson Wil-son has directed Secretary Daniels to place a battleship at the disposal of President-elect Harding for his contemplated con-templated visit to the canal zone. There will be a woman in Presidentelect President-elect Harding's cabinet in the event the department of public welfare is created cre-ated by congress as recommended by Harding. The last vestige of government control con-trol over sugar has been removed through signature by President Wilson of a proclamation providing for revocation revo-cation November 15 of licenses held by wholesalers, refiners, exporters and importers. im-porters. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer has advised in a telegram from U. S. District Judge A. B. Anderson at Indianapolis In-dianapolis that an investigation of the attorney general's connection with the case against 125 coal mine operators and miners would be made when the case is called for trinl in the federal court on November 8. Mr. Palmer was was invited to be present on that date. Private operation of the railroads for the first six months after the end of federal control will cost the federal fed-eral government a ' total of $656,000,-000, $656,000,-000, according to figures made public by the interstate commerce commission. commis-sion. Senator Borah of Idaho issued a statement from Washington saying: "I regard the election as the triumph of nationalism and the death of the NEWS Of II WEEK If! CONDENSED F01 RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. hppnlnfl That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe an aiven in Few Lino. INTERMOUNTAIN. The street railway strike at Denver bas come to a close, the men who were but having made application to return to tholr positions. Klglit persons were killed and scores Injured during rioting that occured while the strike was in Progress. Hoy scouts and citizens are searching search-ing the foothills In the vicinity of Bait I.ako City for the body of Miss prances Korous, a nurse, who disappeared dis-appeared October 17, sill theories as to her dlsappearnneo except foul play having been abandoned. Charged with robbery and attempted attempt-ed niurdcr at Grand Junction, Colo., Bud said to be wanted for murder at Kansas City, Mo., Roy Bell, 29, was arrested at Salt Rake. ICioling which broke out late Tttes-' Tttes-' flay night In the village of Auburn, Wu.sh., was renewed Wednesday, when returns Indicated decisive defeat for the radical clement there. A mob of BO men was reported to have raided poolrooms, ejecting their occupants, nd openly defying Town Marshal Mc-Cumber. Mc-Cumber. An Information charging Betty Bralnerd and George T. Stagg with kidnaping Baby Stagg from the home pf his mother at Tacoma, September 14, was llled in superior court at Tacoma Ta-coma on Wednesday by the prosecuting prosecut-ing attorney. Parley Chrlstensen, presidential candidate, can-didate, In n statement given out in Bait Lake, declared that the results of the election were satisfactory to the Farmer-Labor party. He asserted that the next light would not be between Republicans and Democrats, but between be-tween Republicans and the Farmer-Labor Farmer-Labor organization. DOMESTIC. league of nations." FOREIGN. Premier Lloyd George, questioned in Hie I louse of commons as to plans for punishing the former emperor of Germany, said his pre-election pledges had not contemplated making war on Holland to force Wilhelm's delivery to an international cvurt. The Kaiser is probably enduring as severe punishment punish-ment in Holland as he would in prison, declared the premier. Tension in Cork has increased with reports of widespread raids by the military forces. On all sides it appears to be taken for granted that further tragedies are bound to occur, and Irish and British are preparing themselves to meet them. The steamer Zenable, flying tho red flag and freighted with ammunition for the Turkish nationalists in Trebi-zond, Trebi-zond, was sunk in the Black sea off Batum, by a French destroyer. Twenty-two Twenty-two members of herr crew were taken prisoner. The Turkish offensive In the direction direc-tion of Erivan, capital of Aremnia, has been broken by the Armenian troops in a decisive battle at Igdir, 27 miles southwest of the city, according accord-ing to dispatches. Canada's export livestock trade has shown remarkable development in the last few years, according to government govern-ment statistics. Live cattle exported last year exceeded 500,000 and were valued at $50,000,000, a sum equal to the combined values of live cattle exported ex-ported in the five previous years. The latest summary of the Scottish liquor polls' shews that 149 districts have decided to make no change, 24 favor reduction of licenses, and IS will go dry. The Berlingske Tidende's Kovno correspondent cor-respondent says that Moscow newspapers newspa-pers received in Kovno record an official of-ficial announcement of the discovery by the Soviets of plans for a big counter-revolution. The volcano of Izalco, 10 miles north of the city of Sansouate, republic of Salvador, has broken forth in a new eruption. Great quantities of lava are being discharged on the northern slope of the mountain. The Moscow garrison is in revolt, according to Russian agency messages from Helsingfors. The dispatches add that Communist troops are hurrying to Petrograd and Moscow to suppress the revolt. Communication with Petrograd Pet-rograd was said to be suspended. Bombs dropped by Polish aviators over the town of Yilkomir, forty-five miles northeast of Kovno, Lithuania, killed or wounded a large number of persons, says a dispatch from Kovno. Dispatches from Fukuoka, on the northwest coast of Kiu Shiu island, report re-port the discovery of a plot to attack high personages during the forthcoming forthcom-ing annual army maneuvers. Ten Koreans Ko-reans were arrested there on a charge that they were in the possession of bombs. More interest was created at Mexico Mex-ico City by the American elections than by the elections held in Mexico last September, when General Alvaro Ob-regon Ob-regon was chosen president. There was a reception at the American club, and all foreign clubs held open house. Officials of the Atchison, Topeka ft Santa Fe railroad have announced that contracts are being completed for the flellvery of $18,000,000 worth of new rolling stock to the system. Fifty locomotives, loco-motives, 2000 refrigerators cars and 500 coal cars are included. " A strike of shoemakers which began at the factory of the Thomas G. riant company at Boston on May 13, 1919, In an effort by labor unions to enforce el closed shop, was ordered to cease in an injunction granted by the superior court on Friday. Four bandits held up a bank messen- ev in Chicago and escaped with, a latchel containing $41,000 in Libprty bonds and coupons, in addition to f257,000 in negotiable checks. Co-operative purchase of farm iup-plies iup-plies by farmers' business organisations organisa-tions will be taken up by the Farmers' Farm-ers' National Grain Dealers' association associa-tion at a convention at Chicago, December De-cember 2 and 3. The other major subject sub-ject will be the co-operative selling- ni grain. Congressman A. J. Volstead, Republican Repub-lican of the Seventh Minnesota district, author of the prohibition enforcement act, has been re-elected on the Republican Repub-lican ticket after a close fight. The first merchant steamship flying the German flag to come to the port of New York since July, 1914, arrived November 3. The vessel, which marks the resumption of trade with Germany tinder the flag of that country, was the Bophie RIckmers, a steamer of 4863 tons, built in Germany during the war. For the first time in the history of any Florida town, St. Petersburg went Republican by a majority of 278 votes. Harding carried seven of the precincts. President Wilson's home district at Princeton, N. J., the Seventh election district, was carried by Senator Harding Hard-ing by more than 2 to 1. Governor Cox had 145 votes, while Harding had BIS. George W. Stevens, president of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, died at White Sulphur springs, W. Va. Stevens Stev-ens was born in Ohio in 1S51, and was one of the most prominent men in Virginia. Vir-ginia. Five negroes were burned to death and another hung to a tree as a result re-sult of a light which started at the polls at Ocoee, Fla., after election oft ficials had refused to permit a negro to vote. Fewer persons were killed on the railroads in 1919 than in any year since 1S9S, and fewer were injured thau in any year since 1910, according to a statement by the interstate commerce com-merce commission. President-elect Harding plans to take a real vaeatiop trip, which will give him two weeks of seclusion on the Texas coast and a week of scouting scout-ing in the Panama canal zone before he goes seriously to work choosing his cabinet and mappiug the work he is to do after March 4. Mrs. Laura Baker, the mother of seven children, has been arrested at Ogden, Utah, charged with having poisoned her husband, tvho died last July. The police allege that Mrs. Baker Bak-er bought the poison in Idaho shortly |
