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Show John Wngner, a molder of Milwaukee, Milwau-kee, has been notified Unit he has been left tin estate valued at $500,(100 by the will of Mrs. Otto Burlinganie, who died recently at I'.uffalo, N. Y., in return re-turn for his having saved her from drowning at Rock Island thirty years ago. Incendiarism was responsible for the fire which destroyed the Royal hotel at England, Ark., causing the death of seven persons and the serious injury of five others, "according to the verdict of a coroner's jury. Authorities of Long Beach, Cal., announce they have under surveillance and expect: to arrest soon a suspect in connection with the murder of James Grassino, wealthy Italian "pool hall king" of Flint, Mich., whose mangled body was. washed ashore in Long Beach on November 4. WASHINGTON. A comprehensive program for revision re-vision of the federal tax laws estimated esti-mated to yield annually the $4,000,-000,000 $4,000,-000,000 which Secretary Houston has said the treasury required, has been filed with the house ways and means committee by the tax committee of the National Retail Dry Goods association. associa-tion. Conditions in Cuba, which already are receiving the attention of President Presi-dent Wilson and the state department, have been engaging senate study and it is possible that the senate committee commit-tee will visit the island at once. Investigation of the cases of all persons per-sons now serving sentences for violation viola-tion of the espionage act, including that of Eugene V. Debs, to determine whether the facts warrant recommendation recommen-dation for pardon, has been started, it was stated Friday at the department depart-ment of justice. o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed Q INTERMOUNTAIN. A lone robber, who entered the establishment es-tablishment of the Utah Savings & Trust company, at Salt Lake, held 'up H. J. Timmerman, paying teller, secured se-cured between $4000 and .$4500, mostly in twenty-dollar bills, and shot at Fred M. Michaelsen, cashier, w'ho attempted attempt-ed to prevent his escape. Petition for a rehearing in the case of Isom White, 19 years old, Everett, Wash., sentenced to die for the muroei-of muroei-of Lee Linton, taxicab driver, has been filed with the state supreme court at Olympia, Wash., the constitutionality of the law restoring capital punish.-ment punish.-ment being attacked. A combination bill covering the open shop and industrial court measures will be introduced in the state senate at Denver by Senator Hugh R. Steele, he announces. The bill would abolish the public utilities commission and establish es-tablish an industrial court fashioned after the Kansas court. Strikes, boycotts boy-cotts and lockouts will be made illegal and the panalfey for violation by employes em-ployes would be a fine of $1000 and a year in jail ; for employers, $5000 fine and two years in jail. Notice that "the lid is' on and it stays on," was served on Montana law enforcement officers by Attorney General Wellington D. Rankin, who assumed office January 3. John Foster, a convict who escaped from Folsom prison, California, last week, was captured at Reno, Nev., as he was boarding a moving train. As the sheriff seized him. Foster fell and broke his collar bone. Colorado's twenty-third general assembly as-sembly was sworn in at noon on January Janu-ary 5. The state supreme court has declared de-clared constitutional the soldiers' bonus bill, passed by popular referendum referen-dum at the November election in Washington. Wash-ington. The decision, will permit payment pay-ment to service men of $15 for each month they served during the war. A total of 2,325,000 workers are out of employment in the country, according accord-ing to a survey of the industrial situation situ-ation made by Clint C. Llouston for the current issue of Labor, official organ of the Plumb Plan league. Mr. Houston asserts that his inquiry disclosed dis-closed the greatest industrial slump since the money panic of 1907. John Burke, treasurer of the United States, has announced his resignation, effective on the appointment of his successor. Mr. Burke was appointed treasurer in March, 1913. FOREIGN. Gabriele d'Aunuuzio, it is alleged, intends to remain in Fiume. This statement is based mainly on reports that he has sent to Venice for a large wardrobe of civilian clothes and has requisitioned one of the largest villas in Fiume. The population of the island of Veglia has revolted against the Italian government , troops and proclaimed a "Croatian republic," says a Central News dispatch from Rome, quoting an Abazzia message to the Messagero. Three soldiers were killed in the uprising. up-rising. A train of thirty-one carloads of American Red Cross supplies valued at $100,000 arrived Sunday at Budapest Buda-pest from Paris for distribution among the hospitals and destitute children. Twenty-three coal miners are impris-! impris-! oned in the lower galleries of a pit in the Locaroliua coal fields, which are afire, says a message from the governor gover-nor of Jaen province, Spain. He fears all the men will be lost, as the pit i is not equipped with adequate fire apparatus. ap-paratus. Six thousand Greek refugees, at Batum Trans-Caucasia, tb.eir clothing worn to sheds, are "living like wild animals in dens" and dying at the rate of from thirty-five to fifty a day, writes Dr. W. E. Rambo, a Near East relief worker of West Philadelphia, Pa., in a report from the Black sea port received at New York. Alexander Kerensky, former Russian premier, has summoned thirty revolu- : tionary leaders to meet at Paris in an attempt to unite all anti-bolshevik fac- tions. Eamonn cle Valera, "president of the Irish republic," is reported to have been invited to come to London to confer con-fer with the prime minister, David Lloyd George, says the Westminter Gazette. DOME8TIC. After kissing his wife and four children chil-dren goodbye, Sidney Smilev. 31, farmer, far-mer, living six miles west of Lewis, Iowa, went to the barn and hanged himself. He is said to have been mentally men-tally depressed because of reduced prices for farm products. . With 250 other candidates, President-elect Harding on January 8, at Columbus, Ohio, became a member of the Mystic Shine. Following the ceremonies cere-monies Senator Harding presented the Aladdin temple band, composed of local lo-cal Shriners, with a silver cornet which he played in his home town band as a boy. Hereafter women in the Zion, 111;, tabernacle will appear with unpow-dered unpow-dered noses or Overseer Volivia will lecture them and slap their faces'. This edict was delivered Friday. Harry Marquard, proprietor of one of the best known cafes in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, was taken to the county jail Friday to serve a six months' sentence following his plea of guilty on a charge of selling liquor in his establishment. estab-lishment. Woolgrowers from fifty Michigan counties have decided to establish a pool for their 1921 clip, in order to obtain a better price than now offered. Police officers, municipal or state as well as federal, are in duty bound to make arrests for violation of the national prohibition law, according to a decision rendered by the Third district dis-trict court of appeals at Sacramento, Cal. Lieutenant James B. Owens of Baltimore, Bal-timore, an officer in the Philippine scouts, ended his life at Manila. It is believed that fear of a court martial, because of absence from his command more than a week without leave, prompted the act. Six persons perished, two others probably will die and three more were seriously burned in a fire which destroyed de-stroyed the Royal hotel at England, Ark. For the third time within a year the New York state assembly has been asked to expel the Socialist representation, represen-tation, which -this year includes three members. Four resolutions, demanding demand-ing that the seats of Charles Solomou and Henry Jager, members from Kings, and Samuel Orr of the Bronx be declared vacant, were offered by Republicans. J. A. Coleman of Manhattan, Kans., Is displaying eighty-five pearls, varying in size, which he declared he found in a single oyster shell. The oyster was in a lot purchased at a local market. All records for paid-up membership in the United Mineworkers of America Amer-ica were broken in December, when 55:!, 205 workers met their dues, according ac-cording to a statement made at the organization's headquarters at Indianapolis. Indian-apolis. Flashlight danger signals are to be placed at street intersections in Philadelphia Phil-adelphia as additional safeguards against accidents at night. Volume of traffic through the Panama Pan-ama canal during 1920 established a new high record, exceeding that of 1919 by approximately 50 per cent. France has a surplus of coal large enough to supply all her economic and domestic needs for six months, it was stated by both governmental and commercial com-mercial officials. Contracts with American coal companies for more than $100,000,000 worth of coal have been concluded, the authorities said. Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish Turk-ish nationalist leader, has sent an ironical message to David Lloyd George thanking the British government govern-ment for "assisting" the nationalists. Great Britain had, in fact, done so, he points out, by furnishing Armenians with 40,000 rifles and war material, which the Armenians, he says, surrendered sur-rendered to the nationalists under the peace treaty. German music was played Wednesday Wednes-day night at the opera in Paris, which is subsidized by the French government, for the first time since the outbreak of the war. The performance per-formance was Wagner's "Die Wal-kuere," Wal-kuere," and every seat was occupied. Gregorio Perfecto, editor of La Xa-cion, Xa-cion, organ of the Democratic party, was sentenced at Manila, T. I., to two months' imprisonment for a conviction on a charge of having criticised members mem-bers of the legislature. An appeal of Sylvia Pankhurst from a sentence to six months' imprisonment imprison-ment for attempting to cause sedition in the navy was dismissed with costs Wednesday at London. Miss Pankhurst Pank-hurst was released November 3 on 2000 bail, pending appeal from the sentence, which was Imposed October 2S. |