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Show MEWS OF A WEEK If CONDENSED FORM ' RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Miking HlotorJ Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe n Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. 'I'. W. MrClaln, a rancher of Artesian Ar-tesian Cll.v, Idaho, eoniiiiil led suicide by shooting himself through lue le ad. MeCbiia, who Is reported to be weullhy, leaves a large family. A lone bandit held up ;md robbed two tii:.ie;il, drivers at J)enver, after which lie drove Ihe cars lo (he suburbs, where Ibey were abandoned. Tin; holdups hold-ups were' committed an hour apart, unit the robber .secured about $100 for bis trouble. .Montana ami northern Wyoming coal miners, after three days in conference Willi representatives of the operators of both slates, gained a flat wage increase in-crease of $1.0(1 a day for men and cents for boys, effective from ;.ug. 10. Seven boys of Salt Lake Lake City, ranging from !) to 1,'! years of ago, admit ad-mit that members of their gang had commuted two safe robberies anil a Many residents of Riverside, Cal., fled from their beds in their night clothes when that .section was visited by an earthquake on September 10. While the quul.e was of siilTii ieiit violence vio-lence to awake the sleepers, it is assorted as-sorted that, there was no damage done to properly. Indiana voters who registered September Sep-tember 4 as being "Ul years old. plus," in.sicad of iviii tlu-ir specific age-:, must either register again or lose their votes In Hie November election, according to a ruling of the board of election commissioners. Carrying a crew of four men and a 1 (JOO-pound torpedo, a Marion bombing bomb-ing plane filled with torpedo (.'ear Wednesday flew from Washington to Voiktown, Pa., a distance of 1--J miles, In til minutes. A minimum price of $.'i a bushel for wheat was uracil and millers who profiteer were condemned in resolution resolu-tion adopted by the 800 wheat growers of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Nezraska, meeting at the cull of Maurice Maur-ice McAuliffe, president of the Kansas Farmers' union. WASHINGTON. More than l.'i.OOO merchant marine officers have been graduated from tin; shipping board's training schools since their establishment three years ago and 72 per cent of the graduates have been 'licensed for service at sea on records of the board's recruiting service. President Wilson in a proclamation urges state governors to set apart Saturday, Sat-urday, October 9, as fire prevention day and to request a general observance observ-ance by the public. Corn prospects, imnroved during half dozen daring burglaries. 'The police bad believed a skillful gang of safe robbers were operating. Ted Irvin, aged 17, of Colorado Springs was instantly killed when a revolver dropped out of bis pocket while ho was returning home on bis molorcycle. The gun was discharged, the bullet entering his heart. Madeline Menckley, aged 1G, daughter daugh-ter of Mrs. Josephine Menckley of Itock Springs, Wyoming, fell dead at liedding, Cab, wldle singing beside a piano. She was Visiting relatives there. DOMESTIC. Nine members of the carmen's union un-ion at Brooklyn have been indicted as n result of rioting on August 31, when a hoy was killed by stones thrown by members of a mob, it being charged that the men under indictment were guilty of throwing stones that caused the boy's death. Iowa Is to have a woman candidate for congress, Mrs. Ilattie T. ITarl, of Council iiluffs, having announced that she will make the race as an independent indepen-dent candidate, although the Farmer-Labor Farmer-Labor party has endorsed her candidacy. can-didacy. AU Members of the Chicago club of the National league have been, together togeth-er with the club officials, summoned to appear before the grand jury as withesses in the investigation of al- August and promised on September 1 a crop of 3,131,000,000 bushels, the department de-partment of agriculture has announced. an-nounced. Army recruiting again broke all peace-time records in August, according accord-ing to a statement by Adjustant General Gen-eral Harris, showing 19,242 enlistments enlist-ments for the mouth. July enlistments enlist-ments were 15,821. FOREIGN. Recurrence of earthquake shocks in Italy, where hundreds are reported to have been killed, are said to have been responsible for numerous deaths, although the districts affected were not so large as those previously vis-ifed vis-ifed by earth tremors. Latest figures show that at least 500 people have been killed as a result of the different differ-ent shocks, while at least 3000 were injured. Disorders in Ireland seem to be on the increase, Sinn Feiners being engaged en-gaged in ambushing policemen and soldiers, while police are said to be conducting reprisals, the result being a state of civil war in which the average aver-age citizen finds himself In danger no matter which way he turns. As a refill t of ail explosion at the artillery ar-tillery depot at Mariensel, Gerany, 23 persons were killed and two laboratories labora-tories and a number of munitions sheds blown to atoms. The explosion, was the result of nn noeirlpnr while leged baseball gambling, it having been charged that members of the team "laid down" in order that gamblers gam-blers might reap a harvest. Olive Thomas1, moving picture actress, ac-tress, wife of Jack Pickford, died at a hospital In Paris, September 10, as the result of slow poisoning, having swallowed a poisonous solution by mistake. Congressman John J. Esch, Republican, Repub-lican, one of the autlrors of the Esch-Cuiumins Esch-Cuiumins railway bill, was defeated for renoniination iu Tuesday's primary pri-mary in the Seventh Wisconsin district. dis-trict. Retirement of preachers from the ministry because their pay is poor was deplored by Bislwp V. F. McDowell McDow-ell of Washington, D. C, addressing a conference at Omaha of Methodist ministers of Nebraska. Georgia may furnish the first test of the nineteenth amendment to the federal constitution. Denied the right to ballot in Tuesday's election, Mrs. Mary L. McLendou, a suffrage worker, work-er, has appealed to Secretary of State Colby for instructions. A bandit held up the First State bank at Uvaide, Tex., and escaped in an automobile with $Go00. Decided improvement in the car situation situ-ation was indicated by figures made public by the car service commission showing that IHi-WoG freight cars were loaded during the week ending August Aug-ust 21. This was the heaviest car movement for the year. When Peter Vidovitch, G5-year-old charity guest of the municipal lodging lodg-ing house died in a hospital in New York, it was learned that he was possessor pos-sessor of a fortune exceeding $125,000. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt had a narrow escape from v . death at Joplin, Mo., while preparing for an airplane flight, which was to take him to Yinta, Okla., and to Tulsa to fill speaking dates. Entering 'another 'an-other machine after the accident, he had a second narrow escape when the plane fell. The flammenwerter or firethrower first used in the recent war by Germany Ger-many may be used at Calgary, Alberta, to exterminate the web beet worm which is playing havoc with local gardens. Robert Harron, widely known motion mo-tion picture actor, died in a hospital at jNew-York from a wound inflicted when he accidentally shot himself on September 1. He was unpacking a trunk at his apartment there when a revolver wtich he was taking from a coat pocket fell to the floor and was discharged, shells were being unloaded. Thousands of leaflets warning Turkish nationalists that if they do not yield at once, Greek forces will occupy occu-py Constantinople, are being distributed distribut-ed through Anatolia by Turkish government gov-ernment airplanes. The American steamer Siboney is aground in the harbor of Vigo, Spain. The forepart of the vessal is resting ou the rocks and it is feared she will be a total loss. The passengers have teen landed, without accident. A volcanic Crater has opened up at the top of Pizzo d'Ucello, a mountain 5S45 feet high, about nine miles northeast north-east of Spezia. It is located on what apears to be the northwest corner of the district shaken by the earthquake, which has caused so many deaths. Efforts continue to bring about a solution of the situation which has arisen throughout Italy as a result of the movement among metal workers to occupy plants In many of the most Important industrial centers. Russian soviet forces, aided by German Ger-man and Hungarian war prisoners, have recaptured Orsk, where, as in other towns of western Siberia, the peasants recently overthrew the Soviets. So-viets. The Bolsheviki also are in possession pos-session of the northern portion of the railway along which fighting has ben proceeding, but they are isolated and without food. Resolutions favoring prohibition were rejected by the Anglican synod in session at Adelaide, South Australia. During debate on the resolutions one of the speakers, the Rev. Mr. Walker, said : "Prohibition is anti-Christian and the idea of American cranks." A tragic scene was enacted at Marina Ma-rina near Carrara, Italy, when the earthquake shattered a church where mass was being celebrated. Father Frigotti, the pastor, had just raised the chalice iu the most solemn of the service when the ceiling of the edifice fell upon the congregation, killing many of those who were worshiping. The body of Nathaniel Davis, a former for-mer lieutenant in the American army, has been found on the banks of the Rhine. Some bruises were found upon his body, but his money and jewelry were intact. The cause of his death is a mystery. Hundreds of lives have been lost, thousands injured and many homes destroyed de-stroyed by earthquakes in Italy. The shock was a severe one and reports from cities in the earthquake zone show that buildings crumbled beneath the strain of the convulsion of the earth. |