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Show History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o o Beverages containing wood alcohol or other poisonous ingredients have caused the death of approximately twenty persons in Augusta and Richmond Rich-mond counties, Georgia, during the past four mouths. ' Four arrests have resulted im investigations in-vestigations into the death, of more than fifty persons in the Connecticut valley sinee 'hristuius jroin drtlikiug wood alcohol contained" in u mix We sold as whisky. Members of tv.eive western cattle growers' associa1. mis have appealed to President Wilson through former Secretary McAiloo. to upset the arrangement.- initio liy Attorney General l'iilnier lo compromise i lie government's govern-ment's antitrust proceedings against the meal puckers. WASHINGTON. President Wilson observed his sixty-third sixty-third birthday quietly on December 2S, much improved in health, surrounded surround-ed by the members of his family, with the exception of Mrs. W. G. McAdoo, who was unable to lie present. An increase of 82.2 per cent in the cost of living for American wage earners between .Inly, 1914, and November, No-vember, 1919, is shown in a statement issued by the national industrial conference con-ference board. With the reconvening of congress it is expected that action of some kind will be taken to prevent the German ships now in New York harbor from passing Into the final possession of Great Britain. Dissatisfied with the progress made toward solution of the peace treaty tangle, senators of both political parties par-ties have begun to bring greater pressure pres-sure on their party leaders for a compromise com-promise to insure ratification promptly prompt-ly on the reassembling of congress early in January. Rear Admiral William F. Fullam, retired, lias received from the emperor emper-or of Japan the decoration of the Order Or-der of the Rising Sun. Admiral Fullam Ful-lam commanded the allied naval forces on the Pacific coast during the war. President Wilson on December 24 issued a proclamation returning the railroads and express companies to private contrU March 1. The state department has taken steps to place a tighter embargo on arms and munitions to Mexico. FOREIGN. , A millinery shop, to recoup the fallen fal-len fortunes of the Russian nobility, has been started in Paris by Princess Olga Eristoff, the famous painter, called the most eccentric woman in the world. A general strike is planned for February Feb-ruary by the so-called triple alliance, composed of railwaymen, miners and transport workers, it is reliably reported report-ed in London. One man was killed and one woman wo-man nnd five men, including two policemen, po-licemen, wele injured at Havana, during dur-ing a clash between the police and a crowd engaged in a demonstration against the high cost of living and excessive ex-cessive house rents. News has been received in London of the discovery of a sixty-mile ridge of gold near Kalgoorlie, in western Australia. It is the longest gold-benr-ing formation ever found in history. Two men are reported killed and three arrested after a sensational attack at-tack on Lord French's home, the vice regal lodge, in Phoenix park, Dublin, early Sunday morning. The strike on the Argentine State railroad, which begun in the province of Jujuy in the extreme north, has extended to the provinces of Santa Fe and Salta and the territory of Chaco. A common ground on which to base joint action in Siberia has been reached by the United States and Japan, Ja-pan, according to an announcement given out by the Japanese official publicity bureau. Five additional communists have been sentenced to death at Budapest, including Eugen Lasclo, author, journalist journ-alist and lawyer. Nine others have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. im-prisonment. The avalanches at the mountain resort re-sort of Davos, Switzerland, caused terror ter-ror among residents and visitors and resulted in several deaths.. One huge avalanche swept down upon a sanitarium, sani-tarium, smashing doors and windows on the first and second floors and killing a Russian woman and her nurse and seriously injuring several others. Knighthood in the order of the British Brit-ish empire has been conferred by King George upon Capt. Ross Smith, the first aviator to complete an airplane air-plane flight from England to Australia. Aus-tralia. Adherents of former King Manuel are preparing for a coup de'etat to regain the lost throne of Portugal, according ac-cording to information reaching London. Lon-don. When the shipping trade again settles set-tles down to normal conditions it will be found Japan's competitive capacity has been considerably more than doubled by the war. In the long run, Japan will probably be a more formidable for-midable competitor than America, says the London Daily Express. Gabriele D'Annunzio is reported to have abandoned command at Fiume, according to a dispatch received from Rome. The dispatch adds that the poet-soldier is on the high seas.' The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' association asso-ciation has decided, through Its trustees, trus-tees, to refuse to accede to the full schedule of demands presented by the Japanese cane laborers, following their convention at Honolulu. Joseph Czerny nnd thirteen other terrorists, accused of excesses during the Belli Kim regime, were executed at Budapest, December 22. INTER MOU NTAI N. Governor Davis has Issued a call for a special session of the Idaho legislature, leg-islature, to meet in Boise February 11, for the sole purpose of ratifying the suffrage amendment to the federal constitution. An attempt at jail break was made nt the Pueblo, Colo., Jail. The, escape of the prisoners was frustrated by shots fired by one of the guards, seriously ser-iously wounded an miuate by the name of Jewell, said to lie a ringleader, who probably will die. General Richard Willard Young, leader of many diverse activities of Utah, lawyer, soldier, churchman, public-spirited citizen, died Saturday night at a Salt Lnke hospital following an operation for acute appendicitis. A. A. Kenworfhy. packer, and his son, Glenn, aged fi. were burned to death at Seattle. Firemen said the position of the bodies indicated the father lost his life In attempting to save the child. Jack Graham, escaped prisoner from the Utah state prison, was captured while he was eating dinner in a Rifle, Colo., cafe. Three poolhalls, a grocery store and a shoe repair shop at Helper, Utah, were destroyed by fire on Christmas. It Is reported that fighting has broken brok-en out between union and nonunion miners nt the company's mine at Wilke-son. Wilke-son. Wash. The governors of Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Colo-rado, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming Wy-oming will meet in Denver January 10, to formulate a course of action to be taken by the states in the move to have turned over to the commonwealths common-wealths the public lands and to make recommendations for a constructive irrigation program. DOMESTIC. A negro named Green, charged with the murder oj. R.. M. Brown, a white man, was taken from the police by a mob at Franklinton, N. C, and dragged two miles behind an automobile and the body then hanged to a tree. In a short address to Boy Scouts of Lincoln, Neb., Gen. John J. Pershing commended their efforts during the war and told them the future held opportunities op-portunities for continued activities. Six men were arrested at New Haven, Ha-ven, Conn., in connection with the sale of wood alcohol "whisky" which they are alleged to have shipped from that city to Chicopee, Mass. A request for troops to protect workmen nt the Minnequa plant of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company at Pueblo has been received by the governor gov-ernor of Colorado. Wood alcohol sold as whisky has caused seventy-five deaths that were known on December 27, and has blinded blind-ed so many persons that all track has been lost of their number. The greatest great-est mortality from drinking wood alcohol alco-hol occurred in Massachusetts, where fifty-seven died. Thirteen died in Hartford, Conn. Chicago had four victims vic-tims and New York several. Twenty thousand employees of the Western Union Telegraph & TeleT phone company will receive salary Increase In-crease amounting to $5,000,000 on January Jan-uary 1. Federal agents have arrested five New York men whom they claimed to be the heads of an organized band which has been responsible for the recent widespread sale of wool alcohol concoctions through five states. Thirty-five deaths have resulted from the drinking of liquor bought in Hartford, Conn., and drunk in Chicopee. Chic-opee. Holyoke and Hartford, Mass. Seventeen men and one woman died in Chicopee," ten men in Hartford and four in Holyoke. Brig. Gen. William Ruffin Cox, one of the ranking officers of the Confederate Confed-erate army, died December 20, at Richmond, Rich-mond, Ya., aged 78 years. General Cox was credited as having been the last Confederate officer to cease fighting at Appomattox courthouse, prolonging the fighting for some time after General Lee had surrendered. Inhaling the dust arising from $10,-000 $10,-000 worth of opium and heroin which he was dumping into a bag from drying dry-ing pans at the plant of the New York Quinine & Chemical company, Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, after he had broken into the place, John Schuntdki collapsed on the bag and died. Gen. John J. Pershing on December 24 became a member of the American legion, uniting with Lincoln, Neb., post and being honored by the issuance issu-ance to him of card No. 1 Four men with police records all over the country escaped from jail at Toledo on Christmas by an attack by six turn upon deputy sheriffs, one of whom was shot. Scores were hurt on Christmas day when fully one thousand "reds" marching march-ing up Fifth avenue, New York, as a protest against the activities of the United States in deporting extreme radicals were scattered again and again as squads of mounted police charged the paruders who would scatter scat-ter only to reform their line and inarch on. |