Show W OF A WEEK IN OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE happening that are making history information gathered from all quarters of the globe and given in a few line A 1111 providing for double election baird one board to receive ballots and another board to begin counting at I 1 p in on election das has been introduced in the washington legislature three ches were lot and consider able damage was caused in the mining town of laan wash vv hen a great jam of loga and debris loosened by flood waters swept down the cannon of eat creek and carried the entire settlement pett lement with it resolutions opposing government ownership of the railroads and urging curly return of the railroads to private luider adequate federal regula alon favoring federal licensing and regulation of packers and but opposing government ownership af marketing facilities advocating un eversal military training and endorsing the federal woman suffrage amend ment were adopted at the closing aces slon at denver of the twenty second annual convention of the american rational live tok association cattlemen contributed aj to alie american lied cross through auction of a herd of 1033 li elfers at the denver stock how by lied cross chapters ih apters of wyoming and colorado the average price was 1550 a liun ired of a soldiers sailors ond council by ing shipyard and metal workers w appeared the predominant development in the shipyard strike at DOMESTIC mrs clara sears hot and killed glicr alve children and then attempted to take her own life t the home at sherman S D misses glad s and dorothy croni well sisters of new lork leaped aiom lie rail of the ia rench steamer la tor the stunner was in the ga ronne river bound foi ew york both ft ere drowned brig gea t ahlet 0 cm bar katon for the lias sailed from ew york for london to work out with lord heading british ambassador to lie united states a financial settlement for american troops carried to I 1 ranee in british during the war the chicago alock island pacific hallway company has terminated its litigation with the colorado vm railway and on payment of will own outright a halt inter in the brazos valley railway with a permanent outlet to the jault ports weather bureau officials declared that records show less enow to have fallen in new york city thus far than during any previous winter since records have been kept although it Is not the warmest winter two soldiers out of every thousand who fought with the american army lost an ann or a leg ali airty eight industrial workers of the world have been sent to leavea woi aai from sacramento to corn t serving prison of from one 0 o ten ears after being convicted of c ai piracy to obstruct the govern men war program acts of heroism were recognized by the carnegie hero fund commission at its fifteenth annual meeting held at nearly all the recipients of medals were east cm era leaves 0 absence from the ameri can arav in I 1 ranee are hereafter to be granted on u more liberal basis in addition to the previous regulations seven davs leave every four months four classes of other leaves will be granted james G blaine jr of providence II 11 I 1 has retired as director of the department part ment of development of the abuy lean lied crosa tx become a vice president of the liberty bank of isea york calmly referring to the next war major gedral leonard wood made a marong appeal before a joint session of the kansas legislature for B system of universal training tor national deft nse I 1 of a labor bureau to study and report on all industrial problem of the trade was authorized in a resolution adopted at tho twenty third annual convention of the rational association of clothiers Clo thiers held at new york more than of skins were old fold f at st louis at the opening of u nine day fur auction called the largest on record buyers from all of the united states were present after many of them had a allne hours before the event to gain a point of vantage a crowd around the en 0 the federal building s blocked traffic on two streets monday a deputy united states marshal bottles of whiskey solved ab from a steamer at ban recently losses of the division hanaa Ka and missouri national guard killed and died 0 wounds during its entire service in prance up to november 7 w ere awa A decision of the superior court held the ordinance closing the theartres theatres the atres at rstockton cal as an influenza pre measure Is legal theatre owners and members of the churches of christ scientist brought the legal action thomas I 1 smith mavor of palla dilphia Is on trial tn alie common pleas court charged with misdemeanor in office and violation of a state law prohibiting hi the p of era in politics A liue gun costing find having a range of miles was shrunk at the X 1 arsenal on january 22 the process of shrinking was witnessed b the mavors of troy and nearby clues and many other officials and invited gueits washington after a week of spirited debate the senate b a vote of 53 to 18 passed the bill appropriating for food relief in europe and the near east louis P swift president of swift co told the aliouse interstate commerce committee that the food administration in stabilizing the live stock market had accomplished wonderful things both for the producer and consumer and that its control was needed now as much as ever railroads in 1918 under government control and unusual war conditions earned about or less than in 1917 less than in the record sear of 1910 and about the same as in 1915 A bill introduced by representative radall of california prohibitionist to define the term intoxicating liquor as used in federal laws says it containing alcohol in any degree whatever wh ateer america s exports the vear 1918 amounted to G ato or below the total for the preceding ear and more than double the value of imports the import total was compared with 2 in 1917 FOREIGN the german social democracy polled more than votes in the elections of january 19 according to the as in the last reichstag elections twenty added mandates would give them an absolute working majority in lie national as fort eight officers of the american air ervice and one officer of the medical resen e corps w lio served in italy have been authorized by the italian minister of war to wear toe italian ser vice ribbon tl war department wag informed last week the body of kosa luxemburg the leader who was killed by a mob recently has been found in the landwehr canal according to a report from berlin the boda was terribly mutilated three american mine owners of clil haukau II olmes mathewson and deavitt were captured recently by pancho villa and released after alicy had given up a supply of powder and listened to a lecture from the bandit on better pay and shorter hours for their employed emp loyes according to from lisbon alie situation is developing ad for the government the mon archlest cause Is gaining many abher ants in lisbon and Is rapidly extend ins the field of operations to the north revision of the calno japanese treaties of 1015 signed after the presentation sen tation by japan of her twenty one demand will be asked at ahe deac conference by the chinese delegation A campaign against jewish residents ts til in several south amert can cities billboards in buenos alres hav e bein covered with alie inscription down ath the taws in the discussion of labor problem which will come before the peace con ferenac fere it Is that the british la bor leaders are preparing proposals to be handed to the conference the glnn rein assembly met at the mansion house at dublin january 21 the assembly stood while a declare alon of independence waa read an the establishment of an irish republic and demanding alie alon of ireland by the british carrl sons it Is provided in the draft of the proposed new german constitution that the president of the empire Is to be elected by the entire german people and that hla term shall be sev en v ears ahe chancellor will be appointed by alie president and be responsible to the chamber the final statement of the russian bolshevik government for 1918 according to a retrograde dispatch shows eliat the expenditures for the bear were rubles and there would be a probable deficit of owing to the inability of the government to collect the property tax the air commission all meet in carls shortly to settle the big problems connected with the aerial traffic of alie world technical exports of the various powers are engaged on plans to be submitted to the commission president carranza Is n manifesto restoring all confiscated property to th owners throughout mexico according to an tir tide published tn la a mexican dali at TH puso opposed to car ranza and credited to au I 1 mexico cov |