Show BRIEF REVIEW F A WEEKS EV E RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT happenings IN ITEMIZED FORM home and foreign news gathered from all quarters quarter of the world and prepared for busy men intermountain charles IV fulton former united states senator from oregon and tor for many years a prominent figure in state slate politics died sund sunday ay at ills home in portland after a long illness aged 64 four were killed hilled and four injured near wyola mont when a freight train on the chicago burlington quincy railroad crashed into passenger train no 44 en route to denver from hillings billings mont ilont matthew Matt liew a german was arrested at seattle carrying photographs on its ills person of two western fortifications amos B anderson a ranch much owner of willard Wll lard colo killed himself with a 8 shotgun at his sisters home near buxton buston iowa ile he was CS years old jack dempsey utah heavyweight who has recently been camping on the trail of jess willard Wll lard knocked out homer smith at racine WIs in the first round of a scheduled ten round battle As a result of heroism displayed by george L brunn of st mattes maries idaho in may 1917 when lie he lost ills his lifo life in the attempt to save dolly mckinley 9 0 years of age from drowning a medal award has been given to ills his IV widow and three oliree children the award was made by the carnegie hero clero fund commission DOMESTIC the alie Decess necessity ity of arousing state and county officials to their responsibilities in assisting the government break up lip the manufacture of moonshine whisky is urged upon the governors of prohibition states in a letter from internal revenue commissioner roper three were killed and forty injured when an illinois central passenger train from omalia omaha to chicago was derailed near granger III any concerted attempt by bakers to increase the price of bread will be prosecuted assurance to this effect was given at the food administration monday following reports that bakers of chicago were planning to raise prices the first war patients to arrive from france readied reached baltimore saturday and are at the united states general hospital fort mcinenry McI Tenry A total of sixty men fatty one enlisted men seven officers and two nurses are now at the fort A pledge to dispose of in war s savings stamps this year was given by the superintendents of the metropolitan life insurance company at the annual dinner of their convention at new york the people of america went on a war bread diet monday as a part of a war rationing system prescribed by president wilson and the food administration victory bread the food administration calls it german atrocities have been minimized times to once where they have been magnified members of the republican club at new york were told by capt it P I 1 simmons Si a united states military observer in germany during the mobilization naval auxiliaries have started in an investigation vesti gation to determine the cause of the explosion that wrecked three concrete bomb proofs at the naval torpedo station at newport it L I 1 causing the death of twelve civilian employed emp loyes and injuring seven others after expelling industrial workers of the world from membership in the organization it if there are any the united mine workers in session at indianapolis went on record as favoring the taking over of the coal mines by the government on condition the union in men en had the right to make collective bargains the government will take over SO 30 per cent of all the wheat hour flour milled in minnesota in order to secure sufficient supply for export to our alues allies the state food administration has announced noun Oun ced discovery of impurities in candy supplied to canteens of navy ships hns has caused the issue of an order suspending the sale of candy to the men inen and also albo the purchase of additional supplies pending investigation charles SI 11 schwab president of the bethlehem steel corporation declared in an address at a dinner at new york that the time is near at hand when the men of the working class the men without property will control the des dunles of the world seventy nine plen pen are arc believed to have perished in an explosion in the allan shaft of the acadia coal com banys collieries colli eries at Stel stellarton larton K N S fighting b between tween mexicans and american sold soldiers lers guarding the border ts Is reported from south ot of el paso bishop james mcgolrick tor for twenty seven years head of 0 the duluth minn diocese died suddenly ot of acute ind gest lon charles krattiger a silk worker acting secretary OR of the I 1 W W at paterson N J was arrested wednesday night on a federal warrant from froin chicago where lip he was indicted several weeks ago for conspiracy against tile the band government with NV william illiam D II aywood and others appointment of mrs mr ellen ogrady IL a widow with three daughters as fifth deputy police commissioner of new york was announced monday she Is hi the first woman ever to hold such an office in gotham recommendation that president wll wit son use its ills good offices to induce california authorities to bring about a new trial of thomas 3 mooney in case the california supreme court sustains his conviction for complicity in the san francisco bomb outrage hns has been made by the presidents mediation commission indications of n widespread plot to cripple activities of 0 the united states were seen saturday in a series of fires in shipyards shipyard on ships in war plants find and storage buildings at various points along the atlantic seaboard find and further farther inland washington america will have an army of half a million in franco france early this year with a million and a halt half more trained and equipped ready to follow as quickly as ships can be provided to carry them and the outlook for ships is not unpromising declared secretary baker in a statement before the senate military committee on monday creation of a half billion dollar government corporation to make loans and advances to enterprises essential to the war and othera otherwise ise assist in private financing has been recommended to congress by secretary mcadoo representative frantz frank 11 woods of iowa was elected at the republican house caucus as chairman of the republican congressional campaign committee tile the vote was unanimous congressman eugene black of texas broke all precedents saturday and set officials gasping when lie returned to the treasury left over from ills his alon for clerk hire william G mcadoo director general of railroads on january 27 issued peremptory orders to railroads and officials off to cut off from payrolls all legislative railroad 1 lawyers supernumerary lobbyists hobbyists useless railroad literary associations political payments and all passes intrastate as well aa interstate settlement of the industrial dispute threatening a strike in the count rys ten largest packing house centers was effected sunday in an agreement providing that there shall be no discrimination against union members find and that questions of hours and wages shall be referred to an arbitrator appointed by the secretary of labor FOREIGN british casualties during the week ending january 28 were these figures represent the virtual cutting in huilt of of british casualties as 03 compare compared with the previous week when nere ere reported the long iong threatened revolution lu ILI finland lias has begun in the alie eastern provinces according to sparse reports reaching Ila the red guard Is 18 reported to have occupied the railroad station at all the foreign consuls have left the capital and sharp fighting Is reported around and in viborg the steamship cork has been torpedoed seven passengers and five members of the crew were lost says a london dispatch the cork was torpedoed without warning the torpedo struck lier her amidships and she sank in five minutes many of the passengers bere iere M ere in their berths at the time the alie russian kussian government commissioners announce that diplomatic relations with rumania have been broken and that the Ru rumanian mardan legation and all the rumanian representatives at petrograd Petro erad grad will be sent out of the country by tile the shortest route A berlin dispatch to the weser says that the cabinet desired a vote of confidence by the but at a joint meeting or of the hie various parties friday the matter was wrecked by socialist opposition light eight thousand kilograms of explosives were dropped by french airmen upon the industrial works ot of hafen and freiburg on saturday observation planes penetrated nearly twenty miles behind the front the national russian of soldiers and work mens deputies to which uie the bolshevist government referred lie hie question of war expenses lias has authorized foreign minister to continue the lle peace negotiations at brest Lito bk a Petro petrograd grad dispatch reports the chinese Clil nese officials at have cut off all exports ot of goods to russia Ilus sla thus accentuating the food shortage in that country the russian kussian frontier authorities have filed a protest threatening to suspend the operation of 0 the chinese eastern r railway a rumors humors of disorders in Barcel barcelona nn spain are confirmed by reports reaching madrid N which state that group of women started riots demanding cheaper food prices the cunard line steamer andarin was torpedoed but not sunk off the ulster coast sunday morning says tile the irish dally daily telegraph major general leonard wood was wounded Sunday in france lie was tile the victim of 0 an accidental explosion one aim was slightly injured reports of disturbances in germaey again are current in rolland holland and severe outbreaks are said to have occurred in the It beinish industrial districts troops with machine guns guas have been summoned to Wuel heim on tha th rhine opposite cologne but there are no details the carranza government in mexico ie ico and the cantu rebels in lower lover california have each offered japan a naval base in fix their respective I 1 territories in return for japanese financial support tills this information comes through unofficial sources |