| Show this space M much aa complete history of the past week told in paragraphs prepared for the busy reader intermountain hugo D benisch president of the banner chemical company Is a fugi tive in new york according to the police at denver who state that he will be returned to salt lake city on a charge of swindling samuel new house out of 0 a the alamosa alamona river valley ot of south tw western estern colorado has been flooded causing considerable damage to farm lands and a large volume of water Is reported coming don donn the river as the result ol 01 the breaking of the be he adgate valve of the alamosa alamona reservoir dam near capulin the town af chugwater Chug water a place of about inhabitants fifty miles north of cheyenne practically was destroyed by fire december 13 no cas are reported i deeds were placed on file at lewis ton toil idaho for the sale by the lewis ton clarkson improvement company tor for its electric power plants and arri gation system to the ida ho ater light power company recently organized by liggett aich born co of new york and boston ithe the consideration was ben den kuhl edward beck and wll wil J liam mcgraw gamblers who have been in jail at twin palls falls idaho for a week on suspicion of baring having mur dered fired fred W searcy stage driver S were bound over without bail ball by jus y tice yewell on a charge of first de gree murder upon motion of tue special prose j enter the states state s case against A S ainsworth Ams worth 0 aner of a thompson falls mont newspaper charged with miss edith colby a reporter with the kill ng or of A C thomas a politician was dismissed in superior court DOMESTIC the executive budget system of maryland the only state with such a scheme of financial control was given general approval in a discussion at the ninth annual governors conference the national city bank of new york city the largest banking institution in the united states will hereafter be conducted by a committee of five sub managers who will attend to a large part of the business now devola lu aig on the president labor s movement for an eight nour day has been inaugurated among new 1 york yorks s clothing workers with a strike f which coming as the city s second great garment industry disturbance during 1916 will throw more than 60 persons out of work with official returns from only a if fa few states missing it was said a prohibition national headquarters at chicago that the dry vote november 7 would come within 4 or 5 ether e ther way ot of for president and for state officers out of 0 the shaft of the meyer coal company at pittsburg kans rans loo men were dragged to safety one by one less than two to hours after the mine was wrecked by an explosion of black damp twelve men were killed the executive committee of the na dional retail grocers association di dl reeled a petition to president wilson from chicago asking him to do his ut most to bring the european bell ger ants together the y of charles E hughes over woodrow wilson in new york state was according to figures compiled by the governor governors s office force and made public tuesday david caplan is on trial at los an geles charged with complicity in the murder of charles haggerty one of twenty employees killed when the times building was destroyed in oto O to ber 1910 two city firemen were killed and another injured so badly that he may not recover as the result of being caught by fall fill ng walls while fighting fire at toledo ohio miss virginia tayloe lewis a de ascendant ant ot of george washington s sis ter and a relative of francis scott key died at baltimore she was bora born seventy four years ago oscar samuelson who lived with a broken back at a chicago hospital tor for more than ten years is dead the issue of whether the government should pay the expenses incident to the in jury Is pending in congress samuel son was hurt while working tor for the federal reclamation service near cody wyo the baltimore ohio railroad has issued notices that it had placed cm em bargnes on all grain consigned to its elevators at baltimore either for domestic or export delivery army men in el paso and elsewhere on the border have taken the mani festo issued by pancho villa before he lie left chihuahua as a declaration of war against the united states and are making preparations accordingly says an el paso correspondent howard de weese confessed atchi at chi cago that he murdered his wife in salt lake city they lived two doors from the county jail mrs de weese was killed september 20 last and was buried obscurely de weese now bays says he killed her for 10 worth ct of diamonds fx ernest 0 G strond strand socialist mafoi E ahoi of two harbors arbors Tl mich and re presen dative elect from that district was ai rested and brought into the district court to answer to indictments re turned against him for accepting bribes to permit the operation of b md ind pigs carranza Carran zas s action on the protocol sidnea at atlantic city by the can american joint commission will be submitted to the american corn com missioners at a meeting in philadel phia december 18 another grand jury investigation ol 01 the villisca Vil lisca iowa ax murders in 1912 when joe moore and his family and two young women guests were killed 1 in n their beds with an ax may be had washington congress will recess over the christ mas holidays from december 22 to january 2 robert N harper president of one of 0 washington s banks has been se lecter as hallman chairman hall man of the inaugural committee for the ceremonies march 4 1917 the house judi judiciary elary committee has voted to recommend adoption of the resolution to submit a constitutional amendment forbidding the magulac ture and sale of liquor for beverage purposes in the united states woman suffrage advocates won a partial victory jn their long fight to have the susan a anthony federal amendment voted on in congress when the house judiciary committee report ted the measure for consideration without recommendation the immigration bill containing the restrictive literacy test tor for admission of aliens which has caused three dents to veto such a measure was passed by the senate 64 to 7 senator willard saulsbury of dela ware was the unanimous choice of the democratic senate caucus for dent pro tempore to succeed the late senator clarke of arkansas headed by miss jane addams a delegation of the woman s peace par ty was heard before the house judi clary committee tuesday urging the susan B anthony amendment tor for suffrage the peace FOREIGN proposal of the central powers Is regarded iby by the russian government as an attempt to court public opinion and encourage the people of germany by appe appearing aring to put puts the responsibility for the continuation of the war upon the entente allies edmund of was elected president of the swiss aeration for 1917 by a tote vote of out of the votes in the swiss national nation 1 assembly A bill aas has been introduced in the french chamber of deputies confer ring upon the government the large powers outlined by premier briand to take measures for the national defense by decree instead of asking the au theorization of parlia parliament meat in each in stance total prohibition throughout france of the ton of such alcoholic beverages as whiskies brandish brandies and liquors has been decided on by the government this is shown by the text in the journal official of pre mier briand s declaration before the chamber of deputies on the subject despite its blatant and arrogant tone chancellor von bethmann holl weg s peace speech offers us much encouragement when considered from a military standpoint said general frederick D maurice chief director of military m gitary operations at the british war of office flee while it is practically settled that no safe conduct will be issued by the entente allied governments to count the newly appointed am cassador bas from austria it is also con fl dently expected that he will be per bitted to pass through the blockade lines col LUIS comaduran the chihuahua rancher who asked carranza for per mission to pursue francisco villa be cause villa followers had his two daughters will be sent to the gur rero aero district of western chihuahua to fight the villa forces there A warsaw dispatch says archduke charles stephen of austria has been selected to be regent of poland with the prospect of election as king later A conference of technical experts of the various entente nations to con rider sider uniform legislation regarding trademarks patents and markings in di cating the origin of imported goods Is being held jn in pans paris adolfo de la huerta has tendered hia his resignation as governor of sonora and first chief carranza has accepted it according to advices received from hermosillo premier briand announced to the chamber of deputies that he had de aided to ask parliament to enact legislation providing tor for a further lestric tion in the consumption of alcoholic alcohol io beverages throughout france A record achievement is chronicled of a german submarine which has re turned to its base after fifty five days at sea without entering harbor or receiving outside assistance of any form says a berlin dispatch the weather gene generally Tally was bad the london times editorially demands retaliation it if the Ger germans manEr harm captain blackie of the british steamer caledonia taken prisoner after hia his ship had been bunk by a german sab sub marine matine villa troops are axe reported to have captured mapuni a mining town in the state of durango southwest of tor reon A note has been addressed by ger many and her allies to the entente al lies making proposals tor for peace and it appears the path is now open tor for mediation I 1 1 |
