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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FOI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. State-wide prohibition carrlel in Colorado by a majority of 11,572, according ac-cording to the official canvass. The vote or the measure was 129,589, against 118 017. "I am theoretically In favor of union labor; practically, I have no use for it," Walter A. Curtis, president presi-dent of the Kapson Coal company, an employer of union labor, testified before be-fore the federal commission on industrial indus-trial relations at Denver. The American-Hawaiian Steamship company announces a rate on apples from Seattle to New York of 55 cents a hundred pounds by steamers through the Panama canal. Compared Com-pared with the railroad rate, the new schedule makes a reduction of 30 cents a hundred pounds. Attacked and brutally murdered in her home in .Salt Lake City, the body of Mrs. Sophia Bourazanis, mother-of Father Dorotheos Bourazanis, was discovered by the son and a friend at 7 o'clock Wednesday night, ''"he aged victim was past 75. An Industrial commission to serve without compensation as the panacea for the industrial ills of the coal fields, to which his administration will he heir, is suggested by Governor-elect George A. Carlson of Colorado. Colo-rado. j DOMESTIC. Ladc-n with a full cargo of dry goods, boots and shoes, toys and supplies sup-plies for missionaries, the American schooner Adelia T. Carleton has sailed for ports on the west coast of Africa. The pleas in abatement, made by ' William Rockefeller and seven oth-Ers oth-Ers of the twenty-one directors and former directors of the New Haven railroad, to indictments charging them with criminal violation of the law, have been dismissed and pleas of not guilty were entered instead. Of forty-seven persons shot at Naco, Ariz., during the past two months by warring Mexicans across the border, eighteen were Americans and twenty-. twenty-. nine' Mexicans. Fourteen were American Amer-ican soldiers. Five of the forty-seven are dead, one is blind, and two are in a dangerous condition. Three American cowboys, Carl Eck, William Bishop and William Spencer met their death in Mexico by being dragged by ropes behind running horses, according to the news that comes from El Paso, Texas. William Rockhill, former United States ambassador to Turkey, was taken from the liner Chiyo Maru on her arrival at Honolulu from Sau rrancisco Friday, too ill to continue m his way to China. Harvara's championship football team was produced this fall at a cost of $25,000, according to. figures announced Friday. The largest item was $7,500, the salary of Percy D. Haughton, head coach. Governor George W. P. Hunt of Arizona telegraphed Friday night to Coroner E. A. Foisom that he had made another appeal to the state department de-partment at Washington for the protection pro-tection of non-combatants on the American side at Naco, Ariz., from the Mexican fire. Relief for the destitute inhabitants of the barren Labrador region has been undertaken by the Newfoundland Newfound-land government, and the steamer Kyle is now plowing her way through the ice-laden water off the Labrador coast carrying a cargo of provisions to Sandwich bay. The National exposition at Panama, which was to have been opened on January 1 next in commemoration of the building of the Panama-Pacific canal, has been postponed until March 13, 1915. The Russian government has purchased pur-chased in New York 50,000 55-gallon. air-tight steel tanks at a cost of approximately ap-proximately $250,000, to be used in constructing pontoon bridges in their military operations. Representative-elect Joseph O. Cannon Can-non of Illinois, former speaker of the bouse, spent $3,274 in his primary and election campaigns this year, according ac-cording to his report of campaign expenses. ex-penses. From the beginning of the great war to date 1,400 amateur ..wireless stations on the Pacific coast have been closed, the better to enforce neutrality. Commercial stations have been interfered with. Eight men instead of eleven will die at Arizona's "hanging bee" in the Florence penitentiary December 19, as a result of the stay of execution granted by Governor Hunt. Girl ushers in theatres of Chicago are declared to be a failure by the municipal bureau of fire prevention. An ordinance requiring all theatres to employ men ushers has been sent to the council. All cats in Germany are to be killed to make linings for coats for the soldiers, according to information reaching SL Louis fur dealers. More than 100 pickpockets, unabl to make a living by following their vo cation, have turned temporarily hon est within the last two months and have sought work, according to rec ords made public at New York by the department of correction. William Cretin, a negro, was forcib ly taken from officers by a mob neai Coward, S. C, and lynched. Greei was arrested after he frightened sorai women who had been left alone. Panic, due to distrust of banks, hai been relegated to the museum of an tlquitles by the new reserve banking system, In the opinion of C. S. Hamlin, Ham-lin, governor of the federal reserve board, in an address at New York. Rattlesnake venom as a cure for epilepsy proved a failure in official tests conducted for the state of Kansas. Kan-sas. This is said to have been the first authoritative attempt to curf epilepsy with rattlesnake poison. David Lamar was found guilty at New York of Impersonating Representative Represen-tative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania for the purpose of defrauding J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Unitei States Steel corporation, and was sentenced sen-tenced to two years' imprisonment. WASHINGTON. One effect of the European war, which treasury department officials are beginning to appreciate, is the opportunity afforded to gather accurate accur-ate lists of Americans living in Europe Eu-rope who are subject to the income tax. The office of director of the reclamation recla-mation service will be abolished on December 10. The offices of director direc-tor and chief engineer will be consolidated, consoli-dated, with Chief Engineer A. P. Davis in charge. Director F. H. Newell New-ell will become consulting engineer. Secretary Daniels has announced that a supplemental contract has been signed with the 'San iFrancisco Bridge company for completion of the great naval drydock at the Pearl Harbor naval na-val station, Hawaii. Work on this dock was suspended nearly two years ago when the bottom heaved. The Italian embassador has lodged a protest against the Arizona law, which requires at least 80 per cent of certain employees in that state to be American citizens. The British embassador already has protested for his government President Wilson, it is said, wants a law enacted applying to all industrial indus-trial disputes, similar to the New-lands New-lands act, under which many threatened threat-ened strikes on railroads have been averted. Interlocking directors in banks and trust companies not having common ownership may serve out their terms, provided they do not extend more than two years after the final passage pas-sage of the new Clayton trust bill, according ac-cording to a decision of the federal reserve board. FOREIGN. Experts estimate that the Germans lost two-thirds of their army in Poland Po-land in the recent fighting in the re-gion re-gion between the Warta and Vistula rivers, says a dispatch from Petro-grad. Petro-grad. Two hundred members of the French parliament out of the total of S97, are serving with the army. Three hundred thousand youths of 18 years in France who normally would begin service in the army in October of 1916, are by government decree to be called to present themselves them-selves for examination beginning on the 20th of this month. It is reported that there are 30,000 wounded persons and 60,000 refugees in Servia, who are in grave need of assistance. According to an unofficial announcement announce-ment made at Berlin a number of transports, escorted by British and French warships, have reached Anti-vari, Anti-vari, the sole seaport of Montenegro. Provisional President Gutierrez and General Villa are in Mexico City and several of their military chiefs have gone to Cuernavaca to discuss with I General Zapata and his officers the ! distribution of forces in the capital and vicinity. News that the Suez canai is in no immediate danger from an Arab raid is contained in a dispatch from Cairo ' Reconnaisance have failed to discover dis-cover any hostile bodies in the vicinity vicin-ity of the canal," says the message. General Christian De Wet, the backbone of the South African rebellion, rebel-lion, who was captured on a farm at Waterburg in British Rechuanaland, has been brought to Vryburg under a strong guard. An attempt to escape made by a thousand prisoners in the concentration concentra-tion camp at Lancaster, England, was thwarted by the guards, who charged the mobs with bayonets, wounding several. General Villa has entered Mexico City at the head of 25.000 soldiers, declaring that his only mission is to restore peace, and that foreigners wil'. be protected. Count von Moltke, chief of the German Ger-man general staff, is said by the Yos-siche Yos-siche Zeitung to have completed the cure at Homburg, after an illness of several weeks. He has left Homburg to return to the front. The French parliament has been called to meet in extraordinary session ses-sion at Paris on December "2. The members of the French cabinet are ij !eave Bordeaux next week for Paris, where they will put themselves at the disposition of the finance committee com-mittee of the chamber of deputies. Telegraphing from Amsterdam, the correspondent of Renter's Telegram company says that one son of M. de Broqueville, the Belgian premier, has been killed in battle, and it is rumored ru-mored that a second son also has lost his life in action. |
