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Show A bandit entered the Graven' la-tttt in St. Louis county, Missouri, t-aij, after locking the cashier and hia s.a-! sistant in the vault, robbed the caal drawers of $1,000. He was arrested before he could make his escape. Frank J. Terrell, an aviator, was killed at Chesterfield, S. C, while making a flight at a county fair. His a'-roplane collapsed at a height of COO feet. Seven sailors on the Russian bark Thomasina, which was completing a grain cargo at San Francisco, mutinied, muti-nied, locked the first and second mates in a cabin, drove the captain ashore and conducted a reign of terror until police reserves arrived in a harbor patrol launch and subdued them. A movement to obtain uniformity in workmen's compensation legislation legisla-tion was initiated at the conference of governors at Madison. Wis. After one of the warmest sessions ever held by the New York State Federation Fed-eration of Women's Clubs the delegates dele-gates in session at Binghamton declared de-clared in favor of woman suffrage by a vote of 227 to 72. WASHINGTON. A number of election contests are expected to occupy the early attention atten-tion of the next congress. Brigadier General Hugh Scott has been selected by President Wilson to be chief of staff of the United States army upon the retirement of Major General Wotherspoon. Monday, November 23, has been fixed as the date for the evacuation of Vera Cruz by the American forces. Housewives need have no fear that their tables will be without Thanksgiving Thanks-giving turkey on account of the federal fed-eral quarantine in various states against the livestock foot and mouth disease. The department of agriculture agricul-ture has explained that the disease does ont affect poultry. Embassador Page has reported from London that Great Britain for the present is unwilling to modify the embargo em-bargo on the exportation of wool from Australia. Officials of the treasury department are seeking to lay the groundwork for a vigorous and nation-wide campaign for the detection of income tax dodgers and the collection of unpaid taxes, which some authorities believe may amount into millions. Another fight over a rivers and harbors har-bors appropriation bill is in prospect for the coming short session of congress. con-gress. FOREIGN. HEWS OF II WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM .ECORD 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. INTER MOUNTAIN. Major Frank M. Foote, sovereign grand inspector general of the Masonic Ma-sonic lodge for Wyoming and Idaho, died in Denver following an illness of several months' duration. Lack of a standard market for wool in the United States was deplored by D. O. Thompson of Chicago and other oth-er speakers at the convention of the National Woolgrowers' association at .Salt Lake. Fire which destroyed the Nevada theater and sixteen homes at Tonopah on the night of October 29 was the work of Boris Thomasen, II. McGuck-en McGuck-en and Roy Russell, all Industrial Workers of the World, according to a confession which the police say Thomasen Thom-asen has made before three witnesses. The industrial relations committee will begin an investigation of the Colorado Col-orado coal strike situation at Denver December 1. With the count virtually completed Tuesday the majority against the bill prohibiting capital punishment in Oregon Ore-gon was 700. It is not believed the remaining re-maining precincts will change these figures materially. Daniel A. Canfleld, a contractor and mining operator of Greeley, Colo., was overcome by a stroke of apoplexy on the street in New York and died on the way to a hospital. DOMESTIC. Thomas Stone, aged 24, who was a messenger for the United States Express Ex-press company, was arrested at Chicago Chi-cago charged with stealing jewelry from the parcel post and blaming the theft on his rival for the hand of a girl residing at Fort Smith, Ark. Former Senator William Lorimer pleaded "not guilty" to a charge of wrecking the La Salle Street Trust tc Savings bank, Chicago, of which he was part owner. The National American Woman Suffrage Suf-frage association, in convention at Nashville, Tenn., refused to restrict its legislative work the CQming year to efforts toward obtaining passage by congress of the Bristow-Mondell amendment. A mortgage for $500,000,000 executed exe-cuted by the Northern Pacific Railway Rail-way company in favor of tne Guaranty Trust company of New York was filed with the register of deeds at St. Paul, Minn. Complaint that governors as a rule do not have sufficient power to remove re-move subordinate state officers and were therefore subject to adverse criticism because of the acts of underlings un-derlings was voiced at the governors' tomerence by Governor Elias M. Am-, i.ions of Colorado and other state ex-tcutives. ex-tcutives. An international clearing house which will adjust the credit and deoit lalances of all the nations of the world is certain to be established as tt result of the present war, said John J. Arnold, a Chicago banker, in an riddress at Philadelphia. John Evans and William .Schreiner, coal miners, who had been imprisoned imprison-ed for four days behind a huge fall of coal in a mine in which they were working at Pottsville, Pa"., were rescued res-cued alive. Mrs. Daisy McLauren Stevens of Brandon, Miss., was re-elected pres- ident-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the general convention con-vention at Savannah, Ga. General George F. Dick, a brigadier general in the civil war and leader of the historic charge of the federal soldiers sol-diers up Missionary ridge, died at Bloomington, Ills., aged 86. John F. Braun, who called himself the Rev. Dr. Schiller, divine healer, was sentenced at Freeport, Ills., to four years in the federal prison at Fort eLavenworth. Braun pleaded guilty to using the mails to defraud. Constitutionality of the anti-prize fight amendment adopted at the recent re-cent election as part of California's penal code will be tested, it was announced an-nounced Thursday, on the ground that it is class legislation. The measure meas-ure allows amateur four-round boxing matches. Mora than 100 resolutions dealing wltii the many problems of union labor, boycotts, jurisdictional differences, differ-ences, the European war and the social so-cial welfare of workmen, have been presided to the American Federation of Labor convention at Philadelphia, for its consideration. Ignorance on the part of housewives Is responsible in large measure for the high cost of living, in the opinion of Mayor Mitchell's food supply committee com-mittee in New York, of which George W. Perkins is chairman. J. P. Morgan & Co. on Wednesday moved into the building erected for their exclusive use at the southeast corner of Wail and Broad streets, New York City. The cost of the building and ground is estimated at $o,0U0,0nii, and the building is believed to be the tin st expensive Rt-ucture of its kind in the world. The cost of the war to France in November was $182,154,504, a daily average av-erage of more than $6,000,f.00. The daily average for the first three months of the war was $7,000,000. The navy receives an extraordinary credit of $S55,000. A dispatch from Rome says that the steamer Citta dl Savona, which sent out a wireless S. O. S. call when 150 .miles off Catania, Sicily, saying she was on fire, has arrived at Catania. The fire was extinguished by soldiers on board. The "Japanese fleet" reported to have been seen off the Chilean coast appears now to have been the German Ger-man squadron which is cruising near Valparaiso. The report that Japan-I Japan-I ese warships had been seen near Punta Carranza is denied officially. A thrilling encounter between eight aeroplanes, four German, two French and two British, occurred in the vicinity vi-cinity of Ypres. The German machines ma-chines were destroyed finally by artillery ar-tillery and the eight officers they carried car-ried were killed. France and Great Britain have warned Ecuador and Colombia in vigorous vig-orous terms that violations of neutrality neu-trality by those countries will not be tolerated. The 11,000-ton steamship Novgorod of the Russian volunteer fleet, the first regular passenger ship of the service that is to be established between be-tween Vladivostock and north Pacific ports, has arrived at Vancouver. General 'Francisco Villa is converging converg-ing his entire army at Lagos, midway between Aguas Calientes and Quare-taro, Quare-taro, according to General Pablo Gonzales, Gon-zales, commanding Mexican forces at Quarettaro, who still affirms loyalty to General Venustiano Carranza. In the eastern arena the Russians have occupied Johannisburg, East Prussia, and in Galicia the siege of Przemsyl has been resumed. Russia also reports favorable progress against the Turks in the Caucasus. Premier Asquith, according to report, re-port, will ask parliament at an early date to give its sanction to the raising rais-ing of additional troops to the number num-ber of 1,000,000 for war service, thus bringing the total up to 2,000,000 men. The Petit Journal says that Duke of Brunswick, son-in-law of the kaiser, has been lost and that search among the dead and wounded in France and Belgium has not revealed any information infor-mation regarding him. The Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, Eliz-abeth, which took refuge at Tsingtau before that port was invested by the Japanese, had eight members of her crew killed during the Japanese attack at-tack on Tsingtau. An interesting feature of the news is that Field Marshal Lord Roberts is about to proceed to France. His ostensible purpose, as announced., is "to see the Indian troops." The British admiralty admits the loss of the cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth by the fire of tlf German squadron off the coast of Chile. The British warship Niger was torpedoed tor-pedoed by a German submarine in the Downs and foundered. All her officers offi-cers and crew were saved, but four men were injured. There is thought to have been no loss of life whatever. |