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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM 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. INTER MOU NTAIN. Charged with falsifying the books of the state treasurer to the extent of $113,847.17, Gred M. Coleman, former deputy etate treasurer of Idaho, has been placed under $13,000 bonds. William Stewart, a deputy sheriff, ehot and killed two of the Sedro Woolley bank robbers as they were endeavoring to creep across the Great Northern bridge at Ferndale, Wash. O. V. Allen, former state treasurer of Idaho, on Thursday pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement preferred pre-ferred by Governor John 51. Haines at a special session of district court and was sentenced to from five to ten years in the penitentiary. He began his term at once. The band of men who are believed to have robbed the bank of Sedro Wooley of $20,000, fell into a trap three miles north of the international boundary at Blaine, Wash., and two of their number were killed and a third wounded when a posse intercepted inter-cepted them. A member of the posse was instantly slain. Adjutant General John Chase announced an-nounced at Denver on Wednesday the receipt of a report that 3,000 armed strikers in Colorado and four adjoining ad-joining states were prepared to attack at-tack the militiamen should they return re-turn to police the strike zone In the event the federal troops were withdrawn. with-drawn. . DOMESTIC. The American hospital . ship Red Cross, which sailed . last month with American surgeons and nurses for service in the. European war zones, 'has returned to New York. Farmers were urged to diversify their, crops and to refrain from specu-lating specu-lating in future prices In resolutions adopted at the closing session at Chicago Chi-cago of the annual convention of the National Implement and Vehicle association. asso-ciation. ' ' ' ' ' ' A five-Inch rain in less than three hours caused a fifteen-foot flood in the San Antonio river at San Antonio, An-tonio, Texas, and put the San Pedro and Alazan creeks out of their banks from 100 to 1,000' feet. Thirteen deaths by drowning have heen reported. re-ported. The Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad, known as the Clover Leal road, is in the hands of a receiver appointed ap-pointed in federal court at Toledo, Ohio. Miss Jane Addams of Chicago made a woman suffrage address on the floor of the Merchants' exchange at St. Louis, when the grain market closed. Her auditors were grain brokers. Ex-Light-weight Champion Willie Ritchie of San Francisco and Johnny Dundee of New York fought a four-round four-round draw at San Francisco. It was Ritchie's first ring encounter since he lost his title to Freddie Welsh. Proof that New York state is at the mercy of an eggs, cheese and butter but-ter monopoly is expected by Deputy Attorney General Kennedy to result from an inquiry begun in New York. John Lundgren, opponent of John Levendowski, who was killed in a boxing bout between the pair at Tol-leston, Tol-leston, Ind., is under arrest. Members of the Arkansas Jobbers' Two carloads of potatoes from the Mormon colonies in southwestern Chihuahua Chi-huahua were cleared through the El Paso custom house for shipment Into the United States. A man giving his name as David A. Wilson was held under arrest by federal fed-eral authorities at Chicago on a charge of having written to Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, the only unmarried daughter of President Wilson, proposing propos-ing marriage. He will be examined as to his sanity. Mayer Mitchel of New York City has made known his intention of separating sepa-rating the police from politics, declaring declar-ing his administration was trying "wholly to break up the old evil alliance" alli-ance" between the two. "John D. Rockefeller holds the destinies of this nation in his hands," declared "Mother" Jones in an address ad-dress before the Illinois State Federation Feder-ation of Labor at Peoria, Ills. WASHINGTON. There are more than 145,000 income in-come tax dodgers who have evaded the internal revenue collector, according ac-cording to congress experts. Returns are averaging about $1,700,000 a month less than was expected. The war revenue bill is expected to yield about $90,000,000 as finally enacted. An urgent plea for more men to garrison the country's coast defenses was made by Brigadier General E. M. Weaver, chief of coast artillery, in his annual report submitted to Secretary Secre-tary Garrison. Agreement on the "war revenue" bill was reached by senate and house conferees at a sacrifice of from $15,000,- 000 to $20,000,000 in revenue proposed to be derived. The governors of the twelve federal reserve banks refused by two majority major-ity to support the proposal of Secretary Secre-tary McAdoo to open the new banking system for business November 16. By a vote of 37 to 35 they recommended that the opening he set for Novem ber 30. Secretary William C. Redfield of the department of commerce, speaking at Boston, scored the housewife who orders or-ders things sent home from the store instead of carrying them herself. "The high cost of living has no more important factor today," he declared, "than the expensive delivery system." FOREIGN. News has been received in London of the death in action of Lord John Spencer Cavendish, son of the late Lord Edward Cavendish and youngest brother of the Duke of Devonshire. The Swedish steamer Alice, homeward home-ward bound from London, has been blown up by a mine in the North Bea. She sank in three minutes. All the members of her crew were saved. Altkirch, in upper Alsace, a short distance from the Swiss frontier, has been taken by the French at the point of the bayonet. Since the outbreak of the war this town has been the scene of much fighting, and several times has changed hands. 1 Petrograd claims the Germans continue con-tinue to retreat and that the forces of Emperor Nicholas have crossed the Vistula without resistance, The Aus-trians Aus-trians are given credit in ft Russian report for continuing to fight stubbornly stubborn-ly on the Vistula, on the San, and south of Przemysl. A single German shell killed 360 Belgians and wounded 120 in Fort Lon-cin Lon-cin during the bombardment of Liege, according to one of the survivors who has just reached, Paris. General Carranza is willing to retire re-tire from the post of chief executive in Mexico City, provided General Villa is not instrumental in procuring procur-ing his resignation. He also . wishes to be assured that his retirement will not mean the acendancy of General Villa. There is no truth in the report of the death of Porfirio Diaz,, former president of Mexico, now at Biarritz, France. Senor Diaz has been suffering suffer-ing from gastric trouble, but he hari association have tentatively agread to contribute 10 per cent of their capital and surplus to the proposed $150,000,000 cotton relief pool. Approximately Ap-proximately $200,000 was subscribed by Little Rock jobbers. M. Peabody, said to be a son of a member of the Chicago banking firm of Peabody, Houghteling & Co., was attacked by striking shingle weavers, weav-ers, severely beaten and thrown into the bay at Port Angeles, Wash. Rescuers Res-cuers removed Peabody from the water in a serious condition. Indicted fourteen years ago in New York City on a charge of grand larceny lar-ceny arising out of enormous sales of alleged fraudulent mining stocks, Dr. C. C Fowler, now about 70 years of age, has been arrested at Toronto, Toron-to, Ont. The Cuban senate passed almost unanimously the national economic defense bill. Mrs. Almira Prindle, known all over the United States as "Mother Prindle" Prin-dle" on account of her lifelong work for the betterment of homeless .women, .wo-men, died at her home in Brooklyn in her 7Sth year. Johnny Dundee was given the decision de-cision over Joe Azevedo at the conclusion con-clusion of a ten-round contest at Oakland. Oak-land. Dundee was the aggressor throughout. Robert E. Lee, youngest son of General Robert E. Lee, the confe:V erate commander, died at his home at Upperville, Va. Howard E. Davis, editor of a San Bernardino, Cal., paper, has been released re-leased and the charge against him of shooting and killing Ben Emerson on October 14 dismissed. It was shown that the shooting was in self-defense. driven out daily for several days past. Searching for German vessels in the waters of the . Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans are upwards of seventy British, Australian, Japanese. French and Russian' cruisers, not including auxiliary cruisers. Among these are a number of the fastest British cruisers. crui-sers. . The greatest problem for France this winter probably will be to take care of the people at home. The army will have the first call on the national resources. re-sources. The 37,000,000 of people at home must get on as best they can. In Charleroi food is almost exhausted exhaust-ed and the population is subsisting on potato soup. According to information given out in Berlin, the number of Belgians returning re-turning to Antwerp is increasing as a result of the good treatment accorded them by the German authorities in possession of the city. From Petrograd comes a reiteration reitera-tion of the official reports that the Germans are continuing their hasty retreat from Warsaw and that desperate des-perate engagements are being fought in Galicia. A private letter received in Amsterdam Amster-dam says that Lieutenant General Von Moltke, chief of the general staff, is dying. A Japanese squadron, it is officially offici-ally announced, is seeking the German Ger-man fleet in the - neighborhood of Hawaii. General Obregon, as head of the Carranza commission, has presented a resolution before the Aguas Cali-entes Cali-entes convention asking for guarantees guaran-tees of safety for all delegates and urging that the convention be moved to a "safer place." |