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Show Tin nds of negroes in southern Phillips Phil-lips comity, Arkansas, of which (olona is tlic seat of government, had planned a k iK'i-a 1 si a uu'l 1 1 ! of while i pie .Monday, according in members of tin coin in i I Ice of m'Vimi appointed hy civil am liorii ics with the .sanction nf Governor Gov-ernor Charles Plough. Three men were shut, none fatally, and two more injured Saturday as the result of attempts to prevent the operation op-eration of a si reet car on the lines ol the San Francisco-Oakland terminal railways. Approximately 7000 more .Americans immigrated into Canada in the first eight months of 101!) than in the corresponding cor-responding period last year, according to official tit; lilt's made pnhlic at Ottawa. Ot-tawa. Of the :!S.2l!l! persons who this year crossed I ho liorder, more than half were farmers. VASH I NGTON. With disposition of the peace treaty expected November 1, congressional leaders are discussing the prospects of closing I In; oxl raordiiuiry session, which began May P.), so as to have a month's rest before the regular December De-cember session begins. Knnnnoiis war expenditures have forced the attention of congress to the question of adopting a budget, former President Tall told the house committee investigating proposed changes in governmental fiscal affairs. William Z. Foster, secretary of the general committee conducting the steel strike, when confronted before the senate labor committee with ids writings writ-ings advocating various forms of revolutionary revo-lutionary Socialism, declared under a grilling fire of questions that his views, had changed. Player for the restoration of health to President Wilson was offered in the house on October 3 -by its blind chaplin, the Itev. Henry I). Couden. Consideration of all bills dealing with revision of internal revenue or tariff laws will he deferred until after , History of Past Week MNMHMMnWnMPMRl TheNews Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed -a INTERMOUNTAIN. A proi'la ma I ion announcing that the strike, which lias enforced idleness in the Tonopnh and Divide mines since August 17, has been called off, has been Issued by Governor Boyle. What is regarded as the first retaliatory re-taliatory move on the part of the resilient resi-lient Japanese against the anli-alien league lias left .1. 1''. Koberg, one of the directors of the newly formed l-'ugue, minus Ids .lapaiic.se workers and Willi h truck farm on his hands at the busiest busi-est season of the year. One of I be largest deals in roses in Portland's experience was concluded a few days ago, when E. (!. Hill of .Richmond, hid., purchased oOO.OlHI cuttings cut-tings and offered to take 2,0110,000 next year. The engineer was killed and two firemen badly hurl when a light engine en-gine and a passenger train on the Rimini brunch of the Northern Pacific Pa-cific collided head-on near Helena, Mont., in a fog. A score of passen-gers passen-gers were injured, none sv-riously. . . The lower house of the Utah legis lature, in special session, adopted a memorial favoring the ratification of ihe treaty of peace and league of nations na-tions covenant, without amendments. DOMESTIC. Mayor Smith, of Omaha, who was the senate disposes of tho peace treaty, under a decision of the senate linauce committee. FOREIGN. The strike of railroad men, which has been in progress upon the British railroads since midnight, September 2G, has been halted temporarily as a result of a compromise. The men will return to work while a settlement is being effected. Thousands of British subjects will immigrate into Mexico about the middle mid-dle of October, according to Excelsior, a newspaper of Mexico City. The colonists will settle in Durango and Chihuahua. The resignation of the Turkish cabinet cab-inet headed by Damad Ferrid 1'a.sha, grand vizier and minister of foreign affairs, has been accepted by the sultan. sul-tan. The allies, it is reported at Athens, have agreed to loan Greece $50,000,000. Premier Clemenceau has written Col. E. M. House, a member of the American peace delegation, urging that a meeting of the league of nations na-tions be held in Washington under the chairmanship of President Wilson early in November. President Augusto Leguia will he proclaimed constitutional president of Peru October 12 for a period of five years, instead of four, as fixed under the old constitution. The task of dismantling the twelve ancient forts which surrounded May-ence May-ence and protected the crossing of the Rhine has been begun by the Germans' under the supervision of the French army of occupation. Col. E. M. House left Paris for the United States Sunday night. Colonel House has been in Europe for more than a year. President Pessoa of Brazil has announced an-nounced his desire to have congress ratify the peace treaty immediately, without reservation of any kind.' The American soldier guards in Germany throughout the area occupied occu-pied by the American army has been doubled owing to repeated reports reaching headquarters that a general strike and uprising under the auspices of the Sparlacan wing of the Gorman socialists is due within a few days. The railroad strike situation iu England Eng-land litis become the gravest in the history of any labor crisis' of the British Brit-ish empire in the present generation. All efforts of the transport workers' federations to find a bridge to enable a renewal of negotiations between tne government and the national union of railway men failed. The Socialist deputies in the Italian parliament just dissolved have addressed ad-dressed a manifesto to the country, strongly condemning the war, which has left behind it a threatening preponderance pre-ponderance of professional militarism. Stoyan Profited, premier of Jugoslavia, Jugo-slavia, has failed iu his effort to form a new cabinet to take the place of the one which resigned a short time ago. For the lirsl time since the railway rail-way strike began in England, there has been a serious attempt at niedht-lioii, niedht-lioii, undertaken by Ihe powerful transport worker's federation. Cablegrams from Paris, the l.ulhu-anian l.ulhu-anian executive committee in Washington Wash-ington announces, have brought the information in-formation that the I'.rilisli governineut has promised provisional recognition lo I ,i i lni.i nia. Complaint that France had I n sligliled ill ihe makeup of the leatrue of nations, because the French clonics clo-nics were not represent od in i he league, although each British colony would have a delegate, was esprc.-sod by Deputy Angagneur in the in the debute de-bute on the ratification of the peace treaty In the cliamK-r of deputies twice strung up by a mob, is slowly recovering in an Omaha hospital. The inoh attempted to hang the mayor when he ordered the crowd who had assembled to disperse. One negro was shot to death, two others were whipped and five were being be-ing held, it was said, for lynching by a mob at Washington, Ga. In a pistol tight between Sheriff T. A. Binford with six deputies and approximately approxi-mately ninety men in an alleged gambling gamb-ling game at Goose Creek, Texas, one negro was killed aud forty-four others arrested. Fifteen minutes after Col. Townsend Dodd, commander of Langley field, Virginia, had been killed in landing at the Bustleton aviation field near Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, a second airplane made a bad landing and three other army officers of-ficers were injured. Governor Goodrich of Indiana has ordered eleven companies of state militia mili-tia to East Chicago and Gary, where rioting broke ut as a result of the strike of steel workers. Lieuts. Frederick Waterhouse and Cecil H. Connolly, American aviators 'ost in Mexico, were apparently mur-' dered after landing near Los Animos Bay, Mexico. IS'o person divorced for any cause whatsoever can be married in the future fu-ture by any clergyman of the Episco-pal Episco-pal church, if the report of a joint j "o.-tmission on holy matrimony is up- - proved by the general convention of V the Trotestant Episcopal church, in I session at Detroit. Prayers for the recovery of Presi dent Wilson were offered Sunday in practically every religious edifice in the United States. Because of the illness of President Wilson, King Albert of Belgium has decided to cancel all his engagements In connection with his tour of the UnJ.ted States after those in Boston "and Bj)ffalo,-p to i October 14. Bodies of all American soldiers interned in-terned in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Great Britain, Luxemburg and Northern North-ern Russia will be returned to the United States as soon as necessary transportation can be arranged. Rioting broke out at the Universal Portland Cemet plant at Indiana Harbor, Har-bor, Ind., and a union picket was shot by one of two armed negroes, wlio, with nearly twenty-five other negroes, attempted to return to work. Five dead and five wounded made up the list of white casualties as a result of the uprising of negroes iu the vicinity of Elaine, Ark. United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson at a luncheon at San Francisco Fran-cisco told more than one thousand of ' S;in Francisco's' most prominent wo- !nen that the peace treaty with its Shantung provision is a blot on American Ameri-can honor and that the league of nations na-tions as now constituted would make America a party to perpetuating this and other wrongs. Thousands of skilled and unskilled workmen la Pacific coast shipyards si ruck on October 1, to enforce demands de-mands for wage increases. The walkout walk-out followed the failure of the employees em-ployees . grant the men a wage increase, in-crease, of 8 cents an hour. ' - Two white men, Clinton Lee and J. A. Tappon of Helena, ami seven nc-groe., nc-groe., are known to be dead at Elaine. Arkansas, as a result of clashes between be-tween a posse searching for the per-seris per-seris w ho from ambush fired upon and ;ed W. I . Atlkiiis, railroad special fgen I. Ten thousand members of New York City priming trades unionss wenl on iril.e, (lelober I, for a 11-hour week and u weekly increase of $11 in Ihe wage scale, 'J'lie strike is without, the i-anc'iiin of ihe international officers. It is estimated L'.'iO ulanls rre affected. Scvenly-'.hrce stakes were represented represent-ed at the semi-annual conference of the Desert Sunday School union, including dlegates from Canada and .Mexico. Inipelus tn ihe movement for the placing of a monument to Utah's band-cart band-cart pioneers was given when a site was chosen and contributions totaling i $ll)i;.S were pledged. The -.-election of a site was made following a meeting of nearly two score pioneers in the Bureau Bu-reau of Information on Sunday. The I spot chosen is about lil'ty feet south of the leuitile. |