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Show MOM WEEK III CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. Mine operator of the Coeur d'AIene disirict have decided not to attempt to operate their properties,, which practically were closed down when the strike of miners belonging to Hie International Inter-national Union of Mine, .Mill and Smelter Smel-ter Workers went into effect. As a result of an electrical storm on Sunday night forty-one forest fires are burning in the Cascade districts in Oregon. The Independent mill at Victor, Colorado, Col-orado, Wits robbed Thursday night. Jiandils overpowered two watchmen and escaped Willi a (pianlity of gold concentrates. The watchmen are rn a hospital at Victor. No estimate of the amount of loot has been 'made. .Mrs. Alice .J. Harris and her two si i ns, Eugene and 1. eland, and Edward J.. Tackman were held without bail for trial at Ncphi, Utah, on a joint charge of having murdered Jesse H. ''one at the Harris ranch on July 22. 1910. Some 225 members of the National Editorial association spent August. 13 in Tacoma, as part of their thirty-third annual convention. DOMESTIC. When the police arrested Frank Boyles of Sioux City, la., in a Chicago hotel as a suspect in the robbery of a bank at Dempster, S. O., they found several thousand dollars' worth of nickels piled on the floor. Five persons were instantly killed near Lima, O., when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Western Ohio traction car. Lester J. Von Kohlslon, 35 years old, a bridegroom of two days, was shot and probably fatally wounded at Denver by G. D. Murphy of Amarillo, Tex., an uncle of Von Kohlston's bride. A jury at Mount Clemens, Mich., a warded Henry Ford "six cents" damages dam-ages against the Chicago Tribune for calling him an anarchist. What was believed by government officers to have been a plot to overthrow over-throw the Carranza government of Mexico was disclosed at New Orleans with the arrest of Col. Fernande Villains Vil-lains and Col. Augustin Flores, former officers of the Mexican Federal army, and Eucario Huerta, an employee of the Mexican custom house at Vera Cruz. Revocation of railway rights of way through Indian reservations or lands where grantees over a period of five years have failed to construct roads or utilize other land granted them was recommended in a report sent to congres6 by Secretary Lane. Three children were killed in Patterson Pat-terson park, Baltimore, when an airplane air-plane of the Eighty-eighth aero squadron squad-ron stationed at Langley field, Va., crashed into a fence behind which were several hundred spectators. , Seven were iujured. The funeral of Andrew Carnegie 4as held at Shadow Brook, bis suan-I suan-I nier home in the Berk.s'.ures, August ' 14. There was no eulogy and there were no pallbearers. The service was as simple as were the tastes and habits of the 'man in life. Fully one-half of the sixty persons present were members mem-bers of the household. The others weri intimates of the family. Henry Henken, a juror in the trial at Atlanta, Ga., of Henry Liner, a negro, f for violating the prohibition law, was fined $23 by Judge Rourke for taking a drink of some of the evidence in the case. He paid the fine and was excused ex-cused from further service. Believing that a revulsion of feeling against prohibition can be concentrated concentrat-ed for a repeal of the liquor statutes, the brewers of the nation have called a big conference at Atlantic City, X. J., for September 2S. The meeting will last a week. The Dumber of theatres shut down by the actors' strike in New York, was increased to thirteen, when the performance per-formance of the Zeigfeld Follies at the New Amsterdam theatre was abandoned aban-doned owing to failure of several members mem-bers of the cast to appear. Indictments against thirty-six negroes ne-groes and four white men, charging offenses of-fenses ranging from assaults to commit com-mit murder to carrying coixvalcd weapons, were returned Tuesday by the special grand jury investigating the recent race riots in Chicago. In his great mansion overlooking lake in the beautiful Berkshire, where he sought seclusion when bodily infirmity in-firmity overtook him and his mind was saddened by the entrance of his country into the world war, Andrew Carnegie, ironmaster and philanthropist, philanthro-pist, died Monday. The fourteenth and last week of Henry Ford's $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune began Monday at Grand Haven, Mich., with Oscar 0. Lungerbausen, one of the battery of Ford lawyers, addressing the Jury. Convicted of bigamy on his confes- sion that he has seven living wive-, j one of whom he married twice, ('has. j Hugh Wilson, 48 years oh?, former ! V. M. C. A. secretary, evangelist si in I traveling salesman, was Sentenced a I j New York to three years and six months in Sing Sing prison. Awakened from his sleep and lured outside of his home on tin; pretext j thai a rope was needed uiih which to j low an automobile that had broken I down. Dean Trabbic, deputy sheriff i of Erie, Misli., was shot and killed from ambush by four men. Donald W. Fet her of Los Angeles, a j 21-yi -sir-old sophomore at Cornell university, uni-versity, was lodged in the county jail i : t Iibaca, . V., charged with the ii.urder of 18-year-old Hazel ( 'ranee of ; Iibaca. who was reported drowned in Lake Ciiyuga on ibe night of July 19. i ' WASHINGTON. President Wilson has vetoed the bill repealing the daylight saving law. The president said he returned the bill without his approval with "the utmost reluctance," because he realized "the very considerable, and in some respects very serious inconveniences to which the daylight saving law subjects the farmers of the country." Plans for old age pensions for persons per-sons more than 05 years of age were proposed in a frill introduced by Senator Sen-ator McXary. Republican, Oregon. Under its provisions persons with incomes in-comes of not more than $0 a week would receive a weekly pension of $4. Replying to a senate resolution, Director Di-rector General of Railroads Hines informed in-formed the senate that while there had been some car shortage in the bituminous coal districts, he did not "anticipate any shortages in transportation transpor-tation which will be in any sense exceptional ex-ceptional or abnormal or which will justify oppressive prices for coal." Carranza lias been warned by President Pres-ident Wilson that if the murders and outrages of Americans continue, the United States "may be forced to adopt a radical change in Its policy with regard re-gard to Mexico." President Wilson's offer to talk over the peace treaty with the senate foreign for-eign relations committee has been accepted. ac-cepted. The Warfield plan for railroad control, con-trol, with provision for a flat return of 6 per cent on capital invested, has been presented to the house interstate commerce committee. FOREIGN. Australia strike of seamen lias come to an end, a special dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W., to the Vancouver Province announced. The strike was called two months ago. Concessions by the government ended the walkout, the special said. A woman's demonstration at Berlin for the speedy return of German prisoners pris-oners of war on ,-Friday ended when the women, were dispersed by the police. The Suez canal has been blocked by the sinking of the Italian cruiser Bas-ilicata Bas-ilicata after an explosion, according to advices from Port Said. The cruiser cruis-er sank near Tewfik. The German government has rejected reject-ed the demand of the allies for the recall of Gen.' von Der Goltz, commander com-mander in chief of German forces in the Baltic provinces. French pilots and observers killed and wounded during the war aggregated aggre-gated 60 per cent of the total flying personnel of slightly less than 13,000. The Japanese government has informed in-formed the government of Admiral Kolchak that Japan is unable to accede to its request to send several divisions of troops to assist Kolchak in the war against the Bolsheviki. Bail was refused eight leaders of the recent Winnipeg strike by Justice Jus-tice J. D. Cameron, who ordered their arrest for alleged violation of promises not to take part in any further agitation. agita-tion. They are to be tried in October for seditious conspiracy. The coal miners of Yorkshire, where more than 200,000 men have been on strike since July 21, have decided to resume work. Three silver fox skins for which $2500 lias been refused in London were obtained in Archangel for six bottles of whiskey by a British officet who has just returned from' northern Russia. Six submarine chasers, veterans of the U-boat campaigns in the North sea and the Adriatic, left Bermuda on August 14 on a race to New York. Prominent Japanese business men have decided to float a $25,000,000 company for the purpose of laying a cable line between the United States and Japan. Gabriel Poulain, noted French cyclist, cy-clist, has succeeded in perfecting an aerocycle, which he is able to raise into the air and propel for a distance of twelve yards, attaining a speed of twenty-five miles an hour. The allied commission which investigated investi-gated recent disorders tit Finnic lias concluded its work, the Corrieru Bella Sena said Tuesday. Premier Nitti, at Rome, has received a telegram from several groups of rail-j rail-j way employees who volunteer to in-! in-! ere.-, so the number of their working i hours in order to increase national in n! net ion. Viscount Grey, former British, secretary secre-tary of stale for fort ign affairs, has agreed to represent the British government govern-ment at Washington pending the appointment ap-pointment of a permanent ambassador j General Vatatis, former commander j in chief of staff have been arrested by I order of the Bolshevist government, I according to a report from 1'elrograd. |