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Show S D History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o INTER MOUNTAIN. As a result of the finding of the bodies of four children of S. A. Hew-ett, Hew-ett, a brakeman, in the ruins of his burned house at Auburn, Wash., Hew-ett Hew-ett has been arrested, charged with murdering the . children in order to collect life insurance. R. R. Sidebotham and J. G. G. Wil-mot Wil-mot were found guilty in the United States district court at Helena of having hav-ing used the mails to defraud in the sale of stock of the Northwestern Trustee company of Great Falls, Mont. Mayor Hiram C. Gill, Chief of Police Po-lice Charles L. Beckingham and former for-mer Sheriff Robert T. Hodge of Seat- Mrs. Michael Klem, wife of a real estate dealer of Chicago, prepared herself and daughter, 2? months of age, for burial, laid out the suit sho wished her husband to wear ai the funeral and then turne-d on the gas, killing herself and the babe. John M. Couch, charged with killing kill-ing Miss Nellie M. Dunn and Rowland Williams of Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty when arra'gned before a justice of the peace at Oklahoma City, Okla. ' Four persons were killed, three being be-ing burned to death, and eighteen persons per-sons were injured, several seriously, when an interurban passenger car and an electric package car collided near Cleveland, O. WASHINGTON. Joseph B. Poindexter of Helena, Mont., has been nominated by President Presi-dent Wilson as United States district judge for Hawaii. The annual rivers and harbors appropriation ap-propriation bill carrying $HS, 000,000, including more than $10,000,000 for new projects, was passed by the house by a vote of 221 to 131. Democratic members of the house in caucus approved by a vote of 113 to 13 the administration revenue bill framed to meet the prospective treasury treas-ury deficit next year. Secretary Lansing has sent to the tie have been indicted by the federal grand jury, charged with violation of the federal liquor laws. Utah guardsmen engaged in a fight with Mexicans west of Ariraca, Ariz. Mexican de facto government another communication protesting against the enforcement of a decree providing for the forfeiting of mines in which work is not resumed by February 14. A bill appropriating $250,000 for a national sanitarium for lepers, already passed by the house, was passed by the senate January 25. The institution is to be administered by the public health service and officers engaged in the work will be given pay and a half. After several weeks' consideration the senate interstate commerce committee com-mittee has practically agreed on railroad rail-road legislation to supplement the Adamson law. FOREIGN. Comment in the Madird press on President Wilson's speech before the senate continues to be unfavorable. The orange and green united at Armagh, Ar-magh, Ireland, on Sunday, in welcoming welcom-ing the Duchess of Connaught's own Canadian rangers, green and yellow favors, respectively the emblems of the Catholics and Orangemen, Ibeing blended perhaps for the first time since the battle of the Boyne. Munich's military authorities, the old-time nemesis of too-startlingly dressed women, have again stepped to the fore and have forbidden, under the penalty of police action, the "unnecessary "un-necessary wearing of men's clothes by women." The Canadian troops fighting in France have gained a marked ascendancy ascend-ancy over the Germans in trench warfare, war-fare, according to an official communication commun-ication received from London. The Amsterdam Nieuwe Amterdam-mer Amterdam-mer launched a campaign for military preparedness with a striking editorial under the heading "Helpless Holland." Seven hundred thousand Inhabitants of the invaded regions in the north of France are engaged in forced labor for the Germans, according to M. Di-budeville, Di-budeville, mayor of the town ol Corchy. The Dresden arsenal has been blown up and 1,000 women and young girls killed, according to a letter taken from a German soldier dated December Decem-ber 30. Powerful electric sirens installed In all quarters of Paris will hereafter None of the guardsmen were injured. The Rev. H. Martyn Hart, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, appeared in police court at Denver, admitted he had left an automobile given by his parishioners standing more than the hour limit on a downtown down-town street, and received a fine of $5 and costs. The fine was later remitted. re-mitted. A peaceful boycott is not illegal and cannot be abated as a nuisance, according ac-cording to a decision of the Montana supreme court. The court upheld the decision of the lower courts in denying deny-ing an injunction asked toy a Butte theatre against the Silver Bow Trades and Labor council and others. DOMESTIC. Three passengers were killed and more than a score injured, two probably prob-ably fatally, when a St. Louis Southwestern South-western railroad engine collided with the rear car of a Rock Island passenger passen-ger train near Memphis, Tenn. Dr. Burris A. Jenkins, pastor of the Linwood Boulevard Christian church of Kansas City, will go to Europe soon as one of six Americans chosen by George Sherwood Eddy, foreign field secretary for the Young Men's Christian Chris-tian association, to do evangelical work in the British trenches. After spending twenty-four days in the dungeon of the state prison at San Quentin, Cal., J. B. McNamara agreeed to obey orders and on Saturday Satur-day began work in the jute mill. McNamara Mc-Namara is serving a life term for his confessed part In the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times (building in 1910. Permission to construct a fountain and statue in memory of Carrie Nation, Na-tion, the liquor propagandist, has been asked of the Kansas legislature by the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The Arizona supreme court has returned re-turned a decision holding that Thomas Thom-as E. Campbell is the defacto governor of Arizona. Wage raises ranging from 5 to 10 per cent were given to 1,118,000 workers work-ers in the United States during November No-vember and December, Secretary Wilson Wil-son of the labor department estimates. Fifteen to twenty passengers on the steamship Prince John were rescued by other steamers after the Prince John had struck a rock and had been beached on the coast of southeastern Alaska. President Wilson has sent a letter to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president presi-dent of the National American Woman's Wo-man's Suffrage association, congratulating congrat-ulating her upon passage by - the North Dakota legislature of a bill granting to the women of that state the right to vote for presidential lectors and for municipal officers. Arthur Waldo Dewey of London. England, a cousin of the late Admiral Ad-miral George Dewey, was stricken with heart disease on a trolley car in Boston and died while being removed to a hospital Asserting that a sentence in prison should teach a far-reaching lesson to factory owners and tenants who fail to provide proper fire exists, Supreme Court Justice Kapper sent Samuel Barkin to ,Sing Sing for from two and a half to five and a half year. Nine women and four men lost their lives in a fire in a building owned by Barkin. An anti-liquor bill presented to the Kansas legislature by the temperance committee of the lower house would permit the use of liquors only for church communions and medicinal purposes pur-poses in Kansas. In a statement given out at Boston, Cardinal Gibbons expresses the hope that President Wilson will veto the immigration bill. Directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Taul railway have authorized the electrification of some 200 miles of the road from Othello, in the state of Washington, to the Pacific coast. Food exports generally from the United States fell off $43,000,000 last year. Alphonse Gomez, suspected by fed i era agents at New Orleans of being in this country on an important rnis sion for Francisco Villa, was sentenced sentenc-ed to ten days in Jail on charges of being a dangerous and suspicious character. warn Parisians of the approach ol Zeppelins, according to a decision ol the authorities. The decline in stock exchange values val-ues of leading British stocks and bonds during the past year is shown by the annual cotnpilations to have been nearly as severe as that of the previous year. The labor conference In session at Manchester, England, unanimously adopted a resolution urging that all the British representatives at the peace conference should work for the formation of an international league to enforce the maintenance or peace on the plan advocated by the President Pres-ident of the United States. Forces of Francisco Villa have occupied oc-cupied El Vallo, Chihuahua, abandoned abandon-ed by General Pershing's outposts, according ac-cording to apparently reliable Information Infor-mation received In army circles. The British government has refused permission to the Hadlields, Ltd., to proceed with work on the contract for shells for the American navy "so long as the exigencies of war continue." An attempt was made to assassinate Yukio O.aki, former minister or Justice Jus-tice and leader of the Constitutional party, while he was addressing a inaHS meeting called to demand the resignation resigna-tion of the cabinet at Tokio. Sixteen men were killed in a sieve dores' strike in Santiago, Cuba, it was reported, when the United Fruit company's com-pany's steamer Mand' ville arrived at New Orleans from Kingston, Jamaica. Capture by German forces of 1.500 Russian prisoners, as well as considerable consid-erable ground near the river Aa, at the northern end of the Hukko-G'T-man front, is announced from Berlin. Five hundred and fifty persons we killed in the earthquake on the Island of Bali, according to an official report received at The Hague. The casualties to date in the January Jan-uary If) explosion In lyondon are officially offi-cially announced to number 40'J, comprising com-prising C!i killed, 72 seriously injured and 328 slightly injured. Bulgarians In northern Dobrudja have crossed the southern estuary of the DaiTbbe near Tultcha and havo maintained themselves on the north bank against a Russian attack, according accord-ing to announcement from Berlin. |
