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Show Itoeoninieiidnllnn Hint President Wilson Wil-son use liis good offices lo induce California Cali-fornia horil ies In bring aboiil a new trial of Thomas .1. Mooncy in case the California supreme court, suslains his cum ictinu for complicity in the San I'Ynncisco liomli outrage, lias been made by tin" president's mediation commission. 'Indications of a widespread plot to cripple Hie war activities of Hie I'nilctl Slates were seen Saturday in a series of lircs in shipyards, on munition ships, in war plants and storage buildings at various poinls along tlvo Atlantic seaboard sea-board and farther inland. Division of the country's bil ominous coal Holds into twenty districts as the first slop Inward instituting a zone system sys-tem of coal distribution is under way by the fuel administration. WASHINGTON. Congressman Eugene Black of Clurksville, Texas, broke all precedents prece-dents Saturday and set officials gasping gasp-ing when he returned ,to the treasury $150.10 left over from his appropriation appropria-tion for clerk hire. William G. McAdoo, director general of railroads, on January 27 issued peremptory per-emptory orders to railroads and officials offi-cials to cut off from payrolls all legislative legis-lative railroad lawyers, supernumerary lobbyists, useless railroad literary associations, as-sociations, political payments and all passes intrastate as well as interstate. Settlement of the industrial dispute threatening a strike in the country's ten largest packing house centers was effected Sunday in an agreement, providing pro-viding that there .shall lie no discrimination discrim-ination against union members and that questions of hours and wages shall be referred to an arbitrator appointed ap-pointed by the secretary of labor. The army medical corps issued a call for enlistment of 2000 specially selected select-ed men for veterinary service. They must be either below or above draft age and will be assigned to veterinary hospitals with "service overseas shortly." No advance toward peace is seen in the speeches made in Berlin and Vienna by the German chancellor and Austrian foreign minister, upon the war aims of the central powers. Senator George E. Chamberlain of Oregon, before an audience that packed the floor and the galleries of the senate chamber, on Thursday spoke for three hours in answer to the charge of President Wilson that his previous criticisms of the military establishment es-tablishment has constituted an "absolute "abso-lute distortion of the truth." FOREIGN. Eight thousand kilograms of explosives explo-sives were dropped by French airmen upon the industrial works of Lugwigs-hafen Lugwigs-hafen and Freiburg on Saturday. Observation Ob-servation planes penetrated nearly twenty miles behind the front. The national Russian congress of soldiers and workmen's deputies, to which the Bolshevist government referred re-ferred the question of war expenses, has authorized Foreign Minister Trotz-ky Trotz-ky to continue the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, a Petrograd dispatch reports. The Chinese officials at Harbin have cut off all exports of goods to Russia, thus accentuating the food shortage in that country. The Russian frontier authorities have filed a protest, threatening threat-ening to suspend the operation of the Chinese Eastern railway. Rumors of disorders in Barcelona, Spain, are confirmed by reports reaching reach-ing Madrid which state that groups of women started riots demanding cheaper cheap-er food prices. The Cunard line steamer Andania was torpedoed but not sunk off the Ulster Ul-ster coast Sunday morning, says the. Irish Daily Telegraph. Major-General Leonard Wood wat woundedSunday in France. Pie was the victim of an accidental explosion. One arm was slightly injured. Reports of disturbances in Germany again are current in Holland and severe se-vere outbreaks are said to have occurred oc-curred in the Rheinish industrial districts. dis-tricts. Troops with machine guns have been summoned to Muelheim, on the Rhine, opposite Cologne, but there, are no details. The Carranza government in Mexico and the Cantu rebels in Lower Cali-. fornia have each offered Japan a naval base in their respective territories in return for Japanese financial support. This information comes through unofficial unof-ficial sources. King Charles, according to a dispatch dis-patch from Budapest, has accepted the resignation of the members of the Hungarian Hun-garian cabinet and Premier Wekerle has announced the reorganized cabinet. Severe rioting on Wednesday and Thursday in Berlin was reported in dispatches dis-patches received in Amsterdam. One report assorted that mobs were marching march-ing in the streets demanding peace. Early last week American forces on the French front were in action on several occasions, General Pershing reported re-ported to the war department. Four were killed on January 21 and 22. A Hood in the upper Rhine valley has inundated the city of Cologne, destroying de-stroying quantities of provisions, dispatches dis-patches received Friday said. In some localities the rise of the river was so rapid that the people had to be aroused by the tolling of bells. Troops were sent lo the aid of the inhabitants. . nj History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER M OU NTA IN. Charles W. Fulton, former United States senator from Oregon ami for many years a prominent figure in stale politics, dietl Sunday at: bis home in Portland after a long illness, agetl 01. Four were killed ami four injured near Wyola, Mo.nl., when a freight train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad crashed into passenger passen-ger train No. 44 en route to Denver from Billings, Mont. Matthew Torka, a German, was arrested ar-rested at Seattle, carrying photographs on his person of (wo western fortifications. fortifica-tions. Amos B. Anderson, a ranch owner of Willard, Colo., killed himself with a shotgun at his sister's home near Buxton, Bux-ton, Iowa. He was 08 years old. Jack Dempsey, Utah heavyweight, who has recently been camping on the trail of Jess Willard, knocked out Homer Ho-mer Smith at Racine, Wis., in Hie first round of a scheduled ten-round battle. As a result of heroism displayed by George L. Brunn of St. Maries, Idaho, in May, 1917, when he lost his life in the attempt to save Dolly MeKin-le.v, MeKin-le.v, 0 years of age, from drowning, a medal award has been given to his widow and three children. The award was made by the Carnegie Hero fund commission. The estate of the late Senator New-lands New-lands of Nevada, according to petition for probate of his will filed last week, is valued at $52S,500, consisting of stocks, bonds and other securities. The petition said the senator owned no real estate in his own name. DOMESTIC. The first war patients to arrive from France reached Baltimore, Saturday, and are at the United States general hospital, Fort McIIenry. A total of sixty men fifty-one enlisted men, seven sev-en officers and two nurses are now at the fort. A pledge to dispose of $0.1,000,000 in war savings stamps this year was given giv-en by the superintendents of the Metropolitan Metro-politan Life Insurance company at the annual dinner of their convention at New York. The people of America went on a war bread diet Monday as a part of a war rationing system prescribed by President Wilson and the food administration. admin-istration. Victory bread, the food administration ad-ministration calls it. German atrocities have been minimized mini-mized 100 times to once where they have been magnified, members of the Republican club at New York were told by Capt. R. P. Simmons, a United States military observer in Germany during the mobilization. Naval auxiliaries have started an investigation in-vestigation to determine the cause of the explosion that wrecked three concrete con-crete bombproofs at the naval torpedo station at Newport, R. I., causing the death of twelve civilian employes and injuring seven others. After expelling Industrial Workers of the World from membership in the organization, if there are any, the United Unit-ed Mine Workers, in session at Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, went on record as favoring the taking over of the coal mines by the government on condition the union men had the right to make collective bargains. bar-gains. The government will take over 30 per cent of nil the wheat flour milled in Minnesota, in order to secure sufficient suffi-cient supply for export to our allies, the state food administration has announced. an-nounced. The idle "flapper" is going out of style ; the young girl to be stylish now-must now-must work. This was the message of Anne Sturgis Talbott, state specialist in vocational training for girls in New York, given at the vocational training convention, Chicago. Charles M. Scliwrb, president of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, declared in an address at a dinner at New York that the time is near at hand "when the men of the working class the men without property will control the destinies des-tinies of the world." Discovery of impurities in candy supplied to canteens of navy ships has caused tluj issue of an order suspending suspend-ing the sale of candy to the men and also the purchase of additional supplies sup-plies pending investigation. A mother was found dead in her home at Chicago with the bodies of her three small children in her arms. A rubber tube leading from a gas jet to the woman's mouth led the police to pronounce it a case of suicide and murder. Seventy-nine men are believed to have perished in an explosion in the Allan shaft of the Acadia Coal company's com-pany's collieries at Stellarton, N. S. |