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Show NEWS OF II WEEK IN CONDENSED F01 RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. .Tallies u'Noill, back (ruin France with li ii i service stripes and one wound stripe ami only l.S years old, is iir Camp Lewis fur discharge from the army. His papers show lie enlisted witli his father's consent when a copy hoy in the art department on a Chicago Chi-cago newspaper. The town of Uallanline, on the llunt-ley llunt-ley irrigation project near Worden, Montana, is threatened with destruction destruc-tion hy fire. Seven business buildings had been razed Telephonic advices from 'old Hill to officers at Wenilover, I'tah, tell of u murder near Trout creek, .luab county, coun-ty, forty miles south of Gold Hill, Tuesday morning. George Harris, a homesteader and former soldier, is alleged al-leged to have shot and killed Jesse Cone of Trout Creek and to have seriously ser-iously wounded James Sabey, a deputy dep-uty sheriff of Callao. Definite relief for slockgrowcrs in the drought-stricken regions of the northwest was Tuesday ordered bythe railroad administration, both in the matter of reduced rules on feed going into these areas and on the shipment of livestock out. DOMESTIC. I' pon complaint of tin; Western association asso-ciation of Holled Steel Consumers that the United Stale Steel corporation and other steel producers act in violation vio-lation of the federal trade commission act and the Clayton antitrust act in selling rolled steel on a I'attsburg basis, the federal trade commission Saturday announced that it had undertaken under-taken a thorough investigation of the subject, with a view to determining whether a formal complaint should he issued. In its complaint the Western association urges that Chicago should be made another basing poir.t in fixation fixa-tion of steel prices. Sweeping investigation of food prices in every county in Ohio is requested re-quested in H communication sent by Gov. James M. Cox, Saturday, to State Attorney General John G. Price. The police of Los Angeles were restrained re-strained Saturday hy an order of the superior court here, from interfering with the sale of beer containing 2.75 per cent alcohol by arresting the venders. Two whites and a colored man are reported to be dead and approximately fifty are said to have been injured, a number probably fatally, when race rioting broke out Sunday in Chicago among white and negro bathers along South Side beaches, from Twenty-ninth street south to Thirty-fifth street. Thomas Fitzgerald, 39 years old, and married, confessed Sunday to the police po-lice at Chicago that he killed little Janet Wilkinson, six years old, a neighbor's neigh-bor's child, last Tuesday 'by strangling ,ier. He accompanied the police to his home and showed thein where he had concealed the body beneath some coal under the basement steps, and it was recovered. Prince Aage of Denmark, who has been visiting in the United States since June 18, sailed for home from New York Saturday on the Aquitania. Pe-fore Pe-fore leaving the prince expressed his appreciation of America and its hospitality. hos-pitality. To obtain a new air for the Yale anthem, "Bright College Years," which now is sung to the tune of "The Watch on the Khine," the class of 1899 has offered $1000 . as a prize. Selection of a tune is to rest with the alumni advisory board. The navy rifle range near Caldwell, N. J., where the national rifle matches were to he held in August under the auspices of the navy department was flooded last night when the Passiac river overflowed its banks. The first hale of 1919 cotton was ginned at Seeley, Calif., Wednesday, and was sold immediately for .'15 cents a pound, with a bonus of $25 and all ginning costs. It brought a sum in excess of .fliOO. Workers on the surface, elevated and subway cur lines in lierlin and also electricians and gas workers, went on strike Monday in sympathy with the internal demonstration. Frank L. Polk, under-secretary of state, sailed Monday from New York on the steamship Iniperator for Fratlce to take the place of Secretary Lansing at the peace conference. WASHINGTON. j Military occupation of Mexico by the 1'nllod Stales was advocaied by Itep- rescntative Hudspeth, democral, Texas, Tex-as, In an address Saturday in the house. He urged wil lulrii . ? of American Amer-ican recognition of Carraiiza, and said American ' I roops should be kept in .Mexico until a stable govcrnmenl had I n established. Kcporls of marriages belween American Amer-ican soldiers and German girls have been received at hondu.ua rters from various parts of the occupied area during dur-ing the jiast few clays, hut as yet no charges have been filed against any of the men. II is believed most of the marriages were due to misunderstandings misunderstand-ings regarding the unl i-f ra I erniza I ion regula I ions. Pending action by Congress toward a permanent, policy on dyesi tiffs im-porlaliou, im-porlaliou, the war trade board will nol issue licenses permitting traffic in Gorman products. Senator W illiam K. Borah of Idaho, nations covenant, carried his fight Irian the legislative forum to the pulpit pul-pit Sunday night in Washington, declaring de-claring lo a church congregation that, the Shantung settlement will mean another an-other war just as the Alsace-Lorraine settlement fifty .years ago brought on another war. Major General Knoch II. Crowder, who went to Cuba to draft new election elec-tion laws, has made preparations lo return lo Washington early in August. Thomas ,1. Mooney did not receive full justice in ids trial at San Francisco Fran-cisco for alleged connection with the "preparedness day" bomb explosion, according ac-cording to a report by John B. jltens-more, jltens-more, former special agent of the department de-partment of justice, who investigated the case for the government. The report, dateil November 1. 1918, was submitted to the house, in response to a resolution. Secretary Daniels approved Tuesuay before the house naval committed a bill giving Admiral William S. Benson, chief of naval operations, and Bear Admiral William S. Sims, who commanded com-manded American naval forces abroad during the war, permanent rank as admiral. Republican house leaders have decided de-cided to call a party caucus to pass on the enlargement of the legislative ster-ing ster-ing committee. No decision was reached as to whether the increase would be hy four or two members. Indications are that the two dreaded foreign foes of wheat, flag smut and take-all. will not become widespread in the United States. The United States department of agriculture an-1 an-1 nounced 'Tuesday that the two states where these diseases appeared, Indiana Indi-ana and Illinois, had taken steps which would prevent the spread of the diseases. dis-eases. FOREIGN. Italy's vital need of coal and probable prob-able inability to get it from the Saar valley or Great Britain, offer American Ameri-can coal operators a chance to enter the European market with prospects of great success. Disorderly conditions in Stnvssburg, the capital of Alsace, are reported in advices received here. Sanguinary conflicts between the French military and civilians are alleged to have occurred. oc-curred. The supreme council of the peace conference at Paris decided this afternoon after-noon to send a communication to the Hungarian people, advising them that if they eject the Bela Kun government and institute a movement with which the conference can deal, the blockade will be lifted and food relief provided. American troops in Paris are being rapidly reduced. At the end of July-only July-only 4000 remain, while the whole of the A. 10. F. in France numbers only 20,000, not including the force in Ger- , many, whose number is-secret. foe of the peace treaty and league of 1 Forty-four Brittany peasants who had eaten the flesh of a mad cow, duly reached the Pasteur institute in Paris after what the Matin feelingly describes de-scribes as .an ''agonizing journey.'' Abe Associated Press is informed that the government at London has not yet arranged for the appointment of an ambassador to Washington, but hopes soon to be able to make an announcement. I It is possible that former Emperor William may not. be tried in London, according to an announcement made in the house of lords by Earl Curzon of ; Keddleston, government leader in the ! upper house. ! Minister of reconstruction Loucher, I has begun negotiations with Baron von Yolsner on the question of the coal which Germany is to supply to France under the terms of the peace treaty. Eight hundred natives were killed and KiOO wounded during the recent disturbances in Egypt, according to dispatches from Gen. E. H. H. Alienby. Einnonn de Yalera, president of the "Irish republic." was presented Monday Mon-day at San Francisco, with an engraved en-graved sword by a representation of the Hindustan Gndar party. Wi:h it he received a silk flag of the "jrish I republic." |