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Show The jury at Minonla, L. I., returned a verdict of not guilty in the trial of Mrs. lllanca (le Saulles for the murder of her divorced husband, John L. de Saulles, former Yale football star and club man, at his home near Westbury. L. I., the night of August ".. Practically every railroad in (he United Stales lias been presented with a request from the Brotherhood of Itailroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors for increased wages approximating 40 per cent. Mrs, (Just llanisch, a farmer's wife, lies in a Huron, S. D., hospital with a bullet imbedded in her bain as the result of a mysterious shooting on the llanisch farm, near town. Her bus-hand bus-hand was taken into custody by officers. offi-cers. WASHINGTON. Ratification by the states of a prohibition pro-hibition amendment to (he federal constitution con-stitution within two years was predicted pre-dicted by 'William Jennings Bryan, speaking before the opening session of the annual convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union at Washington. Wash-ington. National bank earnings in the last fiscal year were .fliOT ,400,000, the greatest great-est in their history, according to figures fig-ures announced by the comptroller of tne currency. Another advance in price on essential essen-tial commodities has been made by the government. President Wilson, by executive ex-ecutive order, decreed that the operators oper-ators of anthracite mines are entitled to 35 cents per ton more for their coal. With an unprecedented demand for 1-cent pieces, the coinage of the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia mint in November was the largest of any single month in its history. his-tory. In the eleven months of the present year 16,288,108 more pennies were coined than during the twelve months of 1910. National guardsmen from thirty-two states and the District of Columbia are "over there." Transported to France without the loss of a man, they have taken up quarters behind the battle bat-tle front for their final course of intensive in-tensive training before going into the trenches. Government control of imports, just put into operation by President Wilson, Wil-son, will he used to its fullest extent to force the release to America at fair prices of war supplies now held by other countries under embargoes. FOREIGN. Uprisings are in progress in the Yang-Tse-Kiang provinces, including two independence movements. Rebels in Hu-Nan province are threatening to march on Hankow. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Petrograd says that Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, addressing the Petrograd workmen's council Friday, Fri-day, announced Austria-Hungary's acceptance ac-ceptance of the Bolsheviki offer of an armistice. The supreme war council held its first session on December 1 at Versailles. Ver-sailles. It lasted two hours. Col. Edward Ed-ward M. House, head of the American mission, who with Gen. Tusker H. Bliss, United States army, attended the conference, said at its conclusion: "The results of the conference are satisfactory."- The Germans have sunk more British Brit-ish ships in the first ten months of their unrestricted U-boat warfare than Great Britain or any other nation ever has built in a full year. While negotiating with the Bolshe-' viki regime for au armistice and a separate peace, German military authorities au-thorities have renewed their campaign cam-paign to disorganize the Russian army and inoculate the soldiers with German doctrine. The British virtually have completed the consolidation of the greater part of the area wrenched from the enemy in the Oambrai push. The work accomplished ac-complished in a few days is little short of miraculous. ' Along the frontier in Palestine, from northeast of Jerusalem to the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean coast, the Turks are making demonstrations, but have not affected the British positions, it is announced officially. Four workmen were killed and two injured in au explosion in one of the buildings of the British Chemical company com-pany at Trenton, Ont. The building was destroyed by fire which followed. Sixteen nations, representing more than nine-tenths of the area of the globe, joined hands at Paris on November No-vember 20 at the first session of the interallied conference. Count George F. von Hertling, the imperial German chancellor, told the reichstag on Thursday that he was ready to enter into pence negotiations as soon as the Rusian government sends representatives having full Dowers Dow-ers to Berlin. Emphasizing the necessity of unison in the war against German autocracy and urging complete obedience to the laws and decisions made by democratic governments in order that this end may be obtained, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, delivered a patriotic address to a large audience at Toronto, Ont. Fourteen British merchantmen of 1G00 tons and over and seven 'of less than 1G00 tons were sunk by mines or submarines last week. History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed - INTERMOUNTAIN. Thelma I'ickford, seven years of age. was instantly killed and her father and 0-year-old brother. Parley, were slightly injured near North Ogden when the buggy in which they were riding was struck by an automobile. Frank G. Berry, 4.'! years of age. manager of the Royal Dancing academy acad-emy at Ogden, lired a bullet from a large caliber (.'oil's revolver through the body of his divorced wife, Harriett Berry, aged 3S years, at the academy Saturday night. Mrs. Berry may recover. re-cover. Berry is in jail. Idaho has the distinction of being the first state in the union to place behind be-hind a state's prison bars a man convicted con-victed of criminal syndicalism and sabotage. lie is J. Ottis Ellis, sentenced sen-tenced to serve from one to fourteen years at hard labor for attempting to influence laboring men to strike and damage property unless paid the wages they demanded. Resolutions calling upon the city council to impeach Mayor Hiram Gill because of his alleged laxity in suppressing sup-pressing vice were adopted at a mass meeting that filled a large theater at Seattle. Emil Koski, Finnish miner, who it is alleged, has been uttering seditious remarks, re-marks, fired a fusillade of shots at the "liberty" committee, which was seeking seek-ing to arrest him at Red Lodge, Mont. Koski then turned his rifle upon Mrs. Anna Jackson, landlady of the hotel where he stayed, and killed her. DOMESTIC. One American cavalryman, a Mexican Mexi-can foreman of an American cattle ranch and thirty-five Mexicans were killed in a battle which occurred early Saturday morning at Buena Vista, a Small hamlet on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, a few miles from In-dio, In-dio, Texas. Ligon Scott, a negro, who confessed attacking a white woman November 22, was burned at the stake on the public square at Dyersburg, Tenn., shortly after noon Sunday. A great drive to make every school child in America buy at least one 25-cent 25-cent thrift stamp during the first week of the war savings campaign, which opened Monday, is in progress. Under the new draft rules and regulations regu-lations effective December 15, men convicted of failing to register on last June 5, will be dealt with more harshly harsh-ly than under the old system. Provost General Crowder' has announced that such men, instead of being given jail sentences, as has been done in many cases heretofore, will be so listed by local boards as to insure their call with the first increment summoned after the new rules are put in force. Street car service in St. Paul was interrupted Sunday afternoon when a large crowd of men, said to ,be union sympathizers, stopped all cars in the downtown section, smashed windows and forced the motoriuen and conductors con-ductors to leave their cars. One trainman train-man who offered resistance was injured. in-jured. Hunting fatalities for the season of 1917 were cut down to twenty-three known cases, as compared with eighty-six eighty-six in 1010 and fifty-nine in 1915, according ac-cording to figures compiled by the Chicago Tribune. There were only eleven seriously injured this year, as compared with forty-one in 1910 and sixty-six in 1915. Six thousand bushels of potatoes which had been lying in Youngstown. Ohio, railroad yards until in danger of decay were seized and placed on sale by the local administration committee. com-mittee. Profits of about $900,000 on an investment in-vestment of $500,000 were made by one beet sugar refinery in southern California last year while beet growers grow-ers lost money, according to a telegram tele-gram sent to President Wilson and Food Administrator Hoover. A. A. Blender, 40 years of age, a wealthy farmer, living near Benedict, Neb., was shot to death by Louis Cbo-bar, Cbo-bar, an employee. Chobar then bound and gagged his own wife, housekeeper on the farm, and escaped in Blender's automobile. Charles Robel, manager of Lord Lister Lis-ter hospital, Omaha, was killed near Oakland, Iowa, when a car in which the parents and six brothers and sisters sis-ters of the dead man were driving ran into the ditch because of a heavy fog and overturned. A ten-Inch bomb, with an unlighted fuse, was found on the window ledge at the police station at Detroit. The city chemist sajd it contained a sufficient suffi-cient quantity of powder to have wrecked the building. |