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Show Inspect ion of I lie vessel lest het ween Key West, Flu., ami Ihivana in llio recent linn-icane lias cmi inced Tiear Admiral Deckel'. cummandin.L' lliis naval (lisliic, that she is Ihe Spanish sleamer N'all.aneia. which carried -KM) passengers anil a crew !' N-S. The railroad shopmen have reached an agreement wiih I'nited Stall's Kail-road Kail-road Ailminisi raior WalUcr D. Mines, it was reporied al New York. Six in-ternaiional in-ternaiional unions, represent in l00.-1)0(1 l00.-1)0(1 shopmen, have agreed to accept wime increases ran.L'iii as hili as JO coins an hour and an ei;ht. Iioiir work day. SI liuu' and Uillin one man who alloinpicil lo nive warning, auinniohile ! haudiis lii'hl up a hraneh of the (irand Knpids, (Mich.) Savings hank and escaped Willi several Ihoiisand dollars. WASHINGTON. The government is ready to proceed wiih all anti-irusl cases pending in the .supreme court. They will he arfiued during i he term bejiiniiin;; October (!, unless some ai i in del'i'inlants obtain a coiuainuunce. Trices of food increased ier cent in Aujiust as compared with July and reached the highest point in the nation's na-tion's history despite the jjovernmeni's campaign to reduce the cost of living. At a joint session of the senate and bouse on Thursday, General Pershing received the thanks of a grateful nation na-tion for bis leadership (luring the world war. No wage increases will be granted at this time to navy yard employees or workmen in sbipwards engaged on government work, representatives of the Emergency Fleet corporation and the navy department have decided at. a conference held at the navy department. depart-ment. Opposition of several members, privately pri-vately expressed, caused house leaders lead-ers to abandon the imposed appropriation appropri-ation of $10.1X10 for t lie gift of a sword to General Pershing. The house has passed and sent to the senate a bill making transportation transporta-tion of a stolen automobile from one state to another subject to live years' imprisonment and $5000 tine. FOREIGN. Great Britain's treaty with Persia does not constitute a protectorate of the latter country in any way, the only object of the agreement being to insure in-sure Persia an opportunity to work out her destiny as an independent country, says Earl Cur.on. The five leading Sinn Feiner organs and transport workers' newspapers of Dublin, as well as several provincial weeklies, were supresscd Saturday by the police because they had published advertisements for the so-called Irish Republican loan. General Buratolf, the representative in Georgia of General Denekine, the anti-Bolshevik leader in South liussia, was severely injured and the Georgian general Odesledize injured by the explosion ex-plosion of a bomb thrown into General Gen-eral Bura toft's automobile. The peace negotiations which had been in progress between the Bolshe-viki Bolshe-viki and the Esthouians and Poles have been broken otf, according to a wireless dispatch to the Estbonian press bureau at Copenhagen. An official wireless dispatch from Berlin, dated Saturday, says that the Belgian ambassador at The Hague having been withdrawn, and the Dutch ambassador at Brussels also has been withdrawn. Premier Clemenceau's intervention in the debate on the electoral law, which threatened to be prolonged indefinitely, in-definitely, settled the discussion in a few minutes, the government taking n n History of PastWeek pyj,uwilijjLiiwii llllllWIIIlWd M imaMM mum m mm The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER MOUNTAIN. Virtual reorganizai ion of affairs nf ihe Portland Kailuay. Lighl anil Pow-'' Pow-'' company and gram of a new franchise fran-chise by the city, out of, which is lo be horn a three-party partnership of company, employees and public, is proposed pro-posed to the city council by J. P. Newell, city Iraflic expert, as a solution solu-tion of the railway problem. Five Portland physicians were indicted in-dicted for dispensing narcotics in violation vio-lation of the Harrison narcotic law in a report returned by the United States district, grand jury. The rush is over in relieving cattle cat-tle in the drought area of Montana, the United States department of agriculture, agri-culture, announces. The situation is so satisfactory that the office at Billings Bill-ings will be closed. At least $2"),(HHI was obtained by a robber who bound and gagged a mail clerk on an easi hound Northern Pacific pasenger train between Seattle and Kanasket, Wash. The bill authorizing transfer to the city of Boulder, Colo., of 400 additional addi-tional acres in the Colorado national forest for the city's water plant has been approved by congress. Closing down of all Grays Harbor salmon canneries is threatened as the result of a strike of fishermen at Aberdeen, Wash., who demand more money for fish. Packers declare canned can-ned salmon prices are weakening and that higher prices cannot be paid. Ar initiative petition to make unlawful un-lawful the sale, use or possession of cigarettes in Oregon after January 1, 1021, has been filed with the secretary of state by D. E. Frost of Portland, initiator of the measure. It will be given a ballot title. DOMESTIC. Two unmasked bandits held up and nibbed the Citizens' National bank of Kalston, a suburb, five miles south of Omaha, shortly after noon Saturday. After locking the cashier in his cage and lining four customers against the wall, they stole $1000 and made their escape. The convention of the United Mine Workers of America at Cleveland developed de-veloped its plan for the nationalization nationaliza-tion of coal mines. Walter Majors, declared to be the third man of a trio of bank robbers wanted for extensive operations in Kansas this summer, lias been arrested in St. Louis. Theodore P. Shouts, president of the hiterborough Rapid Transit, company, died at his home in New York on Sun-dp Sun-dp y. Four chorus members of the Chicago Chi-cago Opera company and one of the Metropolitan Opera company were excluded ex-cluded from the country Sunday by a board of special inquiry at Ellis Island. Clashes between Pennsylvania state police and crowds bent on holding labor la-bor mass meetings in the Pittsburg district Sunday ushered in the strike in the iron and steel industry. the stand that the elections should be held according to the law of July last, providing for proportional representation. represen-tation. Germany will comply with the demand de-mand of the allied supreme council to declare null and void the objectionable paragraph in the German constitution looking to Austria's union with Germany Ger-many and providing for Austrian representation rep-resentation in the German reichstdat, or council of the realm, which may be compared to our senate. The Polish forces in Russia have driven the Bolsheviki to the northern bank of the Dvina river as far as Dis-nn Dis-nn and have occupied Korohtenehtop. On the Ukranian front, the Bolsheviki have forced General Peflura out of Radomysl, but apparently are not attempting at-tempting yet to recapture Kiev itself. The assertion is made by the Vor-waerts Vor-waerts correspondent that the German military movement in the Baltic provinces prov-inces is rapidly growing and that officers offi-cers and men are arriving there daily from Germany. Posters displayed at Courland. says the correspondent, read: "Fight for the kaiser and the empire against democracy." An important conference has been in session al. Riga considering not only peace with the soviet government of Russia but the formation of a Baltic federal ion. Summary of the Bulgarian treaty of peace, cabled lo the state department by the American mission at Paris, shows the pact to follow the same general gen-eral plan as Ihe Austrian treaty. Soaring prices for rice have caused an industrial crisis in the Philippine Islands. For years ,tlie islands have i not produced enough rice for home consumption and at present, owing tn 'nit'avoralile exchange rales and high , pries obtainable for the cereal in o! her oriental ports, imported rice has leached a very advanced figure. Six thousand dollars gold was paid Mexicans for ihe release of Dr. J. W. Smith, an American, anil E. Monson (Munsen), believed to be a subject of Sweden, who were taken from a train near Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua. A campaign has just been launched iigainsl. an enemy that kills one American Amer-ican every three minutes, night and day, or a total of 150,000 during the past year. The enemy is tuberculosis tuberculo-sis and the campaign is conducted by Ihe National Tuberculosis association, with its 1000 affiliated state and local lo-cal societies. Federal Judge Landi.S' started the first wholesale drive against saloons of Chicago on Saturday when he held sixteen men to the grand jury in bonds of $15,000 each and detained one man as a witness in $5000 bonds in the beer smuggling cases which arose from ihe transportation of beer across the Wisconsin and Illinois line. Hundreds of thousands of bushels of w heal are on the ground in danger of rotting in western Nebraska because elevators are already filled and because be-cause there is a shortage of railroad cars together with an embargo on wheal shipments to Omaha and Kansas Kan-sas Cily. The Anti-saloon League of America will enter national politics iiiunedi-alely. iiiunedi-alely. il was announced at Chicago, to on force the demand that, the political parties next year nominate candidates for president who are openly pledged to unreserved enforcement of the prohibition pro-hibition amendment to the federal cousl it ut ion. The eating of meat was the target of attacks in addresses delivered before be-fore the international conference at New York of woman physicians. Five thousand well-to-do British women, wo-men, determined to obtain American husbands, soon will arrive in the United Unit-ed Slates, according to a warning issued is-sued lo bachelors by Mrs. S. C. Seymour Sey-mour of Camden. N. J., who has just returned from Europe. The Anti-Saloon League of America, al a conference of its officers and siale superintendents at Chicago, announced an-nounced a plan to raise a fund of $50,-000.000 $50,-000.000 in the next five years, for support sup-port of a campaign for world prohibition, prohi-bition, law enforcement and education, and Americanization. |
