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Show n History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed An aerial passenger line using six I bree-passenger and two Ki-passenger airplanes soon will be established between be-tween Havana and Miami and theju-e to New York, saving forty-eight Uiw in the present New York-Havana '.rip. The Nebraska supreme court lias upheld up-held tin? constitutionality of a state law enacted ;u the last regular session ses-sion of the legislature providing for elect ion of del eg;; I OS to a const i I 11 1 i-Dllal convention December 2, next. A provisional division of !ihk) 1'niled Slates regulars, commanded by I'.ig. Gen. William II. Sage, assigned ! for service in the American army of occupation in Germany, sailed from llolioken iui the transport I'resilent I Grant. j WASHINGTON. j The department of justice has nn-I nn-I liounced that after "careful invesli-I invesli-I gation" it had decided to bring before ja IVderal grand jury in Grand Kapids ' fraud charges arising out of the noni-! noni-! illation and election of Truman H. Newberry as United States senator from Michigan. Demand of the public for new paper money to replace that which hits lost its fresh crackle has become so great that government officials are determined deter-mined to stop it. A new and more drastic anti'slrike section was written into the railroad control bill by the senate interstate commerce committee. More than 18.000 trucks and cars out of the army surplus' of 38.000 existing ex-isting when the armistice was signed have been transferred by the war department de-partment to other government bureaus. The long debated Shantung amendment amend-ment to the peace treaty, presented by Senator Lodge and approved by the foreign relations committee, finally was rejected in the senate on October 10 by a vote of 35 to 55. Secretary Glass on October 16 put his name to a check for $2, 048.309,-171.53, 048.309,-171.53, said to have been the largest ever drawn. It was made payable to the treasurer of the United States, but did not involve a transfer of that amount of money. It was made necessary nec-essary to account for redemption of certificates of indebtedness and other obligations in June. INTER MOUNTAIN. Glen Culver, ageil Ml. who oeia.iie lost five .lays previous, while hunt lug with a parly west of iloM-tierg. (Ire., sta';,e, ,m into a ranch house i:ea the head .it Coos river Sunday, ball' famished fam-ished anil barely able to tra.ol. George Frauds Kowe, advertising man iti Seattle, was arrested on an indictments returned by a New York grand jury October 3, charging him and others with selling Tjsoveig-Ken-necoti Copper company mining stock after making fraudulent representations representa-tions regarding the company's claims In Alaska. Hear Admiral Hicbardson Clover, U. S. N., retired, died on a train west of Cheyenne. He was on his way to bis home in Washington, D, ('., from California. Cal-ifornia. Admiral Clover was 73 years old. Altercations that came up when John Ranlellonl, 28, an Italian recently discharged from the American army, wanted to marry Marie, daughter of Steve Melich, a prominent Serbian of Bingham, Utah, resulted in a shooting fray at Bantelloni's house, in which I'.anlelloni, Melich and Tom liabich, another Serbian, were all fatally wounded. Lieut. French Kirby, pilot, and Lieut. Stanley C. Miller, observer, of airplane No. 44 In the transcontinental air derby, der-by, were killed at Castle Hock, Utah, when their plane, traveling westward, fell a distance of approximately 200 j DOMESTIC. Steering by compass and flying at an average speed of nearly two miles a minute, 5100 miles across the continent and return through snow, fog, clouds and rain, Lieut. IS. W. Maynard landed at Mineola, N. Y., at 1.50 o'clock Saturday Sat-urday afternoon, the first aviator to finish in the army's transcontinental air race. Celebrations were held throughout Alaska marking October IS, Alaska day, the fifty-second anniversary of the transfer of this northern territory from Russia to the United States. The army is now well below the 300,000 mark, an official statement giving the strength as 290,477, says. A casual kick at a package wrapped in newspapers lying beside a wood pile rear Fort Lee. N Y.. resulted in a police sergeant discovering $35,000 worth of drugs, Final passage by both houses of the Nebraska legislature of legislation deemed necessary because of the recent re-cent Omaha riot, has been completed. The Vernon club of the Pacific Coast league won the western minor league baseball championship by defeating St. Liml club of the American association -.. in the last of a nine-game series at Los Angeles'. Vernon won five games of the series, anil St: Paul four, A suggestion that Great Britain share the control of Gibraltar with the United States was made by Henry Mor-genthau Mor-genthau on his return from "a seven months' trip abroad, primarily as chairman chair-man of a committee appointed by 1'resident Wilson to investigate pog-f-oms in Poland. Dr. Clarence E. Wilson of Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, secretary of the temperance board of the Methodist church, at the international convention of Disciples of Christ, at Cincinnati, declared that the Elimination of the cigaret would be the U?t crusade undertaken by his church. i Lieut. Cameron Wright, lu charge of the landing field at St. Paul, Neb,, for the transcontinental air races, was instantly killed when an airplane in which he was riding as a passenger went into a tail spin and dropped 200 feet. FOREIGN. The Cologne Gazette says it understands under-stands that Germany has paid the first installment of the war indemnity. The newspaper says it consisted of deliveries deliv-eries of various commodities amounting amount-ing to 20,000,000,000 marks. Everything is in readiness to start the work of restoring to Belgium the cattle and horses taken by Germany as soon as the exchange of ratifications is made. Germany is divided into fifteen fif-teen sectors for this purpose. The game of baccarat is again allowed allow-ed in the Paris clubs since the ratification rati-fication of the peace treaty. As soon as the ban was lifted a veritable frenzy fren-zy of gambling set in all over Europe. Citizens of the northern territory of Australia, complaining as did the American colonists of "taxation without with-out representation," have determined to eject the territorial government established es-tablished in that part of the commonwealth. common-wealth. The demobilization of the French army, it is announced, is virtually completed, com-pleted, 101,000 officers' and 4,322,000 men having been mustered out. The Austrian national assembly on October 17 ratified the peace treaty of St. Genuairi. TJie ratifications was voted without debate. The German, party alone opposed favorable action, that party being a unit in unison. The steamer Pocahontas when she sailed from England for New York had on board 100 English wives of American soldiers and sailors. In many cases the wives will have with them one or two children. Prof. Guido Schneider of Riga, in a lecture at Stockholm stated that the Bolsheviki shot 23,623 men, women and children in Riga. Young girls, elegantly dressed, volunteered as executioners. exe-cutioners. An official order was issued by the government of Ireland, on Friday, releasing re-leasing all Sinn Fein prisoners from Mount Joy prison. Of forty-four prisoners, pris-oners, half are in the hospital suffering suffer-ing from the consequences of their hunger strike. Irrespective of the attitude of the United States, Japan will proceed with the execution of the Shantung terms as soon us' the three powers that have ratified the treaty England, France and Italy have exchanged the ratification ratifica-tion documents, says a Paris dispatch. At least ten German submarine were destroyed by the barrier of 57.000 mines laid in the North sea by the American navy, Read Admiral Joseph Strauss said Friday on his arrival at New York on the steamship Adriatic. Admiral Strauss said that SS.,000 mines had been picked up intact. Stuart B. Edniondson will leave his $10,000 position as district manager for an insurance company to accept the pastorate of the Lake Forest Methodist Meth-odist Episcopal church at Chicago, at .S25O0 a year, lie announced, because he says, "there are some things better bet-ter than gold." The finding of a trunk of the type used by emigrants from southern Europe, containing six skeletons on which little flesh remained, on a city dump at Cumberland, Mil., has mystified mys-tified the authorities. A marine cable by the so-called northern route connecting Cape Flattery, Flat-tery, Wash., and Asia by way of Alaska and the Philippine islands, is practical mid would suffer no interference from ice, in the opinion of war department officials. Approximately 200 steamships of which loO are engaged in overseas fervice, and all controlled by or under jurisdiction of the United States shipping ship-ping board, are now in the port of ;Nev York and delayed from sailing, or in being repaired by the longshoremen and shipyards strike. Official forecasts 'of Argentina's 1920 grain crop, not including corn, show that compared to the area planted last year, approximately 2.800.000 acres less land, was 'sown to wheat, flaxseed and oats. British merchant Vessels lost through enemy action during the war totaled 7.7"i0,000 gross tons, it is officially of-ficially announced. Submarine action was responsible for the loss of 6,035,-059 6,035,-059 tons of this total. The loss of 14.2S7 lives was involved in these sinkings, the report adds. A 000-foot Zeppelin, which was ready to start for America with a cargo of bombs to drop on 'New York when the armistice was signed, now is in a shed at Spandau. Germany. Four bandits that had been operating operat-ing near Chihuahua City were captured and hanged by a detachment of Mexican Mexi-can federal troops recently. Countess Georgina Markievicz, Sinn Fein member of parliament, was released re-leased from prison October 15, after serving a term of four months. Shu was sentenced at Mallow on June 15 for a speech in Cork 6n May 17. |