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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A lEIfSjeiS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Homo and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepared for Busy Man I NTERM OU NTAI N. Frank P. Walsh, former chairman of the, federal industrial relations commission, has announced that he would not take charge of the defense of the Industrial Workers of the World in jail in Seattle in connection with the riot at Everett, Wash. Six men were killed and twenty or thirty others were wounded Sunday in a pitched battle at the Everett (Wash.) city wharf between 250 members mem-bers of the Industrial Workers of the World, who came there from Seattle on the steamer Verona, and a posse of 150 citizens who objected to the landing of the I. W. W. Work on the installation of a $500,-O00 $500,-O00 branch packing plant of the Cuda-hy Cuda-hy Packing company in Salt Lake City is to commence this week and the plant is to be ready for operation by January l of next year. Two robbers, one a white man and the other a negro, attempted to hold up the cashier of the Union Park bank at Spokane. Frank Magart, a groceryman, who entered the bank, was shot by the robbers, who then fled. E. B. Taylor, charged with killing E. S. Burleson, a relative of Postmaster Postmas-ter General Burleson, Is under sentence sen-tence of five years in the penitentiary after a trial at San Antonio, Texas, on a change of venue. At a previous trial the jury disagreed. Three men entered the Bromide (Oklahoma) State bank on Monday, tied the cashier fo the door of the safe and escaped with $3,000, all the money they could find. High steps and unswept floors on the cars of the Chicago surface lines have moved a large number of women to sign a petition of protest to the street car company. They say it is impossible to keep their dresses clean under present conditions. Eighteen negroes and nine white men met death as a result of a gas explosion in a coal mine near Birmingham, Birming-ham, Ala. WASHINGTON. The supreme court has consented to review a decree of lower federal courts ordering deportation of thirty-five thirty-five Hindoos from San F'rancisco, who were ill and likely to become public charges. Under the new law the war department depart-ment has set November 30 as the last day on which national guardsmen shall take the so-called dual oath and has notified the units that those which fail to comply cannot share in the federal fed-eral funds. Dr. Theodore Constantin Dumba, former Austrian ambassador to the United States, at his own request; has been retired from the diplomatic service serv-ice by the emperor. Reports from 124 out of 185 railways rail-ways whose revenues exceed $1,000,-000, $1,000,-000, issued by the interstate commerce commission, show that their net revenue reve-nue from railway operation in October Octo-ber ran up to $246,558,236, an increase of more than $40,000,000 over the previous pre-vious September. Seattle, Wash., was named at the concluding session of the fifteenth tri-enniel tri-enniel assembly of the general grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star at Louisville, Ky., as the place for holding the next convention of that body in 1919. Rollo C. Evans, 21, was shot and instantly in-stantly killed on Swauk prairie, fifteen fif-teen miles northeast of Ellensburg, Wash., by Walter Hansen, son of John Hansen of Seattle. The two men had previously engaged in a fist fight in which Evans was the victor. DOMESTIC. The Arizona corporation commission commis-sion has complained to the interstate commerce commission that the Santa Fe and other railroads charge higher Ireight rates on general traffic from the east to Arizona than from the east to California and that this is prejudicial to Arizona. In the course of his closing campaign cam-paign speech at Lincoln, Neb., William Wil-liam J. Bryan, former secretary of state, served notice to the world that with the 1916 campaign at an end he would next turn his energies to the cause of national prohibition. A census of the coal supply in New York City to determine whether speculators spec-ulators are taking advantage of CSe public in certain sections has been begun be-gun by the police. Mayor Gilbert Richardson, in jail at Batesville, Ark., following the killing kill-ing of Farell Padgett, 23, issued a statement through his attorney that : he will plead self-defense, alleging that Padgett tried to invade his home: Captain Paul Koenig of the merchant mer-chant submarine Deutschland has been elected an honorary member of the Harvard Deutscher Verein. Charles Adams, descendent of President Presi-dent John Quincy Adams and brother broth-er of Mrs. Clara Adams Darling, founder of the Daughters of the American Amer-ican Revolution and the Daughters of 1812, died Sunday of heart disease in his home in Chicago. William Gedney Bunce, famous In art circles as a painter of. Venetian marine scenes, died in a hospital at Hartford, Conn., as the result of injuries in-juries received when he was struck by an automobile. Plots to dynamite two stations on the Interborough Rapid Transit company's com-pany's subway system in New York were thwarted, according to the police, po-lice, by the arrest Friday of six men. Homer Heard and W. W. Dunn were found guilty at Little Rock, Ark., ot robbing an express car on a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train. Heard, son of a well-known Little Rock attorney, attor-ney, and Dunn, formerly a railroad conductor, have been tried three times and convicted twice. Another alleged member of the gang ot blackmailers, whose operations against wealthy men and women in many cities attracted considerable attention at-tention in recent months, was arrested arrest-ed in New York on Friday. George Bush, an actor, was taken into custody. cus-tody. Announcement is made that the domestics, do-mestics, women cooks, waitresses, scrub girls, chambermaids, and, in fact, all female servants of Duluth, are being organized into a union under the standard of the Industrial Workers of the World. The European war is held responsible respon-sible for the increase in the cost of the burial supplies and a consequent ad vance announced by New York undertakers under-takers for funeral services. The women of San Antonio are to be asked to bake sufficient cakes, pies and cookies for the Thanksgiving dinner din-ner of the 15,000 troops stationed at Camp Wilson. Mrs. Sarah Lierly, S7 years of age, near Quincy, Ills., will cast her first vote next week, and she has a total of fifty-seven direct descendants who will also vote. J Columbia has protested to the United Unit-ed States against the new canal route treaty with Nicaragua, on the ground that the granting of a ninety-nine-year lease to this government by Nicaragua of Great Corn and Little Corn islands is a denial of Colombian sovereignty in those islands. FOREIGN. Mrs. Dion Boucicault, the British actress, who has appeared many times on the American stage, died in London, November 6. Major Villareal of the Seventeenth cavalry of the de facto army, after being left for dead by Villistas in the vicinity of Chihuahua, arrived at Monterey, Mon-terey, five days later, according to advices reaching Laredo. His ears had been amputated and the skin had been cut in strips from his feet, the report said. The eight-hour working day in So-nora So-nora went into effect November 6 in the large mines of the state at Cana-nea, Cana-nea, Nacozari and El Tigre, in accordance ac-cordance with a recent decree of Governor Huerta. Francisco Villa and his main command com-mand are marching toward Mesa de Sandias, thirty-five miles southwest of Parral, where a quantity of ammunition ammuni-tion and arms and a large drove of horses are known to be hidden for the Villa forces, according to an American Am-erican refuee from Chihuahua City. Counter-attacking against Field Marshal von Mackensen's armies in Dobrudja, the combined Russians and Roumanians, under their new Russian Rus-sian commander, General Sakaroff, have forced the Teutonic allies to fall back on a front of eighteen miles. The Bucharest war office announces that Roumanian forces in Dobrudja have compelled the retirement of Teutonic Teu-tonic troops which in their retreat set fire to several villages. The villages burned were Daent, Garlicht, Rosman and Galdiar. It is reported at Geneva that Prince Leopold of Bavaria will be the new king of Poland. The prince is one of the leading generals of the German army -and has lately been in command com-mand of an army on the eastern front. Repulsing Austrian counter-attacks with the bayonet, the Italians have further advanced and straightened out their lines on the Carso plateau, opening the way for a new blow, according ac-cording to an official statement issued is-sued at Rome. A record number of votes was polled on the conscription referendum in Australia, but the figures are still incomplete. Out of a total of 2,007,-000 2,007,-000 votes counted, the majority against conscription is 73,000. In the first two days of the new Italian offensive the Austrians lost 39,000 men, according to a dispatch from Rome. Continuing their powerful offensive against Trieste, the troops of General Count Cadorna, under the eye of the king and the Duke of Aosta, have gained fresh successes south of Gorizia. Go-rizia. It is officially announced that Lieutenant Lieu-tenant General Bryan T. Mahon, commander com-mander of the British forces on the western frontier in Egypt, has been appointed to succeed Major General Sir John Maxwell as commander of the British forces in Ireland. Poland, rich in romance, of storied interest almost unparalleled in fascination, fasci-nation, was re-created on November 5. Proclamations re-establishing the right of the Polish nation to control its own destinies were read at Warsaw War-saw and at Lublin. The Danish ship Esbern Snare has been abandoned at sea on fire. Her crew was saved and landed at St. Michaels, Azores. Great Britain's total revenues last year, it is announced, were $1.6S6,-000.000. $1.6S6,-000.000. Of this England alone supplied more than SI per cent- |