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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN COMDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlttory Information Gathered from AiJ Quarters of the Globe tna Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTA1N. Knos M. 1'arr, his wife and their two children were swept into eternity when their home was wrecked by an Immense snowslide in the Highland Boy district, two and a half miles above Bingham, Utah. Fred Fulton, Minnesota heavyweight, heavy-weight, knocked out Young Hector, Bremerton, Wash., in the first round of a scheduled four-round bout at Pvattle. Charges that Industrial Workers of the World are tampering with jury venires are being investigated at Seattle. Justin Bauer,' aged 12, was shot and instantly killed by his 10-year-old brother at Wapato, Wash. The lads were playing with a rifle given them by a Japanese playmate when it was accidentally discharged. Gertrude Baker, aged lo, of Ogden, is charged with shooting Herbert Hessler, aged 27. The girl claims she shot to save her father, who was being be-ing beaten by Hessler as the result of a prolonged dispute over water rights. Hessler will recover. Tom Morgan, arrested in the I. W. XV. hall at Centralia, Wash., following t.'je armistice day shootings', has been released from custody, it being admitted ad-mitted by the counsel for th ) state that there is insufficient evidence to convict con-vict him. The body of Fred Eggersgluss, a farmer near Twin Falls, Idaho, was found in Hock Creek canyon. Investigation Inves-tigation indicates that the man did not fall from the top of the cliff, but met death where the body was found. Foul play U suspected. DOMESTIC. Taul Little, twelve-year-old son of E. It. Little, Lexington, Ky., capitalist, who had been held for ransom by kidnapers, kid-napers, was found by police locked in a room at a local hotel, and returned to his home after an absence of two days. There will undoubtedly be a suspension suspen-sion of work in the coal mines of Illinois Illin-ois April 1. Frank Farriugton, president presi-dent of the United Mine Workers of Illinois, has announced. Adam Jackson, a negro, was hanged in the Butler county jail at I'oplar Bluffs, Mo on March 20, for assaulting assault-ing Mrs. Emma Mann, a white woman, last mouth. He was the first person to be executed in Missouri since capital cap-ital punishment was restored last July. Although their terms had been carried car-ried out, and .f2fi,000 in currency, wrapped in a bundle placed in a public pub-lic garbage can in the business dis trict at Lexington, Ky., kidnapers of Paul Little, 12-year-old son of E. It. Little, capitalist, failed to put in an appearance, and the boy is still in the hands of his captors. Recent; advances in the price of sugar su-gar by California refiners are to lie investigated by the United Slates attorney's at-torney's office at San Francisco, with a view to action by the federal grand jury. Stabbed in the neck by an unknown assailant and lying beside the body of a man strangled to death, the dead body of Dr. Simpson Campisi, a successful suc-cessful Williamsburg physician, was discovered Thursday in a furnished room In Brooklyn. Tlio submarine II-l, which was wrecked on ilie shoals off Santa Margarita Mar-garita island, Lower California, was pulled off the rocks by the U. S. S. Vestal, repair ship, only to sink furly-fivo furly-fivo minutes later in fifty feet of water. Twenty-nine warships headed by the cruiser Brooklyn, flagship of Bear Ad-lirral Ad-lirral Henry Biley, have sailed from San Diego for Honolulu to participate partici-pate iu the Hawaiian mission celebration celebra-tion centennial. Seven h'St n ..vers from San Francisco will join the warships war-ships en route. Earnings of the United States Steel corporation for 1DUI ngurcgated Slf.2,-2IM Slf.2,-2IM i.0.'i:, a decrease of S?.Vi.:i:k. I(;.", from 1!0S. according to the detailed report Issued at New York. A signed statement that tie has evidence evi-dence that Ambrose ISlcr'-e, noted satirist, sat-irist, who disappeared In Hllo, was put to deatli by a Vlllista firing squad uear the village of Icamoli on the trail to Monterey, lias been made in the San Francisco Bulletin by James H. Wiikins, a special writer. Frank I'inano, 37 years old, is in a Chicago hospital seriously wounded, while, his father, who shot him "to save his soul," awaits anxiously the outcome of the boy's struggle for life. The father UM-d his revolver to keep his wayward son from crime. J 'rev ions Texas court records involving in-volving the death penalty probably were broken at San Augustine when John Hood I'rice, 4.'!, negro, was legally le-gally hanged for the recent murder it John Kennedy, a fanner, less than twenty-four hours after Lis arrest and '-onvV;' "- Three bandils with a show of politeness po-liteness held up a clothing shop In Philadelphia, bound and gagged four men and a girl, gathered together nearly $-100, four watches and some clothing and escaped. They refused to take the money of a girl customer. Anthracite mine owners have gone on record as opposed to granting the hard coal diggers' demands for an Increase In-crease in wages of at least 1S..S more than the 25 per cent increase just granted the bituminous miners. Kissing is unsanitary until sunshine and fresh air have sterilized the lips, according to Dr. Law-son Brown of Saranac Lake, who told the New York state medical society at its convention conven-tion that "it's a good thing for the human race that courting is done at night and in the late afternoon." WASHINGTON. A direct charge that big financial interests are trying to buy the national nation-al conventions of bolh the Republican and Democratic parties, was made in the senate on March 20 by Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, in a speech advocating congressional action to regulate reg-ulate the preconvention expenditures of candidates for the presidency. Appropriations of $200,000 for forest fire protection in the west were included in-cluded in the annual agriculture appropriation ap-propriation bill by the senate. Capt. Leigh C. Palmer, who as chief of the bureau of navigation during the war was responsible for obtaining and distributing officers and men, testified tes-tified before the senate committee that a shortage of personnel was the American "navy's Initial handicap in the war." With a warning against profiteering, profiteer-ing, President Wilson has ordered abandonment of government control over bituminous coal prices and asked miners and operators to negotiate a new working agreement on the basis of the majority report of the coal strike settlement commission. The senate has co V'irmed the nomination nom-ination of William Martin Williams of Alabama to be collector of internal inter-nal revenue, vice Daniel C. Roper, 'resigned. 're-signed. FOREIGN Allan Bell, resident magistrate, 70 years old, and for many years an official of-ficial of the Royal Constabulary, was dragged by a gang, some of whom were masked, from a crowded tram-car tram-car in Dublin and shot four times before the eyes of the passengers. jlermine Koller, a well known German Ger-man moving picture actress of Dresden, Dres-den, was killed, and several other actors ac-tors and actresses were injured near Innsbruck in the upper steppes of the Wild Gratz mountain when an imitation imita-tion avalanche, which was to envelop the group, developed into a real avalanche. ava-lanche. Five million dollars in bills, found in a sack in the corridor of the Simple!) Sim-ple!) Express have been seized and confiscated at the Temesvar station on the Rumanian-Hungarian fronlier, says a Bucharest dispatch., The ownership own-ership of the money at present is not known. The Bolshevik! hove occupied Mia-kop, Mia-kop, a town in the territory of Kuban, Ciscaucasia, according to a wireless message sent out by the Russian soviet so-viet governent at Moscow. Germany's organized labor, insisting insist-ing upon its veto right promised it in return for calling off the general strike, has definitely wrecked the Baur government. A bitter attack upon Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain was delivered in the chamber of deputies on March 25 by Jean Louis Barthou, the former for-mer premier, in connection with tiie discussion of France's foreign policy. The Dominion government is asked to debar enemy aliens from entry into Canada for fifteen years in a resolution resolu-tion adopted by the Croat War Veterans' Vet-erans' association. Elihu Root lias accepted the invitation invita-tion to become a member of the committee com-mittee agreed upon at the London meeting of the council of the league of nations to work out the delails for the constitution of a permanent court of international justice. Order Is slowly emerging out of Ihe confusion and chaos of the last ten days In the industrial centers of Saxony. Sax-ony. The workmen are capitulating and calling off the strike and the mil-itary mil-itary are taking 5vcr control of the oil ies. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist, died of heart disease' March 21, in n London hospital. Mrs. Ward was one of Ihe best known of English novelists. novel-ists. She was born in Tasmania ill TS51. An entire Mexican farm settlement near Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, was wiped out when I laiiejsco Villa and his followers mastered more than fifty men. women ami children and bun ed their homes and crops. A strike of ihe miners in England Ms rigaided as almost Inevitable, rn Premier Lloyd George has declined to negotiate further with Ihe miners' federation. fed-eration. The Bauer cabinet, a coalition of social-democrats, centrists and democrats, demo-crats, which i'or wise tactical reasons fled from Berlin In the dawn of the unlucky thirteenth of March, has presented Its resignation to President Ehert. Each minister placed his portfolio port-folio at disposal of the nation's chief execut i ve. Sanguinary troubles between Christians Chris-tians and Moslems In Syria are expected ex-pected as a result of Ihe boycott declared de-clared against France and Eng'and by Emir Feisal, newly elecied king of Syria. |