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Show B OF A WEEK l CONDENSED FOi RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making Hitter Information Gathered from AU Quarter of the Globe kntt G.lvn In a Few Line. INTER MOUNTAIN. Three persons we.-e killed at Bingham, Bing-ham, Utah, when a train backing "down the hill on the Utah Copper workings with seven loaded cars of ore crashed into an engine. V- Explosives undi.-r the rails on the Stout street car line at Denver damaged dam-aged the track and crippled a car Friday. Fri-day. No one was injured." Joe Shackley of Ogden, Utah, was seriously injured in a wrestling match with Jack Fisher of Emporia, Kan. Shaekley fell off the platform. His skull was fral tured and hemorrhage 3f the brain followed. Preliminary plans for the establishment establish-ment of a dally paper to be printed by the Colorado state federation of labor in Denver were made at the annual convention of the federation at Pu- 31)1.1. Col. C. C. Ballou, commanding military mili-tary forces called to Denver, following follow-ing riots growing out of the strike of street car men, announced that troops ivill be held in Denver until street cars were being operated by Denver men and the strike-breakers sent out of the city. Three serious fires are burning unchecked un-checked in the Flathead National forest for-est in northwestern Montana and two others in the same preserve have been surrounded by fire-fighters, the for-pst for-pst service headquarters at Missoula announced August 11. , DOMESTIC. More than 100 diamonds, supposed co have been a part of the famous jewels of the Russian royal family and addressed lc "Comrade Martens," have' Been intercepted by customs officials while en route from soviet Itussia to the United States. Four fires in northern California for-fsls for-fsls are beyond control and the situation situ-ation is as serious as at any time in the last few years, said a statement from federal forest service headquarters headquar-ters at San Francisco. Two cases of Illness, diagnosed by luanmtine officials as typhus, were 3iscovered among the SS6 steerage passiigers who arrived at New York on ;he Niagara from Bordeaux. The first blow in Chicago's new war igainst rent profiteering was struck ty ihe city council on Friday, the 13th, (vhen a motion was passed requesting Governor liwden to call a special ses-, ses-, sion of ihe state legislature to give the aldermen the power to regulate die rents. The old bogey "Friday, the Thirteenth." Thir-teenth." has no terrors for John Smulsky of Croton, S. D. He was norn on that date, and last FrTday re-t-eived word that lie was heir to a third shave of a $50,000 estate. He wants to name his latest baby "Friday." The Tennessee senate on August 13 ratified the woman suffrage amendment. amend-ment. The vote was "5 to 4. Ernest White, 29, is dead and Jack Mead, 30, is in jail at Forsyth, Mo., following a pistol duel between the farmers, culminating in a quarrel over (a Mend is said to have owned White s part of wages for working at the Mead farm. Senator Harding has decided to make his first important speech away from Marion on the occasion of the Minnesota state fair at Minneapolis during the first week of September. The body of Maj. Gen. William G. Gorgas. late surgeon general of the United States army, arrived at New York, August V2, ou board the transport trans-port Pocahontas from Southampton. Charles Ponzi, whose spectacular ca- reer as an Investment banker was cut short by the authorities, has surrendered surren-dered to the United States marshal at Hasten and was placed under arrest. He was charged with having used the mails to defraud. Twenty-five humau skeletons have been found fourteen utiles south of Corpus Christi, Tex., on the west bank of tin l.aguna Madre. Old residents reca'i the sinking of a Spanish treasure treas-ure ship in the early MPs near this place and suggest that this is the Conrad Janko, brought to Hartford. Conn-, by federal officials from New York City, charged witl draft evasion, eva-sion, hanged himself by his necktie from the bars of his cell at Hartford. He wns dead when found by the janitor. jani-tor. A joint resolution calling for ratification ratifi-cation of the woman suffrage amendment amend-ment to the federal constitution was Introduced in the Tennessee legislature. legisla-ture. " Des Moines faces a street car strike w,n or before August 31, following the a -lion of carmen in almost unanimous-1 unanimous-1 authorising their executive commit-' commit-' ;e to take any action necessary to secure se-cure imreased wages. Sheriff P. .1. McCall was killed and . Bill Foster was seriously wounded in a gun batik' with two bandits at Milo-.- 3, M:lili. Frieda Bostleman, lS-yenr-o'd Cues-j Cues-j ter, Neb., girl, died of poison adminls-, adminls-, tered by her own father, Fred Bostle-' Bostle-' man. on the day before she was to have become married to W. J. P.utske, j a youi'g teacher, according to a verdict ver-dict r ndered by a coroner's jury. I lien he was held up by a bandit, : Samuel Segal, jeweler's clerk, New York, turned in a fire instead of police po-lice alarm. The firemen responded to the call and captured the bandit. F. Frash, chief pharmacist mate on the U. S. S. Prairie, was held by the police in connection with the discovery discov-ery last month of the body of his wife buried In the sands of Mission valley, near San Diego, Calif. A boll of lightning struck a tent in which a revival was being held at I.a Porte. Ind., killing two ministers and severely burning a third. Many of the worshippers were knocked down. WASHINGTON. Imports of sugar Into the United States during the fiscal year of 1920 exceeded exports by over 6,000,000,000 pounds. The American Railway Express company com-pany has made application to the interstate in-terstate commerce commission to increase in-crease their rates so as to cover the recent wage increase to employees. The department of justice is conducting con-ducting an investigation into the textile tex-tile industry to determine whether the closing of cotton and woolen mills is due to a conspiracy by manufacturers to continue high prices. Japanese are getting' large tracts of land in Mexico, because they fear they are about to be barred from California, according to reports to the state department de-partment from Senator Phelan. An organization for the international internation-al labor office of the league of nations na-tions has been completed and is now functioning, the department of labor has announced. President Wilson on August 10 recalled re-called the joint scale committee of operators and miners of the central competitive coal field to reconsider the wage award of the bituminous . coal commission. Recommendations that express rates be increased ,30,000,000 to absorb the wage award announced by the railroad labor boad, will be filed with the interstate in-terstate commerce commission soon. FOREIGN. The assassin's bullet, which split the shoulder blade of Premier Venize-lous Venize-lous of Greece into four pieces, was removed in an operation which was declared successful. The French government is sending a note to the Unilgd States expressing pleasure that the French and American Ameri-can views on the Russo-Polish situation situa-tion are "in complete accord." Canada's 1920 wheat crop is estimated estimat-ed by officials of the agricultural department de-partment at 202,338,000 bushels as-compared as-compared with the final estimate of 193,200,000 bushels last year. In the north the Poles are still falling fall-ing back, an official statement announcing an-nouncing they have evacuated Mlawa and Pul tusk. Five paymasters carrying 300,000 pesos left Mexico City on August 13 to pay off followers of Francisco Villa, it is officially announced. A personal escort of fifty men will be given Villa, the soldiers being paid by the govera-' ment. Antwerp Belgians who suffered in the war have launched a radical movement move-ment against the few score Germans who, since the peace treaty became effective, ef-fective, have managed to re-establish themselves in business there. Polish forces defending Warsaw are outnumbered about two and a half to one. Details as to the bolshevik military mili-tary organization, received in official circles, place the ration strength of the soviet army at 350,000 men. The strength of the Poles has been estimated esti-mated at 140,000. Walter Winans, widely known American Amer-ican resident of London, collapsed and died while driving his horse, Henrietta Guy, in a race at Parsloes park. Following announcement that government gov-ernment agents had discovered large hoards of sugar, alleged to be controlled con-trolled by speculators, the Argentina government has asked congress to sanction a law permitting expropriation expropria-tion of 200,000 tons. Poland, in an official proclamation issued at Warsaw, has solemnly warned the world that, if she is overthrown over-thrown by the Russian bolsheviki, her fall will be due not only to "overbearing "over-bearing might," but to the "indifference "indiffer-ence of a world which calls itself democratic." Tens of thousands of rats which infest in-fest Paita, Peru, have caused "the Peruvian Pe-ruvian government to order the town destroyed and rebuilt in a rat proof manner. The construction in .Taprf of thirty vessels for the United States shipping board has virtually been completed and the board's force of Inspectors and i others is preparing to return to the United States, although a small force will remain in Tokio to take charge i of repairs and other manors. j The I. a Fayette wireless station near j Bordeaux, designed and erected by American forces during the war, has been turned over to the French gov- i eminent. It is the most powerful plant in existence with double the range of the Annapolis installation. Flushed with success and confident of Poland's defeat, soviet Russia faces the approaching winter with the grim problem of food an its supreme test of power. From 'he Far Fast to the , Finnish frontier, 4000 miles of undis- I puled territory, the pecrre of starvation starva-tion stalks. I |