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Show NEWS OF A WEEK If CONDENSED FORM '. i ACCORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from AU Qmrtirt of the Globe an &.lven In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Three persons we.e killed at Bingham, Bing-ham, Utah, when a t'rain backing down I he hill on the Utah Copper workings with seven loaded cars of ore crashed into an engine. Explosives undt-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 eriously Injured in a wrestling match with Jack Fisher of Emporia, Kan. Shackley fell off the platform. His kull was fiat tured and hemorrhage of the brain followed. Preliminary plans for the establishment establish-ment of a daily paper to be printed by the Colorado state federation of labor iu Denver were made at the annual convention of the federation at Pu-ablo. Pu-ablo. Col. C. C. Ballou, commanding military mili-tary forces called to Denver, following follow-ing riots growing out of the strike of street cur men, announced that troops ivill be held in Denver until street cars were being operated by Denver men and the strike-breakers sent out Df the city. Three serious fires are burning unchecked un-checked in the Flathead ifational forest for-est in northwestern Montana and two others in the same preserve have been surrounded by fire-fighters, the forest for-est service headquarters at Missoula innoimcod August 11. DOMESTIC. More than 100 diamonds, supposed to have been a part of the famous Jewels of the Bussian royal family and addressed to "Comrade Martens," have been intercepted by customs officials ivhile en route from soviet Russia to the United States. Four fires in northern California for-?sts for-?sts 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 luaranlihe officials as typhus, were liscovere.d among the 8S6' steerage passagers who arrived at New York on Uie Niagara from Bordeaux. The first blow In Chicago's new war igainst rent profiteering was struck oy the city council on Friday, the 13th, ivhen a motion was passed requesting Governor Lowdon to call a special session ses-sion of (he state legislature to give the aldermen ihe power to regulate he renls. The old bogey "Friday, the Thirteenth," Thir-teenth," has no terrors for John Smulsky of Grotou, S. D. He was Oorn on that (late, and last Fifday revived re-vived word that he was heir to a third share of a $50,000 estate. He wants to name hie latest baby "Friday." The Tennessee senate on August 13 ratified the woman suffrage amendment. amend-ment. The vote was 25 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 fl Mead is said to have owned White as 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 12, on board the transport trans-port Pocahontas from Southampton. Charles Ponzi, whose spectacular ca- reer as an investment hanker was cut shorl by the authorities, has surrendered surren-dered to the United States marshal at Bastou and was placed under arrest. He was charged with having used the mails to defraud. Twenty-five human skeletons have been found fourteen miles south of C'orptis Christi, Tex., on the west bunk of tin. Uaguna Madre. Old residents reea't the sinking of a Spanish treasure treas-ure ship In the early '40s near this place and suggest that this is the Conrad Janke, brought to Hartford. Conn., by federal officials from New York City, charged witli, draft eva-"slon. eva-"slon. hanged himself by his necktie from the bars of his cell at Hartford. He was 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 vii or before August 31, following the a :t iiit ii carmen in almost unanimous-1,' unanimous-1,' auihori'.ing their executive couimit- ;'e to lake any action necessary to secure se-cure inereased wages. Sheriff P. J. McCall was killed and Bill Foster was seriously wounded In a gun baitje with two bandits at Milo-." Milo-." o, Miiiii. Frieda Eostleman, 18-year-old Cne-ter, Cne-ter, Neb., girl, died of poison administered adminis-tered by her own father, Fred Bostle-man, Bostle-man, on the day before she was to have become married to W. J. Butske, a youii'i teacher, according to a verdict ver-dict rendered by a coroner's jury. I When he was held up by a bandit, Samuel Segal, jeweler's clerk, New York, turned iu u 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 wuh the discovery discov-ery last month of the body of his wife buried In the sands of Mission valley, near San Diego, Calif. A bolt of lightning struck a tent in which a revival was being held at La Porte, Iud., 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 iucreased $30,000,000 to absorb the wage award announced by the railroad labor boad, will he 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 United 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 262,338,000 bushels as compared with the final estimate of 103,200,000 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 Pultusk. 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 Jhe government. govern-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 oue. 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 Argeutina 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 bolsbeviki, 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.'1 Tens of thousands of rats which infest in-fest Paita, Peru, have caused the Peruvian Pe-ruvian government to order ttie town destroyed and rebuilt in a ratproof manner. The construction in Jap of thirty vessels for the United States shipping board has virtually boon completed and the board's force of Inspectors and others is preparing to return to the United States, although a small force j will remain in Tokio to take charge I of repairs and other mutters. The I.a Fayette wireless station near Bordeaux, designed and erected by American forces during the war, has been turned over to the French government. gov-ernment. 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 wintet with the grim problem of food ait its supreme test of power. From 'he Far East to the Finnish frontier, 4000 miles of undisputed undis-puted territory, the spectre of starvation starva-tion stalks. |