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Show n History of Past Week I The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed .a " INTERMOUNTAIN. F.lwood J: of 1 1 k i was ar rested charged willi - jiii J il i i t y in t li theft or $10,0(10 from I In- U'l-sr. S i 1 1 . -.Sialic lunik nf Di'inrr, Coin., fur which vA It ll U I- Cllylllle, il former I -l 1. -i- in till? bank, wu.s recently arrested at Platt.s-Imrg, Platt.s-Imrg, N. V. Following warning from federal uroiiis in s:,.i.tii. I'liii.r ,.r i,.iiM. foil. A tragedy of last w eek's hurricane was revealed when two lifeboats of tin- steamer Speedwell, lost in tin; storm, were ii i-ku'J up in tin- Gulf of Mexico Ijy a passing steamer. There win- I'ivi- ili'ail bodies in one of the boats. Tin; other colli :iiin.-i eight sailors sail-ors Sjtill alive. Income tax refunds that total jiT.iimi.iKKi will he mail to residents of Texas ami probably a half-dozen .stairs under regulations now being Iiiiiii ri'il hy the internal revenue bu-: bu-: i il. The refunds will hi- made under un-der 1 1 1 commiiniiy properly law, hy whirli one-half of all property coming inlo possession of a hiishaml alter marriage belongs to the wife. '1'liiii y-l'ive to fifty men, many of them service men from the national saniiorium a! .lolinson City, shot up ihe jail at. .loneshoro, 'j'enn., in an effort ef-fort to ohlain a negro helil in connoc-tlon connoc-tlon witli an nllack on a w'hile waitress wait-ress at Ihe saniiorium. One prisoner was slightly wounded in the attack 'kins placed special guards in Hie business busi-ness section of port laud. Jenkins was Svarneil that u bomb outrage might be al tempted. A. K. Mutz, engineer, one of six men killed at Pledmonl, Mont., when -10 Cars of a Milwaukee, Chicago & St. 'Paul freight train plunged down a trade Into a gravel train, died as a result re-sult of his efforts to avert the acei-Idenf, acei-Idenf, though he was not on duty at 'the time. Sentence of life Imprisonment has lieon pronounced upon Irvin Stoop and Jj'Ioyd Henderson, following a verdict tt Pendleton, Ore., of first degree murder for complicity in the killing of Sheriff Til Taylor in a jail break Ljuly 2o. Co-operative buying of coal is being Jilanned hy several labor organizations in the state of Colorado, to reduce the and till windows were broken. WASHINGTON. The stale department has announced that "(In and after October 2 all persons per-sons in the United States are authorized author-ized to trade and communicate" witli "all persons with whom trade and communication was prohibited" by the trading with like enemy act. The iirrest of Robert Stoekwell Hilt, former minister to Panama and Guatemala, Guate-mala, in a Washington cafe, marks the beginning of a nation-wide crusade by the prohibition enforcement authorities authori-ties to end the consumption of liu,uor in flasks in hotels, restaurants and cabarets. Miss Mabel Roardman, one of the incorporators and for many years the executive head of tne American lied Cross, now holds the highest office probably ever held by women in this country. She was recently appointed by President Wilson one of the com- cost of fuel to their members, it ha.s been announced hy officials of the Colorado State Federation of Labor. DOMESTIC. Congressman S. G. Porter, arriving 'at San Francisco with the congressional congres-sional party which has been touring Jthe Orient, declared that his observations observa-tions in the east convinced him America Amer-ica "must immediately build the largest larg-est navy In the world." The federal grand jury at Boston lhas Indicted Charles Ponzi, promoter of the scheme by which millions of dollars were obtained from investors ton promises to pay 50 per. cent prof-tits, prof-tits, on a charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud. The death toll from the Wall street explosion September 16 was increased ito thirty-eight when Alfred G. Phlpps, 128, a broker of New York City, died in j hospital. Death resulted from burns, linternal Injuries and fractures of both ilegs. Carmela Kuso, 16-year-old Italian igirl, ou trial at Centerville, Iowa, icharged with the murder of Toney Matto, was recently found guilty of Inianslaughter. Carmela shot Matto missioners for the District of Columbia. Colum-bia. This position corresponds to the mayor of a large city or the governor gover-nor of a small state. Measures to make the United States leader of the world in aviation development devel-opment will be laid before congress when it meets in December, according to Representative Julius Kahn of California, Cal-ifornia, chairman of the house military affairs committee. FOREIGN. The Dutch government, after a long investigation of the former German emperor's resources, lias decided he must pay taxes on an income of 1,500,000 guilders a year. As his income in-come admittedly fluctuates owing to the instability of foreign exchange, however, Ji.e has been granted a delay until November 1 for a definite reassessment. re-assessment. M. Laubau, French inventor of submarine sub-marine apparatus, claims development of a submarine which can 'Rifely dive to 300 feet. This is a much greater depth than that possible with present types of undersea boats. inine times at her father's home last iJune, after, she alleges, Matto made improper advances. The strike of cooks, waiters and isoda dispensers of St. Louis, called as Ithe result of the announcement of (Inauguration of the "open shop" policy lliy the Hotel and Restaurant Keepers' inssoclation, which was coupled with ithe refusal to grant increased wages, iweut into effect Friday. Acting on information furnished by in woman, Marshal George Hessni of Parma Heights village, Ohio, found Ithe murdered bodies of two men in ia creek about a mile from the Wooster IMke. Lax enforcement of prohibition was '.condemned "without qualification by Senator Harding in a front porch ispeech on October 1, outlining a policy 'of organized federal effort for the ipromotion of social justice aud wel-'fare. wel-'fare. A man giving the name of Joshua (Greenspan, who was arrested Friday ifor loitering in a Brooklyn building, iwas said by the police to have stated Die knew the identity of persons responsible re-sponsible for the Wall street explosion. Four men were injured when a navy dirigible on its way from San Diego to San Pedro, Calif., became lost in the dense fog and crashed into the side of ia hill in Laurel canyon, near Hollywood, Holly-wood, a Los Angeles suburb. In connection with the investigation .of the plot to blow up three rubber factories in Akron, Ohio, and the rouowing a conierence octween Mexican railway officials of the International Inter-national and Great Northern railway at Houston, Texas, it was announced that for the first time since 1913 through daily sleeping car service between be-tween San Antonio and Mexico City via Laredo will be installed October Octo-ber 15. Extensive strikes have broken out in Petrograd, the former capital of Russia, Rus-sia, and in the surrounding area, according ac-cording to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch dis-patch from Helsingfors. Dr. Alfred Wood Stickney, the American mining engineer, who has been held in jail at Moscow by the Russian bolsheviki authorities, has arrived ar-rived at Riga. The reason given for his imprisonment was that he was being be-ing held1 pending identification. He was released within a fortnight. The court of honor which has been considering at Santiago, Chile, the claims to the presidency of Arturo Alessandri, nominee of the liberal alliance, al-liance, and Luis Burros Borgono, candidate can-didate of the liberal unionists, decided by a vote of 5 to 2 that Senor Alessandri Ales-sandri was entitled to the presidency. Charges that the reprisals in Ireland were a calculated policy of the government, gov-ernment, that the occasion for them was often afforded by the provocation provoca-tion of agents and that a plot exists for the assassination of the Irish republican re-publican leaders, have been made by-Arthur by-Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sinn Fein organization. 'bombing of the American Legion parade pa-rade in Cleveland, Julius Passetellyak 'has been held by the police at Akron. An explosion, followed by lire, .wrecked one of the buildings at the Iplant of the Lincoln Gas & Electric 'Light company, at Lincoln, Neb., seriously seri-ously injuring four men, and left the city without gas. Fire swept a portion of the Galveston Galves-ton (Tex.) waterfront on Thursday, causing a loss estimated at $2,000,000. The blaze raged uncontrolled for uear-'ly uear-'ly nine hours, but was finally brought Hinder control by heroic work of fire-nien. fire-nien. Senator Warren G. Harding's spe-iClal spe-iClal train narrowly escaped a serious ivvreck near Millwood, W. Va., when lhe trucks of the Harding car broke jdown. The car was derailed, but no one was injured, although both the (Senator and Mrs. Harding were shaken v : Major railroads of the country re-, re-, corded a deficit of ii;,G5.'!.420 in operating oper-ating income for July, compared with jun operating income of $S0.IJ25.-1S1 in :July. 191'.), according to a summary issued by the interstate commerce Idunmissiuii. Mine. Catherine Breshkovskaya, the "Little Mother of the Russian Revolution," Revolu-tion," is seriously ill at her home in Bestyanoso, at the foot of the Car-nathians. Car-nathians. Dr. Edward S. Egbert of Philadelphia has just returned from Bestyanoso. where he took her a carload car-load of supplies for relief of the village. vil-lage. Italy will declare the war at an end October 31, the cabinet has announced. All war measures possible will be revoked re-voked then, it was announced, and the war ministry will be reduced. The latter move will restore a number of commandeered hotels to their owners. One hundred and fifty postal experts, ex-perts, representing every nation in the world which possesses an organized mail service, listened in the senate chamber at Madrid to the speech of King Alfonso, welcoming them to the international postal congress, the first to be held in six years. The Polish army continues its victorious vic-torious march, according to latest reports, re-ports, Grodno, the fortress city on the river Nieman having fallen into their hands. This places the Polish forces on the Polish boundary line proposed by the Versailles peace conference. 1 |