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Show NEWSOFlWEEK i!i CONDENSED FORI RECORD Or THB IMPORTANT VENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happsnlngs That Are Miking History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe tuts) Given In a Fsw Lino. INTERMOUNTAIN. Notice that "the lid is on and it stays on," was served on Montana law enforcement officers by Attorney General Wellington D. Rankin, who assumed office January 3. John Foster, a convict who escaped from Folsom prison, California, last week, was captured at Reno, New, as. he was boarding a moving train. As the sheriff seized him. Foster fell and broke his collar bone. Colorado's twenty-third general assembly as-sembly was sworn in at noon on January Janu-ary 5. The state supreme court has declared de-clared constitutional the soldiers' bonus bill, passed By popular referendum referen-dum at the November election in Washington. Wash-ington. The decision will permit payment pay-ment to service men of $15 for each month they served during the war. For the next four years the state government of Utah will be in the hands of Charles R. Mabey, who became be-came governor at noon on January 3. Thirty-one murders and fifty-three suicides were committed in Denver during 1920, according to figures made public by the police department. This breaks all previous records, officials of-ficials announced. Four murders occurred oc-curred in December. A New Year's spree ended fatally at Boulder, Colo., when Henry Huff, a ranch hand, was shot and killed by John Bay after Huff and a companion had attempted to enter Bay's home. DOMESTIC. Police officers, municipal or state as well as federal, are in duty bound to make arrests for violation of the national prohibition law, according to a decision rendered by the Third district dis-trict court of appeals at Sacramento, Cal. Lieutenant James B. Owens of Baltimore, Bal-timore, an officer in the Philippine scouts, ended his life at Manila. It is believed that fear of a court martial, because of absence from his command more than a week without leave, prompted the act. Six persons perished, two others probably will die and three more were seriously burned in a fire which destroyed de-stroyed the Royal hotel at England, Ark. For the third time within a year the New York state assembly has been asked to expel the Socialist representation, represen-tation, which this year includes three members. Four resolutions, demanding demand-ing that the seats of Charles Solomon and Henry Jager, members from Kings, and Samuel Orr of the Bronx be declared vacant, were offered by Republicans. Volume of traffic through the Panama Pan-ama canal during 1920 established a new high record, exceeding that of 1919 by approximately 50 per cent. Ulysses and Anna Jackson and Anna Wallace, all colored, were arrested ar-rested by federal agents at Chicago, charged with flooding the country with thousands of dollars' worth of ,fl and $2 bills raised to $10 and $20 denominations. denom-inations. Mixing mooiisniue mash in a paint pail almost caused the death of eight men who drank the concoction, it was learned at Boston. For several dttys the drinkers were at the point of death. Two women were burned to death In a fire which destroyed the Lone Star hotel at Desdemonda, an oil town in Texas. The victims were Mrs. Bantell and her 19-year-old daughter, members of a vaudeville company. W. G. Moore, first negro to bj seated seat-ed in the Missouri legislature, took oath of office January 5 with other members of the house. He was elected from the Sixth district, the fasliion-nble fasliion-nble "West End" of St. Louis. J. A. Coleman of Manhattan, Kaus., is displaying eighty-five pearls, varying in size, which he declared he found-in a single oyster shell. The oyster was in a lot purchased at a local market. Boiler C. Rannavalona, a negro preacher, in an alleged confession to police at St. Louis, admitted he and his wife had poisoned and beat to death Wardel Bates, his wife's former husband, at VInita, Okl.t., last August. A drunken hog, aided by an intoxicated intoxi-cated dog, was engaged in a gory battle bat-tle with three inebriated goats when deputy sheriffs descended on the farm "of George Fred, alleged moonshiner, moon-shiner, near Omaha. For stealing a locomotive six months in jail. This was the sentence sen-tence given by Federal Judge I.andis to Daniel Abogast and Thomas Me-Dormott Me-Dormott of the Chicago Yardmen's union, who turned au engine Loose in the railway yards last August during the "outlaw strike" of switchman. The American committee for relief In Ireland has voted to send $.".0,000 j tor immediate relief in Belfast "and ! Cork. The fund, to he divided between be-tween the two cities, will be used by relief organizations now at work, it '.us a nnoinuvd. Authorities of Loni Bench, Cal., jiniinuiin they hiive miller surveillance and expect to arrest soon a suspect, in eonneetion with llie murder of .Tuifies Crassino. wealthy Italian "pool hull king" of Flint. Mich., whose mangled body was washed ashore in Long Iieach on November 4. All records for paid-up membership in the United Mineworkers of America Amer-ica were broken in December, when u."3,29ri workers met their dues, according ac-cording to a statement made at the organization's headquarters at Indianapolis. Indian-apolis. Flashlight danger signals are to be placed at street intersections in Philadelphia Phil-adelphia as additional safeguards against accidents at night. Dissatisfied with a $100 fine Imposed Im-posed on John Brown, found guilty of having troubled the wife of L. Hotal-ing, Hotal-ing, the husband shot and killed Brown in the police court at Orlando, Fla., as he was counting out the money. A stray bullet narrowly missed Mayor Duckworth. WASHINGTON. Conditions in Cuba, which already are receiving the attention of President Presi-dent Wilson and the state department, have been engaging senate study and It is possible that the senate committee commit-tee will visit the Island at once. Investigation of the cases of all persons per-sons now serving sentences for violation viola-tion of the espionage act, including that of Eugene V. Debs, to determine whether the facts warrant recommendation recommen-dation for pardon, has been started, it was stated Friday at the department depart-ment of justice. A total of 2,325,000 workers are out of employment in the country, according accord-ing to a survey of the industrial situation situ-ation made by Clint C. Houston for the current issue of Labor, official organ of the Plumb Plan league. Mr. Houston asserts that his inquiry disclosed dis-closed the greatest industrial slump since the money panic of 1907. John Burke, treasurer of the United States, has announced his resignation, effective on the appointment of his successor. Mr. Burke was appointed treasurer in March, 1913. The senate has adopted the Knox resolution appropriating $50,000 for the expenses of the official ceremonies at the capitol Incident to the Harding inauguration. FOREIGN. Six thousand Greek refugees, at Batura Trans-Caucasia, tbeir clothing worn to sheds, are "living like wild animals in dens" and dying at the rata of from thirty-five to fifty a day, writes Dr. W. E. Rambo, a Near East relief worker of West Philadelphia, Pa., in a report from the Black sea port received at New York. Alexander Kerensky, former Russian premier, has summoned thirty revolutionary revolu-tionary leaders to meet at Paris in an attempt to unite all anti-bolshevik factions. fac-tions. American members of the supreme court of the Philippines were targets of an attack at Manila in a speech in the Philippine senate by Manuel L. Quezon, its president. Eamonn de Valera, "president of the Irish republic," is reported to have been invited to come to London to confer con-fer with the prime minister, David Lloyd George, says the Westminter Gazette. France has a surplus of coal large enough to supply all her economic and domestic needs for six months, it was stated by both governmental and com-.mercial com-.mercial officials. Contracts with American coal companies for moro than $100,000,000 worth of coal have been concluded, the authorities said. An appeal of Sylvia Pankhurst from a sentence to six 'months' imprisonment imprison-ment for attempting to cause sedition In the navy was dismissed with costs Wednesday at London. Miss Pankhurst Pank-hurst was released November 3 on 2000 bull, pending appeal from the sentence, which was imposed October 28. German music was played Wednesday Wednes-day night at the opera in Paris, which Is subsidized by the French government, for the first time since the outbreak of the war. The performance per-formance was Wagner's "Die Wal-kuere," Wal-kuere," and every seat was occupied. Gregorio Perfecto, editor of La Na-clon, Na-clon, organ of the Democratic party, was sentenced at Manila, P. I., to two months' Imprisonment for a conviction on a charge of having criticised members mem-bers of the legislature. Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish Turk-ish nationalist leaderv has sent an Ironical message to David Lloyd George thanking the British government govern-ment for "assisting" the nationalists. Great Britain had, In fact, done so, he points out, by furnishing Armenians with -10.000 rifles and war material, which the Armenians, he says, surrendered sur-rendered to the nationalists under the peace treaty. " Twelve Sinn Felners were killed after being captured near Kanturk, Sinn Feiners charged at London, on receipt, of cipher messages. Four others were killed in fighting following an attempted ambush of military forces, the messages said. The Polish-Lithuanian conference over the plebiscite to be held in the Yilna district has reached an impasse, and the Lithuanian delegation hns left Warsaw for Kovno to obtain further instructions from its government. Poland Po-land insists Yilna shall be included in the plebiscite area. When the Spanish steamer Santa Isabel was wrecked near Yillngarcia. Spain. 214 persons lost their lives. 4Q being saved, bur many of them were injured. The captain of the vessel was severely hurt and j; not '11; ected to live. |