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Show NEWS OF A WEEK If CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. ' Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Llnaa. INTER MOUNTAIN. T. W. Mcl'lain, a randier of Ar-teslun Ar-teslun City, Idaho, committed suicide by shooting himself through tue head. MeC'inin, wild is reported to lie wealthy, leaves a largo family. A lone bandit held up and robbed two taxicab drivers at lenver, after which he drove the cars to the suburbs, where they were abandoned. The holdups hold-ups were committed an hour apart, and the robber secured about S100 for his trouble. Montana ami northern Wyoming coal miners, after three days in conference with representatives of the operators of both states, gained a flat vn;e increase in-crease of .fl.oO a day for men and S2 cents for boys, effective from -uig. 10. Seven boys of Salt Lake Lake City, ranging from 0 to 13 years of ago, admit ad-mit that members of. their gang bad committed two safe robberies and n half dozen daring burglaries. The police had believed a skillful gang of safe robbers were operating. Ted Irvin, aged IT, of Colorado Springs was instantly killed when a revolver dropped out of his pocket while he was returning home on his motorcycle. The gun was discharged, the bullet entering his heart. Madeline Menckley, aged 16. daughter daugh-ter of Mrs. Josephine Menckley of Kock Springs, Wyoming, fell dead at Redding, Oil., while singing beside a piano. She was visiting relatives there. DOMESTIC. Nine members of the carmen's union un-ion at Brooklyn have been indicted as a result of rioting on August 31, when n boy was killed by stones thrown by members of a mob, it being charged that the men under indictment were guilty of throwing stones that caused the boy's death. Iowa Is to have a woman candidate for congress, Mrs. Hattie T. Harl, of Council iiluffs, having announced that she will make the race as an independent indepen-dent candidate, although the Farmer-Labor Farmer-Labor party lias endorsed her candidacy. can-didacy. All members of the Chicago club of the National league have been, together togeth-er with the club officials, summoned to appear before the grand jury as witnesses in the investigation of alleged al-leged baseball gambling, it having been charged that members of the team ''laid down" in order that gamblers gam-blers might reap a harvest. Olive Thomas, moving picture actress, ac-tress, wife of Jack I'ickford, died at a hospital in Paris, September 10, as the result of slow poisoning, having swallowed a poisonous solution by mistake. Congressman John J. Ksch, Republican, Repub-lican, one of the authors of the Eseh-Cumniins Eseh-Cumniins railway bill, was defeated for renominalion in Tuesday's primary pri-mary in the Seventh W isconsin district. dis-trict. Retirement of preachers from the ministry because their pay is poor was deplored by Bishop V. F. McDowell McDow-ell of Washington, I. C, addressing" a conference at Omaha of Methodist minisiers of Nebraska. Georgia may furnish the first test of t he nineteenth amendment to the federal constitution. Denied the right to ballot in Tuesday's election, Mrs. Mary L. Mcl.endon, a suffrage worker, work-er, has appealed to Secretary of State Colby for instructions. A bandit held up the First State bank at Uvaide, Tex., and escaped in an automobile with SGoOO. Decided improvement in the car situ-alinn situ-alinn was indicated by figures made public by the car service commission showing that tRl l.U.jtj freight cars were loaded during the week ending August Aug-ust 21. This was the heaviest cur movement for the year. When I'eter Vidovltch, Go-year-old charily guest of the municipal lodging lodg-ing bouse died in a hospital In New York, it was learned that lie was possessor pos-sessor of a fortune exceeding $120,000. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Koosevelt had a narrow escape from death at Joplln, Mo., while preparing for an airplane flight, which was to take him to Vlnta, Okla., and to Tulsa to fill speaking dates. Entering another an-other machine after the accident, he had a second narrow escape when the plane fell Many residents of Riverside, Oil., fled from their beds in their night clothes when that section was visited by an oanhiiiake on September 10. While the (jiiake was of sufficient violence vio-lence to awake the sleepers, it is asserted as-serted that there was no damage done to property. Indiana voters who registered September Sep-tember 4 as being "21 years old, plus," instead of giving their specific ages, must either register again or Jose their votes in the November election, according to a ruling of the board of election commissioners. Carrying a crew of four men and a 1000-pound torpedo, a Marion bombing bomb-ing plane fitted with torpedo gear Wednesday flew from Washington to Yorktown, I'a., a distance of 125 miles, in Gl minutes. A minimum price of ,?3 a bushel for wheat was urged and millers who profiteer were condemned in resolution resolu-tion adopted by the S00 wheat growers of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Nezraska, meeting at the call of Maurice Maur-ice McAuliffe, president of the Kansas Farmers' union. WASHINGTON.- More than 13,000 merchant marine officers have been graduated from the shipping board's training schools since their establishment three years ago and 72 per cent of the graduates have been licensed for service at sea on records of the board's recruiting service. President Wilson in a proclamation urges state governors to set apart Saturday, Sat-urday, October 9, as fire prevention day and to request a general observance observ-ance by the public. Corn prospects improved during August and promised on September 1 a crop of 3,131,000,000 bushels, the department de-partment of agriculture has announced. an-nounced. Army recruiting again broke all peace-time records in August, according accord-ing to a statement by Adjustaut General Gen-eral Harris, showing 19,242 enlistments enlist-ments for the month. July enlistments enlist-ments were 15.S21. FOREIGN. Recurrence of earthquake shocks in Italy, where hundreds are reported to have been killed, are said to have been responsible for numerous deaths, although the districts affected were not so large as those previously visited vis-ited by earth tremors. Latest figures show that at least 500 people have been killed as a result of the different differ-ent shocks, while at least 3000 were injured. Disorders in Ireland seem to be on the increase, Sinn Feiners being engaged en-gaged in ambushing policemen and soldiers, while police are said to be conducting reprisals, the result being a state of civil war in which the average aver-age citizen finds himself in danger no matter which way he turns. As a result of an explosion at the artillery ar-tillery depot at Mariensel, Gerany, 23 persons were killed and two laboratories labora-tories and a number of munitions sheds blown to atoms. The explosion was the result of an accident while shells were being unloaded. Thousands of leaflets warning Turkish nationalists that if they do not yield at once, Greek forces will occupy occu-py Constantinople, are being distributed distribut-ed through Anatolia by Turkish government gov-ernment airplanes. The American steamer Siboney is aground in the harbor of Vigo, Spain. The forepart of the vessal is resting on the rocks and it is feared she will be a total loss. The passengers have been landed, without accident. A volcanic crater has opened up at the top of Pizzo d'Ucello, a mountain nS4." feet high, about nine miles northeast north-east of Spezia. It is located on what apears to be the northwest corner of the district shaken by the earthquake, which has caused so many deaths. Kfforts continue to bring about a solution of the situation which has arisen throughout Italy as a result of the movement among metal workers to occupy plants in many of the most important industrial centers. Russian soviet forces, aided by German Ger-man and Hungarian war prisoners, have recaptured Orsk, where, as in other towns of western Siberia, the peasants recently overthrew the Soviets. So-viets. The Iiolsheviki also are in possession pos-session of the northern portion of the railway along which fighting has been proceeding, but they are isolated and without food. Resolutions favoring prohibition were rejected by the Anglican synod in session at Adelaide, South Australia. During debate on the resolutions one of the speakers, the Rev. Mr. Walker, said: "Prohibition is anti-Christian and the Idea of American cranks." A tragic scene was enacted at Marina Ma-rina near Carrara, Italy, when the earthquake shuttered a church where mass was being celebrated. Father Frigotti, the pastor, had just raised the chalice in the most solemn of the service when the celling of the edifice fell upon the congregation, killing many of those who were worshiping. |