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Show HEWS OF A WEEK ill CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Col. W. F. Tucker, retired, former assistant paymaster general of the United States army, died at a hos-jiltnl hos-jiltnl nt Hood River, Ore., of acute stoninch trouble. Arthur Holben, 35, who came to Wilcox, Neh., a week ago from his home nt Tahernasli, Colo., shot and killed his wife and then took his own life. With Col. George L. Byram in personal per-sonal command, 100 infantrymen from Fort Douglas were dispatched from Salt Lake to Helper, Utah, to meet any contingencies which might arise in the coal camps. James M. Smith, Canadian war veteran, vet-eran, was found guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing at Seattle last February of his girl wife, Helen. J. Vance Johnson, prominent farmer of the Thomas district, uear Black-foot, Black-foot, Idaho, Is in jail, accused of having shot and killed Leon Reese Howard, 19 years of age. Backed by the Chinese government, a bank capitalized at $10,000,000 now being established 111 New York, will estubllsh branols In Vancouver, Seattle, Se-attle, Wash,, Saa Franuiscp, Cn!., find Montreal. , Twenty children were left fatherless when JitiiiuM Nidann of Terry and Ne-pbl Ne-pbl Moss of Uintah, Wyo., were lustant-ly lustant-ly killed tiy an Oregon Short Line train at a railroad crossing near Brig-ham Brig-ham City, Utah, the car in which they were riding being struck by the train. DOMESTIC. H Mrs. ititsaell Sage left an estate with a gross value of $49,051,045, according to a report of the state appraiser made public at New York, i Resolutions requesting that the practice prac-tice of Importing "picture brides" from Japan to this country be stopped) hnvit been sent by the Japanese Association of America, represOiUihg 15,000 Japanese Jap-anese in California, to the Japanese government. Fifty-one acts of heroism were recognized rec-ognized and rewarded by the Carnegie hero fund commission at a meeting held at Pittsburg. In five cases silver medals were awarded ; in forty-six cases bronze medals. Park employes have begun razing "suicide bridge," the high viaduct in Lincoln park, Chicago, from which some forty persons have leaped to death or injury in recent years. Suit to enjoin the government from enforcing the wartime prohibition act and attacking it as unconstitutional, was filed in the United States district court at Chicago by Levy Mayer, counsel coun-sel for the distillers. The short workday and the "ever increasing in-creasing wages demanded by industrial labor." were declared to be "allies of the profiteer in keeping up the high cost of living." in a resolution adopted by the Farmers' National congress at iis concluding session at Hagerstown, Md. Four men held in connection with the alleged plot to kidnap and hold for ransom Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford. Detroit automobile manufacturer, manufactur-er, were sentenced in police court at Toledo to three months in the city workhouse. The middleweight catch-as-catch-can title changed hands Thursday. John Kilonis of Manchester. N. H., winning from Ira Dern of Salt Lake in straight falls at Boston. Magistrate Dale, sitting in a Brooklyn Brook-lyn police court, suspended sentence on a man convicted of drunkenness on the ground that "a good many hypocrites hypo-crites in congress have created a condition con-dition whereby a good many Americans Ameri-cans will be deprived of their personal rights." Oiiv. Lynn G. Frazier has ssued a proclamation ordering an extra session ses-sion of the North Dakota legislature to convene November 25. Ratification Ratifica-tion of the federal suffrage amendment, amend-ment, assistance for drought-stricken farmers and enactment of legislation to carry out the state's industrial pro-X'am pro-X'am are mentioned in the call. The first aerial derby around the -world for prizes totalling $1,000,000 Is scheduled to start July 4, 19J0. and end on or before January 3. 10-1, according ac-cording to announcement made at Los Angeles by Alan R. Hawley, president of the Aero Club of America. George Creel, former chairman of llie committee on public information, bus issued a statement terming as "false in many particulars, and viciously vic-iously misleading as a whole," charges of "chaos" and "gross negligence" by the committee in handling government funds. Five million dollars in stolen automobiles auto-mobiles is the record of San Francisco for the first five mouths of the present pres-ent year. These are figures compiled by the automobile organizations. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poetess, died at her home, "The Bungalow," in Branford Conn.. October Octo-ber 30. Mrs. Wilcox had been ill for some months, having had a nervous collapse while engaged in war relief work in England. WASHINGTON. President Wilson by executive order has lixed maximum prices of soft coal. Dissenting In many important respects re-spects from the program recommended by the war department and the general gen-eral staff, General Pershing told the military committees of congress that 300,000 men, raised entirely by voluntary volun-tary enlistment, should be the outside figure considered for a standing army. King Albert and President Wilson clasped hands' on Thursday. The meeting meet-ing at the president's bedside, brief as it was, proved the climax of the American visit of the Belgian monarch, mon-arch, who left for home immediately after visiting the president. With only the French capital delegate dele-gate opposing the action, the international interna-tional labor conference at Washington decided to admit representatives of Germany and Austria, immediately upon their arrival here, to full membership mem-bership in the world labor organization. organiza-tion. The order re-establishing the old maximum coal prices of the fuel administration ad-ministration was completed Thursday at a conference of Dr. H. A. Garfield and railroad administration officials. Dr. Harry A. Garfield has been recalled re-called tp tlis position as fuel administrator, adminis-trator, in the government's fight against the coal strike. FOREIGN. ! The American system of train dispatching dis-patching has just been adopted on the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean line, the longest French railway. "Before we go, we shall close the gate behind us and make the whole world tremble," Nicoali Lenine, the Bolshevist premier, is quoted iu a fta' val dispatch as saying iu discussing the danger of Petrograd being captured. cap-tured. Twelve thousand French families have applied for the grant of $5000 from the great fund established by Theodore Cognacq, the French millionaire million-aire philanthropist, to assist families of nine children or more from the same parents. Airplane bombs are to be used against the tribes of Waziris' and Mah-suds Mah-suds in Afghanistan unless the tribesmen tribes-men discontinue the continual attacks on British posts and convoys and the raids into British territory, in which they have been indulging during and since recent troubles with Afghanistan. Heavy pressure is being brought to bear -by Syndicalist leaders on railway men in France to endeavor to induce them to join the movement for a revolutionary rev-olutionary general strike November 7. The ravages of the hook worm among the gold miners in Colombia are seriously interfering with the production pro-duction of the precious metal, according accord-ing to Dr. O. T. Brosius, mine physician. phy-sician. Governmental and municipal authorities author-ities and coal merchants virtually admit ad-mit the impossibility of finding a remedy rem-edy for the situation which has arisen iu Paris because of the coal shortage Ratification of the peace treaty will be completed on November 11, "armistice "armis-tice day," by the deposit of the signed copy of the document in the foreign office at Paris, it is predicted by Brit ish statesmen. As a protest against the decision of the government not to give them the vote, French women will hold nation na-tion elections on the same day as the male voters. If their candidates are rejected they will form a "woman's parliament." Hundreds of French girls are marrying marry-ing Chinese laborers, according to M. Pains, minister of the interior, who is inaugurating a campaign against "the yellow peril invading French homes." England hopes to win back her predominant pre-dominant place iu the shipping world through oil-burning steamships, which will be far more economical to operate oper-ate than coal burning vessels. Manitoba has suffered a loss of about 2.800.000 bushels of potatoes, frozen in the ground, which at market prices, $1.5 a bushel, means a loss of approximately $3,500,000. Taking as their motto, "Glory to alcohol, al-cohol, which fires our soul," two societies so-cieties have been formed in France for the purpose of fighting "pussyfooting American prohibition propaganda" in France. |