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Show All Corners of the Earth Complete History of the Pt Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Busy Reader mi 1,1 " INTERMOUNTAIN. Sentence of life imprisonment has been pronounced upon Irvin Stoop anil l-'loyd Henderson, following a verdict nt I'eiulleton, Ore., of first decree murder for complicity in the killing of Sheriff Til Taylor in a jail break July 25. Co-operative buying of coal is being planned by several labor organizations in the state of Colorado, to reduce the cost of fuel to their mouthers, it has been announced, by officials of the Colorado State Federation of Labor. Engineer A. E. Mutz was killed, Joseph Jo-seph Corntley, brakeman, seriously injured, in-jured, five unidentilied men were killed and three other unidentilied persons were injured at Piedmont, Mont., when 10 empty cars of an eastbound Chicago, Chi-cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul freight train on a mountain grade broke away from the main train and smashed into a gravel traiu standing at the Piedmont Pied-mont station. Mrs. Lena Steiger, 62 years old, who was found guilty by a jury at Salem, Ore., of conspiring with Jesse Mul-linix Mul-linix to kill her husband, T. W. Steiger, was sentenced to seven years in the state penitentiary, but paroled from the bench. V. R. Sullivan of Denver was kicked to death in a fight with E. R. Gust at Great Falls, Mont. The fight occurred in the business district. Gust is under arrest. F. J. Williams and Harry Lund were killed and Mrs. Lund and Mrs. Williams Will-iams and three Williams children were seriously injured when a gasoline speeder on which they were riding jumped off an eighty-foot trestle on a logging road between Wheeler and Cochran, Ore. DOMESTIC. 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 nearly near-ly nine hours, but was finally brought under control by heroic work of firemen. fire-men. 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 a hill in Laurel canyon, hear 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 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 plant of the Lincoln Gas & Electric Light company, at Lincoln, Neb., seriously seri-ously injuring four men, and left the city without gas. Senator Warren G, Harding's special spe-cial train rmnwiy ets'.'uyufl n twinus, j w reck near Millwood, . Va., when the trucks of the Harding car broke down. The car was derailed, but no one was Injured, although both the senator add Mi's: Harding were shaken up. Temporary admission to this country of Alfred Nagle, the so-called envoy of the Letviau government, and his wife, who have been detained at Ellis Island for the last month, has been announced an-nounced by the department of labor. A black powder bomb wrecked the home of Alderman John Powers at Chicago, but no one was Injured. Mr. Powers has expressed the belief that the bomb was placed by political enemies. ene-mies. The report of the committee on Americanism of the American Legion in second annual convention at Cleveland Cleve-land recommended the cancellation of the so-called "gentleman's agreement with Japan; the exclusion of "picture brides" and rigorous exclusion of Japanese Jap-anese us Immigrants. Eight members of the Chicago American league baseball team during dur-ing the I'JHl world scries with the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Retls have been indicted by a grand jury at Chicago. The men are licensed of having, for a price, laid down in the series and permitted Cincinnati Cin-cinnati to win the world's championship. champion-ship. The men indicted are Eddie Cicolte, Claud Williams, Joe Jackson, 'hlck Gamlil, Hap Fels.h, Fred Mo Mullln, Puck Weaver and Swede Kis-bei-g. Clcotte has admitted that he received SIO.OOO, and that Jack-on received re-ceived ?r,O(i0. It is claimed a gamble' gam-ble' syndicate gave the money 1" the Chicago players lo throw the panics. Major railroads of the country recorded re-corded a deficit of $0,033,420 in oper-1 oper-1 nting income for July, compared with I an operating income of $S0,325.4S1 in I July, imp, according to a summary ; issued by the interstate commerce i commission. As the result of a collision of a I motor truck and an intcrurban car near Detroit, three men are dead and j 1,'? others were injured. The truck I was carrying workmen to their homes. A proposal for the elimination of I ferry-boats between San Francisco and Oakland passenger terminals on San Francisco bay, and the substitution of a cut-off to an island in the bay known as Yerba I'.uena front the Oakland side and a tube to San Francisco from the island, is being considered. WASHINGTON. 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. Federal investigation has been ordered or-dered from Washington, D. C, of the part taken by prohibition enforcement officers in t lie killing of Robert Hed-derly, Hed-derly, an alleged bootlegger, who was shot in the progress of a liquor raid made by federal and police officers at Portland. Figures compiled by the census bureau bu-reau and other government departments depart-ments indicate that the number of women in the United States over 21 years of age is 2S.03,000, of whom approximately ap-proximately 20,500,000 are eligible to vote in the November election. Objections to the entire plan suggested sug-gested by the "Big Five" Chicago meat packers for disposition of their stockyard stock-yard interests have been filed by the department of justice in the District of Columbia supreme court. The United States has more than 106,000,000 people. This has already been determined by the census bureau, bu-reau, although not yet ready to make announcement of the exact population. popula-tion. FOREIGN. Danger of a nation-wide coal strike for Great Britain is regarded as more serious than at any time heretofore with the . resumption Thursday of the miners' conference. Extremists have apparently reasserted their control and it is feared a general strike will be called. 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. Mrs. Marie Anne Houde Gagnon, mother of twins born two months ago In prison, who was sentenced to be executed at Quebec after having been found guilty of murdering her stepdaughter, step-daughter, will serve a life sentence in the penitentiary instead, as the result re-sult of a decision by the cabinet council, coun-cil, made public Thursday. Canton, one of the most important cities in southern China, has been captured cap-tured by Cantonese troops under General Gen-eral Chen-Chung Ming, according to a Renter's telegram from Shanghai. Russian bolshevik representatives at the peace conference have submitted to Polish delegates suggestions for the boundary ILpe between Poland and states adjoining to the east. General Wrangel's antibolshevist forces have practically isolated the soviet armies in the Caucasus, according accord-ing to a Helsingfors dispatch to the Berlingske Tidende. Apprehension that violence may result re-sult in London from the Irish situation situa-tion was keener with the reported frustration of a plot on Wednesday to destroy office buildings in Whitehall. Marquis Okuma, former premier of Japan and one of the most revered of that country's statesmen, writing in the Tokio Asahi, takes a very optimistic optimis-tic view of the present state of relations rela-tions between America and Japan. It Is reported that a plot fomented by Asiatic holsheviki to assassinate the sultan has been discovered at Constantinople. Constan-tinople. The palace is being guarded and Monday's Arabic New Year parade pa-rade was changed to a private function. func-tion. The Tolish 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 I on the Polish boundary line proposed by the Versailles peace conference. A number of explosions rocked the city of Cork, Ireland, early Monday morning, several buildings being practically prac-tically demolished, the monetary loss being considerable. Bombs thrown by warring Irishmen are blamed for the ! explosions. Acting upon Instructions issued by ; Provisional President tie la Huerta ol 1 .Mexico all saloons In Mexican states along ilie Mexican-United States border bor-der closed Sunday to remain closed until Monday morning. |