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Show HEWS OF ft WEEK IN CONDENSED FORI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT KVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Hppnlno That Are Mk-lnfl Hlttorj- Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe an Given In Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. The street railway strike at Denver has come to a close, the men who were out having made application to return to their positions. Eight persons were killed and scores injured during rioting that occured while the strike was in progress. Boy scouts and citizens are searching search-ing the foothills In the vicinity of Salt Lake City for the body of Miss Trances Korous, a nurse, who disappeared dis-appeared October 17, all theories as to her disappearance except foul play having been abandoned. Charged with robbery and attempted attempt-ed murder at Grand Junction, Colo., Bnd said to be wanted for murder at Kansas City, Mo., Roy Bell, 29, was arrested at Salt Lake. Rioting which broke out late Tuesday Tues-day night in the village of Auburn, Wash., was renewed Wednesday, when returns indicated decisive defeat for the radical element there, A mob of BO men was reported to have raided poolrooms, ejecting their occupants, end openly defying Town Marshal 11c-Cumber. 11c-Cumber. An information charging Betty Brainerd and George T. Stagg with kidnaping Baby Stagg from the home of his mother at Taeoma, September 14, was filed in superior court at Taeoma Ta-eoma on Wednesday by the prosecuting prosecut-ing attorney. Parley Christensen, presidential candidate, can-didate, in a statement given out In Salt Lake, declared that the results of the election were satisfactory to the Farmer-Labor party. He asserted that the next fight would not be between Republicans and Democrats, but between be-tween Republicans aud the Farmer-Labor Farmer-Labor organization. DOMESTIC. Officials of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad have announced that contracts are being completed for the delivery of $18,000,000 worth of new rolling stock to the system. Fifty locomotives, loco-motives, 2000 refrigerators cars and 500 coal cars are included. A strike of shoemakers which began at the factory of the Thomas G. Plant company at Boston on May 13, 1919, In an effort by labor unions to enforce a closed shop, was ordered to cease in an injunction granted by the superior court on Friday. Four bandits held up a bank messenger messen-ger In Chicago and escaped with a satchel containing $41,000 in Liberty bonds and coupons, in addition to 257,000 in negotiable checks. Cooperative purchase of furm supplies sup-plies by farmers' business organizations organiza-tions will be taken up by the Farmers' Farm-ers' National Grain Dealers' association associa-tion at a convention at Chicago, December De-cember 2 and 3. The other major subject sub-ject will be the co-operative selling of grain. Congressman A. J. Volstead, Republican Repub-lican of the Seventh Minnesota district, author of the prohibition enforcement act, has been re-elected on the Republican Repub-lican ticket after a close fight. The first merchant steamship flying fhe German flag to come to the port of New York since July, 1914, arrived November 3. The vessel, which marks the resumption of trade with Germany under the flag of that country, was the Sophie Rlckmers, a steamer of 4S0.'i tons, built In Germany during the war. For the first time In the history of any Florida town, St. Petersburg went Republican by a majority of 278 votes. Harding carried seven of the precincts. President Wilson's home district at Princeton, N. J., the Seventh election district, was carried by Senator Harding Hard-ing by more than 2 to 1. Governor Cox had l lo votes, while Harding had 818. George W. Stevens, president of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, died at While Sulphur springs, W. Va. Stevens Stev-ens was born In Ohio in 18-11, and was one of the most prominent men in Virginia. Vir-ginia. Five negroes were burned to death tind another hung to a Iree as a result re-sult of a light which started at the polls at Ococe, Flu., after election officials of-ficials had refused to permit a negro to vote. Fewer persons were killed on the railroads In 101!) than in any year fcince 1 s: (S, and fewer were injured than In any year since lillO, according to a Matcment by the Interstate commerce com-merce commission. Mrs. Jane Johnson, 65 years of aire has been elected sheriff of Roscommon county, Michigan, succeeding her husband. hus-band. Mrs. Johnson has announced that she can land a bad man or a bad woman herself, if necessary, but as a precautionary measure she will appoint ap-point her husband as her deputy. Edna Ellis, aged IS, a stenographer, was found mysteriously slain in a clump of weeds in a vacant lot in St. Louis. Her throat had been slashed and a broken razor was found by her body. Robert Taft, son of former President Presi-dent AVilliam Howard Taft, will be a member of the Cincinnati delegation in the Ohio house of representatives in the new legislature elected Tuesday. He will take his seat when the legislature legis-lature convenes early in January. - Socialist headquarters at Chicago expressed ex-pressed satisfaction over the showing the party made in its effort to elect Eugene V. Debs president, although he is in Atlanta prison for violation of the espionage act. WASHINGTON. It is announced that President Wilson Wil-son has directed Secretary Daniels to place a battleship at the disposal of President-elect Harding for his contemplated con-templated visit to the canal zone. There will be a woman in Presidentelect President-elect Harding's cabinet in the event the department of public welfare is created cre-ated by congress as recommended by Harding. The last vestige of government control con-trol over sugar has been removed through signature by President Wilson of a proclamation providing for revocation revo-cation November 15 of licenses held by wholesalers, refiners, exporters and importers. im-porters. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer has advised in a telegram from U. S. District Judge A. B. Anderson at Indianapolis In-dianapolis that an investigation of the attorney general's connection with the case against 125 coal mine operators and miners weuld be made when the case is called for trial in the federal court on November 8. Mr. Palmer was was invited to be present on that date. Private operation of the railroads for the first six months after the end of federal control will cost the federal fed-eral government a total of $050,000,-000, $050,000,-000, according to figures made public by the interstate commerce commission. commis-sion. Senator Borah of Idaho issued a statement from Washington saying: "I regard the election as the triumph of nationalism and the death of the league of nations." FOREIGN. Premier Lloyd George, questioned in the house of commons as to plans for punishing the former emperor of Germany, said his pre-election pledges had not contemplated making war on Holland to force Wilhelm's delivery to an international court. The Kaiser is probably enduring as severe punishment punish-ment in Holland as he would in prison, declared the premier. Tension iu fork has increased with reports of widespread raids by the military forces. On all sides It appears to be taken for granted that further tragedies are bound to occur, and Irish and British are preparing themselves to meet them. The steamer Zenable, flying the red flag and freighted with ammunition for the Turkish nationalists in Trebl-zond, Trebl-zond, was sunk in the Black sea oft Batum, by a French destroyer. Twenty-two Twenty-two members of herr crew were taken prisoner. The Turkish offensive In the direction direc-tion of Erivan, capital of Aremnia, has been broken by the Armenian troops In a decisive battle at Igdir, 27 miles southwest of the city, according accord-ing to dispatches. Canada's export livestock trade has shown remarkable development in the last few years, according to government govern-ment statistics. Live cattle exported last year exceeded 500,000 and were valued at $.10,000,000, a sum equal to the combined values of live cattle exported ex-ported in the five previous years. The latest summary of the Scottish liquor polls shows that 119 districts have decided to make no change, 24 favor reduction of licenses, and 18 will go dry. The P.erlingske Tldende's Kovno correspondent cor-respondent says that Moscow newspapers newspa-pers received In Kovno record an official of-ficial announcement of the discovery by the Soviets of plans for a big counter-revolution. The volcano of Izalco, 10 miles north of the clly of Snnsoniile, republic of Salvador, has broken forth In a new eruption. Great quantities of lava are being discharged on the northern slope of the mountain. The Moscow garrison Is In revolt, according to Russian agency messages from llel.-ingfors. The dispatches add that ( '(Miniiiiiiist troops are hurrying to Pet rograd and Moscow to suppress the revolt. Communication with I'eL-rourjiil I'eL-rourjiil w:us said to be suspended. Bombs dropped by Polish aviators over the town of Vilkoniir, forty-five miles northeast of Kovno, Lithuania, killed or wounded a large number of persons, nays a dispatch from Kovno. |