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Show HEWS OF A WEEK If CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. I Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. 1NTERM0UNTAIN. Nearly 00,000 men employed in shipyards of the Pacific coast will he affected if a strike is called on October Octo-ber 1 as a reply to the refusal of the United States shipping board to allow coast shipbuilding corporations to put in effect new wage increases. The presidential special was halted n few miles east of Pueblo. Colo., to permit the president and Mrs. Wilson to take a three-mile walk. The president presi-dent has not been receiving enough exercise lately, and this was the reason rea-son for the walk. An increase in fees of approximately approximate-ly 100 per cent was approved and adopted hy the Coos and Curry County Medical association, it was announced at North- Bend, Ore. Fresident Wilson made two addresses ad-dresses in Utah on September 23, a brief talk at Ogden and an extended address in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake at night, when more people were turned away than were able to crowd into the tabernacle. Authorities are investigating the discovery dis-covery hy Lester Ard, ranchman, of the skeleton of a man on an island in Snake river, directly north of Peavey, northwest of Twin Falls, Idaho. Ernest Heusser, aged 40, was shot and killed near Salt Lake by Glen Hamilton, aged 16, who alleges Heusser Heus-ser was stealing hay from the Hamilton Ham-ilton fields when he fired upon him, DOMESTIC. Ill from over-exertion on his long tour for the peace treaty, President Wilson on September 26, at Wichita, Kans., canceled the speaking dates remaining re-maining on his schedule and turned back toward Washington. The president's presi-dent's physician has ordered a complete com-plete rest. Jvstimates by (he executive committee commit-tee of the Democratic national committee, com-mittee, make the total vote at the next presidential election about 30.000,000, as -against 14,000.000 in 1010. It is believed that of the additional votes 16,000.000 will be cast by women. Hundreds of German sailors, most of whom had been identified with commerce com-merce raiding exploits during the war and all of them prisoners of war, marched silently aboard the steamer Pocahontas at New York on Friday to return to their native land. ' Official confirmation of reports that Martin Lopez, right-hand man of Francisco Villa, had died on September Septem-ber l.'i, at San Juan Del Itio, Durango, Mexico, has been received at Galveston. Galves-ton. Temporary relief from the sugar shortage that has resulted in. retailers limiting customers in some Instances to one pound at a time is in sight with the coming on the market of the western beet sugar crop, according to Henry H. Rolapp, chairman of the food administration's sugar distributing distribut-ing committee. The public schools of the nation began be-gan the new school year with a shortage short-age of approximately 38,000 teachers. This year's icrop of cranberries, according ac-cording to the September forecost of the department of agriculture, will be about 037,000 barrels', as against 350,-000 350,-000 barrels last year. By a victory over the St. Louis' Browns, the Chicago team on Wednesday Wednes-day won the championship of the American league, and will contest with the Cincinnati team of the National league for world's championship honors. John D. Rockefeller has contributed $2,000,000 to the ministers and missionary mission-ary board of the Northern Baptist convention. con-vention. Charles A. Pratt, reported killed in a railroad accident in 1013, returned to Placerville, Cab. to find his wife married mar-ried to Henry Robinson. The state railroad commission has npproved the proposed sale of ti.e Northern California Power company to the Pacific Gas & Electric company for an initial consideration of .fl0.OOtl.0tX. The action of the steel workers of the United States in striking in support sup-port of the principle of collective bargaining bar-gaining was indorsed by the Canadian Trades and Labor congress. Thomas R. Fitzgerald, a hotel night watchinau, who confessed he strangled to deatli G- ear-old Janet Wilkinson on July 22, a. Chicago, has been sentenced sen-tenced to die on the gallows. Demands for a 00 per cent increase In all mine wages, a limit of six hours a day underground, a five-day week, witit time and a half for overtime and double time for work on Sundays and holidays and important improvements in condition-: of labor, were adopted by the convention of the United Mine Workers of America. One nuin was killed and four persons, per-sons, one of them a three-year-old boy, were wounded when plant guards fired shotguns on a crowd of strikers and strike sympathizers, at Buffalo. N. V.. Tuesday. I Prices of groceries quoted in the semiwookly lists issued by 1 1 if "fair J price"' conimirtee at New York are 15 per cent lower today than they were the first of the year, while prices of meats have declined from S to 10 per cent. Bringing a report of "outrageous cruelties perpetrated on American soldiers." sol-diers." in prisons of the A. E. F. In France, the congressional committee sent overseas to investigate tales of army "prison horrors," has arrived at New York. Two thousand feet of snow-shed on the Southern Pacific company's line between be-tween Cuntner and Fulda, Cal., have been desrroyed by lire. Credited Willi Iwing the founder and writer of the first constitution of the Women's Christian Temperance union, Mrs. Harriet C. McCabe, aged 02, died at her home in Delaware, ()., from Uie infirmities of ago. WASHINGTON. Persons desiring to leave the United States are warned hy the bureau of internal in-ternal revenue that they must comply with the income tax laws before they would be permitted to depart. All drafted men in the United States-army States-army will be home by the end of October. Oc-tober. This is the policy now being followed by the administration, Adjutant: Adju-tant: General Harris told the house military affairs committee. Two long-distance seaplane flights are planned for early next year by the navy, one to Brazil and another to the Philippines. Planes of entirely new construction probably will be used. Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, is about to resign from the cabinet to become the head of a large Industrial concern, according to strong rumor. The issue in the nation-wide steel strike is defined by Samuel Gompers, president of, the American Federation .of Labor, as recognition of the rights of employees "to be beard, to organize organ-ize and to have some voice in determining deter-mining conditions under which they labor." Fido, Tabby and all of the fowl and domestic animal creation within -measurement restrictions, now are eligible to ride via parcels' post if their destination can be reached within with-in forty-eight hours, the postmaster general has ruled. Japan was charged with "flagrant violations" of the commonly-termed gentlemen's agreement with this country coun-try by V. S. McClatchy of Sacramento, Cal., and Miller Freeman of Seattle before the house immigration committee. com-mittee. FOREIGN. All railway workers in Great Britain were called out at midnight Friday. The number of union men called out is approximately 600,000 and other employes em-ployes of the lines, such as clerks, will bring the total number affected up to 1 ',000,000. The shipping strike which has interfered inter-fered seriously with marine activities out of Chilean ports has been settled by arbitration. Premier Clemenceau delivered his long expected speech in the debate on the ratification of the peace treaty in the chamber of deputies September 25. The whole trend of his argument in favor of the treaty was that the treaty was one of solidarity between allies, who united In war, must be united in peace. It is learned that President Wilson's reply to the inquiry of the peace conference con-ference regarding his attitude on the Fiume situation is a categorical refusal re-fusal to accept the Italian viewpoint. The nation-wide strike of British railway men, which was to have begun be-gun at midnight Friday, has been abandoned aban-doned temporarily by the intervention interven-tion of Premier Lloyd George, who has called a conference to consider the demands of the men. Japan is planning officially to invite China to confer on the Shantung situation sit-uation after Japan has ratified the peace treaty, says a Tokio dispatch. The teachers' congress at Paris has voted for the affiliation of a new teachers' teach-ers' union with the general confederation confedera-tion of labor. The bureau of education in the federal fed-eral district of Mexico has announce! the closing of 224 schools, i 10 of which are in the capital and the others In municipalities of the district, because of a shortage of funds. So strict nre the regulations at Fiume that it is impossible for even the allied commanders to enter or leave the town. Information that the prohibitionists of America are raising a fund of .floO.-000,000 .floO.-000,000 to make Europe, and especially Grefit Britain, dry, has aroused England's Eng-land's "wet" forces as never before. From now on it will be a pitched battle, bat-tle, with no quarter. The British government has decided to release at once a great quantity of package mail held up in England during dur-ing the war. The British government has ext -tided the control of food prices to lish. fruit anil vegetables. In an expktnat ion to the French chamber of deputies. Premier Clemenceau Clemen-ceau declared that the league of nations na-tions could exist even though rejected by the United States senate. All American troops have been w ithdrawn ith-drawn from the grand duchy of l.ux-m-berg, which had been occupied since last December by units of tin- Third United States army. The loss from the fire at the American Amer-ican camp at Miramas, France, was estimated Monday at XI, (Million. 1 1 ; 1 1 f the loss was in the burn:.-.; t of foodstuffs. |