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Show HEWS OF A WEEK III CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMP0RTAN1 EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening! That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Qlven In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. . Two masked bandits entered the Office Of-fice Of lllf AlIH'l llilll 1 Ill-ill re lit ItUttC, Mont., nnil nl'liT beating Into Insensibility Insensi-bility .Miss lhiiniu I'oterson, t lu' cashier, 11 ixl .Inliii Kelly, the jiuillor, rolilinl Hit! safe of till lis contents. The elly council at Tiironm a l; rt'od to let tin' twenty-two alleged I. V. W's. who lire on hunger strike in the elty .inil starve if tliey want to, following fol-lowing ii report from Assistant City Attorney Frank Carnalinn Hint the city ennnot lie held responsible. It. !. llately, SO years of age, living liv-ing near I'lillnian. Wash., has been presented pre-sented Willi n lt-pound hnby boy by his wife. The newcomer makes twenty-four children who call Hntely daddy. Carneyvllle, Wyo., coal miners voted to rot urn to work after federal troops had arrested fifty-two of their number num-ber and ordered union officials to call n meeting to vote on ending the strike. David Smith and Walter Banaster, charged with murder in connection with the shouting of .1. N. Burgess and George Beringer, Oregon stockmen, (luring a holdup of the Claremont tavern, tav-ern, near Portland, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to life imprisonment Otis MeGuire, who brutally murdered murder-ed his wife and two little daughters, was found hanging from a rafter in a boathouse on Drayton harbor, near Bellinghnni, W ash., dead with a knife wound in his breast. McGuire is presumed pre-sumed to have gone suddenly Insane. Six miners were arrested at Sheridan, Sheri-dan, Wyo., for violating the strike Injunction In-junction of Federal Judge A. B. Anderson Ander-son of Indianapolis. Two of the six big mines of the Sheridan district are idle. The others are working with part forces. DOMESTIC. Snow fell at Phoenix, Ariz., on November No-vember 2S. Officials of the weather bureau said it was the first November Novem-ber snow since the station was established estab-lished at Phoenix in 1S!5. Two women who say they are widows wid-ows of the late Philip Kellogg, live stock commission man recently killed in an automobile accident at Omaha, have filed claims to his estate. " After a Joun.ey of fifty days, six young men have arrived at San Francisco Fran-cisco from Bolivia on their way to enter en-ter the University of California and Stanford university. They are said to he the first Bolivians to attend college col-lege in California. Schools of Omaha were ordered closed for one week following an order or-der by the fuel committees that no coal be used by nonessential industries, indus-tries, George Washington F.llis, lawyer and writer and for eight years minister minis-ter from the United States to Liberia, is dead at Chicago. Mrs. Tom Thumb, who with her first husband, lion. Thomas Thumb, attained at-tained world-wide fame as midgets in the Banniiii ' circus, died at Middle-boro. Middle-boro. Mass., November l!G, at the age of 77. Letters showing a sympathetic attitude atti-tude on the part of Frederic C. Howe, formerly commission of immigration at F.llis island, toward radicals who had been ordered deported were read at an inquiry by the house immigration committee. Wore than $7,000,000 will be expended expend-ed in alterations and special equipment equip-ment for the seven former German passenger liners, aggregating G7.3G9 tons, recently alloted by the United States hoard for a fast passenger and .iail service between the United States and South America. Prospects of a "bread strike" loom at San Francisco. The Housewives' league of San Francisco, just organized, organ-ized, adopted resolutions pledging all jiembers to refuse to buy 16-ounce loaves of bread at Vic and 24-ounce loaves at 17c, the prices now effective. A showdown on profits made by bituminous bi-tuminous operators is needed for the American people to form a just opinion opin-ion on the coal situation. William C. MeAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, treas-ury, declared in a statement issued at New York. Fifty 155-millimeter Schneider howitzers, how-itzers, said to be the biggest gun ever fought to the border, have been added add-ed to the millions of dollars' worth of ordinance stores at Fort Bliss. Teias. "All persons should obey the Golden Rule. They should not keep bad company, com-pany, should not drink, and, above all, should live within their means." These were the dying words of Louis Warner, War-ner, bunged at New Orleans for murder. mur-der. A carload of sugar originally consigned con-signed from Nashville, Tenn., to Chl-1 Chl-1 etigo, rolled about undelivered for a month, was resold four times and plied up -IVa cents a pound additional cost to the consumer, according to It. .7. Poole, city food director of Chicago. Chi-cago. I City attorneys lost their fight before the state utilities commission for the return of the 5-cent fare on surface cars at Chicago, but the commission in its decision ordered tin? traction companies to sell ten tickets for G cents each and fifty tickets for 0 cents each. WASHINGTON. The government lias served notice on soft coal miners and operators that interference with coal production . would not be tolerated. A government plan for settling Hie soft coal strike which embodied a 14 per cent wage increase for miners and Hie stiuplation that there should be no increase in the price paid by the public, will not be accepted by the miners. Declaring there is "no legal foundation founda-tion nur principle of international law" upon which the United States bases its demand for the immediate release of William O. Jenkins, United States consular agent at Puebla, the Mexican government has declined to accede to the request of the American Ameri-can state department. Like the miners and operators, whose troubles it is trying to adjust, ad-just, President Wilson's cabinet seems hopelessly deadlocked on the question of a wage increase in the bituminous coal industry. A final study of the selective draft records just made public fixes the military mili-tary strength of the United States at 19,000.000 in potential military manpower. man-power. Postmaster General Burleson has approved ap-proved pending bills to reduce the rate of local first-class letter postage to a penny an ounce. A letter for delivery within the postal limits of the office in which it is mailed would take a 1-cent 1-cent stamp Instead of a 2-cent stamp. FOREIGN. All agreement has been arrived at between the Belgian and German governments gov-ernments whereby Germany during a period of twenty years will redeem $1,200,000,000, which were issued by the Germans in the occupied territories. terri-tories. Plans for a new campaign against Francisco Villa, the bandit chieftain, rapidly are taking shape in a mountainous moun-tainous region of eastern Chiliual.ua known as the "range of the cloves." An American corporation has erected a large plant at Papeete, Tahiti, for the making of cocoanut oil from copra. Heretofore the copra has been shipped from the islands in bulk. The supreme council has 'adopted the British suggestion for partition of the German war fleet. Under the arrangement ar-rangement Great Great Britain will receive re-ceive 70 per cent Uie total tonnage, France 10 per cent, Italy 10 per cent, Japan 8 per cent and the United States 2 per cent. Governor-General Francis Burton lhirrison has urged the Philippine legislature to enact a prohibition law to conform to the constitutional amendment amend-ment adopted in the United States, which some assert does not apply in the islands. It is stated in authoritative quarters quar-ters at Berlin that Germany will noj comply with the demand of the entente for 400,000 tons of dock dredges and tugs as an off-set to the German warships war-ships sunk at Scapa Flow. The Chilean parliament has authorized author-ized a loan for the construction of port works at Valdivia, Lebu, Constitution Consti-tution and Talachuano. The public works committee of the chamber of deputies lias approved the construction construc-tion of a trans-Andean railway through Lonquimay pass. Cardinal Amette, archbishop of Paris, has issued a pastoral letter protesting against the immodest toilettes toil-ettes of women and indecent dances. The wooden steamer Flush has been wrecked south of the Aland islands, off the east coast of Sweden, with the loss of all the crew, according to a dispatch to Lloyds. Bumper world crops of corn, potatoes, pota-toes, barley, rye, sugar beets and rice for this year are shown in estimates compiled by the Intenational Institute of Agriculture at Rome. Twelve prominent Jugo-Slavs have been arrested and held as hostages by the Italian forces of occupation in Dal-maiia. Dal-maiia. according to advices received from Sebenico, thirty miles southeast of Sara. The socialist press of Paris is threatening threat-ening a general strike for Christmas in protest against exorbitant prices asked for French toys which are entirely en-tirely out of reach of the working people. j |