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Show NEWS OF ft WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM KECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Hippenlngs That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter! of the Globe nd Given In a Few Line. INTF.R MOUNTAIN. Lewis I!. Harris, arrested by tin- police po-lice ill I be public library t Denver, is believed by I 'diver police lo be the lender of a gang of robbers who some lime npi robbed tin; First National bank or Artcsia, Cn., of $10,(MH. ('eileral Judge Lewis, nl Denver, lias n 1 1 st :i I in ' I a demurrer lo an indictment against K. L. Simpson, who was churned Willi violating t.ie Iteed prohibition pro-hibition amendment, by bringing 1'Ive (liiarls of liquor luro Colorado from Wyoming In a motor ear, which he owned. I!y his ruling, Judge Lewis held Hint. .Simpson was not. engaged In Interstate transportation. Indians on Tulalip reservation near Kveretl, Wash., with Victory loan allot al-lot menl of $.'10(1(1, have .subscribed ,fj:i,-JIMl. Their subscription to the fourth Liberty loan was .$11200. Charles Sar, -11!; bis wife, Susie, 41, and her sou by a former marriage, David Ilurdwlck, 10, were found dead In their home on a ranch near Madras, Ore. All bore bullet wounds. Mrs. N.ir and the boy were in their beds. Tom anil Karl Combs, confessed murderers mur-derers of Jacob N. Mellinger, Iiush, Colo., merchant, shot to death. In his store April I'l, have been' Identified by Jack Parker, a I'uohlo chauffeur, us the men who killed Elton C. Parks, I'ueblo automobile merchant, and William Wil-liam Hunter, wealthy stockman, near Itye, Colo., on April 20. On the eve of Ids trial on a criminal charge In the superior court of King i-ounty, Orvllle Hillings, reputed to be u:ie of the wealthiest men of Tacoma mid at one time a candidate for governor, gov-ernor, accidentally shot and killed himself at bis home at Tacoma, accord-ln;,' accord-ln;,' to members of Ids family. DOMESTIC. (Suspension of the order prohibiting lite attachment of railroad employees' wages is announced by the railroad .idministration. This action, however, does not make wages subject to attachment at-tachment which are not subject to attachment at-tachment by the laws of the individual stales. Mrs. Knumi G. Simpson shot and probably fatally wounded her husband, Klmer H. Simpson, a telegraph operator, opera-tor, in a court room at Chicago just after she had been granted a divorce. Mrs. Happy Theodore Van AVyck llenner. daughter of the late United Slates Senator Charles II. Van Wyck nl' Nebraska and divorced wife of Fernando Fer-nando Homier, New York, swallowed poison in her apartments at Omaha itiu! died soon after. Seven were killed and four injured ivheu two jitneys, carrying nearly a score of passengers each, crashed iicad-ou in the government reservation in Camp Merritt, N. J. L'nder the "master spy," Dr. Hugo Schweitzer, Gorman agents in this i-iiimiIi'v v.MwD'i.nl r,i l'.erlm bv code . every detail of America's business, life, kept from the allies 4.o00.(M) pounds of explosives and sent overseas the formula for the deadly mustard gas which laid low thousands of American soldiers, according to Francis P. Gar-van Gar-van alien property custodian. The Michigan senate has passed a hill legalizing ten-round, no-decision boxing matches and creating a state athletic commission which will have supervision over boxing and wrestling matches. Secretary of the Treasury Glass, on a western tour in the interest of the Victory loan, expressed surprise at the enthusiasm of midwesrern communities, communi-ties, lie expressed the belief that the loan would "undoubtedly lie subscribed and very likely oversubscribed." By a vote of 112 to 3, the territorial house of representatives passed a bill authorizing the territory of Alaska to enter the transportation business witli Chartered ships and appropriating therefor !?:?00.000. A minimum weekly wage of $13.ii0 has been fixed for all experienced women workers in mercantile establishments estab-lishments in California by .the state irdustrial welfare commission. This compares with a minimum wage of 10 fixed in September. ':017. In the presence of only a few friends and relatives, Miss Margaret Carnegie, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, and Ensign Koswell Miller, U. S. N., were married at noon Tuesday Tues-day in the Carnegie home in New York. Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States shipping board, In addressing ad-dressing the sixth national foreign trade convention at Chicago, declared that, with an American merchant marine ma-rine established, business men of this country bad no reason to four the competition com-petition of Great Britain or any other country in extending their export trade. A memorial to all southern men who haw; fought in the nation's wars from the American revolution to the world war will be carved on the granite face of Stone mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., instead of simply making "it a monument monu-ment to the heroes of the confederacy. Plans of a Tampa. I-'la., labor element, ele-ment, to arrange a "May day demonstration demon-stration as a protest: against punishment, punish-ment, of Eugene V. Debs, Tom Mooney and others," were met by a proclamation proclama-tion by Mayor McKay that any such demonstration would be stopped by the police. WASHINGTON. Cancellation of contracts made during dur-ing the war for construction of two million tons of steel ships is announced by the shipping board, which Is preparing prepar-ing to close government work in many yards throughout the country. Units of the reserve officers' training train-ing corps are being maintained at .'!US institutions and comprise in- their membership 100,000 students. The Mexican government's denial of the Monroe doctrine was characterized character-ized by members of congress now in Washington as another "Carranza" blunder. It will be strictly enforced, the statesmen said without regard to the attitude of Mexico. Itemoval by the Interallied economic council of all ration limitations on exports to northern neutral countries, except finished munitions of war, is announced by the war trade board. Keplying in a statement Thursday to the charge of Postmaster General Burleson that he Is the victim of an "organized propaganda," Charles Johnson John-son Post, director of the publisher's advisory board, declared that it was not the publishers of the country who needed defense but the postmaster general himself. Iievised casualty totals announced Jjy the war department placed the total to-tal of dead in the army and marine corps at 75,344, of whom 33.SS7 were killed in action. Full suffrage for all American women wom-en for the 10:20 elections is foreshadowed foreshad-owed in a statement authorized Sunday Sun-day by Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, Kan-sas, the Republican whip. Senator Curtis said that both houses of congress con-gress will pass the amendment as sood as they reconvene. FOREIGN. A dispatch to the Central News says Vienna newspapers report that, Dr. Alexander Wekerle, the former Hungarian Hun-garian premier and minister of finance, has died in prison. An increase in the milling percentage percent-age which will virtually put the world back to a war bread basis for the next three months is part of the program adopted by the supreme food council under the chairmanship of Herbert p. Hoover. Party of the Hungarian communist army facing the Rumanians southeast of Budapest has surrendered and the rest is in flight, according to a Rumanian Rum-anian official statement. According to the official figures of those paying the "out of work" donation, dona-tion, there are exactly 1,700,G7S men and women today who are jobless in 1 the British Isles. An official statement by the Japan ese einoass euai aciei iziug as e.aj:ei-ated e.aj:ei-ated current reports of cruel measures meas-ures employed by the Japanese authorities author-ities in suppressing Korean disturbances, disturb-ances, says one person was killed and six wounded in outbreaks at Seoul and that the total number of casualties in the provinces has been 331 killed and 73o wounded. The Munich Spartacans have secured se-cured the services of six trained military mili-tary officers as leaders of the. red guard. The first panic over rabies in twenty-one years is spreading through England. Several cases developed in the country recently and two were discovered in London in the last week. Great loss of life among the natives of the Belgian Congo as a result of an influenza epidemic is reported in dispatches dis-patches received at Brussels. Some estimates place the number of deaths at oOO.OOO. The dock strike at Liverpool was settled Thursday evening. The grievances griev-ances of the dock workers are to be arbitrated. President Wilson's emphatic declaration declar-ation that he will not yield on the Adriatic Ad-riatic question has created the most profound sensation in the peace conference. con-ference. He has thrown down the gauntlet to the supporters of secret treaties in a manner which almost took away the breath of the delegates who have been urging compromises on points covered by many sivrot documents docu-ments and at variance with the president':, presi-dent':, fourteen points. , j I i |
