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Show NEWS OF A WEEK II CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THB IMPORTANT ' EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Art Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Glob and pjven In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Daniel Goldstein, S7, second-hand clothing dealer, died at Denver from Injuries received when a negro customer cus-tomer struck him over the head with a hammer after refusing to pay for e purchase. The negro fled. Captain Roy L. JS'oggle, formerly of Ogden, Utah, was killed at the March field, near Riverside, Cal., when an urmy airplane he was piloting, fell 400 feet. George Boyd, wounded in a pistol fight at Santa Rosa, Cal., in which Sheriff Petray of Sonoma county and Detectives Miles M. Jackson and Lester Les-ter Dorman of San Francisco were killed on December 6, was under arrest ar-rest in Salt Lake on September 10. George Boseo, confessed slayer of Elton C. Parks, automobile dealer of Pueblo, and of William T. Hunter, rancher of Rye, Colo., will be hanged at the state prison at Canton City before be-fore midnight Saturday, December 11. John Bonizon is one thumb less as a result of an accident while sorting over his bottled delight in his cellar at Colorado Springs. A bottle of wine blew op and John's thumb went with It. The Colorado supreme court has upheld up-held a ruling by the district court by which five children of the late J. Sidney Sid-ney Brown of Denver will share In their stepmother's $600,000 estate under un-der the terms of a will that never has been found. DOMESTIC. Nicholas Viana, former choir boy, was hanged in the county jail at Chicago Chi-cago on December 10, his nineteenth birthday. He was the second member of the "Cardinella gang" of robbers to , died on the gallows in the county jail. Samuel Cardinella, the leader, is also under sentence of death. Viana was sentenced for the murder of a saloonkeeper. saloon-keeper. 1'rison officials at Joliet, 111., are leeking J. Frank Williams, who, with a sense of humor and a world of nerve, broke out of the new prison, stole the warden's clothes from his home and entered the old prison and picked the rockets of several guards who were sleeping. He then escaped from the !d prison. Six men have died as a result of gangster outrages on women at San Francisco, prize fighting has come under un-der the ban in California cities, and a round-up of criminals and vagrants throughout the state has begun. Thirty thousand extra mail carriers, ;lorks and helpers now are beginning night and day shifts to handle the biggest big-gest Christmas mail rush in the history of the postoffice. One of the first acts of the new administration will be to make peace with Germany and repeal the wartime powers of the president, Senator Len-root Len-root of Wisconsin declared In an address ad-dress before the aunual convention Df the International Garment Manufacturers Manu-facturers at New York. '.I An agreement not to ask wage in creases during 1921 has been signed by St. Louis bricklayers, stoi.d masons, tuck pointers and tile and marble setters. Making good on his campaign promises, prom-ises, President-e'ect Warren G. Harding Har-ding is working on a list of representative represen-tative women, and prominent Democrats Demo-crats he intends to call to Marion to advise him on the league of nations question. Herbert Hoover, former federal food administrator, told an audience at Minneapolis Min-neapolis that should America abnjidon its charity and relief work in eastern and central Europe before 3,500,000 children have been tided over the wave of famine and the next harvest gathered, gath-ered, ascendency of bulshevism in holli enemy and friendly countries would result. Natives of the Koskokwim river in Alaska are facing death by starvation this winter, and sickness is rampant in many of the district, according to a message received at Seattle by the Alaska bureau of the United States department of education. The Lincoln. Neb., Carpenters' ti ii ! on vulimtar.l.v reduced it-; wage scale from Sl.l'-'Vi -n hour to $1. Tim proviso is made, however, that if liullding materials and architects' fees remain as at present by April 1 "lit, the old scale will he restored. Uncle Sam's federal building In Toledo will help to cut down the country's coun-try's war debt through a sale of dilapidated dilapi-dated furniture that's been stored away for many years. The sale net-ted net-ted $4S.40 and the war debt is only about" $7,8S2,432,61a.08. A small sized riot at the boilermak-ers' boilermak-ers' department of the West Milwaukee Milwau-kee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, over a question of production of work,, resulted in the beating up of the superintendent and foreman of the department. Reduction by approximately one-half one-half in the budget of the church throughout the United States for the next fiscal year, beginning April 1, was decided upon by the executive commission of the Presbyterian church, in session at Chicago. WASHINGTON. Frank Bianco, accused murderer of tivo boys at West Frankfort, 111., whose trial was in progress, committed commit-ted suicide by hanging himself in jail at Marion, 111. The murder of the two youths was the cause of riots which broke out in West Frankfort last summer, sum-mer, resulting in the deaths of several sev-eral persons and looting of many places of business. Recommendation for increased taxes made by Secretary of the Treasury Houston in his annual report were denounced de-nounced by Representative Claude Kitchin, North Carolina, ranking Democrat Dem-ocrat of the house ways and means committee. Income tax relief legislation requested request-ed by business interests is impracticable impractic-able at this session of congress, Republican Re-publican members of the senate finance committee decided at an informal conference. con-ference. Secretary of the Treasury Houston has asked congress 'to boost the federal fed-eral income tax rate 2 per cent on incomes in-comes under $5000. ' Relaxation of the naval administration administra-tion in Santo Domingo has been decided de-cided upon by the American government. govern-ment. A decree providing for an extension ex-tension of local government control is In preparation at the state department, depart-ment, it was announced Wednesday, and will be promulgated soon. A special message giving the complete com-plete expenses of the American peace commission during its work abroad was transmitted to the senate on December De-cember 8 by President Wilson. Total expenditures amounted to $1,651,191.09 from December 1, 1918, to December 4, 1920. The amount actually paid out was $1,703,712.06, but repayments and gains In exchange reduced this by $52,-520.97. $52,-520.97. FOREIGN. Machinery for putting the economic blockade into effect when occasion should call for such action was discussed dis-cussed by the assembly of the league of nations at Friday morning's session. ses-sion. 1 The Belgian rumors of a German coup d'etat are unsupported by advice from any other quarter, and lacking these and in view of the Belgian foreign for-eign ministry's denial of knowledge of any such occurrence, the reports are received with reserve. Martial law was proclaimed from Dublin castle on December 10, In the city and county of Cork, the city and county of Limerick and in the counties of Tipperary and Kerry. An infernal machine was exploded in the Rumanian senate, killing one and wounding several others. Bishop Oradiarail.. was killed instantly. Oth: ers wounded by flying fragments of furniture and fittings were the minister min-ister of justice, the president of the senate, a senator and other officials. Terrific earthquakes have occurred in Choluteca, southern Honduras, according ac-cording to reports received at San Salvador, but details are lacking. Proponents in Ireland Of an Irish republic are resolved "that England shall have no peace ; that the world will have no peace, until our republic is recognized," Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, widow of the late lord mayor of Cork, declared before the commission of the committee of one hundred investigating investigat-ing conditions in Ireland. Officers of the Italian submarine chaser No. 68-I'N were treacherously attacked, bound and gagged by their crew and then placed in a boat which took them Into the harbor of Flume, says a Milan dispatch to the London Times describing the desertion of the vessel from the blockading fleet along the Dalmatian const. , Thirty Moros were killed in the Kulu islands in a battle with the Philippine Philip-pine constabulary growing out of efforts ef-forts to encourage education of chil-dhen, chil-dhen, it was learned In official advices from the governor of Jolo, the Philippine Phil-ippine province embracing the Sulu Islands. Is-lands. General Chang Chingyao, whose troops murdered the Rev. W. A. Itei-mert, Itei-mert, missionary of the Reformed church mission, at Yoehow, hist June, and for whose? trial a-d punishment the American legation has been pressing press-ing the Chinese foreign office, Is reported re-ported to have escaped from China find I gone to Japan. |