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Show Srf PAST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Happening Throughout " the World. ' v: - WESTERN J. Wssley Taylor, physical education educa-tion head at North Central High school at Spokane, Wash., went forth Monday to ehoot birds; he returned J Tuesday evening with a SoO-pound bear. And, what is more, he killed it lrd shot. The battle took Place WASHINGTON Information that President Harding had made up his mind definitely to veto the soldiers bonus bill has reached nate leaders from some of his close advisers. After receiving this word the majority leaders made an informal preliminary canvass of the senate which was said to have shown 34 votes against overriding a veto, or two more than the number necessary to prevent final enact men! of the bosu legislation. All records of business atlvlty in the United States, including our wartime war-time prosperity at its height, bid. fair to be excelled within the next six weeks, In the light of facts presented by the American Railway association as the volume of the country's bus!-ness bus!-ness at the present time and its rapid expansion within the past fortnight. thirty-eight miles north of Spokane. 'kr wasn't exactly glad to soe liruin, but be decided to make the most of the ammunition. He took his bunting knife and cut the cartridge at the wadding point not clear through, but so it would give way when fired, In this way the entire charge struck the toear at once, instead in-stead of scattered shot. lie) torts received at the office of Claron Nelson, at Salt Lake, superintendent superin-tendent of the western division of the air mail service show that the western west-ern division leads in efficiency for the month of August. The local division bus an average of 97 per cent. The performance report for the month of August shows 100 per cent for the western division. This is the secopd consecutive month for this division. All forty-seven of the miners entombed en-tombed in the Argonaut mine August 27 are dead, it was. announced officially offi-cially Monday night. A note found on one of the bodies indicated that all the men had died within five hours of the beginning of the fire August 27, officials said. The 48th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal church will be held In New Orleans in 112.", it was decided at the 47th triennial gcmral convention of the church held at Portland, Port-land, Oregon, this week. The Los Angeles county grand jury Tuesday began an investigation of the activities of Alva E. Smith, "the boy ( banker," who Is act-used specifically of "wrecking" banks at 1'a.rker, Ariz., and Colgate. Okla., and unofficially of wrecking" twenty more in Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska. Declination of llepresentative Kel ler, Republican, Minnesota, to present pre-sent evidence in support of bis im. peachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty, as the result of the rail strike injunction, brought ( aibout an adjournment of the house judiciary committee after an hour's session, at which it heard Mr. Keller present a general preliminary statement state-ment The American destroyer Edsall arrived ar-rived at Salonikl with 600 destitute refugees fnora Smyrna was reported in state department advices from Leland Morris, American consul at Salonikl. Consul Morris said the local authority authori-ty s assured him of shelter and food for !S000 refugees, but clothing, blankets blank-ets and milk for childnn were lacking. lack-ing. A resolution requesting I'resSdent Harding "in the interest of world peace and industry" to take such steps as he deems wise and pertinent toward to-ward bringing about the reestabliBh-ment reestabliBh-ment of political and industrial peace in Europe husbcn introduced by Representative Rep-resentative P.ritten, Republican, Illinois. Illi-nois. Beer branding 1 planned by the prohibition pro-hibition forces as part of its cr.ipaigi ag-.iinst brewers violating the dry laws, it reported at the treasury. At present, pres-ent, it was explained, manufacturers of near beer are permitted to sell their products in kegs or bottles without any distinguishing markings, but reg-ulathms reg-ulathms are under consideration which would require all kegs to be branded with the name of the manufacturer and all bottles to have the name blown into the glass so that beverage products can be Identified. From newsboy to university president presi-dent at the age of 3.1 Is the record" of (Toyd Heck Marvin, M. A., Ph. D.. for more than three years dean and assistant director of the University of California, southern branch, who was given a farewell luncheon by the Los Angeles chamber of commerce prior to his departure for Tucsm, Arizona to become president of the University of Arizona. GENERAL Guilty of treason was the verdict returned by the Jury in the case of Walter Allen, who was indicted In connection with the march of armed miners from Kanawha to Logan county. coun-ty. In the southwest Virginia coal fields, late last summer. The verdict carried a recomendation of ten years in the state penitentiary for the defendant. de-fendant. Mrs. Amelia Sehreiber, t!2, of Chicago, Chica-go, mother of tw elve children, shot and killed her husband, w ho, she said, had been drinking moonshine whisky and had tried to beat her. He was 64 years old. Frank Norris, raclnganto pilot, was Instantly killed and James Hunter, mechanic, was Injured when a oar which Norris was driving in a race rrasbed through a fence and was wrecked at the Arlington race track near Washington. Hunter was removed re-moved to an emergency hospital, where it was said he would recover. Virtual settlement of the rail strike as affecting from ST to 40 per cent of the railroads of the country was announced an-nounced by Secretary of Labor Davis, on the basis of reports from the meeting meet-ing in Chicago on the general policy committee of the striking shop crafts unions. Mr. Davis added that he was informed that the settlement would nffeot between cr.,0(st and 8.'),hK miles of track and in a formal statement of the strike of 4tO,K;0 railway shop craftsmen assured, the whole Indus' trial machinery of the couniry Is ready for n forward movement unprecedented unprecedent-ed In our- bistory." ' FOREIGN Smyrna no longer exists. Fir? which rased for three days with on- ; abated fury has swept the city. Only blackening masonry and a small vestige ves-tige of the Turkish quarter remain. Gr.-at Britain "is prepared to fight to maintain the freedom of the Da.'-danelles, Da.'-danelles, it has been announced. Tho statement came at the enri of a we k of protracted cabinet meetings arising aris-ing from the near eastern crisis which has given rise to t ars that the Turkish Tur-kish nationalists might turn from their successes over" the Greek to attack at-tack the neutral zone around Constantinople. Constan-tinople. German potash prices ill be raised three per cent on Octoiter 1 to meet the rising costs of coal and labor, th commerce department was advised by Tiade Commissioner Alfred Al-fred Dennis at Berlin. A contract for the apiKarance in the movies of Miss Muriel MoCormlck. he daughter of Harold F. McCormick, nnd grandaughter ot John D. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, 4s reported to have been signed with Joseph Schenck, husband of Norma Talmadge. Miss McCormick has adored the stage nme of Mawan-B.i Mawan-B.i MiCor. It was reported that Mi McCormick would yo to California early In January. I t In an effort to rush coal to the Northwest, now said to be 10,000.000 1 Ions short ot the seasonal aggregate of lake cargo bituminous coal, all such coal reaching lake ports for loading for upper lake destinations will be pooled, according to an announcement j from the regional headquarters of the j Pennsylvania railroad. ThiB, it wasj said, will assure faster loading of boats at lower lake ports. Suit for $1,000,000 damages alleging alleg-ing "malicious and defamatory libel" was filed against officers and the governing gov-erning board of the American Plan association of Cleveland by Fred L. Bauiiigartner, secretary of the local International Moulders' Union of North America. The suit is based on a letter said to have been sent y the American Plan association to its members mem-bers and to other employers of labor, soliciting financial support for Its campaign cam-paign for "an opsn shop." AH women missionaries !n Smyrna, j witn the exteptiou of Mu. Alexander MacLachlan, wife of the president of the International college, are safe, at Athens, the American board ot commissioners com-missioners for foreign missions was informed in a cablegram ivee'vcd from the Greek city. Tbe missionary men were still in Smyrna, the message said. Mrs. Maclachlan Is believed to bae remained with her hesband. Announcement was made by the t-tate department that Consul General Nelson Johnson, who has len on uuty at the state department, sailed a f w days ago for England on the steamship steam-ship President Harding to Make a more detailed inv estivation of charg. e against th former consul and vice consul of the United Stales at New-ciistla. New-ciistla. Major General .fohn Mc.Mahon has be 11 appointed chief of slaff of the Free State army at Dublin. The mo-it question of how many .lews shrill be allowed to matriculate in Hungarian nniversit'es has brought about a chalhnge f r a duel between two prominent Hungarian educntors. A controversy ba been raging between be-tween the Universities of Budapest and Szegedin. the point at Issue being whether the law restricting the number num-ber applies to the Jewish refugee from the lost provinces. |