Show NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK A complete history of what has been happening throughout the world intermountain A flat increase or of four cents an hour in wages is asked by of the denver rio grande railway system la in a petition to officers of the road according to the customary thirty day notice received by the state industrial relations commission says a pueblo dispatch colonel H 13 maxson Nf axson of reno reio nev republican national committeeman from nevada suffered a fracture ot of the left arm and severe bruises about the body when he be was run down by a taxicab in fifth avenue new york A L clinger a for former mer resident ot of reubens mort northern bern idaho will be hanged at clinton B thursday december 24 for murder in the first degree unless clemency Is alio shown n him by minister nister of justice charles J do herry berry of ottawa and the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment A feud fetid over the ownership of land occupied by the contending claimants was responsible for a pitched battle with rifles shotguns and pistols between two families at dodd hollow near klamath falls ore one woman being killed and a man shot I 1 through the arm fire destroyed the capital avenue theatre at cheyenne the loss Is two california counties and three acoss the line in nevada are being pillaged by mad coyotes and a campaign has been started against them four men robbed a bank at duvall wash securing 40 and in a fight with a posse one of the robbers was killed and the money recovered DOMESTIC the committee representing all trunk line railroads leading into new york announced tuesday that the freight embargoes declared by the many roads have failed to ameliorate the traffic congestion there being approximately cars destined tor for new york on lines or at terminals the prosecution has rested in the trial ot of mathew A charged with the murder of charles hagerty II agerty one of the twenty persons killed in the explosion which destroyed the los angeles times building october 1 1910 officers have tailed failed to discover the murderer of john moye his wife and tour four children whose bodies with the heads beads crushed were found in the smoldering ruins of their home on tho the road near Nord nordheim helm texas stockholders have failed in another attempt to hold C I 1 K G billings of new york ork responsible as a director for losses of suffered in the failure of the chicago national bank of which the late john B walsh was head george gearge chip of new castle gave frank lougherty berty of philadelphia one of the worst bickings lickings lic kings that the quaker city boy has ever taken at boston tuesday night an inventory of the es estate tate left by the late ex governor eben S draper was mas filed in probate court at worcester mass showing he left property valued at ignacio J diaz a pensacola ga lumber merchant and relative of 0 the late president porfino diaz of mexico was released from arrest at pensacola fla under bond to appear at the spring term of the federal court and answer charges of violating laws gus christie of milwaukee wis out pointed john howard of bayonne N J in an eight round bout at st louis both are middleweights middles middle eights advances in the prices of steel products which in many cases establish new records have been made at pittsburg during the past week four of 0 the men convicted in the terre haute election conspiracy cases were released from the united states penitentiary at leavenworth kans on tuesday one of the most intensely dramatic scenes ever enacted in new york occurred tuesday night at a meeting of the american Jei jewish sli relief committee at carnegie hall within the short space of halt half an hour the sunt sum of was collected to alleviate I 1 the suffering of war stricken jews I 1 hysterical women and weeping men after I 1 contributing their last cent threw their jewelry upon the stal stage tong king chong president en 0 of f the chinese republic association ion hecei received a cablegram at san francisco fra from shanghai china monday night which stated that me fhe calanese provinces had bad declared their independence against the yuan kal kai A plan to smuggle crude rubber from this country into germany wb re it 11 Is scarce bia b ia been uncovered at new york by agents of the department of 0 justice aud the neutrality squad of the customs service four lives were lost and many persons injured in a windstorm that de noll shed scores of 0 houses in east mississippi sis sippi and adjoining coun countes teB of 0 alabama washington the northern hemisphere in 1915 produced bushels of wheat an increase of per cent over 1314 1914 says a cablegram from the international ter institute ot of agriculture at rome to the bureau of crop estimates the new american note to austria hungary regarding the sinking of tho the italian steamship ancona is understood to have been cabled to ambassador penfield tor for presentation oa to the vienna foreign office the federal quarantine against shipments from foreign countries of irish potatoes affected with powdery scab has been removed by an order of the department of agriculture effective january 1 congress has been asked to provide motorcycles for the use of the army signal corps because events of the european war have disclosed the great value of these machines it if the measure introduced in congress by representative W C adamson of georgia becomes a law it will be possible tor for an all automobile owner with his home state registration number freely to travel in other parts pacts of the united states without additional taxation or tagging congress adjourned friday night tor for the christmas holidays FOREIGN anyone in france can send a christmas parcel weighing up to t to pounds to a soldier at the front without paying postage on the package the french wine crop of 1915 according to the government tax office announcement is only about one third as aa large as last year being gallons one third of 0 the greek voters cast ballots in the parliamentary elections says a havas dispatch from athens filed by the correspondent there tuesday out ot of voters in Sal 1050 voted henry ford has received information that he will be prohibited from holding meetings in copenhagen it has been learned he will go are there however to select the delegates to accompany his peace party to the hague six men forming a band known as the robbers with the grayish automobile were executed by orders of general pablo gonzalez at mexico city had the allied fleet returned to its attack upon the dardanelles Darda nelles batteries on the day after the great bombardment of march 10 19 last the waterway to constantinople would mould have been surely forced in the opinion of a number of 0 artillery officers of the defense works near TB Tse chanek banek says a vienna dispatch munich newspapers received at geneva announce the suicide of 0 general conesco Po nesco commanding the second doumanian Rou manian army corps according to the story the general m was as suspected of having baying been bribed by one of 0 the po powers Ners generals obregon and dieguez are at guaymas Gua mexico for or the purpose it is reported of holding a conference with the yaqui indian chiefs in an effort to induce the indians to retrain refrain from making further raids italy now has two tao million men engaged in the war and is preparing to add another million about a mil mill lor loi men are on tile the fighting line harett tr etched ed along the mountains from rom tren trentino no in the west aest to the austrian str stronghold jig of gorizia la in the east life in the poorer quarters ot of the german capital is described as pitiful by the german born wife of an english laborer residing in berlin who ho after sixteen months internment has arrived at flushing holland on her way to a gland fireman had to fight a canal full of blazing whisky at glasgow scotland when a fire broke out in the building of the distillery company ltd the loss was the king and queen of belgium narrowly escaped death recently from a bomb thrown by a german aviator according to the petit journal Jo A havas dispatch from athens reports the sink sinking ing of a french liner from athens to marseilles it says line jean guillemin Gull lemin wife of the french minister at athens who was a 9 passenger was saved mount etna is considerably active again and Js is emitting red hot lava which streaming along the sides of the mountain and melting the snow produces I 1 a wonderful ond erful effect especially at night women laborers are successfully wielding the pick and shovel in the work ork of excavating the new fried rich strasse tunnel in berlin according to the german newspapers the tunnel is a part ot of the new subway system ot of the capital |