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EVENTSOF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week,
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.

The epidemic of yellow fever II
Texas continues to spread.
i Alexander J. Dowie, the Zionist
leader, indorses Roosevelt.
During October there was coined al
the various mints of the United States
sS,672, 1920
The case of w. H. Machen, charged
with postal fraud, has been set for No
vember %.
T. A. Wood, of Portland, has been
discharged from practice before the
pension bureau.
Congressman Jones, of Washington,
will introduce bill giving Alaska a
temporary government.
The sea dredge Chinook has arrived
at the mouth of the Columbia river
and will commence work at once.
The German mail steamer Duisberg
has been wrecked near Lisbon, Spain.
Most of the passengers were saved,
A reward Of $4,000 is offered for the
arrest and conviction of the persons
who wrecked the Santa Fe train at
Asfishapa creek last week.
A petition signed by a large num-
Der of Filipinos has been received at
the navy department asking for the
establishment of gun factory near
Cavite, P !.
In the state elections just held the
democrats elected the mayor of Great
Ell New York, and governors in Ken
lucky, Rhode Island and Maryland
The republicans carried Ohio, Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Colorado, Iowa and Nebraska.
A blaze at the vatican, Rome, de,
2troyed $4,000 worth of property.
China is trying to interest the
United States in her behalf in the
Manchurian trouble.
Nearly 5000 men are idle at Lorain,
Ohio, because of the shutdown of the
large steel plant there.
Postmaster General Payne will ask
for about $15,O0O,OOO more than the
last congressional appropriation.
A conflict with Russia is regarded
by Japan as sure, sooner or later, and
she will not yield one point in the
present controversy.
Rear Admiral Endicott, chief of the
bureau of yards and docks, recon-
mends an appropriation of $4,000
for the Puget Sound navy yard.
Senator Mitchell will oppose the
policy of leaders in congress for econ
ony with a vengeance, and will work
for liberal river and harbor bill.
The Cuban congress has convened,
and President Palma In his message
praised Roosevelt and stated that the
prospects of reciprocity with America
are bright.
The, Oregon supreme court holds that
no tax levy can be made next January.
John Mitchell, president of the
United Minewoikers, is quite ill at
scranton, Pa.
The Bilbao, Spain, strikers have re-
turned to work and their demands will
receive consideration.
Wyoming will most likely secure the
chairmanships of the irrigation COM
mittees in the coming congress.
Governor Dole has been appointed
district Judge for Hawaii. Secretary
Carter succeeds him as governor.
There is now only one county seat
town in Montana which has no railroad
communication with the outside.
The Toronto board of trade has
passed resolutions declaring considera-
ton of annexation with the United
States impossible.
An extremely brilliant specimen of
the aurora borealis crippled telegfaphic
service throughout the United States,
particularly in the East.
A West Virginia mob stoned Dowie-
ties for words deemed insulting.
One arrest has been made in connec-
ton with the train wreck in Colorado.
Sam Parks, the noted walking dele
gate, has been found guilty of extor-
aon.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
blow up a switch engine with dynamite
in the Denver yards.
A Santa Fe passenger train ran into
an open switch at Hutchinson, KAN
Three lives we're lost.
Japan may yet block the plan to give
Russia free hand in Manchuria for
similar oncession in Corea.
The United States VIII demand s40,-
600 from Spain to reimburse school
funds taken. after American occupation.
1t is probable that Governor Dole, of
Hawaii, will be appointed United
States district judge, to succeed Morris
NJ. Estee, deceased.
Three men were killed in a collision
on the Southern Pacific west of Ogden.
Rival candidates for governor in
Louisiana engaged in fist fight.
The chief of the marine corps wants
to have the barracks at the Puget sound
navy yard enlarged.
Mrs. Booth Tucker, wife Of the head
Of the Salvation Army, and an earnest
worker, was killed in a train wreck
near Topeka, Kan.
The Colorado mining strike has
caused the national body TO order
walk-out in that state, Utah, New
Mexico and Southern Wyoming on No
vember 9.