Williams news., 1919-10-17
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
potNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
 MARK THE PROGRESS ,ottt OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

AL lcdSL Y<O,OOO WdS OOldlucu Oy q robber who bound and gagged a mail clerk on an eastbound Northern Pa | cific passenger train between Seattle and KanaSket, Wash.
 Try this on your piano: Sam Beth of California bought his piano from a Chicago mail order house. He laid a cigarette on one of the ivory keys and well, they saved the house. Seth Bullock, lifelong personal friend of the late Theodore Roosevelt, is dead at his home in Deadwood, s. D., after an illness of several weeks. He was a pioneer of the Black Hills and was 62 years old.
 Robert L. Massey of Omaha, for
 thirty-five years in the service of the
 Union Pacific, and one of the best
 known passenger conductors on the line, was found murdered on the streets of North Platte.
 Mrs. Fannie Antonio, 26, was ar
 rested in St. Louis on a warrant is
 sued in Kansas City charging implica- ton in the theft of $1 100000 worth of
 Liberty bonds, according to secret ser vice men making the arrest. The electric railway at Winnipeg is asking the public utilities commission for temporary increase in fares to meet the emergency caused by recent award for increased wages by which the company's payroll will go up $4OO, GOO a year.
 D. A. Gwartney and Edwin Birnie, both of Long Beach, were killed when the aeroplane in which they were fly ing fell into a tail spin at a height of 500 feet and from POO feet crashed to earth in a direct dive. The necks of both were broken and their skulls were crushed.
 In peculiar accident, Mrs. Haskett, wife of l.. B. Haskett of Tecumseh, was seriously injured. She cranked her automobile and the brake refused to hold the car. It ran forword, knocked her down, doubled her up un- der the vehicle and ran over her, frac- turing her back.
 Twelve thousand Idaho farmers. in thirty-twO counties, actively co-operat- ed in campaign for the destruction of ground squirrels, which resulted in a saving of $2,5OO,OOO in crops during the year ending Aug. 1, according to the
 report of w. B. Crouch, in charge of
 rodent control work of the extension
 division of the University of Idaho. Increased street car fare to 6 cents
 to meet demands of employees for a
 higher wage was defeated at the polls
 at Des Moines, Iowa by majority of over 1000 Voting was light. The
 cent fare election came as a cOmpro-
 mise between striking street car em-
 ployes and a citizens committee sew
 eral weeks ago to maintain street car
 service during the Iowa state fair.
 WASHINGTON
 Consumption of sugar in the United
 States for the first seven months of
 this year was 362, ,OOO tons more than
 during the corresponding period last year, according to statistics compiled
 by the United States Sugar Equaliza-
 ton Board and made public by the American Sugar Refining Company. Francisco Villa is about to launch a
 campaign south of Chihuahua to avoid risking intervention by United States troops, according to information re- ceived in Washington.
 General direction of antitrust suits which the Department of Justice has announced, will be pushed for decision by the Supreme Court, has been placed in the hands of c. B. Richards. of Salt Lake City.
 Investigation of the steel strike has oeen proposed in resolution intro duced by Senator Kenyon of Iowa. The resolution directs the Senate con- Inittee on education and labor to as- certain the reasons for the strike and whether any federal action can or should be taken to meet the situation. More wheat should be Sown this fall than was the average in pre-war years, but not so much should be sown as was sown last year. This is the outstanding
 fall farming recommendation of the United States Department of Agricul- ture which is watching the changes of
 the world supply and demand while
 European countries are getting back to
 normal in food production and thus af- fecting the market for American pro- ducts.
 Education in Mexico seems to be going backward, on the basis of re- ports received thru official channels l The Bureau of Education in the Fed l eral district of Mexico, has announced the clOSlnS or ZZ4 SCHOOLS, l1O or Wn1cn are in the capital and the others in | municipalities of the district, because l of a shortage of funds.
 That the army of 500,O00 provided | in the War Departments reorganiza- | tion bill may be entirely too large was | admitted by Secretary of War Baker 1 before the House committee on mili- | tary affairs.