Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-11-14
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
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Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.

Countrywide attempts to organize
German branches Of the Industrial
Workers Of the World were disclosed
by New York police Saturday.
Disbursement of $576,349,2O5 by the
government in October, was the low
est in any month since June, 1917,
Secretary Glass announced Saturday.
Extension of the Lever food and
fuel control law for six months after
the proclamation of peace is necessary
to protect the country from high
prices, Attoreny-General Palmer Sat
urday told the house agriculture COM
mittee.
Advices from Omsk say Siberia is
threatened with one of history's great
est typhus epidemics, according to re-
ports received from Colonel r. B.
Teusler and party of American Red
Cross workers.
The bill providing graduated in
crease in the pay Of postal employees,
pending action of the congressional
committee investigating the salaries
of such employees, became a law Sat
urday without President Wilson's sig
nature.
Blind, or nearly blind, 40 strong,
healthy, able-bodied men are in Gus
tody at the King county stockade and
will be wards of the taxpayers Of the
state of Washington during the rest
of their natural lives as result of
drinking denatured alcohol.
Helpless because of an infected leg
and slowly starving and freezing in a
cabin near Webena lake, Minnesota,
James Francisco, 60 years old, camp
caretaker, fired cartridge after car
fridge in an unsuccessful attempt to
summon assistance. Then he commit
ted suicide with his last revolver bull
let.
The monarchist party has issued
statement saying that while it is de-
sirous of re-establishing kingdom,
it does not favor the restoration of
the throne to any member of the
provoked by reports that 7-year-old
Archduke Otto would be placed on
the throne under a regency.
In keynote speech Friday night at
Springfield, ILL.,, launching the candi-
dacy of Governor Frank o. Lowden of
Illinois for the presidency of the Uni
ted States, Representative William A.
Rodenburg of East st. Louis presented
the name of Governor Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts as a running mate
for Lowden, at meeting of the Illi-
nois republican editorial association.
The mention of Governor Coolidge's
name brought storm of applause
Washington, ID. C.-President Will
son continued to improve Tuesday and
so satisfied was Rear-Admiral Grayson
with his condition that he was per-
mitted to transact some executive
business in addition to the prohibition
enforcement bill, which he vetoed.
Knoxville, Tenn. Major General
E. M. Lewis, it was announced here,
has ordered three companies of fed
eral troops to Knoxville to be ready to
enter the coal fields of east Tennessee
or eastern Kentucky, in event trouble
arises following the strike of miners
Chicago-Between $4,000 and 10000
troops are within the jurisdiction of
the central department, and in addi-
ton, General Wood was given author
ity by the war department to COM
mand any other needed troops in
states where there are no coal mines.
Salem.--In formal report filed with
the state board of control, DIR. R. Lee
Steiner, warden of the Oregon peni-
Tertiary, reviewed his inspections of
eastern and middle-western prisons,
but said he would not be in a position
to recommend the installation of any
specific industries in the local institu-
ton until a late date.
Business is Business.
Old Hardleigh Ito the matrimonial
agenO-There is another point I'd like
to have settled. l am living in the
TRY, into d1al L. 81;