The Ordway new era., 1919-08-01
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIG
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EvEnTs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
WESTERN

plane at an estimated altitude of 1900
feet, Edward F. Thompson was In
stantly killed near Fresno, Calf, when
the parachute failed to open.
A man, stumbling headlong down
stairs, at Nevada City, Calf, struck
william Bluett, who was passing on
the sidewalk. The falling man suf-
fered few bruises, but Bluett died
of broken back after the collision.
Five persons were killed and sixth
so badly injured that his life is de-
SPARED of when an interurban electric
car ran into an automobile ut rail-
road crossing four miles north OF
Nampa, Idaho, on the Boise-Nampa
electric line.
Forested areas in the eastern sec
tion of the Thunder mountain region
of southern Idaho are u cauldron of
smoke, and there is no way to estimate
how many new fires are eating into
the timber of that region underneath
the hazy pail.
A bench warrant has been issued at
Lincoln, Neb., by the clerk of the Su-
preme Court commanding Warden
Fenton of the state penitentiary to
electrocute Allen V. Grammer within
the walls of the prison between the
hours of a. M. and 9 p. IN. Sept. 10
next.
One man suspected of being n high
wayman is dead, two others We're sert-
ously injured and Detective James
Brltton, former chief of police, prob
ably was fatally wounded following
pistol fight between detectives and
robber suspects In restaurant NJ
Sioux City, Iowa.
Governor Olcott of Oregon has re-
fused to call IA session of the Oregon
Legislature to ratify the national wom
an suffrage amendment, except on
condition that majority of the mem
bers of both houses voluntarily request
such session and agree to bear their
own expense.
Mystery surrounded the killing of
Lieut.. Fitzroy X. Simpson at Kansas
City. Police believed the slayer fired
through nervousness as Miss Hall said
he shot without warning. Ordered
from an electric coupe, in which he
was riding with Miss Evelyn Hall,
Simpson was shot by highwayman,
although he offered no resistance.
A man who said he was Thomas
Moreno, 80 years old, but who was ar
rested as being Tom Gaetano, alias
Tom Ascuitto, charged with being i'm
plicated in a robbery Mt the Winslow
Manufacturing Company's offices in
Chicago two years ago, when the
cashier and guard of the office were
killed, has been arrested at San Diego.
Cal
WASHINGTON
Representative J. W. Ragsdale of
South Carolina dropped dead at the
office of DR.. Hooe in Washington.
Deliveries of twenty-one ships to the
Shipping Board during the week end
ing July 18th brought the total since
the United States entered the war to
I'LL, of 4,09O,S93 gross tons. OF the
grand total, SO8 of 3,379,O26 gross tons
were steel. The others were wood and
composite.
Sorry to leave you, but the mos
quitoes have become too burned ag-
gressive," said note left for the jail
er by two minor offenders who escaped
from the county Jail at willows, Calf.
Two million pounds of horse and
mule shoes comprise the latest item
of surplus material to be offered for
sale by the War Department. Sealed
proposals will be opened August 14th.
No bid will be accepted for less than
100 kegs.
Two gigantic ocean liners, larger
han obi
signed to cross the Atlantic in foul
days, are to be built by the Shipping
Board They will be 1000 feet long
and of thirty knots speed, and will bs
equipped for use as commerce destroy
ers in the event of war.
for the rehabilitation and edu
cation of disabled soldiers, sail
ors and marines, the SGl3,
100000 sundry civil appropriation bill
was passed by the Senate. 1t now goei
to the President, who vetoed the orig
inal bill because it limited funds 70
training wounded service men.
Sentences imposed on American sol
diers by courts-mnrtial during the wal
would aggregate about 2S,OOO years
Senator chamberlain of Oregon, rank
ing Democratic member of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee, declared
In introducing bill in the Senate pro
vidlng for the restoration of militar,
rank and granting of amnesty to sol
dIers. sailors and marines 80 sen
fenced.
Yeggmen blew the safe in postof
flee on the outskirts Of the nationa
capital and got haul of $1,000 II