, 1920-05-13
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN.

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prosecution at Chicago for manufactur-
ing and selling large quantities of beer
containing z or 8 per e n of alcohol.
Six persons were seriously injured
and twelve others suffered lesser in
juries when a tornado passed through
the northern part of Eureka, Kan. The
high school building and fifteen resi-
dences were badly damaged.
Ruth Taylor, aged 8, and Ruby Mo
ger. Z. school girls, were struck by
lightning and killed at a school house
in the country near Dunning, Neb. The
school building a demolished, but
none of the other occupants was in
jured.
The lOngshoremen's union has de-
ciared a general strike along the Seat
tic waterfront to enforce demands thai
the employers select crews from a list
prepared and displayed by the union.
The question of wages is not involved,
1t was announced.
The steamship Cody, named in hon
or of the late Buffalo Bill" Cody, ia
nous scout and Indian fighter, will be
launched at Hog Island. Pa, May 31st,
according to work received It Mime
apOlis by Mrs. Mary Allen, daughter
of Cody, who is on a visit in that city.
One of the largest verdicas ever CIV
en- q railroad employee injured while on
duty vas handed down when a jury In
a Chicago court awarded Joseph e.
Bush, n switchman for the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, $2S.S66 for a perma-
nent injury to his left foot, which was
crushed between two cars.
Thomas Morris, 126 years old, is
dead at the home of Charles Mitten,
ranchman, eight miles northeast of
Ansley, Neb. He was born in Berren,
North Wales, January Is, 1904. The
aged man never married and followed
the profession of a cobbler for 100
years. He came to this country in
1871, locating at Streator, ILL.,, and
moved to Custer county, Nebraska, in
1886.
United States District Attorney
Burkhart Of New Mexico has an
nOunced that as a result of a confer
ence with wholesale sugar dealers of
the state, the dealers had agreed to
sell sugar at a maximum profit of one
and one-half cents per pound and to
make no sales of present stocks at re-
placement values. Present stocks will
be offered at S14.5O per hundred,
whereas $19.25 has been charged. He
said there would be no prosecutions in
the state as long as the agreement was
not violated.
WASHINGTON.
Japan has withdrawn all objections
to the Chinese c~Onsortium and has pre-
pared a communication. accepting the
terms as agreed upon by the United
States, Great Britain and France, the
State Department has been informed
by the American embassy at Toxic.
Government loans of $500, 600, 900 in
addition to the $500, 100000 revolving
fund provided in the railroad law and
a IS per cent increase In freight rates
will be required to put the country's
railroads on their feet. railroad execu-
tives told the Senate interstate COM
merce committee.
Spokane, wash, ranking as forty
eighth city of the country in 1910. had
a decrease Of 1913 in population in the
last ten years and now has 104,204
people, the Census Bureau announced.
Farm loans aggregatIng more tina
$5O.OO0,OOO have been held up by the
litigation over the validity of the farm
loan act, 1t developed at the confer
ence Of farm loan officials It Wash
ington.
Mrs. Samuel Gompers, wife Of the
president of the American Federation
of Labor. died ut her home in WASH
ington. d. c., nfter n long illness. She
was 90 years of age and had been mar
rIed for more than half n century.
Freight rate increases of 30.4 per
cent for Eastern railroads, 300 for
Southern roads and 23.9 for Western
lines. have been proposed to the Inter.
state Commerce Commission by the
Association Of Railway Executives.
BY a vote Of 259 to 30 the House
adopted the conference report on the
water power development bill. Similar
action remains to be taken by the Sen
ate before the measure, which has
been before Congress ten years, goes
to the President.
After forty years of congressional
discussion of the advantages of n bud
get system, the Senate has passed Sen
ator McCormIck's budget bill without
II roll call or n dissenting voice. The
House has also passed a budget bill,
and with It the Mccormick bill will
now go TO conference. There is con-
siderable difference between the two
measures.
President Wilson has signed the
Fuller pension bill increasing the pen
sions of veterans of the Civil war and
widows and other dependents Of vet
rams.