The Ordway new era., 1920-08-13
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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or less seriously hurt In series OF
riots which occurred In Denver as re-
suit of Tram strike.
Eighteen persons were reported In
jured when Oregon Short Line train,
Butte. Mont, to Salt Lake, was de-
rallied near Downey. Nine of the
twelve coaches of which the train was
made up were overturned.
Seeing that train was about to
crash into an ice truck he was driving,
Earl Markham, a nephew of Edward
Markham, the poet, threw two boys
who were riding with him to safety,
but himself suffered Injuries from
which he died.
A fire in the KoOtenai forest, in
m area of 5000 acres, fire fighters
who said they had been around the
blaze reported to the headquarters of
the federal forest service district
No. l.
Thre men are reported to have been
killed, many injured and several
homes of foreign residents fired ir
West Frankfort, ILL.,, 104 miles south of
st. Louis, by mob bent on avenging
the murder OF Amlel Calcaterra, 10
years old. and Tony Hempel, IS, both
of West Frankfort.
Miss Carrie Cunningham, 20 years
old, was shot TO death by Theodore
Osweiler, Jr., banker of Shuttle, Kan,
on the steps OF st. Mary's cathedral at
Wichita, as she, her mother md sister,
were entering to attend mass. Osweil-
er shot through the pocket of his
coat.
Lieut.. ormer Locklear, daredevil air
plane to another In midair have
thrilled thousands, is dead. His plane
crashed from height of 1000 feet
while he was engaged in nightflying
for the movies. With him died Lieut.
Milton Elliott, his pal and pilot in all
his hnir-raising stunts.
Arthur Thomas, an employe of the
city electric light plant at Fremont,
Neb., was saved from death by blow
on the jaw. He had taken hold of a
plug which had become charged with
a short circuit and could not free him
self. Clyde Newton, fellow worker,
saw his predicament and swung his
right fist to the point of Thomas jaw,
knocking him several feet away.
WASHINGTON
Maj. Gen. Frank Mcintyre has been
reappointed chief of insular affairs.
Authority for the railroads to in
crease revenues by approximately one
billion and half dollars has been
granted by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
A body blow at profiteering in coal
WAS struck by the Interstate Com
merce Commission, when 1t ordered all
railroads to cease the practice of re-
consigning coal cars more than once.
Commercial traffic through the Pan
anna canal set new record In the fis-
cal year, according TO official reports
received at Washington. A total of
2,47S commercial craft with an aggre-
gate tonnage of S,545,000 made the
transit.
By decision rendered by the comp
troller of the treasury, n liberal boun-
ty is granted to marines upon re-en-
listment. Under the decision the boun-
ties range from two months full pay,
at the rate of pay last drawn. for a
two-year enlistment, to three months
pay for a three-year enlistment and
four for four-year enlistment.
Increased revenue, officially esti-
mated at s10O,000,OO0 annually, will ac-
crue 10 the treasury In the advance In
railroad transportation rates. The
added income. officials at Washington
said, would be derived from increased
transportation taxes-pald by the pub
lic-as well as through operation of
the income and excise provisions of
the revenue laws.
Imports of foodstuffs into the United
States during the fiscal year just end
ed increased by more than S6S0,000, ,OoC
over 1910, while exports in 1920 show
decrease of more than 100000, 600
according to foreign trade figures is.
sued by the Department of Commerce
Foodstuffs imported totaled S1,513,.
7T6,309, compared with $500, 40, ,99l in
1919. Exports amounted to S2,141,
1880. us against $500, So, 400 dur
Ing 1919.
Deputy Sheriff Harry Worden was
instantly killed, another deputy sheriff
was wounded and two alleged bandits
were shot In gun fight between
sheriffs officers and "A gang of rob
hers who held up and robbed the
Farmers State Bank at Grass Lake
twelve miles east of Jackson, Mich.
Captain Rudolph W. Schroeder. hold
er of the world altitude record, will
pilot the American army plane in the
Gordon Bennett international cup race
10 be held in France the last week of
September, it was announced at the