, 1920-01-22
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THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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ed States Senator Harry S. New of
Indiana, was found guilty Of murder
in the second degree at Los Angeles.
]. b. Evans, 80 years old. son of
Congressman Robert E. Evans of Da-
kota City, Neb., was instantly killed
in an automobile accident Mt Sioux
Falls, s. ID.
Ward McCrill, serving Il ninety-day
sentence in the county jail at Minot,
n. D., on u bootlegging charge, shot
n killed Ernie Thompson, the jailer,
and escaped.
Soon after getting his discharge
from the United States marines, Edgar
Tiffin Highes, of Fort Scott, Kan, was
found dead in his Don at Fort Worth,
Texas. An empty chloroform bottle
was by his side. He is believed to
have committed suicide.
Bank notes worth $4,000 We're
stolen from the mailroom of the
steamer Cheloshin just before the
boat entered Vancouver harbor from
Prince Rupert, b. c. The mailroom
was broken into and mail sacks were
cut open. Police did not reach the
Il until all the passengers had left.
The University of California base
ball team has been invited to play
Harvard at Cambridge, Mass, this
spring. Acceptance of the invitation
is expected, as the Californians are
scheduled to make an Eastern trip to
meet several Middle West college
teams.
nnYv III ftr .f Nv1,r- tnrN INr.N hoe
been sentenced TO ten years in prison
by Judge Dan Hamilton, on his plea
of guilty to arson and conspiracy to
destroy property of persons known as
"1Iollanders' in the vicinity of Oska-
loosa. He was alleged to have hired
others to set fire to the property.
A dense fog, the first in the history
of Douglas, Ariz., obscuring objects
only Il few feet away, caused almost
total suspension of business for one
day. A headon ~Street-car collision, re-
sulting in the injury of both the mo-
tormen, and an automobile truck col
lision, in which one man was injured,
occurred.
American automobile manufacturers
Ia decided to spend $~5,0O0,000 in
building good roads in China as a pre-
liminary to an automobile sales cam
paign in that country, according to r.
J. Moore, sales manager for several
American automobile concerns, who
arrived in San Francisco from the Far
East on the liner TenyO Maru.
WASHINGTON
Hearing of the governments Ease
against the United Shoe Machinery
Company has begun in United States
District Court at Little Rock, Ark. The
case is said to be important because it
will be the first to construe that pro
vision of the Clayton act which amends
the federal antitrust laws.
The largest postoffice appropriation
hill ever presented, carrying $460,977,-
1858 for maintenance of the department
during 1921, has been passed by the
House. The original estimate was
1891, 713,673, but the House added
S75, 7S3 900 for increases in salaries
provided for in previous legislation.
The extent to which the woman vote
will count in the coming presidential
election, If the amendment is ratified
in time, may be seen in the fact that
there are approximately ~2S,00O,O00
women of voting age in the United
States.
President Wilson may go to Hon
olulu at the expiration of his term of
office. At least Alexander Hume
Ford rendered the President an invi-
tation to become active president of
the Pan-Pacific Association and to
Consider residence and leadership in
a land where there is no race preju-
dice"
The American merchant marine will
show a profit of approximately $780,
600 a ship for 1918, according TO pre-
limlnary reports in the hands of the
shipping board officials and estimates
of receipts by the treasury. The gross
receipts of the shipping board for the
year 1919 are estimated at approx
mateIy $1,0O0,OOO.0 900, and of this sum
1t is expected that a clear profit of APP
proximately $100,000,000 will be
shown. Officials of the shipping
board said one ship last year netted
a profit of 100000 during q five
months cruise through the Orient.
Leon Salinas, subsecretary of the
Mexican Department of Commerce and
Industry, and other Mexican govern
ment officials en- route to Washington
via Laredo, Texas, presumably are go
ing to attend the Pan-American finan-
cial conference at Washington.
Withdrawal of American troops
from Siberia will be begun at once.
Secretary Baker announced. Some of
the 5000 troops will be removed i'm
mediateIy to ships now in Siberia and
the remainder will be Withdrawn as
the evacuation of the 10000 Czecho-
Slovaks proceed.