, 1920-08-12
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING the PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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 a train was about to
crash into an ice truck he was driving,
Earl Markham, n 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
northwestern Montana, burning over
an 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
ONE of foreign residents fired in
West Frankfort, ILL.,, 104 miles south of
st. Louis, by n mob bent on avenging
the murder of Amiel Calcaterra, 10
years old, and Tony Hempel, IS, both
of West Frankfort.
Miss Carrie Cunningham, 26 years
old. was shot to death by Theodore
Osweiler, Jr., a banker of Shuttle, Kan,
on the steps of st. Mary's cathedral at
Wichita, as she, her mother and sister.
were entering to attend mass. Osweil-
er shot through the pocket of his
coat.
Lieut.. Ormer Locklear, daredevil air
pilot. whose stunts of leaping from one
plane to another In midair have
thrilled thousands, is dead. His plane
crashed from a 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 hair-raising stunts.
Arthur Thomas, an employee of the
city electric light plant at Fremont,
Neb.. was saved from death by a 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, a 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 a 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-
c~Onsigning coal cars more than once.
Commercial traffic through the Pan
anna canal set a new record In the fis-
cal year, according to official reports
received at Washington. A total of
Eats commercial craft with an aggre-
gate tonnage of S,545,O00 made the
transit.
BY a decision rendered by the comp
troller of h treasury, a liberal boun-
ty is granted to marines upon re-en-
SANiCA NiAt tioip hC boNit
ties range from two months full pay,
at the rate of pay last drawn, for a
two-year enlistment, to three month
pay for a three-year enlistment and
four for a four-year enlistment.
Increased revenue, officially esti-
mated at 500, 600, 900 annually, will ac-
crue to the treasury in the advance in
railroad transportation rates. The
added income, officials at Washington
transportation taxes-paid by the pub
lic-as well as through operation of
the income and excise provisions of
the evenu laws.
Imports of fOodstuffs into the United
States during the fiscal year just end
ed increased by more than $3.50, 10000
yer 1919. while exports In 1920 show
u decrease of more than $1,000 0 900,
according to foreign trade figures is
sued by the Department of Commerce.
Foodstuffs imported totaled S1,513,-
T76.309. compared with $500, 422. 991 In
1919. Exports amounted to $2,141,-
1913. 100. as against S2,50e, So, 400 dur
Ing 1919.
Deputy Sheriff Harry worden was
instantly killed. another deputy sheriff
was wounded and two alleged bandits
were shot in a gun fight between
sheriffs officers and a gang of rob-
bers 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
to be held in France the last week Of
September, it was ann ounced at the
War Department.