The Ordway new era., 1921-02-18
coMpENsep REcoR RID OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DolNes, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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WESTERN

Psychology and the crime wave
were blamed by Mrs. Louise L. feete
for her conviction on charge OF nav
ing murdered Jacob Charles Denton
The bill in the Kansas Legislature
which provided the right of a house
wife to claim damages for injuries sus-
tanned in performance of her domesuc
duties, was killed by the judiciary COM
mittee.
Charles NJ. Fickert. former district
attorney, who handled the Mooney
case, narrowly escaped death when
bullet, which is believed TO have been
fired by an assassin, crashed through
his office window on the ninth floor
of the Kohl building in San Francisco.
Four thousand two hundred dollars
in gold, thought to have been stolen in
the robbery of $4,000 from the West
ern Loan and Building Company IN
January has been found by Chief of
Police Joseph E. Burbidge under pile
of rubbish in the basement of the com
pany's building.
The Nebraska House of Representa-
tiyes by a vote of A to As, refused to
permit Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister
of the late lord mayor of Cork, 10
speak on the Irish question. In refus-
ing Miss MacSwiney the right of the
floor the legislators declared her mis-
sion to this country was not of import
ance to the people of Nebraska
A bill requiring that fifteen days
o,..,.- bo,,,-oo,, -o,rIicat tinn for. n mar
riage license and issuance of the Ii
cense has been passed by the State
Senate of Washington and sent to the
House. Under the bill persons author
ized to solemnize marriage who adver-
tise the fact or employ runners or So
licitors TO secure the performance of
marriages would be guilty of misde-
meanor
Although tempted by lucious fruits
scattered about his cell and by appetiz-
ing victuals served to his cellmate, DR..
Health Engmark, 45, hunger striking
chiropractor, had not weakened as he
entered ON the third week of his vol
untary fast in the Los Angeles jail.
Engmark accepted a ninety-day SEN
tCaCc ---tp lAlt
ing his conviction on n charge of prac-
ticing medicine without license
WASHINGTON
Live stock on farms and ranges JAN
uary l were valued at S6.235, $50 900
compared with Ss,5O7, ,145,OOO in 1920.
the census office has announced.
Arrest of five men in Philadelphia
in raid on printing shop where al
legged counterfeit internal revenue
stamps were being produced, has been
announced by Chief Moran of the Sc
cret service. Chief Moran said about
100000 strips of stamps as well as
liquor labels were seized.
Latin-American contributions last
year toward the feeding of the United
States are set forth in figures made
public by the Department of Com
merce. The statistics show that the
people of the United States leaned
heavily in 1920 on the Central and
South American neighbors for the sup
ply of certain foodstuffs
The joint resolutions directing the
stopping of enlistments until the regu-
lar army is reduced to 115,O0O men was
passed by the House over President
Wilson's veto. The vote was 271 to 49,
The first move to exempt the salary
of the President from income taxes
was made in the House by Represen-
tative Pell, Democrat, of New York.
His bill would exempt not only the
$4,000 salary of the President, but
also the salary of the vice president
from provisions of the income tax
law. Beginning March 4, the Presi-
dent will have to pay an income tax
of about $4,000 year.
Twenty-one American marines, at
tached to the legation guard at Man
aqua, Nicaragua, have been arrested
by American military authorities as a
result of the wrecking of the plant of
the newspaper, La Tribuna, at Man
aqua, Secretary Daniels has an
nounced. Capt. J. L. Underhill, COM
manding the guard, reported to the
Navy Department that the men at
tackled the newspaper establishment
a. result OF tne puDilcatlOn OIL what
they considered abusive and libelous''
articles regarding the marines.
Charges that combination exists in
the coal trade to maintain high prices
Of coal and to shut off the supply OF
coal to dealers who cut rates were put
before the Senate committee consider.
ihg the Calder coal regulation bill by
J..Q Il BITTER, who said the "combin.
atienr Ut him out Of business.
un1cw trades unions are "affIrma.
= t1y<1v - 6sflniteIys excluded from
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