World Happenings of Past Week Condensed in Short Paragraphs
A compilation of notable events from the prior week including a violence incident at a Longmont public school where a ten-year-old pupil was attacked and hung from a tree, a massive timber storm damaging the Olympic forest with an estimated $100 million loss, a Spokane murder suicide, a decapitation near Zamora California, a Nebraska court ruling on newspaper employment exemptions, potential Wyoming special session over budgets, immigrant typhus disinfections in New York and Hoboken, farm tax concerns at a national congress, Ford Motor shifting work patterns, Hog Island shipyard halting activity and ship delivery, a deadly Gardiner Georgia tornado, widespread destruction near Toomshoro, Harding's preinauguration travels, and Louisiana cases over execution timing for Lennie Eaton.
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James Rush
Benny Leonard
Longmont
Colo
Wash‘ington
Olympic Peninsula
Chas. M. Roth
Seattle ‘Times
Fork
Wash
Barker
Elmer Harding
Carl Harding
Spokane
Harding
John Henry Hawk
Zamora
Woodland
Cal
William Shields
Nebraska State Supreme Court
Nebraska
Oight
United States
New York City
Hoboken
N. J
J. R. Howard
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
all-American Co-Operative Congress
Cleveland
Howard
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Hog Island
Aisne
Army Transport Service
Great Plant
Gardiner
Oconee
Toomshoro
Board’ of Pardons
Foreign Talks and Global Developments This Week
Reports from Tokyo and London describe impending negotiations on the Anglo Japanese alliance with Viscount Chirda and Baron Hayashi to join the crown prince in London. Italian women plan a charity sale in Rome to aid finances, while Holland approves Rhine navigation terms and a Paris signed protocol. Ireland reports rising violence with hundreds of courthouses and barracks destroyed, and police and military casualties. Canada notes price declines in textiles and staples. South Africa’s Smuts party wins big in elections. Philadelphia Archbishop Dougherty eyed for American cardinalate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apan
Great Britain
London
Nichi Nibai
Tokio
Chirda
England
Ito
Hayashi
Rome
South America
Holland
Versailles
Rhine
Paris
Ireland
Canada
Department of Labor
Ottawa
General Smuts
South Africa
Cape Town
Dougherty
Philadelphia
Vatican
Parliament Reopens As King And Queen Lead State Ceremony
In London the English Parliament reassembled with King George and Queen Mary present. The king urged action on unemployment Ireland India and the Near East while condemning violence in Ireland and urging constitutional paths to unity. Prime Minister Lloyd George defended government policy and noted plans to extend unemployment protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Commons
House of Lords
George
Mary
Prince of Wales
British Empire
Ireland
India
Near East
Tarbor
Asquith
Lievd George
Strickland
Coymander
Wold
Brick and Tans
Cork
Lord Curzon
Europe
Russia
Impeachment Move Targets Judge Landis in Congress
Washington reports that Judge K M Landis of Chicago faces impeachment in the House after Representative Welty charged he violated the law by holding the office of supreme arbiter of baseball while serving on the bench. The Judiciary Committee will decide whether to dismiss or proceed, with potential passage to the Senate only upon indictment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railroad Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. George Wright
Osage Indian Agency
Oklahoma
Montana
Con
Washington, D. C
Cato Sells
Texas
Harding
Atlantic
Pacific
Benson
The
Shipping Board
W. A. Harriman
Senate Immigration Committee
House
Senate
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
United States
Wilson
Mr. Coolidge
James M. Cox
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Colby
Japan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
K. M.landis
Chicago
House of Representatives
Welty
Ohio
Supreme
Palmer
Landis
Hiss
Sena
Tor Diat
South Carolina
Jull
Ottawa
Dialan
Department of Justice
Chievo
Dial
Leart
Landig
Judiciary Committee
Sherwood
Congress
Jedieiary Committee
Justice of the Peace
Grand Jury
Volstead
Judiciary
Friends
Strickland Report Not Published on Cork Fire Inquiry
London reports that Major General Strickland’s Ireland inquiry into the Cork December blaze will not be published. Prime Minister Lloyd George said the decision supports restoring law and order in Ireland, noting disciplinary violations found but failing to identify individuals. The most severe action targeted a company. officers were disciplined, the commanding officer suspended, and the unit dissolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Strickland
Ireland
Cork
House of Commons
Lioyd George
President Wilson Attends Cabinet Meeting in White House
President Wilson returned to the cabinet room for the weekly cabinet meeting in the White House executive offices. The gathering aimed to allow a final photograph with his cabinet as he resumes attendance after illness.
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Wilson
Washington
White House
Executive Mansion
Harding reviews cabinet plans and Versailles debt talk
President elect Harding met with his campaign managers and Will Hays to discuss cabinet choices and policy. Thomas W. Lamont briefed on Versailles debt cancellation rumors, and Lamont said no secret agreement exists while promising a frank, untrimmed approach to future administration decisions.
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St. Augustine
Ila
Med
Harding
Will Hays
Wilson
Versailles
Hays
Peace Commission
Queston
Port Quarantine Station Under Federal Control
A typhus death heightens city and state action to curb immigrant spread. Dr Leland E B Cofer, port health officer, orders delousing and cleanliness for arrivals while Wallis travels to Washington for talks with labor officials. Port quarantine station to be turned over to federal control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Leland EB. Cofer
Wallis
Washington
Labor Department
Permission for Indefinite Stay Sought by O Callaghan
Donal J. O Callaghan lord mayor of Cork sought political refugee status and indefinite stay in the United States after facing possible arrest and deportation by the department of labor. His lawyers noted that no steps would be taken until a brief could be filed, with assurances from state department officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Labor
Donal J. O'Callaghan
Cork
State Department
United States
Judge Lawless
Michiel Doyle
O'Callaghan
Lord Inayor
Colby
Davis
O'Canaghan
Secession Movement Takes Form in Idaho
In Boise on February 16 the Idaho senate received a resolution asking permission for north Idaho to secede. It proposes a convention at the University of Idaho in Moscow on June 20, 1923, to draft a constitution for a new state of about ten counties and 35,000 square miles with a population around 400,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
Senate
North Idaho
University of Idaho At
Moscow
Caruso Gravely Ill After Heart Attack Reported
Enrico Caruso the tenor is gravely ill in New York after a heart attack at 10:10 p m. The sacrament of extreme unction was given at 1 25 a m by Rev E E Molinelli of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He had shown improvement from prior pleurisy and recent operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Enrico Caruso
E. E. Molinelli
Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Caruso
Chinese Tongs Inaugurate War Across California Cities
Guns of tong men shot and killed and wounded in Los Angeles San Francisco and Stockton last night. Three dead and five wounded mark the start of a new tong war tied to the Chinese Exclusion era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Franciséan
California
Los Angeles
San
Miners Contempt Trial Nears Verdict in Howat Case
Testimony in the contempt case against Kansas Mine Workers' Union President Alexander M. Howat and five union officers wrapped up in Pittsburg Kansas. Judge Andrew J Curran took the matter under advisement after Howat described a strike over back pay allegedly owed to a young miner with a widowed mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Kas
Alexander M. Howat
Kansas Mine Workers’ Union
Andrew J. Curran
Ase
Howat
Pecamre
Classification Tax Law Held Invalid In Montana Supreme Court
The Montana Supreme Court ruled the land classification tax law unconstitutional and void because it taxes real estate while exempting personal property. The decision reverses a prior ruling and remands for injunctive action. The ruling also addresses jurisdiction in federal removal attempts over railroad rate cases and notes on a Great Falls terminal elevator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
M. S. Gunn
State Supreme Court
Federal District Court
Montana
Supreme Court of the
State
W. D. Rankin
Ki. G. Toomey
Mr. Rankin
Montana Railroad Commission
Tas
Great Falls
Lyman
Stewart
Hboard
I T
Also Mentioned on This Page
Departments
Wyoming
A. D. Kelley
Senate Finance Committee
Wudge Landis
Representative Welty
Cision
Lamont
O’callaghan
News OF the
Capital City
Rankin
R. R
Rail Board
Great,Northern
Northern Pacific
Milwaukee
Capitol
Wellington D. Rankin
State Capitol
United States District Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Bourquin
United States District Court of Montana
Royal Baking Powder Company
New Jersey
Dr. Price
Montana State Board of Health
Butte
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