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RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History -Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. E. W. Swanbrough, a veteran automobile racer, was killed in a race at the Overland track at Denver. His machine plunged through a fence and a timber struck Swanbrough on the head. Unless the farmers east of Sandy, around Midvale, Crescent and Riverton, Utah, take drastic measures in fighting the hog cholera epidemic in those sections, the plague will spread throughout the state and become a serious menace, it is believed. Utah banks are not affected by the statement of the secretary of the treasury that he would withdraw federal deposits and federal emergency issued to banks which have high reserves and are charging high rates of interest, it was learned. None of the national banks in Utah made a request for emergency currency. Following a checking in by the United States bank examiner and the state bank examiner, the United States National bank at Centralia and the Union Loan & Trust company of Centralia, Wash., were forbidden to open their doors. The Twentieth infantry, which is now encamped at Fort Bliss, Texas, and at Fort Wingate, N. M., will return to Fort Douglas, Utah, when the troops are ordered away from the Mexican border. DOMESTIC. New rates filed by practically all the railways west of the Mississippi river and east of the Rocky mountains, withdrawing the privilege of shippers to concentrate into carload shipments at certain points less than carload shipments of butter, eggs, cheese and poultry, have been suspended by the interstate commerce commission until January 21, 1915. Theodore Roosevelt's youngest daughter, Ethel, wife of Dr. Richard Derby, will nurse the wounded in the hospitals of Paris and her husband will be a surgeon in the French city. William S. Evans, Philadelphia, f was elected president and San Francisco was chosen as the 1915 meeting place by the American Institute of Banking at the closing session of its twelfth annual convention at Dallas, Texas. a Thousands of customers attended the opening of Chicago's first municipal market on Thursday. Cabbage a sold at 2 cents, loose grapes, 5 cents, tomatoes, 2 cents, and noodles at 6 cents a pound. Radishes brought 0 3 cents and lettuce 5 cents a bunch. 7 Belated reports from missions esr tablished throughout the world by the Presbyterian church made public at New York tell of world-wide conditions unparalleled in the history of the church. There is no spot under I the sun, according to these reports, h where the European war has failed to strike a blow at commerce. 1The illness of Mrs. Helen Schuler at New Orleans was diagnosed as bubonic plague. This is the twentye eighth case reported since the malady was discovered June 27. The sovereign grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in session at Atlantic City, N. J., reit fused to reduce the age limit of ade mission into the order. 0 Edward Teesdale, chief of staff of "General" Charles Kelley, who led an army of 1,400 unemployed men to Sacramento last winter, en route to Washington, D. C., has been released from the county jail at Sacramento after serving six months. S Two new cases of bubonic plague have been discovered at New Orleans. Henry A. Kolbe, high constable of Doylestown, Pa., was shot through the heart and killed by William Miller, 18 years old, as he was taking the young man to jail on a charge of having forged a check. Three men robbed the Baxter Springs, Kans., National bank of $8,000 and escaped. Hope that the United States would aid in bringing about the independence of their native land at the end of the great war was expressed in a telegram sent by the convention of Lithuanians at Chicago to President Wilson. The message also expressed a desire for a world-wide movement for general peace. Six persons were injured when a
