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Show m y History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I NTEKMOU NTAI N. Fritz Sounehorn, a German resident of Seattle, was arrested and interned May f by federal officers. lie had been under surveillance for some time, the officers said, on account of frequent fre-quent incendiary utterances. Thomas If. Tracy, an Industrial Worker of the World, accused of the murder of Deputy Sheriff Jefferson Heard at Everett, Wash., November 5, was acquitted by a jury in the superior iourt at Seattle. Idaho school girls will in the future near a uniform dress if the resolutions adopted by the Burbank federation of Ada county regarding simplicity of dress is carried out. With his abdomen torn open, An-gelo An-gelo Bernardo, 27 years of age, the victim of an explosion on the Utah Copper company's property at Magna, Utah, will-probably die. Some dynamite dyna-mite caps that Bernardo had in his pocket exploded when he fell. Alfred Woodard, aged 25, was shot and mortally wounded by his father, Jededlah Woodward, aged 60, during ix quarrel at Salt Lake City. All students, except thirty seniors, have "struck" at the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, Colo., and most of the approximately 140 "strikers" have left the institution as a result of the faculty's refusal to reduce suspension sus-pension of several students for rubbing a professor with sand. DOMESTIC. Star Dauley, who killed James Kay Gibson, a traveling man, near Mesa, Ariz., was hanged by a mob of irate citizens early Sunday morning. Rain and snow fell Saturday night and Sunday over the greater portion of north and west Texas, and, according accord-ing to agriculturists, was of great benefit bene-fit to growing wheat. Amarillo reported report-ed eight and one-half inches of snow. How the French army, although improperly im-properly armed and ammunitioned, met the Germans on the Marne and whipped whip-ped them in 1914, was told briefly at Chicago on May 5 by Marshal Joffre of France in his second speech in America Ameri-ca before 15,000 shouting men, women and children. . A verdict of guilty of murder was returned by the jury at Coleman, Texas, in the case of Harry J. Spanell, ' charged with the killing of Lieut. Col. M. C. Butler, and punishment was fixed at five years' iiuprisonment. Fire at Los Angeles destroyed an entire block of two-story frame buildings build-ings and drove five families into the streets in their night attire. A call for 100,000 men to volunteer os Boy Scout leaders has been issued by the National Council of Boy Scouts of America. The first aerial mail route within the continental limits of the United States will be established between San Diego and San Francisco and then extended ex-tended until the system reaches nearly every important city in the country. The full strength of the first war army organized under the selective draft hill will be 1S.538 officers and 528,059 enlisted men, making up eighteen eigh-teen war strength divisions complete in every arm and supplemented by sixteen regiments of heavy field artillery, artil-lery, equipped with large caliber howitzers. how-itzers. ; Only about one-third of the winter wheat acreage in Iowa will produce a crop this season, according to reports received by the Iowa Weather and , Crop service. James W. Gerard, former ambassador ambassa-dor to Germany, told members of the Chicago Bar association at a banquet given in his honor, that the war with Germany "would be long and bitter." Dan Shay of Kansas City, manager of the Milwaukee American association baseball team, shot and fatally wounded wound-ed Clarence Euell, a negro waiter, in a hotel at Kansas City in an argument over a sugar bowl. Total operating revenues of the Union Pacific railroad during 10 1 0 aggregated .? 1 14,-112,007, an increase of $22,4(10,302, or 2!. -I per cent, according accord-ing to the annual report issued May 3. The strike of union bakers, which had been in pi ogress at Chicago was settled May 2 after a conference of representatives of bakery owners and employees in the office of United States District Attorney Charles F. Clyue. The governorship contest in Arizona Ari-zona between former Gov. G. W. P. Hunt and Thomas E. Campbell, de facto governor, who has held the office of-fice since early in the year on order of the supreme court, lias been decided de-cided in favor of Governor Campbell. Women dominated the municipal r.'.le of Valley Center, Kans., when Miss Avis Francis, who, with an entirely en-tirely feminine council, recently elect-s elect-s ed, completed her appointments by naming Mrs. William Goodrich as city marshal and Mrs. George Bright as street commissioner. A dispatch received in New York from I'etrograd by the Jewish Daily Forward says that a "disastrous Hood has overtaken Kromentchug." Kre-.nentchug Kre-.nentchug is a city of approximately .10,000 population on the Dnieper river, lu the province of Poltava. Charges that Cuban negro rebels are burning and pillaging the homes and properties of Americans and oilier foreigners in the districts of Palmari-to, Palmari-to, Bayat" and Miranda, Oriente province, pro-vince, were made by twenty-four American Amer-ican and British refugees who arrived at New York on Sunday. A. J. Lockbart of Milliauk, S. D., was sentenced to three and a half years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. Lockbart, who is editor of the "Chain Lightning," was convicted of sending unmailable matter through the mails. Juan Casillo, a musician, and his wife Sylvia, a singer, were found shot to death in their apartments in Chicago. Chi-cago. A revolver clutched in his right hand indicated he had shot his wife and then himself. WASHINGTON. War department officials have predicted pre-dicted an American military force, probably 20,000 strong, would be ready for service in France by June 10. W. L. Saunders, chairman of the naval consulting board, announced May 5 that the board had forwarded to Washington plans for dealing with the submarine problem which, it was believed be-lieved had solved the problem successfully. success-fully. Sympathy with protests that constitutional consti-tutional rights should not be abridged during the war is expressed in a letter let-ter sent by President Wilson to a group of men and women who urged him to remind state and federal officials of-ficials that the war should not interfere inter-fere with the rights and liberties of the people. Foreign Secretary Balfour, speaking by invitation on May 5 before the house of representatives, '; said the world only now was coming to realize that peace and material civilization may bring the greatest possible menace to free governments. Subscriptions to the liberty loan poured into the treasury department Friday at the rate of nearly $20,000,000 an hour. Villa followers, cientifico leaders and legalistas, are believed by government govern-ment agents here to be planning to launch a new revolutionary movement against the established government of Mexico with Villa as the military leader and Miguel Diaz Lombardo as the provisional president. FOREIGN. Women who stood in line to buy potatoes po-tatoes at Stockholm on Saturday became be-came unruly when informed that the stock was exhausted, and began a demonstration which assumed proportions propor-tions that kept the police busy until after midnight. The council of workmen's and soldiers' sol-diers' delegates have passed a vote of confidence in the Russian government by a majority of 35. The number of delegates voting was 2500. Great Britain has formally joined France in expressing the hope that an American expeditionary force soon would take its place on the western front in Europe. The national service bill, which is now before the French senate, provides pro-vides for a census of all males, resident resi-dent in France between the ages of 16 and GO and regardless of nationality. Grave rioting has occurred in Mainz, Germany, according to a report received re-ceived at Amsterdam by the Telegraaf. Sixteen hundred people took part in a demonstration because of the scarcity scar-city of food, and a number of shops were looted. Four more of the seized German ships will be ready for sea during the present month. At a conference of the entente allies held in Paris a full discussion of the war situation took place and a com-' plete accord was reached, according to a semiofficial communication issued May 5. Word has been received at Copenhagen Copen-hagen from Americans in Berlin that the German military authorities have issued orders that Americans now are to be regarded as hostile foreigners and are required to report daily to the police stations. The -Massbodo of Maestricht says that serious revolts occurred in Berlin last week. According to the paper, the mob became so menacing that machine ma-chine guns were used against it. President Artiguenave has' sent a message to the Haitian senate and chamber of deputies demanding a declaration dec-laration of war against Germany and a commission has been appointed to consider the question. The British admiralty reports that the missing boat from the Rockingham, Rocking-ham, with all the fourteen men has been picked up by a British steamer. i German newspapers have published an appeal for "a German peace," which is signed by a large number of unions and associations representing German agricultural, industrial and economic interests. The British transport Arcadian was sunk by a submarine April 15. It is believed 279 men were drowned. Military activities in France and Belgium Bel-gium are still in a deadlock, but tin big guns ewerywhere continue violent duels and doubtless new phases of infantry in-fantry actions are developing. Talaat Pasha, the Turkish prinu minister, in an interview in the Fretu-denblatt. Fretu-denblatt. expressed complete satisfaction satisfac-tion with his visit to the central powers pow-ers and their prospects for peace, according ac-cording to a Vienna telegram. Announcement was made in parliament parlia-ment by Sir Thomas White, Hie Cana-j Cana-j dian minister of finance, that plan: are under way for joint action by Canada and the United States to reduce re-duce the price of wheat. The American steamer P.iekin:rham has been sunk by a German submarine. Thirteen men are missing. |