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Show o : History of Past Week 1 fill I Ull I I I p II I I I II II llll Ill ! The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed . E3 INTERMCJNTAIM. The Oregon public service commission commis-sion lias issued an order refusing refus-ing to allow Hie application of t lie Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company com-pany for an increase of 27. per cent in telephone exchange rates on the company's com-pany's lines in Oregon. Safecrackers traveling in a stolen automobile dynamited two Portland safes Saturday and escaped with cash Two persons were arrested Saturday Satur-day at New York whose apprehension may have Important bearing in solving solv-ing the mystery of the mail bomb plot Gorge Grelier, retired German farmer, farm-er, living at Oniuha, suffering from the hallucination that the government was going to confiscate his large land holdings, killed his wife and 2-year-old (laughter. Mrs. Greber's brains were hen ten out with a baseball bat and her throat cut from ear to ear. The Nebraska railway commission lias given the Nebraska Telephone company com-pany authority to increase its exchange ex-change -rates an average of six and one-half per cent to meet increased operating expenses. WASHINGTON. Public debt of the United Slates government reported May 3 by the treasury as $24,824, 340,000. With two weeks of the Victory Liberty Lib-erty loan campaign gone and only one week remaining, only $1,057,979,000 had been subscribed on May 3, the treasury reported. This was 36.8 per cent of the $4,500,000,000 desired. Prediction of the department of ag- and bonds estimated at $1,000. Tom and Earl Combs, cousins, were found guilty by a jury in district court of Colorado Springs of the murder mur-der of Jacob Mellinger, a merchant at Rush, Colo., on April 21. Two bombs were received at the Salt Lake postoffice from New York on May 1. One was addressed to Senator Sen-ator King and the other to Frank K. Nebeker, who served as chief government govern-ment prosecutor against more than one hundred I. W. W. members last year. In a burning appeal to the mayors of cities of the United States, Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle has requested them to close all I. W. W. halls, "throw the teachers of force and violence in jail, demand of the national authorities the 'deportation and punishment of all anarchists, and suppression of the red flag whenever and wherever . it is found." Bruce Cochrane, a rancher, is dead at Climax, Mont., and William Hedrick is in jail at Ekalaka, Carter county, as the result of ashooting in front of the Climax postoffice. The men were neighbors and had quarreled over riculture for a wheat crop this year even larger than the record-breaking crop of 1914 was repeated May 2 by the United States Chamber of Commerce Com-merce in a report based on statistics obtained from all sections of the country. Eighty-six thousand checks, representing repre-senting payment for practically all awards made to date, were mailed May 1 by the bureau of war risks to beneficiaries of men who died in the military or naval service, it is announced. an-nounced. Since October, 1917, more than fifteen million checks have been sent to dependents, totaling more than $496,900,000. Soldiers and sailors' government insurance in-surance will be continued automatically automat-ically in effect for one month after the end of the month in which a man is discharged, eyen if the man does not pay his premium. FOREIGN.. Three American soldiers were killed, and eight injured seriously Saturday, when an American army motor truck was hit by a railroad train at a grade crossing near La. Ferte-St. Anhin. ranch property. DOMESTIC. Mrs. Irene Castle, widow of Capt. Vernon Castle, was married Saturday at New York to Capt. Robert E. Tre-man Tre-man of Ithaca, N. Y. The greatest moral lesson of the war would be to sink the entire German Ger-man fleet with proper ceremonies, Jo-sephus Jo-sephus Daniels, American secretary of the navy, who recently visited the captured cap-tured German vessels at Scapa Flow, declared in a statement issued Saturday Satur-day at London. F '-d N. Hurley, chairman of the Us oard, declares that the at- t ,:e emergency fleet corpora- ? - .espect to the cancellation . contracts has been misunder-He misunder-He said tl(e policy of the board wns not one of ruthless cancellation. yt , Mrs. Anna M. Seward, widow of Frederick W. Seward, who narrowly escaped being killed when his father, William H. Seward, secretary of state' ' under Abraham Lincoln, was attacked at the time President Lincoln was assassinated, as-sassinated, died at her home in New York, May 2, at the age of 80. Mayor F. T. Woodman, on trial at Los Angeles for several weeks on charges of having accepted a bribe to protect vice conditions, has been acquitted ac-quitted by a jury in the superior court. Bonds for the release of William I). Haywood, I. W. W. leader now in prison at Leavenworth, -Kan., were re--- fused in the United States circuit court of appeals at Chicago. The proffered sureties were regarded as insufficient. The yellowing of wheat in part of Illinois, with a loss of vigor in tjie " plan1- are reported due to an affi'ic-"-"""ierto unknown in this country. Shortridge, a negro, was jU"V 7ifthe-Folsoin, Cal., The Rumanian army is reported to have occupied Budapest, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Berlin. In declaring its disappointment with the decision of the council of three re-garding'Kiao re-garding'Kiao Chau,' the Chinese delegation dele-gation in its statement Saturday said the decision gives Japan practical control con-trol of northern China. The council of three has invited the Austrian and Hungarian peace delegates dele-gates to come to Versailles the week after next to receive the peace terms relating to their respective countries, Reuter's correspondent is informed. Reuter's Limited learns from reliable reli-able sources that among the terms of the treaty to which, the Germans will offer the most objection is that relating relat-ing to the surrender of her colonies. Destitution, hunger and disease are wreaking havoc among the great Jewish Jew-ish populations in Poland and southeastern south-eastern Europe. President Wilson, Premier Clemenceau Clemen-ceau and Premier Lloyd George, composing com-posing the council of three, have sent a communication to the Italian govern--ment inviting it to resume its place at the peace conference. It is belived Italy will accept. An attempt was made recently on the life of Lieutenant General I-Ior-vatli, Russian military commander at Harbin. His assailant attacked him with bombs, but was seized before he had carried out his purpose. A rebellion against the Coburg dynasty dyn-asty at Sofia is reported. Sanguinary fighting has been going on between government troops and revolutionists, who demand a soviet government.' The food famine and typhus epidemic epi-demic which threatened Serbia have been averted through the work of the United States food administration and XeTTTiitenlinry for the murder of .es .Mock, policeman of Marysville, .:., a year ago. . Nearly six thousand workmen of the federated railroad shop crafts of Denver declared a one-day strike May day as a protest against the "failure of the government to keep its faithful promises that ample employment would be furnished," and as a demonstration demon-stration in behalf of Eugene V. Debs and other radicals now serving prison sentences. At Woodbury, N. V., a lioness on exhibition ex-hibition in a circus sideshow killed her! keeper, before li small crowd of spec-j fate -s. escaped from her cage and bo Jt into a small clump of woods n adjoins the town. The lioness 'rally killed by a posse of men ;.vs. (b the discovery in the New York .office on April :'.0 of sixteen in-machines in-machines in addition to a half dozen which have been delivered to prominent men in various cities, federal fed-eral detectives are endeavoring to run down the organizers of what is believed be-lieved lo be a nation-wide plot" to assassinate cabinet officials and other men prominent in official and private 'life. If is estimated that '1000 gold stars will be required for- the I'resbyt erian service flag lo be displayed at the serfdoms ser-fdoms of Ihe Presbyterian general assembly as-sembly In St. Louis, May lo lo 2". Nearly 200,000 stars will hi! necessary to represent. In this service flag the number of Presbyterians who entered rt.be army and navy. Three of the four battleships which helped destroy I lie Spanish fleet off Santiago In ISDH-tlie Indiana, Massachusetts Massa-chusetts and Iowa are to be placed out. of commission, the navy depart-' depart-' ment has announced. the American Red Cross forces. The settlement of Hie Shantung claims in favor of Japan promotes the Nipponese to one of the big throe world powers, sharing the distinction Willi the United States and Great Britain and dwarfing France, Germany. Ger-many. Austria and Italy, in the opinion opin-ion of the Chinese peace delegation, which also is shared by students of the pol ilieal sit uat ion. The resumption of racing on I lie French (racks, after nearly five years of interruption, is helping Paris to realize that Ihe fighting is at an end. j The racing season opened Monday at j Maison I.al'fil te. j The Russian soviet government lias sent an ultimatum to Rumania demanding de-manding the evacuation of Bessarabia. King Alfonso of Spain lias signed a ; decree dissolving parliament, says a I dispatch lo Ilie Exchange Telegraph I from .Madrid. The dispatch adds flint general elections will be held June U. j American cable lilies taken over by the government in November were restored re-stored to private ownership anil operation opera-tion at midnight May 2 by direction of President Wilson. Sevenly-lwo persons were killed and more than -IOO Injured in I lie earthquake earth-quake ill. San Salvador April 28, according ac-cording lo late advices. Determination of President Wilson, indicated in press advices from Paris, that no American troops shall continue on German soil for a . longer period after Ilie signing of the pence I real y than may be necessary to embark then; for home, Is lafrne out. by present plans of Ihe war depart mcnl , which contemplate the relurn of the entire American expeditionary forces by ,sep-loniher. |