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Show NEWS OF II WEEK Ifl CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Hppenlng That Are Making Hlitory Information Gathered from Alt Quarters of the Globe n Given In a Few Lint. INTERMOUNTAIN. Tin; (iimiilsciM river lias risen out of lis hanks ami caused heavy damage dam-age Id ranch properly between Grand .1 unci ion, Colo, ami I'aonia. Kail com-iii com-iii mi ii a I ion is tlirealeneil. -Mrs. .1. C. lleal.v, wife of a locomotive locomo-tive engineer of Ely, Nov., shot, and killed her hiishand when he threw acid In ,.r f.ire. The couple were -'('king separation. .Mrs. lleal.v was awakened h.v a man she supposed to I Hi a burglar and fired t h: I'alal shot, not knowing if was her husband who had allacked her. Lillian Markus, G-year-ohl daughter !f Henry .Markus, died at Greeley, Colo., as a result of liurns received when she tripped and fell Into a tub of boiling wnler which her mother had just taken from the stove. -Recommendations that a minimum wage scale of $18 u week lie established estab-lished for factory workers in Washington Wash-ington were voted by a conference of representatives of employers, employes em-ployes and the public at Tacoina. Relief that the city of Seattle paid loo much when it purchased a street railway system there last year for ; 15,000,000 was expressed on May 20 h.v Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell, when lie started an Investigation to determine if the city could void the transaction Three unmarked men niirrrl fh hank al ibiuc, .Wb., held up the casbh r and his a --isiani s, 1 1 1: . 1 them j in a vault, and craped in an a't'omo-bile a't'omo-bile i;li S-Jium :,iid a i.ii':,her of j Liberty bods. VY. Al. Condon, a retired dentist of Omaha, b.-t hN life at Long I'.earli, Calif., when be was caught in a lide rip while bathiiiL'. Or. Conilon, his daughter, .Mi ; Nora Condon, and his lirother-ln-law, T. M. titles of Springfield, Spring-field, III., were surf bathing together. Or. Arthur I.acbnian, chemist and writer m scientific subjects, who disappeared dis-appeared from bis office in San Francisco Fran-cisco last Oecemhor, reluriiei; on .May 10, unable lo give an account of his experiences until he sulfered a fall in a hotel at Ohiro, Calif., which he said brought to him u realization of his identity. Lack of enthusiasm of the Sun Francisco public over 75-cent haircuts prompted a number of the leading ton-sorial ton-sorial establishments to announce the r.d-cenl limit would be maintained, despite, de-spite, a previous publication of the higher tariff. WASHINGTON. The senate has authorized an ili-vestigalion ili-vestigalion of pre-convention ean-paign ean-paign expenses and pledges of presidential presi-dential candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties. Not a word vas spoken or a vote cast against the proposal. The house ways and means committee com-mittee has ordered a favorable report on the soldier relief bill, with a provision pro-vision levying a 10 per cent stock dividend tax retroactive to last March 15 included. The interstate commerce commission commis-sion has issued three emergency orders, or-ders, to stand until the traffic crisis is passed, which will have the effects of centralizing control of the railroads rail-roads with the government. Aroused by reports of the imprisonment imprison-ment and detention in soviet Russia of various American citizens, the state department lias taken steps to bring to hear indirect pressure on the bol-sheviki bol-sheviki authorities to obtain their re- of recover damages for alleged misrepresentation. mis-representation. 10. C. Davis, who murdered Sheriff Wyniiin of Beaverhead county by shooting him down on the streets of Moiiida, Mont., on the afternoon of April 21, lias been sentenced to be hanged. John Kowulik was" found guilt v of murder in the second degree for the death of Miss Helen Smith in criminal court at Denver. According to the prosecution, Kowulik killed Miss Smith In a "local rooming house following a dispute over possession of $50. DOMESTIC. Grover C. Bergdoll, notorious draft evader, escaped from custody on May 21. He had been confined in a military mili-tary prison near New X'o1' serving a five year sentence and was brought to Philadelphia To sign papers. Homer Raff, a policeman of Omaha, tvas convicted of holding up and robbing rob-bing eight persons at a South Side residence. The skeleton of what may prove to have been a missionary connected with the Joliet or La Salle expeditions of 1070 was uncovered by the recent floods in the Mississippi river at Meyer, 111., a village twenty miles north of Quincy, 111. The superdreadnaught Tennessee, une of the largest warships in the world, will be commissioned at the New Voijk navy yards June 3. The majority of the committee on . state of the church of the Methodist Episcopal general conference at Des Moines, prepared and published a report re-port recommending that no change be made in the present apostle's creed of the church. Conventions in support of the "platform "plat-form for American industry" adopted b;- the National Association of Manufacturers Manu-facturers will be held in Chicago and San Francisco during the national Republican Re-publican and Democratic conventions. Daylight saving will remain in effect ef-fect in New York state. Governor Smith vetoed the Fowler bill designed So repeal the daylight saving law. - A .revolver battle at Matewau, W. Va., which, authorities declare, grew out of a dispute between a detective mid a miner over a warrant for the nrrest of the miner, resulted in the killing of seven detectives, a miner and an unidentified boy, and the serious wounding of the mayor of Matewan tuul another citizen. Resolutions indorsing all "sensible efforts" to reduce prices of commodities, commodi-ties, and urging the association members mem-bers to co-operate in all reasonable ef- lease. Caution in extending recognition of support to any Mexican faction instrumental instru-mental in the overthrow of Carranza is being urged upon the state department depart-ment by representatives of various industrial in-dustrial groups having interests in Mexico and by former diplomats. House Republicans, in party caucus on May 19, came out squarely for enactment en-actment of soldier relief legislation, as advocated by the American Legion. FOREIGN General Carranza, president of Mexico, who fled from Mexico City on May 6, and who took refuge in the mountains of Puebla following a battle bat-tle near Rinconada was killed at 1 o'clock Thursday morning at Tlax-calaltongo, Tlax-calaltongo, according to official announcement. an-nouncement. The French chamber of deputies has given a vote of confidence in favor of the government on the government's stand with regard to the striking railroad rail-road men. The vote was 520 for and 00 against the government. Scotland's local option act, enacted in 1913 after thirty years of agitation, becomes effective in June. Prohibitionists Prohibi-tionists are planning to launch an electoral campaign which in intensity, cost and use of all varieties of publicity pub-licity will be comparable only to the later stages of the anti-alcohol crusade cru-sade in the United States. Gen. Alexis A. Brusiloff, former commander com-mander in chief of Russian armies, is understood to have assumed command of the bolshevik offensive against Poland. Po-land. In Polish military circles they, say the soviet attack is designed to overrun Lithuania and extend the bolshevik bol-shevik front westward to east Prussia. Though he continued to be showered shower-ed with offers from America and England Eng-land for concert tours, Ignace Pader-ewski Pader-ewski declares he has forsaken his art forever, believing it irreconcilable with the service of his country. The German Federation of Labor decided de-cided to call off the strike it had ordered in support of the railway men's walkout. The decision for the resumption of work was reached by a vote of 90 to 11. Col. Gabriel Barrios, an Indian chieftain who is in control in the mountain state of Puebla, into which President Carranza and his companions compan-ions are reported to be fleeing for refuge, has offered adherence to the revolutionary plan of Agua Prieta. The Japanese war office has announced an-nounced that the first detachment of Japanese troops was landed a few miles south of Nikolaevsk on May 15, forts to bring about that result, were ndopted-at New Y'ork at the silver jubilee convention of the National Association As-sociation of Manufacturers. David R. Francis, American ambassador am-bassador to Russia, in an address at St. Louis, asserted he would resign it soviet Russia were recognized. Hurley O. P.easley, 25 years old, alleged al-leged murderer of his wife and two boy babies, committed suicide over his wife's grave at Greenville, 111. Beasley shot himself in the right temple. A verdict of guilty was rendered against Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll at Philadelphia, who was charged with resisting a raiding party that captured cap-tured her son, Grover Bergdoll, now serving five years for desertion from the army. Mrs. Bergdoll was fined ?200. Huddled in a heap in the kitchen of their home in New York, Mrs. Laura Blada, 40, a widow, and her children, John, 10, Irene and Paul, 3-yeaw-old twins, were found dead. All the jets of the gas stove were open and the windows and doors closed beginning their operations against the bolsheviki. Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, since moving into the chateau at Doorn, Holland, has taken up writing a history of the war. He spurns the use of a typewriter, type-writer, preferring to do his chronicling with the pen. The former monarch also spends much time sawing wood. Amid a tumult of cheers Sir Edward Ed-ward Carson, L'lster's chieftain, in the house of commons on May 18 warned America to cease "butting in" ou the Irish question. A forest fire is sweeping Belle Chasse county, Canada, threatening destruction of Hie villages of St. Camille, St. Fabien, Panet and Daa-quam. Daa-quam. Peace and a return of normaf conditions condi-tions in northern Mexico depend on what guarantees leaders of the latest Mexican revolution give Gen. Francisco Fran-cisco Villa, it is believed. Confirmation that the bolsheviki have captured the towns of I'oktski ami Lepel, in the government of Vitebsk, has been received in London from an authoritative source. |