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Show El History of Past Week -TY ym 1 1i I ! II M The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed H B INTtRMOUNTAlN. Two masked highwaymen, traveling In automobiles, captured at the point of their revolvers, terrorized the southeastern portion of Spokane early Sunday. After four hours' work, with filx prisoners, one a woman, in their possession, and accumulated loot of $44, they left off and disappeared. After three hours and forty-three minutes of gruelling wrestling, Pet llrown, champion, and Mike Yokel, former for-mer champion, were prevented from continuing their bout at Salt Lake, both men being exhausted and the police po-lice Interfering. Employers of two bakeries at Salt Lake have gone on strike, following refusal of the proprietors to sign a contract with the Bakers' union. After approximately four days of buying, an Italian army board has purchased pur-chased 400 horses at the Ogden stockyards. stock-yards. Plans for the Immediate raising of $50,000 or more, as 20 per cent of a subscription of not to exceed $500,000 for the establishment of an independent independ-ent telephone system In the county of Salt Lake, were approved at a mass meeting held at Murray. DOMESTIC. Just before the church bells rang for service at Bonifay, Fla., Sunday morning a mob entered the jail, took John Dukes, white, from his cell, carried car-ried him to the public square, hanged him to a tree and then riddled his body with bullets. Dukes had killed a neighbor. Forest fires which already have done great damage in Cumberland, Carolina, Caro-lina, and other counties of eastern North Carolina are reported spreading. The Panama canal was reopened to traffic on April 15, with the passage of sixteen ships, seven northbound and nine southbound, including the transport Buford. General Pershing reported to headquarters head-quarters at San Antonio, Texas, that a motor truck train carrying areo-planes areo-planes was attacked by forty bandits Friday pight, fifteen miles north of Satevo, The Mexicans were driven pff and one of their number was killed. Dr. Joseph Shimoon, former student of Carroll college, Waukesha, Wis., and a member of the 1903 class of the Tefferson college, Philadelphia, Pa., was burned at the stake and beheaded at Urumiah, Pershla, according to advices ad-vices received at Philadelphia. American women soldiers will wear trousers as part of their uniform if they follow the example set by the 200 members of the American Women's Wo-men's League for Self-defense. These women have been attending weekly drills at New York throughout the winter. Inspectors at the South Omaha and Chicago stockyards have in the past year saved the Wyoming Stockmen's Stock-men's association members over $1,-00,000 $1,-00,000 through the recovery of more than 6,000 estrays. Negotiations for a new credit operation opera-tion for France are well under way in this country, according to a statement made by Octave Homberg, financial representative of the French government govern-ment in the United States. Governor Stuart of Virginia, who raises cattle when not engaged with executive duties, told a house subcommittee sub-committee that stock raisers had lost money in the last year, largely be-- be-- cause of lack of competition among beef packers. Federal steamboat inspectors have reported that the result of investigation investig-ation of the explosion on board the Ohio river boat Sam Brown at Huntington, Hunt-ington, W. Va., several weeks ago, in which eleven men lost their lives, showed that the steamer's safety valve was weighted down, causing excessive ex-cessive steam pressure to burst five boilers. Defense of war ships from submarine subma-rine attacks by "smoke curtains," made by fast protecting torpedo boat destroyers, will be one of the features of a week's maneuvers which began off San Pedro, April 13. Richard Harding Davis, author and war correspondent, died at his home in Mount Kisco N. Y., from heart trouble. His body was found early this morning and he had apparently been stricken while at his telephone. Jose B. Buenrosiro and Melquiades Chapa, alleged Mexican bandits, were found guilty at Brownsville, Texas, of having murdered two Americans, and a jury assessed the death penalty as punishment. Many Mexicans along the American line of march in Mexico have been disarmed by the United States forces, according to arrivals at Columbus. N. M. Three persons were killed, a workman work-man and two children, when the plant of the Du Pont Powder company at Nemours, W. Va., was blown to pieces by four explosions. From Columbus, N. M.. to points near the Chihuahua-Durango state line, American troops have increased their vifilance fgainst attacks from any ruartcv. j George W. Peck, 75 years old, former for-mer governor of Wisconsin for two terms and at one time mayor of Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, died at Milwaukee, Sunday, after a short illness. Peck achieved national fame as a writer of humorous humor-ous tales, his best known book being "Peck's Bad Boy." Hundreds of acres of farming land around Davenport, Iowa, have been inundated by the rising Mississippi. Roads are entirely flooded, cutting farmers off from town. Arrivals at Douglas, Ariz., report food conditions in southern Chihuahua, I particularly around Torreon, to be grave. There has been no planting and the poorer classes are near starvation starva-tion in many localities. WASHINGTON. The government, after tests by naval na-val officers, has purchased the invention inven-tion of a Philadelphia youth which, it is said, will drop bombs accurately from an aeroplane. The communication in which the United States will call Germany to account for the numerous recent submarine sub-marine attacks upon merchant ships carrying American citizens, is understood under-stood to be ready for transmission to Berlin. American troops will be withdrawn from Mexico immediately if Francisco Villa is dead, according to administration administra-tion officials. Democratic conferees appointed to agree on a compromise between the measures passed by the senate and the house for repeal of the free sugar clause of the tariff act, accomplished nothing at their first meeting Saturday. Satur-day. A house select committee has submitted sub-mitted a report pronouncing United States Attorney Marshall of New York guilty of contempt for criticizing a house sub-committee investigating impeachment im-peachment charges against him by Representative Buchanan. Champions of a government hydroelectric hydro-electric plant to produce nitrate for the manufacture of war munitions and fertilizer won their fight in the senate by inserting an amendment proposing an appropriation of $15,000,000 for that purpose into the Chamberlain army increase bill. FOREIGN. Great Britain has 3,000,000 troops actually in all fields at the present moment. mo-ment. She has 2,000,000 others under training at home. By June the army will reach a total of 6,000,000. In July the grand offensive will begin, it is announced. Announcement is made by the Turkish Tur-kish government that the Russian hos-tipal hos-tipal ship Portugal, sunk in the Black sea last month, was torpedoed by a Turkish submarine. The foreign office of Chang-Chow-Fu, Fukien, reports that thirty-two soldiers sol-diers of the northern army and upward up-ward for forty civilians not belonging in that locality have been killed by a mob. Disturbances also are reported in Haicheng. Francisco Villa is dead and his body, disinterred some days after his burial, bur-ial, is in possession of the Carranza troops, according to a series of telegraphic tele-graphic messages received in Juarez. Two hostile aeroplanes have fl';wn over Constantinople, dropping bombs on villages near by, the war office announced Sunday, but no damage was done. The British steamship Fairport is reported to have been sunk. She was unarmed. A pledge to reprove violations of the natural rights of the Jews is made by Pope Benedict through Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, in his reply to the appeal sent to him by a committee of prominent American Jews, urging that he intercede in alleviating alle-viating the persecution to which members mem-bers of their race have been subjected subject-ed in various parts of the world. Complete official figures as to the agricultural situation in France show an acreage under cultivation for the season of 1916 exceeding considerably considerab-ly that of 1915. Circulars printed in Spanish, calling upon loyal Mexicans to rise and aid in expelling the American troops from Mexican soil were posted recently in several localities in the Magdalena district of Sonora. The United States transport Hancock Han-cock arrived at Vera Cruz on Saturday Satur-day and fired a salute. A large crowd on the piers watched the vessel coming com-ing in. Complete quiet prevails at that port. Sixteen members of the crew of the London steamship Chic, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, sub-marine, were landed at Queenstown. A boat with eight men is missing. News of an attack on the life of the czar by Austro-German aviators has reached London. Official dispatches from Petrograd indicate that the Russian Rus-sian emperor entirely escaped injury. Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign for-eign secretary, replying to a question in the house of commons, confirmed the statement published last month that the value of the securities intercepted inter-cepted by the British authorities in the letter post between Holland and the United States was $13,000,000. An order issued by the British prize court, releasing a consignment ol gloves sent by parcel post from Germany Ger-many to a New York importing house; is the first instance in which seized goods of German origin have been released re-leased since the adoption of the orders in council March 11, 1915. The British steamship Lady Plymouth Ply-mouth has arrived at Valencia, Spain towing the Russian barkentine Imper-ator Imper-ator and having on board twenty-foui members of the crew of the British steamer Angus, sunk by a German submarine. |