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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEjra EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. Cyrus W. Shores was declared ousted from the office of chief of po-lieo po-lieo In Salt Lake City by a decision handed down In the state supreme court. The court holds Mr. Shores in-wligihle in-wligihle for the position because he was not a qualified elector of the city at the time of his appointment, in Jiuiuary. Anti-American sentiment in Mexico Is decreasing, in the opinion of Bishop Francis .1. McConnell of Denver, who reported to the Methodist Episcopal Koneral conference at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., the results of missionary mission-ary work In that country, over which he. has episcopal jurisdiction. Suspected of being Rafael Lopez, the Bingham murderer, a Mexican, known by the name of Manuel Hevla, Is under un-der arrest In Altin, B. C, by the order or-der of Sheriff John S. Coiiess of Salt Lake, and is being held for identification. identifica-tion. Reports from Ottawa, Canada, contained con-tained the information that John Edwards, Ed-wards, who gave his residence on enlisting en-listing as Salt Lake City, has died from wounds received on the battle lines in Europe. The Progressive slate convention held at Seattle elected fourteen delegates dele-gates to the national convention in Chicago and instructed them to vote t'or the nomination of Theodore Roose velt. No objection was raised to the adoption of a strong preparedness plank. DOMESTIC. A violent windstorm which swept Minnesota and parts of North Dakota and western Wisconsin Monday night caused considerable property damage. At Two Harbors, Minn., a man was killed by lightning. At Crookston, Minn., a tabernacle was unroofed during dur-ing services, but no one was hurt. A robber entered the National bank at Francis, Okla., covered O. G. Rose, the cashier, with a revolver and fled with, about $4,000. Carl A. Luederitz, German consul at Baltimore, Md., was indicted by the federal grand jury at New York, charged charg-ed with procuring a false passport for Horst von der Goltz, confessed spy. The jury at New York which for ten days heard testimony at the trial of Robert Fay, a former lieutenant In the - German army; Walter Scholz and Paul Daeche, charged with conspiracy to destroy munitions ships through bomb contrivances, returned a verdict of guilty against all the defendants. Government officers, says an El Paso dispatch, are searching for two men, one an American and the other a Mexican, who are believed to be implicated im-plicated in the shipment of large quantities quan-tities of munitions from, this country to Mexico. "Wholesome and nutritious food for a family of five cannot be purchased in the New York market for less than $7.30 a week, according to calculations made by the department of health of the city of New York. Forty thousand miners and coke workers of the H. C. Frick Coke company, com-pany, a subsidiary of the United States Steel corporation, have been notified of a wage increase of 5 to 10 per cent, operative May S. George Jordan, 8 years of age, confessed con-fessed at Portsmouth, Ohio, that he killed his mother with a shotgun. Opinions of newspapers throughout the U. S. vary regarding the German reply to President Wilson's note. Many leading papers say a break with Germany Ger-many is imminent; others insist such action would be unwise; still others accept the kaiser's promise as solving the problem. At General Funston's temporary headquarters at El Paso it was said a message had been received from General Pershing in which he stated that he had located Villa. Sale6 of boxes for the Progressive national convention to be held in Chicago Chi-cago June 7 opened May 5. During the first few hours of the sale seven boxes were sold for $250 each. James M. Sullivan of New York, formerly for-merly American minister to Santo Domingo, Do-mingo, has been arrested in Dublin on the charge of complicity in the Irish rebellion. The 1,000-foot dock of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad in the North river at New York, was damaged by fire with an estimated loss, including freight in storage, of $100,000. Mrs. James J. Sullivan of New York, wife of the former American minister to the Dominican republic, who was arrested iu Dublin in nnection with the Irish rebellion, has reported to the American embassy that there was not the slightest basis for the charge against her husband. "Nigger Liz," an aged negress, with a reputation as a voodoo doctor, and supposed to have known more than any other person about the life and crimes of Belle Gunness of Murder Karin notoriety, is dead at Lafayette, Jnd. Almost half a billion bushe'.s is the winter wheal, harvest forecast for ibis year by tin? department of agri-cuHur" agri-cuHur" In its May crop report. That is l.'j.l, DUO, Oku bushels less than harvested har-vested last year, when a world's record rec-ord crop was gathered in the United Slates. The movement to equip the national guard wtih aeroplanes through public subscriptions has been extended to Indiana. Massachusetts, West Virginia and Oklahoma, It was announced by the Aero Club of America, which ia-augurated ia-augurated the plan last fall. Three American soldiers and a ten-year-old boy have lost their lives and two American citizens nave been kidnaped kid-naped and carried south of the international inter-national boundary to almost certain death In another raid of Mexican bandits ban-dits at Glenns Springs, Texas. WASHINGTON. A note cabled from Secretaryy Lan, sing to Ambassador Gerard, for deliv ery to the German foreign office, informs in-forms the German government that the United States accepts its "declaration "declara-tion of abandonment of its former submarine policy, and now relies upon a scrupulous execution of the altered policy." Senate amendments to the army hill were rejected by the house and the measure returned to conference. The proposals to empower the president to raise the standing army to 250,000 men in time of peace and to raise a federal volunteer army of 261,000 were rejected flatly .by the votes of 221 to 142, and 231 to 109, respectively. The senate passed wtihout a record vote the Bankhead good roads bill to spend $S5,000,000 in construction of post roads, contingent on an equal expenditure ex-penditure by the states. Hope that at the end of the present war the nations of the world would undertake a joint effort to keep the peace, backed by a common police force, was expressed by President Wilson in an interview with a committee com-mittee of the American Union Against Militarism. President Wilson, speaking at a celebration of the one hundredth anniversary anni-versary of the founding of the American Ameri-can Bible society, dwelt on the usefulness useful-ness of the Bible in drawing people together. FOREIGN. Four more of the leaders in the Irish revolt have been sentenced to death by the Dublin court-martial, and executed, according to an official statement, issued Monday. They were Cornelius Colbert, Edmund Kent, Michael Mallon and J. J. Heuston. With the melting snows Do longer delaying the descent of the Russian Caucasian armies from the high Armenian Ar-menian plateau into the plateaus of Asia Minor, where the Turks, having gathered all available reinforcements, are ready at last to make a determined deter-mined stand, the campaign In Asia Minor has reached a most Interesting and possibly a decisive etage. The 13,000-ton White Star liner Cymric, which for some timg has lieen engaged in freight service, has heen torpedoed by a German submarine, according ac-cording to advices received in London. Lon-don. General Carranza and his official ad. visers were in conference during all of. Sunday night and until 3 o'clock Monday Mon-day morning, discussing the campaign against the border raids. In fierce attacks on both banks of the Meuse on Sunday the German forces gained ground from the French. They entered the French communicating communicat-ing trenches east of Hill 304 and gained a footing in the first French line between Haudremont wood and Fort Douamont over an extent of nearly near-ly a third of a mile. The French press subjects the German Ger-man note to the United States to severe se-vere analysis, drawing varying conclusions conclu-sions from it. Some newspapers consider con-sider that Germany has yielded, although al-though with bad grace. Others believe the document is a tortuous refusal. A full squadron of 230 men of the Eleventh cavalry surprised and routed a much larger force of Villistas at Ojos Azules, seventeen miles south of Cusihuiriachic, May 6. A party of about 1,000 prisoners left Dublin Sunday for England; they were mostly from the country districts. Fifty-five Villistas were killed and sixty wounded in the fight at Ojos Azules Friday morning, the . band of 140 being practically annihilate!. The Prince of Wales now is in the Italian war zone as the guest of King Victor Emmanuel, with whom he is visiting vis-iting various points on the front, according ac-cording to a Havas dispatch from Rome. Belgian troops on April 19 captured German positions at Shangugu on the border of German East Africa and continued con-tinued progress south of Kivu lake, according ac-cording to the Belgian minister of the colonies. An uprising against the British in the Sudan is reported in dispatches from Constantinople to Berlin. Ali Dinar, the Iman of Darfour, with a force of troops and 8,000 camels is said to be marching against the British forces in northern Sudan. Two German submarines of the latest lat-est type, convoyed by two armed auxiliary aux-iliary cruisers, on April 29 attacked the French liner Venezia when about 100 miles southeast of Cape Race, approximately ap-proximately 1900 miles from New-York New-York in a direct line. First Chief Carranza sent a message to General Obregon informing the Mexican Mex-ican minister of war that he had found the agreement with the United States satisfactory, with the exception of a few minor points. At least 130 civilians were killed during the recent revolt in Ireland. |