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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEJfSJVENTS : RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign Newi Gathered From All Quarters of the World,' and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. The commissioners of Utah county, Utah, have placed a 'bounty of three-fourths three-fourths of a cent per pound on all . grasshoppers caught within the borders bor-ders of the county. Mrs. Blanche Coltman, formerly of Omaha, Neb., aged 27, was found dead In her apartment in a hotel in Seattle, her throat cut by a knife. John Sou-das, Sou-das, a cigar store owner, is under arrest ar-rest in connection with the investigation. investiga-tion. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen in convention at Denver rejected a resolution' to remove re-move grand lodge headquarters from Peoria, 111., to Cleveland. A horse appearing to be suffering . from hydrophobia was killed at the ranch of John Binnel in Granger, Utah. Willard Flanders, convicted wife-murderer, wife-murderer, was hanged at. the state penitentiary at Rawlins, Wyo., early June 16. The drop fell at 2:54 o'clock. He was pronounced dead at 3:07 o'clock. W. B. Slaughter of Dallas, Texas, was acquitted in the district court at Pueblo, Colo., on charges of larceny of livestock on which the defunct Mercantile Mer-cantile National bank held a mortgage for $27,000. DOMESTIC. Four men were drowned and damage dam-age estimated at $500,000 was done . at Joplin, ;Mo., by floods, following a rainfall of 5.75 inches. At one time the water was five feet deep in Main street and the floors and basements of most downtown business houses were flooded. Striking employees of the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad company have agreed to return to work and leave the settlement of differences with the company to a federal board of mediation. medi-ation. A small bridge on the International & Great Northern railway, thirty miles east of Laredo, Texas, was burned at night. Texas rangers and military authorities are investigating reports that it was work of Mexican bandits or their sympathizers. Duluth was voted dry by 505 majority majori-ty in the local option election Monday. Mon-day. The vote was one of the heaviest heavi-est ever cast in the city, nearly 16,000 voters expressing their wish at the polls. After a conference at Oyster Bay with Theodore Roosevelt, United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts declared he believed the former president would support Charles F. Hughes in the forthcoming campaign. Gen. J. J. Pershing, American expeditionary expe-ditionary commander, has cavalry detachments de-tachments operating south and west of the Namiquipa base in pursuit of bands of Mexican marauders, according accord-ing to several apparently reliable reports. re-ports. iMatt Savage, a Nebraska aviator, was killed at Ewing, Neb., while making mak-ing a practice flight in his machine. The craft became unmanageable while Savage was making a spiral glide and fell a distance of 500 feet. William Kurtz of Nevada, a delegate to the Chicago Progressive convention, conven-tion, and who was stopping at the home of A. W. Woods, stockyards commission man, has not been seen for several days and search is being made for him. It is feared he has met with foul play. Nine persons were injured, but none seriously, when the steamship Ben Franklin, carrying 1,000 men excursionists, excur-sionists, was rammed by the ocean-go- Ing tug Elmer Keeler, in Hell Gate. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president presi-dent of the Women's National Suffrage Suf-frage association, has announced that a lobby of fifty women will go to Washington within a few days to attempt at-tempt to force through congress the Susan B. Anthony amendment of woman's wo-man's suffrage. A union picket was killed at San Francisco in a battle between striking strik-ing longshoremen and strikebreakers, strikebreak-ers, which occurred on a pier leased y the American-Hawaiian Steamship company. Mrs. Frank Lambert, mother of Marion Lambert, the high school girl, took the stand Friday as a witness against William Orpet, the young university uni-versity student who is on trial at Wau-kegan, Wau-kegan, Ills., charged with the murder mur-der of her daughter. Leaders of both the woman's party and the National American Woman Suffrage association have united in denouncing as inadequate the suffrage plank of the Democratic platform, and declared they would immediately resume re-sume their fight in congress for national na-tional recognition. United States Senator Edwin C. Burleigh died at his residence at Augusta, Au-gusta, Me.; June 16. Senator Burleigh's Bur-leigh's death was due to acute indi-sestion. indi-sestion. He was ill only a few hours. His wife died a month ago in Wash-fntn The stirring episodes of 1898, when volunteers were called for the Spanish-American war. were re-enacted Monday along the length of the Pacific Paci-fic coast, following orders received from Washington for mobilization of the national guard for duty on the Mexican border. The Aero Club of America has announced an-nounced that it would do all in its power to aid the United States government gov-ernment in the Mexican crisis by providing pro-viding aeroplanes and aviators for patrol work. More than 2,600 telegraphers and station agents on the Chicago. Milwaukee Mil-waukee & St. Paul railroad have voted vot-ed almost unanimously to strike if the company again refuses their demand for shorter bours and increased pay. The trial of Emmett E. Walker and George J. Head, former officers in the Texas national guard, charged with selling guard supplies furnished by the United States government, has begun be-gun at Austin, Texas. WASHINGTON. Upon General Carranza's reception of a stern refusal to heed his demands de-mands for recall of American troops from Mexico hinges the question of a Mexican war, in the opinion of President Presi-dent Wilson's close advisers. The annual pension appropiation bill carrying $158,065,000 passed the house Saturday without a roll call after a debate de-bate devoted to many subjects other than pensions. The total is $6,000,000 less than that of last year's bill. The principle that railroads may not charge shippers for moving empty cars to point of loading was upheld by a ruling of the interstate commerce commission. Secretary Daniels has ordered several sev-eral additional gunboats and other small craft on both the east and west coasts to Mexican waters. President Wilson is pleased and enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the St. Louis convention. conven-tion. He believes it assures a united Democracy with Tammany and William Wil-liam J. Bryan doing their utmost to re-elect him. The support of both elates him. President Wilson has virtually completed com-pleted his reply to the Carranza note while its substance was being written writ-ten into the Democratic platform at St. Louis. FOREIGN. The allied offensive in Macedonia originally scheduled for mid-May and postponed on account of the condition of the Serbian army on its arrival in Corfu, is now confidently anticipated towards the end of June or at the latest, early in July. Gustavo Espinosa, governor of Coa-huila, Coa-huila, has ordered the seizure of about 100,000 head of American-owned cattle and sheep in northern Mexico as a "military necessity." The death of Gen. Joseph S. Gal-lieni, Gal-lieni, former minister of war of France, wras due to a murderous attack at-tack by a French army officer of high rank under charges of treason and not to natural causes, according to stories now in circulation. The Italian steamer Leprovedita has been sunk in the Mediterranean by two Austrian submarines. The crew was saved. The Mexican government in Yucatan Yuca-tan has issued a proclamation ordering order-ing all Americans out of Mexico and declaring a state of war existing between be-tween the two countries. General Carranza, in a statement to the Mexican press, reiterated his statement state-ment that any movement of American troops, except to the northward, would be considered hostile, and that Mexican commanders had been ordered order-ed to repel it if made. The streets and public squares of Mexico City were thronged all Monday Mon-day afternoon with patriotic paraders, who marched to the various public offices, led by bands and carrying the national emblems, as evidence of their willingness to defend the country's honor and dignity in case of a foreign war. An agreement has been reached between be-tween the French and German governments gov-ernments for the regularly distribution of bread and clothes to French prisoners' pris-oners' in Germany. Parcels of such supplies now can be sent rn oulk instead in-stead of individual parcels as hitherto. The civilian population of Sonora is arming itself, according to official statement of Ives G. Lelevier, Mexican Mexi-can consul at Douglas. Ariz., preparatory prepara-tory to repelling any attempted aggression ag-gression by the United States. The Rev. John B. Deville of Chicago, who is engaged in bringing refugees out of Belgium,, is sending on the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam on June 20, a vanguard of forty Belgian old men, women and children, who will join relatives in the United States and Canada. The German military governor of Roulers, Belgium, has ordered the population pop-ulation to remain indoors from 2 o'clock in the afternoon until 8 o'clock in the morning for three weeks, says the Telegraaf. This action was taken, tak-en, the newspaper adds, because the citizens gave food without authority to Russian prisoners employed in agricultural ag-ricultural work. Mexicans attack American seamen from the gunboat Annapolis at Mazat-lan. Mazat-lan. one American being injured and six Mexicans killed in the fight that followed. The capture by the Russians of Czernowitz, capital of the Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian crownland of Bukowina. is officially announced by the Russian war office. A dispatch to the Central News from Petrograd says that much of the effectiveness of the Russian artillery in their Galician drive is due to the use of bit: JaDanese guns. |