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Show o I H P. 3 n it-'S, it-'S, .it n- TTrossUii n- terurban tracks at Yost, six and a half miles west of Bose,, in his automobile, John M. Evans of Eagle was killed by an interurban ear. The United States cruiser Boston, of the famous white squadron at the battle bat-tle of Manila bay, is to be taken from Portland to the Bremerton navy yard within a week and sold to the highest bidder for junk. Samuel Piatt of Reno was nominated nominat-ed for United States senator by the Republican state convention of Nevada, Ne-vada, while the Democrats again nominated nomi-nated Senator Key Pittman. Lorenzo Hopla, 60 years of age, a farmer and resident of Mapleton, Utah, for many years, committed suicide sui-cide at his home, blowing the top of his head off with a shotgun. DOMESTIC. The trial of Warren B. Billings, indicted in-dicted for murder in connection with the preparedness parade bomb plot, has begun at San Francisco. The Republicans won the election in Maine, electing a governor, an auditor, audi-tor, two United States senators and four representatives in congress, and wresting control of the state house of' representatives from the Democrat's, will be able on a joint vote of the legislature to elect the other state officers of-ficers not chosen by popular vote. A windstorm approaching the violence vio-lence of a tornado last week wrecked .he small town of Cairo, fourteen miles northeast of Grand Island, Neb. One woman was perhaps fatally injured. in-jured. Carl Stagen was burned to death md Dr. George Daniels of Redwood 2ity was overcome and is in a critical ' :ondition as a result of a fire that turned over several thousand acres of 5rass and wood lands near San Jose, 2al. Four prisoners, charged with minor jffenses, escaped from the detention pen of the West Side prison at New Fork, after throwing red pepper in ;he eyes of William- J. Jacobson, the lead keeper. August Teury, mother of five chil-Iren, chil-Iren, was shocked to death while us-ng us-ng an electric iron in her home. An nvestigation of the cause of the high foltage which made the fatality pos-iible pos-iible is being made at Cleveland. A strike of stage employes, longshoremen, long-shoremen, brewery workers, machinists, machin-ists, bartenders, moulders and printers print-ers in sympathy with the unionized carmen who quit their places last iveek, was decided upon at a meeting meet-ing of the heads of the unions Sun-iay. Sun-iay. The National American Woman Suffrage Suf-frage association convention in its Snal business session Saturday at Atlantic At-lantic City adopted a declaration of principles in which it reiterated its idherence to the policy of non-partisanship. Adherence or hostility to any party, the declaration said, is to be condemned. Thirty Mexicans, supposed to be Villa followers, made a raid on the engineer camp of the American punitive puni-tive expedition at El Paso, Texas, and escaped with a mule, according to members of the expeditionary force. Lieutenant Colonel Porterfield of the New Mexico national guard is to be given a trial by court-martial on a ;harge of enlisting two men whom he knew to possess prison characters at San Antonio, Texas. A sharp decline in infantile paralysis paraly-sis cases was shown in the figures announced an-nounced by the health authorities at New York City. Recommendations to all bakers of the United States that the 5-cent loaf of bread be abandoned and the 10-cent 10-cent loaf standardized were made after af-ter considerable discussion at the closing session of the executive committee com-mittee of the National Association of Master Bakers Friday at Chicago. "Triumph for the woman suffrage cause in a little while' " was predicted predict-ed by President Wi'.son in a speech before the annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association at Atlantic City, N. J. The valuable services rendered by Lafayette to this nation in the revolutionary revo-lutionary struggle and the ties of sympathy sym-pathy which hind the French and American republics were eulogized at New Y'ork September 6, in addresses at the celebration of Lafayette day. Frank Hanson of Omaha, Neb., snatched a revolver from the pocket of a mounted poMceman at Randolph and Bearborn streets, Chicago and shot himself to death. A decision which, in the opinion of prominent attorneys, may in effect ef-fect establish the authority of the interstate commerce commission to overrule rates established by the states for interstate business, was handed down in the federal district court in the so-called South Dakota express rale case at Cedar Rapids. Iowa. Jealousy was the motive -Which prompted Louis Hoffman of Buxton, Iowa, to kill his wife and then commit com-mit suicide. The European war is encroaching seriously upon the meat supply of this country, according to figures made public by the foreign trade department depart-ment ol the National City bank of New Y'ork City. The National American Woman Suffrage association, by an overwhelming over-whelming vote, at Atlantic City, decided de-cided to continue its present policy of working for equal rights through both national and state legislation. General John E. Stibbs, the last surviving sur-viving member of the famous military court which tried Jacob Wirtz, superintendent super-intendent of the Andersonville prison, died at Chicago. He was 76 years of age. WASHINGTON. When the new general revenue bill became effective last week, business men throughout the country were relieved re-lieved of the stamp taxes which they have been paying since December 1, 1914, and which were to have continued contin-ued until December 31 of this year. Senator Reed Smoot in commenting on the session of congress just closed characterized it as the most wantonly wanton-ly extravagant in the history of the country. Ensign Fitzhugh Green, who accompanied ac-companied the MacMillan polar expedition expe-dition in search of Crocker land, reported re-ported verbally to Secretary Daniels that the expedition found no such land as Rear Admiral Peary reported report-ed he saw from Cape Thomas Hubbard Hub-bard in 1906. He told Secretary Daniels Dan-iels that no such land as Crocker land existed. A bill giving to widows of officers or enlisted men who served in the Civil or Mexican wars or the war of 1812 and who have reached the age of 70 years, pensions of $20 a month, instead of the present $12 a month, was passed by congress. Authority to take drastic retaliatory steps against interference with American Amer-ican commerce by belligerents in the European-war are contained in the emergency revenue bill as finally approved. ap-proved. FOREIGN. The allies, according to an official dispatch, will pass through the blockade block-ade medical supplies sent on the cruiser Des Moines by Jewish organizations organ-izations to sufferers in Jerusalem. Russian attempts to capture the town of Halicz, on the Dniester in Galicia, regarded as the key to the defenses of Lemburg from the southeast, south-east, have been frustrated by the Teutons, Teu-tons, according to Berlin advices. The fortified city of Glurgevoy the northern bank of the Dal thirty -five miles almost due soul Bucharest, is under the fire of big guns of the Bulgaro-German I of invasion. I The American industrial cil sion, in Kance to study mill conditions, was entertained at af eon by the Republican Club oil merce, Industry and Agriculture a dinner by the American Chan Commerce at Paris. With the loss of eleven lives the second attempt to bridge the St. Lawrence river at Quebec resulted in a failure when the massive center span, weighing 5,100 tons, suddenly collapsed and fell into the river. Nine ty men were thrown into the river. The Be'.gisch Dagblad announces that the German authorities have seized 30,000,000, which has been placed in the coffers of the Belgian national hank, in consequence of tht suspension of the moratorium. The Italian government has decided to adopt a blacklist system in prin ciple, according to a Rome dispatch. A holy war decreed by the Sunni Mo hammedans and a war of pillage and robbery by the various tribes of Tur kestan have proved of material aid tc the Turks in their advance into Persia. Per-sia. Major Moraht, military critic of the Manian loss in connection with the Tageblatt, calculates that the Rou-capture Rou-capture of the Danube fortress of Turtukal at not less than 80,000. Having failed to recruit the staff of the proposed Flemish university at Ghent among native professors, Germany Ger-many is making every effort to persuade per-suade y ung Dutch professors to take posts in the new institution. R.pulsing German counter-attacks on both banks of the Somme, the French have gained fresh successes in local actions around Deniecourt, south of the river, and have struck a powerful blow on the Verdun front. Extension of the British mail censorship cen-sorship from its original purpose of destroying all trade to or from Germany Ger-many to the field providing data for Great Britain's fight for commercial supremacy is seen in admissions made by David Lloyd-George, the war secretary, before parliament, just received re-ceived in full in this country. Canada has 361,693 men under arms, according to figures just announced. During the month of August there were 7,246 enlistments, as against S.675 in July, 10,796 in June and 15,09 ) in May. Casualty lists for the first two weeks of August show that the British army lost 600 officers killed. 1,702 wounded and 204 missing, a total of 2.506. This brings up the losses since the beginning of the war to 3S,-922 3S,-922 officers. The trades union congress, representing repre-senting nearly 2.500.000 organized workers of Great Britain, took an important im-portant and unexpected step at Birmingham Bir-mingham by adopting, with a majority of more than one million votes, a resolution virtually indorsing the principle prin-ciple of protection. |