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Show HEWS STDRY OF MI WEEK A Complete History of What HJ Been Happening Throughout the World. INTERMOUNTAIN. Tim Iiocly of Fml Kjwi-skIiisk, a funner near Twin Falls, I 1 : 1 1 . wan found In Itock Cruel; ninynii. Investigation Inves-tigation liiilli-iics lhat the iiiiin iliil lull full from thi! top of the cliff, Imt ani't ileal li where Hie lioily was found. Foul play Is suspected. liolh lioiises of the Washington state legislature, in special session, unanimously unani-mously ratified the Susan 1(. Antliony woman's suffraKe iiniendnient to the national constitution on March 22, thus nutkiiiK the thirty-fifth state to adopt It. Declared hy attending physicians to lmve severed both Juglm- veins and lil.s windpipe with a razor, J. Wesley McClure of Great Falls, Mont., was sulci tu .show few ill effects after the severed passages had been sewed to-. to-. gether. UanniKes estimated at about $25,000 are believed to have resulted from a flood which swept down Canyon creek seven miles west of Hillings, Mont. It Is reported that approximately 1000 head of sheep were drowned. Stephen Jessop was smothered to death and Elmer riedliiirg was partially par-tially buried when the ditch in which they were working on a farm near Ogden caved in. Nick Oblizalo, who with Steve Mas-lich Mas-lich was accused of the murder of Marco La us at Salt Lake, on August 3, 101!), confessed to the murder to a deputy sheriff, it is reported. That Henry V. Clay and John How-ey, How-ey, two miners working In the Peruvian Peru-vian mine in the Alta district, near Salt Lake, were killed when they were caught in one of a number of snow-slides, snow-slides, is the belief of their friends. Their bodies have not been recovered. COM ESTIC. Previous Texas court record involving in-volving the death penalty probably were broken at San Augustine when John Hood Price, negro, was legally le-gally hanged for the recent murder of John Kennedy, a farmer, less than twenty-four hours after his arrest and conviction. Liquor may be removed by the owner own-er from his home in West Virginia to his home or permanent residence In another state, according to a ruling handed down by Charles Lively, federal fed-eral prohibition director. William Jennings Hryan will open his campaign in Nebraska in behalf of bis candidacy as delegate at large to the Democratic national convention conven-tion with an address at Elmwood. Georges Carpentler, French heavyweight heavy-weight champion, lias arrived at New York, and predicts an easy victory over Jack Demnsey, when they meet for the world's championship title. Frank Allwiii, a janitor, leaped or fell from a ninth story window of an office building at Los Angeles, struck the electric wire stretched far below and then tumbled to the pavement. He received a skull fracture and other injuries, but may recover. Truman II. Newberry, junior United States senator from Michigan, lias been convicted by a jury of having conspired criminally in 1018 to violate the election laws, fie was sentenced to two years Imprisonment and fined $10,000. Sixteen other defendants were convicted. An appeal will be taken. Two gangs of "gunmen" clashed in n restaurant at Newark, N. J., and when the smoke cleared away the leader of each faction was found dead and another man, said to have been a participant, was taken to a hospital in n serious condition. An Italian immigrant woman's eagerness eag-erness to remove from her trunk a large china doll led to the discovery by customs officials at Boston of 300 quarts of brandy hidden in various parts of the White Line steamer Crete from Mediterranean ports. Mrs. Elsa Lemp Wright, one of the heirs to the $10,000,0110 estate of her father, William A. Lemp, St. Louis brewer, and whose remarriage thirteen thir-teen days ago in New York to the husband hus-band she had divorced, created a stir in social circles, ended her life at St. Louis by shooting herself through the heart as se lay in bed. The New York state assembly by n resolution adopted unanimously on March 22, will compel William S. Anderson, An-derson, state superintendent of the Anti-saloon league, to appear before the assembly judiciary committee to explain the foundation of statements, utterances and publications alleged to have been made by him against legislators. George Iiellcy probably knows what his wife suffered when he heat her with a heavy leather belt. On order of Judge Lionel Pardee, of the municipal muni-cipal court, at Warren, Ohio, a court officer stripped Pelley's bin-k of clothing cloth-ing and applied a series of lashes with the buckle end of the same licit with which Hie wife had been beaten. Failure of the Delaware legislature to ratify the suffrage amendment will probably mean that women will not vote in the coming presidential primaries pri-maries and elections. Thirty-five Slates only have ratified, while thirty-six thirty-six are necessary to make the amendment amend-ment a law. One nun was burned to death, nine others were burned or injured, and the Wilkesliarre, Pa., convent of the Order of Mercy was practically destroyed de-stroyed by fire of unknown origin. WASHINGTON. ' With a warning against profiteering, profiteer-ing, President Wilson has ordered abandonment of government control over bituminous coal prices and asked miners and operators to negotiate a new working agreement on the basis of the majority report of the coal strike settlement commission. The senate has confirmed the nomination nom-ination of William Martin Williams of Alabama to be collector of internal inter-nal revenue, vice Daniel C. lioper, resigned. re-signed. The naval appropriation bill, carrying carry-ing approximatly $425,000,000, passed the bouse without a roll call and now goes to the senate. It includes provisions pro-visions aggregating ,$104,000,00(1 to carry on construction of new ships authorized in the 101G three-year program pro-gram and for an enlisted personnel averaging 1,250,000 in the navy and 20,000 in the marine corps. Hear Admiral Sims told the senate investigating committee that Rear Admiral Ad-miral Benson, chief of naval operations opera-tions during the war, and now chairman chair-man of the shipping board, was the officer who told him "not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes ; we would as soon fight them as the Germans." The treasury has completed arrangements ar-rangements for the exchange of temporary tem-porary Liberty bonds for bonds of permanent form, with interest coupons cou-pons to maturity attached. The executive committee of the American Legion has put up to congress con-gress the proposal to pay adjusted compensation to former service men and women at $1.50 for every day in service. FOREIGN Sanguinary troubles between Christians Chris-tians and Moslems in Syria are expected ex-pected as a result of the boycott declared de-clared against France and England by Emir Feisal, newly elected king of Syria. The conditions in the Rhine provinces, pro-vinces, where virtually every town is in the hands of the workmen, rapidly are approaching a duplication of the conditions prevailing in soviet Russia. Premier Nitti, outlining to the Italian Ital-ian chamber of deputies the policy of the new cabinet, declared all European Euro-pean countries were facing a difficult situation and were threatened with famine unless peace should quickly be re-established. The whole Ebert-Bauer cabinet probably will resign, according to Berlin advices. The crisis has been brought about by the opposition aroused by the agreement with the trade unions, especially in the rural districts. French and Italian engineers have arrived at Chanioniv to study the ground for the proposed tunnel beneath be-neath Mont Blanc, which will join France and Italy directly. Ten thousand armed workmen are concentrated at Halle-on-Salle, twenty miles northwest of Leipsic, and the reichswehr staff is negotiating with them, says a Havas dispatch frofu Stuttgart. Peru has protested against Bolivian claim to a seaport in the province of Arica, former Peruvian territory, held by Chile since the war of 1879-83. The situation has given rise to demonstrations demonstra-tions in both Bolivia and Peru. Countess Marie Tolstoi, niece of the famous Russian author and philosopher, philoso-pher, who recently arrived at Constantinople Constan-tinople as a refugee from Odessa, has applied to the American Red Cross for relief. The lord mayor of Cork was shot dead at 1 o'clock Saturday morning. The revolver was tired by masked persons. per-sons. They entered his residence, and after firing the shot, escaped in an automobile. The United States transport Antigon has arrived at Danzig, having been sent by the United States government ' to take back to America the 3000 demobilized Polish-Americans who fought in France under command of General Haller. Colonel Bauer, former chief of staff of General Ludendorff, and other military mili-tary leaders of the Luettwitz troops in Berlin and Hamburg have been assassinated as-sassinated by their own men, says a dispatch from Geneva. |