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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A TO EVENTS f.CORD OF THE I M PO P.TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home nd Foreign Ntwi Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepared for Busy Men i INTERMOUNTAIN. KnicHt Fitzgerald, aged 21, was J.robably fatally injured ut Salt Lake, Laving sustained a fractured skull, a.s the result of a collision between a motorcycle he was riding a:id a light spring farm wagon containing two men. A. A. Austin, head chemist at the Tooele, Utah, smelter of the International Inter-national Smelting & Refining company, com-pany, was fatally burped Monday afternoon af-ternoon in an explosion of crude oil in the laboratories of the smelter. He was alone in the room at the time. The wrecked shaft of the Royal mine, near Agulla, Colo., on Monday yielded up the body of Matt Schmiz, a shot llrer, 40 years old, the sole victim of an explosion. Merchants of Butte have placed armed guards in their stores to guard against unforeseen contingencies. One of the larger store has watchmen patrolling pa-trolling the sidewalks. Police and sheriff's officials are convinced con-vinced that gunmen from Butte are in Helena for the purpose of assassinating assassinat-ing Charles II. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, who fietl from Butte during the rioting in that city. Drunkards and derelicts of the slums who blame liquor for their downfall are to become prohibition campaign workers in Oregon this fall to spread the propaganda for a dry state, according ac-cording to the plans of the pa-rty leaders. lead-ers. j. Cows enough to insure the erection of a condensed milk factory in Reno will be milked by farmers of the Truckee meadows, according to the tabulated figures on file at the office of Secretary Stevenson of the Reno Commercial club. DOMESTIC. Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago probably prob-ably will be appointed minister to Sweden. He is being supported for the post by Senator Lewis, and is on the administration's list for a diplomatic diplo-matic post. A million-dollar society to help get Jews back to Palestine may be organized. or-ganized. This was suggested to the convention at Rochester, N. Y., of the federation of American Zionists in a letter from the Palestine bureau of the Zion executive committee, signed by Dr. J. Ruppin at Jaffa, in the Holy Land. When the Anchor line steamship Campania arrived at New. York three me,mbors of the crew were under surgeon's care, as the result of being be-ing slashed by a woman passenger, Mrs. Anna Nichol of Glasgow. She As thought to have become temporarily tempor-arily demented and will probably be deported. Rex R. Tanner, principal of the high school at Weir, Kan., was killed and four other men received slight injuries as a result of a fire that destroyed the main building of the Pittsburg state normal school. After killing her two children Frederick, Fred-erick, S, and Ruth, 6, with a revolver, Mrs. James Lemin, of Xenia, Ohio eommitteed suicied by shooting herself. her-self. Domestic trouble is believed to have been the cause. Inspectors reported to the state superintendent of public works that overloading alone caused the sinking of the launch G-urez near Syracuse, N. Y.. June 1. Eleven persons lost their lives in the accident. The court of claims has adjourned or the summer after clearing the docket of all cases ready for argument. argu-ment. During the interim 7,340 cases were disposed of. Of these 644S were dismissed on the government motion because of failure to prosecute n the part of claimants. The remaining 982 were contested cases. President Wilson has approved the sentence of dismissal imposed on Major Ma-jor Benjamin M. Kochler of the coast artillery corps by a court-martial. Major Ma-jor Koehle? was iu command at Fort Terry, Plum Island, N. Y., when sensational sen-sational charges were brought against him and the trial was held behind closed doors. A donation of $2,550,000 from John D. Rockefeller to the Rockefeller Institute In-stitute of Medical Research, is announced an-nounced by Hedry James, manager of the institute. This gift brings the sum total of Mr. Rockefeller's contributions con-tributions to the institute up to $12,-650,000. $12,-650,000. North Michigan Transportation company's com-pany's passenger steamer Manistee, undergoing repairs at Grand Rapids, Mich., was totally destroyed by fire Sunday. The loss is $300,000. Decisive word has gone from Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt to his Progressive leaders that he cannot accept the nomination for governor of New York. John A. Burbank, president and treasurer of the Samuel Mintz Hardware Hard-ware company, was shot to death In duel at Detroit with a highwayman, Tviio was also killed. Twenty-one nnt ,( twenty-five workmen laboring on a new intake tunnel, 2,'J'") feet from shore under Lake Michigan, at Milwaukee, ivc-r" hurt iu an explosion which wa:-i caused when a;i accumulation of gas ! wan ignited by a match struck by a car-I(-ss worker. A cyclone near Eaton Rapids, Mich., (lid damage estimated at $l.",u,0u0. Many persons were injured, Mrs. William Ford probabiy fatally. Barns were wrecked, orchards and shade trees uprooted, fences leveled and growing crops damaged. j Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, says that the result of the strike vote taken by 55,000 engineers and firemen on ninety-eight railroads west of Chicago Chi-cago will be known some time between be-tween July 10 and 14. James W. Byrnes, leader of a band of bunko men which operated a swind- ! ling campaign among tourists in southern sou-thern California two years ago, has been sentenced to ten years in San Quentin prison. WASHINGTON. The conferees of the house and senate have decided to continue all assay offices for one year under the present law. Assay offices in Utah, Montana, Nevada and other western states were not provided for in recent re-cent appropriations made for issay offices. Surgeon General Blue of the public health service will go to New Orleans Or-leans to take charge of the campaign cam-paign against bubonic plague, which has appeared there. One death has already been recorded. President Wilson has promised to fill all positions under the federal government now held by negroes with other negroes in case of changes. "Very muddled," was the characterization charac-terization applied to the San Dominican Dom-inican situation by President Wilson. He said that it was difficult to know just what to do in the Dominican republic, because of the many elements ele-ments entering into the situation. (Senate conferees have declined to accept the house amendment to tha legislative, excutive and judicial appropriation ap-propriation bill fixing at 5 cents a mile instead of 20 cents the mileage allowance of senators. Speaker Clark told a delegation of women from the National American Women's Suffrage association that woman suffrage is as inevitable as the "rising of tomorrow's sun." FOREIGN. Martial law was proclaimed Monday, Mon-day, both in the city and the district, of Sarayevo, in consequence of the assassination of Archduke Francis (Ferdinand and the Duchess of Ho-henberg. Ho-henberg. Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign for-eign secretary, in a speech in the house of commons, highly complimented compli-mented President Wilson and the motives underlying his action in pressing the repeal of the Panama canal tolls exemption bill. Several Mexico banks, it is learned, learn-ed, have agieed to take the bonds of an interior loan which is to be floated float-ed by the Mexican government within with-in the next few days. Fighting continued in the north of Haiti, Monday, when the Haitien government gov-ernment troops commanded by President Pres-ident Orestoes Zamor recaptured from the rebels the town of Grande Riviere, and continued their march on Quartier Morin. Immense damage was caused by a terrible cloudburst at Benkoelen, Sumatra, where the business section was destroyed and the hospital, the school and a number of houses collapsed. col-lapsed. Freddie Welsh, the British lightweight light-weight champion, who is training hard in London for his coming fight with Willie Ritchie, has just received receiv-ed a demand for $1,500 income tax on an income of $22,500. An anti-Servian demonstration occurred oc-curred at Agram, capital of Croatia. The windows of Servian houses were broken and the offices of Servian newspapers were wrecked by crowds of Croatians who marched through the streets shouting: "Down with the Servian murderers!'' Three hundred and forty-eight of the 1016 passengers of the Anchor line steamer California, ashore on Torry island, were landed at Londonderry on Monday. The others were taken to Glasgow. Archduke Francis Ferdinand heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his morganatic wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated Sunday Sun-day while driving through the streets of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. A youthful Servian student fired the shots W'hich added another to the long list of tragedies that has darkened the region of Emperor Francis Joseph. Jo-seph. Monterey will become the provisional provi-sional capital of General Carranza who is expected to leave at once for Saltillo where he will close up the constitutionalist offices and in a few days move them with his entire official of-ficial family to Monterey. General Venustiano Carranza, first chief of the Mexican constitutionalists, constitutional-ists, has replied to the invitation extended ex-tended for participation by his agents in an informal conference with representatives rep-resentatives of General Huerta and the United States concerning plans for a provisional government in Mexico, Mex-ico, asking that he be given time to consult his generals. Herr Landmann, an aviator, finished a non-stop flight of twenty-one hours forty-two minutes at Berlin. It is claimed this constitutes a world's record. |
