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Show "William Kaulen, 30 years old, a miner, was tarred by a mob of more than MOO at Summon, 111., after hN wife had eoiiiiilained to the "vigilance committee" 'lhat Kaulen had -desecrated a service flag, hung in honor of her son by a former marriage. Seventeen persons were killed and Ihirly others injured, many seriously, when a I )el roi t-hound limited passenger passen-ger car and a weslhound freight car collideil head-on one mile west of Chelsea. Chel-sea. Mich. Mobilization plans for physicians of the Country, whereby every member of the medical profession will be assigned to military or civilian duty, are in preparation. WASHINGTON. The department of agriculture has asked farmers to sou- 47.0(10,000 acres in winter wheat this fall. Tins would yield approximately b'OT.OOO.OOO bushels the greatest winter crop In history. Professional baseball was held a non-essentail occupation under the nnny '"tvork or fight order Friday by Secretary Baker. The decision was given on appeal in the case 'of Eddie Ainsmith, the Washington American catcher, which came to the secretary with a suggestion from the local draft board that the regulations be changed to exempt ball players. Gold mining has been listed as an essential industry, the war industries board lias announced, and all reasonable reason-able priority on materials jind supplies used in the production of gold will be given by the priority committee. This action was taken on request of the treasury department. Italy got another credit of !?100,000.-from !?100,000.-from the United States government on July 10, and Belgium was given 0.000,000 additional. This makes Italy's total loans from the United States $700,000,000; Belgium's total, .$145,250,000. and all the allies' loans, $6,380,040,000. ' Senator Gore of Oklahoma attacked the presidential veto of $2.40 wheat Thursday in the senate. At the same time he criticized southern senators for refusing to hold out for a high wneat price, although insisting upon a high cotton price. FOREIGN. D S History of" Past W eek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o INTERMOUNTAIN. Yakima valley, Washington, hop .'rowers, representing about 2000 acres, ire watching anxiously the action of congress on the prohibition amendment amend-ment to t lit? appropriation bill. National Na-tional prohibition at this time, they Bay, would spell ruin for them. Salt Lake was 'chosen tts the 1010 meeting place of the western division of the Physical Education association, which closed a two days' session at San Francisco. Many towns and cilies In eastern Washington have promised to "ishut up shop" during the harvest, that then-people then-people may get out into "the fields, if such a plan proves necessary. Six women have been put to work on the Northern Pacific section west of Hoquiam, Wash., and assigned to cutting grass and keeping the right of way clean. The rolling stock branch of the railroad is expecting to add women to its department. Considerable concern is being manifested mani-fested by the state farm markets bureau bur-eau as well as by shippers all over the state? with regard to the possibility that Idaho will again have to. meet a ear shortage when crops are ready to move. The selective draft men of a minimum mini-mum height of five feet and a minimum mini-mum weight of 110 pounds, if otherwise other-wise physically fit, may enter the army hereafter according to a special regulation regu-lation of the war department, received nt Camp Lewis, Wash. The minimum hitherto has been five feet, three inches, and 120 pounds. W. A. Drake of Fort Collins, wealthy Bheepgrower, and C. A. Ballreich, lawyer, law-yer, of Pueblo, Colo., have been named ns candidates for the Republican nomination nomi-nation for governor at the September ''primaries by the Republican state ssembly. DOMESTIC. The highway mark of the German offensive in France lias been reached. The initiative is passing to tire allied and American armies. General March, chief of staff, told this to memoers or the senate military committee on Saturday. Sat-urday. Later he announced that American Amer-ican troop shipments had now exceeded exceed-ed 1.200,000 men, insuring the manpower man-power to hold the initiative on the western front. Former Emperor Nicholas of Russia has been shot, .a Russian wireless message announces. The former empress em-press and the young Alexis Romanoff, the former heir-apparent, have been sent to a place of security. Japan will not send troops to Siberia until a formal joint declaration of policy poli-cy by Japan and the United States says a Tokio dispatch. A Budapest dispatch says the Hungarian Hun-garian suffrage reform bill has been accepted by a large majority. Everywhere in London the people are talking about Focli. There is no light-lieartedness, because all know-that know-that one successful attack does not mean a decision, and that the pendulum pendu-lum will swing back and forth many times before the hour, of victory strikes. But Foch'-s move marks the raising of the allied strength to a nw level. At last we are free from the restraints of inferior numbers and unfavorable un-favorable positions. At the beginning of the present offensive of-fensive about 400 Americans of all kinds were held as prisoners in Germany, Ger-many, according to a report just received re-ceived in Paris from the American Red Cross in Switzerland. Two hundred hun-dred and ninety of these were officers and soldiers, eight were navy men, and about a hundred were civilians. The fruit crop in Germany, so important im-portant to the empire's food problem, will not be so abundant as the record crop of 1917, according to forecasts available at Amsterdam. The production produc-tion of apples, apricots and peaches is expected to be below the average, but the outlook for cherries and pears is better for the Germans. British aviators on t lie night, of Julj 18-1!) bombed and damaged the Ben7 works at Mannheim, Germany, the railway rail-way station at Heidelberg and blast furnaces at two other points. The Finnish government has withdrawn with-drawn its bill for constitutional monarchy, mon-archy, and lias declared the session of the landtag closed, says si dispatch, from Stockholm. Herbert C. Hoover, American food controller, on July 1!) arrived at a British port from America. The Socialist Arbeiter Zeitung of Vienna says there is not doubt that more than a million American troops have arrived in Europe. It declares that this, as a feat or organization, Is amazing. The Americans and French begun an offensive on a front of twenty-six miles on July 18, and when night came had advanced six miles, capturing twenty towns, a large number of prisoners pri-soners being taken, as well as many guns and much ammunition. Several south German papers, commenting com-menting on the American successes In collateral tacks, demand that the German Ger-man high officers publish the facts concerning "the American peril," as It is evident that they now hold 1 1 1 people in ignorance of the "new danger to German military success." General John J. Pershing has been awarded the grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and General- Tasker II. Bliss, Anieilcan representative at tin supreme war council, has been given the grand cross of the Order of St. .Michael and SI. leorge. Judge A. C. Hoppman of the Madison, Madi-son, Wis., municipal court, held that Robert M. LaFollette, United States senator from Wisconsin, had no place of abode in this state. The decision was given in (the $100,000 libel suit brought against the Madison Democrat by Senator La Follette. James M. Robinson, banker and elevator owner of Potter, Kan., has been bound over to the federal court at Leavenworth, Kan., on a charge of hoarding 500 pounds of flour. Maj. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has been slightly wounded and taken to a hospital in Paris according to a cable message received by his father, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, from his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. A new race of supermen in the United States and a decadent undernourished under-nourished deteriorating race of ln-eriors ln-eriors in the lands of the central lowers. That is what Dr. Harvey Wiley, head' of the bureau of food, sanitation and health, and associate editor of Good Housekeeping, sees as the chief biological physiological result re-sult of the war. Upward of $3S,t)00,000 was lost last year though theft of freight in transit ' in the United States, it is announced. Every able-bodied man in California, regardless of age or wealth, must work during the war. An order to this effect has been issued by the state council of defense. A lien of $1000 has been filed, at Syracuse, N. Y., by internal revenue agents against the property of C. Loomis Allen, the electric expert and former member of the government railways rail-ways board, for failure to pay his income tax. Three men were killed and damage estimated at several hundred thousand dollars was done by an explosion at the nitrate plant of the Aetna Explosives Explo-sives company, near Ishpeniing, Mich. En route to Italy to re-enlist, a party of 300 Italian soldiers who escaped from being pressed into the service of Austria ly surrendering to the Russians Rus-sians have arrived at San Francisco from the orient under the care of the United States war department. The news that American troops had victoriously advanced in the western front prompted an almost unparalleled oulburst of enthusiasm on the floor of the stock exchange on July 18. BroKers yelled and cheered and" bought stocks. Prices soared. Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, reported missing after an aerial engagement over the German lines, probably landed land-ed unhurt and Is now a prisoner In the hands of the Germans, according to a cable message received on July IS by his father, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Roose-velt. The American steamer Westover, an army supply ship manned by navy men, was torpedoed" and sunk in the war zone July 11 while' bound to Europe, Eu-rope, the navy department lias been advised by Vice Admiral Sims. Ten olTicers'iind m"n of the (,-rew or ninety-two ninety-two are missing. Announcement by the navy department depart-ment Friday night that the armored cruiser San Diego had been sunk off Hie Long Island coast, Unhealed that German submarines may again be operating in American waters. All on 1 board were saved. |