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Show o o History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER MOUNTAIN. Walter Kushforth, 11 years of age, and his younger brother, James, 9 years of age, were drowned in the city reservoir at Kaysville, Utah. The City bank of Sandy, Utah, was burglarized, the robbers blowing open a safe and securing about $2,fjU0. Captain II. J. Thomsen of the Ca-nadan Ca-nadan army was arrested at Seattle by special agents of the United States department of Justice, charged with violation of the neutrality laws in recruiting re-cruiting men for the American legion in Seattle. The Central Trade and Labor council coun-cil at Pocitollo, with the .backing of the affiliated organizations, has engaged en-gaged the services of Attorney R. H. Palmer to test the constitutionality of the poll tax law. Developing symptoms of disease, thought to be either tetanus or rabies, a horse owned by John Stall-ings, Stall-ings, a farmer residing at Eden, Utah, has been locked up in a stall and is there being watched by veterinarians. veteri-narians. DOMESTIC. One soldier was probably fatally wounded in a dance hall in the restricted re-stricted district at Douglas, Ariz. As a result mobs of soldiers attacked the dance hall. Several hundred shots were l.rcd. The unfilled orders of the United ' t-'tates Steel corporation on May 31 stood at 9,937,798 tons, an increase of 108,217 tons compared with those on April 29, according to the monthly statement. Francisco Alvarez and Juan Sanchez, San-chez, Villa followers captured during the raid on Columbus March 9, were hanged at Deming, N. M., Friday morning. The men were hanged singly. An estimate given out by the parade committee which had charge of the suffrage demonstration at Chicago Bets the cost of the parade at $00,390. Lieutenant Richard Saufley, the liaval aviator, was killed Friday when his machine fell on Santa Rosa island, says a Pensacola, Fla., dispatch. Dan W. Sale of Virginia was elected national president of the Travelers' Protective association of America at the closing session of the national convention con-vention of that organization at Lafayette, Lafay-ette, Ind. Mrs. Jennie Susanick, 35 years old, her husband Frank, and their four children were found dead at their home in Chicago. The police believe Susan-isk Susan-isk kiled his wife and then turned on the gas and suffocated himself and the children. A highwayman held up a party of twelve sightseers in the oil fields east-of east-of Wichita, Kans., shot to death Miss ESlen Miller and dangerously wounded Dorothy Snyder. Production forecasts of important crops based on their condition June 1 and issued by the department of agriculture agri-culture show: Winter wheat, 469,000,- 000 bushels; spring wheat, 246,000,000 bushels, and all wheat, 715,000,000 bushels; oats, 1,255,000,000 bushels', barley, 1S9,000,000 bushels; rye, 44,-000,000 44,-000,000 bushels; apples, 72,000,000 bushels; peaches, 42,000,0 bushels. Freddie Welsh, lightweight champion, cham-pion, outpointed Tommy Lowe of Washington in -a ten-round bout at Edmore, Md. Charles M. Levey has been elected president of the Western Pacific railway rail-way company, the new corporation which, under the reorganization plan approved by the federal court, will take over on June 2S the properties of the old Western Pacific Railway company, now in the hands of receivers. receiv-ers. Strike breakers were employed at San Francisco on Tuesday for the first time since the walkout on June 1 of longshoremen affiliated with the Pacific coast district of the International Interna-tional Longshoremen's association. Gifts aggregating almost $3,000,000 have been received by the University of Chicago during the past year, President Harry Pratt Judson announced an-nounced in his annual statement at the graduation exercises. Fifty-nine persons are reported killed and more than a hundred injured in-jured in a series of tornadoes which swept Arkansas, June 5. North Arkansas Ar-kansas appears to have suffered most severely. Reports of damage done and the existence of great numbers of grasshoppers grass-hoppers in northwestern Nebraska has reached state officials. Sheridan county crops a.-e especially menaced, according to reports. The Women's Association of the Congregational church at Lodi, Cal., expects to clear a neat sum from the eale of a carload of old newspapers they have shipped to the paper mills at Antioch. It is believed 126 perstms met death es a result of a series of tornadoes In Arkansas, Missouri. Mississippi, Illinois and Tennessee. Every state in the Union is represented repre-sented among the 1,700 men who have arrived at the first Plattsburg N. Y.) camp of military instruction. hich opened June 5. The new Republican national committee com-mittee held its first, mw-ting immediately immedi-ately after the convention adjourned late Saturday, authorized the appointment appoint-ment of a sub-committee to confer with Charles E. Hughes, the presidential presiden-tial nominee, about the election of officers of-ficers and the executive committee. Four saloons ut Mtoona. wis., will have to go out of business on July 1 and their places will be taken by a municipally-owned saloon. From the profits of this saloon the city plans to build a municipal waterworks. Dr. J. Grant Lyman, convicted at New York of using the mails to defraud de-fraud investors in oil and mining stocks in which he dealt, was sentenced sen-tenced to serve one year and six months in the Atlanta penitentiary. -WASHINGTON. Speaker Champ Clark has issued a statement criticising the Republicans for selecting a justice of the supreme court as a candidate for the presidency and the Progressives for nominating Colonel Roosevelt "in violation of the two-term rule." The balloting at Chicago on Friday did not interrupt the seclusion in which Justice Hughe3 was spending convention week. He was in his office of-fice at his residence throughout the day, busy with court work. He had no callers. Amoro Sato, former Japanese ambassador am-bassador to Austria, has been selected as ambassador to the United States, to succeed Viscount Chinda, whose transfer to the ambassadorship at London recently was announced. The supreme court has interpreted the Harrison federal drug act of 1914, making it unlawful for any person not registered under the law- to have opium in his possession, as applying only to those who deal in the drug and not to those who use it. President Wilson has signed the army reorganization hill, first of the important prepardness measures passed by congress during the present pres-ent session. FOREIGN. The bewildering total of 108,000 Austrian prisoners (nearly four army corps) taken by the Russians in seven sev-en days' open fighting in the Volhynia and Galician fronts is officially reported re-ported from Petrograd. A decisive victory over the 600 Villists who had concentrated In the Rio Florido district, about fifty miles south of Parral, was reported to military mil-itary headquarters at Chihuahua by General Ignacio Ramos. The steamer City of Para, which arrived ar-rived at Panama on Sunday from San 'Francisco, had on board a lifeboat and one dead seaman from the American Ameri-can steamer Roanoke, which foundered found-ered 100 miles south of San Francisco in May. Germany up to the end of May had lost 2,924,586 soldiers, of whom 734,-412 734,-412 were killed, according to a British otfioial tabulation of the German casualties cas-ualties lists. The Dutch newspaper Handelsblad says the British compelled the captains cap-tains of several Dutch steamships to unload analine dyes In their cargo before permitting the vessels to proceed pro-ceed to the Dutch East Indies. Drinking among English women Is undoubtedly on the increase, announced announc-ed the committee of women appointed to investigate the subject. Because she tried to forward a letter let-ter of a French war prisoner, Bertha Schumacker, a factory girl of Noechst, has been sent to prison for two years and six months. A Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam says that trawler has brought to that port thirty-two sailors, the crew of the Norwegian steamer Erkendal, which was sunk by a mine. The Russians are continuing to follow fol-low up their victories and have pushed their lines still further into Austrian territory in two important sections, that of Lutsk and that between Buczacz and Potok. The court-martial which tried Captain Cap-tain Bowen-Colthrust at Dublin on the charge of shooting F. Sheehy Skef-fington Skef-fington editor of the Irish Citizen, and two others during the recent revolution revolu-tion in Ireland, has found him guilty, but insane at the time of the shooting. shoot-ing. The Russians are keeping up with success their offensive against the Austrians from the Pripet river to the Roumanian border, along a front of some 250 miles. From Copenhagen comes the news that the British steamer Dunrobin has succeeded in passing through the sound on the way to England. She has been lying in the Swedish port of Lulea, a thousand miles north of the sound, since the beginning of the war. A Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam says that a statement has been issued from the Dutch army general headquarters, head-quarters, stating that the army is thoroughly prepared and equipped for any possible war. An Exchange Telegram dispatch from Tien Tsin, China, says that the United States troops at that place have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to Peking. A battle is imminent between constitutionalist con-stitutionalist forces and a band of 690 outlaws now encamped on the Rio Florido, about fifty miles south of Parral. The American ambassador, James W. Gerard, has repudiated the utterances utter-ances in regard to President Wilson's proposed mediation attributed to him and quoted in the reichstag. The provinces of Sze-Chuen, Hunan, Che-Ki.-mg and Shen-Si have rescinded their delcarations of independence and reasserted their loyalty to the Peking government. |