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Show 13 n: History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed Bj INTEKMOUNTAIN. Unlet M. Wells. fm-iniT president o," the Seattle Central Lalmr council and an employee of the city light depart moot until his recent suspension, lias i been indicted for seditions conspiracy In connection with ant i-dra ft literature. litera-ture. Governor Samuel V. Stewart, of Montana, lias announced the receipt of a letter front Missoula, asking, ulato aid to suppress the Industrial j Workers of the World element there. A special representative of the secretary sec-retary of labor has been sent to I'.utte to endeavor to settle the strike of minors. Knur men. including Superintendent .1. I'., .leanilcll, were killed and ten injured in-jured us the result of an explosion which wrecked two buildings of the 10. . 1'n I'ont lie Xetnours Powder company com-pany n1 Augusta. Colo. Miners in the southern Colorado coal fields of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company will be called out on strike August 1, unless there is a satisfactory settlement of their differences with the company according to labor leaders. lead-ers. International unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, have begun an effort to settle a part of the labor troubles of ISulte, caused by strikes of (In; recently organized Metal Mine Workers' union and of electricians of the Montana Power company. DOMESTIC. A Holt Line car on the Great Gorge route left the rails, plunged down a twenty-foot embankment and turned over In ten feet of water on the edge of the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls, Sunday afternoon, ten persons being killed, several are missing, while more than it score were injured. in-jured. A special commission of the American Ameri-can lted Cross is en route to Russia to study the needs of the situation and to recommend how the American organization may assist that country in a large way. Xinety-two per cent of the copper miners employed at Miami and Inspiration, In-spiration, Ariz., quit work Sunday afternoon in response to a strike call. , Kleven persons met death and at least ten others were injured, some seriously, at Milwaukee, the result of a lifty-ttm water tank, erected on the Milwaukee river front, toppling down on the wluilebnck steamer Christopher Christoph-er Columbus as that vessel was being pwung around preparatory to making her return trip with about 4X) passengers pas-sengers for Chicago. Twenty-three states became bone dry after midnight .June 30, the effective ef-fective hour of the Reed amendment prohibiting shipment of liquor into any territory where its manufacture or sale is prohibited. Idck Carter, arrested at Hutchinson, Hutchin-son, Kan., last week on a charge of . murder in connection with the kidnaping kidnap-ing and death of Baby Lloyd Keet, has confessed implication in the alleged plot to kidnap C. A. Clement, a wealthy Springfield, Mo., jeweler. Appealing to Governor Capper to give him a chance to "show his colors," Arthur B. Cutler of Kansas City, Kau., a cripple, iu a letter to the governor asked that he be permitted to serve his brother's prison sentence so that the brother may be freed to join the army or navy. The murder of Miss Thecia Gerken, 'J'-' years old, of Woonsocket, S. D., who was shot at night by an unknown person while going to the home of a friend whom she was visiting at Sioux City, Iowa, remains a deep mystery. In closing its fourteenth annual convention con-vention at Buffalo, N. Y., the Catholic I'.ducational association adopted the slogan, "Every Catholic child iu a Catholic school," as a special program of parish work for the year. Lord Northcliffe. British high commissioner com-missioner to the United States, in an address to magazine editors and writers writ-ers at a luncheon at Xew York, expressed ex-pressed the hope that the United States would not muddle the censorship censor-ship as England did the first three years of the war. Francisco Villa was at Villa Ahuma-da, Ahuma-da, eighty-five miles south of Juarez, on June '11, with a force of 1500 men, and was moving toward Juarez, according ac-cording to information received by government agents at El Paso. The destroyer Shaw has completed a record run from a Pacilic coast port to an Atlantic port approximately 5S5S miles iu 14 days, 10 hours and 120 minutes. min-utes. The strike of S0OO coal miners in western Oinadu, which has been in progress since April 1, ended June 27 when Commissioner W. H. Armstrong, appointed by the government to investigate inves-tigate and take any action deemed necessary, ordered immediate resumption resump-tion of operations in all mines affected. Establishment of dispensaries in all important seaports of the allied countries coun-tries probably will be one of the first undertakings of the American Red Cross in administering t ho big war fund, estimated si t $114,000,000 without final reports from a few cities. Riotous scenes attended a socialist parade at Boston on Sunday, which was announced as a peace demonstration. demonstra-tion. The ranks of tin; marchers were broken up by self-organized squads of uniformed soldiers and sailors, red Hags and banners bearing bear-ing socialistic mottoes were trampled on. Felix Jones of El I'aso has been indicted by the Italtas county grand jury In connection with the mysterious mysteri-ous murder of Florence Brown, a stenographer in a Lallas real estate office in .June, BH.'l. Eight more deaths from the epidemic epidem-ic of intestinal ills. ...ie that has affected af-fected Duifklin and Scott counties, Missouri, were reported June !), making mak-ing the total number of deaths in the last few weeks sixty-two, most of tlieni children. WASHINGTON. The gun crew of an American liner lired u xiii two German submarines during her voyage from the United States to England. Both targets were at a considerable range, but the report to Washington of the commanding com-manding officer will express the belief be-lief that one periscope was shattered. A formidable midsummer legislative program, with food, prohibition and revenue the major measures, still confronts con-fronts congress iu its war session, which began Hire months ago. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has signed the woman's pledge to assist tiie food administration by practicing economy in Hie home and assisting in conserving conserv-ing the food supply for a successful conduct of the war. Eighty-seven of the German merchant mer-chant ships seized in American ports at Hie outbreak of the war were turned over to the shipping board on June HO by President Wilson for operation. op-eration. The other fourteen already are in possession of the navy department. depart-ment. Intervention of President Wilson has checked the "bone-dry" national prohibition pro-hibition movement in congress. Confinement Con-finement of prohibition legislation to distilled beverages without interference interfer-ence with manufacture of beer and wines, it is generally agreed, will result. re-sult. The navy litis almost doubled its personnel per-sonnel since war was declared and now needs less than 25,000 men to bring it up to the new authorized strength of 150,000. FOREIGN. Free Russia, true to its pledges, has begun a powerful offensive against the enemy's lines. Js. battle is being waged southeast of Lemberg-at Lemberg-at a point where General Brussiloff's offensive was brought to a stop last year. General Chang Haun, says a Reu-ter's Reu-ter's Limited dispatch from Pekin, has informed President Li Yuau Hung that he must retire because the Manchu emperor, Hsuan Tung, has been restored to the throne. Brazil's navy has begun co-operating with the American tleet in South American waters in . hunting down German sea raiders and watching for German submarines. According to the Kreuz Zeitung of Berlin of June 2G, Dr. George Michae-lis, Michae-lis, the Prussian food controller, announced an-nounced that a military house-to-house search for foodstuffs, which were impounded by- the government for general use, only resulted in the addition of about 4 per cent to the existing stocks, Although the army of Monaco consists con-sists of only thirty-three men, the men of the principality are liable for military service with either the French or Italian flags. The population popula-tion of Monaco is 10,000 and of these eight hundreds are killed, wounded or missing. Lieutenant Allmanroeder, a German Ger-man aviator who was one of the brightest, stars of Lieutenant Baron von Richthofen's battle squadron, has been killed in aerial combat. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Allmanroeder had a record of thirty victories. All submarines of the countries at war are barred from Spanish ports by a decree signed by King Alfonso. All submersibles of belligerents entering Spanish waters will be interned. Submarines of neutral countries must navigate on the surface, the decree states. Russia has adopted the daylight saving sav-ing plan. The provisional government has decided to advance the . clocks throughout" the country one hour July 14 for the purpose of economy in the the consumption of fuel. All goods in the big general mercantile mercan-tile store of the Cauanea Consolidated Copper company, which closed its mines, mills and smelters June 21. have been confiscated by the Mexican officials at Cananea. Premier Lloyd George, speaking at Glasgow on the occasion of his being made a freeman of the city, said that in his judgment the war would come to an end when the entente had reached the aims which they had set out to attain when they accepted Germany's Ger-many's challenge. If the war ended a single minute before, he said, it would be the greatest disaster in the history of mankind. A Russian republic is forecast by members of the Russian mission in discussing dis-cussing problems facing that country. The constituent assembly, which is expected ex-pected to open September 30. will have in Its hands the building of the whole new political structure of Russia. Special dispatches from Rotterdam say it is inferred there, m view of the gagging of the German press, that something drastic has happened or is about to happen in Germany. Brazil has revoked her decree of neutrality neu-trality in the war between the entente allies and Germany. , |