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Show A nrw trial was dft-ncd In federal court to .Jacob (I. Vrt-all. once Socialist So-cialist candidate for governor of -Win-nesiKa, who was convicted more Ihan two years ntro of a t tempt ing to cause !ii--: 1 1 -' i 1:1 1 ;,,u, discontent and mutiny mu-tiny Ui the military and naval forces in the Tailed Stales. Hailstones .-even inches in circumference, circum-ference, according to- C. 10. Peterson, United Stales weather forecaster, fell in the hailstorm which swept Wichita, Kan., and vicinity, doing adamuge estimated es-timated at between $100,000 and $.11)0,000. An explosion of gasoline is believed to have caused a fire which swept through the large structure of the Diamond Dia-mond Auto works nt 1121 West l'ico street, late Saturday at Los Angeles. Announcement is made that the world congress of the Women's Christian Chris-tian Temperance Union will be held at Montevideo in December, 1922. Thirteen skulls, believed to be those of Indians, were unearthed on the farm of Lars O. I'jelle, near Barrett. I'jelle discovered them when he pulled up the stump of what had been a huge oak tree, believed to be more than 100 years old. All had been scalped. "Gene" Geary, notorious gangster, gunman and slugger of Chicago, was Thursday sentenced to bang for the cold-blooded murder of Harry J. Roekas, whom he slew a few weeks ago without the slightest provocation. WASHINGTON.' President Wilson is to retire from the sheep business. The White House flock of forty-eight prize sheep, which has kept the lawns cut for three summers, sum-mers, is to be soid. Authority for the railroads to increase in-crease revenues of $1,400,000,000 was granted by the interstate commerce comniHisiori. Freight rates will be advanced ad-vanced about one-third, passenger rates one-fifth and Pullman charges one-half. Coastwise and inland steamship lines and electric railway companies also were granted in proportion pro-portion to the increases granted railroads rail-roads serving the same territory. Abandonment of Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., has been announced an-nounced by the war department with the notice that the first division, now stationed here, is to be transferred to Camp Dix, N. J. Judge C. B. Ames, assistant to the attorney general since June, 1019. and in charge of the government's case in the coal strike injunction proceedings, has tendered his resignation to President Pres-ident Wilson. A pardon for Mollie Steinier, to allow al-low her deportation ''to Russia, is asked ask-ed in a petition sent by her counsel, Harry Weinberger, to the White House, it became known Monday. She ' is serving fifteen years in a Missouri : federal prison for mailing anarchistic literature. Q History of Past Week '""nrifTiriTiiiHiii iiiiiimmimi i imii m The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o- -a I NTERM OUNTAI N. Seven passengers lind six trainmen Mere severely injured, when an engine en-gine and six cars of passenger train No. 32 on the Oregon Short Line, southbound, left the rails at Zeuda, a small station forty-five miles south of I'ocatollo at G:0.j Saturday morning. morn-ing. The fourth-class postoffices at Kamas and Kunab, Utah; Diumond-Y Diumond-Y ville, Wyo. ; Carey, Leadore, Roberts and Roselake, Ida., have been advanced ad-vanced to presidential grade and their postmasters hereafter must be confirmed con-firmed by the senate. Lincoln county flockmasters are much Interested in the report that Dan Mackey, one of the largest owners of sheep in Wyoming, whose flocks are now on the forest reserve, has contracted con-tracted his entire fall Iamb crop at 11 cents n pound. He will weigh and deliver de-liver at the railroad at Cokeville. Nonpartisans have received instructions instruc-tions from state headquarters of Idaho to register, but not to vote at the primary pri-mary election. This indicates that the Nonpartisans will place a separate ticket in the field by petition. Tack Rathie, one of the prisoners who broke jail at Pendleton, Ore., last Sunday when Sheriff Taylor was killed, appeared late Thursday, apparently appar-ently half famished, at the farmhouse of M. Ricks, near Gibbon, Ore., and demanded de-manded food. Fire Chief John Healy of Denver, Colo., was elected unanimously president presi-dent of the International Association of Fire Chiefs at the concluding session ses-sion of the convention at Toronto Thursday. Atlanta, Ga., was selected as the meeting place of next year's condition. DOMESTIC. Mexican federal forces numbering several thousand men are being mobilized mob-ilized and moved against Lower California Cali-fornia to pur down the rebellion against federal authority of Governor lOsteban Cantu, it was announced by General P. Elias Calles, Mexican minister of war and marine, who is here en route to Torreon, Durango, to confer with Francisco Fran-cisco Villa, the bandit, concerning the hitter's surrender. In a brief filed with the interstate FOREIGN. Frank Brooke, one of the most prominent prom-inent men in Ireland and the closest friend of Viscount French, the lord lieutenant, was assassinated by three men at noon Friday in the directors' room of the Dublin & Southeastern railway in Westland row. The six-day newspaper bill, which has long been discussed, was introduced intro-duced in the chamber of deputies Saturday, Sat-urday, at Paris. The nrjasure would prohibit the printing or delivery of newspapers from 6 o'clock Sunday morning until 6 o'clock Monday morning. morn-ing. The Pacific coast again is becoming highly wrought up over the silent, steady penetration of that section of the country by the Japanese and intends in-tends to press remedial measures at the next session of congress. Posses Monday captured Albert Lindgren, one offive men who escaped escap-ed from the Umatilla county, Oregon, jail Sunday when Sheriff T. D. Taylor Tay-lor was shot and killed. Woman suffrage in Belgium made an advance step Thursday when the chamber of deputies, avoiding a crisis over the question by its action, voted by an overwhelming majority for the passage of a bill to revise article 47 of the constitution dealing with suffrage. suf-frage. Eight men formerly holding high rank in the army of the late President Vcnustiano Carranza Thursday held a secret conference with Governor Es-tabun Es-tabun Cantu of Lower California, following fol-lowing the offer of their services to lead the Cantu forces against invading armies, it was announced by Governor Cantu. Twenty-one workmen were killed and seventy-six severely and slightly injured in an explosion at a munitions factory Thursday at Xursoheu, sixty 'miles southwest of Prague. Three members of Rould Amundsen's Amund-sen's Arctic expedition who left the explorer's ship, the Maud, with mail last fall while the vessel was off the northern Siberian coast, are missing and are believed to have lost their lives, according to Russian government govern-ment advices received by Amundsen here. The names of the three men have not been learned. The Brazilian government has granted grant-ed an extension of redit of $25,000,000 to Italy to purchase Brazilian products the department of commerce was advised ad-vised from Rome. Under the credit agreement preference will be given Brazilian ships in the transportation of commodities purchased by Italy. Two infants, about two days old. were found at the bottom of an abandoned aban-doned cistern at Omaha Saturday Doctors say both will live. The sec ontl baby was disrovored by a report er an hour after neighbors hauled ou' the first one. Dommers commission, the National Publishers' Pub-lishers' association of New York opposed op-posed the application of the American Railway Express company for an increase in-crease of 40 per cent in the rates on the transportation of periodicals. Cleveland, O., won the 1921 convention conven-tion of the National Federation of Women's Clubs, which closed its annual an-nual convention at St. Paul Saturday, it: was decided at a meeting of the federation's fed-eration's executive committee. George Moore, confessed murderer of Harry Dubinsky, Portland for-hire car driver, who was killed and his body thrown from the suspension bridge at ' Oregon City June 13, was sentenced to ' imprisonment for the rest of his life, tified. Charles Ponzi of Boston, who claims to have made millions in manipulation of international reply cupons, was a clerk in the office of a Wichita Falls, Tex., motor company here two years ago at a salary of $10.."0 a week. Bob Martin, A. E. F. heavyweight champion boxer, and Miss Elizabeth Bird of Point Pleasant, were married mar-ried at Toint Pleusant, W. Va., Saturday. Satur-day. A route has been mapped out for the first aerial derby around the world by a special joint commission cf the Auero Club of America, and the Aerial League of America, which recently re-cently returned to New Vork from a tour of the world. Tin? price of the two afternoon newspapers, the News and Press, and the morning daily, the Plain Dealer, of Ku Cleveland, will he increased from 2 . to 3 cents, because of the increased costs of newspaper production. Suit for $G,SS8,500 damages was . filed in district court at Houston, Tex., Thursday by the Brooks Petroleum Petro-leum company against Frank Melvin and P. II. Shelton, both of El Paso. The suit charges failure to carry out an alleged agreement to sell 10,000 barrels of Mexican crude oil per day for five years at a price of $2 delivered deliv-ered at Port Aransas. At Winfield, Kan., Mrs. Grace Wilson, Wil-son, at her preliminary hearing Thursday, was held in bond of $.000 on a charge of killing her husband, Homer Wilson, widely known as a cowboy, near here, last Sunday. Three bandits who held up and robbed ilie Farmers' Slate bank at Grass Lake, near Jackson. Mich., were captured at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon after-noon bv a sheriff's posse., which surrounded sur-rounded them at Wolff Lake, seven miles east of this city. The stolen i money was recovered, i Eight persons: were burned to death ! and four injured at Philadelphia late ; Friday night when tire, starting in the I Horner women's suit fae'ory. swept i!,n.u'iii six buildings. The firemen ; Yve-c handicapped by bursting , hose. I Onlv uvo or the dead have been i.Ien- I |