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Show n o History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o a INTERMC'JNTAirj. Thomas J. Linker and his wife, Maude Linker, are charged with the murder of Joseph Rriggs, a wealthy stockman, at: Salt Lake, cm January .'i. Two Seattle residents, Louis Conk find Miss Frances lluyward, were killed kill-ed and seven injured, two seriously, when two hi;,' atttoniohiles, which victims vic-tims said, were racing each other, crashed together a few miles north of Seattle. Rejection of proposals for an organized organ-ized union of evangelical churches, acceptance ac-ceptance of the Interchurch World movement, and the gift of $2,000,000 by John D. Rockefeller for mission work were the outstanding features of Saturday's session of the northern Baptist Bap-tist convention at Denver. The Northern Baptist convention at Denver unanimously adopted the report re-port of the national committee of laymen lay-men providing for the creation of a general planning hoard to co-ordinate activities of the church under one governing body consisting of 140 members. mem-bers. Frederick Hansen, former first mate of the schooner Edward It. West, was indicted at Seattle by a federal grand jury on a charge of murder. The indictment in-dictment charged Hansen threw Charles Hannan, second mater, overboard over-board during a storm off Cape Horn, May 31, 1918. "Day labor wages for Baptist clergymen cler-gymen is a blot on the denomination ; more than half the nation's Baptist ministers receive less than $1500 a Senator Bornh of Idaho, In a letter addressed to D. E. Dunne, president of the Sedwick Republican club of Wichita, Wichi-ta, Kan., which was made public Sunday, Sun-day, denounced the league of nations as a "t recherotis scheme." Three armed unmasked men entered the (lent jewelry store in the heart of San Francisco, and, after binding and gagging a clerk, escaped with $14,400 in coin and jewelry. I'nable to pay death claims of $5.?0,-000 $5.?0,-000 as a result of influenza epidemic, the Catholic Mutual Benefit association associa-tion will notify members that extra assessments must be levied until UK' deficit is wiped out. it was announced at Buffalo, X. Y.. last week. WASHINGTON. To finance the railroads for the balance of this year and to pay the government's operating loss for sixteen months up to this month, an appropriation appropri-ation of .$1,200.000,01 10 was asked of congress by Director General Hines. More may be sought later, if the government gov-ernment continues to lose heavily. First debate in connection with the pence treaty at the extraordinary session ses-sion of congress began Friday in the senate with the calling up by Senator Johnson, Republican, of California, of his resolution asking the state department depart-ment to furnish the senate with a copy of the text of the treaty. Withdrawal of the entire American army from Europe will be demanded by Representative Knhn of Colifornia, chairman of the house military committee, com-mittee, when he speaks before the house on his two months' investigation of conditions in the A. E. F. Sending bombs and other explosives through the mails would be made a capital offense under a bill introduced by Senator King of Utah and referred to the judiciary committee. The Utah senator was one of those to whom infernal in-fernal machines were addressed in the May day bomb plot. A national eight-hour working day, beginning be-ginning January 1,, 1921, was proposed in a bill introduced by Senator Moses of New Hampshire, Republican. " It was explained that the regulations of the measure would be similar to the Adamson law to the railroads. year." This declaration was made to the Baptist convention at Denver. George and Tom Bosko, arrested in Utah last week, charged with the murder mur-der of W. T. Hunter and E. C. Parks, a few miles west of Pueblo, April 11, have made a complete confession. DOMESTIC. Missing for six days and virtually-given virtually-given up for lost, ' Harry G. Hawker and his navigator, Lieut. Commander Mackenzie Grieve, British airmen, who essayed a flight across the Atlantic ocean without protection against disaster dis-aster save what their frail airplane afforded, have been picked up at sea by a Danish steamer. They were in the water an hour and a half before being rescued. Hundreds of persons saw Frank Mc-Cusker Mc-Cusker of New York, pilot of a mail airplane, leap 200 feet to his death from a burning machine at Cleveland. Fifteen minutes before he : had an- nounced that he would attempt to establish a record on his flight to Chicago. Union workers of Calgary, Alberta, have called a strike in sympathy with the Winnipeg walkout. The vote to strike was carried four to one, and practically all unions affiliated with the trades and council are affected. One man dead, two others reported drowned, scores of persons injured and property loss of more than a million mil-lion dollars at the Goose Creek oil field is the toll of a storm which swept about fifty miles northwest of Houston, Hous-ton, Texas, on Saturday. Coroner James F. Hare of McLean county, III., has just been allowed $100 FOREIGN. The graves of 70,000 American soldiers sol-diers who died in France will be decorated dec-orated May 30, under the auspices of the forces of the United States still in Frances. With the exception of one minor concession, con-cession, all suggestions and counterproposals counter-proposals by Germany for the dispo-sion dispo-sion of the Sarre Basin have been rejected re-jected by the reply of the allied and associated powers. The Lett government has requested the German government to permit German Ger-man troops to remain in Letvia, as the Lett landswehr is unable to hold the front alone against the Bolsheviki. Reports received by the geeral staff of the Siberian army indicate disintegration disinte-gration of the morale of the Bolsheviki. Mobilized workingmen and peasants are deserting at the first opportunity and even the Bolshevist commissaries are reported to be disheartened. Reports received by the general staff the attitude of the Berlin government is changing, some observers expressing the opinion that it will order the delegates dele-gates at Versailles to sign the treaty. Field Marshal Von Hindenburg formally for-mally appealed to the Swiss government, govern-ment, asking permission to reside in Switzerland as a simple citizen. Flood-stricken China wants seeds from the United States, as an active policy of reforestation has been started. start-ed. With this end in view it is anxious anx-ious to start a system of seed exchange with the United States. Germany's greatest concern is whether she can fulfill the conditions by the government for a horse of his which was killed in the civil war in a battle at Oklona, La. He had his claim in since 1864. Several of '.ne 156 passengers on the Old Bay Line steamer Virginia burned in Chesar ?ake bay, off the mouth of the Potf.mac river, were injured but none l'St their lives. Uninterrupted production of "war be .i-" in New York until the courts 1 ave passed upon the claim of the United States Brewers' association that the beverage, containing 2 per cent alcohol, is non-intoxicating, was assured when Federal Judge Mayer granted an injunction restraining government gov-ernment interference with its manufacture. manu-facture. On July '4, Black Hills pioneers will honor the memory of the late Cononel Roosevelt by naming the highest peak of the hills Mount Theodore Roosevelt. Leslie Nunainaker, catcher with the Cleveland Americans, was awarded a verdict of $4500 in circuit court at St. Louis against a motor car company for personal injuries suffered in an automobile auto-mobile accident December 10, last. Nunamaker sued for $15,000. A score of persons were killed and a hundred injured by an explosion at the Douglas Starch Works at Cedar Rapids Iowa. Of the 150 men and boys who had just gone to work in the night shift, few escaped injury or death. Elbert II. Gary of the United States Steel corporation, declared in a speech at New York that then? was reason to assume that the peace terms will be agreed to and subscribed by at least a majority of governments, anil a league of nations for the continued -preservation of peace will he estab-llnlicd. estab-llnlicd. Employment of an airplane as a means of transportation for a physi- clan who Is called upon to make long dlulunce professional calls has been in-migurated in-migurated by Dr. F. A. Brewster, of Beaver Oily, Neb. of the treaty presented by the allies and rejection of the treaty as it stands has not been decided upon. This was the intimation conveyed by Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau on his return to Versailles from Spa. When former Emperor' William of Germany is placed on trial before an international tribunal for having committed com-mitted high crimes against universal morality he will furnish the incriminating incrimin-ating evidence against himself ; in fact the commission which, had bis case In hand and reported to the peace conference con-ference is held to have prepared enough evidence to convict the former kaiser by merely quoting the speeches he made before and during the war. The volcano Stromboli on the Island of that name off the north coast of Sicily was in violent eruption Friday. Numerous victims are reported. An attempt was made to demolish the American legation building at San Jose, Costa Rica, Monday night by a bomb. German plotters and criminals who have been reached during the war by the strong' arm of the law of any of the allied associated powers, and who are now in prisons or internment camps, cannot be released and repatriated, repa-triated, either now or when peace i signed, but must serve out their sen-I sen-I -os, regardless of their German citizenship, cit-izenship, is tile substance of a note to the German pe; delegation. The German repiy to the allied peace terms will be in five sections, dealing with political and territorial Issues, t he league of nations, and financial finan-cial and economic questions. The notes which the German peace delegation will submit to the peace conference before May 29 will apparently appar-ently be so voluminous that the entente; en-tente; representatives will requjjo a week for consideration before 1bey can make ti rejoinder. It is expected that there will be a new time adjustment adjust-ment for the Germans to sign tiie treaty. |