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Show Kor 'he second time John (1;tri;skl has !-.Wi t.fi-iiti'l for a seat in the ; city co::nril at Crand Itapids, Wis., by j Ibe toss of a coin. ();ru.-ki and f'.rant I'.ilu'ork. candiilaies for cruinciliaan, drew a tie vole in Tuesday's election, so it was agreed to flip a coin to decide de-cide (lie honors. Ostruski lost. Tour years ago he lost in the same manner. The Kansas court of industrial relations re-lations does not legally exist, an an- j swer filed on behalf of Alexander llowar, president of the Kansas min- i ers, ami three other miners' union officials of-ficials in district court asserts. W. I'.. Hast, who shot to death his sister, Mrs. Ceorge Heagan. at Lyons, Kansas, March Ii4, was declared insane in-sane by a jury in district court and will be committed to the hospital for the criminally insane at the Kansas penitentiary. Mast, after his arrest, declared he shot Mrs. Reagan because she was cruel to her children. WASHINGTON. The Republicans of the house, with only two defections and the aid of twenty-two Democrats, one Independent Independ-ent and one Prohibitionist, ou April 9 passed the Porter resolution declaring declar-ing the war with Germany to be at an end. The vote was 242 to 150, twro mombers voting present. The sentite elections committee has ordered a full and immediate investigation investiga-tion of the Ford-Newberry election by the sub-committee, of which Senator Watson, Republican of Indiana, is chairman. Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the secretary 'of the navy, has been appointed ap-pointed by President Wilson as the official delegate to represent American Amer-ican women at the eighth congress of t(je International Woman Suffrage alliance al-liance in Geneva, Switzerland, in June. The army reorganization bill was1 attacked as a measure that "would build up a military system equal to any that ever existed in any country at any time" by Senator McKellar, Democrat, Tennessee, during consideration consid-eration of the legislation in the senate. sen-ate. Senator Smoot's bill designed to give persons an opportunity to acquire rural ru-ral homes has been passed by the senate sen-ate and sent to the house. FOREIGN Advices from the Rhineland report that the French commander-in-chief in the area occupied by his troops has ordered all Germans to salute the French flag and French officers and that he threatens reprisals in the event there are fresh outbreaks. After studying the state department's depart-ment's interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, sent several weeks ago, the congress of Salvador adopted a decree proposing the creation of a Latin-American Latin-American court of arbitration with the United Slates excluded. Unless he immediately takes a long-needed long-needed rest . and abandons the cares of state, Premier Lloyd George is in danger of a complete physical break- down, it is learned from a reliable source. A strike of maritime workers has been ordered by the Marine union in all the ports of Franee. The strike, is already in effect at Marseilles and : Dunkirk. The General Federation of Labor and the Socialist party leaders have ordered a cessation of the general , strike proclaimed in Bologna, Florence, Flor-ence, Leghorn, Modena, Spezia and other , places, following a clash between be-tween police and workmen near Bologna, Bo-logna, in which seven workmen were killed and several injured. Restoration to China without compensation com-pensation of the Chinese Eastern railway rail-way and all mining and forostry concessions con-cessions and privileges seized by the former Russian imperial regime, Alexander Al-exander Kerensky, Generals Horvath and Semenoff and Admiral Kolchak, is announced in a note to the Chinese government from soviet authorities at Irtkutsk. Militarism is the only means to fully utilize Russia's man power, said Leon Tutotzky, Bolshevik minister of war, addressing the ninth convention of the 'mnuuinist party at Moscow. Although martial law was proclaimed proclaim-ed a.t .Jerusalem and the city is under heavy jiatrol by British troops scattered scat-tered fights occurred between Jews anil Moliammedans Monday and Tuesday Tues-day In the narrow lanes of the old city and .outside the walls. Several persons were killed on both sides. Dispatches from Ovideo saying that the Spanish Mines company had accepted ac-cepted the demands of the miners belonging be-longing to the Catholic party, indicate indi-cate that 10,0K workers resumed work on April 8. Twenty thousand Socialist Social-ist miners in Hie Asturias region remain re-main on strike and twenty thousand more in the province of Cordoba. Official recognition of the government govern-ment and autonomous constitution of Albania has been extended by the Ital-iau Ital-iau government, according to Epocha. Conditions in Denmark now are normal, nor-mal, bolh the labor conflict and the ; political crisis having been definitely ended. K Of A WEEK ill ! COlEiEO FOI: i RECORD OF" THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe an Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. There are in the neighborhood of 475 men out of work at Salt Lake as a result of the switchmen's strike. Resolutions urging the United Slates government to protect American Ameri-can miners in Mexico and asking congress con-gress to repeal excess profits and corporation cor-poration taxes w ere adopted by the International In-ternational Mining convention at Seattle. Se-attle. Among other resolutions passed vas one asking the government to foster production 'Of minerals. The body of George It. Herman, siieepherder for ;a Shoshone company, was found near Kimania, Idaho, with a bullet hole through his heart. At the inquest it was decided that death had either been caused by suicide, or accident, ac-cident, as the powder marks were on his clothing. A plot to extort $1500 from Carl A. Valentine, president of the First National Na-tional bank at Pocatello, Idaho, was foiled by officers, and Charles Selders has been arrested, charged with attempted at-tempted extortion. As the result of a collision betwean two automobiles near Logan, Utah, two were killed and two injured-Four injured-Four persons are dead and many injured in-jured as the result of a tire which 'destroyed 'de-stroyed the Hotel Lincoln in the downtown down-town district of Seattle, with a property prop-erty loss estimated at approximately pioo.ooo. A man .and. a woman met deatla .and a number of guests were injured when the Hotel Lincoln, at Seattle, was destroyed de-stroyed by fire. DOMESTIC. Two thousand men in all walks of life have joined the Birmingham, Ala., Overall club in a campaign agaitist.the high cost of clothing. Started in a spirit of jest, the idea rapidly gained converts and the headquarters of the club has been thronged with volunteers volun-teers anxious to sign the roster. A girl clerk routed six bank robbers at St Louis by sounding a big siren while they were at work, but before they Imd completed their job. The bandits got away with $12,000, bat the girl's prompt action saved the bank S3O,O0G. Several .persons were injured ;and mine and office buildings badly .damaged .dam-aged wJieu a . powder magazine .at the United V-oiide-mine at Jerome, Airi.z., exploded. Bringing ifrom Southampton, England, Eng-land, bodies of eighty-seven American soldiers who died in the service .of ' their country on foreign soil, the army transport Nanseniond docked at New York, April -8, her flag at half mast. Captain Lewis P. Schilling, aged 88, last survivor .of the Alamo massacre, is dead at the -soldiers home at Saw-telle, Saw-telle, Cal. Four woiueu .were drowned at Port Arthur, Texas, vwhen an automobile in which lhey wre riding plunged through an open bridge and fell into the ship canal. The number uf American ships now passing through the Panama canal exceeds ex-ceeds by a third those of any other nation, Governor Harding of the canal zone announced in. a cable message to the officers in charge of National Marine Ma-rine Week celebration. Thirty-two persons sleeping In a rooming house over a cafe at I'onca Cily, Okla., were killed Wednesday night, when an explosion wrecked the cafe. Two sets of Georgia delegates were elected Wednesday to the Republican national convenfkai :und will make a contest there for recognition. Maj. A. V. Dalrymple, ceutral states prohibition commissioner of Iron River "whisky rebellion" fame, declared in a speech before the Electric -club at Chicago that he had "two enemies to fight the liquor Interests acd the newspapers." Damage to the Oklahoma fruit '.rop resulting from the freezing temperatures tempera-tures .of the unprecedented blizzard of Saturday and Sunday will be in excess ex-cess of $5,000,000. "Mercury," a horse entered in the horse itav at Santa Barbara, Cal., Hrrived by airplane from Los Angeles. The trip was delayed a day until officers of-ficers of the humane society had been convinced no cruelty was Involved in the trip, which was made in an especially espec-ially equipped airplane. |