Show RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE happening that are making citory information gathered from all quarters of the globe and given in a few line intermountain james A wood deputy food adman intrator for nevada was held to the federal grand jury in bonds of by the united states at san francisco on a charge of accept ing from the south fork flour mills of elko nev thomas J tynan of canon city warden of the colorado state and known throughout the united states as an expert on convict labor has announced his candidacy for Democratic the nomination for gover nor of colorado he Is credited with having made the first successful apall cation of convict labor to road build ing billy a brandle bulldog has corn piloted suicide according to the fee it tie police billy leaped from the sidewalk to a railroad track thirty feet lelow and broke ats back A body found near roy mont Is believed to be that of former sheriff J II 11 of isea york joeb v ho disappeared in after starting for york with a prisoner barry ran dolph demolished the swanson torpedo company s plant four males from greybull wyo and caused the death of W W walter superintendent and charles gerrard arker DOMESTIC by defeat of the aircraft program and the selective sen ice act together with the practice of sabotage in the trendier tren dies in france and the factories at home it was hoped by the indus trial workers of the world to crumble america s war plans according to evl dence presented by the government in the seditious conspiracy trial at cht cago of the I 1 W W leaders city firemen were filled and ne injured at vancouver B C when a hose wagon traveling at a high rate of speed while responding to a fire alarm struck a street car six pas fengers aboard the street car were uninjured baul asbury porter of mount pleasant la was sentenced to life impal for the murder of detective james shea of evanston Uv anston february 25 shea was shot when he sought to ar rest porter on a charge of passing a bogus check with the object of shipping abroad each day a ton of dried milk the equivalent of quarts of liquid milk to relieve suffering caused by scarcity of the product in I 1 ranee a group of american women have started a countrywide campaign for funds in the name of the committee tor france the united states steel corpora aton at the request of the government will enter into the manufacture of beavy artillery and projectiles in great quantities the government tests will be made within a few da s at pittsburg labora borics of a new substitute for gasoline which the inventor dr louis clement claims can be manufactured for 8 cents a gallon cornelius kanney smith for thirty three years confidential secretary for the late J pierpont pont morgan died may 8 at ottawa ills following an opera alon during the civil war mr smith was appointed an army telegrapher by governor lates said to be the first appointment of the kind in the union army he was 82 years old the average pay of preachers in the methodist I 1 pl church has passed the 1000 mark for the first time la ills tory according to the report of dr J B secretary of the board of conference claimants to the annual meeting at chicago bope tor the bushel wheat crop tor which the government Is striving this year is strengthened by tie department of agricultures agri cultures may crop report forecasting a production of bushels of winter wheat prussian frightfulness was denounced and the determination of america to wipe it out was emphasized at a memorial mass meeting at carnegie hall new york may 7 under the auspices of the american defense society and the american league the speakers were theodore roosevelt and senator rob ert L owen of oklahoma charles S former secretary of the liea sury presided the rev in an address at oakland declared that ger many planned to make franz bopp former german consul there governor general of columbia after winning the war he fald the united states secret has evl dence lo 10 inis effect twelve known dead acordi injured and property damage running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars resulted from a storm alch swept through central illinois and iowa may 6 reaching alio proportions of a torna do in many sections eight soldiers were killed and twenty six injured friday when a wooden rail coach filled with members of the Infant rv went avei a trestle at camp jackson S C all of alie men w ere from southern states men and women boys and girls through whose efforts more than 12 worth of war savings stamps hav e been sold in new york city took their places joyfully tuesday in a funeral procession which wound its way through the city behind a coffin whose plate announced that kaiser bill had died of W S S 1918 amne american gunners were killed and seven injured more or less seriously near benbrook tex when a three inch shell exploded lawrence C a newspaper man was elected mayor of st paul over julius r emme socialist by one of the largest majorities ever returned there for a city official washington the case of a soldier in the american expeditionary forces condemned to death for deserting in the face of the enemy has been sent to president allson for final action the president recently commuted the death sentences of two soldiers for sleeping at their posts and of two others who disobeyed orders sensational sworn statements letters and telegrams from the files of the army intelligence service were read into the senate records friday to show that gutzon borglum while holding a personal commission from president vi allson to inquire into the governments aviation program was negotiating secretly for the formation of a private airplane company to take war contracts and capitalize bis ship with the president in announcing arrangements for converting first and second liberty loan bonds into bonds of the third loan bearing 4 per cent interest secre tary mcadoo explained that the new conversion bonds would not be ready for delivers until july 1 and requested bondholders bond holders not to ask conversion b tore that date the united states now has an army of 1900 men the may draft will raise it to men it Is estimated that of the now in uniform must remain in this country for guard duty on the seacoasts on the mexican border and at munitions plants also more must remain to aid in training new coops etc FOREIGN italy q contribution to the reserve army general foch Is building up behind the lines in france tor supreme emergency uses numbers nearly a quarter of a million men official als patches sav and the force Is being strengthened steadily german submarine operations from the harbor of ostend belgium have been seriously hampered for a time it not rendered impossible by a daring raid upon the harbor by the british friday morning As part of the practice of commandeering labor the german military authorities in belgium have registered all youths above thirteen in the region t mons and are employing many between 14 and 17 in digging and grading ilose to the trenches north of verdun md near st the american sector the british navy has completed its for the bottling up of the german submarine mouths on the bel glan coast by the sinking of tha scarred old cruiser vindictive stuffed alth concrete at the entrance to Os tend harbor A special prayer for the cessation t the evils tormenting humanity luring mass on st peters day june 29 Is urged by pope benedict in a special message addressed to the whole world official french statistics on the sub darlne warfare show that the total esses of the allied and neutral ships accidents at sea were approximately only one halt as great dur ng april this year as in april 1917 the I 1 loyd george ministry won a notable victory in the house of corn mons may 9 by a vote of to the house voted down a motion introduced by former premier asquith pro for the appointment of a special to investigate charges made by major general frederick D mau rice recently relieved of his post of chief director of military operations at the avar office A large german patrol attempted to rush the american positions on the front during thursday night but was driven oft with heavy losses the promptness with which the am red cross commission in ii ranee complied with a request for food for refugees gathered at st omer during the recent german drive haa elicited a message of thanks from premier clemenceau ty of on the don river which figured prominently in the bat ties between the and the ukrainian troops has been occupied by the germans former influential officers in the german army supporters of von moltke former clinef of staff are agitating against held marshal von on the ground that the german successes oa the western front have not reached expectations according to re sports in the the costa alcan by a vote of 28 to 3 has voted confidence in the government of deit federico A tinoco and at the same time passed a resolution expressing regret at the action of the american toward 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