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Show BRIEF RIM OF A WEEire EVENTS I RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT i HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM I Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOL'NTAIN. William MeKinney, a ranchman aged 45, and his two children, r, and i), were drowned in the Tongue riv.T, near Sheridan, Wyo. They attempted attempt-ed to cross the river in a boat which capsized. A new regulation governing weights it carload shipments of berries by express ex-press from polntH in Oregon and Washington to destinations as far east as Chicago, 111., by which the transportation trans-portation charges were Increased, has bison suspended by the interstate commerce com-merce commission until September 17. Federal aid in bringing about a settlement set-tlement of the Colorado coal miners strike 1b desired by Governor Amnions, Am-nions, even if President Wilson carries car-ries out his Intimation, that federal troops may soon he withdrawn from the strike district. A cloudburst at Butte, twenty-five miles north of Pueblo, Colo., washed out 1,000 feet of the track of the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande. A Great Northern passenger train was held up by two masked men near Rexford, Mont., but the robbers secured, little booty. Isaac Jones of Logan is dead, Le-land Le-land Whitehead is seriously, if not fatally, fa-tally, hurt, and ten other miners are more or less badly injured as the re-Btilt re-Btilt of a seventy-live-foot drop of the cage in the Eagle and Blue Bell mine at Eureka, Utah. The Colorado house and senate has agreed on tne report of the third conference con-ference committee on the military bond issue bill, and the measure, as amended by the conferences, was finally adopted by both houses. Prof. Jakob liolin, head of the physical physi-cal education department of the University Uni-versity of Utah and one of the leading lead-ing authorities in the world on physical physi-cal education, died at his home in Salt Lake City, May 15. DOMESTIC. The federal reserve bank of the second reserve district, organized in accordance with the new federal banking bank-ing laws, was formally launched at the New York clearing house Monday. Edward Burns, vice-presfdent of th American Exchange National bank, New York, died at his desk Monday. He had been connected with the bank Tor nearly half a century, entering its services as an office hoy. Joseph H. Foraker, former United States senator, has formally announced an-nounced his candidacy for the nomination nomi-nation for United States senator from Ohio on the Republican ticket. In a revolver duel in the business section of Douglas, Ariz., Eduarrio Soto, a Mexican, 24 years old, was shot and killed by Luke Short, a mounted customs inspector. Short attempted to arrest Soto. California prohibitionists have nominated nom-inated a ticket headed by Fred W. Wheeler of Los Angeles for United States senator and C. P. Morse of Oakland for governor. Hubbard Mihard, aged 17, son of County Attorney J. B. Minard of Leslie Les-lie county, and Joseph S. Hensley, a member of a prominent Leslie county family, killed each other in a pistol duel near Hyden, Ky. Five members of a party of nine persons In a pleasure launch were drowned when their launch capsized In the Mississippi river near Minneapolis. Minne-apolis. The dead are Mrs. Otto Ju'st-mann Ju'st-mann and her two children, two children chil-dren of John C. Buckholz. Mobs rioted at the furniture factory fac-tory of Heywood Brothers at Wakefield, Wake-field, Mass., where a strike has been In progress for three weeks. 1 A crowd, mostly foreigners, stoned workmen and police. Fire destroyed a warehouse of the Merchants' and Planters' Compress company at Galveston, Texas, and damaged 11.000 "bales of cotton stored in the building. The loss is estimated estimat-ed at 5900.000. Fred Fox and Maurice Pettinger, who were arrested at Monterey last January while trying to smuggle Chinese Chi-nese from Mexico into the United States, pleaded guilty at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Reports from Circle City. Alaska, say the flood caused by the breakup of the ice on the Yukon river Thurs day was the worst in the history of the camp. The town was almost wiped out, all the stores, government buildings and dwellings near the water front being damaged by ice. Ten men, most of them chemists, were killed by an explosion of acid and chemicals in the mixing room of the Mexican Crude Rubber company at Detroit. Within a week Harry K. Thaw will t leave the hotel apartments in Con-corn. Con-corn. N. H., ' under guard and will-spend will-spend some time in a summer camp on a lake near Bradford.., Thomas E. Watson. Georgia editor, historian and politician, lias been indicted in-dicted by the federal grand jury at Augusta, (la., on a charge of sending obscene mat.'er through the mail. After thirteen days of terrific suffering suf-fering In an open boat adrift at sea, four survivors of the freight steamer Columbian were picked up in the North Atlantic by the Unitfc-i States revenue cutter Seneca. Mrs. Victor Hall, widow of a young merchant, shot to death ill his home at Green Springs. Va., on April 15, lias been indicted for murder by a special grand jury which has been investigating the crime. The million-dollar estate of Gen. Hiram iJun-a, who was killed on May 5 by his son Chester IJuryea. will b divided among" bis three children, the parricide sharing equally with hi:; brother and sister. Irwin G. Baker arrived at New York May 15, having traveled 3.301 miles from San Diego, Cal., on a mo torcycle in 11 days 11 hours and 10 minutes. Wrapped in the flag of his country, Samuel .".leisenberg of Chic.igo, one of the nineteen United States marines killed at Vera Cruz, was buried at Chicago, May 14. A procession more titan a mile long followed the body to the grave. On the coffin was a single wreath, sent by President Wilson Wil-son WASHINGTON. Resignations of Moses Friedman, superintendent, and S. J. Nori, chief clerk of the Carlisle Indian school, have been accepted by Cato Sells; commissioner of Indian affairs. Two persons holding minor positions at the school were transferred and another was removed. Creation of an aviation section of the army as a part of the signal corps would be atuhorlzed by a bill that passed the house. The Mexican delegates to the peace conference are said to realize that the. present administration in Mexico City is fast crumbling and that the choice of some one to succeed Huerta is inevitable. 'Simultaneously with the firing of the salute of eleven guns and the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner," Ban-ner," a statue of Commodore John Barry was unveiled Saturday in Franklin park, Washington. President Wilson has served notice on Governor Amnions that the state of Colorado must be prepared to maintain main-tain peace in the coal miners' strike districts without federal aid. The president said that federal troops would remain in the troubled districts dis-tricts "only until the state of Colorado Colo-rado has time and opportunity to resume re-sume complete sovereignty and control." con-trol." Decrease in value of breadstuff's, cotton and cottonseed oil in April, 1914, compared with April, 1913, but an increase of cattle, hogs and sheep exports are shown in statistics of the department of commerce. FOREIGN. Admiral Charles Drury died at London, Lon-don, May IS, aged 68. He was born at 1 Rothesay, N. B., and entered the British Brit-ish navy in 1859. From 1903 to 190s i he was second sea lord of the admiralty. ad-miralty. The naval gunnery trophy present-i present-i ed by the city of Spokane in 1908 was received Monday at Vera Cruz by the battleship Arkansas for the work performed per-formed by number three turret last year, when a world's record was established es-tablished by its twelve-inch guns, which fired six shots and made aix hits in 57 seconds. y Desultory firing by General Bordas' federal forces has caused many casualties cas-ualties among noncombatants in the besieged town of Puerta Plata on the northern coast of the Dominican republic. re-public. Gloom has been cast over the American Am-erican colony in London by the death of Consul General John L. Griffiths, who succumbed to heart disease. He was well known in London through his after-dinner speeches. General Tellez, the federal commander comman-der at Mazatlan, has offered to surrender sur-render the remnant of his troops, provided pro-vided he is accorded the honors of war by General Obregon. King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine Alex-andrine of Denmark have just paid an official visit of courtesy to France, during which they were the guests of the French government. The remnants of the federal garrison garri-son of Paredon, routed by General Raoul Madero and the Zaragoza brigade bri-gade of the ocnstitutionalist army in the first skirmish of the Saltillo campaign, cam-paign, have retreated to Ramos Arizpe, six miles north of Saltillo. Tomarito Watanabe, a Korean, has been sentenced to death for the murder mur-der two months ago of Dr. Edgar De Mott Stryker, formerly of New Jersey, Jer-sey, who was head of the hospital near Holkol, Korea. It is not only as a possible military opponent that Germany is uneasy about Russia. The tone of the press daily shows that there is much anxiety over the possibility of a trade war. Walter S. Lazarus-Barlow, of London, Lon-don, who has recently had success in the treatment of cancer by radium, says radium in the human body may also be the cause of cancer. American women delegates to the quinquennial sessions of the international interna-tional council of women, at Rome. -were present Monday at a garden party par-ty given by the queen mother, Mar-gherita, Mar-gherita, who presented each with a bunch of roses and a siiver medal ts a souvenir. Everything in Japan today indicates, indi-cates, to use the wort's of a leading Japanese newspaper, ttat "Japan is in the midst of a silent, out great struggle strug-gle between the democratic forces and the conservative and bureaucratic machines." i |