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Show NEWS OF ft WEEK lil CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter! of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Pete Catsoulas, a striking coal miner min-er and leader of the Greeks at the Ludlow tent colony, was arrested at Trinidad, Colo, lie is charged with the doath of nine employees of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company killed during the battle at Forbes in April. Local labor disturbances cannot be taken as an indication that there Is general dissatisfaction among organized organiz-ed workingmen of the state, according accord-ing to the testimony of Governor Stewart before the federal industrial relations commission at Butte. Portland, Ore., was chosen as the city for the 1916 convention of the supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias, at the business session of the Pythian convention at Winnipeg, Man. On the order of Governor Stewart and Attorney General Kelly, the State Savings bank of Butte was closed August 6 by State Bank Examiner H. S. MoU-raw. It was reported the suspension sus-pension was only temporary and had been caused by the failure of the institution in-stitution to obtain money from its eastern correspondents. Placing all of its employees at the Bingham mines, the Arthur and Magna mills and the Bingham & Garfield railroad rail-road on half time, the Utah Copper company has issued orders to reduce its output 50 per cent and ordered a corresponding reduction in its pay rolls. Hamilton George, the 11-year-old son of J. M. George, a farmer living about two miles from Provo, Utah, was struck by a bolt of lightning and. instantly in-stantly killed. Two powerful submarine vessels just completed at Seattle for the Chilean navy have been sold to the Canadian government. They proceeded proceed-ed to Victoria, B. C, under their own steam. They are each 150 feet long -ind of 420 tons. DOMESTIC. Preston Griffin and Charles Hall, negroes, charged with killing a gro-ceryman gro-ceryman were taken from the Monroe, Mon-roe, La., city hall tower and hanged by a mob. Less than twenty-four hours before Henry Holmes was lynched lynch-ed in connection with the same crime. Heavy advances in the prices of nearly all staple groceries are announced an-nounced by Los Angeles wholesale grocers. They said the European war created a strong demand and prevented prevent-ed importation. Mrs. E. H. Welling of Trenton, N. J., head of the finance and executive committee of the New Jersey Congress Con-gress of Mothers, has sent out a call to the national and state congresses of mothers, asking them to take steps for the holding of mass meetings to urge peace in Europe and to indorse President Wilson's offer of mediation. Dr. Olaf Lange, a dentist of Chicago, Chi-cago, while insane, killed his wife and 3-year-old son and committed suicide. He stabbed Mrs. Lange and the child and then beat in their heads with a hammer. Funeral of thirty unidentified victims vic-tims of the wreck at Tipton Ford, Mo., where forty persons are known to have lost their lives, were held at Neosho. The bodies were so badly-charred badly-charred it was impossible to identify identi-fy them and they were buried in unmarked graves. Charley White's cleverness and experience ex-perience proved too much for Joe Aze-vedo Aze-vedo in their twenty-round boxing contest con-test at Coffroth's arena at San Fran-Cisco, Fran-Cisco, the decision being awarded to White in the eighteenth round. The Knights of Columbus' annual convention closed at St. Paul after V.'hf-n the Cuit.d lintr Mauritania, which put into Halifax, with 2. .) I assengers Hoeing from Europe, again sails trom Liverpool, she will bJ fitted as H. M. S. Mauri tania and prepared to di-stroy the hostile shipping of Germany. Federal investigation of a so-called canteloupe trust at Chicago re-ulled in the indictment of twenty-eight men and si'vtn corpor-tiuns for alleged violations of the Sherman antitrust law. At a mass meeting of striking coal minors, held at Pittsburg. Kan., a resolution res-olution was adopted providing for the resumption of work by the 3,000 min-ers min-ers on a strike in Kansas. Judge Elijah 71. Norton, one of the best known jurists of Missouri in the early days, and who served as a member mem-ber of congress and upon the state supreme su-preme bench, died August C at his home in Platte City, aged 9?. The United Fruit company, througt Andrew W. Preston, its president, announced Tuesday that it would undertake un-dertake to bring home Americans marooned in Europe by the withdrawal with-drawal of trans-atlautic steamers. WASHINGTON. The reclamation bill, extending from ten to twenty years the time in which settlers may repay the government for water rights on irrigated land, has been passed by the house. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president of the United States, died at the White House at 5 o'clock Thursday Thurs-day afternoon, August 6. Death came after a brave struggle of months against Bright's disease with complications. compli-cations. Mrs. Wilson was fifty years of age. Only about $126,000,000 of additional currency under the Aldrich-Vreeland law has been shipped to the sub-treasuries sub-treasuries of the country since the government decided to aid the banks of the nation in the emergency created creat-ed by the European war. Senator John Sharp Williams resigned re-signed as a member of the foreign re lations committee because, he declared, de-clared, the committee had hesitated to support the administration's policy as to mediation and because of its "equally disgusting attitude" regarding regard-ing the purchase of ships to carry cotton and other goods abroad. President Wilson has signed the bill passed by congress appropriating $2,500,000 for the financial assistance of Americans abroad. FOREIGN. The Montenegrin government has informed the Austrian minister that Montenegro considers itself in a state of war with Austria. As a consequence the Austrian minister has left Cet-tinje. Cet-tinje. A general armistic of forty days throughout the Dominican republic has been agreed upon by President Bordas and the members of the rebel junta. The Pacific Mail liner Siberia, from Shanghai for San Francisco, caught fire shortly after leaving Hongkong, in hold No. 1, and was obliged to put back, after the hold had been flooded. Richard Croker, the former political leader of New York City, has sent to John E. Redmond, the Irish National leader, $2,500 as a subscription to the Irish volunteers' funds and offered his residence and grounds at Glencairn for the accommodation of the wounded wound-ed during the European war. There was a great demonstration at Dublin over the British regiments which were entraining for active service. ser-vice. Reservists who were starting for England were escorted to the station sta-tion by nationalist volunteers with bands of music. Twelve hundred American tourists, who found it impossible to reach home by way of Hamburg, sailed from Copenhagen, Cop-enhagen, August 0, on the Danish American liner United States direct for New York. China has proclaimed her neutrality in connection with the European conflict. con-flict. The work of fortifying the German Ger-man possession of Tsing Tao continues contin-ues and the authorities there have added to their accumulation of provisions. provis-ions. FTom The Hague has come the first acceptance of aid from the American Red Cross. A message has been returned re-turned saying that hospital units will be dispatched as quickly as transportation transpor-tation can be found. Seattle, Wash., had been selected as the 1915 convention city. The British steamer Craster Hall, which sailed from New York, June 26, for Valparaiso, is aground in the Straits of Magellan. The armored cruiser Tennessee, converted con-verted for the time into a treasure ship, left New York, August 6, to carry millions in gold to the many thousand Americans who are in want in European Europ-ean countries. The Japanese premier, Count Okuma, in an interview expressed his regret tha the United States had not been able to mediate in the European conflict, which, if it continues, he said, means the destruction of western west-ern civilization. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul tunnel through the Cascade mountt;5ns, vvhich is 12,000 feet long and which will reduce the altitude of the crossing cross-ing 44U feet, was broken through by a blast on August 5, and men from east and west clasped hands through the gap. Condemnation of the European powers engaged in war and a demand de-mand that the United States act as mediator are contained in a procla n:ation issued at Chicago by the na tional committee of the Socialist party. England has accepted Canada's offer to raise an expeditionary force. Orders have been issued to commanders of militia regiments all over Canada to call for volunteers. A division of 21,000 men will be raised. The British house of commons on August 6, unanimously passed a war credit of $500,000,000 for the increase of the British army. This is the second sec-ond war credit passed by th6 house, the sum of $525,000,000 having been oted two days ago. A British government scheme to control the food supplies of the British Brit-ish isles is probably to be issued in the immediate future, as the retail stores already are experiencing a shortage. The Argentine government has submitted sub-mitted a bill to parliament providing for thirty days a moratorium on 80 per cent of expired credits and those about to expire, and suspending during the same periods withdrawals of gold. The squadron of United States warships war-ships in Chinese waters has discontinued discon-tinued its cruise and is now on the way from Chefu to Shanghai. The Canadian government has decided de-cided to summon parliament to deal with the war situation. The date set !t the meeting of the parliament la Tuesday, August IS. |