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Show brief review of a weetc evehts RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Homo and Foreign Newi Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepared for Busy Men INTER MOUNTAIN. Purine the present strike in the southern Colorado coal fields, sixty-six persons are known to have been killed in the numerous battles between strikers and mine guards and the tate militia, and the known wounded wound-ed list totals forty-eight. One man was killed and two injured in-jured when an automobile went over the river bank in Ogden canyon, near Ogden, Utah, as a result of the steering steer-ing gear breaking. Definite prospects for a settlement of the strike in the Colorado coal fields, where the miners have been out since September T., 1913, and where 1,707 United States troops are now guarding the mining properties, apparently are no nearer realization than they were weeks ago. Harry Corbett, an aeronaut, plunged plung-ed 2,000 feet to death while attempting attempt-ing a balloon ascension and parachute para-chute drop at a Denver amusement park. Several hundred people witnessed wit-nessed the fall. "Mother" Mary on.es, .in organizer of the United Mine Workers o? America, Am-erica, rode at the head of a long parado of trade unit nists, Socialists and members of the Industrial Workers Work-ers of the World through the streets of Seattle on Decoration day. John Brisbane Walker of Denver conferred with President Wilson about the Colorado strike situation. Mr. Walker believes ' arbitration will be possible in a short time and that both parties to the controversy are now willing to make concessions. DOMESTIC. The state of Oklahoma alone is now in a position to give abut six months' work to from 12,000 to 15,000 unemployed men, according to information infor-mation sent out by the United States department of labor. An investigation of the alleged corner cor-ner in wheat and the "squeeze" in Rlay corn has been begun at Chicago by Garfield Charles and David B. Stansbury, assistants in the office of the United States district attorney. A withdrawal ord.er by which William Wil-liam H. Taft, while president iri 1909, exempted from entry government lands in California variously estimated estimat-ed in value at from $250,000,000 to $1,000,000,000, was declared invalid in a decision of Judge Maurice T. Dopl-iug Dopl-iug of the United States district court of San Francisco. olonel Roosevelt will open the Progressive campaign in Connecticut with an r.ddiess before a state conference con-ference of Progressives In Hartford on July 23. Mrs. Grace E. Patton is in jail at Wichita, Kan., awaiting arraignment on a charge of murdering her husband hus-band in that city Demember 10, 1912. Mrs. Patton reported that burglars had shot her husband. Roy Mimms died at Fort Worth, Teaxs, a few minutes after he had been struck over the heart by a ball while at bat in a game between ama teur teams. Five trainmen were killed and two perhaps fatally injured when a locomotive loco-motive on the Connelsville division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was derailed de-railed at Cooks Mills, Pa. Sacrificing their lives to save four ' companions, two of them girls, three young men, none of whom could swim, leaped into the Delaware river from a sinking rowboat near Philadelphia Phila-delphia and were drowned. Ernesto Nathan, a former mayor of Rome and Italy's commissioner to the Panama-Pacific exposition, arrived at San Francisco and was greeted by a delegation of exposition officials and many prominent members of the Italian Ital-ian colony in San Francisco. Failure of the Wilson administration to handle satisfactorily either the trust or the tariff question was charged charg-ed by Colonel Roosevelt in a statement state-ment he left behind him for publication after his departure for Kurope. "Not guilty" was the verdict of a jury returned in the case of Dr. W. T. Elam, a prominent physician of St. Joseph, Mo charged with the murder of W. Putnam Cramer, a Chicago magazine solicitor, in a hotel in Chicago Chi-cago November 18 last. Dr. V. A. Winters and his wife, Byrd Winters, were arrested at Newcastle, New-castle, hid., in connection with the disappearance of their child. Catherine Winters, on March 20. 191". Robert P.. McCIure. a brother of S. 6. McCIure. the publisher, was killed by the discharge of a shotgun at his home at Tankers. N. Y. Members of his family announced that he was accidentally ac-cidentally killed while cleaning the gun. Of a total of l."S" persons on board the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland, when she sailed Thursday from Quebec for Liverpool, 951 were lost when the liner was rammed by the Danish collier Storstad and sank off Father Point in the St. Lawrence river Friday morning. The date set for the twer.ty-fou (- fendants in the dynamite cases to surrender sur-render themselves at the prison at Leavenworth or to the United States marshal at Chicago has been aeferred from June C, the date originally set. to June 25. Negotiations for new wa.se scales and working conditions for 55.000 locomotive lo-comotive engineers and firemen on ninety-eight western railroads have been suspended until July 14. A severe wind and electrical storm, resembling a. cyclone, struck Milwaukee Milwau-kee and western suburbs and blew down a score of buildings in West Allis and Wauwasha, demolishing fences barns and other buildings. The Wisconsin legislative vice commission com-mission will recommend for enactment enact-ment to the next legislature a law-similar law-similar to the Mann federal white slave act, to provide against transportation trans-portation of women from county to county or city to city within the state. WASHINGTON. Trade unions and farmers' unions would be legalized in their existence and declared not to be combinations in restraint of trade by a paragraph which the house has incorporated in the Clayton bill to supplement the anti-trust laws. Creation of an interstate trade commission com-mission has been approved by the membership of the chambers of commerce com-merce of the United States by a vote of 522 to 124, according to results of a referendum just made public. President Wilson has again expressed ex-pressed his conviction that any unsatisfactory un-satisfactory condition in business was not only general, but was less felt in the United States than any other part of the world. By a vote of 33 to 20 the senate referred to the interstate commerce committee the Norris resolution asking ask-ing the attorney general to the state if the New York Central lines constitute consti-tute a combination in violation of the Sherman antitrust law and if he intends in-tends to proceed against it. Secretary Bryan has announced that if public business permitted, he would spend part of his vacation this year lecturing on the Chautauqua circuit, as he did last year. Mr. Bryan's Bry-an's first lecture wil be delivered in North Carolina, July 4. A White house automobile in which Miss Margaret Wilson, the president's daughter, and two friends were riding was held up for exceeding the twelve-mile twelve-mile speed limit by county officers in Hyattsville, Md. FOREIGN. An arson squad of militant suffragettes suffra-gettes destroyed the historic parish church of St. Mary's, Wargrave, three miles from Henley, England, on the Thames. All that remains of the church, which was built in 1538, is a portion of the tower and the scorched stone walls. The French cabinet, under the premiership of Gaston Doumergue, has decided to resign. A fire which the police say was started by suffragettes destroyed a mansion near Windsor, England. The house was formerly the residence of the Duchess of Sutherland. Eighty nine bodies of the 1S8 victims vic-tims brought to Quebec from the Empress Em-press of Ireland wreck were unclaimed unclaim-ed when, the improvised morgue on the pier at. Princess slip closed its doors Monday night. Twenty persons were killed in a clash between contending forces near Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo. General Carranza on May 31 issued1 a notice declaring Tampico, Tuxpan and Montemoros officially opened to the commerce of the world. He also gave notice to the steamships plying to these ports that they must continue con-tinue the arrangements for service made with the Madero government or all contracts and concessions granted them would be void. ' Several bejeweled weapons of great value have been stolen from the military mil-itary museum of the Hotel Des In-valides, In-valides, Paris. Princess Mirko of Montenegro, who was Princess Natalie Constanti-novitch, Constanti-novitch, has begun proceedings for a separation from her husband Prince Mirko, son of King Nicholas of Montenegro. Monte-negro. King George has cabled to the Duke of Connaught, governor general of Canada: "I am deeply grieved over the awful disaster to the Empress of Ireland, in which so many Canadians lost their lives. Queen Mary and 1 both assure you of our heartfelt sympathy sym-pathy with those who mourn for the . ioss of relatives and friends." The German steamer Strassberg, has left St. Thomas, D. W. I., for Port au Prince, her object being the protection of German interests, while unsettled conditions exist in Haiti and the Dominican republic. Joseph Calian, former French premier, pre-mier, was injured in an automobile collision. Caii'i.ux was cut by glass and was taken to a hospital. Alfred Agostinelli, a student aviator, : fell from bis machine into the Medi-i Medi-i tcrrant-an sea near Antibes. France, land was drown til. j A severe earthquaVe shock, lasting 1 more than thirty seconds, occurred -at Calon. It was much stronger than i any of the seis:r.ic disturbances felt in the canal zone last October. ! Sick and wounded sailors and ma- lines of the American fleet- al Vera I Cruz, w ho were taken to the New-York New-York naval hospital by the Solace, show general improvement. A court-martial has sentenced Vice Admiral Wamatsumoto of the Japanese Japan-ese navy to three years' imprisonment on charges of accepting bribes in con-r.ection con-r.ection with naval contracts. |