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Show I BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEHTS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEn-IZED ITEn-IZED FORM. Home and Foreign New Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepred for Busy Man. INTERMOUNTAIN A Denver judge has ruled that Harold Har-old F. Henwood must stand trial again on the charge of murdering George E. Copeland. He held that the killing of Copeland and the killing of Sylvester L. von Phul were two distinct acts. Mike Yokel of Salt Lake City, middleweight mid-dleweight champion wrestler, was forced to use a flying armhold, throwing throw-ing ' Con Albright of Gloversville, . N. V., so heavily that he was unconscious for half an hour to defend his title at Fort Collins, Colo. Albright had entered en-tered the match under an assumed name. Murder is no longer a capital offense of-fense in the state of Washington, but treason is. Governor Lister has signed a bill abolishing capital punishment pun-ishment as the penalty for first degree murder. The old-time seafaring trade of whaling, once believed to be on the verge of extinction, is brightening up again in Alaskan waters. More whalers whal-ers will sail from Seattle this year than ever before. Responsibility for the death by teacher in the public schools of King Hill, Idaho, who died last February, was laid at the door o fDr. Charles C. Smith, osteopath, by a jury that tried him at Mountain Home, whettjit returned re-turned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter. man-slaughter. P. Endicott, a rural mail carrier between be-tween Atlanta and Twin Springs, Idaho, was killed when he was caught beneath a snowslide several miles from Atlanta. The body has been recovered. re-covered. DOMESTIC Twenty persons known to have been killed, 250 more or less seriously injured, 275 buildings destroyed ani property damage estimated at nearly' a million dollar was the toll of the tornado tor-nado that devastated Terre Haute, Ind., and vicinity Sunday. More than 200 persons were killed end 400 were injured in a windstorm that demolished 450 homes, damaged hundreds, of other buildings and caused a monetary loss of $5,000,000 at Omaha and vicinity on Sunday. Clyde Rogers and Frank Sheridan, brakemen, were killed when the chimney chim-ney of a manufacturing plant was blown down on the caboose of a Soo Line freight train at Desplaines, Ills. Frank Zeihms, conductor, was seriously serious-ly injured. Twelve firemen were seriously hurt and damage estimated at $100,000 was caused by a spectacular fire at I the plant of the Union Abbattoir com- I pany at Baltimore. ' j Ten persons are known to be dead and it is believed that the list will reach fifteen at Yutan, Neb., where the tornado, which later did such havoc at Omaha, first began its destructive work. A terrific rain and windstorm at Wilwaukee on Monday did damage to the extent of $200,000. For hours the rain fell in sheets and turned the streets into miniature rivers. The temperature rose to 59 above and a tornado-like wind swept over the city. William Sproule, president of tfle Southern Pacific railroad, who has arrived ar-rived at San Francisco from Nevr York, announces that under new plans now formulating for the unmerging of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific Pa-cific the former will retain control of. the Central Pacific. Five persons were killed, fifty injured, in-jured, thirty-two buildings wrecked and scores of Structures damaged by a storm which swept over Chicago and its suburbs early Monday. Seven persons were killed and seventeen injured at Berlin, Neb., by the tornado which struck that village Sunday evening. The village was almost al-most completely wrecked. James Fuller, father-in-law of J. Ole Storey, a millionaire lumberman of Portland, Ore., dropped dead at La Crosse, Wis., in an undertaking shop into which he had stepped for a chat. Death was pronounced due to arteriosclerosis. arterio-sclerosis. The governor has signed the bill giving the ballot to the women of Alaska. This was the first bill passed by the Alaska legislature, and will become be-come effective in ninety days. Six persons were killed, houses were unroofed and many thousands of dollars' damage was done at Woodbine, Wood-bine, Iowa, by the storm which swept that section Sunday. Whipping post for white slave traffickers traf-fickers and seducers of women, a tax upon bachelorhood, more careful training train-ing of children, and abolition, of joy rides and rag time dancing are advocated advo-cated as remedies for the social evil by the Illinois senatorial vice commission. com-mission. An Easter egg six Inches long and eight inches in circumference was laid by a Rhode Island hen belonging to Dr. A. J. Farley of Pomona, Cal. So far as the poultry ranches in this valley are concerned, the Farley hen bs the record. The worst prairie Are in Kansas in many years swept over Ford, Hodgeman, Hodge-man, Gray, Scott and Finney counties Monday. The damage to property was great, but little stock was burned. J. M. Bowen, a federal government inspector, arrested Halbert Grant, colored, col-ored, and Lottie Grant, aged 17 years, white, at a Minneapolis hotel. The negro ne-gro is charged with white slavery. A tornado swept Galesburg, 111., Monday morning. Several dwellings were demolished, but no one was injured. in-jured. Seven men were burned, four o 'them seriously, in a gas explosion in the Superior mine, Dugger, Ind. Fourteen Four-teen men were working in the ehaft sit the time of the explosion. A tornado forming near Greenwood, Neb., on Sunday, swept over the eastern east-ern part of the state, resulting in the death of at least twenty persons, while ten more are missing and more than 100 are injured. WASHINGTON Official announcement was made at the White house Monday that former President Eliot of Harvard has declined de-clined President Wilson's offer to be embassador to Great Britain. Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather weath-er bureau, has resigned. Secretary Houston accepted the resignation, after a talk, with President Wilson, to become effective July 31. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Cabell has given notice that the Webb act, prohibiting the Bhipment of liquor into prohibition territory for general sale, will not be enforced by internal revenue officers. A 2 per cent tax may be levied by congress on the excess of incomes over $4,000 a year under the authority of the new income tax amendment. William F. McCombs, chairman ot the national Democratic committee, has issued a statement announcing that he had declined to become ambassador am-bassador to France. Huntington Wilson, assistant and acting secretary of state, has resigned that office because of his radical difference dif-ference of opinion with the administration adminis-tration regarding Its Chinese policies. FOREIGN The Princess Teresa Colonna, widow of Marc Antonio Colonna, late head of the Colonna falmiy, attempted to commit suicide at a Hotel in Rome where she had been staying with a companion. Djavld Pasha, with a Turkish army numbering 15,000 'men, has. surrendered surren-dered to the Servians on the Skumbi river in Albania. Djavid Pasha was commander of the Seventh army corps. The powers have come to an agreement agree-ment regarding the boundaries of northern and northeastern Albania from Jakova to Lake Ochrida. Their decision will be made known collectively collec-tively to the allies. Indians of remote northern districts of British Columbia are making throats of massacre against the miners of the Teslin lake country. An official dispatch from Monterey, Mexico, says Miat between 300 and 400 followers of Venustiano Carranza, rebel governor of the state of Coahu-ila, Coahu-ila, were killed in battle Monday. General Sung, a former Chinese minister of education, died March 22, from the effects of wounds he received receiv-ed on March 20, when he was shot at the railroad station at Shanghai. It appears he was shot in mistake for another man. The German government, in order to cover the continually increasing expenditure of the army, is contemplating contem-plating the establishment of government govern-ment monopolies in the sale of cigarettes, cigar-ettes, matches and alcohol. Austria on Sunday delivered at Cet-tinje Cet-tinje a thinly veiled ultiamtum to Montenegro, threatening that if the civil populatibn of Scutari were not allowed to leave the city the dual monarchy would take coercive measures meas-ures for compliance with its wishes. Unless fuel oil is secured several of the low grade mines at-Cananea, Mexico, Mex-ico, will be forced to close down. This will throw out of employment' nearly 1,500 men. Greek warships have seized the German steamer Irmingard off the Island of Lemnos in the Aegean sea. She sailed from Barry, Wales, on February 28 for Genoa. No details of the reason for her capture. Bearing a demand for the surrender of Naco, Sonora, a messenger from General Obregon, commander of the state forces, to General Ojeda, the federal commander at Naco was shot and killed inside the federal outposts at Naco. The south of England has been visited vis-ited by a storm of hurricane force. All seaside places on the south coast have suffered greatly. The wind blew at eighty miles an hour. The French bark Marie went ashore at Haisborough, in the North sea, during a blizzard. All on board were rescued. King Constantine of Greece took the constitutional oath of office at Athens on Friday in the presence of the highest officials of the state and starvation of Miss Clara Foy, a the entire parliament. Austria, possibly with the assistance assist-ance of Italy, is contemplating isolated action to stop the bombardment of Scutari, which, it is alleged, now is being directed against th town Instead In-stead of the fortress, and finally enforcing en-forcing the powers' decision that Albania shall be an autonomous state and that Scutari shall remain part of it. Inez Salazar, one of the rebel chiefs in northern Mexico, seems undecided whether he A'ill cast his fortune with the Huerta i'orces or with the factions still in arms against them |