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Show n History of Past Week The Netvvs Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed 3 ""- """ I NTE RMOU NTAI N. Professor Edward Emerson Barnard, 4tsu-ononnr of Verkes observatory, at Creen River, Wyo., to observe the iH-lipse of (he sun, discovered a new star of the lirst magnitude Saturday night The stxir is said to be about iifteen degrees west of the star Altair One hundred million dollars will bo invested in opening up the resources of the iron ore region about Cedar 'ity in southern Utah, according to indications apparent In Salt Lake City. Lawrence M. (Larry) Sullivan, probably prob-ably the best known sporting man on the coast, died at Portland of Kright's disease, at the age of 55. Lieutenant J. C. Monfort has arrived at Seattle to open a school for naval student flight officers at flie naval training camp on the University of Washington campus. Men will be sent there from every state west of the. Rocky mountains. The United States food administration administra-tion license of the Eko Mining company com-pany of Elko, Nev., has been revoked for a period of three months, beginning begin-ning June 15, on direct orders from Washington. The firm was fouud ".guilty of violations of the food administration ad-ministration rules and regulations. ' Breaking the Pacific coast steel ship launching record of 55 working days from date of keel laying, set by the same shipyard, the Sumner & Eddy corporation at Seaftle on June G, ' launched the West Cohas, a 8800-ton steel carrier. 54 working days after keel had been put down. DOMESTIC. Casualties among the American expeditionary ex-peditionary forces thus far reported liy General Pershing, including June fill) list, total 7315. Deaths in action and" from wounds, disease, accidents and all other causes number 2SVJ7, while 40-ki men have been wounded and 342 are missing n action, including includ-ing men held prisoners in Germany. Six St. Paul (Minn.) Socialists who refused to obey military commands Mere sentenced to twenty-five years at hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, it was announced Saturday at Camp Dodge, Iowa. Dr. Isaltelle Gray of St. Louis, said to be the first woman admitted to army service with the status of an officer, has reported for duty at Camp Grant, Ills. Mrs. Harriet McAdoo Martin, a daughter of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, was married Saturday at Philadelphia. A suggestion for more generous display dis-play of the Italian flag in company with those of the other nations fighting against Germany has been approved by . Mayor Hylan of New York. The government .rune crop reports 'stiniate the combined winter and spring wheat crop at 931.000,000 bushels bush-els for 1918. The winter wheilt cop is placed at 587,000,000 buslOs and the spring .wheat tit 344,000,000 bushels. - In the presence of members of the family, the honorary pallbearers and a few intimate friends, the body of the late Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice-president of the United States and distinguished citizen of Indiana, In-diana, was lowered into a vault at Indianapolis In-dianapolis on June 7. Plans for the immediate construction construc-tion of a $0,500,000 plant for the production pro-duction of heavy shells for the ordnance ord-nance department of the United States army were announced Thursday at Chicago by the Association of Commerce. Com-merce. , Twenty thousand drafted men have been rejected because of brain tests applied by a new set of army medical officers known as psychiatrists, according ac-cording to two of their number, who addressed the convention of the American Medico-Physiological association associ-ation at Chicago. v Leonard Price, aged 26 years, of Churehville, Md., a deserter from Camp Lee, Va., was shot and killed while attempting to escape from the grounds around the guardhouse at the ordnance proving grounds at Aber-deoH, Aber-deoH, Md. Price deserted two weeks ago. The American xl earner Plnar del Klo was sunk by a Gorman siihnu rine seventy miles off I lie coast of il iry-lanil iry-lanil .Sunday morning. One of her bonis with the caplain and seventeen members of the crew is missing; another an-other with sixteen men has landed on the Virginia coast. A wheat: crop of V! 1.000.000 bushels is practically assured, which is quite large compared with the 051,000,000 bushels of last, year, and a live-year average of 800,000,000 bushels. Colonel Kersey, commandant at Fort Omaha balloon school, says the first flight of a new balloon to be used In spreading propaganda in Germany was a success. The balloon is equipped wilh a clock device to distribute circulars. circu-lars. American citizens and two subjects of the German empire, one of them a woman, are named as fellow conspirators conspira-tors in two indictments returned by a federal grand jury at New York. WASHINGTON. A hill by Senator Meyers of Montana Mon-tana to authorize the secretary of the interior to make allotments of mineral land in the Blackfoot Indian reservation reserva-tion in Montana, repealing laws prohibiting pro-hibiting disposal of the land, has been passed by the senate. Assistant Secretary of war Sb?t-tinius Sb?t-tinius may soon go abroad on an important im-portant mission in connection with the ordnance and ammunition supply of the American forces. Secretary Baker lias authorized the statement that such assignment for Mr. Steltinius was under un-der consideration. A country-wide move to reduce the cost of food to the consumer and standardize methods of compelling the observance by dealers of "fair price list." was ordered Friday by Food Administrator Ad-ministrator Hoover. ! The Smoot pension bill granting to I every veteran of the Union army in the civil war a pension of not less than $30 a month for service of ninety days or over, was passed by the house. Speaking for his child labor bill with its provision forbidding the courts to pass upon its validity. Senator Owen of Oklahoma declared the supreme court nullified a great human public policy by its recent decision holding the child labor law invalid. FOREIGN. The German people are being warned that they must prepare' for another winter of war. In announcing that this was probable, Conrad Hauss-man. Hauss-man. a progressive member of the German reichstag, said in a speech at Stuttgart, as reported by the Berlin Tageblatt, that it is necessary to give the warning to prevent public disappointment. disap-pointment. After the land forces have driven the French and English beyond Paris, it will be the turn of the kaiser's navy to drive the English fleet off the sea," Grand Admiral von Tirpitz is quoted as declaring in am interview with the publisher of-the Keiler Zeitung. The arrival in Switzerland of the" Grand Duchess Olga,-sister of former Emperor Nicholas of Russia, gives color to recent persistent reports that: the former emperor and empress and others of the Romanoff family may take up residence here or at some other point outside Russia, where their personal safety will be less ei dangered by disorders in that country. coun-try. Twenty-three tons of bombs were dropped on railway junctions, airdromes air-dromes and ammunition dumps beyond be-yond the German limrs Saturday by British airmen.. The discovery of a plot to free the former emperor of Russia while he was confined at Tobolsk, to take him to Sweden and thence to America is reported in German newspapers re ceived at Amsterdam. I Kerr Fahrenbach, a Roman Catholic, has been elected president of the German Ger-man reichstag, according to dispatches received at The Hague. Four hundred persons are dead as the result of an explosion of munitions near Jassy, May 30, according to news just received at Moscow. The spirit trade, which was suppressed sup-pressed in Russia by imperial decree de-cree early in the war, despite an enormous enor-mous loss in excise taxes to the treasury, treas-ury, has been revived in the Ukraine, according to advices from Kiev. The production, it is stated, will be limited to 9,000,000 kegs annually. According to statistics published In the Vienna Zeitung, 40,000 persons in Budapest are barefoot, owing to the scarcity of shoes. A force of Turks estimated at 5000 in northwest Persia has occupied several sev-eral towns north of Lake Urumiab and fTie village of Soujbulagh, soutl of Lake Urumiah. An official statement issued by the Japanese government emphatically denies de-nies the recently published report that the China-Japanese military agreement gave to Japan control of the Chinese military forces, finances, railways mines, etc. American wounded arriang in Paris direct from the battle front at Chateau Thierry on the Marne, were frantically frantic-ally cheered by the crowds lining the streets to catch a glimpse of them. This year, for the first time In Anglo-American history, the king of England is going to take part in an American Fourth of July celebration On July 4 King George has promised to attend a baseball game at Chelsea between teams representing the United Slates army and navy. The miners' federation at a meeting in London has voted to demand "a substantial sub-stantial increase" in wages owing to tin- increased cost of liuig since the last advance. The amount of the increase in-crease to be demandhil wtK he determined deter-mined later. " More than a million and a half rifles have been produced for the United States army since this country coun-try entered the war, says an announcement announce-ment by the war department. One man was burned to death and another suffered burns from which he probably will die in a fire which destroyed de-stroyed more than one hundred houses in the Mexican district ar Jerome, Ariz., and r.iaile fully 1000 persons homeless. In it tight between officers and several sev-eral men charged with resisting the jinny draft. Levi Goodwin of the alleged al-leged registers, was killed at Oxley, Ark. The dead man's father, Pat Goodwin, brother. Elie Goodwin, and Lesley Passmore were arrested. A detailiMl story ot the torpedoing of the American transport President Lincoln, cabled to the navy department depart-ment by Vice Admiral Sims, says the . small loss of life was due to the excellent ex-cellent seamanship of the ship's captain. cap-tain. Twenty six vrev los1 U:ir lives in the sinking. |