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Show o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed E INTERMOUNTAIN. Mrs. Blanche Coltman, formerly of Omaha, Neb., aged 27, was found dead In her apartment in a hotel in Seattle, her throat cut by a knife. John Sou-das, Sou-das, a cigar store owner, is under arrest ar-rest in connection with the investigation. investiga-tion. The Brotherhood of Locomotive (Firemen and Enginemen in convention at Denver rejected a resolution to remove re-move grand lodge headquarters from Peoria, ; 1 1 1, , .to Cleveland. A horse appearing to be suffering from hydrophobia was killed at the ranch of John Binnel in Granger, .Utah. Willard .Flanders, convicted wife-rourderer, wife-rourderer, was. hanged at the state penitentiary At .Rawlins, Wyo., early June 1G. The drop fell at 2:54 o'clock. Pie was pronounced dead at 3:07 More than 2,600 tele gmphers and station agents on the Chicago. Milwaukee Mil-waukee & St. Paul railroad have voted vot-ed almost unanimously to strike if the company again refuses tfceir demand for shorter hours and increased pay. The trial of Emmett E. Walker and George J. Head, former officers in the Texas national guard, charged with selling guard supplies furnished by the United States government, lias begun be-gun at Austin, Texas. Hordes of half-starved Mexicans, to whom the United States is the promised prom-ised land, continued to arrive in Juarez and encamp on the ba-iks of the Rio Grande awaiting the call of El Paso labor agents. WASHINGTON. The annual pension appropiation bill carrying $158,OG5,000 passed the house Saturday without a roll call after a debate de-bate devoted to many subjects other than pensions. The total is $6,000,'J00 less than that of last year's bill. The principle that railroads may Dot charge shippers for moving empty cars to point of loading wa3 upheld by a ruling of the interstate commerce commission. Secretary Daniels has ordeved several sev-eral additional gunboats and other small craft on both the east and west coasts to Mexican waters. President Wilson is pleased and enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the St. Louis convention. conven-tion. He believes it assures a united Democracy with Tammany and William Wil-liam J. Bryan doing their utmost to O CIOCK. W. B. Slaughter of Dallas, Texas, w-as acquitted in the district court at Pueblo, Colo., on charges of larceny of livestock on which the defunct Mercantile Mer-cantile National bank. held a mortgage for $27,000. An infernal machine thought possibly possi-bly to have been destined for Governor Gover-nor Spry of Utah, exploded with terrific ter-rific force when the pouch -.containing it was thrown on the cement floor in a mail car at the Northern Pacific depot de-pot in South Butte. Isaac Cerney, 58 years old, a chemist chem-ist at the Pueblo, Colo., smelter, will go through the rest of his lit ewith a go through the rest of his life with a top of his head was removed when an operation was performed Thursday and a silver plate substituted. DOMESTIC. iMatt Savage, a Nebraska aviator,: was killed at Ewing, Neb., while mak-: lng a practice flight in his machine. The craft became unmanageable while Savage was making a spiral glide and fell a distance of 500 feet. William Kurtz of Nevada, a delegate to the Chicago Progressive convention, conven-tion, and who was stopping at the home of A. W. Woods, stockyards commission man, has not been seen lor several days and search is being made for him. It is feared he has met with foul play. Nine persons were injured, but none seriously, when the steamship Beii Franklin, carrying 1,000 men excursionists, excur-sionists, was rammed by the ocean-going tug Elmer Keeler, in Hell Gate. -Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president presi-dent of the Women's National Suffrage Suf-frage association, has announced that a lobby of fifty women will go to Washington within a few days to attempt at-tempt to force through congress the Susan B. Anthony amendment of woman's wo-man's suffrage. A union picket was killed at San Francisco in a battle between striking strik-ing longshoremen and strikebreakers, strikebreak-ers, which occurred on a pier leased by the American-Hawaiian Steamship company. Leaders of both the woman's party and the National American Woman Suffrage association have united in denouncing as inadequate the suffrage plank of the Democratic platform, and declared they would immediately resume re-sume their fight in congress for national na-tional recognition. United States Senator Edwin C. Burleigh died at his residence at Augusta, Au-gusta, Me., June 16. Senator Burleigh's Bur-leigh's death was due to acute indigestion. indi-gestion. He was ill only a few hours. His wife died d. month ago in Washington. Wash-ington. Mrs. Frank Lambert, mother of Marion Lambert, the high school girl, took the stand Friday as a witness against William Orpet, the young university uni-versity student who is on trial at Wau-kegan, Wau-kegan, Ills., charged with the murder mur-der of her daughter. General Funston stated on June 16 that since the bandit raids began August Au-gust 1 of last year thirty American soldiers have been killed and nearly 100 wounded on our soil. More than 500,000 union and nonunion non-union railroad workers of America will vote within a month on the advisability ad-visability of calling a general strike to enforce their demands for an eight-hour eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime. Blame for the passenger train wreck on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad at Bradford, R. I., April 17, in which five persons were killed and seventeen injured, has been placed by the interstate commerce commission on the failure of Flagman Coombs and Engineman Mansfield to attend signals properly. A band of Mexicans, headed by Luis De La Rosa, attacked American cavalry cav-alry about forty miles south of Lo-redo, Lo-redo, Texas. Eight Mexicans and three Americans were killed. A receiver for the supreme lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor, a fraternal fra-ternal insurance organization, is asked for in a complaint filed in federal court at Indianapolis. The International Missionary union has opened its thirty-third annual conference con-ference at Clifton Springs, N. Y., fwith missionaries present from all yarta of the world. re-elect him. The support of both elates him. President Wilson has virtually completed com-pleted his reply to the Carranza note while its substance was being written writ-ten into the Democratic platform at St. Louis. President Wilson has signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America Amer-ica and giving the organization the exclusive right to use of that name. The president was told that the membership mem-bership was 182,000 boys and 42,000 men. FOREIGN. An agreement has been reached between be-tween the French and German governments gov-ernments for the regularly distribution of bread and clothes to French prisoners pris-oners in Germany. Parcels of such supplies now can be sent m oulk instead in-stead of individual parcels as hitherto. The civilian population of Sonora is arming itself, according to official statement of Ives G. Lelevler, Mexican Mexi-can .consul at Douglas, Ariz., preparatory prepara-tory to repelling any attempted aggression ag-gression by the United States. The fiev. John B, Deville of Chica&o, who is engaged in bringing refugees out of Belgium, is sending on the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam on June 20, a vanguard of forty .Belgian old men, women and children, who will join relatives in the United .States and Canada. The German military governor df Roulers, Belgium, has ordered the population pop-ulation to remain indoors from 2 o'clock in the afternoon until 8 o'clock in the morning for three weeks, says the Telegraaf. This action was taken, tak-en, the newspaper adds, because the citizens gave food without authority to Russian prisoners employed in agricultural ag-ricultural work. General Carranza, addressing a mass meeting in front of his residence at Mexico City, urged the citizens to refrain from hostile demonstrations against Americans and declared that he had hopes of peacefully arranging the difficulties between Mexico and the United States. Lieut. Gen. Count Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the supplementary general staff of the army, died of heart apoplexy during a service of mourning In the reichstag for the late Fielding Marshal von der Goltz. The capture by the Russians of Czernowitz, capital of the Austro-. Hungarian crownland of Bukowina, is officially announced by the Russian war office. A dispatch to the Central News from Petrograd says that much of the effectiveness of the Russian artillery in their Galician drive is due to the use of big Japanese guns. General Jacinto Trevino, commanding command-ing the Carranzista army of the north, has advised General J. J. Pershing, American expeditionary commander, that any movement of American troops from their present lines to the south, east or west, would be considered a hostile act and a signal to commence warfare. A Copenhagen paper says that In the recent fight in the Baltic between Russian torpedo craft and German war vessels, which were conveying merchantmen, two German auxiliary cruisers, the Herzmann and the Konig von Sachkn, and two armed trawlers wero sunk by the Russians in addition to ten merchantmen. Consular advices report the American Ameri-can steamer Carolyn ashore in tha White sea near Archangel, Russia, probably a total loss. All of the crew were saved and taken to Archangel. The Dominican senate has designated designat-ed Jacinto de Castro president of the republic, in succession to President Jiminez. Col. Alfonso Barron, so-called Zapata Za-pata lieutenant, recently convicted by court-martial on a charge of having robbed Luis Osuna, a Mexico City attorney, at-torney, of 20,000 pesos in April ls.st, has been sentenecd to be executed. Gen. Ignacio RamvyS has reported to Gen. Jacinto Trevino, Carranza commander of the north, that he had captured and executed five members of the bandit band uader Nicholas Hernandez. The losses of tht British navy during dur-ing the war are placed by German newspapers at more than 600,000 tons. |