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Show The finding of the body of an tin- ' identified white man. believed to be ' a member of the crew of the towboat Convoy, at Cincinnati, confirmed in the minds of the police authorities the belief that all of the six missing men of that boat had been drowned during a storm. The strike of 16.000 union carpenters, carpen-ters, which for two months practically has paralyzed the building industry in Chicago, is over. The settlement was regarded by boih sides as a compromise. compro-mise. D. Leroy Dresser, retired banker, promoter of the shipbuilding trust and former president of the Republic Trust company, committed suicide Saturday by shooting himself in the head at New York. "The American people worship the gods of wealth, fashion, fame, physical comfort, travel, passion, chance and drink," William Jennings Bryan said in an address at Oakland. WASHINGTON. President Wilson was in an automobile automo-bile accident near Newport, N. H., Saturday Sat-urday night with members of his family, fam-ily, but no one was injured. When his machine stopped to avoid frightening frighten-ing a horse, a small automobile bumped into the White House car from behind. Secretary of Agriculture Houston has issued a call to stockgrowers. county and sanitary officers asking them to co-operate with state and federal fed-eral authorities in efforts to keep the foot and mouth disease under control. An increase of nearly $193,0Q0,000 in export trade 5nd a decrease of $220,-000,000 $220,-000,000 in imports is shown by the analysis of the United States foreign trade for the eleven months covering the European war issued by the bureau bur-eau of foreign and domestic commerce. com-merce. The war department announced Saturday Sat-urday that it had no present intention of increasing the force of federal soldiers sol-diers on the border. Governor Fer guson of Texas had asked for more troops in Texas because of lack of adequate protection against lawlessness. lawless-ness. A general "investigation of the rates and practices of all common carriers in the United States in connection with transportation of lumber and lumber products is announced by the interstate inter-state commerce commission. Hearings Hear-ings will be set later. The department of justice will investigate in-vestigate reports that General Felix Diaz is fitting out Mexican expeditions in Baltimore and Miami, Fla. FOREIGN. General Martin Triana, who led the Carranza forces in the recent attack on Aguas Calientes, was killed in the battle. Nine bombs were found aboard the steamer Kirkosw.ald at Marseilles when the vessel went to discharge its cargo of sugar from New York on her last outward voyage. After battling 120 days for the hilly country between Bethuns and Arras, the French forces are in possession of all the eminences looking out upon the plain of Flanders. Lille, Douai and Cambrai, all are visible from there. Italy and Russia have reached an understanding, un-derstanding, it is stated, regarding the sending to Italy of prisoners of Italian Ital-ian nationality taken from the Austrian Aus-trian army. Roumania has assented cordially to the passage of such prisoners pris-oners through that country. General Carranza has entered Mexico Mexi-co City, after a battle with General History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed Q iNTERMOUNTAIN Salt Lake and its citizens, joined by residents from almost every section sec-tion of Utah, on Sunday welcomed the Liberty bell and gave a reception to members of the Philadelphia joint city councils' committee traveling with the relic. After nearly twenty-four hours of persistent rescue work, Eric Erickson and Charles Cilva were taken alive from the Utah Apex mine at Bingham, Utah, where they had been imprisoned since shortly after noon Saturday. Investigation by the interstate commerce com-merce commission into freight rates from many localities to points in Nevada, Ne-vada, over Nevada railroads, was discussed dis-cussed at Washington, with the announcement an-nouncement that present rates are not unreasonable. Five stage coaches of the Yellowstone Yellow-stone Western Stage company, occupied occu-pied by a party of New York and Brooklyn school teachers, numbering thirty or thirty-five, were held up in Yellowstone park by three bandits, who relieved the passengers of their money and jewelry. Argument on the motion for a new trial for John R. Lawson, international board member of the United Mine Workers of America, convicted on May 3 of the murder of John Nimmo, a deputy sheriff, near Ludlow, on October Oc-tober 25, 1913, has begun at Trinidad, Colo. Opium to the value of $15,000 was confiscated in a raid made by federal officers upon an alleged opium den at Park City, Utah. Thomas Morgan, a pioneer resident of Poplar, Idaho, died July 8 at the age of 107 years. Mr. Morgan was born in Herefordshire, England, in 1807, and fought in the battle of Waterloo. Wat-erloo. He came to America in 1855 and located in Utah in 1857. DOMESTIC. August H. Bode, a lavyer of Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, Ohio, was struck down and run over' by an automobile bus after he alighted from a street car at his hotel in San Francisco and probably fatally Injured. Eighteen hundred passengers left New York on Sunday on board steamships steam-ships bound for the belligerent countries coun-tries of Europe. Coincident with the refusal of Supreme Su-preme Court Justice Hughes to issue i write of error, by which Charles Becker was to have had his case reviewed re-viewed by the highest tribunal, Warden War-den Osborne of Sing Sing prison has set Becker's execution for the morning morn-ing of Wednesday, July 28. A letter received by a newspaper at New Orleans signed ."Pearce" declared de-clared the writer intended to kill J. P. Morgan and Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British ambassador, and finish the work of Eric Muenter, alias Frank Holt, who committed suicide several days ago after wounding Mr. Morgan. James Edward Quigley, Catholic archbishop of Chicago, died Saturday. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has only four engagements to speak dur ing a journey to the coast and the Panama-Pacific exposition, which began be-gan Sunday night. The federal circuit court of appeals at St. Louis perpetually enjoined the Union Pacific Railway company from selling to the St. Joseph & Grand Island railroad thirty-six miles of track between Hastings and Gibbon, Neb. Petitions were filed at Springfield, 111., seeking to restrain expenditures under appropriation bills passed by the last legislature. The amounts aggregate ag-gregate $2,000,000, and include the deficiency de-ficiency bill, a legislators' mileage bill and several bills increasing the salaries sal-aries of state officers and legislators. A passenger train was held up and robbed by four masked men south of Greenville, Ala., sixty miles south of Montgomery. Conductor Phil. McRae was killed by one of the bandits. A bomb placed aboard the Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha, probably while she lay at her pier in New York, caused the explosion and fire at sea, in the opinion of the officers of the steamer, which put in at Halifax Hali-fax for examination. Begging as little formality as possible, pos-sible, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has just written President G. A. Davison of the San Diego exposition that he will be a visitor to the exposition during dur-ing the latter part of this month. Thirty-three persons are dead and fifteen or more missing and are believed be-lieved to be buried in the ruins of buildings wrecked during a heavy rain and windstorm which passed over Cincinnati and its suburbs. Bates Huntsman, aged 70, a member mem-ber of a prominent family at Bedford. Iowa, has been arrested on a charge of murder growing out of the recent unearthing on -s farm near Slam. Iowa, of a treasure chest said to contain con-tain $90,000. The alleged murder is said to have occurred in 1 S '. S . The first bale of cotton of the 1915 season was ginned at Lyford, Texas, on July 8, and shipped to the Houston 'ctton exchange. This is the third uccessive year Lyford has' shipped. ? first bale of the season's cotton in .. Cnlted Staces. Zapata. General Lopez De Lara, the new military governor of the federal district, is preparing a decree for the protection of private property. General Gen-eral Gonzales expects to provide food for the people. Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, whose conduct of the war office has been criticised in certain sections of the British press, received a very remarkable re-markable ovation from the public on his visit to the London guild hall to make an appeal for recruits. General Villa telegraphed an American Amer-ican consular agent at Chihuahua that he had led the Carranza forces under General Hill into a trap and severely defeated them in the vicinity of Aguas Calientes. Captain Liebsicher and Engineer Hoppe of the German steamship Lemnos were condemned at Venice to ten years' imprisonment in solitary confinement on the charge of spying. The other members of the crew were acquitted. The Italian armored cruiser Arnalfi was torpedoed and sunk by an Austrian Aus-trian submarine, while taking part in a reconnaissance in the upper Arl-atic. Arl-atic. Most of the members of the crew were saved. An international trolley car operating oper-ating on the Canadian side of the Niagara . river jumped the track on the Queenstown heights. Buffalo, N. Y. Teu were killed and ninety injured. in-jured. Eight persons, four women, two men, a boy and a- girl, were killed outright and four died later of injuries in-juries when an International railway trolley car, packed with people, through the motorman losing control, jumped the track at Toronto, Canada. Reinforced by fresh hordes and supported sup-ported by the strategic railway at their rear, the Russians in southern Poland have developed a violent offensive, of-fensive, which has, for the time at least, blunted the Austro-German drive on Warsaw and thrown the Teutons Teu-tons strictlv upon the defensive. Curtis's big powder mills at Houns-low, Houns-low, Middlesex. England, were virtually virtual-ly destroyed by a series of explosions which occurred shortly after 100 men had commenced work. No statement of the casualties is yet available. Only one person was killed |