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Show NEWS OF 11 WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Hsppenlngs That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. "William L. Paterson, a cigar store owner, shot and killed his wife and baby daughter at Salem, Ore., and then turned a revolver upon himself. He died soon afterwards. Neighbors eaid Paterson had hecome mentally unbalanced over worrying about his wife, who had been ill. Improvement work to cost approximately approxi-mately $2,000,000, has been begun by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, according to an announcement announce-ment at the office of the chief engineer, engi-neer, at Denver. Most of the work is In Wyoming. James C. Bulger, under sentence to be hanged at Denver for the killing kill-ing of L. F. Nicodemus, was granted a thirty-day reprieve by Governor George Carlson to the week beginning begin-ning June 18. When the home of Erick Dahl, a farmer near Sandy, Utah, was destroyed de-stroyed by fire, his three-year-old daughter was burned to death and Mr. and Mrs. Dahl severely burned. Four are dead and heavy damage has been done to the old Belcher workings work-ings of the Yellow Jacket mine at Gold Hill, adjoining Virginia City, Nevada, by a fire that broke out at the compressor com-pressor station on the 1,400-foot level. With industrial preparedness, the United States, with a fair-sized army and a respectable navy, can be effectively effec-tively safeguarded against the world, declared William L. Saunders, well known engineer and member of the naval consulting board, in an address before the Bonneville club at Salt Lake. DOMESTIC. Barricaded in a houseboat on the edge of San Francisco bay, a lone desperado fought a half-hour gun and revolver battle Friday with fifty policemen po-licemen who surrounded his lair after he had killed Police Sergeant John Moriarity. The bandit was finally Lieutenant Clarence Alvin Richards, commander of the United States destroyer de-stroyer Fanning, was killed by an electric shock in the station of the Sag Harbor Light & Power company, at Sag Harbor, L. I. The Rockefeller foundation lias announced an-nounced that it had appropriated $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 for war relief in Poland, Serbia, Ser-bia, Montenegro and Albania. Arthur Warren Waite on the witness wit-ness stand at New York City admitted murdering his father-in-law, John E. Peck, the millionaire chemist of Grand Rapids, Mich. Six persons were seriously injured and property damage estimated at $300,000 was done in and around Wimbledon, Wim-bledon, N. D., in a terrific tornado that passed over that district There will be fewer delegate seats contested in the Republican national convention, which meets in Chicago, June 7, than at any national convention con-vention of the party in twenty years. WASHINGTON. President Wilson is giving more serious consideration to the possibility possibil-ity of restoring peace to Europe than at any time since the outbreak of the war. The United States, denouncing interference in-terference with neutral mails, has notified Great Britain and France that it can no longer tolerate the wrongs which American citizens have suffered. suf-fered. A resolution requesting the president, presi-dent, unless incompatible with the public interest, to suggest to warring nations of Europe that the United States undertake mediation, has been introduced into the senate by Senator Lewis of Illinois, to lie on the table for discussion later. Language equalling almost that employed em-ployed in the last communication to Germany on the submarine issue is understood to characterize the notes delivered to the British and French embassies at" Washington, protesting against interference with neutral mails. Export trade of the United States promises to reach nearly five billion dollars by the end of the fiscal year, June 30. FOREIGN. The rumor in circulation abroad that Prince von Buelow, former German Ger-man chancellor, is going on a special mission to Washington is officially denied de-nied at Berlin. Lloyd's reports that the British steamer EI Argentino, the Italian steamer Cornigliano and the Italian ship Australia have been sunk. Twenty-four survivors of the crew of the Spanish steamer Aurrera, which was sunk by a submarine, have arrived at Bonifacia, Corsica, in two Kinea. Dallas, Taxas, has heen- selected as the place of meeting of the 1917 general gen-eral assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States. J. P. Morgan & Co. have requested the police to search for William Mc-Manus, Mc-Manus, an eighteen-year-old office Iboy, on a complaint that he disappeared disappear-ed Friday, taking with him $10,515, representing the firm's weekly pay roll. A man giving the name of Adolph De Leeuw, 34 years old, a native of Holland, was arrested in New York, charged with revealing tne contents of government documents and offering offer-ing them for sale in violation of the penal law. One hundred and sixteen Texas national na-tional guardsmen who have failed to respond to the call for service on the Mexican border will he tried by court-martial, court-martial, by order of President Wilson. Major Motton, a negro of unmixed blood, has been installed at Tuskegee, Ala., as principal of Tuskegee institute, insti-tute, founded by the late Booker T. Washington for the uplift of the negro ne-gro race. Mrs. Dolly Ledgerwood Matters and her two co-defendants, charged with conspiracy to foist a spurious heir on the probate court of Cook county, were found not guilty by a jury at Chicaco. of the ship's small boats. General Joseph S. Gallieni, former minister of war, died at Versailles, France, May 27. The Norwegian-American line has decided to have all its steamships which sail between America and Norway Nor-way enter Kirkwall voluntarily for inspection of their mails, in order to avoid complications arising from attempts at-tempts to evade the British authorities authori-ties by taking the more northerly course. Eighteen persons were killed and a score of others injured in an air raid on Bari, on the Italian Adriatic coast, according to a Reuter dispatch from Rome. That renowned leader of bandits, Candelario Cervantes, whose band has terrorized Mexico for many months, and who has been relentlessly pursued pur-sued by various detachments forming Pershing's expedition, was killed May 27, after he had attacked a party of engineers. The death is announced of Pauline Ulrich, one of the most widely known of German actresses. She celebrated her fiftieth anniversary on the stage in 1909. The fighting at Verdun continues with implacable fury. There is not even time to bury the dead or succor the wounded. The American steamship Ventura, which has just arrived at Sydney, N. S. W., from San Francisco, reports that she picked up a wireless message mes-sage from the station at Tuckerton, N. J., when 9,000 miles distant from that point. This is said to be a world's record. President and Mrs. Wilson were the chief guests on Wednesday at the wedding wed-ding of Dr. Cary T. Grayson, the White house physician, and Miss Alice Gertrude Gert-rude Gordon of Washington and New York in the chapel of St. George's church, New York City. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was married at Ellicott City. Md., May 24, to Jack Clifford, her dancing partner. More than 4.000 garment workers employed in 200 shops in Boston quit work Tuesday hi an effort to obtain an eight-hour clay and wage advance. The divorce question was the subject sub-ject of sharp debate at Tuesday's session ses-sion of the northern Baptist convention conven-tion at Minneapolis, but finally was disposed of by the adoption of a resolution reso-lution disapproving the action of ministers min-isters who officiate at the marriages of divorced persons. If he will consent to make the race. William J. Bryan may be selected as the candidate for president of the Prohibition Pro-hibition party. A masked robber entered the Farmers Farm-ers & Merchants' bank at Sioux City. Iowa, at noon, forced the cashier at the point of a gun to turn over from $Su0 to $1,000 and then made his escape. es-cape. Three persons, two white and one negro, are dead and ten or more are injured as the result of a cyclone which struck Sunnyside and Songo. ten miles south of Birmingham, Ala. In the British house of commons on Thursday the leaders of all factions flocked to the standard of the prime minister in an effort to achieve a lasting last-ing settlement of the Irish question. Public opinion in Greece has been greatly excited by the news that Teuton submarines have torpedoed the Greek steamships Adamantios Korais and Anastarios Coroneos and the Greek ship Istrios. In an impromptu .speech in the house of commons, Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary, set aside all ideas that peace negotiations were possible at the present stage and plainly plain-ly reiterated that the position of the allies in no way was changed . A Mexican, with face burned to prevent pre-vent recognition, and saber slashes across his chest and abdomen, hangs, with spikes through shoulders and legs, crucified to a tree near the Sherman Sher-man ranch south of Nacozari, just below be-low the border. He had been crucified because of aid extended to Americans. John MacNeil, president of the Sinn Fein volunteers, has been found guilty by court-martial of complicity in the Irish rebellion. Captain James R. White, formerly of the First Gordon Highlanders and a son of the late Field Marshal Sir George White, the defender of Lady-smith, Lady-smith, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment at Aberdare, Wales. He was convicted of having attempted to induce coal miners to strike. Maximilian Harden, writing in Zu-kunft. Zu-kunft. practically proposes that for benefit of American opinion and the promotion of peace talk Germany shall profess a desire for limitation of armament. |