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Show n o History of Past Week inrnr mil ! m mhimiiiib ti iw im The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed E INTER MOUNTAIN. More than 125 employes of the Mammoth Mam-moth Mining company, of Mammoth, Utah, went on strike Saturday night for a T0 cent increase in their daily wage. The Denver Gas & Electric Light company has arranged to plant about sixty acres of potatoes, to be sold to its lu'oo employees at cost. Estimates place the cost at $1.50 a hundredweight. hundred-weight. The Washington State Federation of Labor, in session at Seattle, adopted adopt-ed resolutions setting forth the belief In the democratic purpose and cause of the entry of the United States into the world war, aiKl pledging the support sup-port and patriotism of labor. Federal authorities are investigating what is believed to be a plot to destroy de-stroy grain elevators by means of bombs, it was announced at Denver on April 21. Charles K. Overton, a member of C company, Idaho national guard, was shot in the leg while patrolling across a Great Northern railroad bridge, says a Spokane dispatch. Southwest Colorado is mantled under un-der from two to three feet of snow. Train service is paralyzed, many trains being snowbound on the roads. Warnings of proibable snowslides have been sent out. Once hailed as the "most beautifuv woman in Denver," Mrs. John W. Springer died Thursday in the Metropolitan Metro-politan hospital on Blackwell's island Resolutions declaring that the censorship cen-sorship provision of the espionage bill "is an assault upon the very foundation of our free institutions, freedom of thought and freedom of speech," have been adopted by the Publishers' association as-sociation of New York City. The I'niled Slates secret service has within the last few days brought to light a gigantic German propaganda in favor of separate peace for Russia which has been launched in newspap-rs newspap-rs of the United States printed in the Russian language. A woman believed to have been Mrs. Mary Larson, traveling from Des Moines, ' Iowa, to Troy, N. Y., fell or jumped from a New York Central passenger pas-senger train at La I'orte, Ind., and was killed. WASHINGTON. A nation-wide advertising campaign of extraordinary proportions has been decided upon by Secretary McAdoo as the most effective means of disposing quickly of the 95,0(10,000,000 bond issue soon to be offered to the public. A bitter indictment of German brutality bru-tality in the deportation of conquered Belgians for forced labor, written from behind the - German lines by Brand Whitlock, American minister to Belgium, Bel-gium, has been made public by the state department. Great Britain's high commissioner? to the international war council , to begin in Washington during the week reached the capital on Monday. President Wilson probably wilt name within a few days a group o distinguished Americans as a commission commis-sion to be sent to Russia to confer with members of the new provisional government there on ways in which the United States can assist to strengthen the democratic movement and aid Russia in the war against Germany. The government's program for food control during the war was put before be-fore congress on April 20 by Secretary Houston in a communication to the senate asking power for the department depart-ment of agriculture to take direct supervision su-pervision of food production and dis- without friends and a pauper. Her end was tragic. She was the victim of cirrhosis of the liver and blood poisoning. poison-ing. DOMESTIC. After a quarrel about the war with his mother-in-law, a native of Germany, Ger-many, and his wife, the Rev. Robert F. Berry, pastor of a Congregational church in East Yonkers, N. Y., shot and killed both women, wounded his sister-in-law and then committed suicide. sui-cide. The partial suffrage measure passed - the Nebraska senate on April 21' and the bill now lacks only the governor's signature to become a law. The bill permits women to vote for president, congressmen and all except constitutional constitu-tional state officers. The largest freight car shortage ever reported by American railroads existed on April 1, it is announced by the American Railway association. The shortage on that date was 143,059 cars, an increase of 12,977 as compared com-pared with March 1. Fire of supposedly incendiary origin destroyed 20,000 bushels of corn and wheat, a grain elevator and lumber yard at Crocker, Ills. Approximately 3,000 German residents resi-dents of the United States are under close surveillance, department of justice jus-tice officials announced Friday, because be-cause of their activities in behalf of the German government before America's Amer-ica's entry into the war or because of their pro-German sympathies. John H. Bankhead, United States 6enator from Alabama, was elected president of the United States Good Roads association in convention at Birmingham, Ala. The United States naval collier Sterling was so badly damaged in collision col-lision with an unidentified steamer in Hampton roads that she had to be beached near Sewall's Point to prevent her from sinking. Six persons are dead and a score of others are suffering from minor injuries in-juries as a result of a fire which is eaid to have resulted from an explosion explo-sion of moving picture films in the office of-fice of a film exchange in Indianapolis. One person was killed outright, another an-other was probably fatally injured and four others suddenly hurt by a tornado tor-nado which demolished the home and granary of E. M. Whittemore, thirty-F,ix thirty-F,ix miles northeast of Amarillo, Texas. Snipers who fired at an American sentry stationed at the viaduct, in the ; euburbs of El Paso, were fired upon in return by a squad of United States soldiers sol-diers late Thursday. One Mexican was seen to fall after a volley had been .fired across the border. In an address at Boston, former Ambassador Am-bassador Gerard declared that Admiral Ad-miral von Tirpitz in thinly veiled Statements, and the German relchstag and Prussian parliament in open discussions, dis-cussions, proposed the institution of unrestricted submarine warfare against England with the intention, "when England should have been subdued sub-dued by hunger, to come over to the United States and collect the price of the war from us." Woman's part in industries during the war will be discussed at the convention con-vention of the National Women's Trade Union league at Kansas City June 1 to 4. Major General Wood, addressing the American Cotton Waste exchange at Boston, said the United States wouid not fulfill its duty in this war until it had sent men to the front. Additional evidence pointing to a nation-wide plot to destroy railroad buildings and equipment following the burning of tie Clarion, Iowa, roundhouse round-house has come to light. questing a $25,000,000 appropriation for putting the plan into operation. FOREIGN. The announcement comes from London Lon-don that two German destroyers, possibly pos-sibly three, have been sunk in the course of a German raid near Dover. More complete returns in the parliamentary parlia-mentary elections in Japan confirm the earlier report that the government was victorious. The board of agriculture has decided de-cided that 3,000,000 acres of pasture land in England and Wales must be plowed for wheat growing in the coming com-ing autumn. Gen. Gustavo Caballero, who has been in arms against the Cuban government gov-ernment since the outbreak of the revolution), was captured Sunday in Camaguey province by forces under Colonel Pujol. The Stars and Stripes were flung to the breeze from the Eiffel tower, Paris, Sunday afternoon and saluted by twenty-one guns. This marked the opening of the ceremonies of "United States day" in Paris. American Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher was hissed in the Mexican chamber of deputies Sunday when he appeared for the opening of the Mexican Mexi-can congress, according to a report received from Mexico City by government govern-ment agents, while the German representative repre-sentative was shown every courtesy. Premier Lloyd George has returned to London after a series of conferences confer-ences with the French and Italian governments. gov-ernments. The Hungarian socialists have adopted resolutions at a secret convention con-vention demanding that the central powers make public their peace conditions, con-ditions, excluding all forcible annexations. annexa-tions. The Epocha announces that Gen. Valeriano Weyler will be the candidate candi-date of the new cabinet for president of the Spanish senate. Ten thousand strikers, mostly muni tion workers, tried to burn tne town hall at Magdeburg, Germany, according accord-ing to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Oldenzaal, Holland. Soldiers fired on the rioters, killing and wounding many, and th3 town now is in a state of siege. Ricciotti Garibaldi, the last surviving surviv-ing son of the Italian patriot, has offered of-fered himself and his four sons, all officers in the Italian army, for service ser-vice in the United States. United States Ambassador Elkus la seriously ill at Constantinople with spotted typhus, according to a dispatch dis-patch from Berlin. The Vossiche Zei-tung Zei-tung says that a German specialist is assisting the ambassy physician. General Maude, commanding the British forces in Mesopotamia, has forced a passage of the Shatt-El-Ad-hem, attacked the Turkish main positions posi-tions and completely routed the Turk ish forces, says an official statement Renter's Amsterdam correspondent says that according to a Brussels dis patch General von Bissing, German governor general in Belgium, died April IS. More than 500 German fusiliers, sailors and landsturmers Monday night tried to cross the Dutch-Belgian frontier from the environs of Knocke to near Cadzand, Holland, says the Handelsblan, but the attempted desertion deser-tion was frustrated after the party had been pursued and attacked 5j uhlans. The Duchess of Brunswick, Emperor Emper-or William's only daughter, has given birth to a daughter. The Duchess of Brunsw ick. formerly Princess Victoria Louise of Hohenzollern. was married in 1913. She has two sons. |