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Show D O History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed E3 13 1 NTERMOU NTAl N. An excursion steamer struck a snag while approaching Dyer's Landing, Wash., on the east shore of Lake Washington, on Sunday, and sank just as she was driven on to the beach. All the passengers and crew were landed safely. With head and face beat almost to a pulp, probably with a flat iron, the body of an unidentified woman was found in a rooming house in Salt Lake City. Butte, Mont, was selected as the 1918 meeting place for the International Interna-tional Brotherhood of Carpenters, in session at Fort Worth, Texas. Colorado & Southern Railway directors di-rectors have declared a dividend of 2 per cent on the first preferred stock Df surplus earnings for the year ending end-ing July 30 last. Hans Browning, a farmer near Og-ien, Og-ien, Utah, was killed by lightning, and a companion rendered unconscious, but will recover. The Wyoming national guard, comprising com-prising two infantry divisions, has been ordered to the border. Three men were wounded in a rifle and pistol fight between citizens of Judith Gap, forty-five miles southwest of Lewiston, Mont, and a band of thirty men who had been ejected from a Great Northern train. Dave Brichoux, the taxicab driver of Ontario who claimed to have shot R. C. Goodwin, a prominent and wealthy sheepman of Boise, by accident, acci-dent, has been indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree and will be tried in Malheur county, Oregon. Suspected of having drugged a man who has not regained consciousness, Frank Davis, 23 years of age, and G. Read, 27, are under arrest at Ogden, Utah. DOMESTIC. Oscar D. McDaniel, prosecuting attorney, at-torney, was arrested at St Joseph, Mo., on a state warrant charging him with the murder of his wife, Harriet Moss McDaniel, who was found dying in her bedroom the night of July 15. For the first time in the history of the Prohibition party, its candidates for national honors held Sunday meetings meet-ings last Sunday, members of the dry special campaigning party holding four meetings in Phoenix (Ariz.) churches and a meeting at night in a local theater. the-ater. As a result of a sham battle at No-gales, No-gales, Ariz., between five companies of the Connecticut militia stationed there fifty are injured, while others are held under arrest pending court-martial court-martial on charges of gross disrespect to commanding officers. Charles Bunworth, an alleged automobile auto-mobile bandit, was found guilty by a jury of the murder of John Slomski, a private banker, who was shot to death in an attempted hold up in Chicago Chi-cago eighteen months ago. Among officers elected at the closing clos-ing session at Indianapolis of the National Na-tional Association of Retail Druggists were Robert J. Frick, Louisville, Ky., president, and W. B. Cheatham, San FYaucisco, vice-president. ' More than 1,000,000 workers in New "York City have been called out in the general sympathetic strike set for September 27. i The representatives of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Railway Trainmen, who have .been negotiating with the railroad of-.ficlals of-.ficlals of western Canada, but who have been unable to agree with them .on a schedule, are returning to their homes. A vote then will be taken -by the order on the advisability of a -strike. Labor leaders have been given formal for-mal warning by Mayor Mitchel that .he would employ the "full civil and juilitary powers" conferred upon him ty law to prevent disorders if the threatened general strike of trade unionists is called in New York City. , Railroad financial results for the fis-cal fis-cal year ended June 30, 1916, made public through the Railway Age Gazette, Ga-zette, show that net revenues for the ;year crossed the billion mark for the first time. i Edmund Trowbridge Dana, grand- ! son of Henry W. Longfellow, has been found by a Boston friend carrying the hod in a Canadian town. Three years ago he worked as a street car conductor, con-ductor, after having given up teaching school. Cracksmen chiseled their way into the inner recess of a 3,000-pound safe in the jewelry store of Steman & Nor-wig Nor-wig in Baltimore and escaped with gems valued at approximately $15,000. Paper and pulp mills at International Interna-tional Falls, Minn., and at Fort Francis, Fran-cis, Ont., have resumed operations, following the settlement of the strike of 5,000 employees. The men will receive re-ceive time and a half for overtime work. Peace and prohibition were urged by the Prohibition national campaigners campaign-ers on. their southward trip through California. J. Frank Hanly, the presidential pres-idential nominee, declared that his party was for peace, enforced by a world police force. WASHINGTON. Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, accompanied by the Countess von Bernstorff, has returned to Washington and reopened the German Ger-man embassy for the winter. Members Mem-bers of the embassy staff preceded them, transferring the office of the embassy from Rye, N. J. Deposits in postal savings banks during August increased nearly $5,000,-000, $5,000,-000, the largest monthly gain since the system was established. The department of commerce has cabled the American consul general at Havana to investigate a published report that millions of tons of potash have been discovered near Motembo, on the Matanzas and Santa Clara border, bor-der, with deposits averaging 25 per cent. There remain approximately 10,000 national guardsmen still to be sent to the border under the plan of the department de-partment to give all the mobilized militia service on the frontier. American gifts to the sixty principal princi-pal war relief societies are estimated at $28,896,277.36 by the new yearbook of the Carnegie Endowment for International In-ternational Peace. The lowest death rate in the country's coun-try's history is shown in preliminary vital statistics for the year 1915, made public by the census bureau. The rate is 13.5 per thousand. FOREIGN. Twelve Zeppelins raided London and southeast England, Saturday night, thirty men, women and children being killed by bombs and over a hundred injured. Two of the Zeppelins were brought down. Canada has subscribed $180,000,000 for the $100,000,000 war loan. Small subscribers will be considered first and their applications will be granted in full. Forty-eight aeroplanes were shot down on the western front in France in twenty-four hours, according to official of-ficial reports from Paris and Berlin. Postal and telegraphic communication communica-tion between Greece and Austria has again been suspended, owing to the capture by the entente forces of Fiorina. Fior-ina. Two British subjects were taken from their home and shot and thirty-six thirty-six of a party of thirty-eight Carranza soldiers were killed in a raid on an Aquila oil camp near Tuxpam by bandits ban-dits calling themselves Villistas. The Hungarian diet has rejected the motion of Counts Andrassy and Apponyi, leaders of the opposition, for the convocation of the delegations. Establishment of a British trade bank with a capital of 10,000,000 was recommended by a committee of which Baron Farington, chairman of the Great Central railway, is head. Additional figures received regarding regard-ing Canada's losses in the big engagement engage-ment on the Somme bring the total casualties up to approximately 4,000 men. Of these about 900 were killed. The French chamber of deputies unanimously voted war credits for the remainder of the year, amounting to 8,83S,000,000 francs. The British admiralty has informed the state department that it was convinced con-vinced that British steamer Kelvinia was sunk by a mine and that no further fur-ther investigations would be made. The department will regard the incident inci-dent as closed. A revolution in the Greek Island ot Crete is reported in a Havas dispatch from Athens. The revolutionists are said to have proclaimed a provisional government. Chen China-Tao, the Chinese minister minis-ter of finance, has formally asked the quintuple group of bankers for a $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 reorganization loan on the se-; se-; curity of the salt monopoly surplus. A verdict of accidental death was Bert Dudley, charged- with the mur- der of Henry Muller, an aged German, . and his wife, was taken from the jail at Olathe, Kans., by a masked mob and hanged to a telephone pole. The grand lodge of the Independent ' Order of Odd Fellows, in session at Chattanooga, Tenn., selected Louisville Louis-ville as the meeting place in 1917 over Omaha and Fort Worth. An amendment amend-ment to admit minors to membership was defeated. Paratyphoid, an epidemic of which threatened Mission, Texas, and other points at which New York national guardsmen were encamped, practically practical-ly has been wiped out. Longer and less flaring skirts are indicated in-dicated by the fall fashions, says the semi-annual report of the Silk Association Asso-ciation of America. The cost of living this winter will reach an unprecedented scale and will affect every person, no matter what object may be purchased, according to a table of comparative prices com piled at Chicago. returned by the coroner's jury at Quebec Que-bec at the inquest into the loss of thirteen lives in the collapse of the central span of the Quebec bridge on September 11. The seriousness of Monday's flood disaster, caused by the bursting of the Tannwald dam in Bohemia, grows as the water subsides and investigation investiga-tion becomes possible. In addition to the known 250 dead, it is feared that many other lives were lost. Lieutenant Colonel Earl Feversham was killed in action September 15 while leading his battalion, it has just been learned. Earl Feversham was a member of parliament from 1906 to 1913, and from 1902 to 1905 was assistant as-sistant private secretary to the first . lord of the British admiralty. The Bulgarian right wing in Mace- donia has suffered a further serious I defeat at the hands of the Serbians, : who took a dominating mountain peak ; and subsequently pushed their lines - farther toward Monastir, the chief Bulgarian base. |