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Show History of Past Week i "Tir-iwin r " i i 1 1 m m 11 1 mwii inm i m n ! The News Happenings of t Seven Days Paragraphed Maximum penalties of a sentence of six years in the federal prison at Leavenworth and a tine of SKXMJ wera given to eacli of the eight men coa-vi';Lvd coa-vi';Lvd at Kniil. Okla., ci conspiracy to resist the selective draft law. Live hundred and thirty-six enlisted en-listed in.. ii of a detachment of j!U tieuio cavalrymen of the regular army stationed at Fort llitachiica near J'.is-l"-c, Ariz., have subscribed to .-17.000 worth of Liberty bonds. Lit iiminous coal miners of Hie cen-jlral cen-jlral competitive Held won their light lor a general wage increase when operators' op-erators' anil miners' representatives ill I Kansas on October ."i reached a com- I promise agree n on the terms of the new contract. I ' WASHINGTON. I In the midst of a day's thrilling de-! de-! bate on alleged disloyalty of Senator La l''o!lelte of Wisconsin, the extraordinary ex-traordinary session of congress, which began April '1 and generally regarded as the most momentous in American history, was adjourned sine! die at 3 p. m. October ti. A campaign to recruit Poles in the i'nited States for a Polish army now training in France has been indorsed by the war depart incut. A reduction of nearly 25 tier cent in I premiums for insurance of American vessels and cargoes traversing the war zone has been jinnounced by the government's gov-ernment's war risk insurance bureau. A warning that, summary action will be taken against a few Hour mills in the United States which are seeking to accumulate profits in excess of that indicated by the food administration, where .specific inlances of such violation viola-tion are discovered, has been issued by the milling division of the administration. admin-istration. President Wilson took another big grasp on the prosecution of the allied war on Friday when he expressed him-jself him-jself in favor of a central committee to supervise nil war expenditures. FOREIGN. Uruguay has severed diplomatic relations re-lations with Germany. A presidential decree announced the rupture on October Oc-tober 7, following a vote in favor of it by the chufnber of deputies, 74 to 23. The German minister lias been sent his pass )orts. lUissian scouts from the Caucasus army in a daring raid captured Gen. Count von Meyer, head of the German air service in the Black sea district, says an officiel announcement from Petrograd. "An American patrol ship foundered in European waters on the morning of Octobet 4 while on duty. There was no loss of life. Five of the members of the strike committee which directed the recent strike in Spain have been sentenced to solitary confinement for life by a court-martial. Lieutenant Douglas Malcolm, who recently was acquitted of the murder of Anton Baumberg, a pseudo count, has been reappointed to his position on headquarters staff in France. The coroner's jury first returned a verdict of "justifiable homicide," after hearing hear-ing Lieutenant Malcolm's plea that he had killed Baumberg in defense of his wife's honor. Germany's first great effort to make the new war loan a success takes the form of a full page of advertisements in the leading German newspapers. The Mexican cabinet at a meeting on October 5, decided that the government govern-ment should buy 1,000,000 pesos worth of corn in the United States and sell it at cost, to relieve the shortage in cereals. The government will buy one tractor engine to assist agricultural production. A Berlin dispatch says the reichstag has adopted a bill for restoration of the German merchant fleet. The bill provides for a state subsidy to ship .owners for reconstruction of merchant V essels. The Peruvian congress has decided in almost unanimous vote to sever Vmatic relations with Germany. V3 Mexican foreign office has is-y.tu is-y.tu official statement that citi-vf citi-vf Mexico are not being pressed (ly into the American army, onncement was made in an-reports an-reports to the contrary be-1 be-1 to have been fostered by Ger-Veuts. Ger-Veuts. 'anadiau government, it is be-j be-j is negotiating with Washiug-. Washiug-. make Americans of military age jtmada subject to the Canadian At law. Canadians in the United tes would be similarly affected by American draft measure. fcSir Wilfrid Laurier has announced k leading liberals, whom he summoned sum-moned at Ottawa, that he proposes to vW'e from leadership of the liberal I 'iy, which place he has held since wt7. He led the recent fight against conscription in Canada. G.'it IV. itain's embargo on the ex-rt ex-rt oi all supplies to the northern ropeati noutnU countries, just an-inced, an-inced, wtis declared after every use of its possible effect was gone Vrtu conference between American satesinen. destroyer in European Vvas in collision with a Y"el. which, after tak-'Liiii tak-'Liiii crew, towed the -afey to port. li says that as the V'ftV'h swept over 000 persons are '! are dead and ;inewal of Field -ji'ensi ve in Flan- lite object ivo 'en Won yit e. ( i i I INTEKMOUNTAIN. Mrs. Edna Gregory of Portland was. convicted by a jury in the fedora! court of having sent candy containing poisons pois-ons through the mails to Mrs. Carter. Mrs. Gregory was said to have cn-fessed cn-fessed to officers who arrested her, but at the trial she repudiated the alleged al-leged confession. A strike ill Seattle's wooden ship yards, called September i t, in sympathy sym-pathy with the efforts of timber workers to obtain an eight-hour (lay, was called off in response to a telegram tele-gram from Secretary of Labor Wilon, uring the men to lake this course. Following a quarrel with her man-iiircr man-iiircr and slage partner at the Or-phcl'm Or-phcl'm theatre at Salt Lake,' Miss l.eona La Mar, aged 20 years, known as "the girl with a thousand eyes," locked herself in her dressing room and turned on (he gas. Her predicament predica-ment was discovered just in time to save her life. Senator King of Utah has secured the passage by the senate of his bill prohibiting forfeiture of public land entries on account of absence of the ontrymiin in the military service of the United States. Gerald F. Ju Pont, 22 years of age, son of Maurice Du Pout of Asheville, -N. C, brother of T. Coleman Du Pont, powder manufacturer of Wilmington, Del., committed suicide near Ogden, Utah, while auto riding with a young woman, He had been suffering from it nervous breakdown. DOMESTIC. J In a battle over a negro, three while men are dead and three wounded at La Pine, Okla. The shooting was done when a posse went to Oliver Enzer's home lo demand that he give up another an-other negj'O wanted lor' holding up a white man. The California State Federation of Labor went on record at its Sacramento Sacra-mento session against the I. W. W., adopting a resolution recommending expulsion of all members of that or-nnizalion or-nnizalion from unions of the Ameri-an Ameri-an Federation of Labor. Fifteen persons were injured, several " seriously, when two passenger trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee it St. Paul railroad collided at Calmar, Iowa. Charles Phelps Tuft, son of former President and Mrs. William II. Taft, and Miss Eleanor Kellogg Chase, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irving H. j Chase, of Waterbury, Conn., were mar- i ried October 7 at the home of the bride's parents. j Coal jobbers throughout the country have been ordered by the fuel administration ad-ministration to register vUh the fed-' fed-' oral trade commission by October 2o, v stating the financial interest of all stockholders and partners of jobbing Voncerns in mines. 1 Indications that J,he American gov-fninent gov-fninent and the allies are determined iuTt the northern European neutral J'lintries shall not hold their shipping j le, are seen in the refusal of the ex-firls ex-firls administrative byard to permit le 10,000-ton Dutch steamer Nieuw asterdam to sail with a cargo of Vdstuffs for Belgium unless assur-'S assur-'S are given that the vessel will Vn. "Vnersoiis sank to their death, barge Alliens foundered ia wu, twenty-five Vn, Ontario, in f i I |