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Show History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. As the result of a fight with knives in a cigar store at Pocatello, Idaho, Mike Alexopoulos is dead, Peter Trezis is perhaps falally wounded and The first hailstorm In Omaha in many years visited that city shortly hefore noon Sunday. Although it lasted last-ed but fifteen minuses, it left in its wake a toll of damage to property and crops that will run into thousands thou-sands of dollars. Three St. Louisiana were killed Sunday by lightning in one of the most severe thunder and rain storms in recent years. Governor Henderson of Alabama has vetoed the ami-tipping lull on the ground that he did not believe the law could be enforced ami that its constitutionality was doubtful. Harry K. Thaw is a free man. having hav-ing been released on bail. The state has appealed to the highest court in an effort to have Thaw returned to the asylum. WASHINGTON. I'elro Dagiatas is in jail. All concerned con-cerned are Greeks. ('tab day. with its various features, brought one of the largest crowds on record to the Panama-California exposition ex-position at San Diego on July 17, and proved one of I he most saicvcftssf ul events of the year. George I'eris, a prominent Austrian saloonkeeper, shot and fatally wounded wound-ed Olive Sullivan, known also as Mrs. Olive Peris, and then killed himself seven miles southwe.st of Butte. Timber valued at several hundred thousand dollars has been destroyed by a forest fire along Turpin creek, in the Medicine Itow .national forest, fifty miles northwest of Laramie, Wyo. A jury has 'decided that Albert Geddes is a son of David Eccle.s, the Utah millionaire lumber and sugar king w.'no died recently, and that the boy is entitled to share in the Kccles i estate. Judge John A. Perry in the district oourt. .at Denver fined Arthur MacLen-nan, MacLen-nan, managing editor of the Denver Times, $250 and costs for contempt of court in refusing to divulge informs tion to a irecent county grand jury. The Utah Powers Light company, se.rving ;a large territory in Utah, Idaho and Colorado, has decided to extend its electric power and light service into Emery and Carbon counties, coun-ties, aocording to an announcement made at Price, Utah. DOMESTIC. Five 'deaths were reported at Philadelphia Phil-adelphia on Sunday as due to the heat and a sixth man committed suicide sui-cide .while temporarily insane from the oppressive weather conditions. Mexican bandits killed Bryan Boyle, IS years old, in a raid on the Gano ranch near Raymondsville, Texas. The Cunard liner Orduna bound from Liverpool to New York with 227 paseengers, including twenty Americans, Amer-icans, was attacked without warning, it was learned on her arrival at New York, by a German submarine on the moaning of July 9. The Orduna escaped es-caped by outrunning the attacking submarine. Developments in the strike situation situa-tion at Bridgeport, Conn., forecast the .spread of labor troubles through the entire New England states and part of New York. Most of the leading typewriter and adding machine companies in the east and middle west, it was announced at New York, have formed a new corporation cor-poration under the title of the American Ameri-can Ammunition company, to take up contracts for the manufacture of fuses for high explosives and shrapnel shrap-nel shells for the English, French and Russian governments. Two deaths and fifteen prostrations resulted at New York City, Saturday, j from a temperature that reached a maximum of S9 degrees. A high humidity humi-dity increased the suffering and discomfort dis-comfort of thousands. Leo M. Frank, whose death sentence sen-tence for the murder of Mary Pha-gan Pha-gan recently was commuted to life imprisonment, was attacked by another an-other prisoner at the state prison farm at Milledgeville, Ga., and seriously seri-ously injured by, being cut in the throat. The first consignment of cattle ever received at St. Louis from Honduras i was sold to local packers on July 16. The lot of 700 head sold at SH.SO a j hundred pounds. General Julia Madero, brother of j former President Madero of Mexico, I and Miss Carmen Garcia, daughter of Francisco Garcia of Hermosillo, were married at Los Angeles. Mrs. Ellen G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adven-tists. Adven-tists. died at St. Helena, Cal., aged SS. Siie was widely known among the members of that denomination throughout the United States, and by many she was regarded as their prophetess. pro-phetess. Charles D. Cook, a hotel man from Telluride, Colo., attending the Elks' reunion, died at Los Angeles from the effects of poison taken at the hour set for his wedding to Miss Elizabeth Wilcox of Bell Flower, a suburb. William H. Sprouse of East St. Louis. 111., was hanged at Clayton. Mo., for the murder of his wife. His last request was to see his six children chil-dren who had testified against him. They refused to come to him. Two men held up and robbed the Farmers' Savings bank a! North Liberty, Iowa, of practically all of the cash it had on hand, shortly before the closing hour Friday. Frank Repetto, "the man who never had a chance." was hanged at Joliet, Ills., for the murder of Charles Masters, Mas-ters, his cellmate at the penitentiary, a year ago. Cheered by 150,000 people who thronged the streets along the line of march, 20,000 Elks in gorgeous costumes cos-tumes paraded through the business district of Los Angeles on Thursday. President Wilson on Sunday brought to a close the longest and most strenuous vacation he has had since, entering (he White House. He left Cornish, N. H., Sunday afternoon. The American Red Cross will establish es-tablish a baby hospital in Serbia. About $u,300 already has been con-; tributed. j Government purchase of the wire-; less control tor torpedoes invented by 1 John Hays Hammond, Jr., proliably will be reoommended to congress by Secretary Alarrison. Presidlii t 'Wilson virtually put in shape the views on the German situation situa-tion which he will communicate to Secretary Lansing and other members of his cabinet on his return to Washington Wash-ington next week. Shipbuilders and naval experts do not agree with the statement made by Oosephus Daniels, secretary of the naw-y, that the main defense of the Linked States in the future will be the .aeroplane and the submarine. The United States will send a note o Austria informing Iter that the view of this government is that she .'has no right to demand the cessation or even abridgement of the right of citizens of the United States to sell munitions of war to any belligerent. FOREIGN. The Russian front, running from the Baltic in the north to Bessarabia in the south, a distance of nearly 1,000 miles, is being subjected to violent vio-lent attacks by the Germans and Aus-trians, Aus-trians, and in places has, according to the German official report, beeu pierced. After a six-hour battle in Anava-cachi Anava-cachi pass, west of Agua Prieta, General Gen-eral Calles, Carranza commander in Sonora, was reported late Sunday to have decisively defeated Villa troops under command of Gen. Jose Maria Ascota. An Austro-Gerraan ultimatum to Roumania is being prepared, according accord-ing to the Moscow Russkoye Slovoe. Officers' casualty lists for the fortnight fort-night ending July 5 show that the British Brit-ish army lost 754 officers killed, 489 wounded and 32 missing, a total of 776. The Russian steamer Balva, of 1,165 tons register, bound for Archangel with a cargo of coal, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine sixty miles' southeast of the Shetland islands. A new German offensive of huge proportions, with Riga, a great Russian Rus-sian seaport and the seat of the governor gov-ernor general of the Baltic provinces, as its objective, is revealed in the latest official statements issued at Petrograd and Berlin. The Temps correspondent at Copenhagen Copen-hagen has been informed by a prominent promi-nent Dane, who has just returned from Essen, that Krupp's now employs em-ploys 115,000 men, as against their peace strength of 80,000. They are making especially long-distance guns. The Swiss federal council has decided de-cided to prohibit the exportation of gold in any form, says a Havas dispatch dis-patch from Berne. With bows crushed in, riding high, the steamer Agenoria crawled into port at Montreal. Sunday morning she crashed into an iceberg while running through the straits of Belle Isle. "Miraculous is the only proper adjective ad-jective to apply to the work being done by American doctors and nurses in Servia," said Sir Edward Lipton, following his return to London from his second trip to the near east with the hospital yacht Erin. Heavy fighting continues on the Gal'.ipoli peninsula. The allies are attacking at-tacking vehemently along the whole front. Each attack is preceded by a bombardment from heavy French artillery ar-tillery and the guns of the warships. The German submarine U-51 has been sunk in the Black sea by Russian Rus-sian warships, according to information informa-tion received from Varna, a Bulgarian port on the Black sea by the Athens correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph company. General Gallieni, the military governor gov-ernor of Paris, has issued an order forbidding the purchase by or sale to soldiers or officers of whatever grade in the intrenched camp of Paris of any alcoholic liquors whatsoever. The Austro-German armies, which now appear to be working in perfect concert as the result of the German organization, are giving the Russians little rest or time to reorganize themselves them-selves after their retreat from Galicia. Striking at the lines before Warsaw, the Germans have taken by storm the fortified city of Przasnysz and. with a force estimated at not less than four army corps, are pressing aheau on the heels of the Russians, who arc falling back upon Makow and Cie chanow. abandoning artillery in then Ilight. |