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Show History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. Charles E. Hughes, addressing an audience in the ball park at Butte, reviewed re-viewed his declaration of convictions and continued his attack on the administration ad-ministration for its foreign and Mexican Mexi-can policy, its appointments and its tariff views. Preparations for movement of the Colorado national guard to the Mexican Mexi-can border have begun, following receipt re-ceipt of war department orders by Adjutant Ad-jutant General Gamble. Charles E. Hughes rested quietly at Spokane on Sunday, preparing for the second week of his campaign tour to the coast. The National Woman's party in executive ex-ecutive conference at Colorado Springs pledged itself to use its best efforts in the twelve equal suffrage states to defeat the Democratic candidate can-didate for President. Wilmer Palmer was hanged August 11 at the state penitentiary at Rawlins, Raw-lins, Wyo., for the murder of his wife. He was pronounced dead eight minutes min-utes later. His neck was unbroken. On Wednesday, in fear of the gallows, Palmer attempted suicide, cutting his wrist with a metal button from his prison uniform. After a session marked by heated debate, the Progressive state assembly assem-bly at Denver adopted resolutions declaring de-claring against the placing of a ticket in the field at this time. DOMESTIC. The great dam at Lake Toxaway, North Carolina, weakened by the recent re-cent floods, broke, sending a great wall of waters down the valley to-. to-. ward western South Carolina. No lives were lost, but considerable property prop-erty damage was done. Twenty-five persons were killed and 6ixty-three injured in a head-on collision col-lision between two crowded trolley cars at Johnstown, Pa. Practically all of the troops, numbering num-bering approximately 25,000, ordered by the war department to proceed to the border, will be sent to El Paso, General Funston announced. A few will be stationed at Deming, N. M. Expectation is expressed in financial finan-cial circles in New York that within a fortnight official announcement would be made that negotiations had been completed for a new loan, reported re-ported to be $250,000,000, to Great Britain. Besides the 350 delegates to the convention of the International Typographical Typo-graphical union at Baltimore, there are present about 2,000 others, including includ-ing members of their families. A farmer named Palmer plowed up silver bars on his farm near Nacona, Texas, variously estimated to be worth $280,000. It is believed the silver bars were left here hy Spaniards in .... the. .sixteenth or seventeenth centuries centur-ies when they retr,eated owing to the activity of Indians against them. The mill of the Ozark Mining and Milling company at Kelly, N. M., one of the largest in the southwest, was destroyed by fire, the loss being $175,-000. $175,-000. Theodore Roosevelt may invade the middle west in the interest of the Republican Re-publican campaign. Dr. John B. Murphy of Chicago, one of the world's most renowned surgeons, sur-geons, died suddenly at a hotel at Mackinac Island while on an outing. An attack of heart disease was the immediate cause of death. From the tower of the Singer building, build-ing, New York City, one of the tallest in the world, a man plunged to death into the midst of a Broadway lunch-hour lunch-hour crowd. He was identified as Albert Al-bert Goldman, 60 years of age. Five persons were injured, two seriously ser-iously and one probably fatally, when the Capital hotel of Lincoln, Neb., collapsed. Forty-six barrels of whisky and 10S barrels of beer, confiscated recently 1n a raid on places of prohibition law violators, were destroyed Thursday on orders issued by Judge Alston at Scale, Ala. Munition manufactures brought the American Locomotive company for the fiscal year ending June 30, a net profit of $10, 76!). 000. compared with a $l,500,0iio deficit the previous year, according to the company's annual statement. The Democratic national committee; has selected the entire sixth floor of! the Karpeu building, a Michigan ave- ! nue skyscraper, in Chicago, as its western headquarters during the cam-' paign for the re-election of President ! Wilson. i O. M. Lane, register of the federal land office at Rapid City. S. n has j jieen arrested 011 a warrant charging' him with having, as city auditor of j Watertown, S. 1)., embezzled mcr-,- j than $13,000 of municipal funds. j Armed guards have been stationed 1 In the railroad yards at Anamoose, X. j D., to prevent Industrial Workers of! the World from assembling there with I the announced purpose of liberating j three of their number held in the lo-: cal jail, charged with assaulting a ' laborer who refused to join their or- i iyr. j Mrs. Frank Copeland Page, dausV ter-in-law of Walter Hines Page, United Unit-ed States ambassador to- Great Britain, Brit-ain, died of Infantile paralysis at her summer home In South Garden City, L. I. The notification ceremonies at which Charles W. Fairbanks will be told officially of his nomination as the Republican candidate for vice-president vice-president will -be held at his residence resi-dence at Indianapolis on August 31. Efforts of strike sympathizers to prevent miners from working on the Cuyuna range resulted in a battle between be-tween deputy sheriffs and rioters at Crosby, Minn., in which many shots were fired. WASHINGTON. A corporation stock license tax to raise approximately $20,000,000, elimination elimi-nation of most of the objectionable stamp taxes which once had been accepted ac-cepted and approved, with an amendment amend-ment of the proposed net profit tax on munitions manufacturers, have been determined upon by the Democratic Demo-cratic senate caucus. Collections by the internal revenue bureau for the fiscal year ending June 30, reached a total of $512,723,288, an increase of $97,042,864 over those for the fiscal year 1915. With passage of the $50,000,000 ship purchase bill and probable approval by the house of the senate's gigantic naval bill, the appropriations of the stxtysrfurth congress will have exceeded ex-ceeded the previous high record by at least half a hillion dollars. The Democratic senate caucus has approved a committee amendment to the revenue bill which would increase the surtax on incomes in excess of $2,000,000 from 10 per cent to 13 per cent. Turkey has refused to grant the request re-quest of the United States that a neutral neu-tral committee be permitted to undertake under-take relief work in Syria, where" thousands thou-sands of native Christians are reported report-ed to be starving. The war department has given out statistics showing for the first time that the total strength of the national guard on the border is 98,500 men; the percentage of sick among the guardsmen is 1.14. FOREIGN. The Right Honorable Sir George Turner, former premier and treasurer of Victoria, died suddenly in Melbourne. Mel-bourne. Thirteen miners were killed by an explosion in the Ashington colliery, near Blyth, England. The cause of the explosion is not known. A Rome dispatch says Aetna is again in violent eruption. A new cone is in process of formation. Loud underground un-derground rumblings are heard for a distance of several miles, and earth tremors are frequent. Reports of social discontent in Mexico Mex-ico are contained in a copy of El Na-cional, Na-cional, a Carranza organ of Mexico City, which reached El Paso. Food shortage and labor troubles have caused rioting. The German Socialist national committee com-mittee has issued an address stating that the committee has renewed its appeal to Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the imperial chancellor, to lift the embargo on discussion of terms of peace. The Greek steamer Eletheria, bound from Saloniki to Volo with a cargo of oil owned by an American company and 1,200 passengers, principally disbanded dis-banded troops, caught fire off the Island of Skiatho. Forty persons were killed and many were injured. The Danish steamer Danevang bound from Haparanda, Sweden, for Hull, has been sunk by a submarine in the North Sea, according to a Reu-ter Reu-ter dispatch from Copenhagen. The crew was saved. German casualties during July, according ac-cording to a table compiled at London Lon-don from German casualty lists, totalled to-talled 122,540, bringing the grand total to-tal since the beginning of the war, taken from the same source, to 3,315,-177. 3,315,-177. j Under the heading "Gambling in Bread," the London Daily Express explains ex-plains to its readers that the new rise in the price of bread, which will go into effect in London Monday, is due j lo manipulation in Chicago. I An official dispatch from Berlin I says that between July 31 and August 5 one German submarine sank in the North sea thirteen British steam trawlers traw-lers and ons British government coal steamer. Twelve men are dead as the result I of an explosion in a mine at Michel, ! B. C. Lightning which struck surface j wires conducting power into the i depths of the coal mine is supposed i to have caused the explosion. : The Russians in their advance 1 against the Austro-Germans in East j Galicia have taken territory aggregating aggregat-ing more than sixty square miles, ac cording to the Russian official communication. com-munication. The pope, after a careful study of the protest against the deportation of .inhabitants of northern France, has decided to make a protest 10 Germany, Ger-many, according to a news dispatch from Rome. Gorman airships raided the east coast of England and the southeast coast of Scotland early Wednesday. Three women and a child were killed and fourteen poisons injured. Tile capture of Stanislau. an important im-portant railroad center southeast e? Lemberg, capital of Galicia. ia m-nounced m-nounced in the official statement glvia out. at IVtrograd. Miss Flora Sandes. an Irishwoman, who is a sergeant in the Serbian army, has arrived at Toulon on her way to rejoin her regiment, after a holiday iR Ireland, according to the MalUs. |