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Show HEWS OF A WEEK ill CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN B R I EFE8'i MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Two men are dead following a triple n led; which blocked the main line of the I'nion Pacific near Granile canyon, can-yon, sevenleen miles wesl of Cheyenne Ibis morning. One is Fireman .1. K. .McCarthy of Denver, lie was caught helical li an overturned locomotive and sul Tocaled. I'efer .lessen, of Cheyenne, engineer of a wrecking crane that overturned while working on Ihe wreck was so badly scalded that be died later. Government agents coin Inued the In-estigalion In-estigalion of circumstances surrounding surround-ing the den III of I''. A. Dowsey of the federal secrel service, whose body was found .May 2 in a washroom In a local office building shortly before lie was exported to report upon results of an Investigation lie had been making in Seattle. Persons familiar with the general nil I lire of Oowsey's mission declared de-clared il involved a gigantic fraud against the government. I '. It. Uenear of the Nevada state Police lei'l Ogden early .Sunday morning morn-ing for Anaconda, Mont., to get Holier! Holi-er! Gibson, un escaped convict from Reno, and in custody of the Montana officers. That the late Vomer Z. Heed, Colorado Colo-rado capitalist and federal mediator, left an estate of nearly $14,000,000, be-cume be-cume known Wednesday following the opening of a safety deposit box. The forest fire, which has been raging rag-ing in the Porcupine hills, near Calgary, Cal-gary, has been brought under control after destroying between fifteen and eighteen million feet of lumber. The Cho.st river fire, fifty miles west of Calgary, is still spreading and heading east. Judge Ben. P. Lindsey, of Denver, has obtained permission from the state supreme court to appeal to the United Slates supreme court from the recent decision of the state supreme court sustaining n fine of $500 against him on a contempt charge. DOMESTIC. Lieutenant T. ,T. Lenihun of San Francisco, Cal., and Chaplain H. H. O'Dowd of Brooklyn, N. l, assistant ramp morale officer at Camp Pike, M ere instantly killed Saturday 'at Little Lit-tle Hock, Ark., when a plane piloted by Lenihan was struck by another machine from Kberts field. The second sec-ond machine also fell, but its occupants occu-pants were not injured. The Protestant church of this country coun-try represented in the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America has issued a declaration that the state of New York should "attempt to secure t to the worker an income sufficient to maintain his family at a standard of living which the community can approve. ap-prove. JSeven. firemen are reported killed and at least fourteen others were iil-jured iil-jured in a blaze that destroyed the five-story warehouse of Jacob Potash and Brothers in the northeast section of Philadelphia Saturday. .Martial law was declared Sunday in Eongview, Texas, and the rest of Gregg county as a result, of race trouble here, precipitated by a fight Friday morning between white men and negroes and marked by the slaying slay-ing of one negro early Sunday after he had resisted arrest. Hanging in the branches of a tree on the Sacramento river the skeleton of ii man was found by dredger workmen work-men near Caltisu. Cal. It is supposed the man was ..drowned during high water and hi$ body washed into the t fee. A telegraphic appeal was sent late Saturday by Mayor Davis of Cleveland to Postmaster General Burleson that he take immediate steps to bring about an adjustment of the strike here mining telephone operators. A resolution directing all subordinate subordin-ate lodges to employ energetic efforts in barring from membership persons who express sympathy with Bolshevism Bolshe-vism and kindred "isms'' was adopted at the closing session of the Elks' convention con-vention held at Atlantic City.- Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was among the passengers Friday on board the Mauretania. He will represent the American labor organizations at an in- I ternational congress of the trade un- j ions at Amsterdam, Holland. The con- j gross is a revival of similar meetings held before the war. Hermann J. Knaesche, a former soldier, sol-dier, confessed to Sheriff Ralph Byrnes, at Ukiah, Cal., that he had shot and killed his wife, Frieda Knae-she, Knae-she, a bride of two weeks. Representatives of twenty-four affiliated affil-iated international unions in the steel industries Friday adopted a resolution resolu-tion recommending that a strike vote fbe taken among their membership. The transports Yalaciu, Saxonia and Toloa, all from Brest, arrived Friday with 221 officers and 331.") men. The cruiser Frederick, also from Brest, brought loTo troops. WASHINGTON. Preparations for the early return of General Pershing and his personal staff from Frunce is iudiraled, army officials said .Monday in recent dis-! dis-! pan-bos from abroad. Crating of the voluminous records of the expeili t ion-jary ion-jary forces at ihe central records office of-fice has been practically r-jinpieted and shipmctil to a .seaport is to be- J gin. Wage increases approximating 10 ; per cent were .granted Monday to eni-j eni-j plovers of Vessels operalrd from At-lanlic At-lanlic ami gulf ports by t he .-hipping j board. The advance, announced after i an all-day conference. Chairman Kllioll of I lie house com-milloe com-milloe on state department expenditures expendi-tures in! rod need a resolution Salur-; Salur-; day calling for a report on the ex-j ex-j peases of the American peace conimis-! conimis-! siou at Paris. Among other things, Ihe resolution asked for a list of coin-j coin-j mission employees and commissioners' serv ants and their salaries. A new series of certificates of indebtedness, in-debtedness, hearing interest from July lo anil payable March l.. 102a, was offered Friday by the treasury. The certificates will bear interest at -1 '2 per cent and in other respects will bu similar to previous issues. The war savings commitlee announced an-nounced Friday the operations of unscrupulous un-scrupulous traffickers in thrift and war savings stamps were being investigated. in-vestigated. Trade between Germany i;M the L'nited States is to be immediately resinned. re-sinned. This announcement was made by Acting Secretary Polk of the state department Friday. Hesults of the railroad administration's administra-tion's safety campaign, declared by Director General Hines to be "most satisfactory" were made public in statistics sta-tistics showing that in the first three months of this year 560 fewer persons were killed in accidents than in the same period of 101S. The total number num-ber of accidents decreased 0700. The peace treaty, with its league of nations covenant, was laid before the senate Thursday by President Wilson in an address accounting to the country coun-try for his part in the negotiations at Versailles. The Korean Women's Society of San Francisco Thursday sent an appeal ap-peal to President Wilson to intervene to protect Korea from "Japanese aggression." ag-gression." The Republican legislative steering committee of the house Thursday discussed dis-cussed the possibility of a recess beginning be-ginning about August 1, but reached " no decision. Frank L. Polk, undersecretary of state, will succeed Secretary Lansing as head of the American peace delegation dele-gation at Paris, it was said Wednesday Wednes-day in official circles. Evidence relating to the sale of government-owned moving picture films will be presented to the federal authorities, au-thorities, the district attorney's office announced Wednesday. The new organized Pacific fleet will sail from Hampton oads for the west coast Saturday, July 19. It was announced -at the navy department Wednesday. John Fox, Jr., well known novelist, died at his home at Big Stone Gap, Va Tuesday, after a brief iilness of pneumonia. Compilation by the state department at the request of the Senate of claims of Americans who have suffered loss of property and life in Mexico, ha,s revealed re-vealed that only one claim has been paid since the Diaz administration. Sale of 21,000,000 pounds of surplus sugar now held by the war department has been authorized, it wrcfflnnouncej at Washington Tuesday, at a minimum price to be fixed by the United States sugar equalization board to cover the cost to the government, FOREIGN. Twenty-five thousand French soldiers sol-diers died from tuberculosis during the war and 120,000 men were exempted exempt-ed from service because of the disease, dis-ease, it was stated in the senate during dur-ing a discussion on a bill to establish tuberculosis sanitariums in Taris. The sudden death in Paris of Ed-ouard Ed-ouard de Billy, formerly deputy high commissioner of France in the United States, was announced in a cable message mes-sage received at New York Saturday from Andre Tardieu. Eighteen million marks in gold, which the German goverment owed Switzerland and payment of Which had been stopped temporarily by the allies, was taken from Berlin to Switzerland Saturday as ordinary freight. As a result of intervention by the federation of labor, a settlement of the transportation strike in Berlin has been effected. Traffic was resumed on Monday, after a suspension of twelve days. By a vote of 23 to 20 the Canadian senate refused to approve a measure confirming orders in council passed during the war which would continue in effect for twelve months after the j signing of peace the ban against trans- portation of liquor from a "wet" to a j "dry" province. j The resolution ratifying the peace ; treaty was adopted by the German nn- tional assembly Wednesday by a vote of 20S to 115. The Montenegrin government has addressed ad-dressed a new note to the peace conference con-ference protesting against alleged ex-l ex-l cesses by Serbian troops in Montenegro. Montene-gro. Submarine chasers, under the direction direc-tion of Governor Thomas Higgs, Jr., I are patrolling the fishing ports of Juneau, Alaska, to protect the fishing I companies' property from fish pirates. |
