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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed D A body taken from Lake Michigan, at Chicago, is believed to be Thomas Evans of Los Angeles. Money and postal receipts amounting to several hundred dollars were found in hia pockets. Seventeen days from Wilhelms-haven, Wilhelms-haven, the imperial German submarine subma-rine U-53 dropped anchor in Newport harbor on Saturday, and alter a visit of three hours put to sea again. Three men were killed and several were injured seriously when three cars of dynamite exploded at the mill of the Illinois Powder company at Grafton, Ills. Joseph R. Filipsky, a non-union INTERMOUNTAIN. Willard Tanner, serving a term for murder, and Hazel Erwin, his accomplice, accom-plice, made a sensational attempt to escape from the Oregon penitentiary at Salem, both being recaptured. A Salt Lake newspaper declares that the building of a railroad from Wendover to the Deep Creek mining district is now assured. Twenty thousand people, it was estimated, es-timated, surged into Temple square at Salt Lake on Sunday, to attend - the closing session of the eighty-sixth eighty-sixth semi-annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In a race war between negroes and whites near Nihill, Mont., seven negroes ne-groes are said to have shot three white men, killing two. Five negroes and two whites have been arrested at Cushman, on suspicion of being implicated. impli-cated. Two bands of youthful automobile bandits, one of them having a boy in knee trousers- as a member, held up and robbed six saloons within an hour in Chicago. Sums ranging from $10 to ?25 were taken in each robbery. The annual report of the Union Pacific Pa-cific Railroad company for the year ended June 30 last, just made public, showed earnings of 15.65 per cent for the common stock, compared with 10.98 per cent the previous year. Thirty persons were injured, three of them seriously, when the Tacoma-Seattle Tacoma-Seattle limited on the Puget Sound Electric company line ran into an open switch and went into the ditch near Tacoma. The postoffice department has recently re-cently issued an order reducing the number of crews in the railway mail service between Butte, Mont., and Salt Lake, Utah. DOMESTIC. Four British, one Dutch and one Norwegian steamers were sent to the bottom or left crippled derelicts off Nantucket shoals on Sunday, presum-"""-a'Gly having been attacked by German Ger-man submarines. G. Beutelscacher, former minister to Venezuela under the McKinley administration, ad-ministration, died at Delaware, Ohio, from cancer. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, went to Atlantic City on Sunday, to protest to the Mexican members of the Mexican-American joint commission against General Carranza's attitude toward labor la-bor union in Mexico. The Curtiss twin motor land and water machine, being tested at Newport New-port News for the United States navy, was wrecked when Pilot Victor Vernon Ver-non sent her crashing nose first into the water while attempting a landing. John M. Parker, Progressive nominee nomi-nee for vice-president, in opening his campaign tour at Cleveland on Saturday, Satur-day, criticised the Adamson eight-hour eight-hour law and the manner of its enactment, en-actment, denounced the "betrayal" of the Progressive party by its leaders at Chicago last June, and scored the professional politician and labor agi-talor. agi-talor. Rear Admiral Francis A. Cook, U. S. N., retired, who was commended for "eminent and conspicuous conduct con-duct in battle" while in command of the cruiser Brooklyn at the battle- of Santiago, Cuba, died suddenly at his home. According to the newspaper Aeroplane, Aero-plane, Orville Wright, the Dayton, O., aeroplane inventor, has presented his pateuts to the British government. Miss Loula Long, nationally known as a horsewoman, the daughter of R. A. Long, a millionaire lumberman, was seriously injured when she was thrown from her horse during a potato pota-to race, an event of the American IRoyal Live Stock show at Kansas City. James Couzens, Detroit's multimillionaire multimil-lionaire police commissioner, has announced an-nounced the establishment of a bonus system for members of the Detroit police po-lice force. The bonus provided per-eoually per-eoually by Mr. Couzens will amount to about $10,000 annually. Five men and a woman were indicted in-dicted at New York in the federal grand jury investigation into the operations oper-ations of the "white slave blackmailing blackmail-ing syndicate." An attempt to secure $15,000 by kidnaping kid-naping R. M. Perry, manager of the Moffat coal mine at Oakcreek, Colorado, Colo-rado, was frustrated, when Perry, at en opportune moment, seized a revolver revol-ver from one of his captors and shot him dead. Three powerful searchliglus, which have been installed at the football field of the University of - Minnesota, at Minneapolis, will enable the team to practice after dark for the balance of the season. The New York Evening Post publishes pub-lishes a story saying that it has been learned from a trustworthy source that Ambassador James W. Gerard, now on his way back from Germany, will lay before President Wilson a request re-quest that the president use nis good offices in suing for peace with the .Hies. driver of a milk wagon, was shot and killed in St. Louis. The slayer escaped, es-caped, but a short time later -a man was arrested as a suspect. WASHINGTON. President Wilson and government officials expressed deep concern over the sinking of the four British steamships steam-ships off the American coast by a German Ger-man submarine, but it is not believed international complications will follow. fol-low. The enormous extent of recent gains In the export trade of the United States is disclosed in satistics issued by the department of commerce. No new step to end the European war has been taken by the United States, and, so far as officials at Washington can foresee, none is likely like-ly to be taken in the near future, according ac-cording to an authoritative statement of the government's position obtained in high official circles. With the potato crop so short that thousands of bushels must be imported import-ed for home consumption, the department depart-ment of agriculture has issued a statement state-ment warning importers of strict regulations regu-lations to be complied with, requiring permits for all shipments and examination exam-ination at ports of entry by inspectors of the department. Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the army, is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Washington for chronic stomach trouble. Strong protest has been made to the state department 'by the British and French embassies against the action of the Carranza government in Mexico Mexi-co in seizing the assets of British and French banking institutions in the Mexican capital. FOREIGN. United States exports to Russia, via Vladivostok, January 1 to April 1, 1916, amounted to $31,490,280, according accord-ing to a report of the American-Russian chamber of commerce. Labor conditions in England, as brought out before the recent con vention at Birmingham of the British trades unions, showed almost an entire en-tire absence of wage and labor disputes dis-putes and a marked loyalty to the government on the part of organized workers. Kxonstadt, which the Roumanian army seized shortly after its invasion of Transylvania, is again in Austrian hands. The Roumanian invaders have withdrawn to their frontier all along the line from that city to Hermann-stadt. Hermann-stadt. Consul General Skinner at London has notified the department 01 commerce com-merce that Great Britain has extended extend-ed her embargo against importations into the United Kingdom to include cotton knit goods. The British armored . motor cars, which were used for the first time in the general advance on the Somme front last month, are a failure, Berlin claims. A Constantinople telegram says that a general congress of the committee of union and progress, under the presidency pres-idency of the grand vizier, has adopted adopt-ed a resolution to pursue the war with Turkey's allies to a victorious end. Turning against Rumanians, who had been advancing steadily in eastern east-ern Transylvania, Austro-Hungarian and German troops have,defeated the invaders decisively along a fifty-mile front. Casualties among the Russian armies during this year's offensive on the eastern front, according to cautious calculations, says a Berlin dispatch, have been at least 1,230,000 officers and men. According to Athens dispatches the settling of the latest crisis in Greece will be both long and laborious, but It will be ended with the selection of a business cabinet in compliance with the spirit of the note of the entente al-les al-les on June 21. , Sir Sam Hughes, minister of militia, has returned to Canada from England and the front, after an absence from home of nearly three months, predicting predict-ing certain victory for the entente allies al-lies and a rebellion in Germany. Fighting on its home soil again, after months of expatriation, the reconstituted reconsti-tuted Serbian army is reported to he making steady progress toward Mon-astir. Mon-astir. The military critic of the Frankfurter Frankfur-ter Zeitung says conditions for Zeppelin Zeppe-lin attacks on England are much more difficult than even a year ago. The British, he says, have had time to carry their defense measure to the highest perfection. The British admiralty announces that the Cunard steamer Franconia, employed for transport duty, was sunk in the Mediterranean by an enemy en-emy submarine. The steamer'had no The Rumanian invasion of Bulgaria has been halted and the Bulgarians are attempting a counter-invasion, according to official statements reaching reach-ing London. A new political party, favoring intervention in-tervention In the war on the side of the allies, is being formed in Greece by Demetrios Gounaris, former pre mier, according to an Athens dispafch. |