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Show A cyclone swept through Binghamp-ton, Binghamp-ton, a suburb of Memphis, Tenn., Sunday, Sun-day, wrecking two churches while the congregations were still in the buildings, build-ings, and leveling several stores and a score of residences. Four persons were fatally injured. Fifty were less seriously injured. Theodore Roosevelt, speaking to large gatherings at Tampa and in Lakeland, Fla., Sunday declared that the United States should declare war on Germany without further formality. After quarreling with a young clerk, who called- him a "tin soldier," Leslie MoGrath, 19 years old, member of th Missouri national guard, went down to the bank of the Missouri river at Kansas City and shot himself to death. WASHINGTON. An offer by the king of Spain to have Spanish ships carry relief supplies sup-plies to Syria and release the American Ameri-can naval vessels Caesar and Des Moines, now warbound at Alexandria from that duty has been accepted by the United States. Officials of the state department have confirmed reports that American relief workers withdrawn from Belgium Bel-gium and northern France will be taken to Germany and submitted to a short "news quarantine." Mobilization of labor for government govern-ment service in event of war with Germany was planned at a conference confer-ence of officials and labor leaders in the offices of Secretary Wilson. The twelve federal reserve banks on March 28 oversubscribed on twenty-four hours' notice a ninety-day ninety-day loan to the government of $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 at the rate o 2 per cent a year. Nearly 15,000 men were added to the national guard force available for federal police duty by a war department depart-ment order on March 27 suspending the muster out of all guard organizations organiza-tions still in the federal service. FOREIGN. o -0 History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed B INTERMOUNTAIN. Twentyfive thousand citizens of .Pueblo turned out in a patriotic parade, mass meeting and flag raising Sunday afternoon. Ten thousand persons) per-sons) marched in the parade, while 15,-000 15,-000 witnessed the procession and joined the throng at the courthouse, where patriotic addresses were made. Raymond Johnson, aged 17, found dead in a canyon near Salt Lake City, Is believed to have been murdered. Under direction of the Wyoming national guard, the taking of a military mili-tary census of all male residents of the state has begun. Mrs. Stella Newton Moore Smith, wealthy society woman, was found not guilty of murdering her husband, John Lawrence Smith, by a jury at Denver. Wtihout dissenting voice, nearly a thousand citizens of Salt Lake of German Ger-man and Austrian birth or descent pledged their unalterable loyalty to the cause of the United States and their readiness and willingness to fight, if necessary. Patrolman Joe Emery of Salt Lake was shot in the breast and Mrs. Jennie Jen-nie Bishop was wounded in the right temple by Sam Smith, a drink crazed miner from Bingham. Edna Wycoff, aged 12, was electrocuted elec-trocuted while watching a ball game at Las Vegas, Nev. She had climbed into a tree and came in contact with a high-tension wire. DOMESTIC. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says a new German raider, slipping past the British warships on guard in the North sea, has reached the south Atlantic At-lantic and sent eleven or more merchantmen mer-chantmen to the bottom. The commander of the Austro-Hun-garian army of occupation in Albania has issued a proclamation in which he promises self-government" under Austrian protection to the population of the country. Germany, according to information reaching Copenhagen from Berlin, now is gathering to the colors every available man for a supreme military effort to bring the war to a victorious conclusion in this year's campaign. Seventy rebel prisoners taken -during Villa's attempt to capture Chihuahua Chihua-hua were hanged publicly as a warning warn-ing to the Villa element of the population. popu-lation. Official dispatches from Copenhagen Copenha-gen confirmed reports that two American Amer-ican seamen had arrived there from Germany with the story that some fifty fif-ty others taken in raids by the com- Harry Lang, in jail at iShennandoah City, Va., for .obtaining goods under false pretenseskilled his wife outside with a pistol shot through the walls and then committed suicide. The tragedy is believed to have been planned by the couple when Lang was arrested. One youth was killed, his stepfather Is dying an dtwo others, one of them a policeman, were wounded as a re-Ohio. re-Ohio. No lives were lost when the steamer steam-er St. Paul of the Streckfus line, carrying car-rying approximately 1700 persons, went aground in the Ohio river, three miles below Evansville, Ind. After an enthusiastic patriotic demonstration, dem-onstration, several thousand persons stormed the Academy of Music at Boston, Bos-ton, swept a cordon of police aside and routed a big pacifist meeting, stopping Dr. David Starr Jordan in the middle of a word and refusing to allow al-low the speaking to continue. merce raider Moewe were held in detention de-tention camps. The state economic commission announces an-nounces that the amount of rye, oats and mixed grains on hand in Sweden, or possible to import, is much less than had been estimated, and that it is, therefore, impossible to lift the embargo em-bargo against the using for fodder of any of the expropriated grains, which it had been hoped could be done. The French bark Cambronne has arrived ar-rived at Rio Janeiro with 200 men of the crews of various steamers and sailing ships sunk by a German raider off the Island of Trinidad. The Russian provisional government, govern-ment, says a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd, is disposed sympathetically sympathetical-ly toward the wish expressed by the 10,000 Dukhobortsi in Canada to return re-turn to Russia. Virtually all the soldiers and civilians civi-lians comprising the rebel forces of Rigoberto Fernandez in Oriente province, prov-ince, between 500 and 600 in number, surrendered to Colonel Varona at Guantanamo, Cuba, on March 30. The Russian government has issued a proclamation to all Poles announcing announc-ing formally 'the government's wish that Poland decide for itself the form of government it desires, says a Reuter Reu-ter dispatch from Petrograd. British troops have captured the villages of Ruyalcourt, Sorel-le-Grand, and Fins, between Bertincourt and Roisel, on the front in France, according accord-ing to the official statement from British Brit-ish headquarters. The Official Gazette at Midrid published pub-lished March 29 a decree suspending constitutional guarantees In all provinces prov-inces of the kingdom, Reuter's Madrid correspondent cables. Internal disorders disor-ders and widespread strikes in Spain have been reported at intervals during dur-ing the last year. British women are to be granted the exercise of the ballot. On March 2S, the house of commons, by a majority ma-jority of 279, expressed the approval of legislation on the lines, of the speaker's conference recommendations recommenda-tions for franchise reform. The British army in Palestine has defeated a Turkish army of 20,000 men, capturing 900 men, including the entire divisional staff of the Fifty-third Fifty-third Turkish division. Lord Hilton announced in the house of lords that the supply of petrol was so short that on the expiration of the current licenses in April none would be available for private motors. The British hospital ship Asturias was torpedoed without warning, it was officially announced March 27. Thirty-one persons were killed and twelve are missing. In the event of war with Germany the United States can count on ten million loyal backers in the Philippine Philip-pine islands. Resolutions pledging to the president presi-dent loyal support in the protection of American rights were adopted at a patriotic pa-triotic demonstration in Independence square, Philadelphia. The American Union Against Militarism Mili-tarism has sent a letter to eacn member mem-ber of congress urging that there be no declaration of war against Germany. Ger-many. General Julian Irias, Nicaraguan revolutionist arrested at New Orleans on a charge of being in the United States illegally, is understood to be held for investigation of his possible connection with a alleged conspiracy of some magnitude said to be backed by German influences in Latin-America. W. H. T. Buckingham, general manager man-ager of the Aguila Oil company on the isthmus of Tehuantepec and his cashier, named Bannerman, were killed kill-ed by bandits at Nanchital on March 9, according to information brought to Gelveston, Texas. Total gold imports since January, 1915, reached ?1,39S,200,000 with the arrival from Canada of , $20,000 000, half of which has been deposited at the Philadelphia mint, it was announced an-nounced at New York on March 30. Imports for 1917 to date amount to $200,700,000. After a meeting with editors and publishers of Jewish newspapers at New York, Samuel Untermyer announced an-nounced that he would her.d a committee com-mittee of prominent Jews, in the . event of war, to recruit and outfit Jewish roldiers and sailors. Joe Frisk, a recently discharged Russian inmate of the county farm, at Los Angeles, shot and killed Karl Trautermann and Frank Roth, Germans, Ger-mans, and killed himself. Three were killed and two injured when a fast passenger train on the Bur'ington hit an automobile at the Eighth street grade crossing at Fairfield, Fair-field, Iowa. During the week ending March 25, 2,314 ships over 100 tons net arrived at ports in the United Kingdom, according ac-cording to an official statement issued is-sued March 28. During the same period pe-riod 2.433 vessels of over 100 tons net sailed from ports in the United Kingdom. King-dom. Official reports from the southern department made public Wednesday say reports that many Germans have crossed into Mexico since diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany were broken off are without foundation. |