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Show n History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed . 1 Fred Galleranl of West Springfield, I Mass., who was sought for the murder of Clement Martini and Mrs. Delia! Rose Oallerani, his cousin, was captured cap-tured by a posse of police, soldiers anil sailors In a house in Feeding Hills Saturday after he .slot and killed Ids young wife- Armelia, whom he had forced to accompany him to his hiding hid-ing place. The vault of the Farmers" bank at Santa Rosa, Mo., was blown open by robbers who secured $:JOOO and escaped. es-caped. -Mrs. Klizabeth James, mother of Cniled States Senator Ollie James of Kentucky, died after a brief illness at her home in Marion Ky., while her sou was speeding t her bedside from Washington. WASHINGTON. 1'resldent Wilson, in behalf of the Liberty loan, has issued a proclamation proclama-tion setting aside October 24 as Liberty Lib-erty day and urging the people of the nation to assemble on that day in their respective communities and "pledge" to one another and to the government that represents them the fullest measure of financial support. Jiroud war powers conferred upon the president by the "trading with the enemy" act wre put into operation under an executive order issued October Octo-ber 14, delegating the authority under un-der the law to various government departments de-partments and to a newly created war trade board. The war department has made public pub-lic details of the orders providing for the transfer of 78,400 men from national na-tional army cantonments to the various vari-ous national guard divisions to fill them to war strength. The preliminary report on the food supply of the nation will be made in about two weeks. Following this food census authorized by the recent congress con-gress the department of congress will be able to ascertain just what the country can depend upon. Aircraft Hying the Stars and Stripes may bombard Berlin at a height of six miles through the latest invention of American scientific genius. At this height German defending planes and guns would be useless. Discussion of the advisability of expediting ex-pediting the call for the second increment incre-ment of the draft army now is in progress pro-gress at the war department, and it appears likely that the date may be fixed for some time in December or January. FOREIGN. The German reichstag has adjourned, adjourn-ed, leaving behind it a latent crisis which political observers believe will lead sooner or later to the retirement of Dr. Michitelis, the chancellor, without with-out a following. All Dutch shipping to England has been stopped on account of the pending pend-ing differences between Great Britain and Holland. The Berliner Lokal Anzeiger has started a campaign against Gustav Ador, head -of the Swiss political department, de-partment, because of his remarks that as a condition for a just peace Belgium Bel-gium must be restored and compensated. compen-sated. Joseph Thierry, minister of finance in the Ribot cabinet, has been appointed ap-pointed French ambassador to Spain. . News of the sinking of the American stemship Lewis Luckenbach by a German Ger-man submarine off the coast of France has been received. Forty-seven of the fifty-six members of the crew were landed, the message said. M. J. Widen, president of the. second sec-ond chamber and former minister of the interior, who was charged by King Gustav with the formation of a cabinet, cab-inet, has replied that he is unable to accomplish the task. Vice Admiral von Capelle, the German Ger-man minister of marine, has resigned, according to the Frankfurter Zeitung. Capelle was one of the administrative directors in the ministry of marine before be-fore the war and had served as a captain cap-tain at sea. Reliable reports received by way of Holland indicate the growth of a strong disinclination on the part of the German seamen to serve on submarines. subma-rines. The inactivity of the German fleet in the Baltic sea recently when there were obvious opportunities for attacking attack-ing Russia, according to a dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from Amsterdam, was due to the mutinous outbreak in the Germany navy. A prisoner from the 72nd German infantry in-fantry reserve, iu describing the discipline dis-cipline of his corps, declared that before be-fore the last battle a regimental commander com-mander addressed his troops with the warning that anyone who held back would be shot. The only answer was a general groaning, sweling into derisive de-risive laughter, upon which the commander com-mander rode away. One hundred thousand persons participated par-ticipated iu a great demonstration at Montevideo in favor of the entente allies al-lies and iu approval of the government's govern-ment's rupture with Germany. Eight passengers were killed and fifty wounded by a band of seventy criminals who derailed a mail train on the Rostov-Tillis line at Vladikavz, according to a Moscow newspaper. The Brazilian government proposes to utilize seized German steamers for the organization of international steamship lines. The vessels will fly the Brazilian Hag and will be used iu the interest of Brazil and the allies. Thee rews of the vessels will be made up of Brazillians. A mutiny among the crews of four battleships of the German fleet has occurred at Wilhelmshaven. One of these battleships was the Westfalen. whose captain was thrown overboard and drowned. A number of the mutineers muti-neers were shot. INTEHMOUNTAIN. Sudish-Americans In Wyoming want T'nelc Stun to know that they are loyal to the I'nited States, and call upon tln-lr Scandinavian relatives to shake "IT Ihe yoke of their autocratic ruler In a petition being circulated throughout through-out the slate. Industrial Workers of Ihe World were compared to the early Christians, were extolled as not being one-tenth bad men, anil ministers of the Congregation Congre-gation church were enjoined to lend succor i Ihem in an address at Columbus. Co-lumbus. Ohio, by Rev. Sydney Strong of Seaille, Wash. The body of a woman, evidently murdered about I hive or four months ago, was found Sunday iu the brush I hroc-quai-lers of a mile from the Country Club road, near the city limits lim-its of Seattle. Identification was Impossible. Im-possible. The head was found some distance from the body. The Ht. Hev. Paul Jones, bishop of Sail Lake diocese of the Episcopal church, has been asked to resign his position because of his pacifist views. Through the delayed explosion of a smoke bomb tit Ft. Douglas, Utah, Private Pri-vate William I). Shugart was so seriously se-riously burned about the head and face thai he may be blinded for life. Ten thousand fanners, represented by the slate farm bureau of Utah, telegraphed assurance of their support sup-port in food conservation to the na-lional na-lional food administrator on October 9, through W. W. Armstrong, federal food administrator for Utah. Additional army training camps will probably be located in the west, it became be-came known with the issuance of on order from lite western department of the army to Major Richard Park, corps of engineers, to investigate sites at ilitckslaff, Oil.; Reno and Tobar. Nov.; Boise, Idaho; Umatilla, and Warm Springs, Ore., and at Tenino. DOMESTIC. Samuel dumpers, president of the American Federation of Labor, litis sent it cable message of greetings and congratulations to the organized labor' movements of Chile and Peru, in convention con-vention tit Santiago, ('bile, in which be proposes a pan-American labor congress. con-gress. Evidence to prove a nation-wide plot by milk producers to raise the price of that commodity, was presented present-ed to federal authorities at Chicago by Attorney General Brundagee of Illinois. Eighty per cent more frozen beef was iu stock on October 1 than a year ago. Reports from 293 storages to (he bureau of markets, made public October 14, showed holdings c 137,-6011,51! 137,-6011,51! 1 pounds. Seven occupants of an automobile driven by Joseph J. l'ohl werj killed late Sunday, when the car was struck by ;i passenger train at Hart;ig crossing, cross-ing, twelve miles north of Detroit, Mich. A large British steamer, loaded with admiralty stores, principally munitions muni-tions and 0000 barrels of oil, in bulk, valued at over' $2,000,000, was towed buck into an Atlantic port with fire in her engine room compartments, under un-der control after a twenty-four hour buttle to keep the ship from exploding. explod-ing. Herbert Wood and Leo Keane were found guilty of the murder of Scott Clark, ti negro, who ftd as the result of injuries received ia the recent race riots in East St. Louis. nd the penalty pen-alty was fixed at fourteen years' imprisonment. im-prisonment. A regiment of Oklahoma Indians may be one of tb? American fighting units iu France, St!0 or more drafted nou-English-speal.ing Indians are to be ','transt'erved to tho- First Oklahoma national na-tional guard refiu'ent, which already ius a considerable number of Indians ' lu its ranks. v , Mayors throughout Ohio are prepar ing to seize cc.il to prevent suffering. which is becoming widespread. Cleveland itt to become the headquarters head-quarters of a r.ew organization, "The Fathers and brothers of Our Soldiers jind Sailors," I eing formed. The organization or-ganization i: op.--.es to supplement the work of the Red Cross among dependents depend-ents of thd country's fighters and is intended to become nation-wide. II Progroso, an Italian newspaper published in New York, received a cablegram from its special correspondent correspond-ent at Uo.'jie on October 11 stating that thirteen Austrian submarines have been si'.-,ik in the Adriatic during the last tw weeks. The dispatch gives no ill-tails. New York City received its first supply sup-ply of water from the Oitskill mountains moun-tains on October 12, when Mayor Mitchell accepted a fountain in the northern reservoir of Central park and turned on the flow that will give New-Yorkers New-Yorkers .'(00,000,000 more gallons daily. The fountain has five jets, and the pressure from the Catskill aqeduet throws a slream 115 feet in the air. The number of men in America's new national army, either actually under un-der training or ordered to the sixteen cantonments throughout the country, totals 431, ISO. |