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Show - - n History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed Matt Shay, 72 years old, one of the in est picturesque and best known railroad rail-road men in the United States, died at Cleveland, July 2. He was a veteran veter-an engineer of the Brie railroad, and for twelve years was grand secretary-treasurer secretary-treasurer of the Brotherhood of locomotive loco-motive Engineers. The f'-deral grand jury indicted Rudolph Ru-dolph Malik, an Austrian salesman arrested at New York, charging that in a letter mailed June 23 to President Wilson he threatened the president with "a political v'rime" should the president refuse to pay him $2'";. William "Slim" Wheeler, a negro, shot and killed C. E. Crexler, driver of a five-cent fare automobile, at Oxnard, Cal., and fatally wounded "Happy" Adams, a negro. Ruby Miller, a Degress, was also injured by the fire from Wheeler's revolver. Jealousy was the cause of the shooting. shoot-ing. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has given his indorsement in-dorsement of Americanization day, the purpose of which is to bring all peoples peo-ples of America into closer unity and a common understanding of American citizenship and American ideals and opportunities. A petition asking the federal court to vacate the order of foreclosure against the Wabash railroad issued last January has been filed at St. Louis. Granting of this request would defer indefinitely the sale of the Wabash Wa-bash at auction, which has been set for July 21. While the state department extends whatever protection it can to persons of dual nationality who enter the other country by which they are claimed, it does not assure them immunity im-munity from military service. China may import the maxixe, the tango and the fox trot from America as the result of the visit here of the Chinese industrial commission. The Chinese are willing to take dancing lessons from America, according to G. Geo, an attache of the commission. Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary sec-retary of the navy, was operated on for appendicitis on July 1, at the naval na-val hospital at Washington. The second business year of the present administration, which closed June 30, showed a deficit of $35,864,-the $35,864,-the year ended June 30, 1914, of 134,418,677. FOREIGN. Introducing the munitions bill in the house of lords, Lord Curzon, lord privy seal, announced that the first week of the campaign to speed up the manufacture of arms and ammunition ammu-nition resulted in the enrollment of 46,000 volunteer munition workers. The trade unionists of Great Britain dismissed with contumely the suggestion sugges-tion that a vote of sympathy be given to their German fellow unionists in trade at the annual conference of the federation now in session at Derby. Michael Opposin, the sole survivor of Sixteen men who escaped in one of the lifeboats which carried the crew of thirty-six away from the British Brit-ish steamer Scotish Monarch when that vessel was sunk by a German submarine last Tuesday, was landed by a trawler at St. Ives, England. The Italian advance in Tyrol is hindered seriously by continued bad weather, exceptional for midsummer. The mountain streams, usually dry at the end of June, are almost impassable. impas-sable. Mrs. Alexander M. Thackara, the wife of the American consul general at Paris, is seriously ill. She is a daughter of the late General William Tecumseh Sherman. The Italian ship Sardomene, timber-laden, timber-laden, was torpedoed, without warning, warn-ing, five miles from Castletown, Bear haven, Ireland. Two of the crew were INTER MOUNTAIN. Mrs. P. A. Salisbury, the "mysterious "mysteri-ous woman in whltu," who says she In half sister to Harry Milieu, the Denver highwayman, recently hanged for murder, will be defendant in a hlanirf-r suit that. Charles W. K. Meyers, Mey-ers, grandson of a former lieutenant governor of Colorado, proposes to file at Denver asking for $.",(. 00. Three miners were killed and twit others seriously hurt In a cave-in at Cation mine, four miles west of Gleu-wood Gleu-wood Springs, Colo. Recognized on the streets of Ma-lad, Ma-lad, Idaho, by former residents of West Virginia who knew him, Charles I). Townsend, wanted In that state on a charge of first degree murder, was taken into custody. Progressive leaders at Seattle, who planned to have a state-wide conference confer-ence with Theodore Roosevelt on the occasion of his coming visit, were disappointed dis-appointed by word from Colonel Roosevelt that he would not be here long enough to attend any dinners or other functions. A letter of credit for $750,000 in favor fa-vor of General C. II. Bridge, an officer offi-cer in the British army, is either lost in the mails or has been stolen in transit between Montreal and Denver. DOMESTIC. With the settling of final details at lola, Kans., involving, it is estimated by Hineltermen, nearly $1,000,000, virtually vir-tually every large smelter in Kansas passed into the ownership of the United Unit-ed Slates Smelting company, a Boston corporation. An attempt to bring a film of the Wlllard-Johnson fight at Havana into the country was blocked in the district dis-trict court at Portland, Me. J. Marshal Caughey, treasurer of the Annapolis Banking & Trust company, com-pany, committed suicide by shooting in his room at his club at Annapolis, Md., while the directors of the company com-pany were in session at the bank waiting for him to appear to explain his accounts. An advance of 2 per cent, announced an-nounced as a result of increased prices for copper, brings the wages of miners min-ers and smeltermen. in Arizona to the highest rate ever paid in the southwest south-west for similar, work. David Dunn, 20 years old, died in the electric chair at Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of Harry T. Edwards, an express agent in Corning, lit February, Feb-ruary, 1914. Dunn while in prison contributed knitting work to a collection collec-tion for Polish war sufferers. Nine machine guns were seized at El Paso, Texas, by federal authorities. They were taken from premises said to be owned by the Alderete brothers, to be used as evidence in the trial of Victoriano Huerta and five codefend-ants codefend-ants charged with conspiracy to violate vio-late the neutrality laws. Tom Miller, a negro porter in a cigar store, at Santa Barbara, Cal., shot and killed Bert Baker, a clerk in the store, wounded a bootblack named Smith and then went to the house of Clara Howard a negress, and shot her five times, inflicting fatal Injuries. Woman suffrage failed conclusively for this session when the Wisconsin senate, by a vote of 14 to 17, refused to reconsider its vote in killing the Grell resolution. Formal request for the extradition of General Victoriano Huerta on various vari-ous criminal charges has been presented pre-sented to Governor Ferguson of Texas by the Villa governor of Chihuahua state. Five were reported to have been killed in a heavy storm which swept through northwestern Oklahoma in the vicinity of Ottawa county. , Seven midshipmen were placed under un-der arrest at the naval academy at Annapolis, Md., charged with hazing or "running" members of the new fourth class, formed since the close of the school year, early this month. Mine operators controlling 50 per cent of the lead and zinc mines in the Webb City, Carterville and Jop-lin Jop-lin district, in Missouri, announced they will suspend operations of their mines for two weeks pending an ad justment of the strike inaugurated June 2S, and which last week saw 2.500 miners out of work. Steel mills in the Pittsburg distric' have received within the past few days orders for projectile steel which aggregate 75.000 tons. Early in the year steel of this grade was offered at $31 p ton. but latest sales are said to have been made at $3S. Three years to a day since their first meeting at the Baltimore con-vent'on. con-vent'on. Miss Genevieve Champ Clark, daughter of the speaker and Mrs. Clark, was married on June 30 at "Honey Shuck." the Clark home at , Bowling Green, Mo., to James Mcll- j hany Thomson, owner and publisher I of the New Orleans Item. Jose Zozp.ya. a wealthy Mexican, was arrested at El Paso, Texas, on charges of conspiring to set on foot a military expedition against a friendly country in violation of United States neutrali-tv. neutrali-tv. He was released on $7,000 bond. killed outright and several were wounded or missing. Seven were saved. The British-owned steamship Armenian Ar-menian of the Dominion line was torpedoed tor-pedoed and sunk by the German submarine sub-marine U-38 twenty miles west of Trevose Head, Cornwall, England, on Tuesday night, and nearly a score of Americans were lost. The situation arising from the weakness of New York exchange on London continues to be much discussed, dis-cussed, the treasury appearing to br willing to permit gold to flow to America in part payment of the balance bal-ance created by war purchases. The Norwegian ship Cambusken-heth, Cambusken-heth, which sailed from Portland, Ore., February 9 for Liverpool or Manchester, was sunk Wednesday by the German submarine U-39. Thirteen members of the crew were landed. Eight other sailors, being German subjects, were taken aboard the submarine. sub-marine. A Havas agency dispatch- from Athens says the exhaustion of the Turks facing the French forces on the Gallipoli peninsula is evident, and leads to the belief that the Turkish position at Krithia will be soon taken by assault. It is proposed to e Hablish in the west of England a training school where women police can be trained for work outside London. Jose Isabel Rob'.es. minister of war in the cabinet of Eulialio Gutierrez, is authority for the declaration that the leaders of the two larger worring factions fac-tions have agreed to discuss terms of peace, perhaps within two weeks. Italians returning from Turkey give important information regarding the situation in Constantinople. They say the population is terrorized, there is a lack of provisions and coal, prices have increased enormously, factories have been closed and a great quantity of shipping has been immobilized in the Golden Horn. |