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Show o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed E3 INTERMOUNTAIN. Cyrus W. Shores was declared ousted from the office of chief of police po-lice In Salt Lake City by a decision handed down In the state supreme court. The court holds Mr. Shores ineligible in-eligible for the position because he was not a qualified elector of the city at the time of his appointment, in January. Anti-American sentiment in Mexico in decreasing, in the opinion of Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Denver, who reported to the Methodist Episcopal general conference at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., the results of missionary mission-ary work in that country, over which he has episcopal jurisdiction. Suspected of being Rafael Lopez, the Bingham murderer, a Mexican, known by the name of Manuel Hevla, is under un-der arrest in Altin, B. C, ry the order or-der of Sheriff John S. Corless of Salt Lake, and is being held for identification. identifica-tion. Reports from Ottawa, Canada, contained con-tained the information that John Edwards, Ed-wards, who gave his residence on enlisting en-listing as Salt Lake City, has died from wounds received on the battle lines In Europe. The Progressive state convention held at Seattle elected fourteen delegates dele-gates to the national convention in Chicago and instructed them to vote for the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. Roose-velt. No objection was raised to the adoption of a strong preparedness plank. DOMESTIC. Government officers, says an El Paso dispatch, are searching for two men, one an American and the other a Mexican, who are believed to be implicated im-plicated in the shipment of large quantities quan-tities of munitions from this country to Mexico. Wholesome and nutritious food for a family of five cannot be purchased in the New York market for less than $7.30 a week, according to calculations made by the department of health of the city of New York. Forty thousand miners and coke workers of the H. C. Frick Coke company, com-pany, a subsidiary of the United States Steel corporation, have been notified of a wage increase of 5 to 10 per cent, operative May 8. George Jordan, 8 years of age, confessed con-fessed at Portsmouth, Ohio, that he killed his mother with a shotgun. Opinions of newspapers throughout the U. S. vary regarding the German reply to President Wilson's note. Many leading papers say a break with Germany Ger-many is Imminent; others insist such action would be unwise; still others accept the kaiser's promise as solving the problem. '. At General Funston's temporary' headquarters at El Paso it was said a message had been received from General Pershing in which he stated that he had located Villa. Sales of boxes for the Progressive national convention to be held in Chicago Chi-cago June 7 opened May 5. During the first few hours of the sale seven boxes were sold for $250 -each. Mrs. James J. Sullivan of New York, wife ef the former American minister to the Dominican republic, who was arrested in Dublin in connection with the Irish rebellion, has reported to the American embassy that there was not the slightest basis for the charge against her husband. The anthracite coal controversy which threatened to cause a strike of the 176,000 workers in the hard coal region came to an end Thursday through the ratification by the miners' convention of the agreement recently reached between the scale committee of the operators and miners at New York. James M. Sullivan of New York, formerly for-merly American minister to Santo Domingo, Do-mingo, has been arrested in Dublin on the charge of complicity in the Irish rebellion. The 1,000-foot dock of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad In the North river at New York, was damaged by fire with an estimated loss, including freight in storage, of $100,000. Exports shipped from the port of Philadelphia in April were valued at nearly $30,000,000, an increase of $20,-000,000 $20,-000,000 over the same month last year and the greatest for any single month in the history of the port. Martial law prevailed in East Pitts-tiurg Pitts-tiurg and Braddock Wednesday. Detachments De-tachments of the Pennyslvania National Na-tional guard patrolled the streets in the strike zones, but no disorder was reported. William Lorimer, acquitted on charges connected with the failure of the La Salle Street Trust & Savings bank of Chicago, of which he was president, pres-ident, announced Friday he would again be a candidate for the United States senate, from which he was ousted. The jury at Chicago in the William Lorimer case returned a verdict of tiot guilty. The jury in its verdict leld that Lorimer had no part in any violation of the banking laws in con-aection con-aection with the career of the La EiaJle Street bank. Three American soldiers and a ten-year-old hoy have lost their lives and two American citizens nave been kidnaped kid-naped and carried south of the international inter-national boundary to almost certain death in another raid of Mexican bandits ban-dits at Glenns Springs, Texas. When a.sked aljout the steps being taken to bring about peace among the warrii g nations, Cardinal Gibbons said that "there is something in the air." Two lieutenants of the Firth field artillery were killed and two other officers of-ficers were injured in an automobile wreck at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. "Nigger Liz," an aged negress, with a reputation as a voodoo doctor, and supposed to have known more than any other person about the life and crimes of Belle Gunness of Murder Farm notoriety, is dead at Lafayette, Ind. One man was killed and three others severely burned in an explosion in the munitions department of the Crucible Steel company at Harrison, N. J. WASHINGTON. President Wilson, speaking at a celebration of the one hundredth anniversary anni-versary of the founding of the American Ameri-can Bible society, dwelt on the usefulness useful-ness of the Bible in drawing people together. President Wilson announces that the tentative agreement between General Gen-eral Scott and General Obregon covering cover-ing the future operations of the American Amer-ican and Mexican military forces in Mexico provides "a basis of co-operation which promises to prevent misunderstandings misun-derstandings and strengthens the cordial cor-dial relations of the two republics."' The Hollis farm loan bill, embodying embody-ing the administration plan ror establishing estab-lishing a system of rural credits, passed pass-ed the senate by a vote of 58 to 5. Informal conferences among Democratic Demo-cratic senators disclosed that the judiciary judi-ciary committee may report the nomination nomi-nation of Louis D. Brandeis for the supreme court to the senate without recommendation. Advocates of the Shields water power bill, pending in congress, won their fight in the National Conservation Conserva-tion congress on May 2 when the congress con-gress voted to adopt a majority committee com-mittee report endorsing the measure. FOREIGN. In fierce attacks on both banks of the Meuse on Sunday the German forces gained ground from the French. They entered the French communicating communicat-ing trenches east of Hill 304 and gained a footing in the first French line between Haudremont wood and Fort Douamont over an extent of nearly near-ly a third of a mile. The French press subjects the German Ger-man note to the United States to severe se-vere analysis, drawing varying conclusions conclu-sions from it. Some newspapers consider con-sider that Germany has yielded, although al-though with bad grace. Others believe the document is a tortuous refusal. : A full squadron of 230 men of the Eleventh cavalry surprised and routed a much larger force of Villistas at Ojos Azules, seventeen miles south of Cusihuiriachic, May 5. First Chief Carranza sent a message to General Obregon informing the Mexican Mex-ican minister of war that he had found the agreement with the United States satisfactory, with the exception of a few minor points. At least 150 civilians were killed during the recent revolt In Ireland. A party of about 1,000 prisoners left Dublin Sunday for England; they were mostly from the country districts. Fifty-five Villistas were killed and sixty wounded in the fight at Ojos Azules Friday morning, the band of 140 being practically annihilated. The Prince of Wales now is in the Italian war zone as the guest of King Victor Emmanuel, with whom he is visiting vis-iting various points on the front, according ac-cording to a Havas dispatch from Rome. Belgian troops on April 19 captured German positions at Shangugu on the border of German East Africa and continued con-tinued progress south of Kivu lake, according ac-cording to the Belgian minister of the colonies. An uprising against the British in the Sudan is reported in dispatches from Constantinople to Berlin. All Dinar, the Iman of Darfour, with a force of troops and 8,000 camels is said to be marching against the British forces in northern Sudan. Two German submarines of the latest lat-est type, convoyed by two armed auxiliary aux-iliary cruisers, on April 29 attacked the French liner Venezla when about 100 miles southeast of Cape Race, approximately ap-proximately 1900 miles from New York in a direct line. General Juan Jimenez, president of Santo Domingo, has resigned. He took this action in order to prevent armed intervention by the United States. Quiet has been restored. Congress Con-gress will appoint a provisional president. presi-dent. General Robert George Nivelle has been appointed to direct the local operations at Verdun. He will succeed General Henri Philippe Petain, who has been promoted to be commandant in chief of the group of central armies in the sector between Soissons and Verdun. The sinking of a French fishing ves-vel ves-vel 150 miles from land by a submarine subma-rine is reported in an official communication commu-nication issued at London. "No mercy!" is the watchword of the British government in disposing of the high chiefs of the short-lived Irish revolution. Four of them were shot on May 2 after a swift trial by the military authorities. The government's military bill for immediate general compulsion passed its first reading in the British house of commons on May 2. Its passage was loudly cheered. |