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Show D History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed g INTEKMOUNTAIN. Thirty-seven Industrial Workers of ; the World, arrested In their hall at Seattle following a riot in which a Holdier was shot In the leg, were released re-leased by Seattle police Sunday night, luiil twelve were ordered held for federal fed-eral Investigation as to their registration registra-tion for conscription. Mooilualers from the Pathfinder lain, says a ( 'asper.v W.vo.. dispatch, caused a number of ranchers to defter de-fter I their homes. No casualties have been reported. The arrest of Clarence I). Vanduzer, former congressman from Nevada, former Culled Slates district attorney aid former speaker of the Nevada legislature, leg-islature, and of .1. Elson Smith of Car-non Car-non City, Nov., on a charge of conspiracy con-spiracy to defraud in connection with Hit sale of .$25,001) worth of mining mock to residents of Clarion county, Is announced at Clarion, Pa. Merwin Stookey, aged 17, was killed at Tooele, I 'tall, when a gasoline gaso-line engine he was using in the dig-King dig-King of a well exploded with terrific force. Approximately 800 employees of the International Smelting company at Tooele, Utah, went on strike June 14, and the big smelter is at a standstill. The action of the men, who comprise common laborers and semi-skilled laborers, la-borers, came as a surprise.' Workers in twenty Seattle laundries struck on .lune 14 for a general increase in-crease In wages. The workers decided on the strike when they learned the proprietors were planning a lockout of the union employees. Officers of the United Mine Workers, Work-ers, representing members of that organization or-ganization employed ny the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, have telegraphed tele-graphed their national officers asking permission to strike. DOMESTIC. Ht-nry Conly, a negro, was lynched by a mob of 1000 men and women near Holdenville, Okla., after, it is said, he had been positively identified by Mrs. Jesse L. Burford, wife of a well-to-do farmer, as the man who had attacked her. Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, called the two leading anarchists anar-chists in this country, were held for action by the federal grand jury at New York in $25,000 bail each on charges of conspiracy against the government. gov-ernment. They are accused of working work-ing to prevent registration for selective selec-tive draft. The engagement of Miss Marion Cleveland, youngest daughter of Grov-.r Grov-.r Cleveland, to William Stanley Dell of New York City, has been announced. an-nounced. All male British subjects between the ages of IS and 45 years now in the United States are to be compelled to join the British colors if the laws of this country will permit, it was made known Saturday. Discovery of the body of lS-year:old Ruth Cruger, the missing high school student, who had been murdered and then buried under the cellar of a shop occupied by a bicycle dealer in New York who tied to Italy after she disappeared, dis-appeared, cleared a mystery which had baffled the police for months. Three men, were injured, one so seriously he may die, and a dozen other oth-er men and women narrowly escaped death and serious injury early Sunday w hen four automobiles crashed together to-gether in the Milwaukee road near Niles a suburb of Chicago. Gorge G. Campbell, 24- years of age. receiving teller in the Des Moines National bank; O. H. Phelps, 23 years of age, press feeder for the Western Newspaper Union, and their wives were drowned in the Des Moines river when their gasoline launch ran out of fue' and upset against submerged piling pil-ing in the flooded stream. The American people have responded respond-ed to the government's call for funds to finance the war with an oversubscription oversub-scription to the .$2,000,000,000 liberty loan. Individuals and corporations throughout through-out the country paid an income tax during the fiscal year now closing of J330,505X2S. Of this total, $170,037.-040 $170,037.-040 was paid by corporations and $1 G0,52S,5SS b individuals. Organized labor has been called upon formally by the American Federation of Labor to get behind the campaign for enactment of the administration food legislation by July 1. All unions lire urged in a letter by President Gompers to press their congressmen for prompt action. Jail life has so far tamed the sixty-seven sixty-seven slackers arrested at Duluth, that fifty-one of them changed their minds and were willing to register. They were told that, local authorities had no power to allow such action now and that their cases would have to go before the grand jury. Waldeniar von Nostitz, G5 years old, former editor of the Waechter Und Anzeiger, a German daily published at Cleveland, has been arrested by federal fed-eral agents on the charge of being an alien enemy, and will be interned for the rest of the war. The American commission for relief in Belgium has announced that since June 8 eleven of their ships, carrying an aggregate of fSO.OoO tons of foodstuffs, food-stuffs, have arrived at Rotterdam and it is expected an equal number will reach thai port ill the next two weeks. The vast amount of steel merchant shipping under construction in Anieri can yards- probably 2.IMMI.0O0 tons, will be taken over immediately by the government under power sri-.uted in a provision of ilie war budget biil signed June 15 by President Wilson. Fit'fy-tive per cent of the women of the United States are ' Mappers," according ac-cording to Airs. ICayii'O id Kcbins of .he woman's committee of the national coiincfT of defense. Mrs. Kobins's definition defi-nition of a "Mapper" is a woman who does not work women of all kinds who live at home and are supported by their relatives. WASHINGTON. After days of debate the senate on June l(i passed the preferential shipping ship-ping bill. This measure allows the president to give priority over certain shipments. It was fostered by the administration ad-ministration as a war movement. Secretary McAdoo has announced that no part of the great oversubscription oversubscrip-tion to the Liberty loan would be accepted ac-cepted and that his statement of May 10, in which he declared that the issue would be limited to $2,000,000,000 stood good now as then. Full approval has been given by the war department to the oir-supremacy program of the defens .-ouncil's aircraft air-craft board, and President Wilson has been asked to put the administration's support behind the great project for which an appropriation of $000,000,000 is sought. Lawyers flooding the war department depart-ment with applications for places in the judge advocate general's department depart-ment were warned in an official statement state-ment that the places to be filled are not of "a silk stocking character.'" Secretary Daniels has asked congress con-gress for $700,000 for warm clothing for bluejackets on cold duty at sea and for amusements to keep them happy in training camps ashore. Special appropriation bills were asked. Before a great audience assembled at Washington on June 14 for a Flag day celebration, President Wilson declared de-clared anew the aims and purposes ot the United States in entering the world war. FOREIGN. The report comes from Stockholm that Germany has made an offer of peace to Russia through a member of the Swiss federal council. German airships made a raid on the east and southeast coast of England Sunday morning. One Zeppelin was brought down in flames. The American ambassador, William Graves Sharp, visited the hospital of the Ecosse on Sunday, says a Paris dispatch, and in the presence of the Belgian, Danish and Portuguese minis-' ters and French medical officers distributed dis-tributed military medals and war crosses to the wounded. Two persons were killed and sixteen injured in Sunday night's air raid over Loudon, during which a Zeppelin was brought down. General Chang Hsun now is dictator, dicta-tor, President Li-Yuan Hung being little lit-tle more than a figurehead. The insurgents in-surgents are calling a convention at Tien-Tsin for the purpose of forming a provisional government headed by the dictator. It was announced in the British house of commons on June 15 that the government had decided to release all the prisoners taken in the Irish rebellion rebel-lion of Easter Sunday, a ,c-ar ago. Large quantities of condensed or evaporated milk have been bought at retail by German agents and shipped to Germany through ntutra! ports, the department of commerce was in formed by the wa : committee of the condensed milk industry. In a fight between the American tanker Moreni and a German submarine, sub-marine, over 350 shots being exchanged, ex-changed, the Moreni was sunk and four of her men killed. The German commander congratulated the American Ameri-can captain npon his game fight. Rumors of a serious revolutionary movement in Spain an; given prominence promin-ence in a section of the British press. There has been an almost complete absence of news from the peninsula since the appointment of the new ministry. min-istry. Four French ships of more than 1000 tons, one under that size and three fishing boats were sunk by mines or submarines during the week ended June 14. It has been decided that nil the members mem-bers of the Hellenic royal family except the new king will leave Greece, accompanied ac-companied by the most prominent pro-German pro-German politicians and military leaders lead-ers who form part of the entourage of former King Constantine, says a London Lon-don dispatch. Major General Pershing arrived in Paris on June 13. The genaral received re-ceived a tumultuous welcome as he proceeded through the thronged boulevards. boule-vards. England is given less than two more months of life by Herr von Heyde-brad. Heyde-brad. conservative leader in the reich-slag. reich-slag. In a swift and deadly raid on the city of London on June 13 German airplanes took a heavy toll in killed and wounded, 97 being killed and 437 wounded, women and children predominating pre-dominating in the list. The death by starvation within three months of 500 Belgians interned in Germany is reported in a semi-official statement given out at Havre, j France. |