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Show n o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed 2 Army officials expressed the belief l that the mysterious fire that did $1.-(XHUHjO $1.-(XHUHjO damage at two warehouses at the United States arsenals at St. Louis, Sunday morning, was of German origin. ori-gin. Four persons were killed and two probably fatally injured when a casing cas-ing head gasoline manufacturing plant, two miles south of Okmulgee, Okla. was wrecked by an explosion from ah unknown cause. Sixteen hundred thousand letters, written by the American soldiers overseas over-seas to their homes on Mother's day, have been received at Atlantic ports and are being delivered. "Win the war by victory and not by compromise bargaining," was the keynote key-note of the convention of the Indiana Republicans which nominated a state ticket and adopted a platform for the November election at Indianapolis, May -0. WASHINGTON. A revenue bill that will take up to SO per cent of profit's is aimed by the group of senators who have made up their minds to go after the war profiteers. pro-fiteers. They intend to bend every effort to have the new measure include provisions which will allow not more than 20 per cent of the war profits to go into the pockets now claiming them. Efforts of the national war board to adjust differences' between the Western West-ern Union Telegraph company and its employes have failed. A strike of the telegraphers will probably be called. Further restriction of the brewing of beer is in prospect, it was learned Saturday when the fuel administration announced that representatives of the brewery interests will be called to Washington in the next few weeks for a conference on beer production for the yeur beginning June 30. A resolution providing for two more years suspension of the act requiring that at least ,$100 in labor be expended on each mining claim annually was introduced in-troduced by Senator Henderson of Nevada. Because of the war the act had been suspended for two years. A renaissance of higher ideals and better living after the world war, was forecast by President Wilson Friday night in a talk to his fellow members of the Central Presbyterian church, gathered to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the church. FOREIGN. INTERMOUNTAIN. A note found among the effects of Bertram! Bishop of Walla Walla, declared de-clared he ovo('!rs. Chester T. Dewey and that as he could not possess her he intended to kill her and take his own life. The bodies of Bishop and Mrs. Dewey were found near a highway high-way not far from White Salmon, Wash. An examination of pension papers in state archives at Salt Lake City has been directed by the pension commissioner commis-sioner at the request of Senator Smoot. It is hoped that many misunderstandings misunderstand-ings of the past will be cleared up. Ludwig Kann, well known Seattle merchant, was held In Jail without bail, following his arrest on a complaint com-plaint charging that he had conspired to give the German government information infor-mation regarding American forces and defenses. Karl Schmidt, a German, who had disagreed with Pedro Dominguez, a Mexican, took a peculiar revenge at Reno, Nevada, a few days ago. Getting Get-ting the Mexican intoxicated, Schmidt induced him to give three cheers for the kaiser in a Iteno saloon. Dominguez Domin-guez is now in the hospital. In an address at Oakland, Cal., Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger, of Utah, declared : "If the capitalist of today would look back and remember that his ancestors were emigrants and working people, he would be able to get down and meet labor half way, and this would solve the so-called labor problem." DOMESTIC. The latest actual returns disclose subscriptions to the second American Red Cross fund amounting to $106,430,-201. $106,430,-201. Reports still coming in warrant the prediction that subscriptions will total fully $170,000,000. Destruction of two submarines within with-in half an hour by an American destroyer de-stroyer off the coast of France wa.s reported by an American ship arriving arriv-ing at an Atlantic Port from the war zone. The U-boats were sent down almost within sight of the French coast, it was said. Warehouses No. 23 and 24 at the United States arsenal at St. Louise were destroyed by fire shortly before midnight Saturday with a loss of army equipment stored there estimated by the police at more than $3,000,000. Peter Tomaceo, a Macedonian, shot and killed his former sweetheart, Mrs. Mabel Robinson, and her sister, Mrs. Ora Hillis, at Mishawaka, Ind. Lieutenant Douglas Campbell of San Jose, Cal., aviator with the American expeditionary forces in France, has brought down his fifth German airplane, air-plane, thereby winning the coveted distinction dis-tinction of "ace." Major Charles G. Treat, who was to have been relieved by Major General Leonard Wood as commander of the western department, may be given command of an expeditionary force on the Italian front. Forty passengers and trainmen were injured, one of the latter perhaps fa-tally, fa-tally, when a train was derailed near Lafayette, La. Grace Lusk was found guilty at Waukesha, Wis., of second degree murder mur-der for the killing of Mrs. Mary Newman New-man Roberts. l'rivate Frank Wormkee, alias Frank Woods, testified at the trial at Chicago of 112 Industrial Workers of the "World that he was asked by members of the organization at the Minneapolis headquarters head-quarters to teach sabotage in the American Am-erican army. Madame Margarete Arndt-Ober, German Ger-man prima donna, who is suing the Metropolitan Opera company for $50,-000 $50,-000 for alleged breach of contract, entered denial Tuesday at New York of the charge of the company that she is hostile toward the United States. Because a troop train bearing drafted draft-ed men to Georgia did not wait for all men to get aboard before departing from Kankakee, Ills., one man pulled the air cord and stopped the train and several others jumped off and stoned the engineer. Harry Oake of Bluff. Ills., prominent farmer and stock raiser, was struck and instantly killed by lightning on his ranch just north of Bluffs. Oake was riding a pony and giving instructions instruc-tions to his men when the bolt killed him. Paul Rosner In the Lokal Anzeiger ' says that Emperor William visited the German army north of Rheims, May 30, remaining until evening, working with individual commanders " and receiving re-ceiving reports from the battlefield. Food conditions in Turkey are becoming be-coming worse daily, according to authentic auth-entic reports reaching the British wireless service from London. The poorest classes in Turkey, these reports re-ports state, are forced to depend to a large extent upon chestnuts and pumpkin pump-kin seed. . "Mass murder" committed by the Turkish army advancing in the Caucasian Cau-casian districts' has brought a sharp protest from the Russian commissioner commission-er of foreign affairs to the Berlin foreign for-eign office. Responsibility . for the crime, the protest said, falls on the German government. After several repulses the Germans apparently have abandoned, temporarily tem-porarily at least, their efforts to retake re-take the ground captured by the Americans Ameri-cans at Cantigny. Allied air raids on German towns are demoralizing the German people. It is said that the effect upon the populations popu-lations of cities bombed was far greater great-er than heretofore reported. Germany is so well satisfied with the progress of events in the Ukraine, says a Stockholm dispatch, that she has decided to withdraw two-thirds of the German troops now in the east. The troops withdrawn will be used on the western front and they will be replaced in the east vvith Austrians. Thirty Y. M. C. A. workers, in the face of the German advance and under heavy shell and machine gun fire, carried car-ried supplies to the French soldiers during the fighting Friday. They burned burn-ed their own warehouses to keep them from falling into the hands of the Germans. One hundred huts were destroyed de-stroyed by shell fire, Two of Germany's newest and largest larg-est submarines of the cruiser class were sunk May 17 and 18 near Gibraltar. Gibral-tar. "The American victory of Tuesday," says the London Star, "has not received re-ceived the attention it merits. The more we hear of the American army, the better. So great is the German chagrin that they have not yet ventured ven-tured to mention the victory." A German submarine, lying in wait for transports carrying American troops, was rammed and sunk by a large transport off the Irish coast during dur-ing the second week in May, it has just been learned. The transport ship Lcasowo Castle bus been sunk by an enemy submarine, the British admiralty announced Wednesday. Wed-nesday. One hundred and one persons per-sons were drowned. Alfonso Barcra Paniche. editor of La Rendencion, a daily newspaper published pub-lished in Mexico Cil.v, was shot and killed recently while driving in the suburbs of the capilal. Germany is again to have an accredited ac-credited diplomatic representative at Buenos Aires. Count Iionlioff, who as ' secrel a iy to the legation under Count von Luxburg, Hie dismissed ambassador, am-bassador, will pre-en! his credentials at once to ibe foreign office as the German charge d'a ffa i res. The removal of children from I'ai'lx wa.s begun May 30 when 1000 children from Ibe Monlmnrtrc district of the city were placed on board a special train bound for a vacation colony In the department of Alllera, In eon Ira.' France. Kansas Democrats meeting at Tope-ka, Tope-ka, drafted a full ticket and made preparations pre-parations for entering the primaries in August. A heavy rain which fell all day Tuesday Tues-day In most parts of the stale kept South Dakota voters at home and as a result the lightest vote ever recorded in the state was cast in the primary election, according to the incomplete reports. At a "work or fight" conference of federal slate and city officials at Chicago, Acting Chief of Police Al-cock Al-cock was authorized In begin immediately imme-diately to roundup of idlers. The drastic dras-tic plan calls for iuducijon of loafers into Industry by Hie federal employment employ-ment service unless I hey choose to enlist. Three lives are known to have been lost and much properly damage done in portions of the Panhandle region of Texas as a result of heavy rain and windstorms- which swept this part of the country. |