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Show o ! History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. J. W. Halstead, aged 82, suicided at Salt Lake by leaping from a window on the seventh floor of an office building. build-ing. A lone bandit held up a train near Roy, Utah, taking a large quantity of registered mail from the mail car, but did not molest the passengers. The municipal league at Boise, Idaho, has inaugurated a movement to oust the mayor from office. Preparations for the most extensive sale of horses yet conducted in the west in connection with the European war are being made at Ogden, Utah. Western states stand out prominently, prominent-ly, with Utah near the top, in favorable favor-able reports recently compiled by the R. G. Dunn & Co. agency covering the nation's business for 1915. Utah is listed among the few states which had not a single bank failure to record re-cord last year. While attempting to recover a gas buoy which broke from its moorings during a high gale at Astoria, Ore., one of the boats from the United States lighthouse tender Manzanita was swamped by a breaker and three seamen were drowned. The steamer Honolulu is loading at Tacoma the most valuable cargo ever taken from Puget sound. It consists of war supplies for Vladivostock, and is worth $7, 000,000. The docks have been fenced in and are under heavy guard. A state "Roosevelt-for-president" league was formally launched at Helena, Hele-na, after an all-day conference attended at-tended by 100 Montana Republicans and Progressives. DOMESTIC. Six persons lost their lives early Sunday in the burning of the fashionable fash-ionable San Antonio Country club; five of the victims were guests at the club, which was the scene of a weekend week-end party. Consular reports to the state department de-partment say the Dominion line steamer Englishman, sunk near the British Isles, was torpedoed and that four Americans are missing. The English En-glish steamer was a horse ship. Champion Jess Willard won over Challenger Moran at New York in ten rounds of tame boxing, Willard having hav-ing the 'best of it in seven out of the ten rounds. Francisco Villa has escaped from the Mexican troops that had checked him near Namiquipa and three col- Brigadier General John J. Pershing, after ten days in Mexico, sends a warning to the American people to be prepared for a long campaign In Mexico. Mex-ico. The stay of the American troops may be prolonged for months. Loss estimated at more than half a million dollars was caused by fire at Houston, Texas, which started in the cotlon sheds of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway and spread to nearly a dozen other buildings and forty freight cars. Eight persons were killed in a farmhouse farm-house two miles east of Davis, Oklo., by a tornado. The path of the tornado was eight miles long. Rolhe A. York and Edwarl Karr, former Oakland policemen cmvicted of i onspiracy to circulate counterfeit $5 gold pi?ceo, were sentence! to two years each in the federal prison at McNeill Island. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has issued warning warn-ing that "sinister and unscrupulous influences" are spreading alarmist reports re-ports about the Mexican situation, with the object of forcing intervention interven-tion by the United States "in the interest in-terest of certain American owners of Mexican properties." Official information upon which President Wilson will decide whether the sinking of the steamship Englishman English-man and the damaging explosion of the channel steamer Sussex were the result of acts in violation of international interna-tional law, is being gathered from every available source by consular representatives of the United States in England and France. All of the entente powers through their embassies have handed to Secretary Secre-tary Lansing formal responses rejecting reject-ing the proposal made by the state department in its circular memorandum memoran-dum that they enter into a modus Vivendi Vi-vendi and disarm all of their merchant mer-chant ships. What are regarded as evidences of activity of powerful influences to force intervention in Mexico through the spreading of alarmist reports were discussed at Friday's cabinet meeting. Legal steps will probably be taken to squelch the alarmists. FOREIGN. Forty passengers, according to the best information so far obtained, lost their lives on the cross-channel steamer steam-er Sussex. Most of them were French women. Some twenty, it is said, were killed by the explosion which wrecked wreck-ed the vessel. The German raider Greif was sunk in the North sea February 29. Five German officers and 115 men out of a total of 300 were captured. The British Brit-ish lost seventy-four men. The British admiralty reports an attack at-tack by British seaplanes on the German Ger-man airship sheds at Schleswig-TIol-stein, east of the island of Sylt. The Germans claim three hydroplanes were captured. The British liner Minneapolis was sunk in the Mediterranean Dy a submarine, sub-marine, according to Captain Bibby of the British steamer Leicestershire, which has arrived at Marseilles from umns of American cavalry are pursuing pursu-ing him. The Americans troops are almost 250 miles south of the border. Eugene J. Gregory, former mayor of Sacramento, Cal., and once prominent . in Republican politics on the Pacific coast, died at the home of his son, in New York. He had been an invalid for the last five years. A total of 1,338 recruits have 'been added to the army in the last ten days, the war department announced. The American campaign to capture Francisco Villa has reached the point in the foothills of Chihuahua where it has been found necessary to dispense with heavy motor trucks as transport facilities and to depend entirely upon the army pack mule. Col. Theodore Roosevelt returned March 24 on the steamship Matura from the West Indies, silent on politics poli-tics and the Mexican situation, but announcing the discovery In Trinidad of what was to him a new variety of bird In which he was much interested. On March 24, in New York City, two world's champions successful defended defend-ed their titles. Freddie Welsh, lightweight light-weight titlcholder, scored a technical knockout over Frank Whitney of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, while Johnny Kil-Ibane, Kil-Ibane, featherweight champion, defeated defeat-ed Harry Donohue of Peoria, 111. Sheriff Peyton James Edwards of Rangoon. Dr. Karl Helfferich, secretary of the imperial treasury, told the reich-stag reich-stag that the fourth German war loan had been a brilliant success, the subscriptions sub-scriptions hav.ng reached mi-re than 10,600,000,000 marks. It is still in the French and Russian Rus-sian war theatres that the heaviest battles are in progress, but fighting also continues in the Austro-Italian zone, in Serbia, near the Greek frontier, fron-tier, and in Asiatic Turkey. The number of widows or British soldiers who have thus far been reported re-ported to the army council is 41,500, according to William Hays Fisher, parliamentary secretary of the local government hoard, in a speech to the house of commons on the widows' pension bill. The London Daily Sketch says thai a German invasion of England is likely like-ly to be attempted within the next few weeks. Walter Runciman, president of the London board of trade, announced in the house of commons that the British government was contemplating the prohibition of the importation of hops. C. H. Cawthorpe, member of the Saskatchewan legislature, was ordered held for trial at the next sessions of the supreme court when he appeared 'El Paso has telegraphed Gov. James E. Ferguson that he believed the state militia should be sent to the frontier. Three American women and one man were killed near Gibson's Line ranch on the New Mexico-Mexico 'boundary, eight miles west of Columbus Colum-bus ,N. M., on Friday. .Mexicans are charged with the crime. Melchor Ilerrera, brother of Gen. Luis Horrent, was released at El Paso by the United States authorities. He was taken into custody when reports became current there that General Ilerrera had revolted from the defac-to defac-to government. ' Lobsters reached the highest price ever known in New England. Friday, when they were quoted in the local market at 75 cents a pound. The state supreme court of Texas has held unconstitutional a law passed by the last legislature providing for the holding of a Democratic presidential presiden-tial preferential election. Fire caused damage estimated at from $5,000,000 to $S.Om),000 in the heart of the business district and the adjoining resident district at Augusta. Ga. A prairie fire started by burning waste oil and which burned over four sections of land iu the heart of the dishing (Oklahoma) oil field, caused a loss of $200,000. m jjuiiue luuh ill ieguia, iGasiv., 10 answer to a charge that he accepted $500 for his vote to defeat the government gov-ernment banish-the-bar liquor bill in 1913. Advices from Hongkong indicate that the state department mandate announcing abandonment of the plan to resume the monarchical form of government in China has met with a mixed reception in South China. A state department mandate issued at Pekin announced the abandonment of the monarchy and resumption of the Chinese republic. The mandate says the revolution shows that the demand de-mand for a monarchical form of government gov-ernment is not unanimous and that therefore Yuan Shi Kai rejects the emperorship em-perorship and resumes the presidency. Infantry attacks northwest of Verdun, Ver-dun, preceded by a vigorous bombardment, bombard-ment, have enabled the Germans to gain a foothold on the small hill of Hancourt, which lies just outside the village of Malancourt and between that town and the eastern edge of the Malancourt Ma-lancourt wood. The auxiliary ship Aurora of the Shackleton Antartic expedition has been damaged and is proceeding to New Zealand for repairs, according to a wire'ess despatch from te vessel received by the Lavy department at Melbourne. |
