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Show o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed s INTERMOUNTAIN. Septimus Charlton, who is said to have been a millionaire broker in New York at one time, died at Seattle in extreme poverty, and his body was taken to the public morgue. Plans have been started at Reno, Nev., for a memorial funeral service with full military honors for Capt. Charles T. Boyd, killed at Carrizal. Captain Iloyd was commandant of the University of Nevada cadets for four years. An explosion In the smoking car of Southern Pacific train No. 5, on its arrival at Oakland from Ogden, Utah, 'blew a big hole In the steel roof and injured eight passengers. Mrs. Charles Stone and her two children were drowned near Winifred Mont., when a big cloudburst rushed down a deep coulee upon the tent iu which they were living. Robert (Bob) D. Meldrum, sometimes some-times called the "Gunman" Marshal, was sentenced in the district court at Cheyenne to from five to seven years in the state penitentiary for the murder mur-der of John (Chick) Bowen at Baggs, Wyo., January 16, 191?. The Western Pacific railroad was sold to the reorganization committee of the road for $18,000,000 at a public auction at Oakland. DOMESTIC. Charles E. Van Zant, 23 years old, son of a Philadelphia physician, was attacked by a shark or other big fish while bathing in the surf off Beach lHaven, N. J., according to eyewitnesses, eyewit-nesses, and died 'before he could be rescued. Alvin Smith of New Canton, 111., was kicked into the water of the Sni by his pet calf and was drowned. Francisco Villa, with 1,200 followers, follow-ers, is in the state of Durango near the Zacatecas border, according to a report made to General Bell by a scout who reached the border after a month's individual pursuit of the bandit chieftain. Fred H. Merrick, convicted of Inciting Incit-ing to riot in connection with the attack at-tack of the Westinghouse strikers in the Edgar Thompson mill at Pittsburg in May was sentenced to three and one-half years in the workhouse. Immigration officials at Douglas, Ariz., have refused the applications for readmission to the United States of a large number of Mexicans who recently left Arizona with the avowed intention of taking up arms in behalf of Mexico. i The First battery of Utah field artillery, ar-tillery, with Capt. W. C. Webb in command, com-mand, arrived at Nogales, Ariz., on June 30, and immediately detrained and went into camp. Hans Tauscher, former German army officer, was acquitted by a jury at New York of conspiracy to blow up the Welland canal. The mulct repeal law which closed saloons in Iowa, January 1, 1916, is valid and constitutional, according to a unanimous decision of the Iowa supreme su-preme -court. The dead bodies of Randolph Alger and wife and a miner were found by a brother of Alger in the bottom of a 100-foot mine shaft twenty miles southwest of Kingman, Ariz. It is believed be-lieved the two men were killed by a premature explosion and that the woman wo-man lost her life in attempting to rescue ther,. The twenty-three negro troopers of the Tenth cavalry, who at Carrizal, Villa Ahumada, Chihuahua City aurt J'.iaiez have beon central figures in tiie most ;.fikii..g and poterti-il chapters chap-ters of 'he M?iean situat' m, arc once more safoly out of Mexico, reaching reach-ing El Paso, June 29. Four Vi'iistas who took part in the Columbus raid were executed by hanging hang-ing in the county jail at Deming, N. Seven mn were killed instantly and five, others seriously burned about the body when several thousand pounds of powder exploded in the dry house at the Aetna Explosive company's plant at Emporium, Pa. Charles E. Hughes, the Republican president nominee, at Bridgehampton, X. Y., on Saturday on his first real vacation va-cation in ten years, golfed a little, motored mo-tored a little and devoted the remainder remain-der of the day just to walking about. President Wilson made it plain in his speech at the New York Press c'.ub banquet Friday night that he will not countenance a war with Mexico lyilil there is no other alternative alter-native for settling the border troubles. WASHINGTON. Petitions requesting that President Wilson urge the British government to grant clemency to Sir Roger Casement, Case-ment, the Irish revolutionist, are pouring pour-ing into the White House from many parts of the country. Creation of a non-partisan tariff commission of six members with broad inquisitorial powers is provided in the general revenue bill introduced by Democratic Leader Kitchin of the house. The government closed its fiscal year June 30 with total receipts of $S38,403,969 and total disbursements of J759.6S6.159, an excess of $78,737,-S10 $78,737,-S10 compared with a deficit of $50,. 4-36,580 for the year ending June 3C last. The naval bill, carrying the increased increas-ed building program agTeed on by-the naval committee, was reported to the senate Friday. It carries an appropriation appro-priation of $315,836,833 for 1917, and contemplates a total expenditure of $388,180,576 for construction during the next three years An agreement under which congress con-gress is expected to authorize a federal fed-eral bond issue to meet the extraordinary extraor-dinary axpenses of the Mexican emergency emer-gency has been reached by administration adminis-tration leaders. FOREIGN. The British troops in their great drive in France, Begun July 1, have captured a German labyrinth of trendies on a front of seven miles to a depth of 1,000 yards and the villages of Montauban and Mametz. An action has been fought in the Baltic sea between Gothland and the Swedish coast by Russian and German Ger-man warships, according to an announcement an-nouncement made in Petrograd and transmitted by Reuters' Telegram company. Two American sailors from the cruiser Salem were wounded during a clash with armed Mexicans at Tarn-pico. Tarn-pico. Mobilization of troops in western Sonora has been brought practically to a standstill through lack of fuel to operate lines of transportation, according accord-ing to reports to railway officials in Nogales, Sonora. Street rows in Berlin after the sentencing sen-tencing of Editor Karl Liebknecht, t lie Socialist leader, to penal servitude and dismasal from the army for attempted at-tempted high treason aud resistance to the authorities, are. described in Dutch newspapers. The details of the appointment of David Lloyd-George as minister of war have been settled, the Daily Chronicle Chro-nicle says, and his appointment will be announced shortly. In official circles in Mexic City it is believed that with the release of the twenty-three United States troopers troop-ers and the American guide, taken prisoners at Carrizal, a great step toward the peaceful solution of the controversies between the United States and Mexico had been taken. Fighting has broken out again in Morocco between natives and Spanish troops. The announcement is made that in a heavy engagemeat the Moroccan Mo-roccan rebels had been repulsed with large losses. Successes for the entente allies on the three most important European fronts in France, in the Italian theater thea-ter and in East Galicia are chronicled chroni-cled in the latest official communications, communica-tions, says a London dispatch. Sir Roger Casement has been convicted con-victed of treason at London and sentenced sent-enced to death. An appeal will be taken. In a Russian attack over a front of twenty-five miles, extending eastward from Kolomea. in Galicia tho Anctrt- Police Judge Brady was granted permission by the city commissioners of Kansas City to erect a post in the business district to which men convicted con-victed of beating their wives could be chained during the day for any number num-ber of days the court fixed. Romulo S. Naon, Argentine ambassador ambas-sador to the United States, issued a statement at New Y'ork, in which he stated that, while he had made no offer of-fer of mediation looking to the settlement set-tlement of the differences between the United States and Mexico, he was "in candor confident that the present crisis will be peacefully settled." Charles K Hughes discussed the coming political campaign for two hours with William H. Taft at Bridgehampton, Bridge-hampton, N. J., on Friday. The Indiana Progressive state central cen-tral committee has instructed William H. Dye, national coimni toeman from Indiana, to communicate with the central conr.nii tees of other states and start a movtiirnt for calling anoih'T national convention of the par'y to name a presidential candidate. Announcement is made by the Florida Flor-ida East Cn ck Railroad company that beginning July 1 all its employees who have readied the age of TU year.-will year.-will be it-tired and those having served serv-ed afieasi. ten years prior to retire, pient will be pensioned. ans have been compelled to retire on a part of the front in the region of Kolomea and southward. It is announced semi-officially at Berlin that a general meat card for the entire empire will be introduced September 1. The cards already have been introduced in the south German states and the larger cities of Prussia. Announcement is made by the Berlin Ber-lin war office that the Germans have captured the village of Linenka, west of Sokul and Russian positions south of that point. One American soldier was killed and another wounded in an engagement reported re-ported by Rear Admiral Caperton between be-tween the United States marines and Santo Domingo rebels, in which the laUer were routed. Thomas Kelly, millionaire contractor, contract-or, accused of defrauding the provinco of Manitoba in the erection of parliament parlia-ment buildings at Winnipeg, was founn jruilly by a jury in assize court. Mexico 'lty newspapers are pun .'ishinc f;tories to tiie effect that the "vaeua.t'on of Mexican lerritory by .'nieriean troops .already had commenced com-menced and laying that these forces v.iil soon reach the frontier, where Hiey wiil be compelled to remain by the army of General Trevino, who will refuse to allow them to reocciipy the territory relinquished. |