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Show History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed r i- ijt Ui INTEHMOUNTAIN. In a riot Saturday In Hie business district dis-trict of .Seatlle, twenty persons were injured by flying slones anil bricks ivben an attempt was made by t lie l'uget Sound Traction, Light & Power company to operate cars through the si reels. All Ilio mines in Hie I.eaville, Colo., metal mining district, are shut down following a strike order issued by the local branch of the Inl enial ional Mine, Mill ami Smeller Workers. When an n ill o skidded near Salt .Lake, U. T. Brooks was killed anil three others injured. The party was Joy-riding in a borrowed machine. "During the coming strike, we urgently urg-ently request all workers to conduct I hetnsel ves in a manner becoming law-abiding law-abiding citizens," said a statement issued is-sued today by Ibe Leadville, Colo., branch of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Colorado coal operators have adopted adopt-ed a maximum price of !.'! a ton for mine run and !f4.2." for lump and prepared pre-pared coals to be effective from today to-day to September 1. The decision Is In line with action by coal operators opera-tors and government officials in the east. All hope of preventing the strike of -metalliferous miners in the Leadville, Colo., district lias been abandoned. Two thousand men are affected. DOMESTIC. More I ban ten persons were injured, .some probably fatally, when a storm of cyclonic proportions swept for thirty miles along the route of the Chicago & Joliet Electric railroad, just oulsiile the city limits of Chicago. Recent increases iu friegbt rates on bituminous coal from mines in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee Ten-nessee to points in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan were upheld Saturday by the Interstate, commerce commission, with certain minor exceptions. A ,$,"50,000,000 crop is being realized real-ized from vacant lot and home gardens, gar-dens, the emergency commission lias .announced. i'leasure riding in automobiles whould be curtailed to assist the government gov-ernment in a successful prosecution of the war. Too much gasoline is he--ing used, and the American people ought to use their cars only in cases i of necessity, is the opinion of the ad- ' visory commission of the council of ..national defense. German anti-draft plotters have made such strenuous efforts to gain adherents among laboring men, especially espe-cially on the East Side iu New York City, that an investigation has been (undertaken by the American Federa-. Federa-. lion of Labor. Two million seven hundred thousand rounds of ammunition, bought and paid for in this country more than a year and a half ago by the Mexican . government, has been released for .shipment into Mexico. Several houses were destroyed and "000 people were temporarily driven from their homes when a 55,000 barrel bar-rel oil tank on the outskirts of Drum-right, Drum-right, Okla., was exploded by a stroke . of lightning. The contents of the . tank rushed down through part of the i residence section in a flaming torrent. Members of the Chicago board of trade, recognizing a national emergency, emerg-ency, voted to delegate full powers to the board of directors to take action, ac-tion, at any time during the war, which it may deem to the best interests inter-ests of the board and of the country. Although George C. Tompkins of Philadelphia has confessed that he : murdered his business associate, Ed-:inuud Ed-:inuud I. Humphries, Philadelphia coal operator, Mrs. Humphries and their son Edmund I. Jr., on a country road near Carrolltown, Pa., there is still much mystery as to the motive for the triple shooting. Socialist delegates bolted the convention con-vention of the Minnesota State Fedora-iiou Fedora-iiou of Labor at Faribault because of the convention's refusal to permit reconsideration re-consideration of a resolution adopted previously pledging support to the na-iional na-iional administration. Koland S. Morris of Philadelphia has been chosen for appointment as ambassador am-bassador to Japan to succeed the late Ambassador Guthrie. A plot to spread terror through Kansas Kan-sas by the means of disease inoculation inocula-tion through court plaster was stated by Fred ltobertson, district attorney of Kansas, at Kansas City, Kan., to have been broken up through the arrests ar-rests of three men in different towns of the state. One American soldier was killed and -.five other soldiers injured, one seriously, seri-ously, when four coaches of a troop train turned completely over and three oilier cars were derailed at Shamrock, Texas. In an effort to stimulate interest in aviation and to afford men, women, boys and iirls throughout the country -an opportunity to take part in the movement to make America first in .aeronautics, I lie Aero Club of America ?m.s announced the organization of the Aerial League of America. Hear Admiral Ad-miral Poliei l E. Peary is president. Two brothers, Estell and Koy Crawford, Craw-ford, were killed at Smithland. Ky., when cartridges In the farm-housn were struck by lightning and penetrated penetrat-ed the brothers' bodies. A complete revision in the plans for locations of the second officers' training train-ing camps to open August L'T. lias been decided on by the war department depart-ment as a result of a ivinspection of the sites previously chosen. More than S50.I HK I.I Kill will be expended ex-pended on storage facilities on liie Atlantic At-lantic coast to supply the troops in France. Finding the civil service unable to supply the increasing demand of gov-; eriiinental agencies for trained stenographers, sten-ographers, typists and clerks, the woman's committee of the defense council has undertaken to enroll for such service t lie many women of trained minds throughout the country. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has made up bis liiind to intervene in the shipbuilding row and will take steps to relieve the situation. Tlie administration food control bill, virtually rewritten after five weeks' bitter contest, was passed July - by the senate, 81 to G. The measure now goes to conference and should be in the president's hands by August 1. The house appropriation of $040,000,-000 $040,000,-000 for the aviation service, was passed by the senate without amendment amend-ment or a record vote' and with less than an hour's discussion: It now goes to the president. Secretray Daniels has submitted to the house estimates aggregating $1.'!7,-,'!0(),1T7 $1.'!7,-,'!0(),1T7 for war needs of the navy, in-clud.g in-clud.g ammunition, ordnance supplies, improvements of yards and docks, clothing and enlargement of the navy yard and gun factory at Washington. In response to protests against training of northern national guardsmen guards-men in southern states, n letter from Secretary Baker, read in the senate, said the arrangement had been made for climatic reasons and that the guardsmen probably cannot be sent to France before cold weather. Selective conscription was put into effect July 20 when a national lottery fixed the order of military liability for the 10,000,000 young Americans registered for service. To accomplish the result, 10,500 numbers had to be drawn one at a time, a task which began be-gan in the morning and lasted far into the night. FOREIGN. Siani has declared that a state of war exists with Germany and Austria, according to a Reuter dispatch received re-ceived from Bangkok. Nine steamers, aggregating 10,000 tons, have been seized. Admiral von Tripitz, father of the submarine campaign, is expected to seek a seat iu the reichstag, with the view of becoming one of the political leaders of the National Liberals, according ac-cording to dispatches from Berlin. - The Mexican house of deputies - has approved a .measure granting permission permis-sion to President Carranza to contract a loan for 100,000,000 pesos to finance the new government bank issue. Kennedy Jones, England's retiring director general of food economy, declared de-clared iu an interview Sunday that England's' En-gland's' food supply for the year was assured, even if the present rate of shipping losses were maintained. Prince Leopold of Bavaria is making the most of the disaffection that under extremist influence developed in the Russian army in northeastern Galicia, and is pressing into the Russian lines along a twenty-five-mile front between Zlochoff and Tarnopol. American troops in France will extend ex-tend the scope of their training by beginning be-ginning to practice bomb and hand grenade throwing. The majority of the officers, including even some from the general staff, have already experimented experi-mented along this line. The British seizure of German ships was denounced as a brutal assault on defenseless merchantmen and a "profligate act," by Dr. Kriege, director direc-tor of the judicial department of the German foreign office, in replying to a question in the reichstag. A number of persons were wounded when strikers and gendarmes fired upon each other in Valencia, Spain. The Swedish government has expropriated expro-priated growing crops of all cereals, legumes and sugar beets. It has also ordered expropriated all stocks of these which may be on band September Septem-ber 1 from the 1910 crops, with the exception of limited quantities in private pri-vate households. Premier Kerensky has again started for the front at the instance of the central committee of soldiers' and workmen's delegates, according to a Renter. dispatch from Fetrograd. The provisional government of Russia Rus-sia has issued a proclamation to the nation setting forth the seriousness of the situation, declaring that its first duty is to apply its whole strength against the foreign foe and in defense of the administration against anarchi-al anarchi-al and counter-revolutionary attempts, and outlining important reforms throughout the country. President Carranza of the de facto government of Mexico has issued a decree de-cree postponing the election indellnite-ly indellnite-ly of the governorship of the state of Tainaulipas, which -as to have been held July 20. German troops have pushed forward through three strong Russian zones of defense between the seretb anil Zlota Li pa rivers in eastern Galicia. the war office at Berlin announced July 20. Th Russians sacred heavily, the statement adds, and are retreating in disorder. The Germans took a few thousand prisoners. |