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Show NEWS OF 11 WEEK III CONDENSED FORM HECORD Of THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Hppenlng That Are Making Hlitory Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe n4 Given In a Few Line. INTER MOUNTAIN. ''harlcs T. I'.iu'.'.ii was a'iiiilli'il of j tlic cliai'ge of murdering Kdwnnl I'.(;ll Jtodgeis In a lUMiver hotel on l-'crnMi-nry 'Si. Iinnicdiah'ly afler the verdict Urown was arr'sleil on a charge of violating the federal while slave act. The news comes from I'm-thind that Max . Houser, scrond vice president of the United Slates drain corporation, corpora-tion, has been exonerated of charges of manipulation of the grain market during dur-ing Ids term of office as an official of Hie federal grain corporation. ('. Haysmer Thompson, a .student at the conservatory of music of the state iigrleull oral college at l''ort Collins, Colo., broke? bis neck when he fell from bis hunk in the Jail where lie was walling trial on a charge of attempting at-tempting to extort money from a local hanker by means of "blackhand" letters. let-ters. The coroner's jury In the case of Thomas Manning, believed to have been one of fifteen strikers wounded in rioting April 21. between officers and mine guards anil miners near the Neversweat mine at Unite, returned a verdict reporting 'itself unable to fix the responsibility for Manning's death. Officials of mining ..ampanios in liutte which had posted notices announcing an-nouncing they would employ no members mem-bers of the Industrial Workers of the World, are conferring on what they Raid were plans to rid the district of radical organizations which they blamed for numerous strikes in the dislrict during the past six years. Landslides and washouts, due to heavy rains, are affecting train service ser-vice In Montana. DOMESTIC. One of the most daring train robberies rob-beries in the middle west in recent years ended Friday morning in the death of a lone bandit who looted the Illinois Central-New Orleans limited near Pullman, 111., and the recovery of currency estimated to total nearly $100,000. One policeman shot by the bandit is dead and another is seriously wounded. One man Is dead and four critically 111 at Florence, Arizona, after having eaten preserved string beans and preserved pre-served beets. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, in convention at Boston, adopted a resolution indorsing a plan to join with farmers and the. Brotherhood Brother-hood of Kailroad Trainmen in a cooperative co-operative system for banks and stores. Miss Mary White Friday night shot herself after her leap-year proposal had been rejected by Joseph Keller, nt Chicago. Miss White invited Keller Kel-ler to dinner, took him to a picture show and suggested a walk in the park. There she proposed marriage and announced she had furnished an apartment for Keller. Henry Layer, a farmer, has confessed con-fessed to the killing of Jacob Wolf, his wife and five children and a chore boy, Jake Hofer, on the Wolf farm three miles west of Turtle Lake, X. D., on April '2'2. Thomas Abernathy, a Pullman porter por-ter running between Los Angeles and El l'aso, acquired a handsome home, nil expensive automobile and a saddle horse after prohibition became a fact. His prosperity attracted federal. agents and he is now7 in jail. Indiana ltepublicans in state convention, con-vention, by a margin of seven votes, instructed the four delegates at large to the national convention to support Maj. Con. Leonard Wood for the presidential pres-idential nomination. Kight persons were drowned in their homes at .-irdniore, S. D., Thursday, as a result of a cloudburst. The federal grand jury, sitting at Pittsburg, indicted the Books Shoe company and three officers of the concern con-cern on charges that they violated the Lever act by charging unjust and unreasonable un-reasonable prices for shoes. William J. McClendliss, superintendent superinten-dent Chicago - Omaha aerial mail division, was killed when an airplane in which he was riding was blown into a tree four miles south of Oskaloosa, Iowa. Complete double-tracking of the Union Pacific railroad from Omaha to Ogden, excepting two stretches in Wyoming which aggregate eighty miles, will be accomplished when contracts con-tracts recently let to the Utah Construction Con-struction company are completed. Readjustment of the wage rates for skilled labor in all navy yards and shipyards operated by the government working on government contracts will be made before July 1 by a special board representing the navy department, depart-ment, shipping board and the organized organ-ized crafts. Prices of lumber on the Omaha market mar-ket have declined from 8 to 10 per cent on quotations being issued by tome dealers. Contractors have taken a brace and are beginning to lay plans for greater activity during the summer. K'.hleri'-o whb-h fh" aurborities ST Involve- iimii-i- ihau lu.imii jH-r-nus in I New- !. and i!,e ;i:lt' ;,;,t :u'-s I In violation of the national prohibition law, ha- boon gathered by of.'i.-ers. it is annoiinoed. Although they fell l.'ij feet into the Niagara gorL'e, Thomas Meroez'.-:, 4."i, and bis eight-year-old daughter are Mill alive- in a NiaL'ar Falls N. V., hospital. They will die. physicians said. The girl told deteeiives that her father threw tier over tin; hank and ! heii jumped a ft er her. doorgo dohlbai-h. years old. said to have been at one time ;m inmate of a hospital for the insane, lias eo',,-fessod eo',,-fessod that he killed 11. J. Kobbins, retired banker of Shelton, Neb., at Los Angeles on the night of May : because be-cause Kobbins "tried to ri'uuil him off the sidewalk." WASHINGTON. Appearing before a house committee commit-tee investigating the sugar conditions, Herbert Hoover declared that the world shortage of the product was likely to continue two or three years. The pressing need was rationing, he said. During a brief flare-up in the senate, sen-ate, Senator Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, Tex-as, was culled to order by Vice President Pres-ident Marshall, who charged him with having reflected upon a sovereign state, in violation of the senate rules. General increase in pay for the army, navy, marine corps, public service ser-vice and coastguard were assured when both houses, by practically a unanimous vote, approved the conference con-ference report on the pay bill. Petitions have been presented to Attorney General Palmer, President Wilson and Secretary Baker, by a committee from the Socialist party, seeking the release of Eugene V. Debs and other war time offenders. Western members of the house lost their fight against a legislative rider to the agriculture appropriation bill which they said would result in increased in-creased grazing fees on forest reserve lands. Walker D. Hines, who retires Saturday Sat-urday as director-general of railroads, has been selected by the. president to be the arbitrator between various European Eu-ropean countries concerned in questions ques-tions affecting navigation on the Danube, Dan-ube, Khine, Oder, Elbe and other rivers of central Europe. FOREIGN President C'"''anza, who with a force of loyal troops has been resisting resist-ing rebel attacks near San Marcos, state of Tuebla, for several days, has broken through the rebel lines to the southeast and, accompanied by 1000 men, has fled into the mountains between be-tween Puebla and Oaxaca. Adolfo de la Huerta, supreme commander com-mander of the revolutionary movement in Mexico, has issued a call for the Mexican congress to convene and nnme a provisional president. The body of a beautiful young Russian Rus-sian woman has been found in Lake Geneva, off Ouchey. On the reverse side of one of the bank notes found upon her was written "Good-bye. Am another victim of the Bolsheviki." It was signed "Countess W." News of the crossing of the frontier fron-tier from Honduras by a party of Salvadorean Sal-vadorean revolutionists who had fled from Salvador in March, has been made public by the government organ. The invasion is under the leadership of Arturo Araujo, who aspires to the presidency of the republic, the newspaper news-paper says. Loot amounting to more than 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 francs in cash and jewels was taken from the passengers of the steamer steam-er Souirah by pirates on May 0, when they overcame officers and crew and made a thorough search of the vessel, according to word tbat comes from Constantinople. A rebellion has occurred in Moscow, but appears to have been summarily quelled by the soviet government, according ac-cording to private advices received at Copenhagen. Organized incendiarism by the rebels caused many fires in the bolshevist capital and a number of military depots were destroyed. Forty-six Germans, ranking from an army corps commander to private, figure fig-ure on the allies' first specified list of war criminals to be arraigned in the Leipsic supreme court. Prominent among them are Prince Ernst of Saxony Sax-ony and General von Buelow, commander comman-der of the second army corps. The Italian cabinet, of which Fran- , cisco Nitti is the premier and minister of interior, has resigned. The decision deci-sion to resign came when the chamber adopted by a vote of 193 to 112 a motion mo-tion by the socialists regarding posts and telegraphs. The Russian embassy at Constantinople Constan-tinople has received a report that the Poles and Ukranians have captured Odessa, the most import city and seaport sea-port of southern Russia on the Black sea. All of Mexico except the states of Yucatan, Cnmpeche and Chiapas, and the northern part of the territory of Lower California, is in the hands of the revolutionists, according to a bulletin bul-letin given out at El Paso, Texas. Parliament having rejected Mr. As-quith's As-quith's amendment proposing a single parliament for Ireland, and thereby affirmed af-firmed the principle of partition, which liberals and laborites regard as disastrous to the bill those r parties are not likely to take organized seeps to get the bill further amended as they consider further discussion waste I of time. .A serious political situation is ripening rip-ening in the Teschen district of Silesia, Sil-esia, according to the Tribuna, which reports a heavy concentration of Polish Pol-ish troops on the frontier. |