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Show A conference of coastwise shipping I interests nnd lont'shorcmcn. which . convened at the department of labor to attempt a settlement of the strikes at Atlantic and Gulf ports dissolved without having reached an agreement. After having been adrift in a seaplane sea-plane for sixteen hours without food or water, Major Sidney E. Parker ot the British army and Miss Blanche Frazer arrived at Baltimore on the steamship Hilton, by which they were picked up on Sunday last. Charles Marshall was found guilty of the murder of William Miller, youngest young-est of the four members of the Miller family who were shot or clubbed ro death after their home near Armory, Miss., was dynamited on the night of January 15 last. WASHINGTON. Soldier relief legislation with probable prob-able provision for a cash bonus, funds for which would be raised by sales luxuries taxes, was approved by the house ways and means committee by a vote of 15 to 6. The British embassy, a massive red brick building in the aristocratice residence resi-dence section of Washington, is being picketed by from ten to twenty women, who carry large placards on behalf of the cause of Ireland. More than a hundred members of the house plan to leave San Francisco July 5, aboard the transport Mount Vernon, for a two months' trip to the Orient. The itinerary will include Hawaii, the Philippine islands, China and Japan. President Wilson has informed the house in response to a resolution of inquiry, that American troops on the Rhine still were controlled by the terms of the armistice, and were subject sub-ject only to his orders as commander-in-chief of the army. Wage negotiations between the conference con-ference committees representing the railroads and the unions were broken off on April 1, when the railroad representatives rep-resentatives declined to continue consideration con-sideration of demands which have NEWS OF il WEEK III GONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN ER1EFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Hppenlne That Are Making Hlitory Information Gathered from All Quarters of tho Globe tno Given In a Few LI not. INTER MOUNTAIN. Water from a well on the ranch of William Tabor, near Harlowton, Montana, Mon-tana, began to taste oily at a depth of .'!" feet. Tabor had the water analyzed and, it is reported, lie found be had run into high-grade oil. Salt Lakers passed the coldest April 1 in the past forty-five years, with the exception of 1S74, according to records of the local weather bureau. Temperature slightly lower than 22 degrees was the lowest recorded in I he downtown district. Ernest Boyd, 20, was arrested in Spokane, Wtish., on a charge of robbing rob-bing the postoffice safe at Crestone, Colo., iri February, of $040. James Axtell has been convicted at Trinidad, Colo., of the murder of Louis Trujillo, postmaster at Troy, Colo., June 3, 1917. The state charged that Axtell had planned the robbery of the ptrstoffice. Axtell pleaded self-de-feuse. Tosses are. scouring the lulls of Chelan county, Wash., for the four convicted I. W. W.'s who broke jail at Wenatchee, Wash. William Jennings Bryan departed from Denver early Tuesday, refusing to discuss the Democratic nomination for .president. When be arrived in the morning, he said he was not a candidate. DOMESTIC. The Colorado river power and irrigation irri-gation project, which is expected to take definite form as the result of the annual convention at Dos Angeles of the League of the Southwest, can be developed, United States senator Robert Rob-ert L. Owen of Oklahoma told the convention, con-vention, "without the imposition by congress of a further tax on the American people." Whether the five ousted socialist assemblymen as-semblymen will be called upon to face criminal court proceedings and whether the socialist party will be prosecuted on charges of conspiracy hinges upon a conference to take place in Albany next week. Calixton Rui, arrested in connection with the murder of Lewis Connolly and Waterhouse, American aviators, whose bodies were found on the beach at Los Angeles bay in Lower California, has confessed to killing the officers, according ac-cording to a report from Calexico. The five Socialist members of the New York state assembly were expelled ex-pelled from the lower house of the legislature on April 1, by an overwhelming over-whelming majority. The name of President Wilson, which had been entered by petition in the Georgia presidential preferential primary, has been withdrawn by action ac-tion of a number of signers of the petition. Authentically proved to have been overwhelmed in a prehistoric volcanic eruption, the skeletons of a boy and a girl were brought to Santa Fe, N. M., and are being exhibited In that city preparatory to shipment to Washington. Wash-ington. Counsel for the two sons and daughter of Richard Croker, Sr., former for-mer Tammany leader at New York, announce that the Palm Beach county, Florida, court issued a temporary injunction in-junction preventing the transfer or disposal of all Croker's property in that state pending institution of proceedings pro-ceedings by his family to have a conservator con-servator appointed to manage his estate. Districts of the middle west and south swept by tornadoes with a loss of 10-1 lives are recovering rapidly and rebuilt homes and buildings have begun be-gun to rise from the wreckage. The S2G members of the St. Louis fire department have voted unanimously unani-mously to strike May 1 unless their wages are increased. Three whisky thieves, posing as federal prohibition enforcement officials, offi-cials, engineered a daring liquor robbery rob-bery at Lake Geneva, Wis. They read a "warrant" to the caretaker of the slimmer home of Frank Kebm, son-in-law of J. B. (".roinmes of the ( Ironimes ! & Ullrich Liquor Co., of Chicago, and . escaped with $10,000 worth of choice whisky on a motor truck. G rover Cleveland Bergdoll, tho wealthy young Philadelphia draft evader. Iihs been sentenced to five years' imprisonment at hard labor at the United States disciplinary barracks bar-racks at Governor's Island. Tornadoes that struck in half a dozen doz-en states Sunday caused a death list that may puss three score, caused a property damage reaching many million mil-lion dollars and played havoc with wire and railway service in widespread wide-spread areas. The greatest damage whs in Klein, 111. Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin, Alabama and Georgia suffered heavily as a result re-sult of the storm. Ninety per cent of Chicago's firemen fire-men will walk out unless their de- mands for a wage increase are granted. been estimated to total one billion dollars, unless the public was given a voice in the proceedings. Adoption by the house of a declaration declara-tion of peace with Germany is th plan announced by the Republican leaders, following the introduction of the proposed joint resolution to terminate ter-minate the war officially. FOREIGN The Polish government has reje-.'ted a counter proposal by the Russian soviet so-viet government for an armistice along the entire battle front during the proposed pro-posed peace negotiations between Poland Po-land and soviet Russia. Washington Beltran, editor of the newspaper El Paris, was shot and killed in a duel at Montevideo by ,Tose Batile y Ordones, former preside. of Uruguay. Prince Joachim Albreeht of Pr.ssia, cousin of former Emperor Willian., and who was recently arrested and incarcerated incar-cerated in the Mosbit prison charged with having fomented an attao's on members of the French commissi., n in the dining room of the .Hotel illcn, has been released from prison. The German government hail announced an-nounced in a communication tit the press that it has resolved to disratch troops to the Ruhr region as so-n as the entente consents to such a n: )ve. Czecho-Slovakia is ready to onter into peace negotiations with iloviet Russia, the Journal des Debats loirns. The Prague government, accordiig to a dispatch from that city, "is prepared to reply to the soviet peace offer," and begin negotiations "in accord with the allied powers." Following up his victory in the .liamber of deputies, Premier S'ilti scored a confidence vote in the s'.nate 107 to 11 after a speech in vthich he expressed the Italian government's desire to settle the Adriatic question through direct negotiations with Jugoslavia. Jugo-slavia. Betsy Arnold, 105 years old at "east, but who claimed to have remembered the battle of Waterloo, is defil in Bryngyn, says a London dispatch. She drank whisky and smoked a pips all her life. With warships cruising off the Irish coast and 3f,00 troops garrisoiud at the vital centers throughout tL. : island, is-land, the British government docs not anticipate a concerted rising ii Ireland. Ire-land. Seven hundred Japanese troop.i and civilians were killed in a two days' battle with Russian Bolshevik lurcos at Xikolaevsk. Siberia, accordiug to a Tokio cable dispatch received at Honolulu. Repulse of the Bolshevik! attacks on all fronts is reported in onicia! advices received Thursday by tin- Polish Pol-ish legation, describing the gcieral military situation up to March '. . A general strike will go into e'fect throughout Denmark, following tb1 rejection re-jection by King Christian and the new ministry of an offer by the trades unions to compromise in the political crisis, if the Rigsdag was convened immediately. im-mediately. The United States was severely scored by Premier Lloyd George and Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster Unionist Union-ist leader, in the debate in the fcouse of commons on the second reading of the Irish bill. The premier st.!d it was action such as that taken bj the United States senate In adopting the Irish resolution that had fostered secession. se-cession. Bolshevik troops have penetrated to Petrovsk on the Caspian sea, red cavalry cav-alry occupying that town March o0. according ac-cording to a wireless from the soviet covernment at Moscow. |