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Show o History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed Four youthful explorers, nget 3, 6, I 0 iiiid 11 years, who sot sail from Lake- i side, Mich.. Saturday in a frail row- , hoar, to search for treasure islands in I l.ako Erie, were picked up Sunday, thirty miles offshore, after having been adrift for twenty-four hours. Indictments charging profiteering against the American Woolen com- I panics of New York and Massachusetts Massachu-setts and William M. Wood, president of the corporations, were quashed by Federal Judge Mack at New York. Five hundred representatives of middle western colleges attended the opening sessions of the Lake Geneva (Wis.) Students' conference. The district dis-trict represented comprises Ohio, Indiana, In-diana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Minnesota and North and South Dakota. WASHINGTON. The United States government has bought 14,000 tons of Argentine sugar. Secretary Baker has written General Pershing that should the general adhere ad-here to recently expressed desire to retire he felt sure that President Wilson Wil-son would grant the request. Attorney General Palmer has made an informal ruling, which has been communicated to President Wilson, that the chief executive has ten days after the adjournment of congress in which to sign bills and resolutions. Breckeuridge Long, third assistant secretary of state, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted by President Wilson. Mr. Long retires to make the race for the nominction for United States senator fro his home state, Missouri. It is rumored in Washington that Col. E. M. House has applied for passports pass-ports and that he contemplated leaving leav-ing for Europe at an early date. The prohibition amendment and the enforcement act were held constitutional constitu-tional by the supreme court on June 7 in a unanimous decision. General Pershing will retire from active service within a few months. He announced his Intention on June 7 in a letter to Secretary Baker. FOREIGN The evacuation of Kiev has been completed, the Poles withdrawing to the region of Zhitomir. The American Red Cross workers, according to the latest accounts, liad made preparation to exacuate Kiev with the armies. The International Woman Suffrage Alliance congress, at its closing session ses-sion at Geneva, Saturday afternoon, accepted an invitation to hold the next congress in Paris In 1922. Essad Pasha, head of the Albanian delegation in Paris and former provisional pro-visional president of Albania, was assassinated as-sassinated at Paris, Sunday. Three shots were fired at him by an Albanian Alban-ian student, two of which took effect. Italian Alpine troops have cleared the Avlona front of Albanian insurrectionists insur-rectionists by violent counter attacks, according to advices received at Rome, which declare that the Italian troops were fired on from the rear by residents resi-dents of Avlona. s One hundred and ninety-three miners min-ers are believed to have been killed by the explosion of a dynamite depot at Anina, the great Hungarian coal and INTERMOUNTAIN. Seven persons were injured, two probably fatally, when a passenger car of a Union Pacific train turned over just as the train was leaving the yards at Park City, Utah. Senator Iieed Smoot was hailed Saturday night on every hand at various var-ious hotels in Chicago as "the next secretary of the treasury." 'Seeking protection from the high winds that swept Salt Lake valley at fifty miles an hour, Mrs. Mary Mag-.daline Mag-.daline Simon, 78, lost her life when a burn was picked up bodily and cati-pulted cati-pulted twenty feet. Although the Idaho fruit crop generally gen-erally promises to be a record breaker, the peach crop in this state has been so badly blighted by late frosts that the harvest will be practically nothing, It Is reported. An 8-cent fare on city lines of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company, effective June 15, has been ordered by the public service cornmis-aion. cornmis-aion. The order increases the street car fare of Portland patrons 2 cents. Alexander Miller, deaf mute, was found guilty of first degree murder in connection with the killing of Adam Shank, his wife and four children- on the Shank farm near Gilcrest, Colo., last December. DOMESTIC. Two men were blown to atoms and '' a'trd badly injured when eight rounds of dynamite exploded on board their boat at Middle River, Florida. 'The single tax aprty will hold a national na-tional convention in Chicago, beginning begin-ning July 10, It Is announced from national na-tional committee headquarters. Dorsey Chambliss, a negro policeman police-man of Chicago, recently found guilty of misleading a young Kansas girl who turned to him for guidance on arriving in Chicago, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Will II. Hays of Indiana, has been re-elected chairman of the Republican national committee. Organized labor throw down the gauntlet to the Republican party on Saturday and now will appeal to the Democrats for recognition of its platform plat-form demands. Caught at the hotel to which he rushed from the Coliseum after his nomination. Senator Harding made no formal statement, hut declared he was 'very happy" and "deeply grateful to his friends." Tho American Federation of Labor In convention at Montreal, Is making preparations lo offer the support of organized labor to the Democratic party In return for its acceptance of labor's platform demands which leaders lead-ers declare the Republican party has Ignored. Omfreio Caracclolo, a barber, armed viili a revolver, and Louis Viscopo, a longshoreman, with a knife, fought an uneven duel In a lonely spot in East Fifteenth street, New York, until Viscopo Vis-copo had been killed. Dr. Herbert Tetlow, a retired physician, phy-sician, was shot and killed at his apartment In Sfonington, Conn., under circumstances which caused the police to detain Mrs. Mabel Kenyon, pending Investigation. Four boys ranging In age from 14 to 18 years were killed and seven others were Injured, one probably fatally when lightning struck a tree under which they had taken shelter near Detroit. The American Federation of Labor In its annual convention at Moutreal, wiped out the "color line" and warned Its affiliated international unions that negro workers must be given full and equal membership with white men. Tentative plans to produce fifty-two fifty-two one or two reel pictures a year In the Interest of Americanization were agreed upon at the convention at Cleveland of the Motion Picture Theatre The-atre Owners of America. Gov. Edward I. Edwards, of New Jersey, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has issued a statement demanding liberalization of the Volstead act and calling upon "Unpeople "Un-people of the United States, lawfully and by the constitutional method proscribed, pro-scribed, to pass Judgment upon the act." Seven persons killed, more than 100 Injured and property losses that will aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars were the tolls taken by the terrific wind and electrical storm that swept northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. A call for a national convention of the Labor party is being prepared by Frank J. Esper, secretary, who announces an-nounces that the convention will he held in Chicago, July 11 to 13. Esper rmld there would be "at least 3500 delegates from various parts of the United States" In attendance. Vigorous opposition to the proposals of Irish sympathizers that the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, in convention conven-tion at Montreal, indorse the "Irish Republic." Re-public." and demand the withdrawal of British troops from Ireland, is fore- Iron mining center fifty-five miles southeast of Temesvar. Frederic J. Stimson, ambassador of the United States, has obtained permission per-mission from President Irigoyen for the shipment ' of Argentine sugar to the United States for the account o his government up to 14,000 tons In order to relieve the sugar shortage. Locusts have attacked growing crops near Logrono, Spain, and have caused great damage. The invasion threatens to spread, and local authorities authori-ties have received permission from the ministry of war to employ troops in fighting the Insects. Brazil has recognized tltc provisional government of Mexico under the presidency presi-dency of Adolfo De La Huerla. The completed returns in the county council elections show a Sinn Fein vifi-tory vifi-tory greater than was expected. This was owing to a compact between the Sinn Fein and labor not to oppose each other in Leiuster, Munster and Counaught, while in Ulster there was a similar compact between the nationalists nation-alists and Sinn Feiners to make common com-mon cause against the Carsonites. Admission by Gen. Rodolfa Herrero, who has been charged with responsibility responsi-bility for President Carranza's death, that he did not have personal knowledge know-ledge Unit Carranza committed suicide, but that he was told so by one of the president's officers, featured the hearing hear-ing before the federal court at Mexico City Investigating the chief executive's execu-tive's death. The general strike called in sympathy sym-pathy with the strike of industrial workers In the province of Bari, Italy, has been declared off, according to a Rome dispatch to the Central News. Hundreds of strikers have been arrested. ar-rested. Constable Carroll was shot dead at Dublin by a party of armed men in Limerick. He was the fiftieth police victim since February 21 last. Prompt ratification of Chile's adherence ad-herence to the league of nations was asked in the chamber of deputies by the foreign minister. He said the conclusion con-clusion of negotiations for the purchase pur-chase of warships from Great Britain depended upon l.lirs country entering the league. The international cotton congress which closed at Geneva. Switzerland, on June 11, adopted a resolution favoring fa-voring resumption of international arbitration. The cotton " union countries coun-tries are invited to nominate arbitra tors. |