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Show History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed That the five balloonists who wre blown with their craft to sea from Pensaeola, Fla., sixteen days ago met their death by drowning in the Gulf of Mexico was accepted Saturday following fol-lowing the finding of the balloon aboard which the men were carried away. Leer sugar production in the United Stall's in l'.rjo exceeded the formei cnip record of 1015 by 27 per cent and readied the high figure of 2.219,-2i 2.219,-2i k i.i h in pounds. A bill legalizing the practice of Christian Science was passed by the Nebraska house by a vote of .13 to 3S. The bill subjects Christian Scient ! practice to state quarantine laws. The ll-months-nhl son of Knton Ilonzolak was drowned hi a bucket of water at IiIworth. Texas, while bis mother was outside feeding chickens. He fell head foremost into the bucket. WASHINGTON. The. emergency tariff bill will put .'J.OdO.OOO idle American laborers back to work, Congressman Young, North Dakota, in charge of the bill, declared Saturday. A reduction of between 5.000.000 and G.000,000 acres planted to wheat in India as compared with last year was announced April 0 by rlie department of agriculture in predicting reduced production. Six-shooters are being added to the equipment of postal employees and a standing price of ?5(X0 has been put on the heads of mail robbers, under Postmaster General Hays' "wild and woolly west" program for bringing to an end the wave of robber'-es affecting affect-ing the postal service. Representatives of the owners' of $12,000,000,000 worth of railroad securities se-curities have asked President Har-ding Har-ding to arrange a conference between employes and railroad managers and at the same time to take up the question ques-tion of effecting economies in railroad rail-road operation. Wages of common labor on the railroads rail-roads of the country must not be arbitrarily slashed, the United States railroad labor board has ruled. Both sides of . a wage controversy must come before the board and present their cases and' a ruling of the board given before a wage cut can become effective, it was declared. FOREIGN. One civilian was killed, four policemen police-men were wounded, probably fatally, and a boy and a woman were wounded wound-ed in Limerick during an attack on a police patrol by armed civilians. Greeks express confidence that they can yet beat the Turks in Asia Minor,' notwithstanding the serious Greek losses before Eski-Shehr. Reinforcements Reinforce-ments are being sent. I NTERM OU NTAI N. Frank Wilkinson was convicted at Gillette, Wyo.. of murder in ennnec-lion ennnec-lion witii the shooting of James F. Oarleton, a prominent rancher, and vas sentenced to life imprisonment. The ''red" element lias gained no foothold on the J'acil'ic coast. Major General Leonard Wood declared in an address at Seal lie a few minutes before be-fore he departed on the si earner Wen-utchee Wen-utchee for the Philippines, where he will investigate conditions for President Presi-dent Harding. The Midwest Refining company, principal purchaser of crude oil in Ihe .Salt Creek field, in Wyoming, has announced that acceptances' of oil would be increased from Go to 7o per cent on the fields' production as the result of the completion of additional storage at the Casper tank farm. A prune shipment, believed to be the biggest fruit shipment ever sent from the Northwest, will leave Portland Port-land this month for Germany, according accord-ing to announcement at Salem, Ore. It comprises 1,450,000 pounds of Italian prunes grown in Oregon and Washington. Washing-ton. The body of Jack Lindermood, aged -12, uight marshal at Fontaine, Colo., was found there early Friday. He had been shot through the heart. It is believed be-lieved Lindermood was killed while attempting to frustrate a robbery in a grocery store. The hip pocket sandwich will soon replace the hip pocket flask, according accord-ing to backers of the discovery of V. II. Cranlear of Burlington, Colo., who announced he can convert a watermelon water-melon into a still that needs no watching watch-ing while it makes a fine grade of liquor. DOMESTIC. Convicted of murder in connection with the Jasper county, Ga., peonage cases and sentenced to life imprisonment, imprison-ment, John S. Williams, plantation owner, was taken to Atlanta to await In jail action April 30 on his motion ''or a new trial, Delbert Smith, alleged to have confessed con-fessed robbing the North Coast Limited Limit-ed of $50,000 and murdering Z. K. Strong, mail clerk, pleaded not guilty in federal court at Minneapolis. Smith was arrested in Salt Lake City, Utah. Two women hermits ended their strange isolation Saturday in a hospital, hos-pital, at Hoboken, where both are suffering suf-fering from tuberculosis. The recluses re-cluses Miss Carrie Sunderland, 60, and her niece, Mrs. Fannie Miller, 40, both of Kansas City, .Mo. had spent t lie last three years and three months in a room of Meyer's hotel in absolute seclusion. An attempt to poison Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the board of directors of the Union Pacific system, sys-tem, was revealed at Omaha when a maid employed at the Fontenelle hotel ho-tel told Captain of Detectives Candu-stm Candu-stm she bad been offered $500 by a foreigner to slip poison into a glass of water and serve it to Lovett. A jury in the circuit court has relumed re-lumed a verdict holding invalid the will of Mrs. Mattie Marble, under which the girls' industrial 'home of Bloomington, 111., would have received $125,000. The verdict is in favor of .Mrs. Mamie Marble, and she and her four children of Seattle, Wash., are to receive $S7,000. France sent a note to the United States some time ago in which it expressed ex-pressed the hope that the controversy over the island of Yap might be settled by direct negotiation between the United States and Japan. Illoting followed the shooting at Bologna Bo-logna of a member of the Fascisti, or extreme Nationalist group, by a Socialist, So-cialist, it Is alleged. Other Fascisti attacked the chamber of labor, burning burn-ing the furniture, and wrecked the editorial offices of the Socialist newspaper news-paper Guistilia. Fifty pistols and 30,000 rounds of ammunition, all American made, were seized in Juarez by customs men under un-der command of Rafael Davilu, when a house on a main street was raided. The ammunition, packed as if for .shipment, was intended for bandits in southern Chihuahua. Investigation of the attempted return re-turn of former Emperor Charles to the Hungarian throne has been demanded de-manded at a meeting of agrarian members of the Hungarian national assembly. Contracts for the lease of oil lands in the state of Tabasco will not be recognized -by the Mexican govern- ment unless they receive the sanction of the department ot commerce and industry, says an official announcement announce-ment issued at Mexico City. Consideration of the British mandate man-date over Mesopotamia will be begun at the next meeting of the league of nations, which, will be held June G, Mr. Lloyd George has written to Sir J. D. Itees, member of the house of commons, who Inquired regarding the subject. Such degrees as "doctor of cheese milking" and "bachelor of butter churning" may be conferred upon graduates of the University of Alberta, Canada. A professorship in butter and cheese making has been added to the faculty. Fire which swept the Asakusa district dis-trict of Tokio, destroyed 1000 buildings build-ings and rendered a total of r00(J homeless, a survey of the fire zone showed. The fire was the biggest in Japan since 1012. Oormany will submit to the allied supreme council specific proposals for the recoils' ruction of the devastated region of northern I'rance in a note whii-li is now being prepared and which will be dispatched before May 1. it was announced officially at Berlin. Ber-lin. The National Union of Kailwaymen of nngland have unanimously decided to support the coal miners in their strike. The executive body of the rail way men's union decided to consult con-sult immediately with the transport workers' organization for the purpos of taking the imt effective and im- ne iliaie slops :o assist the miners, j Owners of the gambling concession I in Juarez have received a telegram ' from Governor Ignaeio Knriqnez of ! Chihuahua, ordering them to close j their gambling places within thirty days. Miss Gussie Learner, IS years old, stenographer, admitted, police said, that the "holdup" at the Ilayman Brothers' jewelry manufacturing establishment es-tablishment in TS'ew York, was staged by Harry Iloyman, with her assistance, after it had been thoroughly rehearsed by them for the past two weeks. Wedding guests of Mrs. Earl Cop-pinger Cop-pinger of Belvidere, 111., tried to kidnap kid-nap the bride following the ceremony. In the tussle that followed she was thrown to the sidewalk and her skull injured. ltemoval of the prohibition on beer and light wines will be one of the purposes of the anti-blue law league of America granted a charter in Dela-wii Dela-wii re. Carl llendrickson, 17, of Newark, N. J., has been sentenced to finish his present school year and serve his vacation va-cation next summer in the reformatory, reforma-tory, after a conviction for manslaughter man-slaughter in killing a small boy in an automobile accident. Oavid J. Grauman, veteran theatrical theatri-cal man of the Pacific coast, died at l.os Angeles, aged its. 11,. and his son established the first 10-cc:ii vaudeville vau-deville theatre iu America in San Francisco eighteen years ago. The first indictment at St. Louis charging a woman with voting illegally illegal-ly has been returned by the grand jury iu its investigation of alleged election elec-tion frauds. The soldiers' bonus bill, the most important state-wide issue of Monday's Mon-day's election in Michigan, carried the state by a ;i to 1 majority. The bonus j ".uestioii vote approves an amendment ' to the state coiistitu'on which will authorize the issuance of y'O.Onon) I of bonds with which to pay ex-sol-1 dlers and nurses a reward amounting t $lo each. |