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Show Ceurgfl Cnvlo. ft- !.-r;it pr!i!!.:r!on uwnt, charged with ;i bribe for njin'sli'i; o s:i!" of liipor. pleaded plead-ed :r'.::y at Mil ukcc and was -i-n-t'-iici"! to eiht 1 1 1 . : i r ! i in the house correction and lined sur,. A letter written by Emma Cohinian )': Mil Moscow to ir. J'.fii Roirman uf I'liicago has lici-ii confiscated by government gov-ernment agents. Tin- letter told of conditions ill Russia, but the lie n irt t-fl iiiVii'cliist (j LK-i -it admitted she was not permitted to write us freely s she would like. She also said Alexander I'erkuian was with lier and made It clear they were not altogether happy. Ursula Brodcriek, 10, who killed her stepfather. Joseph F. Woodlock, in their home at St. Louis, April 11, lill'J, was found guilty of murder in tin; -second decree by a jury in juvenile juve-nile court and her punishment fixed at NEWS Or ft WEEK II COilOEIiSEO FOi RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Hspprolngs That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe ntt Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. Climaxing the rumors of vicious protiteering on the part of l'ocatello, Idaho, merchants, the city council suspended sus-pended lis rules and passed an ordinance ordi-nance requiring the licensing of every men-hunt, and providing that hereafter the- invoice cost of every article offered of-fered for sale shall he plainly indicated indi-cated 'upon the article or upon the price tag affixed. Two men were instantly killed when a locomotive of the Little Cottonwood Transportation company overturned at Tanner's flat between Alta and Brighton, Brigh-ton, Utah, pinning them beneath the heavy engine. A cyclone which struck the vicinity of Severance, Colorado, razed farm houses, killed live stock aud wrecked telephone and telegraph lines. No loss nf life has been reported. Ike T. Kendrick, foster father of United States Senator John Kendrick, of Wyoming, died at his home at San- ten years in the Missouri penitentiary. WASHINGTON. Efforts to substitute a direct appropriation appro-priation for the shipping board and the emergency fleet corporations for the present, failed in the house. An amendment to the sundry civil bill carrying a flat appropriation of 1117,-500,000 1117,-500,000 was voted down. Senator Reed Sinoot's bill for an investigation in-vestigation into government operations with a view to a thorough overhauling of government machinery and a systematic sys-tematic organization to cut out lost motion and duplications, will be favorably favor-ably recommended by the senate appropriations ap-propriations committee. Acting for the Society of American Florists, W. F. Glide, its Washington representative, has issued a denial of the stateineut by Miss Anna Jarvis, president of the Mothers' Day association, associa-tion, that florists profiteered in white carnations, the symbol of observance of Mothers' duy last year. Assistant Secretary of Labor Post, testifying before the house rules committee, com-mittee, declared that forty of the hundreds hun-dreds of foreigners rounded up in the raids by the department of justice in the last six months admitted that they favored overthrow of the government. A bill designed to assist Germany's purchase in America of such materials mate-rials as are necessary to the rehabilitation rehabili-tation of that country and which would help meet reparation demands lias been introduced by Senator France, Republican, Maryland. FOREIGN The Carrunza government at Mexico Mexi-co City is tottering whi're 15.000 Sonera Son-era revolutionists have begun their southern sweep toward the nation's capital. In a debate in the British house of lords concerning conditions in Ireland. Ire-land. Baron Birkenhead, lord high chancellor, on behalf of the government govern-ment said it was intended to continue the policy of giving to the Irish executive execu-tive all possible assistance and support. sup-port. The council of the league of nations has refused to offer a mandate for Armenia to any power unless certain requested stipulations are embodied by the supreme council in the Turkish settlement. The Fourteenth Japanese division defeated 4000 Bolshevists near Klia-baraovsk, Klia-baraovsk, in Siberia, near the Manchuria Man-churia frontier, it lias been semiofficially semioffi-cially announced. The strike of railway men, which has now extended to the miners and dockers and to the metal workers in the Paris district, with the threat of the possibility of a general strike, has caused the government to hasten its promised plan of reorganization of the railways. In an effort to break up an organized or-ganized band of gun and whiskey runners, run-ners, who for months have been smuggling smug-gling United States rifles and cartridges cart-ridges into Mexico across the international inter-national boundary line at Nogales, Arizona, department of justice agents raided a number of places in Nogales, Sonora. Chinese officials have denied that China extended recognition to the Russian Rus-sian Bolsheviki government as reported report-ed in a Moscow wireless dispatch recently. re-cently. The port city of Havre, France, is jammed with indignant Americans, some of whom are hi a desperate plight as a result of the refusal of the French line to allow them to stay aboard or insure them hotel accommodations accom-modations when the dock workers strike held up the departure of the liner La France. Indications that volcanic eruption was taking place on the Island of old Providence in the Caribbean sea are reported. Leaders of the revolution in northern north-ern Mexico met at Naco, Sonora, to name a cabinet for the provisional government. Gov. Adolfo de la Iluer-ta Iluer-ta of Sonora has been made provisional provis-ional president until a man to succeed him can be selected by the governors of the various revolting states. Premier Lloyd George has been ordered or-dered by his physicians to remain in bed for a few days because of what is described us a mild attack of bronchitis bron-chitis and fatigue from his San Kemo act ivities. Facing famine in his capital city, President Venustinno Carrunza .has sought to effect .a compr ise wiln the revolutionary forces, according to statements issued by T. R. Belt ran, commercial agent for the liberal constitutional con-stitutional parly at 101 Paso. The visit of Marshal .lofl're to F.ar-celonia, F.ar-celonia, Spain, developed into a great Catalonist political demonstration which led to a serious incident. This was a collision between the regional authorities and the Catalonist municipal muni-cipal guard. Two guards were wounded. sabu, Texas, May 5. He reared the present senator from childhood and was a pioneer Texas cattleman. Sick and grieving for his wife, who died January 14, Alvon Butler, aged 40, of Shoshone, Idaho, took his life at Walla Walla by shooting himself in the stomach with a rifle. Butler was visiting a friend and, becoming ill, apparently ap-parently decided to end Ills suffering. Union bakers of Victoria, B. C, have walked out, adding their number to bakers already on strike in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland. The prediction was made that the entire Pacific coast would be affected before tba strike was over. DOMESTIC. A jury trying Thomas Marksherry for the murder of Jesse Glenn, at Hrooksville, Ky., last fall, reported a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Marksherry, a farmer and former pastor, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. peni-tentiary. J. W. Lyftogt died at Sioux City, Iowa, twenty-four hours after he put a stone the size of a golf ball in his mouth. The stone became lodged in his throat and could not be removed. The steamship Cody, named in honor of the late "Buffalo Bill" Cody, famous scout and Indian fighter, will be launched at Hog Island, Pa., May 31. Motions to quash the indictment against 125 bituminous coal miners and operators of Indiana. Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania were filed In the federal court at Indianapolis by Charles Evans Hughes, chief counsel for the indicted miners. Dr. Cliayim Wezman, president of the world Zionist commission and head of the Zionist delegation to the peace conference, says the government of Palestine will be placed in the hands of a high commissioner and a council until such time as popular representation representa-tion can be introduced in the country. The fifth anniversary of the sinking of the steamship Lusitania by a German Ger-man submarine was observed at New York on May 7. Special memorial services for those whose lives were lost in the disaster were held in several sev-eral churches. Despite the efforts of anti-suffragists to force a vote in the lower house of the Delaware legislature on May 15 on the resolution to ratify the federal fed-eral suffrage amendment, adjournment was taken until May 17 without any action on the measure. The proposed amalgamation of the African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion and Colored Methodist Episcopal denominations was sanctioned by the general conference confer-ence of the African Methodist Episcopal Episco-pal church at St. Louis. Cash wheat sold above $3.00 in St. Louis on May 6 for the first time since the government took over control of wheat in the summer of 1917. Red winter wheat No. 2 sold on the merchants mer-chants exchange nt ?3.02 a bushel. The peak of prices in footwear has boon reached, but it will take three to four months for any reduction to reach the consumer, the executive committee of the Tanners' Council of the United States reported at the council's annual meeting at Atlantic City, N. J. Whether General Wood or Senator Johnson received the popular vote in Indiana's Republican primary will not be known definitely until the official canvass is made. The sentence of $5000 fine and five months imprisonment in the Los Angeles An-geles county jail imposed by the United Unit-ed States district court on llulelt C. Merrltt. wealthy Pasadena, Cal.. resident, resi-dent, for hoarding sugar in Violation of the food conservation act, lias been affirmed by the United States circuit court of appeals. The body of Nina Lee Deloney was found by the searching party directed by Walter Andrew Watson, her alleged alleg-ed slayer at a point five miles north of Coyote Wells, Cal. Watson collapsed col-lapsed when the body was uncovered. |