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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF ' A WEEKEVENTS; RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered r, From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. The bodies of six persons, drowned in a flood resulting from a cloudburst near Sunrise,- Wyo., have been recovered. recov-ered. The party of nine were returning return-ing in an automobile from a picnic in the mountains when a wall of water in Eureka canyon burst upon them. Two persons were killed and several sev-eral others are believed to have been burned to death when a freight train on the Denver & Rio Grande was consumed con-sumed by fire following a derailment west of Pueblo. Resolutions adopted by the Jane Jefferson Democratic club of Denver, pledges support to President Wilson and "deprecates the ignoble, undignified undigni-fied and ill-humored heckling to which some women have subjected the chief executive of the United Stales." Declaring that a general railroad strike would result in hardship and general suffering to the general public, pub-lic, the railroad commission of Nevada Ne-vada has passed a resolution urging both sides to arbitrate. Thomas M. Patterson, former United Unit-ed States senator, died at his home in Denver, July 23. He was in his seventy-seventh year and had been in poor health for several weeks. Charles B. Moyer was re-elected president of the Western Federation of Miners, defeating George Powell, candidate of the anti-administration faction, by 1,526 votes, according to the report of the canvassing committee commit-tee made at -Great Falls, Mont Although the Second squadron, Utah cavalry, is under quarantine, Nogales, Ariz., unt!) sucb a timf some ailments suffered by menJ of the squadron have been diagil as other than infantile paralysis, I bers of other camps are not pert! and go about their duties as usl John E. Crites, a railroad contw was shot and probably fatally -l ed by his wife at their home in Lake when he criticised a meal pie-pared pie-pared by Mrs. Crites. ' DOMESTIC. Alaskan sales to the United States In the last fiscal year aggregated $60,-000,000, $60,-000,000, double the annual average since 1912. Freddie Welsh, lightweight champion, cham-pion, and Charley White of Chicago, have signed articles for a title bout of twenty rounds to a decision to take place in Colorado Springs,--Colo., Labor La-bor day, September 4. The promoters guaranteed a purse of $17,500 for the bout. Admiral Cameron McCrea Winslow, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, has accepted an offer from Col. Theodore Roosevelt to become a brigadier bri-gadier general of the Rough Riders in the event of hostilities with any foreign for-eign country. Six persons were killed and forty-five injured when a bomb was exploded ex-ploded in San Francisco on Saturday during the preparedness parade The infernal machine exploded ac the corner cor-ner of Stewart, and Market streets. Two men were killed and thirty injured in-jured when a Milwaukee freight train loaded with prospective harvest hands was derailed twelve miles north of Tripp, S. D. J Frank Hanly of Indiana and Ira D. Landrith of Tennessee, nominees of the Prohibition party for president and vice-president of the United States, were guests at a reception tendered ten-dered by local Prohibitionists upon their arrival in Chicago from St, Paul. A strike of street railway employees began at Memphis, Tenn., Saturday afternoon and ended Sunday, after having tied up all street cars for twenty-four hours. The bodies of a man and woman, believed to be husband and wife, and of a year-old boy were found along the west bank o the Smokie river near Lake Forest, Ills. A revolver was nearby. Thomas Benson and his brother-in-law, L. S. Windier, convicted ejf stealing steal-ing registered mail valued at more than $SOO,000 from a Hudson river ferry boat on February 29 last, were sentenced to serve terms of not less than five years each in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta. Settlement of the strike and lockout, lock-out, which for several months has tied up the garment-working industry in New York City is announced. J. A. Marlow. a farmer living at Cody, La., shot his wife, John Sutter, an employee on his farm, and W. M. Beeler, a neighbor, and then escaped. Three persons were drowned at Kingston, Minn., when a footbridge over the Crow river, on which twenty-members twenty-members of a picnic party were standing, stand-ing, collapsed. The special grand jury called at Red Oak, Iowa, lo investigate the alleged al-leged connection of William Mansfield with the Yillisca ax murders finished its work Friday and refused to indict Mansfield. In a cavein on the sixteenth level of the Curry mine of the Penn Iron Mining company near Norway, Mich., three men were killed. Imprisoned In a new waterworks tunnel under Lake Erie at Cleveland as a result of a terrific explosion ol gas in the tube, sixteen men wen killod. Four soldiers of the Eighth Illinois (negro) infantry were wounded at Sac Antonio. Texas, when a riotous crowd of fifty or sixty of them were fired into by the provost guard of Fort Sam Houston. James Whiteomb Riley, the Hoos-ier Hoos-ier poet, died at Indianapolis, July 22, from paralysU. Available re 'ords indicate in-dicate that Mr. Riley was born in 1S.73, but he was reticent as to nis exact age. Cardinal Gibbons on July 23 marked his eighty-second birthday, spent by declaring for universal military training train-ing as the best possible thing for America. WASHINGTON. The senate has confirmed the nomi nation of John H. Clarke of Cleveland as associate justice of the supreme court to succeed former Justice Hughes. Justica Clarke will take his place on the bench when the court convenes nex fall. Tourists seeking America's beautj spots are being directed by the government gov-ernment to the national forests as vacation va-cation grounds. The forestry service is distributing 130,000 maps, showing camp sites, hunting and fishing grounds, roads, trails and telephone lines. June records for postal savings de posits were eclipsed last month, when a net gain of more than $3,800,000 was rolled up, quadrupling the net increase for June, 1915. Newspaper publishers throughout the country have been invited by the Federal Trade commission to be represented rep-resented at a hearing at Washington. August 1, on whether there has been undue increase in the price of news print paper. The naval appropriation bill with a three-year building program, including includ-ing the immediate construction oi four dreadnaughts, four great battle cruisers, and fifty-eight other craft, passed. the senate by a vote of 71 tc 8. It carries $315,826,843. A joint resolution to extend leaves of absence with credit to Jiaaeaad- PTgfliaiaiaaaaa", 1 he 'beg'llilllllg ol llle wtFToTK,S32,000,000 (approximately $14,160,000,000). Twenty persons were drowned when two ferry boats collided wtlh each other on the Spree near Berlin on Sunday. Sun-day. One of the boats was sunk. A dark picture of the treatment o British prisoners at the RuhlebeL camp in Germany, where civilians are interned, is given in a report by Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, attache of the embassy em-bassy at Berlin. . Forces of Emperor Nicholas operating operat-ing in Turkish Armenia are steadily advancing upon the fortified town of Erzingan from the north and the south, says a Russian official state- ment. Russian troops have torn open the German front for a distance of thirty miles in the Riga sector for gains oi twelve miles, according to a Reuter dispatch received at London. A parcel post convention between the United States and China has juBt been concluded. It becomes effective August 1, after which packages weighing weigh-ing up to eleven pounds may be sent to China at the rate of 12 cents pel I pound. Britsh troops operating in the northeastern north-eastern section of German East Africa Afri-ca have occupied Muheza and Amanl and have captured the whole of the Usambara railway. Under the menace of a heavy Russian Rus-sian assault, the Austrians in the Carpathian Car-pathian region of southern Bukowina, southeast of Tatarow, have withdrawn toward the main ridge of the Carpathians. Carpa-thians. Sir William Ramsay, eminent as a chemist, died Sunday at his residence, Beechcroft Hazlemere, Bucks, England. Eng-land. Sir William Ramsay was horn in Glasgow on October 2, 1853, and was made a knight in 1902. Large bands of Yaqui Indians are again on the warpath in southern So-nora So-nora and have raided ranches, attacked attack-ed trains and invaded the outskirts ol garrisoned twons to loot and kill. The American schooner Prins Val-demar Val-demar has been captured by a German Ger-man warship while on its way from Philadelphia to Sweden wiih a cargc of oil. Forty persons, including a -number of soldiers and women, were killed during a very severe lightning, and rain storm in the suburbs of Mexico City. The number of prisoners taken in the battle of the 16th continues to in crease, at present numbering 2. SIT men and seveniy-five officers, says a i petrograd dispatch. Since the outbreak of the war the cost of living in Ireland has increased 41.2 per cent. Refusing to accept the new issue of Carranza currency, nearly all merchants mer-chants at Chihuahua, by agreement closed their stores. They declare the silver exchange rate demanded b the de facto government for the new paper money is extortionate. With his followers scattered intc small groups. Yilla, accompanied onlj by a bodyguard of six men, is making for the mountains of Durango. accord ing to a report received at Chihuahua |