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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Hupptnlngs That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOJNTAIN. After serving in t lie United States army thirty-two years, Sergt. Frederick J mhlrondorf, a German alien, steadfastly stead-fastly refuses to abide by the conditions condi-tions of Ills parole from the internment camp at Fort Douglas, Utah, and is still In jail. Verdia Karl Moonoy Ki years old, was acquitted of the chaw of murdering murder-ing bis mint, Mrs. Mary Mooney, by a jury In the district court at Buffalo, Wyo. Mrs. Mooney was killed last fall when she appeared at the ranch home of the youthful defendant determined to kill the family us a result of a family fam-ily feud. A raid was made by federal officers on a moonshine still, situated about a mile from the Tualatin river, near Ore-, Ore-, Hon City, Ore. About sixty gallons of "sour masli," ready for distilling, was found and destroyed by the officers. Ituth Garrison, IS-year-old Seattle girl, recently acquitted of the charge tif murdering Mrs. Grace Glatz Storrs, her rival, has been committed by the superior court to the insane ward of the state penitentiary at Walla Walla. Italph Grazello, placed on trial at Butte, charged with having written letters let-ters to a man named Lombard! of Anaconda Ana-conda demanding iflO.OOO on threats of blowing up his place of business, lias been acquitted. A big street car ran away on a downtown hill at Seattle and crashed ' into the rear end of a smaller car, killing kill-ing an unidentified passenger. DOMESTIC. Gov. Walter E. Edge has resigned ns governor of New Jersey to take his seat as the state's junior United States senator. William M. Eunyon, president, presi-dent, of the senate, was sworn in as O'jting governor. Herman ("Germany") Schaefer, noted not-ed ball player and comedian of tne diamond, dia-mond, died suddenly at Sarauac Lake, N. Y. He was on his way to Lake 1'lacid and suffer&l a hemorrhage while in a New York Central railroad train. Charles IMez, who recently retired as general manager of the emergency fleet . corporation in an address at Chicago declared himself "permanently cured" of any embryonic leanings toward government gov-ernment ownership he might have entertained en-tertained formerly. With the announcement that the legislature leg-islature of the state of Sonora, Mexico, Mex-ico, had voted the state wet, steps were taken to open the five saloons allotted Nogales, Sonora, across the border from Nogales, Arizona. Florham Leader, a two-months-old Guernsey bull calf, was sold at auction at Madison, N. J., for $'J5,000, said to be a new record price for any animal of its breed. Six persons, including the captain's wife and four childreu and the engineer, engi-neer, were drowned when the coal-laden coal-laden barge Nanticoke, owned by the Potter Transportation company ' of New York, sank off the Isles of Shoals. Francis Burton Harristn. 45 years old, governor general of the Philippine Islands, and Miss Elizabeth Wrent-more, Wrent-more, IS years old, a student of the University of California at Berkeley, Cal., were married Thursday at Chicago. Chi-cago. Florida's orange crop for 191S is estimated at 5,265,000 boxes, or much more than the crop of 1917 and much less than the crop of 1916. The estimated esti-mated crop of California for 191S is 14.322.000 boxes, or twice the production produc-tion of 1917, but less than the crop of 1916 by IS per cent. Forty American naval sub chasers with their mother ship and four oceangoing ocean-going tugs have arrived at Charleston, S. C, from Europe by way of Bermuda. Ber-muda. An immediate reduction in the price of wheat, reaching all down the line from the producer to the baker, is believed be-lieved assured, according to a statement state-ment by Julius Barnes, wheat director. The United Verde copper mine at Jerome, Ariz., with approximately half a crew, three months to the day after it had closed in the face of a strike, '.reopened May 14. Winter wheat acreage in Illinois 'shows an increase of 707, S92 acres, as compared with last year, a condition 103 per cent normal, according to reports re-ports to the department o agriculture .Only 2 per cent of winter wheat was tilled. The Brooklyn Eapid Transit company com-pany ha discharged olght hundred women employes, declaring that its action was compelled by the enactment enact-ment into law of the Lockwood-Caul-field bill which prohibits women in that state from working after 10 p. m. and before 6 a. m. Heirs of the late Col. Robert F. Hunter, Indian trader and ranchman, have begun a contest In the probate court at Los Angeles, to remove Virginia Vir-ginia I. Hauler, his daughter, as executrix exec-utrix of the. estate, which comprises 29.0011,000 acres of land valued at $200,000,000, extending from Maricopa county, Ariz., to El Paso, Texas. Chief of Police Henry J. Nedderman was arrested at Oakland on Indictment by the grand jury which investigated charges that protection has been granted gamblers on payment of $10,000 monthly. WASHINGTON. The soldiers' settlement bill is believed be-lieved to be certain of passage early in the extra session of congress as the result of a conference May 15 between be-tween leaders of both parties in the senate and house and officials of the interim department. Prospect of adoption by congress of the Susan B. Anthony woman suffrage resolution has been bettered by receipt of information that Senator-elect Henry Hen-ry W. Keyes of New Hampshire, Republican, Re-publican, would vote for the measure. Revised figures made public by the war department showed that the total casualties of the American expeditionary expedition-ary forces during the war, was 2S6.044. Battle deaths numbered 4S.909. Senator Cummins of Iowa will be the next speaker of the house. At the Re publican conference Senator Lodge of Massachusetts was re-elected floor leader, Senator Curtis of Kansas was re-elected whip and Senator Wads-worth Wads-worth of New York, conference secretary. secre-tary. Repeal of the war time prohibition law that is to become effective July 1 will be proposed in a bill to be introduced intro-duced at the opening session of congress. con-gress. The navy department has decided to exercise its authority under war emergency emer-gency legislation and requisition steel for battleship construction. FOREIGN. The Costa Rican revolutionists apparently ap-parently have failed in their attempt to advance into the interior of Costa Rica, as they have returned to La Cruz on the Nicaraguan frontier. The Stars and Stripes, the official newspaper of the American expedition-" ary force, will suspend publication on June 13, it was announced last week at Taris. This indicates the rapid evacuation evac-uation of the American army. American and British officers in Berlin have been ordered to wear civilian civ-ilian clothing outdoors, lest they incite the population to demonstrations, according ac-cording to a dispatch from the German Ger-man capital. - Cambo, leader of the Catalonian party, par-ty, and Ventosa, former minister of finance, have sent a telegram to Gor-coeche, Gor-coeche, minister of the interior, declaring declar-ing it is impossible for the various parties to prepare for the coming parliamentary par-liamentary elections while constitutional constitu-tional guarantees are suspended in Spain. Yaqui Indians numbering approximately approxi-mately 100 attacked San Pedro de Suaqui, a Sonora village fifteen leagues south of Montezuma, capital of the Montezuma district, at daylight. The inhabitants, after a battle of several sev-eral hours, drove the raiders off with a loss of seven killed. Three of the townsmen were killed and several wounded. Replying to a deputation from the regions threatened under the terms of the peace treaty, 1'hilipp Schiedemann, the chancellor, said that the cabinet cab-inet was discussing counter-peace terms, based .without restriction on president Wilson's principles. The Chinese cabinet has resigned, but the president has refused to accept the resignation, according to a telegram tele-gram from Pekin to the peace conference. con-ference. What is said to have been a world's record for a cattle sale was established at Buenos Ayres when the mart closed May 15. A British packing house purchased pur-chased ' 10,000 fat steers from one ranch for approximately 2,500,000 pesos. Thirty thousand men and women struck at Winnipeg, Man., May 15, after metal workers and their employers employ-ers had failed to adjust their differences, differ-ences, and the city's transportation transpor-tation system and other facilities were tied up. The strikers included city firemen, who were replaced by emergency emer-gency men, and the city employes of the gas and waterworks, which were manned by citizens. Karl Renner, Austrian chancellor, brought his peace delegation and attendants at-tendants to St. Germain, near Paris, on May 14, and at a later' date will appear before the representatives of ' the allied and associated powers to receive the conditions which will spell i i peace for the former empire. I |