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Show All Corners j of the Earth Complete History of the Past Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Busy Reader INTERMO JNTAIN. A thousand miners at. 1'nrk City, ICtnh, have gone out on strike, de-piandlug de-piandlug .fo.fiO for a six-hour-day. Id'hrir demands will probably be arbitrated. arbi-trated. YV. It. Itoivo, editor, and A. J. I'ar-tan, I'ar-tan, business manager of the Toveri, a I'M nn lull newspaper published in Astoria, As-toria, Ore., hy the Western Workmen's rubllshlng company, were found guilty of violating the espionage act. David K. Moiklcjohn, traij blazer of 4he west, one of the first residents of Butte aiul known In pioneer days as au Indian fighter, died May (i, at the home of his son lu Los Angeles, at the age of 71. The body of Frank A. Carlson, 28 years old, an automobile mechanic of J enver, was found at the ' ede of Telluride, Colo., with Indications that lie had been murdered and robbed, lie had been shot In the buck. Italian prunes are nearly all killed and Jonathan apples are damaged liy heavy frost lu the Walla Walla, Wash., section, according to county agriculturist 10. C Woods. Miss Until Harrison, IS-year-old Seattle girl, went on trial May n, charged with the murder of Mrs. Grace lllatz .Storrs. The Oregon public service commission commis-sion has Issued an order refusing refus-ing to allow the application of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company com-pany for an Increase of 27 per cent in telephone exchange rates on the company's com-pany's lines In Oregon. domestic: Six persons were killed and one seriously ser-iously Injured at Mission, Texas, when a tornado blew down a train shed in which the victims had taken shelter. Three American Seaplanes began a trans-Atlantic flight on May S, starting start-ing from Hocknwny, L. I., and two of them landed at Halifax the first night. Victor Berger, Socialist representative-elect from Wisconsin, and under jail sentence for wartime violation of the espionage law, has sent a personal appeal to every member of the house that he be seated, while on bail pending pend-ing appeal to the supreme court. George II. Lawson, recently discharged dis-charged from the Canadian army, in which lie was sergeant major in the Koyal Engineers, announced at Boston he was making plans for the formation forma-tion of an "outlaw" baseball league, to be known as the Allied league. Senators lioralt of Idaho and Johnson John-son of California have issued statements state-ments criticizing the plan of the war department to recruit 8000 men to serve as replacement troops for the American forces now in Siberia. .I'roinpt withdrawal of the American army of occupation from Germany has been lu'ovided for in the I'aris treaty, in the opinion of finny officials who scanned the official summary of the document. Julius H. Barnes, national wheat administrator, said in an address at Chicago on May ti, to members of the Chicago board of trade, that the act establishing the food administration gave authority to control trading in j foodstuffs on exchanges to the extent of prohibiting future trading alto- got her. Plans are being drawn for an immense im-mense arena in Bayview park, on Maumee hay, at Toledo, in which the Wllhird-Oenipsey 12-rountI bout for 1 the heavyweight championship of the : world will be staged July 4. The government's deficit in operating operat-ing the railroads for the first three i months this year, or the difference between net earnings and one-fourth of the guaranteed annual compensation, compensa-tion, was about $11)2.000.000 for all roads under federal management. Between soveu and ten persons perished, per-ished, a dozen others are in hospitals in a serious condition and a score were badly hurt in a spectacular fire in an apartment building in the heart of Columbus, Ohio. Paul Frederick Vollaud, wealthy head of the art publishing company which bears his name, was shot and instantly killed in his office at Chicago Chi-cago by a woman. According to clerks in Vollnnd's office, the woman had a hallucination that the publishing company com-pany ow ed her S5000 in royalties. A resolution asking 1'ivsident Wilson Wil-son to use his office in attempting to jirevent further massacres of Jews in the Crimea, l'insk. Rumania and Poland Po-land was adopted at the annual conference con-ference of the L'niou Orthodox rabbis ol the 1'niiod Stales and Canada, held iU New York. j Fifteen persons were killed Thursday Thurs-day night when one of the worst tornadoes tor-nadoes ever experienced in southwest Texas swept the lower Kio Grande valley, demolishing farm houses and doing great damage to growing crops. The plant of the Willys-Overland company at Toledo has been closed by Clarence A. Karl, vice president of the company, following a clash between strikers and police in which bricks, stones and clubs were used as weapons. Tom Embrey, a negro, after standing off armed citizens and officers for four hours at Piano, Texas, was shot and killed. Nine persons were wounded by the negro, one probably fatally. The trouble started wdien Embrey attempted to kill his wife. WASHINGTON. President Wilson issued a call by cable on May 7 for a special session of congress to meet Monday, May 11). Julius Barnes, United States wheat di rec.toiv announced May 8 that he had completed negotiations to bring 4,000,-000 4,000,-000 bushels of Canadian wheat into the United States for distribution to the mills. Walker D, Ilines, director general of railroads, has announced that the railroad administration will ask immediately im-mediately for competitive bids, for 200,000 tons of steel rails. The greatest crop of winter wheat ever 'produced in any country is in prospect for this year's harvest. The forecast of production, estimated by the department of agriculture, placed its size at almost 1)00,000,000 bushels In exa.ct figures, 8011,1)15,000 winch would make this year's harvest worth $2,034,000 at the government's price guarantee of lf2,2(j a bushel. Chairman Hurley of the shipping board announces that lie has taken up with President Wilson the question of permitting American shipyards . to build ships for foreign account so as to broaden their opportunities and to furnish continuous employment. Secretary Baker has announced that by August the last man of the American Ameri-can expeditionary forces - will have been withdrawn from France. He said this estimate was based on the movement of 300,000 men a month to the United States. It requires $2500 to keep the average aver-age American family, government investigators in-vestigators have found. Furthermore,, the cost of living throughout the United States is soaring. FOREIGN. On the anniversary of the day that a German U-boat sank the Lusitania, the supreme crime against humanity that history records, (May 7) the plenipotentiaries plen-ipotentiaries of the German empire were handed at Versailles by the representatives repre-sentatives of the victorious allies and the United States the most exacting and humiliating treaty a great nation has ever been culled upon to sign. Afghan tribesmen have crossed the Arghan border with the assistance of Afghan regular troops and have occupied oc-cupied certain positions on the Indian side of the border. Duncan McDonald, inventor of the "pay-as-you-enter" street car and formerly for-merly general manager of the Montreal Street Railway company, died of tuberculosis tu-berculosis at Montreal, May S. He was 00 years old. Serious concern is felt in official circles over the agitation in Pekin and Tokio in opposition to ratification hy China of the peace treaty. The peace treaty does not arouse much enthusiasm' in the French press. The newspaper commentators generally condemn it, with faint praise. While the German peace plenipotentiaries plenipoten-tiaries are digesting the text of the lengthy peace treaty handed them on May 7 and communicating with the Weimar government as to the demands made upon Germany by the allied and associated powers, the council of four is engaging itself with the formulation formula-tion of peace terms for Austria and Hungary. Serious trouble has broken out in China as a result of the decision of the council of three with regard to Shantung and Kiao-Cliau, according to news received in authoritative circles at Paris. Starving refugees in the southern Caucasus are restoring to cannibalism, cannibal-ism, a number of cases having been reported re-ported of mothers killing and eating their children, according to a message received at New York. Prince Alfonso of Orleans was injured in-jured seriously while skiing near Lake Lucerne. He slipped down a snowbank. snow-bank. 1000 feet, into a gravel pit and was taken to a hospital at Zurich. Vittorio Orlando, the Italian premier, and Baron Sonnin'o the foreign minister minis-ter arrived in I'aris from Koine on May 7. As a basis of resuming participation par-ticipation in the peace negotiations. Premier Orlando accepted a proposal that Italy administer Fiume as a mandatory man-datory of the league of nations until 102.'!. after which Fiume will revert to Italian sovereignty. Four hundred persons were killed in Moseow last week when the red guard was railed upon to disperse rioters, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch, quoting advices from easr Gerinany. |