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Show NEWS OF A WEEK Ifl CONDENSED FORI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. inYfrmojntain. Tom mill Kur! Coinlis, cousins, with found ciiilly by n Jury in district court of Colorado Springs of tin! murder mur-der of .lueob .Mellinger, a merchant lit Hush, Colo., on April 111. Two lionihs were received at the Suit Lake postol'l'ico from New York on .May 1. One was addressed to Scn-nlor Scn-nlor King imil tin1 other to Frank K. Noheker, wlio served as chief government govern-ment prosecutor against more than one hundred 1. W. W. memhers last year. In a burning appeal to the mayors of eilles of the United Stales, Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle has requested them to close all I. V. W. hulls, "throw the leaehers of force and violence in Jail, demand of the national authorities the deportation and punishment of all imiirchisls, and suppression of the red flag whenever and wherever it Is found." liruce Cochrane, a rancher, Is dead at Climax, Mont., and William lledrlck is In jail at Ekaiaku, Carter county, as Uie result of a shooting in front of the Climax postoffice. The men were neighbors and had quarreled aver ranch property. Union linkers of Tuconia struck May 1 to enforce their demands for increased in-creased wages. The journeymen demand de-mand an increase of .fG u week and 1 1 10 foremen $7 a week. The first forest fires of the season were reported to headquarters of district dis-trict No. 1 of the United States forest service at Missoula, Mont., on April 30. One Is at Coram, In the Flathead forest, for-est, and the other Is on Deep creek, iu the I.olo forest, both In western Moq. huh, DOMESTIC. Mrs. Anna M. Seward, widow of Frederick V. Seward, who narrowly escaped being killed when his fatlier, William II. Seward, secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln, was attacked nt the time President Lincoln was assassinated, as-sassinated, died at her home iu New-York, New-York, May 2, at the age of SO. Mayor F. T. Woodman, on trial at Los Angeles for several weeks on charges of having accepted a bribe to protect vice conditions, has been acquitted ac-quitted by n jury in the superior court. lionds for the release of William P. Haywood, I. W. W. leader now in prison at Leavenworth, Kan., were refused re-fused in (lie United States circuit court iu' appeals at Chicago. The proffered sureties were regarded as insufficient. The yellowing of wheat in part of Illinois, with a loss of vigor in the plant, are reported due to an affliction afflic-tion hitherto unknown in this country. William Shortridge. a negro, was h.,ngcd Friday at the Folsoni. OfL, ;aie penitentiary for the murder of .L'.mus Mock, policeman of Marysville, Cal.. a year ago. An airplane giving a Victory loan exhibition ex-hibition at Chicago fell -00 feet to the ground in Grant park and Lieutenant Wright, the pilot, and Sergeant Julian, his mechanician, were seriously injured. in-jured. Six thousand five hundred employes of tin' Los Angeles Shipbuilding Pry-dock Pry-dock company at Los Angeles harbor went out on strike because officials of the company refused to recognize a shop committee. Nearly six thousand workmen of the federated railroad shop crafts of Penver declared a one-day strike May day as a protest against the "failure of the government to keep its faithful promises that ample employment would be furnished," and as a demonstration demon-stration in behalf of Fugene V. Pobs and other radicals now serving prison sentences. At Woodbury, X. Y.. a lioness on exhibition ex-hibition in a circus sideshow killed her keeper, before a small crowd of spec--tators. escaped from her cage and bounded into a small clump of woods which adjoins the town. The lioness was finally killed by a posse of men and boys. With the discovery in the New York postoffice on April 30 of sixteen infernal in-fernal machines in addition to a half dozen which, have heeu delivered to prominent men in various cities, federal fed-eral detectives are endeavoring to run down the organizers o what is believed be-lieved to be a nation-wide plot to assassinate cabinet officials and other men prominent in official and private life. Gorge Grober, retired German farmer, farm-er, living at Omaha, suffering from the hallucination that the government was going to confiscate Ids large land holdings, killed his wife and 2-year-old daughter. Mrs. Grebor's brains were beaten out with a baseball hat and her throat (tit from ear to ear. The Nebraska railway commission lias given the Nebraska Telephone company com-pany authority to increase its exchange ex-change rales an average of six and one-ball per cent to meet Increased operating expenses. Mayor Smith of Omaha forbade the holding of an advertised meeting of. Socialists and I. W. W. at which an "inli'rnational labor day" program was to be given. "I want the. whole world to know that anarchy cannot be preached in Omaha," sa id the mayor. Frank A. Brush, former cashier of the Santa Itn.su National bank, one of the four men indicted in Sacramento for the alleged embezzlement of $723,-1208 $723,-1208 from the bank will plead guilty, WASHINGTON. Prediction of the department tif agriculture ag-riculture for a wheat crop this year even larger than the record-breaking crop of It) 14 was repented May 2 by the United States Chamber of Commerce Com-merce iu a report based on statistics obtained from all sections ' of the country. Eighty-six thousand checks, representing repre-senting payment for practically all awards made to date, were mailed May 1 by the bureau of war risks to beneficiaries of men who died in the military or naval service, It is announced. an-nounced. Since October, 1917, more than fifteen million checks have been sent to dependents, totaling more than .f-mo.ooo.ooo. Soldiers and sailors' government insurance in-surance will be continued automatically automat-ically in effect for one mouth after the end of the month in which a man is discharged, even if the man does not pay his premium. Agents of the department of justice have been instructed to obtain evidence evi-dence showing what brewers continue the manufacture of beer after May 1, when prohibition of the use of foods in the manufacture of beer, wine or other intoxicating liquors, became effective. ef-fective. Control and operation of all American Ameri-can cable systems, taken over by the government last November, revert to their private owners at midnight, Friday, Fri-day, May 2, FOREIGN. The Russian soviet government has sent an ultimatum to Rumania demanding de-manding the evacuation of Bessarabia. Seventy-two persons were killed and more than 400 injured in" the earthquake earth-quake at San Salvador April 28, according ac-cording to late advices. King Alfonsrt of Spain has signed a decree dissolving parliament, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Madrid. The dispatch adds that general elections will be held June IS. Determination of President "Wilson, indicated in press advices from Paris, that no American troops shall continue on German soil for a longer period after the signing of the peace treaty than may be necessary to embark theiv for home, is home out by present plans of the war department, which contemplate the return of the entire American expeditionary forces by September. Sep-tember. American cable lines taken over by the government in November were restored re-stored to private ownership and operation opera-tion at midnight May 2 by direction of President Wilson. President Wilson. David Lloyd George and Premier Clemenceau have settled the question of the German uuderseas cable. The decision was readied that the cables were spoils of war and belong to those powers which took possession of them. In a session beginning at 3 :10 o'clock Thursday afternoon, . May 1. and lasting barely five minutes, the Gei-man plenipotentiaries' of the peace conference presented their credentials, it was the first step in the peace ne-"nii.-nions. The Germau credentials were presented to representatives of the allies and the United States. - Pctrogrud is being evacuated by the P.olsheviki, reports from reliable source- say. Many of the inhabitants are being sent away and the Bolslie-i Bolslie-i vik government is taking rigorous measures to prevent the news of the happenings at Olonetz from reaching the people. Adolfo de la Huerta was successful ' iu the election held Sunday to choose the governor of Sonora, Mexico, ac- cording to an official telegram received re-ceived in Agua Prieta. The covenant of the league of nations na-tions in revised form, moved by President Presi-dent Wilson, was adopted on April 2S by the peace conference in plenary session without a dissenting vote. The president's motion also named Sir James Eric Druinmonil as secretary-general secretary-general of the league and provided for a committee to inaugurate the league. The soviet government in Munich has been overthrown, according to reports re-ports in Berlin, says the correspondent of the Berlingske Tidende. |