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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WSJVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Homo and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. Officers oC Idaho are searching for a man named Charles Smith, who is allpfio.tl !o Jiave murdered a Mrs. Lo-vcllc, Lo-vcllc, supposed to he his common law wile, at Dubois, Idaho, on May 6, with an ax, severing her head from her hody. II. is now reported that Frank Perry, the Wyoming Indian who shot and killed kill-ed his wife and seriously wounded her sister and another man last week at Poeatollo, was shot to death by the Fort Hall Indian police when he took refuge 'behind a 'barrier and fired into their midst. Joe Malouc, a miner, was found dead on the edge of a small stream near Sublet, Wyo., where he had evidently evi-dently drowned. Malouc had been dead for several days. J. G-. Grimes, master mechanic for the UhUah railway, at Dragon, Utah, alarted after a coyote, lie slipped from the porch and his gun was discharged, dis-charged, tearing his left foot esm-ip.'r.toly esm-ip.'r.toly off. In o fit ' of anger Frank Perry, a Wyoming Indian, shot and killed his wife and seriously wounded her sister nino miles north of Pocatello, Idaho. Perry flod and when surrounded by Indian police, four miles south of Fort Hall, sent a rifle bullet through his own brain, killing himself instantly. Paul H. Haffer, a young man of Ta-coma Ta-coma who wrote letters to the newspapers newspa-pers now and (hen, was sentenced to servo four months iu the county jail for Uncling the memory of George Washington. DOMESTIC. A masked robber entered the Farmers Farm-ers & Merchants' 'bank at Sioux City, -loV;:, at noon, forced the cashier at the point of a gun to turn over from $800 to $1,000 and then made his escape. es-cape. The Methodist conference at Saratoga Sara-toga Springs, N. Y has decisively indorsed in-dorsed plans that may lead to the unification uni-fication of the Methodist church in the north and south before the next quadrennial quad-rennial session. Three, persons, two white and one negro, are dead and ten or more ace injured as the result of a cyclone which struck Sunnyside and Songo, ten miles south of Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Ituby Stephens confessed that she called Clifford Kistner, a wealthy farmer near Iola, Kans., to the door of his home and shot him to death in the presence of his wife. Mrs. Stephens, a divorcee, is 23 years old. She said KUtner had ruined her life. Henry Morgenthau, who recently resigned its ambassador to Turkey, spoke before the Wise Center forum at Cincinnati and told his listeners that Uio sale of Palestine after the war, so that the Ottoman empire might secure money, had been proposed pro-posed by him. Filly thousand persons attended an open-air mass at the navy yard at Boston, Bos-ton, Sunday, in memory of departed soldiers, sailors and marines. i'Our persons were killed when a fas''. Pennsylvania passenger train wrecked an automobile driven by Frank 'Wilson at a crossing two miles west of New Comerstown, Ohio. A dispatch to the Overseas News Sidney says that Camille Blondsl, French minister to Roumania. is 'to be -- "recalled at his own request. j Roj orts from western Texas indi-1 catu severe damage to crops and live stock troiu hail, w-nd and rain storm. Animal mascots will form a unique .part of the woman's suffrage parade at Chicago on June 7. Twelve states ( have already sent word tc the parade (headquarters that their delegations will be accompanied by animals. Preparations to ship food and sup- plies across the border to the Sibley- j Langhorne expedition and me sending send-ing of a sub-base quartermaster to ;ioi'i the same force have led to the lielief here that reports of the withdrawal with-drawal of the expedition from .Mexico are at least premature. Francisco Rodriguez was hanged at the state penitentiary at Florence Arizona. Friday afternoon for Ihe murder mur-der of his wife January 17. 1911. Kodrigue-i had been reprieved nine times. Two Mexicans, Antonio Chapa and Melq'.iindas Burrostro, will be hanged at Lrownsvil'e, Texas, for complicity 'n ti e bandit raids last summer, unless un-less s'.me extraordinary legal move ob- '.ins a respite for the condemned men. Three hundred marines at Norfolk and betweou 400 and 500 iu Haiti have been ctdsred to Santo Domingo to re-lafo-cc the American force policing the little republic. Delegates from all but three states have been ohosen to attend the Republican Repub-lican national convention at Chicago. Re.prees.ilatives sent to the Lake Mohonk conference on international arbiti alien by business organizations in a score or more of large cities of lb.!) United States presented resolution.; resolu-tion.; commending the league to enforce en-force pence. A lone bandit entered a mail car at the station of Grand Cane, La., and atj the point of a pistol, placed empty! mail sacks over the heads of the postal pos-tal clerks, after which he leisurely rifled the registered mail in the car. More than 22,00;) applications have been received for the ten or eleven thousand seats that will be available in the St. Louis convention hall for Ihe Democratic national convention. The trial of Dr. Arthur Warren Waite for the murder of his wealthy lather-in-law John K. Peck of Grand Rapids. Mich., has begun at New York City. Mrs. I'riscilla Dodd, 83 years of age, widow of General Levi A. Dodd, the only woman who witnessed the hanging hang-ing of Mrs. Mary E. Surratt in Wash, ington. D. C, July 7, 1S63, when the latter was found guilty as one of the plotters of the assassination of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln, died May 19, at Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has completed a note vigorously renewing the protest of the United States to Great Britain against interference with American mails. President Wilson has begun consideration consid-eration of the army compensation bill passed by the congress last week. He expects to sign it within a few days. Attempted frauds and evasions of the income tax law aggregating $S,-3S0.185 $S,-3S0.185 have been frustrated by the treasury department, it is announced, during the first nine months of the current fiscal year. The administration shipping bill designated to upbuild 'the merchant marine and strengthen the navy passed 'the house by a vote of 211 to 101, virtually in the form it was introduced. in-troduced. Secretary Daniels has appealed to President Wilson to use his influence to save the navy's reserve in the California Cali-fornia oil fields as a vital step in the campaign for adequate national defense. de-fense. President Wilson has accepted an invitation to speak either Friday or Saturday of next week before a meeting meet-ing of the League to Enforce Peace, of which former President Taft is presi-, dent. FOREIGN. A statement giving full particulars of the acts for which fifteen participants partici-pants in the Irish rebellion had been, executed was being prepared and, would be presented shortly, Premier. Asquith told a questioner in the house of commons. The economic situation in Mexico isj extremely grave, according to official! advices to the state department. With, the monetary problem already acute,' the food shortage in Mexico City and1 vicinity continues without prospect of immediate relief. : Manna Loa volcano, Hawaii, which was in eruption last week, has broken out again. There is little property of value in the path of the flood of lava. The British war office in an official statement Monday night admits that the Germans penetrated the British front north of the Vimy ridge for a length of 1,500 yards and a depth of 300 yards. The number of British fishing vessels ves-sels destroyed since the beginning of j the war by Great Britain's enemies j was given as 570 by Francis D. Acland, financial secretary of the treasury, in the house of commons. Sir Lomer Gouin was returned to power in the provincial legislature with an increased majority, and the Conservative opposition dwindled from seventeen in the last house to seven in the new house as a result of I the Quebec elections. Rear Admiral Caperton at Santo Domingo Do-mingo is taking steps to distribute his landing force of American marines to various points in the little republic, and before they are withdrawn some arrangement probably will be effected rough which American officers will e placed in charge of the- native con-; con-; stabulary. Porto Rican sugar producers are making unexpectedly large profits, owing ow-ing to the conditions of tne crops and the prices obtained in consequence of the European war. The census taken in 1914, just published, pub-lished, places the population of the Argentine Ar-gentine republic at 7,8S3,2S7. The previous pre-vious census, taken in 1895, gave the population as 3,954 911. The population popula-tion of Buenos .'iyres is placed at 1,-375,814. 1,-375,814. Sunday was Peace day in Stockholm. Stock-holm. Two '"'g mass meetiugs were held and rcso.u-tions adopted request-ng request-ng the Swedish government to act with other neutrals to bring about a conference for mediation in the present pres-ent war and to establish a worla conference con-ference alter the war which would make such a catastrophe as the present pres-ent impossible in the future. French newspapers say that travelers travel-ers who have just arrived in .Switzerland .Switzer-land from Berlin have the Impression that the resignation cf Clemens Del-1 Del-1 brueck as vice chancellor and minister minis-ter of the interior will be followed by the retirement of Gottlieb von Jagow, i the foreign minister. Coral Kiffen Rockwell of Atlanta, ! Ga., a member of the 'Franco-American flying corps, has been proposed for promotion to the rank of sergeant as a reward for bringing down a German Ger-man aeroplane near Hartmanns-Weil-erkopf on May IS. A Retuer dispatch from Amsterdam quotes the Berlin Norddeu.sche Zet-tung Zet-tung as asserting that the statement of Sir Edward Grey in the house of commons that the Vatican had endeavored endea-vored to induce Germany to abandon her submarine warfare was not la conformity with the fact. |