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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN ! CONDENSED FORM; i RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST j MANNER POSSiBLE. j I I I Happenings That Are Making History j Information Gathered from All j Quarters of the Globe and j Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. j Tun persons were instantly killed, j one Int. illy injured and a ball' hundred hun-dred Dihers received severe electrical shocks when lightning struck a crowd-1 eil grandstand at a homecoming week celebration at YVhilewooi, S. 1. Five hundred automobiles, three hundred of which carried liquor, were stopped by the slate constabulary between be-tween Krigliton, Colo., and the Wyoming-Colorado st c line during Monday night and early Tuesday morning. The drivers of the cars were allowed to proceed because of lack of adequate facilities to handle offenders. A fine of If-loUO was imposed by Judge Ii. Lee, at Helena, upon It. 15. Smith, president of the liutte Daily l'.nlletin company, who was convicted of sedition. The charge was bused on publication in the Bulletin of an editorial edi-torial in which it was alleged the authority of Uie state council of defense de-fense was questioned. There is no necessity for submitting the dispute of the telephone operators and the company to arbitration, declared Postmaster General Burleson in a telegram to Mayor Stewart of Keuo. An infernal machine was found inside a combined harvester at the farm of lrvin Jacobs, near American Fork, Utah. Jacobs blames I. W. XV. members for the attempted destruction destruc-tion of his property. One hundred train dispatchers pledged themselves to pay .$3 each month until the end of the strike, to help the commercial telegraphers at a meeting held at Portland. A committee com-mittee was appointed to handle all funds collected. DOMESTIC. By virtue of one of the speediest and most one-sided battles which ever decided a big fistic vent, Jack Demp-sey, Demp-sey, on July 4, became the world's champion heavyweight boxer. Willard threw up the sponge at the end of the third round, never having had a chance to win. , Mrs. Arthur Kistler, wife of a farmer farm-er at Stoneham, her four children,, the oldest 15 years of age, and her mother-in-law, were drowned while trying to ford Pawnee creek, thirty miles east of Sterling. Colo. A monument to the American soldiers sold-iers who perished in France will be erected in May of next year near the toniD oi i-Liiayeiie in uie x lcpua etery. No one has claimed the body of Dr. Walker Keene Wilkins, the aged physician physi-cian who hanged himself in the Nassau county Jail at Mineohl, L. I., Sunday, after his conviction of first degree murder for killing his wife at their Long Beach home. Lemuel Ely Quigg, former member of congress and prominent in Republican Republi-can politics in New York for many years, died July 2. Francisco Villa ordered all Americans Ameri-cans hanged when captured, following the crossing of the American expedition, expedi-tion, according to a foreign resident of northern Mexico, who reached the border Wednesday. Violation of the law regarding farm loans was charged against the federal land banks "as guided and controlled by the federal farm loan board" by Representative McFaddcn, Republican, Pennsylvania, under an extension of remarks printed in the congressional record. t", . T-l. ,-., -,l Ql,.iw liniiiiHII'V L'l. jVIIUU iiuttiim kjmi", president of the National American Women's Suffrage association, died at her home in Moylan, Penn., July 2. She was 71 years old. Six weeks from now the American troops in Germany will number not more than (5000 providing the German:: Ger-man:: show an intention in the meantime mean-time faithfully to carry out the terms of the peace treaty. Resignation of Herbert Hoover as chairman of the board of directors of the food administration grain corporation corpora-tion aud reorganization of the corporation corpora-tion under the name "United States Grain Corporation," was announced July 1 at New- York. During the first three months of the present year Ti69 fewer persons were killed and 9.109 fewer injured on the country's railroads than during the corresponding mouths of the preceding year. Failure by congress to appropriate funds for the United States employment employ-ment service resulted in all but 26 of the 450 offices of the organization being closed on July 1. President Wilson will make his first address in favor of the ratification of the peace treaty at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, the evening of the day of his arrival. Departure from Houston. Tex., shortly of four De Havilaud battle planes for a flight along the Pacific oast and thenne inland was announced Monday by the air service. Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt of Oyster Hay has agreed to he a can- ilidate fur the Republican noniiua; ion j l or a-.seiiihlyuiaii from I he Second assembly as-sembly district of X:iau county, X. Y., it is announced. The big navy dirigible '-S. commanded com-manded hy Lieut. X. .1. Learned with a crew of six men and two passengers l.oiiml from dip -May. X. J., to Washington, Wash-ington, exploded Willi terrific force jusl a Her landing near i ,al t iniore. and of the large croud of spectators, seventy-five were injured. Agents of rhe department of justice and customs and revenue inspectors have seized opinio drugs valued at SHI, nun anil airested a number of Chinese ai W oodstock. 111. The officers said I hey helieod they had uncovered one of the most extensive drug rings In this, part of the coiini ry. WASHINGTON. An official annouiiceiiieiil from the of.'ire of the director of sales at the war departniiiit said surplus stocks of canned vegetables would be sold in 'carload lots to municipalities at cost and stocks of canned meat at 20 per cent below cost, provided they were resold to the public at the prices for which they were purchased. A contract signed by the railroad administration fixed annual compensation compensa-tion of SS,Hl'.),o70 for the Denver & Uio Grande. The deficit incurred in operation of railroads under government control during the month of May amounted to approximately .f.'iO.OOt ,000 net operating operat-ing income totaling $.'!S,5:!0,000. Problems facing the railroad administration admin-istration will be anions the first business busi-ness laid before President Wilson on his return to Washington. Congress adjourned until next Tuesday, July 8, after enacting all appropriation hills needed by the government gov-ernment agencies for the new fiscal As war time prohibition took effect on July 1, the department of justice announced that its agents throughout the country would not attempt to stop the sale of 2 per cent beer. Stringent regulations governing the sale of alcohol for medicinal purposes have been issued by the bureau of internal revenue. President Wilson signed the railroad appropriation bill, the Indian bill, some minor measures and other documents docu-ments which needed signature to become be-come law before July, in mid-oceisi. FOREIGN. William Hohenzollern, the former German emperor, will be brought to England in a British ship and imprisoned impris-oned in the tower of London, according accord-ing to the Daily Mail. The death penalty pen-alty will not be sought, the newspaper points out, but if he is found guilty the allies ask his banishment for life to a remote island, following the precedent pre-cedent of Napoleon's exile on bt. Helena. Ignatius Tribich Lincoln, former member of the British parliament, who has been in prison at London : since 1016, as a self-confessed spy, will soon be deported to Hungary. The execution of forty youths of the .... i 1 Budapest military acauemy ami u.o three officers was ordered by the Hungarian Hun-garian soviet government as reprisals against anti-couimunists, who attempted attempt-ed to seize the telephone and telegraph stations and who bombarded soviet headquarters, according to delayed despatches de-spatches from Budapest. Premier Lloyd George delivered in the house of commons on July 3, an explanation of the peace treaty which he described as the most "momentous document to which the British empire ever affixed its seal." . Marriages between American soldiers sold-iers and German women are forbidden by the army regulations pending ratification, rati-fication, of the peace treaty by the United States and Germany. The first duel to be fought in France since the beginning of the war occurred occur-red at Bayonne when.M. Garat, mayor and deputy, exchanged pistol shots with M. Gemmes, vice president of the chamber of commerce, without result. The allies, according to the London Daily Mail, have received assurances . , .,1- l Ilia lflSt that the Dutcn go ei niueni. resort will not refuse to surrender the former German emperor for trial. It is expected that all German prisoners pris-oners of war will be on their way home within a few days. The Germans Ger-mans held prisoner by France will be turned over to the German authorities at Cologne, Mayence and Coblenz. Order has been restored in San Jose, capital of Costa Rica, and President Tinoco's troops are reported to have driven the revolutionary forces across the Nicaraguan border. Demonstrations by the populace of Rio Janeiro defeated an effort by the proprietors of coffee houses to double the price of the national drink, coffee, about 5 cents. During the last six months the mini- ber of deaths in England and Wales exceed.xl the number of births by 116.-000. 116.-000. The allied governments have represented repre-sented to the government of Holland the necessity of taking steps to prevent pre-vent the departure of the former German Ger-man emperor from Holland. A riot of 2000 German prisoners of war in the Oswestry camp was quelled by British government troops. Bayonets Bay-onets were used freely. The riot was caused by delays in giving the prisoners prison-ers their rations. During the month of June 177,000 American troops sailed homeward from Brest. This is the record for any month at any port on the Atlantic sea-1 sea-1 board of France since the armistice. |