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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A TO EVEHIS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home nd Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. In a cloudburst which swept over the Butter Creek district, near Echo, Ore., Mrs. M. C. MoCabe, wife of a rancher, and her infant child were drowned. The Second regiment, Montana national na-tional guard, on July 2 left for "somewhere "some-where on the Mexican border." Douglas, Doug-las, Ariz., was reported to be the destination. des-tination. 'Septimus Charlton, who is said to have been a millionaire broker in Kew York at one time, died at Seattle in extreme poverty, and his body was taken to the public morgue. Plans have been started at Reno, Nev., for a memorial funeral service with full military honors for Capt. Charles T. Boyd, killed at Carrizal. Captain Boyd was commandant of the University of Nevada cadets for four years. An explosion in the smoking car of Southern Pacific train No. 5, on its arrival at Oakland from Ogden, Utah, blew a big hole in the steel roof and injured eight passengers. Mrs. Charles Stone and her two children were drowned near Winifred, Mont., when a big cloudburst rushed down a deep coulee upon the tent in which they were living. DOMESTIC. Visitors who went to Tijuana, Mex., Sunday with their automobiles decorated decor-ated with American flags in honor ol preparedness week, "were stopped by Mexican soldiers and ordered to keep the Stars and Stripes under cover while on the Mexican side, of the the line. The business section of Pharr, sixty miles north of Brownsville, Texas, headquarters for the second battalion of the New York National guard, was practically wiped out by fire starting Sunday morning. The fire is said to have been of incendiary origin. Officers commanding the troops along the 1,700 miles of border have been cautioned to avoid clashes with the Mexican troops that face them, but staff officers fear that something may occur at any time that may serve as the basis for further international -complications. Charles E. Hughes probably will open his active presidential campaign In August with a 7,000-mile trip to the Pacific coast and return. With the exception of the national .guard in Kansas, Colorado and Wyom-( Wyom-( .ing, all the organized militia of the -central department virtually is ready for service on the border. Charles E. Van Zant, 23 years old, son of a Philadelphia physician, was attacked by a shark or other big fish while bathing in the surf off Beach IHaven, N. J., according to eyewitnesses, eyewit-nesses, and died before he could be rescued. Alvin Smith of New Canton, 111., was kicked into the water of the Sui Iby his pet calf and was drowned. Francisco Villa, with 1,200 followers, follow-ers, is in the state of Durango near the Zacatecas border, according to a report made to General Bell by a ecout who reached the border after a month's individual pursuit of the 'bandit chieftain. Fred H. Merrick, convicted of Inciting Incit-ing to riot in connection with the attack at-tack of the Westinghouse strikers in the Edgar Thompson mill at Pittsburg In May was sentenced to three and one-half years in the workhouse. The First battery of Utah field artillery, ar-tillery, with Capt. W. C. Webb in command, com-mand, arrived at Nogales, Ariz., on June 30, and immediately detrained and went Into camp. The mulct repeal law which closed saloons in Iowa, January 1, 1016, is valid and constitutional, according to a unanimous decision of the Iowa supreme su-preme court. The dead bodies of Randolph Alger and wife and a miner were found by n brother of Alger in the bottom of a 100-foot mine shaft twenty miles southwest of Kingman, Ariz. It is believed be-lieved the two men were killed by a premature explosion and that the woman wo-man lost her life in attempting to rescue thorn. The twenty-three negro troopers of the Tenth cavalry, who at Carrizal. ilia Ahumada, Chihuahua City au.-i Juarez have been central figures in the most s.fikii.g and pourli il olinp-ters olinp-ters of the Mexican situat' m, arc once more safely out of Mexico, reaching reach-ing El Paso, June 20. r Hans Tauscher, former German army officer, was acquitted by a jury at New York of conspiracy to blow up the Welland canal. Four Villistas who took part in the Columbus raid were executed by hanging hang-ing in the county jail at Deming, X. JI., on June 30. Police Judge Brady was granted permission by the city commissioners of Kansas City to erect a post in the business district to which men convicted con-victed of beating their wives could be chained during the day for any number num-ber of days the court fixed Julian Liebes, president of the San I Francisco Retail association, met his death at Long Beach by drowning while surf bathing with his son, who narrowly escaped a similar fate. Algernon Lee of New York City was chosen as the Socialist party's candidate candi-date for governor at its state convention conven-tion at Albany. Seven men were killed instantly and five' others seriously burned about the body when several thousand pounds of powder exploded in the dry house at the Aetna Explosive company's plant at Emporium, Pa. Charles E. Hughes, the Republican president nominee, at Bridgehampton, N. Y on Saturday on his first real vacation va-cation in ten years, golfed a little, motored mo-tored a little and devoted the remainder remain-der of the day just to walking about. WASHINGTON. General business conditions continue con-tinue good and the outlook for next month is excellent, according to reports re-ports of the federal reserve board. Petitions requesting that President Wilson urge the British government to grant clemency to Sir Roger Casement, Case-ment, the Irish revolutionist, are pouring pour-ing into the White House from many parts of the country. Creation of a non-partisan tariff commission of six members with bread inquisitorial powers is provided in the general revenue bill introduced by Democratic Leader Kitchin of the Louse. The government closed its fiscal year June 30 with total- receipts of $838,403, 9C9 and total disbursements o $759,666,159, an excess of $7S,737,-810 $7S,737,-810 compared with a deficit of $50,-436, $50,-436, 5S0 for the year ending June 30 last. The naval hill, carrying the increased increas-ed building program agreed on by the naval committee, was reported to the senate Friday. It carries an appropriation appro-priation of .$315,836,833 for 1917, and contemplates a total expenditure ofj $5S8,180,576 for construction during the next three years An agreement under which congress, con-gress, is expected to authorize a federal fed-eral bond issue to meet the extraordinary extraor-dinary expenses of the Mexican emergency emer-gency has been reached by administration adminis-tration leaders. FOREIGN. The Russian fluma has adopted a bill according to peasants the same civil rights as are given to other classes of the population. In the great Anglo-French offensive begun along a front cf twenty-five miles to. the north and south of the River Somme, the German official statement admits the entente allied troops were successful in penetrating the German first line trenches at several sev-eral points. The Zapatista general, De la Jtosa, has been seriously wounded during a battle with the constitutionalist forces under Gen. Sidronio iMehdez, according accord-ing to a dispatch received at Mexico City. General Litchitsky's army, after intense in-tense fighting, has taken by storm the Austrian positions in the region west of Kolomea, says the Russian official statement. The British troops in their great drive in France, Begun July 1, have captured a German labyrinth of trenches on a front of seven miles to a depth of 1,000 yards and the villages of Montauban and Mametz. An action has been fought in the Baltic sea between Gothland and the Swedish coast by Russian and German Ger-man warships, according to an announcement an-nouncement made in Petrograd and transmitted by Reuters' Telegram company. Two American sailors from the cruiser Salem were wounded during a clash with armed Mexicans at Tam-plco. Tam-plco. Mobilization of troops in western Sonora has been brought practically to a standstill through lack of fuel to operate lines of transportation, according accord-ing to reports to railway officials in Nogales, Sonora. The details of the appointment of David Lloyd-George as minister of war have been settled, the Daily Chronicle Chro-nicle says, and his appointment will be announced shortly. Successes for the entente allies on the three most important European fronts in France, in the Italian theater thea-ter and in East Galicia are chronicled chroni-cled in the latest official communications, communica-tions, says a London dispatch. In a Russian attack over a front of twenty-five miles, extending eastward from Kolomea, in Galicia, the Austrl-ans Austrl-ans have been compelled to retire on a part of the front in the region of Kolomea and southward. Fighting has broken out again in .Morocco between natives and Spanish troops. The announcement is made that in a heavy engagement the Moroccan Mo-roccan rebels had been repulsed with large losses. It is announced semiofficially at Berlin that a general meat card for the entire empire will be introduced September 1. The cards already have been introduced in the south German states and the larger cities of Prussia. In official circles in Mexic City It is believed that with the release of the twenty-three United States troopers troop-ers and the American guide, taken prisoners at Carrizal, a great step toward the peaceful solution of the controversies between the United States and Mexico had been taken. Street rows in Berlin after the sentencing sen-tencing cf Editor Karl Liebknocht, the Socialist leader, to penal servitude and disuiasal from the army for attempted at-tempted high treason ami resistance to the authorities, are described lr Dutch newspapers. 1 |
