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Show BRIEF REVIEW OT 11 WEEjUMS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Mem and Foreign Newt Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. John Dorr, 25, an automobile mechanic, me-chanic, had both legs blown oft, both eyes put out and his house wrecked when a bomb exploded in his room at Colorado Springs. The explosion occurred oc-curred while Dorr was experimenting with a time bomb in a suitcase. One Mexican highwayman is dead, two other Mexican highwaymen are dying and Detective Charles A. Williams Wil-liams is slightly wounded as a result of a battle between the Mexicans and half a dozen city police officers at Salt Lake. Forty-seven indictments, in which more than 100 persons are charged with various crimes growing out of the Colorado coal strike disorder in Las Animas county, were dismissed last week. The Utah cavalry organizations have moved from their original camp site to a point about three miles east of Nogales, Ariz., and assigned to guard the pumping station and pipe line that supplies the town with water. Jim Flynn, referee, called a draw in the twenty-round bout between Matty Smith of Racine, Wis., and Young Gilbert of Salt Lake. Charles Linville of Pueblo," sub-contractor on the Pike's Peak automobile automo-bile highway, was struck by lightning on the summit of the peak and instantly in-stantly killed. DOMESTIC. Charles E. Hughes, in the -first set speech of his transcontinental trip, delivered at Detroit, assailed the administration ad-ministration vigorously for its foreign policy and its Mexican policy, for appointing ap-pointing men whom he termed inexperienced inex-perienced to diplomatic posts, and for what he characterized as a "raid upon the civil service of the United States." Dr. Eva Harding of Topeka, a suffragist suf-fragist leader, won the Democratic nomination for congressman in the first district over the Rev. H. J. Cor-wine Cor-wine in the recent state-wide primary in Kansas. An unidentified white man was blown to pieces in a crowded city park in Kansas City when either dynamite dy-namite or nitroglycerine believed to have been concealed in his pocket exploded. ex-ploded. ' With 30,0000 state and regular troops encamped at El Paso, Texas, medical reports show less than 3 per cent of sickness. Three persons were drowned at Cedar Ce-dar Rapids, Iowa, in the Cedar river, when a canoe in which they were rowing row-ing was upset. Two persons were killed and five injured, one seriously, when an automobile au-tomobile containing seven persons was struck by a freight train at Algo-ma, Algo-ma, Wis. 1 Damage estimated at $100,000 was done at Sioux City, Iowa, by wind, rain and fire in a fierce electrical storm. Hundreds of store windows were blown in upon people who had crowded indoors for safety. Dividends totaling $798,425 have been declared by Fall Rivej cotton manufacturers for the third quarter of the mill year. This was almost double the amount paid for the second sec-ond quarter and equivalent to an annual an-nual rate of nearly 11 per ce.it. Five automobile bandits held up the paymaster and armed guards of the Burroughs Adding Machine company com-pany at Detroit and made away with between $33,000 and $34,000, after shooting and slightly injuring one s man. An Oakland street car company has Installed a second conductor on one of its cars, whose duties it will be not to ring fares and call streets, but to answer questions, help women off and on, amuse crying babies and make himself as useful aud obliging to the traveling public as possible. A torando swept over Mount Pleasant Pleas-ant township, just outside the city limits of Racine, Wis., carrying a greenhouse into Lake Michigan and leveling several small buildings. In a leap from a speeding automobile automo-bile that was being filmed at Baltimore. David Dictor, 20 years old. a moving picture aetor, sustained a fracture of the skull and died a few hours later. Hugh Clark, a recruit of the Second Massachusetts infantry, at Columbus. N. M., will be courtmartialed for writing writ-ing and sending to a home newspaper an article in which he accused his company officers of neglecting the men. Plans for the reorganization and perpetuation of the Progressive party as a national political organization wore adopted at a conference of party representatives at Indianapolis. An electoral ticket will be put up. bearing bear-ing the name of .John M. Parker of Louisiana nominee for vice-president. Officials .of the federnl government are closely watching developments in the controversy between 225 railroad ystems and their employees, and arc preparing to offer every possible aid in effecting an agreement and avoid ing a strike. The strike on the surface railway lines here, which threatened to extend to the subway and elevated systems and thus completely tie up the transportation trans-portation facilities in Greater New Vork, Is to be settled by arbitration. The tug Thomas F. Timmins, which figured so extensively in the arrival and departure of the submarine-Deutschland, submarine-Deutschland, is to have its name changed to the Hansa. A street car strike was ordered at N'ew York City on Friday. The strike' affects 4,934 motormen and conductors. conduct-ors. The death list due to the flood on Blair's creek, Claiborne county, Tenn., was increased to thirty-six when fuller reports from the flooded district were received at Middlesboro, Ky. WASHINGTON. Republican Leader Mann reminded the house on August 7 that Speaker Champ Clark had just passed his thirty-third anniversary as a member of; congress. Republicans and Democrats Demo-crats rose and cheered the speaker for several minutes. Members of the house, the majority, of whom are. away on vacation, will be called back to Washington next week for a vote on the building and personnel sections of the naval bill. The life of the government bureau of war risk insurance has been extended extend-ed until September 1, 1917, in a bill passed by the senate, which already had passed the house. The bureau, created when the war sent marine insurance in-surance to prohibitive rates, has paid more than $2,000,000 in profits to the government. Reduction of the income tax exemption exemp-tion from $3,000 to $2,000 for single persons and from $4,000 to $3,000 for those with families has been ordered recommended to the senate by Democratic Demo-cratic members of the finance committee commit-tee who are revising the house revenue reve-nue bill. President Wilson will appoint commissioners com-missioners within the next few days to meet a similar delegation already selected by General Carranza to undertake un-dertake settlemej.it of the international interna-tional differences arising from disturbed dis-turbed conditons along the Mexican border. FOREIGN. The pope, after a careful study of the protest against the deportation of inhabitants of northern France, has decided to make a protest to Germany, Ger-many, according to a news dispatch from Rome. The national council of French socialists, so-cialists, which is holding its quarterly session at Paris, adopted by a vote of 1,824 to 1,075 a motion providing for the severance of International relations rela-tions with the German socialists. Miss Flora Sand,es, an Irishwoman, who is a sergeant in the Serbian army,, has arrived at Toulon on her way to rejoin her regiment, after a holiday in Ireland, according to the Matin. Corporal Gouteaubier of the French light infantry has been decorated with a military cross by President Poin-care Poin-care for capturing 100 Germans, including in-cluding two officern, aided only by a companion. An Exchange Telegram dispatch from Rome says that unconfirmed reports re-ports have been received there that the Turkish cabinet has fallen. With the exception of a portion of the coal miners of South Wales and the cotton brokers of Lancashire, the British working people have loyally accepted the decision of the government govern-ment that holidays should be postponed post-poned until the demand for munitions was not urgent. The royal material testing office at Gross-Lichterfelde, Germany, announces an-nounces the interesting discovery that paper can be manufactured from cotton cot-ton stalks. A Russian victory in the Sereth valley, val-ley, northeastern Galicia, after a three days' battle in villages where every street was a battlefield and every house a fortress, is reported by the Petrograd war office. Baron Wlmborne has been reappointed reap-pointed lord lieutenant of Ireland. Deposits in German savings banks during May were 250,000,000 marks ($50,000,000) greater than in the month preceding, as compared with 235,000.000 marks last year, says an Overseas News agency announcement. G. Howard Ferguson, minister of forests, for-ests, works and mines, who has returned re-turned from an inspection of the norfliern Ontaria fire-swept areas, stated that according to an official estimate es-timate the death list was 232. ft is learned from a most reliable source that the conservative party, which rejected the proposal for the sale of the Danish West Indies in 1902. is not opposed to their sale now, says a Copenhagen dispatch. Pedro Sollis, a Villista leader cap-'tured cap-'tured recently by Carranza troops, was put to death in the Chihuahua penitentiary. The sentence was carried car-ried out quietly, without the knowledge knowl-edge of the public. The sinking of the Gorman gunboat. gun-boat. Graf von Gotzen. in a duel with . the Belgian gunboat Netta on Lake Tanganyka is announced in an official of-ficial statement issued by the Belgian war office. It has been decided to abandon the steamship service between Bergen and Iceland because of British interference inter-ference with vessels traveling this route. It has been decided by the Peruvian Peru-vian supreme court that the British blacklist of traders in neutral countries coun-tries cannot invalidate business contracts con-tracts made in Peru. According to a Berlin official tole-. tole-. gram received in Amsterdam, the German Ger-man food regulation board has rescinded re-scinded the prohibition on the use 02 porato as fodder. |