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Show E- History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed u ' INTERMO'JNTAIN. While spitting Ills fuse fur 1 1 1 -second hole of liis i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 lii I 'iily West mini! hi Park Oily, t'tah. .lulin llukcln, 211, was kllli-il by a pi oniai ure explosion. Fred Rurkuimi was killed when ml engine which he Has niloiupiing to ran Into the roundhouse at l'.owdoin, Mont., collided villi another engine. Hi' was pinned beneath Ihc wreckage mill before help arrived was fatally burned by escaping steam. A female iiKiunlaln llim, believed In have been partly responsible fur Ihc killing of civilly head of shcc) In imc fleck, was heen killed In Morgan Mor-gan i ciii nt . I lull. Hcv. Joseph N. Barrett is a f ik'' ' ' us well us imsior of SI. Matthew's Episcopal clinrch, at Grand Junction, Colo. At a recent mhlelic meet, n foreigner approached the clergyman Mini culled him a slacker, liev. Burnett Bur-nett knocked the man off his feet. A general fight resulterl. I'arrut & Co., ltlchard A. Adams, its agent ; the Starr Fruit company und 1.. M. Starr, its president, were in dicted by a federal grand Jury at Portland, churned with profiteering In sugar. Col. Enos A. Wall, one of t lie foremost fore-most mining men of the world and a Imlliler of the inlerinounlnui territory, died June 29 nt Ills home In Salt Luke Clly. j DOMESTIC During the dinner hour, when the lower floors of the Fairmont hotel nt San Francisco were thronged with t.iests. Mrs. C. E. Mnller, a wealthy Now York widow, traveling with Mrs. Johu F. llylan, wife of Mayor llylan of New York, wag ruhbed und left bound and gagged In her room on the third floor. I" lilted States Senator Kohert M. I.nFollette, Wisconsin, who was operated oper-ated on at Rochester, Minn., recently, left Monday for Madison, having recovered re-covered sufficiently to travel. A committee representing the eight leading grain exchanges of the country coun-try will meet In Chicago to formulate plans for the reopening of trading in wheal futures. The longshoremen's strike at l'hilii-dolphiu l'hilii-dolphiu lias heen settled hy a decisive vote of the men who have heen out more I linn a month. Nearly 4000 men voted on the quest ion. They agreed to return to work at the old scale. .lames Spencer, n negro postal clerk, who was charged with having stabbed Otto l'arker, a white clerk, was taken from the officers, who were taking him to Quitman, Miss., for trial, and lynched. Hearings will be held at New York this month to he followed by others throughout the country by the United States senate special comniiltee on reconstruction re-construction and production investigating investi-gating the nation's housing shortage. Three deputy sheriffs were shot at Roderfield, Y. Ya.. during a clash between be-tween the officers and miners. Chicago railroads on Friday received notice from the commerce commission that 2T.T..0 empty grain cars had been ordered delivered to the western rouds by the eastern lines. Alexander Howat. president of the Kunsas miners, announced his candidacy candi-dacy for International vice president of the United Mlue Workers of America. Prison sentences totalling fifty-nine months and fines aggregating SSo.OOO were given three officers of the C.ra-mutan C.ra-mutan Hair Tonic company and the Herba Product company by Federal Judge C.rubb at New York for violation viola-tion of the Yolstead and internal revenue acts. Ursula Broderick. 10 years old, of St. Louis, exonerated slayer of her father In 19 US, has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for the killing kill-ing of her stepfather, Joseph Wood-lock, Wood-lock, in April. 1919. Charles it. Briotiey, 4(5 years old, for twelve years district sales malinger mali-nger of the l.ipton Teu company, surrendered sur-rendered to the police at Chicago on a charge of embezzlement. Officers of the company place Uriel-ley's alleged alleg-ed peculations at between SGHOOO and $sU00. Three men were killed when a scaffolding on which they were working collapsed in the interior of a roncreie smokestack at the Iroquois plant of the Steel & Tube Company of America, on the south side at Chicago. The u r 11 1-5 feet. Mi-. John Alexander I'onie, widow 1. 1' the founder of .ion City, arrived at ion City, Siui'lay. from I. ok Angeles, and held the first of a series of meeting's meet-ing's announced to be in opposition to the present administration of the Christian I'alliiilic church in Zion, of which William Glenn Voliva is the overseer. In a collision between three cars on the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley railr 1 near Scranton. I'a., eighteen persons an- reported killed and 100 injured. William C. McAdoo went to bed Friday Fri-day night at lo o'clock, long before the first ballot was taken at the Dcnio-eratic Dcnio-eratic national convention. Happenings Happen-ings al San Francisco apparently were of no interest to him. WASHINGTON. A ruling defining new conditions under which lapsed or cancelled war risk insurance policies may be reinstated re-instated by former serv ice men and women has been issued by the war risk insurance bureau. The public debt decreased by more than a billion dollars during the fiscal year of 101!) Just ended and by more than two billion dollars since August Ml, when the war debt was at its peak, according to the quarterly leht statement issued by the treasury. Following complaints that recruiting recruit-ing activities of the army and navy were lending to still further increase the existing shortage of farm labor, Secretary linker has announced that steps have been taken lo reduce to a minimum recruiting work In rural coinniunit ies. Representative Lehlbacli, Republican, Republi-can, of New Jersey, in a letter to President Wilson, protested against Postmaster General Burleson's ruling that all employes in the postal service who have reached the age of TO years must retire under the civil service retirement re-tirement act. Operation of the railroads of the country "as a unit" as a menus of relieving re-lieving the present transportation difficulties dif-ficulties was suggested by William B. Colver of the federal trade commission, commis-sion, in an address before the Washington Wash-ington Ad club. FOREIGN Twenty thousand orphans of France, whose fathers gave up their lives In the great war, filed pust Hugh C. Wallace, the American ambassador, In the Tuileries gardens, at Paris, dipping dip-ping miniature American flags as a tribute to the United States on Independence Inde-pendence day. British warships attempted to land marines Friday at Mudanin, on the Sea of Marmora, but they were repulsed re-pulsed by rapidflre guns widely scattered scat-tered along the coast. Evidently the guns were placed since the British landing on June 20. Forty housemaids at Buckingham palace, all under 80. have quit their jobs because Queen Mary refused to increase their wages 10 per cent. Japan has decided to occupy such points of the province of Saghalieti, Siberia, as it deems necessary pending pend-ing the establishment there of a legitimate legiti-mate government and a satisfactory settlement for the massacre of TOO Japanese at Nlkolaievsk. Three-fourths of a battalion of Irish Connaught rangers stationed at Jull-under Jull-under in the Punjab, India, mutinied, following the arrival of news of recent re-cent events in Ireland, according to a dispatch from Simla, under date of July 2 to Renter's, Ltd. An official dispatch from Belgrade says it is confirmed that Avalona, Albania, Al-bania, Is entirely ill Albanian hands. The majority of the Italian garrison was taken off by warships and a small contingent retreated to Saseuo Island. A dispatch from Sofia says that the Odeon theatre at I'hillppopolis, Bulgaria, Bul-garia, was blown up by a bomb and that about 150 bodies were burled under the debris. Twenty-two thousand five hundred workers are striking in various parts of the republic of Mexico, according to El Universal, General Chang Ching Yuo, military governor of Hunan, whose failure to combat troops of the southern Chinese republic caused the loss of the Chang Sba and Yo Chow, It Is alleged, has been deprived of his military rank, shorn of his honors and ordered to Pekin to answer for his conduct of the campaign in Hunan. Mrs. Emily R. Block of New York, and sixteen other relief workers, are believed to be isolated by Turkish nationalist forces in Adana, Syria, according ac-cording to a cable message received at the near east relief headquarters. A bill granting suffrage to the women wo-men of Belgium was defeated by a vote of SO to T4 in the chamber of deput ies. Official statements issued by the Turkish nationalist headquarters of I Mustaplia Kemal Pasha under date of ! June -4, -5 and 20, received at Cmi- s:antinople by courier, admit sucees-j sucees-j cs by the Greeks in the center of tl.eir drive eastward into Anatolia. |