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Show HEWS OF A WEEK Ifl CONDENSED F01 RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and G.ven In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Aiuerli'ii's historic old battleship, the Oregon, wont out of commission at the I'ugct Sound navy yard at Bremerton, Wash., on June "Focli," a Russian wolf hound, which lost a leg in its military service In Flanders, was the first canine to be caught running about Hutte without a license and Has sentenced to death under u new city ordinance. Mayor Studdon has Issued a pardon for the don hero. That Kerry Corbet ta, returned soldier, sol-dier, killed as he was running from a soft drink saloon at Denver, was shot by Detective George Klein, head of the liquor squad, while the latter was in performance of his duty, was the verdict ver-dict of a coroner's jury. Jli'solutions indorsing the league of nations were adopted by the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Locomotive Firemen and Kn-ginenien, Kn-ginenien, ill session at Denver. Kesoltitions urging full civilian pay to railroad men serving in the army in France were adopted at the session ses-sion of the I'.rotliei'hood of Kailroad Firemen, at Denver. The liank of r.cuverton Ore., was robbed of a sum eslimuted at $4000 when an unmasked robber ordered Miss Lillian II. F.vnns, assistant cashier, cash-ier, who was alone in the bank, to put up her hands and took the money from the counter. A walkout of restaurant and hotel cooks nt Portland was averted by the employers granting demands of an eight hour day and a six-day week. DOMESTIC. A wild west holdup with modern metropolitan trimmings was witnessed Friday in New York City when six bandits, one of whom was shot in the abdomen, tried to capture from two aged messengers of the Colonial bank a leather bag which contained $100,-000 $100,-000 in cash and securities. To preserve a natural flow of wheat from tlte farm, periodical premium covering storage charges will be added to the basic price at various guarantee guar-antee markets, according to an announcement an-nouncement by Julius II. Barnes, United Unit-ed States wheat director. Following information that terrorists terror-ists planned a series of bomb outrages for July 4 in tmore than a score of cities, detectives aud government agents in Chicago found nine bombs in a freight car. James H. Iteardon, manager of a box manufacturing establishment at St. Louis, was shot and killed by Joseph Middendorf, an employe, who then turned the revolver to his bead and killed himself. Police say they found literature of a radical nature on Middendorf. Mid-dendorf. Detroit's traction tie-up came to an end early Thursday evening, when the striking car men of the Detroit United Railways voted to accept an offer by the company of wage increases from 43, 40 and 4S to 50, 55 and Go cents an hour. Fifty-two alleged anarchists and other alien undesirables have been gathered up in the United States for deportation through the port of New 1'ork. The Lithuanian convention at Chicago Chi-cago before its close Wednesday, voted to recruit an army in America to maintain main-tain Lithuanian independence, if the United States government will sanction sanc-tion the plan to transport such troops to Lithuania. An army captain sentenced to serve a virtual life sentence for refusing to lead his company over the top and a former Y. M. C. A. worker accused of having embezzled 513,000 were among the thirty prisoners brought back on the Cape Finisterre, which reached New York June 11. A resolution expressing organized labor's disapproval of wartime prohibition prohi-bition and strongly urging that 2 per cent beer be exempt from the provisions provis-ions of the eighteenth amendment to the constitution aud from the wartime prohibition measure, which goes into effect July 1, was adopted by the reconstruction re-construction convention of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor. Poison gas like that used in the European war may be used by the state commission of horticulture in its war on grasshoppers in California, George H. llecke, commissioner, lias announced. John Colt Spooner, former United States senator from Wisconsin, died at his home in New Y'ork, June 10. after an illness of several weeks. A call for a special session of the Kansas legislature to consider the ratification rati-fication of the Susan B. Anthony woman suffrage amendment has been Issued by Governor Allen. The session ses-sion will open Monday, June 10. Dr. Karl A. Much, former conductor of the Boston Symphony orchestra, who is under internment at Fort Ogle-I Ogle-I thonie. Ga., as an enemy alien, is to "Now that women have the ballot they should upset the world and build it over according to their owu hh-as." K. A. Ito--s of the University of Wis-' Wis-' i.ijsin told the 1 i.h k delegates to tlw Ima Convention of the National Fed- r;iiiii of Women's Clubs. A p;i-i'ML.'ci- train locomotive bie.v . 1 1 j ne;ir Fort Worth. Texas, killing the olivine, -r and injuring several other Tine -mod rubbers held up the .Mei eiaee Trust company at St. Louis and shot and seriously wounded two policemen in attempting to escape. The robbers, two of whom were captured, were furred to drop a suit case containing con-taining SJD.UOO in cash and Liberty bonds. Dr. Horace It. Reddish, of Jersey-ville. Jersey-ville. III., charged Willi the murder of his father, Stephen M. Keildish, a wealthy retired farmer and banker, has been hebl without bail for the September Septem-ber grand jury. WASHINGTON. Willi a legislative rider for repeal of the daylight savings act, effective next October, the agricultural appropriation appro-priation bill was ordered favorably reported re-ported on June 13. More than $3,000,000,000 of new funds must be provided by private in-iiiaiive in-iiiaiive in the next few months, if the United Slates is to continue its export trade at the present high level, it is estimated by the federal reserve board. That the partition of Russia among the British, French and Japanese will eventually follow the recognition of the Kolehuk government is the belief of a number of senators who have closely followed the Russian situation. While prices are beiug maintained at higher levels than ever before, the packing interests of the country are holding in cold storage 1,31)0,01 10,000 pounds of meat and meat products and -10.000,000 pounds of chicken, it is charged by Representative Fess of Ohio. The Knox resolution demanding the separation of the league of nations from the peace treaty was reported lo the senate by the foreign relations committee on Thursday. Recommendations that the government govern-ment quit building and operating commercial com-mercial ships at the earliest time practicable prac-ticable were presented to the senate commerce committee by the shipping board. FOREIGN. Anto-Semiiic disturbances have broken out at Cracow. Several hundred hun-dred civilians and twenty soldiers were seriously wounded before the military restored order after a wholesale plundering plun-dering of Jewish shops. Austria's first hydroelectric plant has been built on the Danube to supply Vienna with from 70,000 to 170,000 horsepower, depending on the water level. A general strike went into effect at Genoa at noon Friday, as a protest against the high cost of living. Several Sev-eral violent clashes between strikers and police have occurred, resulting in one death aud injuries to many. A British squadron is bombarding the Bolshevik base at Kronstadt with heavy guns, according to a report published pub-lished in Stockholm. On the northern end of the front west of the Urals the Siberian troops have captured Glazov and are advancing advanc-ing toward Viatka, an official announcement an-nouncement says. Advices received from China show-that show-that there has been a serious spread of anti-Japanese agitation, especially in Shanghai, Hangkow, Nankin and Canton, with indications that it may develop into a general anti-foreign movement. Talaat Bey, the man who signed the famous order which sentenced 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 Armenians to death, is now living in an Ottoman colony near Totsdam, Germany. The peace conference is being be-ing urged to make him stand trial for his crimes. The Bulgarian minister, Stephen Panaretoff, has denied the charge that fifteen tons of medicinal opium recently re-cently arrived in New York was loot from the Serbian poppy fields now being be-ing placed on the American market by agents of the Bulgarian government. Hostility between the American soldiers sol-diers and the German civilians in the occupied region, which has been increasing in-creasing recently, has resulted in additional ad-ditional clashes during the last few days. Crown Prince Charles of Rumania is suffering from a bullet wound In the leg, self-inflicted, according to Dews reaching Paris. His wound is not regarded re-garded as serious. Sergt. Frederick George Coppins, winner of the Victoria cross In the war. one of the special mounted constables, con-stables, during the demonstrations at Winnipeg on June 10, was pulled down from his horse and so maltreated that he is not expected to recover. Orders to "resist to the death" ail efforts of the Japanese to collect taxes and to ignore Japanese courts and police po-lice orders have been promulgated throughout Korea, by the Korean provisional pro-visional government. Mayor Charles F. Gray has made a formal announcement that any further street rioting of a serious nature at Winnipeg will be the signal for him to call upon the militia. The last units of American troops on the fighting front south of Archangel, Arch-angel, except engineers, have been withdrawn and will sail for home ut once. The American peace ouieiuls at Paris are convinced that the demand for the ex-kaiser's trial will be abandoned aban-doned as king as he lives a simple life |
