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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEJfSJVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign Newi Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTER MOUNTAIN. The body of Alice Empey, aged 9, daughter of a wealthy Idaho stockman, stock-man, who dlasppeared from Idaho F'alls on April 16, hais been found. The child had undoubtedly been murdered. Representative Mays has introduced a bill and secured a favorable report upon it from the house public lands committee to dispose of the unsold Gilsonite lands on the Uncompahgre reservation in Utah. William Glasmann, editor of the Og-den, Og-den, Utah, Standard, thrice mayor of Ogden and a congressional candidate, died Friday at his home from heart failure. An increase of 5 per cent for all shop employes was made May 12 at the Cheyenne headquarters of the Union Pacific Railroad company. Eight hundred men are affected. Boise, Idaho, on May 12, experienced experi-enced the most violent earthquake shock in the history of the city The tremor, which occurred at 7:26 o'clock, 'lasted about three seconds and was more in the nature of an upheaval than a wave. William L. Carlisle was declared guilty of train robbery by a jury in the district court at Cheyenne. The jury recommended life imprisonment. Carlisle Car-lisle was on trial in connection with the hold-up of a Union Pacific passenger passen-ger train at Corlett Junction April 21. DOMESTIC. With fifteen thousand persons as witnesses, including women and children, chil-dren, Jesse Washington, negro boy, who confessed to the criminal assault and murder of Mrs. Lucy Fryar, was taken from the courtroom at Waco, Texas, and burned on the public square. Two prisoners are dead and another injured as a result of a one-man mutiny mu-tiny in the state prison at Nashville, Tenn. Jady Harris, who caused the trouble, was shot and killed after he had wounded two other prisoners, one fatally, with a rifle snatched from a guard. The emergency tax law of 1914 was held to be constitutional in a decision rendered at Chicago by Federal Judge Geiger, in a suit brought by three banks tasting its validity. At least fourteen men were killed and about thirty injured in a terrific explosion at the Repauno plant of the Du Pont Powder company near Gibbs-town, Gibbs-town, N. J. The cause of the explosion explo-sion is unknown. Fred Ferris, formerly a bartender, shot and killed his mother, Mrs. Louise Hewitt, aged 87, and his half-brother, half-brother, Alfred Hewitt, aged 45, at their home at San Jose, Cal., following a quarrel. Ferris then killed himself. An army of 150,000 marched up Fifth avenue, New York City, on Saturday, Sat-urday, silently preaching preparedness. prepared-ness. One hundred and thirty-five thousand of them were men; 20,000 women. William Stanley, an inventor, who contributed largely to the development develop-ment of the electrical industry, died at Great Barrington, Mass., at the age of 58 years. The electrical transformer trans-former and the alternating current system of long-distance light and power transmission were among the most important of his inventions. Fresh revolutions in Ireland were predicted by Supreme Court Justice John W. Goff of New York before a large gathering at New Haven, Conn. A transcontinental aeroplane competition, com-petition, for which prizes amounting to $100,000 probably will be offered, has been decided upon by the Aero Club of America. A call for a meeting of the Republican Repub-lican national committee June 1 at Chicago, to consider contested seats in the national convention and other pre-convention business, has been issued. is-sued. The volume of business transacted in New York state during the month of last April required 21 per cent more employees, who received 37 per cent more wages, than in April, 1915. Complete returns of the recent presidential pres-idential delegate election in New Jersey Jer-sey show that the Democrats cast 28,000 votes and the Republicans 41,-000. 41,-000. Mrs. Luiz Corral Villa, wife of Pan-cho Pan-cho Villa, lias returned to El Paso from Havana, according to a report made by department of justice agents to General Funstcn. Her address is a secret which the authorities refuse to divulge. Theodore Mr.rburg of Baltimore, formerly for-merly United States minister to Belgium, Bel-gium, at a dinner given him at New York by members of the Leapue to Enforce En-force Peace, told of an interview he had with Sir Edward Grey, in which the British foreign minister said he was wholly in favor of the plan of the League to Enforce Peace. Mexican bandits fired on a military automobile conveying a message from Major Langhorne to Colonel Sibley at a point eighteen miles north of Bo-quillas, Bo-quillas, on the Marathon-Boquillas road. The home of Patrick Dlgnan, a contractor con-tractor of Chicago, was partially wrecked by a bomb, and persons living liv-ing in the house were thrown from their beds and badly bruised. The police believe the bomb was thrown as the result of labor troubles. At least ten persons were killed and nearly a score injured when the old Beacon Journal building at Akron, O., occupied by the Crystal restaurant, collapsed as a result of a blast of dynamite dy-namite in an adjoining excavation. Chicago bankers have entered into definite arrangements with French commissioners, it was announced Monday, to supply "peace credits" covering the sale of American manufactures. manu-factures. The arrangement becomes effective with the end' of the war. Mexican bandits, operating on the American side of the Rio Grande, far in the rear of the second punitive expedition, ex-pedition, visited McKinney Springs, Texas, and were driven across the border bor-der by cowboys. WASHINGTON. The Glass rural credit bill providing for a federal farm loan board and a system of twelve land bankis, passed the house by a vote of 295 to 10. A similar measure already has passed the senate and the differences probably prob-ably will be worked out soon in conference. con-ference. National defense legislation is again to the fore in congress and, with final disposition of the army reorganization reorgani-zation bill this week, particular attention atten-tion will b turned to the completion of the naval building program. W. Bourke Cockran called on President Presi-dent Wilson on Sunday to protest to Great Britain against the execution of fifteen Irish rebels who have been shot. Taxes on incomes, inheritances and war munitions will be depended on to pay for the preparedness program, Chairman Kitchin of the house ways and means committee said, after a conference with Secretary McAdoo. A standing army of 206,000 men, capable ca-pable of being expanded in emergency to 254,000, and backed up by a federalized feder-alized national guard of 425,000 as a reserve, finally was agreed on by house and senate conferees on the army bill. FOREIGN. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Copenhagen says that a large German fleet which has left Kiel for Riga includes the new battleship battle-ship Hindenburg and several other battleships of the larger type. The Panama police will no longer carry rifles, under a formal agreement between the Panamanian and American Ameri-can governments, as a result of clashes with American soldiers. The police will be allowed to carry side-arms. side-arms. Three bandits, including Julio Cardenas, Car-denas, the Villista leader, were killed in a skirmish with an American detachment de-tachment near Rubio ranch, tweoty miles east of Lake Itascate, Mexico. A court-martial soon will be called to try John MacNeill, president of the Sinn Fein volunteers and professor of law in the National university at Dublin. Dub-lin. It is announced that he will he allowed to be represented by counsel. Sir Roger Casement, leader of the Irish rebellion, has been placed on trial at London on a charge of treason. A Paris dispatch says a strong wave of conciliation is sweeping over the belligerents, and peace talk is insistent. in-sistent. Twenty-four persons were killed in the derailment by bandits of a through passenger train from Mexico City to Laredo, Friday, between Queretaro and Empalme Gonzales. The survivors surviv-ors were robbed of their valuables. The warning of the American minister, min-ister, W. W. Russell, that the city of Santo Domingo would be taken by force unless it was given up by the rebels not later than Sunday morning resulted in the evacuation of the city. The general strike on all Spanish railroads which had been set for May 20 has been called off. The points in dispute have been settled through concessions con-cessions granted by the employers. As British farmers face a crisis on account of lack of help, the army commanders com-manders have been allowed to let a number of expert plowmen from the ranks work in the fields this spring. The subscriptions of the German soldiers in the field and at home for the war loans amount to more than $500,000,000. Thene is not a company in the entire army that has not given a large amount to finance the struggle. strug-gle. A Torreon dispatch says General Obregon and Governor Enriquez of Chihuahua, en route to Mexico City, expressed themselves as well pleased with the results of the border conference, con-ference, and said they thought that the authorities in Washington and Queretaro would soon reach a working work-ing agreement satisfactory to both with a view to putting down brigandage brigand-age in Mexico. An official announcement issued at Berlin says that during the month of April ninety-six hostile merchantmen of 225,000 tons had been sunk by German Ger-man and Austro-Hungarian submarines subma-rines or mines. In view of the recent seizures of mail from Scandinavian steamships by the British authorities, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the protests of the governments concerned, joint action by Denmark, Sweden and Norway now is under consideration, con-sideration, according to Copenhagen advices. A number oi lives have been lost in floods which are sweeping Jamaica. Rain is falling in torrents and the rivers riv-ers are overflowing their banks. Heavy damage has been done to the banana croo and the roads are impassable. im-passable. I |