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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEITSEVEHTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepared for Busy Men INTEHMOUNTA1N. The right of the city of Astoria, Ore., to the same freight rates as Seattle, Se-attle, Tacoma and Portland, has been reaffirmed by the interstate commerce commission. Jimmie Johns, professional boxer, was seriously injured from four bul-letts bul-letts fired by the Farmington city mar-shal'at mar-shal'at Lagoon, Utah, as a result of John's resisting arrest. Leonard A. Peterson, 22 years old, of Mt. Pleasant, Utah, a private in troop E, First cavalry, Utah national muni on rmite to the border, was CUU.U, V... taken from a train at San Bernardino, Cal., with both legs paralyzed and isolate iso-late at the county hospital as a possible pos-sible sufferer from infantile paralysis. Mrs. Wess Harvey, 23 years of age, of Denver, who on June 28 suddenly lapsed into a deep slumber, is still sleeping without having responded to efforts of physicians to awaken her. Coinage at the Denver mint for the fispal year ended June 30 last totalled 39,188,000 pieces, valued at $1,643,960. Colorado. Wyoming and New Mexico coal operators have been invited by the federal trade commission to meet at Denver the latter part of this month for a discussion of producing and marketing conditions. Two men were killed and two companions com-panions escaped with bruises when their automobile missed a small ce ment bridge and turned completely over, near Eureka, Utah. DOMESTIC. Fifteen persons dead, at least ten missing, and property damage esti-. mated at around $15,000,000 is the known toll of flood waters in five southern states North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and West Virginia. Police officers employed by the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad in West Virginia have been ordered to carry rifles, as well as revolvers, in order to resist efforts of bootleggers and their agents to bring intoxicating liquors into West Virginia. The epidemic of infantile paralysis at New York has been checked suc cessfully, in the opinion of Health Commissioner Emerson. One guard was killed and another fatally injured by two prisoners in making their escape from jail in the Camden, N. J., county court house. A general delivery, the police say, was prevented by a "trusty," who gave the alarm. , Realignment of American troops for the protection of the Big Bend section sec-tion of the Texas border against bandit ban-dit forays bas practically been completed, com-pleted, military authorities announce. William Orpet, the university student stu-dent charged with murdering Marion Lambert, a high school girl and his former sweetheart, was found not guilty by a jury at Waukegan, Ills. About 200 employees of. the Harris-burg Harris-burg Railways company operating the lines in Harrisburg, Pa., and vicinity, struck Sunday, following refusal of the company officials to treat with them as members of a-union. While practicing a new diving stunt with which to amuse her swimming class of girls, Miss Florence M. Anderson, Ander-son, 25 years old, physical director of the' Lansing (Mich.) Young Women's Christian association, was drowned in Pine lake. Five persons were killed and one internally in-ternally injured Sunday, when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a passenger train near Jacksonville, Ills. General Cipriano Castro, former president of Venexuela, who was admitted ad-mitted to the United States in 1913 after being detained by the immigration immigra-tion authorities for six weeks on Ellis island, again was denied admission to this country again aSturday when he arrived on the steamship Vauban from Port of Spain. Trinidad. Crude oil production for the first six months of 1916 in the United States reached a total of 138,000,000 barrels, with Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana contributing a total of 12.000,-000 12.000,-000 barrels of that amount. John M. Larimer, aged 96, who foiled the plot in 1S60 to strip the Allegheny arsenal of ammunition and cannon in order to arm ports in confederate con-federate territory, the exposure of which led to the resignation of John B. Floyd, secretary of war in the cabinet cab-inet of President .lames Buchanan, is dead at Pittsburg. Armed shark hunters in motor boats are patrolling the New York and New Jersey coasts, hunting for man-eating man-eating sharks, following the death of a man and a boy and the serious injury in-jury of another boy as a result of being be-ing attacked by a shark. The official notification ceremonies of the nomination of Charles E. Hughes will be held in New York, July 31, at 8 p. m., at .Carnegie hall. Three laborers were killed and five seriously injured in the collapse of a superstructure surrounding a new building it Buffalo. N. Y. Privale R. Tucker, Eleventh infantry, infant-ry, shot and probably fatally wounded Antonio Rodriguez, a Mexican musician, mu-sician, near Doug:as, Ariz., while the Mexican and a companion were making mak-ing their way toward the international boundary. One of them carried a rifle, according to the guard's statement. state-ment. Three persons Were seriously injured in-jured when the Glacier Park limited on the Great Northern railroad collided collid-ed head-on with a local passenger train at Todd, N. D. Flood water which swept through the French Broad and Swanannoa valleys val-leys of Ncrth Carolina on Sunday took a toll of. five lives and caused property prop-erty damage estimated at from $5,-000,000 $5,-000,000 to $10,000,000. Captain Christian Briand of the Twelfth cavalry committed suicide at Hachita, N. M., shooting himself in the head. The report of the incident to departmental headquarters indicated that the officer was mentally deranged. de-ranged. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has signed the rural credits bill passed recently by congress. Just before signing the measure, which creates a system of twelve land loan banks under direction direc-tion of a federal board, the president made a short address, expressing sat isfaction with the measure. General orders have been issued by the war department prohibiting army officers from taking part in any movement move-ment for the solicitation of funds to augment rations issued by the government govern-ment to national guardsmen in the federal service. Secretary of the Navy Daniels says pvprv hnttlesbin in the United States navy will be equipped soon with "the most effective anti-aircraf t guns in the world. General Funston has asked the war department to ask for an emergency medical corps appropriation of $300,-000 $300,-000 to cover any emergency work that may be necessary to safeguard the health of the men in service on the border. The state department has formally ruled that the German submarine Deutschland. is a merchant vessel and entitled to treatment as such. The Rucker so-called corrupt practices prac-tices act amending the political campaign, cam-paign, publicity law and extending it to candidates for president and vice-president vice-president was passed by the house. FOREIGN. . British expenditures have now reached a total of more than $30,000,-000 $30,000,-000 daily, according to a statement made by Reginald McKenna, chancellor chancel-lor of the exchequer, in the house of commons. The German general staff has issued an appeal to the people of Germany for confidence in the conduct of the war, according to a Rotterdam' dis patch. Great Britain again has refused a plea of the American Red Cross for permission to make conditional shipments ship-ments of Red Cross supplies to Germany Ger-many and Austria. Count Michael Karolyi has resigned from the presidency of the Hungarian Independent party, according to a Budapest dispatch, and will form a new party, which will demand immediate imme-diate peace between Hungary and its enemies, with or without the consont of Germany and Austria. Several scattered groups of Villistas have eluded the cordon of government govern-ment troops which surrounded them in the Rio Florido bottoms and are making for the American border, it is rumored. Coming again to the aid of her allies, Russia is sending fresh hordes to fill the gaps in France. A large forcS landed at Brest July 17, according to dispatches from Paris, it being the sixth within the last few months. The new Russian troops are believed to have come by way of Archangel. Rioting, in which the stadium was burned and the police were compelled to drive the spectators from ., the grounds, broke up a football game between be-tween the Uruguayans and Argentines at Montevideo that was to have resided resid-ed the championship of South' America. Amer-ica. ' , ' j A, Central News dispatch1 from Madrid Ma-drid said that the government and men have agreed to settle the' miners and railway strike by arbitration.; King Constantine of Greece had a narrow escape from death 'in the fire which destroyed the royal summer residence jat Tatoi last i week. ' The king was trapped by the flames nnd fainted, but he was rescued by soldiers sol-diers and removed from the ; danger zone. ; I The British have broken the German Ger-man second line through cjnd !beyond on a front of two and a half - miles, and, for the first time sinde Octoher, 1914, the cavalry has been jn action. The announcement comes- from Pet-rograd Pet-rograd of the capture of the city oi Baiburt in the Caucasus (from the Turks. I The Rev. W. A. F. CampbHl and hit wife. Canadian missionaries, were s'.nbbed to death by a burglar in theif summer cottage at Karuizawa. Japan J. Beltran, one of Villa's chief lieu tenants and a participant in the massacre mas-sacre of eighteen Americans at Santa Ysabel. Chihuahua last January, waf killed in the engagement at Cerrc Blanco, July 12. Members of the Austrian imperial family have been summoned to Svsoenbrunn owing to the illness ol the emperor, Francis Joseph, according accord-ing to news dispatches from Ins-bruck. Ins-bruck. Several specialists are attending attend-ing the aged king-emperor and the news of the war is being wit held from him. |
