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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEKEVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Hem and Foreign Newt Gathered From All Quarter! of the World, end Prepared for Busy Men INTER MOUNTAIN. In the presence of several of his children Amos B. Neff, 62 years of age, a prosperous and well known sheep-man, sheep-man, was shot and Instantly killed by Larry Paul, an Italian farm hand, near Bait Lake City. A final satisfactory adjustment of the recent wage controversy and strike was reached at Butte when a conference of two committees representing repre-senting the workingmen's and teamster's team-ster's unions and the Silver Bow Employers' Em-ployers' association announced that a compromise had been agreed upon. The Cresson mine, one of the richest rich-est in the Cripple Creek district, has been sold to a syndicate of Chicago and New York men for $4, 270,000, according ac-cording to an announcement made front Denver. The Colorado board of pardons has granted a ninety-day reprieve to Col. James C. Bulger, under sentence to be hanged for the murder of Lloyd F. Kicodemus, Denver hotel proprietor. (Floods in the northwest and In British Columbia, according to reports received at Seattle, show no signs of abatement. Boise, Idaho, citizens turned out Tuesday night In one of the largest preparedness parades ever held in the interm ountain country. Fully 4,000 people were in the line of march, waving wav-ing flags and keeping time to tne lively live-ly military airs played by the Boise military band. . DOMESTIC. By a vote of 32 to 6, with nine members mem-bers declining to vote, the national committee of the Progressive party, at the end of a stormy session at Chicago Chi-cago on June 26, endorsed Charels E. Hughes for president, and the Bull Moose party practically went out of existence as a national political organization. or-ganization. Francisco Villa was shot from the rear by a Mexican he had impressed Into his gang during the battle with Carranza troops at Guerrero, but his iate is still unknown, according to a semi-official account given out at Columbus, Co-lumbus, N. M., obtained by Major Robert Rob-ert L. Howze, who was close on Villa's trail last April. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt on June 26 sent a letter to the national committee com-mittee of. the Progressive party in which he finally declined the presidential presi-dential nomination of the party- and urged that Charles E. Hughes be supported sup-ported in order to defeat President Wilson. Threats of the Carranzistas to kill every Chinese in Sonora caused 100 .orientals to seek refuge in Nogales, Arizona. Captain Lewis S. Morey, wounded in the Carrizal fight, is safe, after his daring stand against the Mexicans and heroic sacrifice to save his men, having hav-ing reached the American lines. He says the troopers were treacherously attacked and ruthlessly slaughtered. Mrs. Jane Stowell, aged 75 years, mother of "Billy" Sunday, the evangelist, evan-gelist, was found dead in bed at the home of her son at Winon Lake, Ind., Eunday. Four men were killed and one seriously se-riously injured as a result of a compressed com-pressed air explosion in a tune under construction in South Boston. Bodies of the American soldiers killed in the engagement at Carrizal still lie unburied on the battlefield, according to French and Mexican refugees refu-gees who arrived in Juarez. Midshipman William B. Durkin, 17 years old, of West Pittson, Pa., fell r jumped from the window of his room on the third floor of the midshipmen's mid-shipmen's barracks, at Annapolis, receiving re-ceiving injuries which caused his death. A preparedness and patriotic parade la which more than 50,000 persons took part at Buffalo, N. Y., proved a strong stimulus for recruiting, officers of the national guard reporting large additions to their ranks. The National Electric Medical association as-sociation decided at their closing session ses-sion at Cedar Point, N. Y., to notify President Wilson that the services of more than 2,000 electric physicians and surgeons are at his disposal for Mexican war service. Between 35,000 and 40,000 from hands are needed to get in the wheat 'arrest in Texas this year. National guard organizations throughout the country are straining very nerve to prepare for active service ser-vice on the Mexican bord.r. Francisco Villa has been in Juarez several times in the last four weeks, according to reports received by agents of the United States secret service ser-vice at El Paso. Second-class boatswain s mate I. M. Laughter of the U. S. gunboat Anuap-eli. Anuap-eli. who was shot during a tight at Ma?atlan with Carranza soldiers, died the following morning. An American cavalry patrol is pur suing a small band of Mexicans, who were reported to have raided the Parker Par-ker ranch, thirty-five miles southwest f Hachlla N. ii. Charles E. Hu'g'h'es, Republican nominee for president, sent a telegram to . K. Davis, secretary of the Progressive Pro-gressive national committee, Monday night, welcoming the support of the Progressive party and arraigning the present administration for Its "weakness "weak-ness and Incertitude." One armed Mexican was shot and killed and another was, believed to have been wounded by a detachment of the Third cavalry on patrol duty Monday night near Progreso, Texas, forty-one miles west of Brownsville. Approximately 150 Mexican laborers on the military reservation at Fort Huachucha .Ariz.) and in the vicinity were disarmed by Lieutenant Griswell, according to a message received from the fort. Less than 100 soldiers are now at Fort Huachuca. The Bank of Crocketts, at Crock-etts, Crock-etts, Va., was robbed by two men of $4,400 in currency. The robbers escaped es-caped in an automobile. WASHINGTON. Efforts toward Latin-American mediation me-diation In the Mexican crisis, favored by Carranza officials, collapsed without with-out having reached the stage of a formal for-mal proposal to the United States. The house passed the army appropriation appro-priation bill by a unanimous vote after it had increased its total to $180,000,-000 $180,000,-000 through the addition of $26,000,000 for many separate items. A pre-emptory demand that General Carranza repudiate the attack on American troops at Carrizal and immediately im-mediately release all captured American Ameri-can soldiers is understood to be the next step in the Mexican crisis now contemplated by the Washington government. gov-ernment. Ignacio Calderon, minister from Bolivia, Bo-livia, acting on behalf of several South and Central American republics, will present to Secretary Lansing an offer already accepted "in principle" by General Carranza, to mediate in the crisis with Mexico. Representatives of the entente allies have signified to the United States government their willingness to subordinate subor-dinate their munitions contracts in this country to the needs of the United States in the present emergency. FOREIGN. A report on the aeroplane raid on Karlsruhe June 22 shows that 110 persons, per-sons, including five women and seventy-five children, were killed, and 147 persons injured, including twenty women wo-men and seventy-nino children. Two Austrian transports have been sunk in the harbor of Durazzo by the Italians. The transports were loaded with troops, arms and ammunition. The United States consulate at Tor-reon Tor-reon was demolished June 18 by a mob of 3,000 civilians led by the mayor of the city and a Carranza army band, according to American refugees. Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton has been unable to rescue the men, numbering twenty-two and comprising the main body of his Antartic expedition, expe-dition, who were. left on Elephant island. isl-and. Twelve thousand Mexican troops are massed opposite Nogales, Ariz., under Generals Martinez and Estrada. Their base is at Magdalena, forty-five miles south. On the heels of the American evacuation evac-uation of San Geronimo and Bachi-naba, Bachi-naba, Gen. Jacinto Trevino has occupied occu-pied these points with his troops, issuing is-suing strict orders that anyx attempt of General Pershing's men to return south must be forcibly prevented. The Russians have conquered the whole of the Austrian crownland of Bukowina and the Austro-Hungariano are making their way toward the Carpathian Car-pathian passes, according to Petrograd advices. From Paris comes the news that the Italian auxiliary cruiser Citti di Messina Mes-sina and the French torpedo boat destroyer de-stroyer Fourche have been torpedoed in the strait of Otranto. Serious rioting occurred in the city of Panama on the occasion of the elections. elec-tions. Eighteen persons were wounded. wound-ed. There were no foreigners among them, however. . Coincident with the, arrival of six more prisoners at Chihuahua, General Carranza wired General Jacinto Trevino Tre-vino to obtain a full report on the Carrizal fight. He informed General Trevino in his message that a "portion "por-tion of the American press claims the Americans were ambushed." William Robertsen and Thomas Snyder, Americans, were killed in a fight with Mexicans twelve miles east of Nacozari, Sonora. A wireless dispatch from Rome says that Pope Benedict has appealed to President Wilson and General Carranza Car-ranza to use their earnest endeavors . to avert war. The Russian offensive is in full swing in Bukowina where the advance of General Brusiloff's forces is apparently appar-ently being little impeded by the Aus-trians. Aus-trians. The Chilean government, it is learned, expects to await answers from the nations it has consulted regarding re-garding the possibility of intervention by all the American nations to bring about peaceful solution of the Mexican situation before taking further steps. An Austro-Iliigarian encircling advance ad-vance has pressed the Russians out of Kuty (Galicia) according to the Austrian Aus-trian official statement. Corporal Victor Chapman of New York, a member of the Franco-Ameri-man flying corps, was killed at Verdun Ver-dun after bringing down three German Ger-man aeroplanes. The British steamship Brussels, with passengers on board, has been captured by German destroyers and taken into Zebrugge. It is stated there were no Americans on the Bras sols. |