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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Tivenl.y-oue persons, including; einht-i-eii passengers mill throe ineliiners m I lie i-rew ill' I ln Admiral line stcam-r. stcam-r. h i j i (iovornor, limy linve Inst their lives when Ihe liijr liner snnl; off I'lynt Wilson, Wnsli,, lifter slie linil lieen rnninieil hy tin- shipping hoard steamer West llurlhinii. Marrleil women on the eounly payroll, pay-roll, whose husbands have renutner-utlve renutner-utlve eiiiploynient, must, seek positions elsewhere, according ' to resolutions adopted liy Ihe hoard of county commissioners com-missioners in session at Tacoma, Wash. One.hundred bungalows, ranging in value from $:)() to ,f."i(RKI, are to lie erected In Salt Luke City as a result of a realty deal concluded March 31. Led by a whining dog that had sought for hours to attract their attention at-tention hy running ahout in circles, the family of Melbourne 3. Balcom, -2, a cripple, found the young man's - hotly dead in I lie hushes a few hundred hun-dred yards from their ranch near Seattle. He had suicided by shooting. A bill providing for the use of lethal gas In executing the death penalty In Nevada has been signed hy Governor Itoyle. Thermopolis, Wyoming, faces the prospects of being without water, lights .or electric power tor several days as. a result of destruction by fire of the Thermopolis Electric company's plant. DOMESTIC. Miss Marie Anderson, 17 years old, of Draper, S. D., was shot and killed hy Joseph Wilmer, 2S years old, of ln-aper. who was said to have been "Jilted" hy Miss Anderson. After killing kill-ing Miss Anderson, Kilmer kilted himself, him-self, Dave Abies was arrested as he was saying grace at his noopday meal at Weston, W. Va. lie was charged with operating a moonshine still. A note addressed to Mrs. Laura Mead, Springlield, Mo., was found on a wharf at San Francisco. It was signed "Eliza Mead." and said that the writer feared the penitentiary if she returned to Springfield and so intended to leap into the bay. Mrs. Clarence V. Hopkins, wife of a mining engineer and former official of United Verde Copper company, was rushed to jail to avoid violence against her following the throwing of a poisonous poison-ous acid into the face of Lucille Gallagher, Galla-gher, a school teacher, at Jerome, Ariz. Army officials at Camp Pike, Ark., following receipt of a note from a young woman in Memphis, have begun be-gun search for Lieutenant Marvin E. Stainton, reported killed in France, it is now believed the young man is still alive, though suffering from loss id' memory. 1 Harry II. Ward, aged ':!. who last summer shot and killed two men, wounded a third and hit a policeman with a hammer, all as the outcome of an attempt to hold up a hat store in Chicago, has been sentenced to be hanged April 2:1. Death for affinity flayers instead of a gay career in the spotlight was advocated ad-vocated by Arthur liurrage Faruell, reformer militant, in an address at Chicago. liobe Daniels, motion picture actress, sentenced to ten days in jail at Santa Ana, Cal., for automobile speeding, lias appealed the case and has been granted a ten-day stay of execution. The fireworks explosion in Chicago, which caused the death of eight persons per-sons and the serious injury of fifty, is blamed on Singer & S. ha'.'i'er, manufacturers manu-facturers of fireworks, who had been warned several times against making fireworks on the premises. John P-urrouglis, naturalist, died on a New York Central train near Kings-ville, Kings-ville, Ohio, on his way home from California, March -.. lie had been very ill for six weeks with an abscess on the chest anil he.irt and with kidney kid-ney complications. He would have been S4 years old on April 3. That the remedy for the lack of a million homes in the United States lies in providing better transportation, abundance of fuel, credit for loans and full information on the best methods meth-ods of construction, is contended by Senator William M. Colder of Xew York, chairman of the senate committee commit-tee on reconstruction, in a report jBuude public March 2S. About 2mM") Omaha carpenters and other union craftsmen engaged in 'the building trades quit work April 1 be-caues be-caues of a 2d per cent reihiciion announced an-nounced recently by the Omaha J'.uiM-ers' J'.uiM-ers' Exchange, an organization of con-'ractnrs. con-'ractnrs. Mrs. W. C. Meisenhohlcr. years old, wife of tile mayor of Parkston. S. D.. was probably falally wounded when she was in, si eriously shot at as she entered en-tered the back door of her home. lietred ministers of Ihe Methodist Episcopal church received during 1!)2U average pensions of .272 each, according accord-ing to Dr. Joseph I!. Ilingeley of Chicago, Chi-cago, secrelary of Ihe board of conference con-ference claiinaiils, who addressed members of the .New York conference of ihe church. line of the most fashionable apartments apart-ments at Memphis, Tenn., has announced an-nounced a l."i reduction in rentals; effective May 1. being the first rental reduction in that city in a number of years. WASHINGTON. The first important move since the armistice toward rehabilitating the army's air service was taken April 1 when the war department, placed orders or-ders for 2(10 Thomas Morse type pursuit pur-suit airplanes and thirty-five Martin bombers. Regulations limiting withdrawal of liquor by retail druggists to 100 gallons gal-lons each of spirits or wine for eaAl quarter have been issued by the bureau of international revenue. Itailroad employes have had a proposal pro-posal before President Harding for a conference between labor and the railroads rail-roads in an attempt to settle the whole transportation problem now confronting confront-ing the country, so far as labor is concerned. con-cerned. President Harding will leave any immediate steps in dealing with the railroad situation to the interstate commerce commission and the railway rail-way labor hoard, it was announced at the White House, March 31. Major General Leonard Wood has been authorized to accept the Invitation extended him by the Japanese Jap-anese government to visit that country after his visit to the Philippines. Attorney General Da igherty has announced that he is considering making mak-ing recommendations on the question of a general amnesty for all political prisoners. He has denied that he lias ltid down any conditions that Eugene V. Debs must live up to in order to obtain a pardon. FOREIGN. Work ceased in the coal mines of the United Kingdom at midnight, April 1, with the exception of a few districts, and approximately 1,200,000 miners are idle as a result of the controversy over tlte wage issue. The report of the American commission com-mission on conditions in Ireland was declared to lie "biased and wholly misleading." mis-leading." in a statement issued April 1 by the liritish embassy. The statement declared that Ireland far from being a devastated country is the most prosperous pros-perous part-" of the United Kingdom. The German government has approached ap-proached t lie Harding administration with a proposal for solving the reparations repara-tions problem, according to Berlin dispatches dis-patches received at London. . Chinese women become more emancipated eman-cipated daily. Old timers are shocked as Chinese girls in Hankow organize a dramatic club and put on public shows. The Hankow Y. M. C. A. is backing them. Striking workmen attempted to enter forcibly a shoe manufacturing plant at Mexico City for the purpose of ousting strikebreakers and operating the plant under their own direction. Police reserves re-serves were rushed to the scene and prevented the successful carrying out of the plan. Three workmen who escaped from KronslaiU have arrived at the Finnish frontier. They reported that the communists com-munists were executing every other man and every fourth woman in Kron-stadl. Kron-stadl. Turkish cavalry has entered the fight against the Greeks near Eski-Sliehr Eski-Sliehr and is pursuing two Greek divisions divi-sions near that city, it is said in reports re-ports received from Anatolia. The two Americans imprisoned in Germany for the recent attempted capture of Grnver Cleveland Bergdoll. wealthy draft evader, have been released. re-leased. Cardinal l.ogue. primate of Ireland, was interviewed Tuesday by Sir William Will-iam Colliding and three other southern south-ern Irish unionists with the object, it is understood, of securing the opening of peace negotiations between the Irish republican parliament and the llril isli government. School teachers at Pekin are returning return-ing to work, following a strike which had virtually paralyzed the educational education-al institutions of Pekin for several weeks. The visit of former Emperor Charles to Austria and Hungary appears to have created a bad impression in Switzerland. It is regarded as un-kingly un-kingly and unchivalrotis. Swiss authorities au-thorities were not aware of the former emperor's Intentions. |
