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MEXICAN SIIUAIION BECOMES SER IOUS: REEUGEE SHIP READY 10 SAI1 W O W S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. UNIVERSA! HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHtU U v e News Items of Ail Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. King Constantine of Greece has de cided to order the complete demo bilization of the Greek army. Russian torpedo boat destroyers have sunk 13 large Turkish ships laden with merchandise off the Anatolian coast. The Italians have continued their advance in the Arsa valley, in the Pasubio sector and along the Posina A sticc line in the Southern Tyrol. The Norwegian steam er Prosper III has struck a mine and sunk. The first officer of the vessel is believed to be th e only survivor. She sailed from Newport News May 20 for La Pallice, France. Bryant J. C. O’Connor, a metal worker at San Francisco, falls seven stories to the pavement from a scaffold on an office building and suprises spec tators by rising and attem pting to walk away. Liquor shipments to Portland and Multnomah county consumers for May totaled 10,377. April records show 8883 consumers. In May there were 8429 purchasers of pure alcohol for “ extern a'” use. Formation of a National Democratic W omen’s league was announced in Chi cago recently by Mrs. Joanna E. Downes, president of an Illinois Demo cratic women’s organization. It will represent, she declares, 75,000 women throughout the United States. The Bulgarian legation at Bucharest has received information that the Bul- garia-Roumanian frontier will be tem porarily closed against passengers or merchandise, says a Reuter dispatch from the Roumanian capital. It is be- lieved that Bulgaria has taken this step to mask im portant troop move Coliseum, Chicago, June 10.—Charles ments. Evans Hugehs was named today the Holding that Italians are not made Republican candidate in the coming citizens of the United States by re election. It was 12:27 o’clock when ceipt of allotments of land, the Su Delaware was reached on the third roll prem e court sustained an indictment call of the convention. The vote to against Fred Nice, charged with sell that point had been practically unani ing liquor at Carter, S. D., to George mous, ail opposition had collapsed, the Cortier, a Sioux Indian with alloted name of Roosevelt had been with lands. The defense contended that drawn, and the fight was over. sta te law applied to the case. German infantry attacked French positions west of Fort Vaux on the Verdun front Tuesday night. The as sault failed entirely, the official report says. The Germans continued their heavy bombardment in the region north of Souville and Tavannes forts. W est of the Meuse there was heavy artillery action in the vicinity of Chat- tancourt. A rumor is in circulation in Petro- grad th at the Russians have occupied Czernowitz, capital of the Austrian crownland of Bukowina. The rumor lacks official confirmation, but color has been given by the capture of Do- bronovtze, a commanding point 10 m iles to the northeast. The Russian line extends to Okna. From both these points good roads lead direct to Czernowitz, and, according to m ilitary authorities, they are the only points in th is direction capable of defense. A decree of divorce is granted to M rs. Claude Grahame-W hite, in Lon don, formerly Miss Dorothy Taylor, of New York, from her husband, the avi- j ator. On account of the general strike the Norway government has passed a law prohibiting the sale or importation of strong liquors, wine and beer, and the shipm ent of liquors throughout the country. The police also have been ordered to prevent the serving of wine and beer in restaurants. American marines and Haitien gendarm es killed the revolutionary chiefs, Welellus and Codio, and nine of th e ir men in a fight near Fonds Ver- retes Sunday. No mention of Ameri can casualties is made in the State de partm ent dispatch reporting the inci- Chicago, June 10—Theodore Roose duet. velt’s nomination was made unani A bill pending in the house to give mously by the Progressive party con exclusive fishing rights to persons fil- | vention here today. ing surveys on trap sites was attacked by Delegate Wickersham, of Alaska, Oyster Bay, June 10— ‘‘To the Pro as putting the Pacific salmon industry gressive convention:—I am very grate into the hands of a trust. A combina ful for the honor you confer upon me tion already has surveyed all salmon by nominating me as President. I can tra p sites, Wickersham declared. not accept it at this tim e.” Washington, D. C. - W ith 1500 ad ditional regular troops ordered to the Mexican Imrder Monday night and re ports of the rapid spread of anti- American feeling continuing to |mur in from consuls all over Northern Mexi co, adm inistration officials made no at tem pt to disguise their uneasiness. It was officially adm itted that there is a growing alarm over what the agitation may produce and the |Nissibl1ity of an attack on General Pershing’s ex|a*di- tion. Part of the Increasing apprehension t here is due to the renewed raids in the i Laredo region. Several reports deal ing with the situation there have been i received. Officials declined to reveal details, but they gave the impression of having reason to l*clieve a serious I pur|s>se was behind the bsndit raid on the Coleman ranch. Three raiders were killed and three raptured, one re- |sirt ailding that they tried to burn a railroad bridge near Laredo but failed. The new force sent to join General Funston's border patrol, Secretary Baker said, was to fill in gaps in the guard such as that neur Laredo. It will be composed of 10 com|wnies of coast artillery and a battalion of en gineers. The artillerym en will he withdrawn from fortifications between Portland, Me., and Sandy Hook, and the engineers will go from barracks in this city. The secretary said there was no present intention of calling out sdditional National Guard regim ents for border duty. General Mann, commanding at 1 - redo, reported that a patrol of three cavalrymen were fired on during the night of June 10, near the town of Hachita, ami Private W. L. Sautters, troop K, 12th cavalry, slightly wound ed. Two mounted Mexicans who did the firing esru|>ed. A message from Captain Kurrage, commanding the battleship Nebraska at Vera Cruz, said there was consider able unrest in that region due appar ently to the currency situation. There were no evidences of unfriendliness toward Americans, the message said. It added that the Carranza government had liecn sending troojm and ammuni tion inland. Captain Burruge did not know the object of these troop move ments. The State departm ent, through S|>ccial Agent Risigers, at Mexico City has railed the attention of the de facto government to the anti-American out breaks, which for nearly two weeks have been spreading steadily. Many towns have held mass m eetings ami protested against the continued pres ence of American troops in Mexico. In two or three instances American pro|>- erty has been attacked, but no threats against lives of Americans have been reported. The reports of consuls tell ing of the agitation were turned over to the Carranza officials more as a m atter of information than as repre sentations. Where his regular troops are in control, apparently General Car ranza has earnestly tried in most cases to prevent the holding of protest m eet ings and in some places contemplated meetings and parades have been pre vented. There are instances, however, where the troops ap[>ear to have stood idly by while the agitators stirred up antagonism against the United States. Officials here have been unable to determ ine the inspiration behind the sudden outbreak of anti-Am erican feeling, or to estim ate the ability of General Carranza to protect American Uvea and property. They feel th at'the real danger lieB in the (Kisaihle action of irregular forces now under the Car ranza banner, but whose commanders yield doubtful allegiance to the central government. San Diego, Cal.—The naval trans port Buffalo is under orders here to be ready for an immediate daah to the west coast of Mexcio to pick up Amer ican refugees in the event of a spread of anti-Am erican feeling in the south ern republic. This became known Tuesday, when orders for the vessel to proceed to Mare Island for repairs were revoked by the Navy departm ent. Large Htorea of supplies were taken on board the Buffalo and the veasel’a bunkers were filled to capacity with coal. 41 Supreme Court Justice is Nominated on Third Ballot, Vote Being Practically Unanimous. Seldom has there been a convention of any party in which the final mo ments were as tense as those in the Coliseum today. From the first minute of the convention gathering it was al most a certain thing that Hughes would win, but dread of Roosevelt power and dickering with the Bull Moose convention made every man in the Caliseum uneasy, until Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas and California votes had shown that the Hughes landslide had set in. Colorado, on the first call, cast nine votes for Hughes and three for Roose velt, but no sooner had Delaware voted for Hughes than Colorado switched, withdrew Roosevelt’s name and cast its solid vote for Hughes. Hughes’ total vote was 949J. He was actually nominated when New Jersey was reached. PROGRESSIVES NAME ROOSEVELT hughes WHO DECLINES. ^ N A T IO N Washington, D. C., June 10—Charles Evans Hughes stepped down today from the Supreme bench and, again a private citizen, accepted the Republi can nomination for President. In a telergam ringing with denunciation of I the adm inistration’s foreign policy and declaring for a dominating, thorough going Americanism, he gave hiH decis ion to Chairman Harding, of the Re publican Natoinal convention, and broke the long silence which had kept the leaders of his party in the dark as to his attitude toward the great issues of the day. “ I have not desired the nomina tion,” said the telegram . “ I have wished to remain on the bench. But in this critical period of our National history, I recognize that it is your right to summon and it is my para mount duty to respond.” W ithin an hour after Chairman Harding had notified him of his nomi nation Mr. Hughes had accepted the call. His resignation, a scant two- line letter without a superfluous word, was on its way to the W hite House, from the Hughes home before the nominee had dispatched the message of acceptance, and called the waiting group of newspaper men into his study to tell them of his decision. President Wilson accepted the resignation in a reply almost as brief. Apparently Mr. Hughes’ letter was framed so that the President m ight be saved the em barrassm ent of expressing regret or making more than a formal reply. Oyster Bay, N. Y., June 11—Theo “ I hereby resign the office of asso dore Roosevelt reiterated tonight that ciate justice of the Supreme Court of the United S tates,” he wrote. To he is “ our of politics.” which the President replied: “ I am “ I want to tell you newspaper m en,” in of your letter of resignation he said, “ that it’s no use for you to and receipt feel constrained to yield to your come up here to see me. I will have desire. I the efore accept your resig nothing to say. I will answer no ques nation as jusitce of the Supreme Court tions, so please don’t ask me to. l of the United States, to take effect at once.” am out of politics.” I M arksm anship Declared Bad. Berlin — Officers of the German cruisers Filling and Frauenlob inter viewed in the F rankfurter Zeitung emphasize what they describe as the “ extraordinarily hail m arkmanahip” of the British gunners in the North Sea battle. For a long peroid, they declare, the Filling was exposed to the continuous heavy fire of British dreadnaughts and a single fair hit would have sufficed to sink her, but she was not hit once. Airmen Work Near Suez Canal. London—The following official com munication concerning the operations in Egypt wbh made public Tuesday night: " Hostile aeroplanes homhard- ed Kantara, 30 miles south of Port Said on the Suez canal and a machine gun fired on Romani Tuesday. They were driven off by British aircraft with a few minor casualties at Kan tara. No one was injured at Rom ani.”