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WORLD’S DOINGS Of CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News FrGm All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU Uve News Items of Ail Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Miss Jan e Davis, of Scranton, Pa., who was touring G lacier National Park, fell from her horse while ford ing a small stream and was drowned in th e Two Medicine River, into which her body was carried. The U nited S tates now is w aiting fo r General C arranza's final word in reply to the note sent Sunday demand ing release of the prisoners taken at C arrizal and a formal diplom atic an nouncement of intentions. R espites of 30 days pending heari o f pardon applications were granted I President Wilson to S. D. and W. S. Simpson, officers of the American Na tional Bank of Caldwell, Idaho, con victed of issuing a fraudulent certifi ca te of deposit. A general re tre a t of th e A ustrians in the Trentino d istrict over a sector about 20 miles in extent is announced in an official statem ent issued by the Italian w ar office. The statem ent says th a t the Ialians are pressing the pur su it vigorously. F ighting activity in the W estern th e a te r on the fronts occupied by the B ritish and the north w ing of the French arm y was im portant and has been so for the past two days, says the official statem ent isused by German arm y headquarters. V eterans of the Civil W ar began a r riv in g at Spokane Tuesday for the an nual encam pm ent of the Grand Army o f the Republic, D epartm ent of W ash ington and Alaska. I t is expected th a t 900 of the 3000 veterans in W ash ington and Alaska will attend the con vention. A joint m eeting of all train , engine and yard men w orking in E astern W ashington will be held in Spokane Ju ly 3, at which the outcome of the conference for an eight-hour day, re cently held in New York, will be dis cussed. The next step to be taken will, it is said, also be discussed. The body of a man came ashore at A g ate Beach, near Newport, Or.. Tuesday. From the fact th a t wreck age of fru it, etc, sim ilar to th a t lost from the steam er Bear, has been wash in g in on the beach near where the body was found, it is thought th a t the body may be one of the wreck victim s. The Z eitschrift Fuer Frauenstim m - recht, the German woman suffrage or gan at The Hague, has sent the fol lowing greeting to the women of F ran ce: “ We feel, think and suffer like you, and sw ear th a t a fte r this ca tastrophic w ar the women of all na tions shall work unitedly to prevent forever its recurrence. ” C arranza authorities have released all prisoners confined in jails in Sonora towns. A dozen prisoners were re leased from the Nogales, Sonora, jail, am ong them a Mexican held on three separate charges of murder. It is be lieved the men are being released upon a promise to join the Mexican army and because of the difficulty in obtain ing food for them. The U nited States consulate at Tor- reon, Mexico, was demolished June 18 by a mob of 3000 civilians, led by the m ayor of the city and a Carranza army band, according to American refugees arriv in g at Eagle Pass, Tex., late Tuesday. The populace was attending a bullfight, according to the refugees, when the de facto governm ent troops forced them to join in an anti-A m eri can dem onstration. A large force of Russian cavalry, a f te r a b attle with Austro-H ungarian troop«, has occupied a position near P ezoritt, about 5j milles w est of Kim- polung, in Bukowina. The foregoing ■was announced in the official statem ent issued by the Russian war office. Re g arding the operations in Bukowina, th e var office announced th a t Russian forces also w ere advancing southward, approaching the passes leading into T ransylvania. The hospital ten t of O regon’s mo bilization camp has not yet been occu pied. Four new companies of Oregon C oast artillery will be formed a t once and offered to the governm ent for use w herever they may be wanted. BACKDOWN 1$ SEEN ON PART Of CARRANZA; CRISIS IS NEAR up an income of $250,000 a year and a home worth more than $1,600,000 to wed another man. Her husband left her a tru st fund of $5,000,000 and his magnificent home on F ifth Avenue, to be forfeited, under the term s of his will, if she m arried again. Shu was wedded to W. K. I >ick, the HD Of i sugar m anufacturer, last week, anti the tru st fund and the home thus re verted to Vincent Astor, eldest son of the millionaire, to whom he had willed nine-tenths of his g reat fortune. Her Columbus, N. M. — Carrwnzaista troops and soldiers of General P ersh ing's ex|>editionary command south of Namiquipa are on the verge of hostili ties, according to reports from the field Wednesday. A w ireless dispatch from Colonel D. C. Cabell, General P ershing's chief of staff, said th at the attitu d e of the C arranzaistas was such that American m otor-truck supply trains are in danger of being fired up on. The C arranzaistas are said to have mounted artillery in positions menac ing the Americans and the dispatches indicated th at with the two commands in close proxim ity the danger of a clash is increasing. El Paso, T ex.—The border read the latest notes to General Carranza and then lapsed back inta the expectant w aiting th a t has followed each crisis in the Mexican situation. Speculation centered on the first chief's reception of the Lansing docu ment. Much interest was taken in a telegram received at the Mexican con sulate from the official news bureau in Mexico City. This m essage read: “ General Carranza, addressing a patriotic crowd in Mexico City, de clared there would be no war between the U nited S tates and Mexico unless the U nited S tates should send fu rth er punitive expedition into M exico.” In some quarters the telegram was interpreted as forecasting a back-down on the part of the first chief. In m ilitary circles it is agreed th a t the A m erican defense against the slightest Mexican aggression will be a sw ift and sharply executed offensive. Indications which piled up from v ar ious Mexican towns along the border point to the probability th at if in te r vention in forced the first dash of Am erican regulars over the in tern a tional boundary would m eet w ith slight resistance. Men, women and children in these centers are being ordered southward, while m erchants have been instructed to move th e ir goods to interior points. There has been no preparation of trenches or other fortifications. In q u arters which have been in pos session of all the facts relative to do m estic conditions in Mexico, it is as serted th a t in the event of hostilities the food situation in Mexico would be come a prom inent factor. Because of shortage of rations and curtailed transportation facilities it was said th at General C arranza would be unable to m aintain a force of 10,000 men at any point for a period of three weeks, and th a t there was not enough forage to take care of a body of 8000 cavalry for one week. In view of this, it is believed the Mexicans would have to operate in com paratively small detachm ents. Enough rolling 3tock has been g ath ered in Ju arez to tran sp o rt the entire garrison, if it becomes advisable to move south. Mexicans Riddle American flag Over Consulate During Rioting Douglas, A riz.—The Am erican flag flying over the hotel in which was sit uated the office of Am erican Consul W. A. Ju lian at Cananea was made the ta rg e t of hundreds of Mexican bullets during th e anti-A m erican dem onstra tion last Saturday night, according to Am erican refugees arriv in g here Wed nesday. A fter daybreak, when the dem onstration ended, the emblem still flaunted in the breeze. Numerous bullets struck the hotel, endangering the visitors, who were nearly all Americans. The mob shout ed m aledictions against the “ grin- goes ” A fter filling the flag w ith holes the mob directed its fire a t the flagpole but was unable to cut it. About 650 A m ericans have reached the border from Cananea. The refu gees composed parctcially the Ameri- (i,an P°Pu lation o f the town. General Galles announced th a t he had lifted the embargo on Sonora telephone and tele graph lines th at Am erican consular representatives m ight send warnings Am ericans to leave the state. He th a t all mess u " specified, " J however, 1 ages m ust be w ritten in Spanish. * 2 ,3 0 0 ,0 0 0 Is Overdue. New York—Madison Square Garden Wednesday went into the hands of a receiver. Proceedings to foreclose a m ortgage of $2,300,000 together with back taxes and in tere st and other charges am ounting to about $58,500, were begun last week by the New York Life Insurance company. Supreme Court Ju stice Giegerich has appointed Edward E. McCall receiver. The pro ceedings are reported to foreshadow a sale of the property a t auction. ULTIMATUM IS SENT MEXICAN REPUBLIC Gives Up Great Fortune to Wed Immedidte Release of Captured Negro Troopers Demanded. CARRANZA ORDERED ATTACK President, Following Conference, In dicates He Will Address Joint Session of Congress Soon. I W ashington, 1). C.— A demand for j the im m ediate release of the American i troopers taken prisoners at Carrizal, ! coupled with a stern notification th at | the United S tates ex|>ects an early statem ent of the purposes of the Car- j ranzs governm ent was telegraphed to i Mexico City Sunday by Secretary Lan- | sing. The note discloses th at the S tate de- ! pertinent received Saturday a commu- i ideation from the de facto governm ent statin g th at the Carrizal fight was the ; direct result of orders to attack Amer- | ¡can soldiers moving otherw ise than toward the border, |>ersonally issued j by General Carranza to General Tre- | vino and by the la tte r communicated to General Pershing. In reply, S ecretary Lansing requires JOHN that the de facto governm ent tran sm it JACOft a definite statem ent “ as to the course A3 TOR J* of action it has determ ined upon” through the usual diplom atic channels Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, th a t is, little son, John Jacob Astor, J r., was “ and not through subordinate m ilitary Mrs. John Jacob Astor, the widow of born four months a fte r his fath er went officers. ” The Mexican communication is con New Y ork’s richest landlord, has given down on the Titanic. strued, Secretary Lansing states, “ as a formal avowal of deliberately hostile ter, in which he finally declined the action against the forces of the United Presidential nom ination of the party S tates now in Mexico and of the pur- and urged th at Charles E. Hughes be |sise of attack w ithout provocation supported in order to defeat President whenever they move from th eir pres Wilson, the com m ittee voted to accept Chicago— By a vote of 32 to 6, w ith the Colonel's declination and took a ent |x>sition" despite the friendly mis sion on which they are engaged and nine m em bers declining to vote, the recess for luncheon. which is reaffirmed in the American National com m ittee of the Progressive rejoinder. party Monday, a t the end of a storm y General Carranza is required to session, indorsed Charles E. Hughes place him self on record form ally and for President and the Bull Moose party the plain intim ation lies behind the re practically w ent out of existence as a strained language of Mr. L ansing’s National political organization. The fight in the com m ittee to in London — At last the long-heralded communication th a t force will be met dorse Hughes was led by George W. and much-delayed grand offensive o f ) ! w ith force. Apparently, however, the W ashington governm ent is determ ined Perkins, of New York; Jam es R. G ar If j th a t the de facto governm ent shall not field, of Ohio, and Chester H. Russell, the allies seems to be at hand. : events rath er than official announce- evade responsibility before the world of Califonria. The radical element in the com m it 1 ments m ark its opening, it is already if war is forced upx>n the United States. tee, represented by M atthew Hale, of well under way. The note and the m ilitary situation M assachusetts; Bainbridge Colby, of P aris and London have said nothing of the United S tates were talked over New Y ork; Henry F. Cochems, of Wisconsin, and John M. P arker, of regarding the im portant operation de at the W hite House by the President, It has been left to admis w ith the senate foreign relations com- Louisiana, vigorously protested ag ain st veloping. sions from the central px>wers to es j m ittee. the indorsem ent of any candidate for tablish th eir existence. A fter the conference, which lasted President and fought the m ajority at Thus sb against the silence of the more than an hour, Senator Stone said every step of the proceedings. The B ritish war office, Berlin chronicled the situation was “ exceedingly a c u te .” m inority ’s first move was to in sist on the opening of “ im portant b attle s” in President Wilson has felt it necessary an open m eeting of th e com m ittee, ! the sector held by S ir Douglas Haig. , to acquaint congress with the state of which it won afte r a number of the Vienna supplem ents thiB with the 1 affairs and the action taken, through admission of a 20-mile retirem en t in the foreign affairs com m ittee. It was the Trentino. “ To retain our freedom j indicated th at he m ight desire to ad May Be Attorney General. J of actio n ,” is the trib u te the Austrian dress a joint session of the house and ! war office pays to General C adorna’s j | senate in a day or two, but would not offensive, which observers expect to tak e th is final step until the Mexican spread rapdily to Isonzo front. governm ent had been given an oppor In the east, the Russians, while still tu n ity to reply. held up in th eir advance on Kovel by the Germans, are continuing th eir ad vance against the A ustrians in the south. T heir flank now protected by the C arpathians, they have turned northward in th eir sweep through Bu kowina and are now approaching Ko- Field H eadquarters, Mexico, via lomea. They are already w ithin 10 w ireless to Columbus, N. M.—Twenty- miles of the town. th ree American soldiers are known to Thus, though the Germ ans succeed have lost th eir lives on the battlefield in preventing the progress from the a t Carrizal, according to a report to north, the Russians may still force the General Pershing Sunday night from evacuation of Lem burg and Tarnapol Major Jenkins, commanding the Elev by advancing from the south. Sim ilar enth Cavalry column ordered to scour tactics were successful when the Rus the country in th a t vicinity for surviv sians took the city before. ors. Major Jenkins said he had evi General Brusiloff’s main efforts are dence th a t nine Am erican troopers, in now being diverted to overthrow ing addition to those previously reported the Germans in these positions. He dead, had been killed. Major Jenkins has brought his batteries which routed reported th a t he had found Captain the A ustrians, to bear here. Morey hidden in a house nine miles PROGRESSIVES ENDORSE HUGHES; ROOSEVELT GIVES SUPPORT John W. Davis, a t present solicitor general of the departm ent of Justice, it is believed in W ashington, will be appointed attorney general by P resi dent Wilson if he should nom inate A t torney General Gregory for the U nited S tates Supreme Court. Mr. .Davis is regarded as a very able law yer. He has the conduct of governm ent cases before the Supreme Court. He is Four Hospitals To Be Given. Chicago— Four base hospitals of 500 forty-three years old and was born in beds each and costing $160,000 will be W est V irginia. the contribution of the Chicago branch of the American Red Cross in the committeemen, led by John M. P arker, event of w sr with Mexico, according bolted the m eeting. to an announcement by the Red Cross A fte r Secretary Oscar K ing Davis of Ameirca read Colonel Theodore R oosevelt’s let- Big Drive by Allied Powers Begun On All Sides of Central Powers Thirty-Three United States Troopers Known To Have Been Slain Congress to Allow $ 2 8 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 for Increased National Guard W ashington, D. C. — N early $28,- 000,000 exclusively for the national guard is carried in the arm y appropri ation bill which has been reported to the house and is now on the calendar. In recent years the United S tates has contributed about $6,000,000 a year to the suppwrt of the national guard, chiefly in the m atter of m aterial fu r nished. The states individually have expended on the national guard an ag g reg ate of about $7,720,000 a year. The trem endous increase in the am ount to be expended by the national governm ent on the service is due to the provisions in the recently enacted army organization law which gives the United S tates a larger m easure of con trol over the guard and also provides pay for the officers and men. from where he was abandoned, and th a t his wounds were not dangerous. Two Allied W arships Sunk. P aris—The m inister of m arine an nounced th a t the Italian auxiliary cruiser C itti di Messina and the French destroyer Fourche have been torpedoed in th e S tra it of O tranto. The C itti di Messina, which was being escorted by the Fourche, was the first victim of the subm arine. The Fourche later attacked the underw ater boat, which submerged and disappeared. Shortly afterw ards the Fourche herself was torpedoed. Altnost all of her crew was naval. Panam a Election Riotous. Panam a—Serious rioting occurred in the City of Panam a Sunday on the oc casion of the elections. E ighteen per sons w ere wounded. There were no foreigners among them, however. No trouble occurred at Colon. One man was killed in the Province of Chiriqui.