Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-07-02
SUMMARY Of THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Arc Of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.

Arc Of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.
Evelyn Thaw is to be witness at
Harry Thaw's trial for insanity.
Rev. Theodore L. Flood, noted
Methodist preacher, died Saturday.
Alexander Kenealy, editor Of the
London Daily Mirror, died recently.
General w. A. Soukhomlinoff, the
Russian minister of war, has resigned.
Next Sunday being the Fourth of
July, pursuant to custom Independ-
ence day will be observed on the
fifth.
Several thousand representatives of
Zionist organizations of the country
are holding a meeting in Boston this
week.
German papers rap peace plan They
say the recent German socialist man.
ifestO is seen as weakening cause
Of the Fatherland.
The total attendance at the Panama
Pacific exposition at San Francisco
since its opening passed the 100000
mark Sunday noon.
Hundreds of massmeetings of wom-
en- we're held in all parts Of Scandina-
via Sunday to urge the calling of a
conference of neutral nations to end
the war.
A German submarine, which left
Emden for the North sea recently,
sank near the island of Borkum after
. severe explosion, the cause Of which
is unknown.
Americans in the Yaqui valley, Mex
leo, are well armed with Springfield
rifles and an adequate supply of am
munition and are ready to repel any
future attacks.
Convicted of treason General Bare.
du. ex-member of the Union defense
council, South Africa, was recently
sentenced to five years Imprisonment
and fined $4,000.
Mr.. Maxim, the gun inventor, de-
clares modern style guns and arma-
ments are life saving machines, and
asserts that 1t is more dangerous to
ride in an automobile than to go into
the trenches.
Bombs dropped by British aviators
near Roulers, Belgium, Saturday, caus.
ed the explosion of large ammuni.
ton depot and also resulted In the
killing of so German soldiers who
we're loading an ammunition train.
Secretary Redfeld reported this
week at the cabinet meeting that the
total trade balance in favor Of the
United States ON June 10 was $976,.
100000. He predicted that the bal.
ance for the fiscal year ending July
would be in excess Of $1,000, 100000.
Six persons were killed and IL 9th.
ers more or less seriously injured re-
Gently when the Blue Mountain ex-
press and the fast mail of the Western
Maryland railway crashed on bridge
100 feet high a few miles west OF
Thurmont, Md.
Workmen excavating under the
house occupied until q few years ago
by Eugene Butler, at Niagara, N. D.,
who died in 1913 in the state hospital
for insane, unearthed the remains OF
six men, believed by the authorities
to have been murdered by Butler.
The supplementary British naval es.
innate issued Saturday provides for
the addition of $4,000 officers and men
to the navy. This would bring the to.
tai personnel for this year to 100000
officers and men, The last vote of
$50 900 men was made in February.
The idea of the express companies
entering into the merchandise deliv
cry service as the result of the parcel
post haMpering their operations in q
larger field of activity, does not appeal
from the standpoint Of lowering the
cost, except for the department stores
In the larger cities. There IS no real
reason why an intermediary should be
employed in this department. If the
merchants are able to get together
upon a comprehensive plan for coop