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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlstor) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Gfobe and Given in a Few Lines, INTER-MOUNTAIN. Edith Seman, the 212-year-old daughter of H. W. Seman, of Penver, found a bottle containing carbolic acid while playing and drank the contents, dying within a few minutes. Other children playing near her sought to take the bottle away from her, hut she ran behind a chair and drank the poison before they could reach her. January floods, which put the Nevada Ne-vada division of the Salt Lake railroad rail-road out of commission, has cost that system a four-years' contract with the government for the transportation of transcontinental mails. The estimated estimat-ed value of this contract was $130,000 annually. Believing that certain rays of the X-ray machine may cure leprosy, Dr. H. Stover, a Denver physician has sailed for Hawaii with the intention of making experiments at the leper colony at Molokai. Dr. Stover took with him a small but especiall constructed con-structed apparatus, supplied with a new feature of his own invention. Tow Ewing, whose mind has been affected for some time, committed suicide sui-cide at Ophir, Utah, deliberately preparing pre-paring a charge of dynamite, lighting the fuse and blowing himself up. Four million acres of land, representing repre-senting -2 per cent of all forest reserves re-serves in the' country, much of it in Utah and other intermountain states, will be restored to the public domain, the result of an order Issued by President Pres-ident Taft. With military precision and without the least disorder, the 310 children and teachers of the Centennial school in Trinidad, Colo., marched from the building when a fire broke out in the basement. Justice William Kerr, of Pueblo, in sentencing Antone Sime for beating his wife, said: "If I ever hear or you doing this again after you get out of jail, I will personally lead a party of men who are men and tie you to a telegraph pole and beat you to death." DOMESTIC. A lone robber held up the cashier and two patrons in a bank at San Bernardino, Ber-nardino, Cal., and got away with a tray of gold amounting to about $1,000. George Ebeling has pleaded guilty to having taken part in the robbery of a passenger train near Eureka, Mo., on the night of January 21, and implicate im-plicate W. W. Lowe, James Lowe and 3. W. Emmerson, who are in jail. S. T. Lockhard stabbed and killed his friend, Carleton Swinney, at Groveton, Texas, when the latter, while temporarily insane, broke into the home of the former. Lockhard thought his friend was a burglar. Charges that certain of the "insiders" "insid-ers" in the Wells-Fargo company, knowing in advance that the 300 per cent "melon" would be cut, had tricked stockholders out of their ' holdings, will be laid before the interstate commerce com-merce commission in New York on Friday. Howard Little, who murdered Mrs. Bessie Justis, her son-in-law, George Meadows, and his wife and three children, in their home near Hurley, Buchanan county, last September, was put to death by electrocution in the penitentiary at Richmond, Va., February Febru-ary 11. A verdict of $75,000, said to be the largest ever rendered in an alienation suit, has been awarded to Mrs. Chas. C. Hendnick of Brooklyn against Laura Biggar, former actress, accused of alienating the affections of Mrs. Hendrick's divorced husband, Dr. Chas. C. Hendrick. Dr. B. C. Hyde has been arrested on the charge of having murdered Colonel Col-onel Thomas H. Swope, the Kansas City millionaire philanthropist, after a coroner's jury had decided that Swope came to his death as a result of poisoning. Hyde is the husband of the late millionaire's niece. Oliver Spitzer, convicted at New York of conspiracy to defraud the government in the sugar, weighing cases, and sentenced to two years imprisonment, im-prisonment, declares he has been made a scapegoat by the sugar trust, which had hounded and ruined him after twenty-nine years oi faithful service. Peace has been .declared between the shirt waist manufacturers of Philadelphia Phil-adelphia and their striking employes, the girls winning a substantial victory, vic-tory, shorter hours and recognition of their union. Peter Brown, on trial at Bartles-ville, Bartles-ville, Okla., for the murder of his father, has made a confession in which he says: "My stepmother was my tempter to such an extent that I thought I loved her and so I killed my father with an ax when she ordered or-dered me to." The National Geographic society has resolved to send an expedition in search of the south pole, provided the necessary funds can be raised. Captain Bartlett, in command of the steamer Roosevelt on Peary's trip to the north pole, probably will nave charge of the Antarctic expedition. The villago of Lakeland. Fla.. has been wrecked by a hurricane, twenty-five twenty-five persons being injured and a number num-ber of houses demolished. In a pitched battle between whites and negroes at Hales Bar. xenn., three negroes were shot to death. One was "Daddy" Baker, a negro preacher and ringleader of the black rioters. After two weeks of the thirty days' meat boycott in Pittsburg, the prices of meat continue to rise. Miss Beatrice Snyder, of Buffalo, X. Y., committed suicide by wading into the river and being swept over Niagara Falls. Her intention was not discovered by several witnesses to the tragedy until it was too late to save her. Colonel Thomas H. Swope, the Kansas Kan-sas City millionaire, came to his death by reason of strychnine administered admin-istered in a capsule by Dr. B. C. Hyde, husband -or the millionaire's niece, according to the verdict of the coroner's jury In Independence, Mo. WASHINGTON. The senate and house have practically prac-tically decided that a court of law has not the power to summon before it a committee of. congress, the decision being based on the plea of the constitutional con-stitutional prerogatives of members of congress. One contributing cause to the high price of meat, according to a report oi the department of commerce and labor, is the fact that livestock receipts re-ceipts for the year 1909 at seven leading lead-ing interior markets of the United States were the lowest since 1904. Commander Robert E. Peary, discoverer dis-coverer of the north pole, will not be given the rank of rear admiral in the navy, as proposed, in recognition for his services as an explorer if congress approves the action of the sub-committee of the house committee on naval affairs. Waterway projects throughout the country at a cost of $42,55,276, of which $7,206,430 is for continuing contracts, con-tracts, are provided for in the rivers and harbors appropriation bill reported report-ed to the house by the committee on rivers and harbors. The Bennett "white slave" bill, regulating reg-ulating the traffic in immoral alien women, wo-men, has been approved by the senate, sen-ate, practically in the same form as passed by the house. Gifford Pinchot, deposed chief for-rester, for-rester, bitterly assails the action of George P. McCabe, solicitor of the department, de-partment, who, as temporary, chief after af-ter Pinchot's dismissal took action to abolish the collegiate training of foresters for-esters at government expense. Wade H. Ellis of Ohio has resigned his position as assistant to the attorney attor-ney general in the department of justice to accept the chairmanship of the Republican executive committee of Ohio and to assume charge of the Ohio campaign this fall. FOREIGN. Antoinetta Frattini, who was seventy-two years old, shot herself at Padua, Pa-dua, Italy, because she had been awaiting death for fifty years, and there was no sign as yet of her dying. Recently the doctors of Paris demanded de-manded and secured a higher scale of fees. The nurses emboldened by the success of the doctors have placed a minimum rate of $1 a day on their services. Shefket Pasha, the new minister of war, intends to thoroughly reorganize the Turkish army, and the navy also is to be put on a sound fighting basis. German ideas will prevail in the army and English in the navy. A number of Chinese girls, specially trained in San Francisco, have begun work in Peking as central operators in the telephone system recently opened there. Subscribers, when ringing ring-ing up, address them as "Lily of the Air" and "Butterfly that Talks." Because of the great success of the police dog exhibition at Monaco last year, arrangements are being made for a similar show, which will take plaee toward the latter part of March. Several Belgian and German "dog detectives" de-tectives" have also been entered. Lady Constance-Richardson created a stir a few days ago when she appeared ap-peared upon a London hall stage and danced for charity. Her daring gowns and her startling poses drew great crowds, but they also called down the wrath of King Edward, who ordered that her name be stricken from the list of those entitled to attend court functions. Driven helplessly from her course, in one of the wildest storms that has swept the Mediterranean in forty years, the French Transatlantic Steamship companys' steamer General Gener-al Chanzy while running full speed in the dead of night, crashed on the treacherous reefs near the island of Minorca and all except one of the 157 persons on board perished. Whether the Hawaiian islands shall be "dry" will be left to the Hawaiian people themselves, and will not be determined de-termined by congress. This was determined de-termined by the senate committee on Pacific islands and Porto Rico, when it adopted a report providing that the question shall be submitted to a special spe-cial election. King Gustav of Sweden has been op-srated on for appendicitis, the operation oper-ation being a success. A measure has been passed by the imperial council of India whicn requires re-quires the proprietors of newspapers and job presses to 'deposit with the government a sum of money which will be forfeited should the uct-ositoi be convicted of an attempt to incite murder or sedition or to influence the public against law and order. There will be no walk-out of Amer ican engineers and conductors in the employ of the National Railways ol Mexico. The employees and the man ! ngement have agreed upon terms oi ! settlf-mont of their diflVror.ps. |