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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I' ' INTERMOUNTAIN Frank liostman, son of H. B. Eastman, East-man, one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of Boise, Idaho, died Sunday Tom injuries in an automobile acci-.lent acci-.lent near Ontario Saturday. Mrs. Dora Topham, better known as "Belle London," convicted on a charge of pandering and sentenced to eighteen eigh-teen years in the Utah state prison, wag given her freedom m an opinion handed down Saturday by the state supreme court. I ICdwiird Callahan, the last of the famous fa-mous feudists of Breathitt county, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded while sunning himself on the steps of his store at Ororkettsville, Ky. Letting himself down head first Into a barrel of rain -water under the eaves of his home, the Rev. Charles Martz committed suicide at Arcadia. Ind. He had been acting queerly for some time. Rabbi Levi Rosenblat dropped dead at. memorial service's in St. Louis for the victims of the Titanic disaster. He had concluded a prayer when he sank to the floor. Prom Vicksburg, Miss, 'south to New Orleans the Mississippi river is from half a foot to two and a half feet above any previous flood record. WASHINGTON The house has ordered an investigation investiga-tion of the conduct of Judge Robert W. Arc.hbald of he commerce court to determine whether or not he should J be impeached' Cn charges that he has used his office io procure favors from railroads. An unusual demonstration greeted Representative Oscar W. Underwood, Because the I. W. W.'s parading under un-der the banner of Socialism, undertook under-took to march at Boise, Idaho, with a red flag the police interfered, anticipating antici-pating trouble, and there was a near riot. Bernard F. O'Neil, late president of the defunct State Bank of Commerce at Wallace, Idaho, will be extradited from Vancouver, B. C, to Idaho to stand trial on charges of signing false balance sheets of the bank, of embezzling embez-zling sums of money from the bank and of accepting deposits from customers cus-tomers at a time when he knew the bank was insolvent The steamer George R. Vosburg, running between Astoria and Tillamook, Tilla-mook, Ore., was wrecked Friday on the spit at Nehalem Bay, Ore. W. A. Thorn and C. A. Biscay, officials of-ficials of the Industrial Workers of the World, were kidnaped from their lodgings at Hoquiam, Wash., dragged four blocks through the city's streets and taken away in an automobile. They were later released. The Republican and Democratic state conventions to select delegates to the national conventions at Chicago Chica-go and Baltimore, respectively, will be held in Cheyenne, May 13. DOMESTIC In a statement issued from Oyster Bay by Colonel Rooesvelt in reply to President Taft's speech in Baltimore, the colonel says that Mr. Taft knew he was making an untrue statement when he said that the former president presi-dent expressed the opinion that the anti-trust law ought to be repealed. The body of Colonel John Jacob As-tor As-tor was laid at rest Saturday with simple sim-ple ceremonies in the Astor vault in Trinity cemetery on Washington Heights, New York. Nineteen thousand ministers will institute a vigorous warfare against the employment of children under 16 the house on Thursday, the chamber, which was crowded, rising in a body and cheering him because of his victory vic-tory in the Georgia and Florida primaries. pri-maries. The postoffice appropriation bill, carrying approximately $275,000,000, was passed by the house, 227 to 5. The measure also carried several radical rad-ical additions. A river regulation fund of $20,000,-000 $20,000,-000 annually for a period of ten years after the completion of the Panama canal, and an annual expenditure of $5,000,000 in the intermediate period is proposed in an amendment to the rivers and harbor bill offered by Senator Sen-ator Newlands of Nevada. President Taft has informed the senate that the department of state has no evidence whatever adequate to show any acquisition of land or any intention or desire to acquire land, whether directly or indirectly, in Mexico Mex-ico by or' on the part of the imperial Japanese government. FOREIGN The captain of the steamship Texas of the Archipelago American company, com-pany, which was blown up and sunk by Turkish forts in the gulf of Smyrna while flying the American flag, has been forcibly removed from the Greek hospital in Symyrna to a Turkish prison where he is said to have been placed in a hospital ward. Emilio Vasquez Gomez, a Mexican lawyer, was ordained provisional president pres-ident of Mexico on Saturday by proclamation of General Pascual Oroz-co, Oroz-co, now at the front with the rebel troops threatening the federal base at Torreon. The United States will see that there is a fair election in Panama this summer as it did in 1908. Reports show that there has been rioting in a part of the republic near David, in- volvlng the loss of at least one life, and this disorder threatens to extend. A general strike of all the lightermen lighter-men and longshoremen was put into operation at Havana, Saturday morning, morn-ing, and the traffic of the port is tied up. Mormons colonized at Colonia Diaz, seventy-five miles south of Columbus, N. M., but who are American citizens, were attacked by rebels on Saturday, and repulsed them. In the revolt of nearly 1,000 prisoners pris-oners in the Portuguese prison at Limoeiro, many were killed by the troops who were called out to suppress sup-press the uprising. J. D. Harvey, a Mormon colonist in Mexico, was murdered by rebels while at work in the field, his three small sons being witnesses to the murder. The first Chinese marriage ceremony cere-mony conducted according to the western west-ern style was celebrated Sunday at Shanghai. The ceremony was according accord-ing to the Chinese ritual, but in all other respects the wedding was of the European style. It is understood at Tien Tsin that the negotiations for the proposed International loan have been ruptured owing to the feare of the Chinese authorities that the supervision of the loan by foreign countries will prevent dishonest handling and grafting. A dispatch has been received at Constantinople from Tunis, saying that the Italian battleship Reumberto has been driven by a storm on the rocks and sunk at a point off the Tripolitan coast, near Mazura. The skull of Johann Schiller, the years of age in the factories and textile tex-tile mills of the United States, was announced at the general conference of the eMthodist Episcopal church at Minneapolis. The General Federation of Women's clubs will hold its biennial convention conven-tion in San Francisco June 25 to July 5 next. James O. Brezinski, former secret service man and special treasury agent, who was indicted for giving false testimony before the federal grand jury in its investigation of the sugar underweighing frauds, in New York, has been found guilty of perjury. In an address Saturday at Baltimore President Taft declared that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt did prevent the prosecution of the Harvester "trust," after George W. Perkins, one of Its directors and now a Roosevelt supporter, sup-porter, had asked that the trust be not taken into court. If the Southern Pacific carries out plans now seriously considered, the great fleet of steamers operated by the Southern Pacific between New York and Galveston will ply between Boston Bos-ton and Galveston with New York as a port of call. Charles Morley, the only surviving member of the trio of state penitentiary peniten-tiary convicts who broke jail at Lincoln, Lin-coln, Neb., March 14, after killing Warden Delhanty, Deputy Warden WTagner and Guard Heilman, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. de-gree. Mysteriously missing since March 26, Miss Elsie Nichols, a 17-year-old girl of Winchester, Va,, and said to be a niece of the late Senator Daniel of great German philosopher and poet, which has been missing for nearly thirty years, has been discovered, according ac-cording to a Berlin dispatch. Aviator Bedel arrived at Bordeaux, Prance, from Villacoublay, near Paris, after making intermediate stops at Tours and Angonleme. His average rate of speed was nearly eighty-ons miles an hour. The penchant of women for smuggling smug-gling has resulted in the exclusion c. all females from the new bridge over the Rhine at Lustenau, which- connects con-nects Germany and Austria. Emiliano Zapata and his brother liufemio, rebel leaders in the south, who are reported to have been bottled up at Chiautla Puebla by federal troops, escaped Friday wih the greater part of their forces. The appointment by the Mexican congress of a peace commission to treat directly with the revolutionists is regarded by state department officials of-ficials as significant. It is believed to indicate that the Mexican congress has determined to act on its own initiative ini-tiative in endeavoring to terminate the war. j Virginia, was found in a hallway In New York City and locked up on a charge of intoxication. William E. Dorr, charged with the murder of George Marsh, a wealthy soap manufacturer of Lynn, Mass., has left Stockton, Cal., for the scene of his alleged crime in the custody oi' Massachusetts officers. Homer Davenport, the cartoon'.s'.. died Thursday in New York of pneu- , monia. Mr. Davenport had been working on the Hearst newspapers. He was forty-tour years old. In a Socialist. May day parade in Seattle, a man reached out from the crowd of spectators, tore a red flag from its staff, rushed into a saloon and escaped. A man carrying an American flag threw it into the street and jumped on it. He was knocked down by bystanders. Officials of the XTnited Mine Workers Work-ers of America, who have been In conference con-ference in New York for two days, express confidence that a strike of the mine workers of the three anthracite districts, who have been idle since Airil 1 has been averted. I |