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Show Walter Wellman's second attempt to sail over the North pole in a balloon has resulted in failure. After proceeding pro-ceeding 32 miles from Camp Well-rr.an, Well-rr.an, Spitzenbergen, the balloon suffered suf-fered an accident, and the party made a landing, later being lowed back to camp by the steamer Fram. when the balloon broke loose and was wrecked, precluding the possibility of i fnr.h. .- . tills year to reach the polo. In a battle between state troops and strikers at Schoenville, Pa., six men were killed, ten perhaps fatally wounded and nearly a score seriously serious-ly hurt. The next convention of the Trans-Mississippi Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress will be held in San Antonio, Texas, in November. No-vember. 1910. Marian Bleakley, aged 5, the famous fa-mous incubator baby or the St. Louis World's fair, was kidnaped from her home in Topel'.a, Kans., last week, but the child and her captors were captured in Kansas City. A chauffeur and two spectator:; were killed during the automobile races at Indianapolis on August 21, the machine crashing througii a fence and running into the crowd. A Pullman car jumped the track near Poplar Bluff, Mo., rolling down a thirty-foot embankment, eleven persons per-sons being injured. Twenty casks and nine cases containing con-taining specimens, trophies of the hunt, collected by the Roosevelt expedition expe-dition in South Africa, were brought to New York on the steamer Provin-cia Provin-cia from Marseilles. The specimens represent twenty different kinds or animals. Arturo Rodriguez, the 14-year-old boy who was stabbed at Nogales, Ariz., by Enrique Paredes, also aged 14, during a quarrel over a girl, is dead. The coroner's jury has decided that the wreck on the Rio Grande near Husted, Colo., was due to the negligence negli-gence of the train crew, who will have to stand trial on a charge of criminal negligence. WASHINGTON, INTER-MOUNTAIN. A party of dancers returning to their homes in Burke, Idaho, at an early hour, saved the family or K. B. Finch from burning to death, their home being on fire and the entire family asleep. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. Moses Thatcher, formerly a member mem-ber of the quorum of twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-terday Lat-terday Saints, and a candidate tor United States senator in 189G, died at his home in Logan, Utah, August 21. A plan to establish a Korean colony southwest or Redlands. Cal., tiook definite form last week, when agents of a Korean syndicate at San Francisco Fran-cisco visited the land offered and reported re-ported to the owners of the tract that it meets the requirements. Congressman Pray of Montana predicts pre-dicts that under the next federal census cen-sus Montana will have tnree congressmen. con-gressmen. Instead or one as at present, owing to the increase in population pop-ulation since the last census. Damage to Colorado railroads caused by the floods of the past week will reach a half a million dollars, not Including the loss in traffic. Repairs on the Pacific fleet's first squadron having been completed, 900 men working at the Puget Sound navy yard at Seattle were discharged last week. A cloudburst at Bingham Canyon, Utah, did at least $35,000 damage, one family barely escaping from 'their home with their lives, the house being be-ing wrecked, while several houses were badly damaged. Cloudbursts caused the Arkansas river and tributary streams to overflow over-flow their banks and considerable damage has been done at Pueblo and Canon City, Colo., while at least forty-five forty-five miles of track of the Denver fc Rio Grande railroad between Denver and Salida has been washed out. In the Royal Gorge the water rose until the tracks on the celebrated hanging bridge were covered. Charles Taft, a second cousin of President Taft, was killed at Prior, Colo., when a bolt of lightning struck his house. He conducted a general It is denied, on authority of the president, that the numerical strength of the regular army is to be reduced, or that the naval establishment will suffer loss of efficiency. The quartermaster general of the army has been authorized to lease for six months 160 acres of land in College Park, Md., to De used by the government for experimental purposes pur-poses and for giving instruction to officers and signal corps in the management man-agement of aeroplanes. By direction of President Taft, seven cadets have been dismissed from the military academy at West Point for being involved In the hazing of Rolando Sutton, who was so badly beaten that he had to be taken to the hospital. Mrs. Shelby M. Cullom, wife of the Illinois senator, died in Washington, Augus 18. She had suffered from heart trouble for a long time. Gas as a motive power on men-of-war is a possibility of the future, in the opinion of naval experts In Washington. Wash-ington. It would mean a material reduction re-duction in coal consumption and in turn a greatly increased steaming radius for the ships and would avoid the necessity of stopping so often to replenish the coal bunkers. Work has been found for 3,000 persons per-sons during the past six weeks by the information division of the department depart-ment of commerce and labor, most of the men having been sent to the wheat fields of the northwest FOREIGN. An aged Indian woman was locked in her lvut near Puebla, Mexico, and burned to death by members of her tribe, who believed she was a witch and had been the cause of an outbreak out-break of smallpox. General William Booth, commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, was operated upon in London, for septic poisoning of the eye. The doctors are not yet able to say whether or not the general's sight will be -saved. Because his love was not returned by a woman old enough to be his mother, Jose Flores, aged fifteen years, son of a prominent official of the Mexican government at Orizaba, blew out his brains with a revolver. Serious floods have occurred throughout, the state of Victoria, Australia. Aus-tralia. Many villages have been submerged sub-merged and several fatalities have been reported. Fire destroyed property in the business busi-ness section of Monterey, Mexico, valued at $1,500,000. The whole business busi-ness section was threatened, but escaped es-caped largely because there was no wind. store at Prior. A man giving his name as Olson, arrested in Omaha on a minor charge, has confessed that he shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Seymour Clark, at Uintah, Uin-tah, eight miles east of Ogden, last winter. A cloudburst in Bingham Canyon, Utah, caused a wall of water and mud to sweep over the Yampa smelter, the large furnace being wrecked, causing a loss of $50,000, while two men were buried in the debris and rescued in an unconscious condition, but both will recover. Corydon W. Higgins, associate editor edi-tor of the Salt Lake Mining Review, was instantly killed by inhaling poisonous pois-onous fumes from a room that was being disinfected at his apartments. Higgins was unaware that the apartments apart-ments were being disinfected, and walked Into a veritable death trap. DOMESTIC. The steamer Fred Swain caught fire in midstream near Peoria, HI., and burned to the water's edge. There were 150 people on board, but ail escaped es-caped without injury. Monte Attell of San Francisco retained re-tained the bantam-weight championship champion-ship by defeating Percy Cove of Seattle Seat-tle In the tenth round of a scheduled twenty round contest in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Five hundred women took part in a small sized riot at Pittsburg, enlivening en-livening things by tossing paving stones at the property of the Pressed Steel Car company, which has locked out its union employees. The police were powerless to stop them until they resorted to the use of clubs. Ten persons were seriously injured and twenty others had narrow escapes es-capes in Chicago, when 250 feet, of the Twelfth street bridge over the river and viaduct collapsed. Two robbers, surprised while looting loot-ing the State bank at Keifer, Okla., shot and killed City Marshal Inferd, and probably fatally wounded Cashier Palmer Webliug. The men then escaped. The police of Budapest have taken into custody twenty-six anarchists, who recently arrived there to attend the anarchist congress. According to advices received rrom Teheran, the recent attempt of the young shah to commit suicide was really an attempt to assassinate the boy by his father, the deposed shah, who struck the boy, with a poinard. Madarlal Dhinagri. the Indian student, stu-dent, who. on the night of July 1, at the conclusion of a public gathering at the Imperial institute in London, sho and killed Lieutenant Colonei Sir William Wil-liam Hutt Cnrzon-Wyllie and Dr. Ca-wai Ca-wai Lalcaea. was hanged at Penton-ville Penton-ville prison on August 17. The inter-island steamer Niyhau. which went ashore on the coast ot the Island of Molokai, and which It was expected would be a total loss, was floated by vesselswhich went to the rescue, and arrived at Honolulu in a leaking condition. I In a futile effort to save the lite or W. Brooke I.essig. a well known Philadelphia lawyer, with whom she was swimming in the surf at Wild-wood Wild-wood Crest, N. Y.. Miss Virginia Paul, one of the leaders in the young set of Philadelphia society. was also drowned in the swift ocean current. Neckwear strikers in New York City started a riot in which 200 men, women and girls took part, the police reserves being called and 85 of the disturbers landed in jail. A score ot men and women were badly beaten and bruised, the police firing a number num-ber of shots to frighin the rioters. For the second lime in his career, Dr. Wu Ting-fang, the Chinese minister min-ister to the United States, has been recalled from the Washington mission mis-sion and been directed to proceed heme, where, it is expected, he will be assigned to other work. |