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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF II TO EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIIM An attempt to reunite the two factions fac-tions into which the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers split six years ago is the most important im-portant feature of the program for the annual convention of the order which opened Monday at Denver. H. C. Blackman, a railway 'brake-man, 'brake-man, shot and killed Mrs. Lottie Only the widow is entitled to compensation com-pensation under the workmen's compensation com-pensation act for the death of the husband and father, according to a decision handed down by the full tench of the state supreme court at Boston. Children, except where their only parent is removed, cannot ro-ceive ro-ceive compensation. The Copper Country Commercial club, with a membership of 500 business busi-ness and professional men in the miners' min-ers' strike district, at Calumet, Mich., decided to offer themselves as a body for mediation between the miners and the mine owners, in an effort to settle set-tle the strike which is affecting business busi-ness interests in the district. Flying a bed sheet as a flag of truce, a special train rrom Chihuahua, Mexico, reached Juarez on Saturday, bearing American refugees. They encountered en-countered no rebels on the way. It is feared George Williams, a well known business and club man of Minneapolis, has been the victim of either a fatal accident or foul play. He has been missing since August 25. WASHINGTON President Wilson has nominated Tolliver at Cheyenne, because she declined to marry him, and then killed kill-ed himself. Judge Frank J. Taylor was shot dead as he was about to board a train at Astoria, Oregon. C. C. Hanson has been arrested. Hanson believed Taylor Tay-lor had influenced Mrs. Hanson to get a divorce. Establishment of a new national park in the Estes park district of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado is the next thing on the program fojp Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane; who is resting up at Berkeley, Cal., after a breakdown from overwork. Gross operating revenues aggregating aggregat-ing $24,452,964.86, a new high record for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company, are shown by the annual report re-port for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913. Two were killed and six were injured in-jured when a vehicle carrying a party of eight young persons from a dance at Chester, to their homes in Marys-vale, Marys-vale, Idaho, was struck by the Yellowstone Yellow-stone Flyer of the Oregon Short Line on Sunday. DOMESTIC The formal opening of the Grand Army of the Republic's forty-seventh annual encampment at Chattanooga, on .Monday, was occupied chiefly with sightseeing tours to historic 'battlefields 'battle-fields in this vicinity. Three employees of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad are held 'by Corner Eli Mix to be criminally crimin-ally responsible for the disastrous wreck at North Haven on September 2. when the White Mountain exnress William Hayne Leavell of Carrollton, Miss., for minister to Guatemala. He is a retired clergyman. At a conference in Washington on Monday a Progressive congressional campaign was organized and the nineteen nine-teen Progressives of the house and Senator Miles Poindexter were named on it. Without reference to a committee the senate on Monday unanimously agreed to the house joint resolution appropriating immediately $100,000 for the relief and transportation of American citizens from Mexico. Josephus Daniels, secretary of the .navy in an interview Sunday, declared declar-ed that the navy is in splendid condition condi-tion to enter war immediately, if necessary. nec-essary. With the tariff bill being completed complet-ed and the administration currency bill under way in the house, the present pres-ent week in congress promises to mark progress toward the inscribing on the statute books the legislation pressed by President Wilson. The cost of living on June 15 wag approximately 60 per cent higher than the average between 1890 and 1900; more than 3 per cent higher than it was a year ago and nearly 15 per cent higher than it was two years ago. FOREIGN Prof. Arminius Vambery, one of the best known travelers and orientalists of the nineteenth century, died Monday Mon-day at Budapest, in his eighty-second year". The labor situation in Dublin has assumed a more serious phase and the cltv is affected tn a erreat.er ex. plunged through the second section of the s'tanding Bar Harbor express, exacting a toll of twenty-one lives. No additional charges will be filed against Governor Sulzer; he will be tried by the duly constituted court on the charges as they stand. Five Americans, two men and three women, were beaten by a mob of twenty Mexicans in; Edendale, Cal. The Americans were returning home from a dance where one of them had an argument with a Mexican woman. James Francis Cook, son of W. H. Cook, a wealthy resident of Hollywood, Cal., has been arrested in connection with the murder of Frank E. J. Nelson. Nel-son. The police asserted they had got a full confession and attributed the murder to an insane infatuation for Nelson's young wife. Rev. Hans Schmidti curate of St Joseph's Roman Catholic church in New York City, has confessed the murder of Anna Aumuller, parts of whose dismembered body were found in the Hudson river r,nd are now in the Hoboken morgue. A score of men were burned, six seriously, ser-iously, in a series of explosions that shattered the walls of the Clover Leaf Milling company's plant at Buffalo, N. Y. Fire followed the explosions and the elevator and flour mill were destroyed. de-stroyed. Surgeon General Blue of the public health service declares there is no cause for alarm in the one death from bubonic plague at Martinez, Cal. The case is regarded simply as a sporadic one. "Big Tim'' Sullivan, the New York politician, who rose from a newsboy to congressman, is dead. His mangled body was identified Saturday by his stepbrother Larry Mulligan, after it had lain for thirteen days in a morgue, he having been killed by a train. A conference of Los Angeles county coun-ty judges with counsel for George H. Bixby, the millionaire banker charged charg-ed with offenses agains. young girls, resulted in the selection of Judge B. F. Bledsoe of San Bernardino county coun-ty to hear the case. Prisedent Wilson sat In a grove of pine trees at Meriden, N. II., Friday night and saw his youngest daughter daugh-ter Miss Eleanor play the star role in a pastoral masque smybolizing the protest of the' naturalist against the slaugher of birds for millinery purposes. pur-poses. One negro was killed and another is believed to have been fatally wounded by a posse of citizens near Tammas, 111., in a fight resulting from an attempt by the negroes to force a merchant of Tammas to accept ac-cept a bill which had been raised from $1 to $5. Marking their first peaceful invasion inva-sion of the south, thousands of union veterans arrived Sunday at Chatta-noog, Chatta-noog, to attend the forty-seventh annual an-nual piH'nnipment of the Grand Army of the Republic and allied organizations. tent by the strike now in progress than any in its history. Monday 5,000 builders went out after refusing to sign a declaration proposed by the employers that they would not join with or support the transport workers' work-ers' union, which started the original strike. Dr. Daniel Crosby Greene, aged 70, died Monday at Tokio. Last June Dr. Greene, the senior missionary of the American board .in Japan, was decorated by the emperor with the third class of the Order of the Rising Sun, the highest honor of its kind. General Porfirio Diaz, former president presi-dent of the Mexican republic, celebrated cele-brated his eighty-third birthday Monday Mon-day at Biarritz, France, by a 'banquet, which was attended by twenty-five intimate friends who journeyed from various parts of Europe to offer their congratulations. Dr. Aureliano TJrrutia, Mexican minister min-ister of the interior, has left the cabinet. cab-inet. His resignation was accepted at midnight by Provisional President Huerta. An aviator named Vallcu, who recently re-cently designed an aeroplane whici he christened the "Mad Flu," fell while on a test flight at Bucharest, Roumania, and was killed. One hundred Americans, including a number of women and children refugees refu-gees from Torreon, are reported to have fallen into the hands of rebels while proceeding overland to Saltillo. With Envoy Lind still awaiting instruction in-struction at Vera Cruz, the Mexican authorities appear to regard the diplomatic dip-lomatic exchanges as a closed incident. inci-dent. Three hundred federals and 200 rebels reb-els are reported to have been killed in a battle at Maytorena, in the northwest north-west state of Sonora. Aviator Hans Lorena was killed at Minester, Germany, as he was completing a two-hour flight. He steered the machine downward too sharply and the .wing buckled, the aeroplane falling to the ground. The gasoline tank exploded and the pilots body was partly burned. Dr. Sala, part of whose duties consists con-sists of a visit to the prisoners in the Corao, Italy jail, every two weeks, on Frid;iy examined Porter Charlton, the young American charged with the murder of his wile at Lake Como. He said Charlton seemed perfectly well. The defeat by government troops of the revolutionary force commanded command-ed by General Asuncion Rodriguez, ex-prefect ex-prefect of Cuniana, and oue of ex. President Castro's leaders and bis subsequent flight to the Dutch West Indian island of Buen Ayre, have put an end to the uprising in eastern Venezuela. That postal employees connived at the theft of the $(J2.",00U pearl necklace neck-lace which mysteriously disappeared on July 16, between Paris and London, Lon-don, was established by evidence presented pre-sented at a hearing in London. |