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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I A tornacto that struct L .. : Ills. Sunday a'tfrnoou, demol'sUvd four hemes, damaged a dozen n-.ere and destroyed de-stroyed several barns besides tearing many trees up by the roots. .No fatalities fa-talities were reported, but one woman was bruised and several persons were slishtly injured. An infernal machine was discovered Sunday evening on the pjieli of the residence of Thomas Dennison, a vel known man of Omaha. Frank Kid man was placed under arrest as a sus ; pect. and is being held for investiga tion. Edward Butke. a c!erk in the Haiti more & Ohio offices at Cincinnati, was drowned when a launch in which he was riding capsized on the Ohio rivet on Sunday. The five other passengers were resetted. Frank V. Rollins, former governor of Xew Hampshire, pleaded guilty in New York on Friday to the charges of conspiracy to defraud the government govern-ment of customs duties, brought against him by customs inspectors and paid a fine of $2,000. Eight Indictments against moonshine moon-shine distillers of Chicago, and liquor dealers who have purchased whiskey manufactured by the moonshiners have been voted by the federal grand jury. Maysville, a small town iu Oklahoma, Okla-homa, was wiped out by a tornado early Friday evening. Several persons per-sons were killed, according to meager reports received. WASHINGTON. Representative Champ Clark made a speech in the house on Saturday denouncing de-nouncing the Payne-Alclrich tariff law as a "transparent humlHtg," attacking the tariff views of its author, Representative Repre-sentative Sereno Payne, Republican, New York, and vigorously assailing President Taft for his support of the law. The Louisiana general assembly will take practically a week's recess and go in a body to Washington to appear before congress in the interest inter-est of the proposed Panama exposition exposi-tion to he held in New Orleans in 1915. The body of Sidney Lascelles, who died eight years ago in Asheville, N. C, charged with being a bogus "Lord Beresford," a bigamist sixteen times over and a forger as well, was cremated cre-mated in Washington on Saturday, and much mystery surrounds the disposition dis-position of the ashes. The house has declined to submit to the several states of the Union the question of changing the date of inauguration in-auguration of the president and vice-president vice-president of the United States from March 4 to the "last Thursday in April. The proposition lacked one vote of approval. President Taft has signed the bill creating a bureau of mines in Washington, Wash-ington, but has as yet taken no action looking to the appointment of a chief of the new branch. Although the house committee on military affairs reported it favorably, thehouse declined to pass a bill transferring trans-ferring to Whitman college in the state of Washington, the lands that have been occupied by the now obsolete obso-lete army post of Fort Walla Walla. FOREIGN. negotiations between Russia and Japan with reference to an agreement on the question or the far east, in spite of the denials of both sides, have now assumed definite form. King George has commenced his reign with an act of clemency granting grant-ing a remission of short sentences and reduction of others throughout the kingdom and in the army and navy. Gifford P.nchot, the former chief forester- of the United States, was a passenger on board the steamer Arabic, which sailed from Liverpool for New York on May 22. For the second time within a year the English channel was crossed on Saturday by an aeroplane, and again the honor rests with France. Count Jacques tie Lesseps, a grandson of the late Ferdinand de Lesseps, driving a monoplane, crossed the channel from Calais to the English side in fifty minutes. min-utes. Elections for senators were held in Spain ou Monday, but there is no change in the conservative character of the senate, as forty-one of the members mem-bers sit by virtue of their position as giandees of Spain, captains general and archbishops and 121 are anpoint- ' ed for life. There was serious rioting in Cork, Ireland, on Sunday, following demonstrations demon-strations which were addressed by John E. Redmond, leader of the Irish parl'amentary party; John Dillon and William O'Brien. Many persons were injured, including Daniel D. Sheehan, M. P. for Cork. The new sultan of Turkey has celebrated cele-brated the first anniversary of his ascent to the throne by pardoning a large number of prisoners. General elections were held on May 20 throughout Denmark. It is only one year since the last elections, but the interval has seen three ministries in power. The contest aga'n turned on the defense question. The election resu.ted in trie defeat of the radicals. The trial at Vienna of the Countess Tarnovska. Dr. Xaumoff, Lawyer Pri-lukoff Pri-lukoff and the countess' maid, Eliza Perrier. all accused of complicity in the murder of v-ount Kamorwasky, has ended in the conviction of the j three first named, the maid being ac- quitted. The earth tremors that followed (he i destruction of Cartago, Costa Rica, ' have almost ceased. There have been no earthquakes in that part of Costa i Rica during the last week. Telegraph commun'cation is excellent in all parts I of the if nalilic. INTER. MOUNTAIN. Three distinct earthquake shocks were felt in Salt Lake City, Sunday morning, one of which lasted two minutes and ten seconds, swaying bit ldings and causing a panic among the residents. But small damage was done. The other two shocks were very light. Charles S. Cooper, a wealthy business busi-ness man of Denver, was accidentally shot and killed by his wife, while she was packing his grip for a journey. She had the revolver iu her hand, her foot caught in a rug, and as she fell the weapon was discharged. Cordelia Wilson shot and killed her husband, William WJIson, a prominent promi-nent resident of Stockton, Utah, while he slept, and then fired two bullets Into her own body. The woman was insane. After having preached the gospel of home industry in all its phases to more than 150.000 people, the Salt Lake business men who had been ou a tour of the state for almost a week returned to their homes Saturday morning. Thirty-six. towns were visited vis-ited by the 100 representative Salt Lake citizens in the party. Tex Rickard of Nevada, the prize fight promoter, has been chosen as reefree of the Jeffries-Johnson fight to take place in California for the heavyweight championship. Rickard was a compromise, and declares he is willing to forego the honor if another man can be secured who will be satisfactory sat-isfactory to both principals. DOMESTIC. John Galligher, a telegraph operator, opera-tor, fell out of a boat on Lake Assa-mawsat, Assa-mawsat, near Lakeville, Mass., and he an3 Adam Bopp, 'who tried to rescue him, were drowned. A strong protest against the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight featured the closing hour of the Presbyterian general gen-eral assembly at Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. Dora A. Doxey has been placed on trial at St. Louis for the murder of her husband, it being charged that she poisoned Doxey for his life insurance insur-ance and property. Two persons, a young woman and a negro, dropped dead, at Talladega, Ala., on Sunday when shown the comet. Miss Minnie Alders, 20 years old, a school teacner of Princeville, Ills., was found dead in bed at a hotel at Peoria, ills., on Sunday, with three bullet wounds in her body. Her companion, S. T. Easterly, of Chillicothe, 111., a freight conductor, is detained by the police pending an investigation. The ruling of Judge Hook of the United States court of appeals, in which the order of the federal circuit court restraining the off.cers of the state of Kansas from carrying into effect ef-fect the Kansas bank depositors' guaranty guar-anty law was vacated, has created much interest in banking circles, particularly par-ticularly in the southwest. S. B. Shotwell, a stock broker, was run down and killed by an automobile in St. Paul while on his way home from the ball game. The machine was driven by Miss Theodora Stark, aged 19, of Minneapolis, who was accom-pan'ed accom-pan'ed by her mother and sister and two men relatives. A full agreement between the Erie railroad and its conductors and trainmen train-men on an advance schedule of wages has been reached. Following the publication of alleged offensive articles in his paper, E. N. Biyant, a negro, was driven out of Brookhaven, Miss., and his paper plant and residence were burned. The news comes from the Mount Wilson observatory at Pasadena, Cal., that the earth has not passed through the comet's tail, and that this plauet will miss contact with the wanderer's appendage entirely. The Standard Oil company has increased in-creased the wages of its workmen from 6 to 10 per cent. The order is retroactive and bscame effe-ctive May 1. It is estimated that the. company will add from $6,000,0o0 to $10,000,000 to its annual pay roll expense. The new scale affects employees engaged iu the company's works and factories, but the office men will not be benefited bene-fited by this increase. Most of the employees who will get the increase are laborers, and the advance applies to all the subsid.ary companies iu the United States. The company has approximately ap-proximately 70,000 employees. The Standard is one of the very few big concerns of mis country which has never had a strike among its employees. em-ployees. Five thousand persons saw Oscar Leroy cf Percy, Okla., an aeronaut w.th a circus, fall two thousand feet through the air at Ellwood, Pa., and escape with his life, his only injury being a broken leg. His parachute failed to open until he had almost reached the ground. The joint convention between the United M ne workers and the Illinois operators adjourned sine die on Fri-dayday. Fri-dayday. A strike was declared by the miners. This strike affects the entire state of llliuois and will involve be-t be-t we'll 7..i"0 and 73.000 men. |