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Show History of Fast Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN ' The eight-hour law for women passed by the recent session of the Washington legislature was declared constitutional by Superior Judge John F. Main, who imposed a fine of $20 upon Mrs. Henrietta Somerville, forewoman fore-woman in a box factory at Seattle, because she required girls to work more than eight hours a day. "I will fight for the Republican nominee nom-inee for president in 1912 whether he is a standpatter, or an Insurgent," said Senator W. B. Heyburn on his return to his home in Wallace, Idaho. Reproached, it is said, because she had failed of promotion in school, Ruby Musgrove, 16-year-old daughter of Mrs. E. Beasom, of Leadville, Colorado, Col-orado, shot and killed herself. Secretary of the Interior Walter Li Fisher, who departed from Seattle, Seat-tle, August 16, on a tour of Alaska, arrived at Seattle on Thursday on the revenue cutter Tahoma. Antone Anderson, a miner, was gored to death by a pet bull at Leadville, Lead-ville, Colo., which he was leading to water. Because 12-year-old Vernie Hilt-baddle Hilt-baddle disregarded 10-year-old Willie Rowe's injunction not to take any apples ap-ples from the orchard of the latter's grandmother at Lamar, Colo., in which the two lads were playing, young Rowe ran to the house, procured pro-cured a gun and shot his playmate through the heart, killing him instantly. in-stantly. Charles P. Gardner, of Laramie, Wyo., grand chancellor of the grand lodge of Wyoming, Knights of Pythias, died at Denver, following an operation. opera-tion. He was a veteran engineer on the Union Pacific. ' DOMESTIC Unless Julius Kruttschnitt, vice- Rodney J. Diegle. former sergeanr-at-arms of the Ohio senate, who was convicted of aiding and abetting alleged al-leged bribery, has been given a sentence sen-tence of three years in the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. 0. Appias, of Napa Junction, Cal., was stricken dumb by a hallucination. He informed his family in writing Sunday morning that he had seen a terrifying spectre in a dream, standing stand-ing by his bed. When lie awoke he was mute. That little Annie Lemberger, the 7-year-ohl child whose body was found in Lake Monona at Madison, Wis., was murdered, is the opinion of physicians. phy-sicians. The child had been kidnaped from her home. A score of pasesngers were injured when a street car in Milwaukee leaped from the track and turned over. No one was killed. Madeline Talmadge Force of New York, became the bride of Colonel Jacob Ja-cob Astor, head of the famous American Ameri-can family of his name, at Newport, on Saturday. A number of prominent men of Los Angeles have banded together in an organization to fight woman suffrage. Dr. John Grant Lyman, head of the Panama Development company of Los Angeles, was arrested at San Francisco Fran-cisco by local postoffice inspectors acting under instructions from Los Angeles. An-geles. The charge against Lyman is said to be fraudulent use of the mails in connection with the exploitation of the Panama company. WASHINGTON President Taft's trip, which begins September 17, will be the greatest swing around the circle ever attempted attempt-ed by a president, even by President Roosevelt. He will, when he gets back to Beverly, have traveled 15,000 miles. Over 1700 postoffices of the second class have now been designated as postal banks, and these will all be open for business by the middle of the present month. The design of a new McNamara defense de-fense fund stamp submitted to the postoffice department by Frank Morrison, Mor-rison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, has been approved ap-proved by Third Assistant Postmaster Postmas-ter General Britt. The big army recruit depots of the country soon will be commanded permanently per-manently by colonels, instead of by officers of-ficers of junior grade, as has been the president and director of maintenance of the Harriman lines, recedes from his1 absolute refusal to recognize the Federation of Shop Workers or its committees, on these lines, he will be confronted with a strike. Such is the decision of the labor leaders as the result of their meeting in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The news comes from Gainesville, Texas, that Senator Bailey will not change his residence to New York i City after the expiration of his senatorial sena-torial term, but will practice law in one of the larger Texas cities. Mrs. Earle Samuels shot and latal-ly latal-ly wounded Miss Willie West at Nashville, Nash-ville, Tenn. Mrs. Samuels used a pis-jail, pis-jail, Mrs. Samuels in a Keneral com-tol com-tol of small calibre, which was concealed con-cealed in a handbag. Later, at the plaint against Miss West, charged hei with alienating the affections of her husband. Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, is believed to be near death at her summer home at Oxford, Mass. She is ninety" years old. R. T. Crane, millionaire iron manufacturer, manu-facturer, made public at Chicago on Sunday an arraignment of the big universities uni-versities of the country. He charges alarming prevalence of drinking and gaming among the students. Columbia Colum-bia he ranks the worst, but conditions jt Hni'vnrfl Prinr-etnn nnrl fni-npll lin custom in recent years. Seldom has a colonel been detailed to recruiting stations because of the deficiency in the number of officers of that rank. FOREIGN Mount Etna is showing a revival of activity. Two new craters have opened about 8,000 feet above the sei level. A cloud of smoke is visible and ashes are erupted continuously. Five thousand Spanish troops have received orders from the ministry , war to reinforce the Spanish gar-I-son at Melilla on the Riff eoa ol Morocco because of recent attacks by natives. The Canadian election campaign has now been in full swing for a month. An army of orators has been busy throughout the country daily and large quantities of political literature have been distributed. Today the leaders of each party claim that victory vic-tory is assured. The big Reyes demonstration planned for Juarez on Sunday by political clubs failed to materialize, but in its place was a throng of fully 1,000 Maderistas parading the streeta with banners bearing likenesses of the former revolutionary chief. Germany's counter proposition to France on the settlement of the Moroccan Mo-roccan difficulty is not acceptable to I France, or the other powers, as ' it ! would suppress commercial equality. declares, are almost as bad. A continuous downpour of rain, akin to a cloudburst, over the Sacramento mountains, Otero county, New Mexico, Mexi-co, has transformed the dry arroyos and canyons into torrents, washed away crops, flooded the streets of Ala-mogordo, Ala-mogordo, carried away bridges and culverts, and badly damaged many adobe houses. Sixteen former bankers in the federal fed-eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan., including in-cluding John R. Walsh of Chicago, will appear before the federal board of parole September 12 to ask for release. re-lease. Arraigned in probate court on a charge of hitching his wife to a plow and beating her because she failed to pull it, Jacob Zimmerman, of Wells-ville, Wells-ville, Ohio, pleaded guilty and sought the mercy of the court. Nineteen persons were hurl, several sev-eral seriously, in a head-on collision between interurban cars near Grand Haven Junction, Mich., in a fog. One motorman probably will die. Miss Matilda Moisant, sister of the dead aviator, John B. Moisant, ascended ascend-ed in her monoplane at Hempstead, X. Y., on the Sth, to a height of nearly 1,000 feet. It is believed to be the greatest altitude ever reached by a woman aviator. A curly-haired, blue-eyed youth, seventeen sev-enteen years old, who confessed that he was John R. Morgan of Mojave, Cal., attempted to hold up the Citizens National bank at Laurell, Md., with a pistol. He lost his nerve, however, at the sight of a menacing revolver in the hands of the cashier. The Gifford Pinc-hot exploring party, composed of the former chief torcster, Senator Miles Poindexter or Washington, Mr. Pinchot's secretary and two newspaper men, are now inspecting in-specting the Matanuska coal fields in Alaska. iine persons were nmea ana more t than twice that number wounded j when Reyestas and Mauerists clashed in Tuxtla Chico, a village in the state of Chiapas, near the southern boundary bound-ary of Mexico. The explosion of a gasoline tank on ; joard tiie schooner Whisper caused the loss of ten lives and the total ' destruction of the vessel and cargo o valuable mahogany, off the Nicara-guan Nicara-guan coast, 100 miles southeast or Port Limon, Costa Rica. The amine riots in hangzeh, China, are spreading, and the American Baptist Bap-tist chapel near Quinsan lias been ' sacked by marauders from Suchau. j A Paris newspaper declares that Germany is proceeding with war preparations prep-arations on the French frontier in spite of her explanations to the contrary. con-trary. The paper states that 3d, 000 in fan try, 10,000 cavalry and 1-130 guns are now stationed on the southeastern ! frontier, in addition to numerous forces at Nancy. Francisco I. Madero. the candidate ; of the Progressive party for presi-jdent, presi-jdent, was the victim of a mob on his arrival at Vera Cruz, Mexico, being crowded and hustled until made j thoroughly angry. Not all were his friends, since stones were thrown i and several members of crowd re I ceived injuries. By half a million votes to 93,000 the trades union congress now in session in England, rejected the proposal for : the organization of a citizen army. A telegram received at Lima. Peru, from the purser of the Chilean si earn er Tucapel, which was wrecked neai Quilca, says thirty-two persons wert ! drowned and ninety were saved. Wild rumors are being circulated in ! the German provincial towns. Al i Stetin large sums of money lu ve been ! withdrawn from the savings bank-?. I owing to rumors that war was im pending. |