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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed The United f5tates army military tournament at Des Moines. Iowa, came to a c!os on September 25, two new records being established on the closing clos-ing day. in the wall-sealing contest and constructing and demolishing a sp-0 bridge. The Farmers' Savings bank at Runnels, Run-nels, Iowa, was dynamited on September Septem-ber 20, but citizens succeeded in scaring scar-ing away the three bandits before they secured any money. A great hole was torn in the side of the bank building. In an effort to prove his theory that poor children will be inspired with a desire to save if they once have a bank account of their own, John T. Golmacher, a member of the Chicago board of trade, has started 150 bank accounts for as many poor boys and girls, putting a dollar to the credit of each in a Bloomington bank. Engineer George Pronger died at the throttle of his engine drawing a Burlington passenger train near Hern-don. Hern-don. Kans. The engine ran for miles without a guiding hand before the fireman discovered the death of . his chief. Heart disease was the cause of death. Steve Harves was shot to death and Charles Delaney was arrested as a re-suit re-suit of the successful raiding of a stronghold of escaped negro convicts near Sandpoint, Texas. Announcement has just been madf. of the engagement of Miss Ethel Her-rick, Her-rick, daughter of Mrs. Frank Herrick of Paris, and formerly1 of Boston, to Walbridge S. Taft, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Taft, and a nephew of the president. WASHINGTON. Naturalization was refused to 2,067 aliens during the last fiscal year, a material increase over the rejection of would-be United States citizens during the preceding year. The first session of the new tariff board was held at Washington on September Sep-tember 24, the meeting being devoted to preliminary organization. The cost of articles abroad and the cost here are to be obtained by the board as soon as possible. Theodore P. Shonts, former chairman chair-man of the Isthmian canal commission, commis-sion, has been made defendant in a $25,000 damage suit, Frederick Hipsch, a whisky drummer, charging that his wife's affections had been alienated by Shonts, who insists that the charge is ridiculous. Consul-General Hanna, in a report to the department of state, says food by mule trains is being hurried to the flood district of Monterey. Clothing and blankets follow the trains as rapidly rap-idly as possible. This kind of distribution distri-bution will be continued until the railroads rail-roads are open. The recent threat of a body of citizens citi-zens in California to establish another state because of dissatisfaction with the taxation methods has attracted the attention of officials in Washington. Washing-ton. Congress would have to approve such a move, as well1 as the state legislature, leg-islature, before It could . be accomplished. accom-plished. FOREIGN. Senor Canalejas, a former minister and leader of the Democratic group in the Spanish Cortes, publishes a strongly worded protest against the government's refusal to restore constitutional con-stitutional liberties. He advocates a popular movement everywhere against "clerical reaction." The Galway county (Ireland) council coun-cil is confronted with a strike against the payment of rates by the inhabitants inhabit-ants of the Aran glands. In this movement the islanders appear to be supported by their parish priest, the Rev. Murtagh Farragher. Three Americans have succeeded in descending into the pit of the crater of Mount Kllauea, the largest active volcano in the world, remaining half an hour on the edge of a boiling lake of lava and fire. This is the first time this feat has been accomplished. Thirty balloons sailed away on Sunday Sun-day from Tuilleries Garden, Paris, in the French Aero club's annual longdistance long-distance race. An immense crowd gathered to witness their departure. To represent, their respective countries coun-tries at California's celebration of the discovery by Gaspar De Portola of the Bay of San Francisco, several warships are headed for the Golden Gate from various parts of the world. Accused of robbing a postoffice in Finland of $18,000, John Vasora, a Russian, Rus-sian, has been arrested in Vancouver, B. C. Orville Wright, the American aviator, avia-tor, has definitely decided not to enter en-ter the aviation week contests at Berlin. Ber-lin. The reported retirement from the cabinet of Dernard Dernburg, secretary secre-tary of state for the colonies, is officially of-ficially denied in Berlin. Southern France, especially Provence, Pro-vence, has been visited by a heavy storm, accompanied by earth shocks. Considerable damage has been done. A special dispatch received in London Lon-don from Kiev, Russia, says that anti-Jewish anti-Jewish rioting broke out in that city on September 21, and that as a result twenty persons have been kltieu and several hundred injured, many of the latter fatally. The discovery of a bomb in a resi dence in course of erection in Juarez Mexico, by a boy. caused a sensation in that town. The authorities were notified and twelve workmen were placed incommunicado. It is thoughl the bomb was intended for Presi dents Taft and Diaz. Senor Chaumer. a member of the municipal council, was shot and killed on the streets of Caracas by Elueterio Garcia, until recently president presi-dent of the council. Garcia was arrested. ar-rested. Chaumer had accused Garcia of defrauding the city. INTER-MOUNTAIN. The race question has embroiled the school system in Marshfield, Ore., and as a result the little son of Gow Why, a Chinese merchant, is the sole pupil of the school set apart for colored and oriental children. There are several negro children in the town,, but their parents object to their being classed with orientals. George Williams, the Indian convicted con-victed of the murder of two prospectors pros-pectors at Stimler, Nev., in 1907, was executed at Carson, Nevada, September Septem-ber 24. Williams went to the gallows gal-lows with the usual stoicism of his race. Officers of the Alaska Development company admit that while it is true that there are a large number of men destitute at Nome, it is not true, as stated in a Washington dispatch, that they were, or bad been, employees of the company. On Thursday, President Taft formally for-mally opened the famous Gunnison tunnel in Colorado, making the electrical elec-trical connection which started a flow of water through the Gunnison tunnel that will reclaim 10,000 acres of arid lands. Before traveling out to the west portal of the tunnel on a little narrow gauge train, the president visited vis-ited the Montrose county fair, and after af-ter some formal speechmaking, in which he and the mayor and the governor gov-ernor and several others participated, he was given a real touch of western life, a relay race of cow girls. DOMESTIC. The time set for the end of the world as revealed in visions to some of the Triune Immersionists, who have been gathered at Ashdod, Mass., for several days, has passed. Dozens of the faithful have given up and returned re-turned to their homes, but others have arrived to take their places. Harry Whitney has reported to Dr. Frederick A. Cook, discoverer of the North pole, that Commander Peary refused re-fused to allow anything belonging to Cook to be taken on board the Roosevelt, Roose-velt, and that Cook's records are still in the far north. Dr. Cook declares that it does not particularly matter, as he has duplicates of all the data. As a' result of a fight at Jackson, Ky., between brothers, both prominent in politics, Julius Caesar Hurst, Republican Repub-lican nominee for county judge in Breathitt county, was fatally shot by his brother, Hannibal. The latter, who was not arrested, claims that he fired in defense of his own life. Theodore Roosevelt, who is -hunting in the Mweru district, has bagged two more elephants. Mr. Roosevelt will soon leave the Mweru territory for the Guaso Nytro river. One person was burned to death, another an-other instantly killed and a third seriously seri-ously burned, when an automobile, driven by John McLendon, ran off an eight-foot embankment at Americus, Ga. It is learned that Governor Johnson John-son of Minnesota left a will bequeathing bequeath-ing all of his estate, which probably will aggregate $25,000, to his widow. The Buckeye powder mill station, twelve miles west of Peoria, Ills., was blown up Saturday afternoon. One man was killed and several others seriously se-riously injured. Riots resulting from the street car strike caused serious injury to nine men in Omaha. The injured men are motormen. One will probably die. William K. Vanderbilt, jr., donor of the Vanderbilt cup for automobile races, and his wife, formerly Miss Virginia Vir-ginia Fair of San Francisco, have signed a separation agreement, according accord-ing to a New York afternoon newspaper. news-paper. An entire family of six persons was murdered and the bodies of all but one of the victims were burned with their home at Hurley, Va. The motive evidently was robbery, as the owner of the house, an aged woman known as "Aunt Betty" Justice, was generally supposed to keep a large sum of money in the place. Adolph C. Eberhart, who, by the death of Governor John A. Johnson, becomes the chief executive of the state of Minnesota, was born in Sweden Swed-en thirty-eight years ago, but came to Minnesota in 1881. He is a lawyer. The three hundredth anniversary -of the discovery of the Delaware bay and river by Henry Hudson and the anniversary of the establishment of the first white settlement in Delaware, Dela-ware, in 1633, by a Dutch colony headed by David Pieterson Devries. were celebrated at Lewes. September 22. A code of ethics to govern the saloon sa-loon business has been approved by the convent'on of the Illinois state liquor dealers. It includes barring women from saloons, exclusion of all indecent pictures, the prevention of gambling, and a discontinuance of the sale of the five-cent "growler." Sofia Critchman, the Union City, Conn., music teacher, who, with Joseph. Jo-seph. Feczinitis, is held for the murder mur-der of Bronick Kulwinski, has confessed, con-fessed, It is stated, that Peczincitis and she planned the attack upon Kulvlnskl. |