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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. Trespassing on railroad property, in violation of the law, has been responsible re-sponsible for the deaths of 47,416 peo1 pie In the United States in the last ten years. In the same period more than 50.000 traspassers were injured. Mother Emily, superior of the Sisters Sis-ters of St. Dominic, died Saturday at Sinsinawa, Wis., aged 65 years. She directed fifty mission houses. Seventy-six claims for compensation on account of injuries received by employes em-ployes of the reclamation service have been approved from August 1, 19C8, to October 1, 1909. Onis Evans, the 12-year-old youth, heir to a fortune, who was supposed to have been kidnaped at Muskogee, Okla., has been found. He had run away from home. The American Humane association will hold its national convention for 1911 in San Francisco, according to Matthew McCurrie, secretary of the local society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and a delegate to the 1909 session held recently in St. Paul. The most disiinguished assemblage Hanover has seen honored Dartmouth college and the new head of the historic his-toric institution on Thursday, when Dr. Ernest Pox Nicholas was inaugurated inaugur-ated as Dartmouth's tenth president. Joseph Lane and Harry Boyle are under arrest in San Francisco, charged charg-ed by the police with the murder of an unidentified man found with his throat cut on a street in that city last Monday. A letter on the body was addressed to John Frederick and was from Raton, N. M. A picnic luncheon at Grand View, a sunset trip to Hopi Point, and a stage ride of thirty-five miles riding made up President Taft's stay at the Grand Canyon of the Colorado on 1'hursday. The Chicago police are 'Satisfied that the man who robbed the bank of D. M. Erskine & Co., at Highland park, 111., Wednesday and committed suicide sui-cide when run down by the authorities, authori-ties, was Lamar A. Harris, of Los INTER-MOUNTAIN. Harry Smith shot and killed his half-breed wife and himself at their home in New Westminster, B. C. Smith left a letter addressed to the chief of police, stating that he intended intend-ed to kill his wife and himself because of her alleged misconduct with other men. A special Canadian Pacific railway emigrant train crashed into a freight train near Sudbury, Ont., demolishing one of the coaches and tossing four others into the ditch. It is said twenty-five passengers were injured and that two are missing. A test case is to be made as to the constitutionality of the Nevada "full craw act," the Southern Pacific being charged with violation of the law' requiring re-quiring a crew of six men for a fifty-car fifty-car freight train. Five business men of Portland testified tes-tified before the interstate commerce commission at Portland on Wednesday that twenty years ago Portland jobbers job-bers were able to sell their goods as far' east as Pocatello, Ida., and that year by year parts of that distributive territory have been lopped off by unfavorable un-favorable rates, until today Portland's wholesale area is but a fraction of its previous extent. Three posses are now In search ot Willy Boy, the Indian who killed his sweetheart on the des'ert in south l&astern California. The Indian has wounded several of his punters, and it is not expected that he will be 'aken alive. By the arrest of six employes of the Consolidated Mines company mill at Ooldfield, Nev., the management is believed to have succeeded in breaking break-ing up the alleged gang of high-graders that is said to have infested the plant for three months. One of the six has already confessed and implicated impli-cated the others, it is asserted. James J. Hill denies that the Great Northern railway is trying to enter Harriman's territory in California. He also denied that during his visit in New York there had been a conference confer-ence of railway magnates attended by him and J. P. Morgan and by Harrl-tnan Harrl-tnan and Hawley representatives. Angeles, Cal., an attorney. Lee J. Smith, a chicken buyer, shot and killed Mrs. Pearl Hopp on her father's ranch near Pomona, Cal., and then shot himself, dying a half hour later. The tragedy is believed to have been the result of a suicide pact. WASHINGTON. The administration of the immigration immigra-tion laws, especially at New York, is affected by the decision of the cc-mp-troller of the treasury tihat the European Euro-pean steamship companies are responsible re-sponsible for the hospital treatment of aliens who are sick when they arrive ar-rive in the United States. Colonel Henry R. Harris, ex-congressman and third assistant postmaster postmas-ter general during the first Cleveland administration, died at his home at Odessadale, Ga.,' October 15, aged 84 years. Third Assistant Postmaster General Lawshe has announced to the heads of the bureaus in his division that he intends to resign. It was announced at Decatur, Ills., on Wedensday, that Colonel Vespasian Warner, commissioner of pensions, Is soon to resign his office. Official advices received at the state department indicate that the Nicaraguan revolutionists if successful success-ful expect to separate the country into two republics, one to consist of the Carribean states and the other of the Pacific coast states. DOMESTIC. Thomas Thorpe, an aged prospector, who had been drinking and who is believed be-lieved to be feeble-minded, created a decided sensation at Albuquerque, N. M., when he declared his intention of shooting President Taft during the stay of the chief executive in that city. Thorpe was arrested and may be sent to an asylum. At least thirty-seven people were killed in the storni which swept portions por-tions of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and South Carolina on October Oc-tober 14, Dr. Frederick A. Cook, refuting the charges that he had not ascended Mount McKinley in Alaska, has come out with a statement intimating that Edward N. Barrill, the guide who accompanied ac-companied him, had perjured himself in his recent affidavit for a consideration considera-tion offered by Cook's detractors. Ex-President Roosevelt has cabled Commander Peary from Africa, congratulating con-gratulating Peary upon his discovery of the north pole, declaring he has performed one of the greatest feats of the ages. A petition asking President Tafi tor clemency toward Charles W. Morse, the former banker, is being prepared for circulation among prominent prom-inent business men and financiers ot the east. Fireman O. J. Sutton was killed and eight persons were injured when an engine and two cars of the Austin & Northwestern railway plunged into a burning bridge over Waters creek near McNeil, Texas. An indorsement of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley's "campaign for pure food and pure food legislation'' was voted at Wednesday's session of the Mississippi Missis-sippi Valley Medical association at St. Louis. President Taft won a hearty welcome wel-come into Arizona by proclaiming wherever he went that he was heartily heart-ily in favor of statehood for each of the territories of Arizona and New .Mexico. Judge Robert S. Lovett was elected a director and member of the executive execu-tive committee of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company at a meeting of the directors in New York City, to fill the vacancy caused by the death Df E. H. Harriman. On information furnished by the federal authorities of Buffalo. N. Y.. Horace J. Miller has been arreted at Los Angeles on a charge of sending lottery . tickets through the mails. He was held in $2,500 bail. The alleged ottery is known as the Amsterdam Mining company. An attorney of Chicago failed to eceive the rent from a house he nvned in a suburb, and went out to ;ee what was wrong. He found a vacant va-cant lot and the house a mile away, in rollers, a firm of contractors hav-ng hav-ng moved the house away. FOREIGN. The students of Havana university and sympathizers to the number of several hundred, paraded the streets in honor of Ferrer, executed at Barcelona Barce-lona for treason, carrying black flags and inverted pictures of King Alfonso. They also shouted anarchistic sentiments. senti-ments. The revolutionists are now in possession of Bluefields, Oorinao, Greytown, Rivas, Cape Gracias, Rama and San Juan del Norte. The exact number of the adherents of the revolutionary revo-lutionary leader, Juan Estrada, is not known. Despite the fact that opposition existed ex-isted among the members of both the senate and the chamber of deputies to a sitting at this time, parliament was convoked at Madrid, Spain, on Friday. There were violent scenes in the chamber of deputies, members almost al-most coming to blows. Prof. Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish educator and convicted revolutionist, was executed at Barcelona, Spain, on October 13, being shot. Ferrer was convicted of it-citing the riots in Barcelona Bar-celona last summer Snow plows were necessary to clear the tracks for the operation of trains east of Winnipeg. Man., on Thursday. Snow to the depth of sixteen six-teen inches hag fallen and a blizzard is raging. A verdict of guilty has been rendered ren-dered against Auguste Tobel, a Berlin Ber-lin milliner, charged with the murder of Frieda Burthold. a young opera singer. Jealousy was the motive for the crime. Colonel Max Frost, journalist and author, thirty-third degree Mason, and tor many years prominent in territorial terri-torial politics, died at his home in Santa Fe. N. M.. aged 57 years. American and Britsh capitalists have about completed arrangements with the Chinese government to build a railroad from Chin Chow Fu through Mongolian territory to Tsitsihar, a distance of aboui 400 miles. This fact seems to have disturbed the equanimity equanim-ity of Japan. Captain Roalrl Amundsen, the well-known well-known Danish explorer, who is aoout to start on a polar expedition, has decided de-cided to try a remarkable innovation in the use of draught animals lor po lar travel. He will endeavor to make polar bears draw his sledges. |