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Show I BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEK'S EVENTS j 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. INTER-MOUNTAIN. An attempt to avoid being struck by a Denver & Rio Grande train on a steep embankment near Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colo., resulted In John Aleon, an Italian section foreman, being hurled Into the Grand river and drowned. As Aleon stepped from the track his foot struck a loose boulder and he rolled down the embankment Into the river. An explosion from gasoline, followed fol-lowed by fire in a four-story building in St. Paul, is known to have caused the death of five persons, two children, chil-dren, a woman and two men, and the injury of four men and three women. Twelve passengers were killed and fifty injured when two trains collided on the Spokane Electric railway, near Spokane. A mistake in orders caused the accident. Albert Ryan, organizing secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, who is accused of the murder of H. F. Snyder, a mining man, who was shot and killed at Los Angeles when Ryan shot Otto Miller, who later died of the injury, has been held without bail to answer to the charge of murder. James McClurg of .Denver, son-in-law of David H. Moffat, a capitalist WASHINGTON. United States Senator William J. Stone of .Missouri was for a short time under arrest in Baltimore, charged I with attacking Lawrence J. Brown, a j negro waiter, on a buffet car. Tt senator stated that when he ordered lunch, Brown was offensive and the senator struck him with his open hand. The need of a continuous policy In the navy that the efficiency of the service ser-vice may not be interfered with by a shifting of authority during changing administrations is, according to Secretary Sec-retary Meyer, the principal reason for the appointment of a board of several naval line officers, presided over by Rear Admiral William Swift, and now holding sessions at the Boston navy yard. The government Is pressing the investigation in-vestigation of what appears to be an extensive opium smuggling plot, which was brought to light by the discovery and seizure at Manila of 400 pounds of opium and seventy-two ounces of cocaine ingeniously concealed con-cealed in a shipment of mining machinery ma-chinery brought from Hong Kong. A reciprocal patent treaty between the United States and Germany of far-reaching far-reaching importance to the commercial commer-cial world was simultaneously promulgated pro-mulgated at noon on August 1 by President Taft and the emperor of Germany. Twenty Republican congressmen voted in opposition to the tariff bill on Saturday, while two Democrats votej for the measure. Champ Clark, minority leader in congress, bitterly denounced the tariff bill submitted by the conference committee com-mittee to the house, declaring the Republican Re-publican party had failed to keep its pledges. The senate has adopted the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, which carries $100,000 each for the state department de-partment in making commercial treaties; to pay the , expenses of the advisory board: and to defray ex- and railroad builder, has been made a victim of attempted blackmail. Letters Let-ters were received by McClurg demanding de-manding $10,000, refusal being followed fol-lowed with a threat to dynamite the McClurg home. The Western Federation of Miners has cast Its ritual into the scrap heap, for the purpose of better enabling the members to "get a line on the detectives de-tectives in the ranks." A membership member-ship card is all that will be required In the future, after the member has taken the obligation. General Henry C. Worthington, formerly for-merly a member of the California legislature, leg-islature, delegate in congress from Nevada, diplomat and jurist, died at the Garfield hospital in Washington, July 29, from cerebral hemorrhage. He was 81 years old. The body of an unknown man has been found near Alhambra, Mont., hanging to a tree. It is believed the man was murdered and robbed, and strung up to lead the authorities to believe he had suicided. Roy Blake, a traveling photographer, photogra-pher, has been arrested at Denver for the murder at Belleville, Ills., last November, No-vember, of Peter Waltz, an aged man, whom he robbed of $500. Western millers have been warned by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson that those who continue to bleach flour will invite the seizure of their products by federal inspectors. James J. Jeffries, the pugilist, has posted a forfeit of $5,000 as an evidence evi-dence of good faith that he is willing to meet Jack Johnson, the colored fighter. penses of the bureau which will enforce en-force the collection of the incorporation incorpora-tion tax. President Taft has been informed that American shippers are being discriminated dis-criminated against in favor of French, English and Germans in carrying supplies sup-plies to the Isthmus of Panama. The Payne-Aldrich tariff bill Is completed. com-pleted. An agreement on all disputed points was reached on Thursday. The senate will now begin consideration of the measure, and will probably devote de-vote a week to its consideration. FOREIGN. News has just been received of the total destruction by fire at Parres, state of Coahuila, Mexico, of Las Bs-tralia, Bs-tralia, one of the oldest and largest cotton mills in Mexico. The loss is estimated at $500,000. It is reported that France intends to call an international conference to discuss aviation. A detachment of Spanish troops, while marching to the outposts near Melilla, was ambushed by warring tribesmen, and several of the officers were wounded. Thirty-nine cholera cases, thirty suspects and nineteen deaths from the disease were reported Saturday in St. Petersburg. This is the lowest number of cases in one day since last May. Count Zeppelin on Saturday sailed from Friederichshafen to Frankfort, Germany, a distance of 220 miles, at an average speed of twenty-one miles an hour, in his dirigible balloon. Residents of Frankfort yelled like mad when Zeppelin arrived. Spain's entire army is to be placed on a war footing at once. All the reports received from Spain confirm the terrible fury of the women wo-men throughout Catalonia. At Barcelona Barce-lona they fought' behind the barricades barri-cades with the men, urging them to fight to the death. Central Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Suerto on the north to Oaxaca on the south, a distance dis-tance covering more than 1,000 miles, was on July 30 shaken by a series ot the most severe earthquake shocks felt in the region for a quarter of a century. Report sof the loss of life are not complete, but the official figures fig-ures show that fourteen were .killed outright and more than a score perhaps per-haps fatally injured. The towns of Acapulco and Chilpancingo have been partially destroyed. Japanese, Portuguese, Spaniards and Porto Ricans, having proved a failure as plantation laborers, the i'lanters' association of Hawaii will try to solve the labor question by importing im-porting Filipinos. The official statement of national railways of Mexico, issued Tuesday, shows a net surplus. for the last six months of $1,970,240. The total receipts re-ceipts for the period were $10,99G,028; fixed e.targes, $10,020,87. The process of putting the permanent perma-nent army in Cuba under proper discipline dis-cipline has been greatly hampered, it is announced, by the insubordination of the enlisted men, especially the colored col-ored troops, and bickering between white and colored officers. These conditions have resulted in serious charges. The anti-gambling crusade which has swept over Japan has resulted in the Japanese sports shipping their ace horses to Russia, wh re they are being entered in the races. When Mrs. James "Williams of Kee-wanee, Kee-wanee, Ills., left her home to go to he timbjr for an outing she placed he family strong box, containing cash md notes to the value of $1,000, in he cook stove oven. She was late eaching home and started a quick tire in the stove to get supper, forgetting for-getting the money, which was destroyed. DOMESTIC. Charles Zimmerman and his wife were pinned beneath an automobile and drowned when the machine overturned over-turned and Hung its five occupants into a small stream that skirts the country road near Castroville, Cal. Noah Marker, the assistant cashier of the First National bank of Tipton, Ind., who, it is alleged, embezzled more than $100,000 of the bank's funds, has returned to the city. Chester Rice, the New Mexico fugitive fugi-tive who made a sensational escape from officers and was recaptured after he had wounded one of his pursuers, made another unsuccessful attempt to get away from The Needles, Cal., jail, which resulted in his being wounded, probably fatally. Horse racing on the track at Tia .Tuna, Lower California, sixteen miles across the international boundary line from San Diego, Cal., will be prohibited prohib-ited after October 1, iu accordance with an amendment to the regulations regula-tions on gambling made by the Mexican Mex-ican government. A gale blowing GO miles an hour, carrying hail and rain with it, struci; Huron, Armour and Pierre, S. D., and vicinity, doing great damage to crops and destroying small buildings. President Taft has expressed himself him-self as pleased with the tariff bill as it was agreed to by the conferees. It is known he is not entirely satisfied with all of the bill, and he has told several of his callers that it would be a miracle if a tariff bill could be lesigned that would please everybody. Thomas Cummius was shot to death by -nis brother, Frank, in a revolver duel fought on the public road near Paola, Kans. The drowning of an unidentified woman and the disappearance of her male companion v-- the elements of i motorboat tragedy that confronts i he Chicago police. Mrs. John Mullerkey, wife of a well known resident of Bellevue, Ky., shot and killed Edward Axline, 30 years old, and then ended her own life with poison. The couple had juarreled. |