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Show NEWS OF A WEEK 111 CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hitor Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. I NTER-MOU NTAIN. Suit for divorce has been filed at Reno, Nevada, by Mrs. Beulah Stubbs Sunderland, daughter of J. C. Stubbs, general passenger agent for the Har-rimati Har-rimati system, and wife of John Sunderland, Sun-derland, Democratic national committeeman commit-teeman from Nevada. The coroner's jury investigating the death of three persons ad serious injury in-jury of a fourth in an automobile accident ac-cident in Denver, returned a verdict charging criminal negligence against Morris Mayer, who was guiding the machine. Mrs. Mae Talbot, on trial at Reno, Nevada, for the murder of her husband, hus-band, was acquitted, the jury claiming she was justified in shooting her husband hus-band because of his cruelty toward her. Louis Paulhan, the French aviator, failed to make a flight in his biplane at Denver on Tuesday. The crowds broke onto the field and greatly interfered in-terfered with his attempts to get his machine in the air. Representatives Mondell and Wyoming Wyo-ming and Taylor of Colorado charge scandalous extravagance of administration adminis-tration of the affairs of the forestry department, but despite their opposition opposi-tion the house has failed to reduce any of the appropriations for the bureau of forestry. DOMESTIC. "Workj on the new Arkansas capital at Little Rock is again at a standstill, this time because of a strike of 175 union laborers. The Rev. Dr. Richard Lewis Howell, known as the richest preacher in the United States, is dead at his home in New York. He was 55 years old. The joint wage conference of the bituminous coal operators and miners of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania has adjourned without reaching an agreement. agree-ment. After long resistance, the feudists, James Daniels and his five sons, who are charged with murder, have surrendered sur-rendered themselves to the Kentucky authorities. A bill designed to strengthen the existing laws prohibiting the sale at Annapolis of liquors to midshipmen of the naval academy has been introduced intro-duced in the Maryland legislature. The lives of 100 non-union miners were endangered by a fire that destroyed de-stroyed the Campbell hotel at Lead, S. D. The management of the hotel declares the blaze was incendiary. C. A. Farrar, an aeronaut, committed commit-ted suicide in San Francisco by thrusting thrust-ing his head into the envelope of a small balloon into which a stream of illuminating gas was poured. Ill health led him to take his own life. Lacking the means to maintain the personal political organization essential essen-tial to success, Senator Frank P. Flint of Los Angeles, Cal., announced Saturday Sat-urday in a statement that he would not be a candidate for re-election to the senate. The establishment of a series of municipal dance halls in New York City, where young men and women can go without being subjected to serious se-rious temptation, has been promised by Mayor Gaynor's new park commissioner, commis-sioner, as the result of a report recently re-cently submitted to him by a committee commit-tee on amusements for working girls. The tenth anniversary of the death of William Goebel, who was the central cen-tral figure in one of the most stirring chapters in the latter days of Kentucky's Ken-tucky's history, was observed at Frankfort, Ky., February 3, by the unveiling un-veiling of a marble and bronze monument monu-ment above the grave in the state cemetery at Frankfort. Mrs. Max Shapiro was badly beaten in her home in New York City by a stylishly dressed burglar who she caught in the act of robbing the house. She fought the burglar hand to hand from room to room until he overpowered over-powered her and escaped. The retail price of diamonds is to be raised from $5 to $10 a carat, because be-cause of an advance of 12 per cent in wages just granted by the Maiden Lane diamond merchants to members of the American Diamond Cutters Protective Pro-tective association. As a result of wireless telegraphy, the crew of forty-six men of the steamer steam-er Kentucky were taken off that ves- ' sel just before it sank off Cape Hatt-eras. Hatt-eras. The Kentucky's operator wired for assistance and the steamer Alamo came to the aid of the men on the sinking ship. One body was taken from the St. Paul mine at Cherry, Ills., on Friday, the first recovered since the mine was sealed up to extinguish the fire which caused 300 deaths on November 13. The body was in good condition and lias been identified. A fire in the Illinois penitentiary power house at Joliet caused great excitement among the convicts. None, however, tried to escape. On the contrary, con-trary, according to Warden Murphy, they turned in, willingly battling against the flames. The loss was at 'east. $!00,0(i0. i President Taft has prevailed upon John Embry to withdraw his resignation resigna-tion as "United States attorney for Oklahoma Ok-lahoma and to remain in the office. Elijah Badal, a Persian student, in the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, Balti-more, shot and killed his sweetheart. Miss Mary Lewson of Portland, Me., a student in the university, and then committed suicide. Estelle E. Gibbs, a negro girl, 14 years old, received the first prize, a gold medal, at the graduating exercises exer-cises of the Hoboken public school pupils. pu-pils. There are 10,000 white pupils in the schools and only 15 negroes. William Ruckheim, a farmer, aged 35 years, murdered his wife and four children and shot himself at Parker's Prairie, Minn. He was found dying when his son went to the farm. Ruck-neim Ruck-neim had suddenly become insane. W. Gould Brokaw's defense of his wife's separation suit is estimated to have cost him $75,000, while the court's decision will compel him to pay the former Mary Blair $1,250 a month alimony. His lawyers are understood un-derstood to be preparing an appeal. WASHINGTON. Representative William C. Lovering of Massachusetts, is dead at his home in Washington, at the age. of 75. He was serving his seventh consecutive term in' congress. Secretary Ballinger was criticised on the floor of the senate on Thursday Thurs-day for sending a communication to the senate inclosing a bill providing for an insane asylum for Alaska. That tne United States congress is likely to pass a prohibition law applying apply-ing to Hawaii is the belief of an attorney at-torney who is representing the liquor interests of the islands in Washington. Washing-ton. President Taft, announces that he does not consider an amendment to the corporation tax law necessary in order to prevent rival concerns from obtaining information as to the private affairs of competitors. That there has been a general increase in-crease in the wholesale and retail prices, of food between 1899 and 1910 is indicated by a report sent to the senate by the department of commerce com-merce and labor. In order to permit the arrival in vashington of counsel for Secretary Ballinger and to allow counsel to become be-come familiar with the case, the Bal-linger-Pinchot investigating committee commit-tee has adjourned its hearings until Friday, February 11. Concessions by both the United States and Germany have averted a threatened tariff war. Negotiations have been concluded between the two countries which settle the question of minimum and maximum rates, with the exception of the cattle and dressed meat issue. The final appeal for a motion for a new trial was made before the supreme su-preme court at Washington on Thursday Thurs-day by General Luke E. Wright in behalf be-half of Col. D. B. and Robin Cooper, convicted of the murder of former United States Senator Carmack and sentenced to penal servitude for twenty years. The house has passed the agricultural agricul-tural appropriation bill, carrying nearly near-ly $13,000,000, a net increase of more than $400,000 over last year. This increase in-crease was chiefly for the forest service, ser-vice, made necessary by the addition of 25,528,439 acres to the national forests. for-ests. FOREIGN. Former Senator Clark of Montana has sent a check for $1,000 to the flood sufferers of Paris. The Nicaraguan government declares de-clares that it has discovered a plot by the Conservatives to precipitate armed intervention by the United States by firing on an American warship in the harbor of Corinto. Ex-President Roosevelt and party arrived at Nimule, Africa, on February Febru-ary 4, on schedule time. All the members mem-bers are in excellent health. Before leaving Rhino camp in Belgian Congo, the hunters shot three more white rhinos, a bull buffalo and other game not before reported. Seventy bodies have been takei. from the Paulau mine in Mexico. This represents the total list of the dead. However, some of the twenty injured who are now in the hospital may die. The gas is all out of the mine and the exploration has been thorough. Not an American was hurt. A new press bill, designed to suppress sup-press the dissemination of anarchistic literature, has been introduced in the council at Calcutta. The measure does not create a censorship, but provides the deposit of cash bonds by all newspapers news-papers and job printers to enable the government offcials to control their utterances. The second 1 Central American conference, con-ference, a congress of representatives of the countries of Central America to promote peace ahd better commercial commer-cial relations, has convened at San Salvador, the capital of Salvador. An effort will be made at this session to settle the present revolution in Nicaragua. Nic-aragua. An explosion of gas in a coal mine at Las Esperanzas, Mexico, caused by a Mexican miner lighting a cigarette in forbidden territory, resulted in the death of sixty-eight men. The first shipment of prehistoric bones collected by the German expedition expedi-tion in German East Africa, comprising compris-ing forty-six large boxes, has reached the Berlin Paleontological museum. Reports from the explorers indicate that they have been highly successful in finding important specimens. According to figures given out by members of the Order of Railway Conductors. Con-ductors. 90'. per cent of the American conductors and S!) per cent of the engineers en-gineers and dispatchers employed on the Mexican National lines have voted to resign in a body. |