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Show Opium valued at '',.'j''K which was in various parts of the Pacific Ma.il liner Mongolia, was found and -eizeil by San Francisco feil.-ra', oiYi-ers. oiYi-ers. Si:!'- syrosniUiizfM have rvsorti'd : i) iittiii ik-rly method at tlie I! e-- hi :i e hi Steel Works at Sunt li U.-thle-V.-m, Pa. Hand to hand liah'.s seem to be of daily occurrence. A father's search of almost three years on two continents for the slayer of his daughter was revealed Friday in Chicago in the arrest of Kleebrites Hiotis. 20 years old. According to the police, the prisoner admitted his identity and confessed to killing the girl, Filipici Damaskis. 17 years old, at Paleohovian, Greece, but insisted the tragedy was accidental. The two houses of the Mississippi legislature in joint session at Jackson on Wednesday elected Percy Ieroy to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Sen-ator A. J. McLaurin, which expires on March 4, 1915. John Hanuscheek, aged IS. of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty of having attempted at-tempted to murder his mother by putting put-ting formaldehyde into her coffee because be-cause she would not give him money. WASHINGTON. If a resolution introduced in the senate by Senator Heyburn of Idaho is adopted, the senate will make an investigation in-vestigation of what is known as the third degree, said to be administered by the police in order to compel prisoners pris-oners to confess to crimes with which they are charged. Commander Peary may be asked by the house sub-committee to submit his proofs that he reached the north pole to a .board composed of Rear Admiral Melville, Rear Admiral Schley and General Greeley, all retired. There seems to be now some hopes of the creation of a bureau of mines and mining. The senate, sub-committee having the matter in charge will make a favorable report on the bill. Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, denies that he had predicted pre-dicted war with Japan in his recent speech at Morristown, N. J., which is said to have occasioned comment in Tokio. "The expenditure of $100,000 a year in stamping out the white slave traffic traf-fic would be money will spent," said Secretary Nagel in submitting to the house a recommendation that the total estimate for regulating immigration be increased from $2,400,000 to $2,600,000. The United States leads the world as an exporter of tobacco and is the second leading market of the world for imported tobacco, according to statistics of the department of commerce com-merce and labor. C. D. Norton, the new assistant secretary sec-retary of the treasury, has a scheme whereby he claims he can save a million mil-lion dollars a year in the administration adminis-tration of the treasury department, by the installation of a new system which will eliminate all useless work. FOREIGN. In Kursk, Russia, a timber merchant named Levkin and two peasants of this province have been condemned to death by the military court for ar-sen ar-sen committed merely to market for Levkin's building lumber. Emperor Nicholas left Tsarkoe-Selo palace Saturday and drove into St. Petersburg, Pe-tersburg, where he called upon King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. The emperor as usual occupied an open carriage and was without an escort. NEWS OF A WEEK Ifi GONDENSED FOi RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN ERIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines, INTER-MOUNTAIN. The finding or the decomposed body of a soldier at the base of a precipitous precipit-ous bluff near Fort Worden, Wash., near the spot where Private Robert B. Dumni's body had been discovered a week before, has led to the belief that several soldiers who have been classed deserters were murdered for what little money they had on their persons. An exH'diiion has been organized by an expert diver to raise the steamer Islander, sunk ten years ago in 320 fathoms of water near Junea, Alaska, while hound for Seattle, with $2,000,-000 $2,000,-000 of Klondyke gold in her strong box. On the left ear of a woman whose body was found in the sound, at Seattle, Seat-tle, the police base their only hope of solving her identity. i he ear is mutilated from the effects of an old wound and fully two-thirds of it was renewed by grafting. William II. Garland is under arrest la Seattle, accused of selling mining Btock and misrepresenting its value. He has been living in luxury and claims acquaintance with prominent New Yorkers. Deals are now being negotiated in Denver which will probably result in the formation of a trust that will control con-trol 90 per cent of the asbestos output of the world. It is said that at a banquet of prominent promi-nent women of Denver, at which no men were admitted, it was decided to elect a woman for mayor for Denver at the election to he held almost two years hence. The women claim to have the majority of the votes in Denver. It is feared that the cruiser Washington, Wash-ington, quarantined at Port Townsend, Wash., for smallpox, may not be released re-leased in time to reach Buenos Ayres for the centennial celebration, in which she is to represent the United States, and special efforts are being made to obtain her release. The Leonard mine, the largest in Butte, has resumed operations, the places of the striking engineers being be-ing filled by other men, and a sufficient suffici-ent crew having been secured. It is claimed other mines of the district will do likewise. DOMESTIC. Deputy Sheriff W. H. Lucy, in an effort to arrest a negro near Memphis, Tenn was shot and instantly killed by the negro, who in turned was killed by two other deputy sheriffs. Frank A. Burnham, a milk dealer of Scarbo, Me., became exhausted while walking home and stopping to rest was frozen to death beside the road. United States Judge Ray of the northern district of New York has received several black hand letters since sentencing a band of counterfeiters counter-feiters to prison. Hogs reached the record price of $10 a hundred weight on the Indianapolis market on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hanson of New Orleans and George Dake of Los Angeles are believed to have been lost in a sandstorm on the desert near Mecca, Cal. They were making a trip in an auto. Searching parties are looking for them. The srrand iurv at Santa Rosa. Cal., lueie uas utcu a ici,i uncacuvc w the anti-dynastic agitation at Ping-Ho-Hsion in southern Fokien and 1,000 government troops occupy the district. The insurgents have withdrawn to the hills. Skirmishes have occurred with the troops but few casualties are reported. The government wireless station at Cape Haro, near the port of Guaymas, has been destroyed by fire, which originated orig-inated in the electrical equipment. As a result wireless communication with Lower California has been stopped. The loss is placed at $15,000. The United States Harvester company com-pany of New York has just purchased a factory near Moscow, Russia, from the Air Brake company for a price of 1,500,000 roubles. The factory has been idle for some time. The harvester harves-ter company recently resolved to ac- has returned an indictment against Dr. Willard P. Burke, an aged osteopathic osteo-pathic physician, widely known throughout the state, charged with having attempted the life of Lou Etta Smith by dynamiting the tent-house on his sanitarium grounds occupied by the woman aud her 11-motuhs-old child. Two boys have been arrested in Central park. New York, in connection with a black hand letter received by j Henry O. Havemeyer, the sugar magnate, mag-nate, who had received a letter directing di-recting him to place $2,500 in. a. certain cer-tain place iu the park. When the lads went to get the money they were arrested. The "beef trust" of the United States, embracing six great packing companies and twenty-one packers, several of them mulli-millionaires, have been indicted by a grand jury in Hudson county, New Jersey, charged with conspiracy in limiting the supply of meat and poultry. John Berry was shot and probably fatally wounded by Henry J. Reich-man Reich-man n in St. Louis as the result of a quarrel over politics. Miss Goldie Gantrill. 17 years old, was sent home by the school trustees at Morehead, Ky.. after they learned that she had been attending school as Sam Murray, dressed in boy's clothing. She stood second in her class. For months she had earned her living as a "newsboy" on trains. State militiamen are not having a bed of roses guarding the strike-breakers in the street car strike in Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. Members of the guard have been overpowered by strike sympa-j sympa-j thizers and their guns taken away ' from thern, on several occasions. quire it and fit, it up witn tne latest American machinery. Twenty thousand sugar cane cutters are on strike at Point a Paitre, Gua-daloupe. Gua-daloupe. Attempts to continue gathering gath-ering the crops are opposed by the strikers, who have started fires iu several sev-eral fields. An appeal for military help has been made. Chinese troops have captured l'Hasse, the capital of the Lamaist hierarchy, hi-erarchy, who upon the approach of the soldiers fled with several of his ministers into India. The Thibetans have petitioned the emperor of China to interfere in the interests of the Buddhists. In a sensational report to the state senate of Kentucky by an investigating investigat-ing committee, the joint legislative j committee on military affairs accused Governor Wilson of violating the constitution con-stitution and laws in sending militia to various counties without any request re-quest from the civil authorities. After several months' consideration the British foreign office has returned a reply that in general terms is unfavorable un-favorable to Secretary Knox's proposition propo-sition to clothe the court to be created creat-ed as the result of the international maritime conference at London with power to arbitrate differences between be-tween the powers signatory to The Hague convention. A cottage hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis, each cottage to be built in a tree top, is announced as the plan of Dr. Arthur Funk, a medical med-ical missionary of the Presbyterian church, stationed near Teheran. |