Show N E W 0 F A W E C ou N re FU 11 RECORD OF 0 F THE T HE 14 1 4 E IMPORTANT I 1 I 1 I 1 EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSS possible BlE E H happenings app eninas that A arc r e making history information gat gathered lie red fro from m all quarters quarters du arters of the globe blob e and given give n in a few lines intermountain the first through freight train from chicago to the pacific coast by wy way ot the western pacific arrived at oakland december 31 three hours behind schedule time because of rt a de 1 lay at stockton the train V ans as greet greeb ed at the local depot delot by western pacific officials offic laly and the merchants toi to whom it carried carrie d goods between 1500 and 2000 teachers were present at the opening session of the state teachers association in salt lake city I 1 range and weather conditions in the buffalo wyoming section are so bad the nock flock masters are offering their sheep at 1 a head charles walker a merchant of portland ore narrowly escaped assassination in salt lake city by a man who w ho made lilg his escape walker ylo who wh o was shot in the fleshy part 0 of the arm declares the shooting was the outcome of a feud inaugurated against him he her u crew deduced almost ja to spec Tei s Toy biow blow starvation and with the captain capt in believed bell oved tabe id be daft the schooner minnie A calne caine was towed Into grays harbor wash only y a few pounds of mouldy bouldy hardtack standing stin ding bet een the men and death bad vt v I 1 ther h er and an d adverse winds put the pout out of its course and the food 1 P y had been exhausted I 1 DOMESTIC president taft has hap been requested by mayor haines of minneapolis to intervene berve e in the Switch mens strike ert adamson a newspaper man I 1 isto 0 become secretary to mayor gay r cpr r of new york city the salary belle ig a year undaunted by threatening weather in francisco greeted the dawning the new n aw year with I 1 the informal odst festival which custom has decked c ed as the cites method of oe ce lebrat ipg ig the passing of the old year i thirty five hundred conductors and motormen employed by the boston elevated railroad company received a ew years gift from the company of 20 90 and 25 in gold as a reward for t air good records in 1909 two men were perhaps fatally inured by jumping from a third story aindow of the dyer block providence I 1 L 1 I 1 during a fire ten girls were sched by firemen A fund of to care to fo favor te horses and dogs and more than left to household servants are mong the bequests of mrs F nets dijer right of boston who de dember 27 because he be could not remember part f the address which he was to deliver fat t a banquet at georgetown ky judge john C 32 years old shot and killed himself notice will be served on chicago milwaukee and st lo 10 louis nis brewery concerns having an interest in iowa saloons that such interest must be withdrawn by march 1 in order to avoid vigorous prosecution the last iowa legislature passed a law biting brewers from having any interest in a retail liquor establishment in this state five men were instantly killed by the explosion of a boiler at the now how plant of the metropolitan electric company in west reading pa th the finding 0 a human head in a bucket in the basement bas enlen t of in an office off ice building at alanta ga dea created tad much incitement and the police at first firs thought they had on oil their allai hands liand sc a murder mystery it developed that the lie head ad h had d been used in a v medical offic and has been given to the janitor to ta he Pu buried ried it judge R B tappan to carry put out the last fishes of his divorced w eife afe rode to the Jil highest kliest peak inthe in the hills near alear alameda cal and appropriate remarks opened tile the copper urn containing her ashes and scattered the contents to the winds scoring both city and county gov goffa ern ments unmercifully for failure fal ittie e to t sa safeguard begu ard the morals of the youth the santa clara cou county lity california grand jury returned a report in which it declared that only the of conviction prevented wholesale indictments of high figh officials for malfeasance in off ottice lee the tennessee state law prohibiting prohibiting the manufacture of laiq bors rs went into inta effect at midnight december cember 31 34 F doity 0 it o onri distilleries and live five big breweries announced a suspension of operations with the close of bu business washington I 1 f when uncle joe cannon arrived al k rived inthe in the national capital on his return froin christmas spent at ills his da danville valle home his secretary 4 white busby informed him that an entire deer had arrived during his absence as a christmas gift from colonel james A of colorado to improve inspection service fin in the marine corps of the navy assistant Seere secretary tary winthrop has ha decided to establish four field divi divisions alons of inspection spec tion instead ot of carrying on the entire work from washington study of forestry is to be made more systematic in the united states through the closer association of the schools school sk f forestry and the standardization 7 a tion of the methods of 0 ins instruction this was the principal decision reached at the conference of professors of forestry lit in washington W ashing toiA w with ith chief forester gifford pinchot there are people eople p out of every 10 population lodged in jail each year according to census bureau statistics just made public the figures fir ures based on an investigation of conditions in the largest cities of the united states in 1907 show also that 35 per cent of all arrests wert wern made for drunkenness to investigate the agriculture of f ancient palestine with a viento finding plants that will resist drouth in the united states an american company capitalized at is being formed in washington by dr aaron aaronsohn a turkish agronomist the announcement that president taft had determined to go ahead with his legislative program and send in a message dealing with the sherman antitrust anti trust act has brought an unusually large number of congressional callers to the white house Fd FOREIGN REIGN the news comes from london that earl percy henry algeron george Is ia dead at paris as the result of injuries received in a duel eastern Rou roumelia mella has been swept by the most disastrous flood in fifty years the whole plain resembles a vt vast lake many are re reported ported drowned owned Ir and the losses in crops and livestock will bo be very heavy soldiers in pon are rescuing the people cut off by the rising waters an unconfirmed rumor at calapa ralso says J P morgan allied with the deutsche bank and a powerful british firm has organized a huge nitrate trust with a capital of 0 the trust it is said will acquire the majority of the nitrate fields and manufacturing plants and also control the worlds consumption robert bacon former secretary ot ol state who now succeeds henry white as united states ambassador to france presented his credentials to president fallieres on december 31 the traditional ceremony was observed 4 |