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Show NEWS OFA WEEK IN CONDENSED FORI! V RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Histor) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. I NTER-MOU NTAIN. Tusk hunters are reported to be ruthlessly slaughtering elk in the Jackson Hole country in Wyoming. The citizens have appointed a vigilante vigi-lante committee and have warned the tusk hunters to leave the state or suffer death. From Denver comes the report that the growing movement to boycott meat has aroused stockmen of the west to a protest, that the effect of the boycott will be against the stockmen stock-men rather than against the packers. Tearing down the mountain side at the rate of nearly seventy miles an hour, a freight I rain on the Moffat road jumped the track at a point between be-tween Jenny Lake ai:d Antelope, Colo., and the entire train plungen down the hill, three men being, killed and two injured. Senator Sutherland of Vtah has been selected as one of the six senators sena-tors to sit upon the commission appointed ap-pointed by congress to investigate the Ballinger-Pinchot trouble. Waiting for a fiery chariot from heaven, hea-ven, George Paschtot. his wife and four children stripped themselves at Lynden, Wash., and clambered to the roof4 of their home in freezing weather. When discovered, their baby, ba-by, Martha, aged 11 months, was dead from exposure and hunger, and another child' was at the point of death. DOMESTIC. Dr. Joseph A. Danna, house surgeon sur-geon of the charity hospital at New Orleans, thinks there is a good deal of humbug about the book worm. Four masked men held up and robbed a Missouri Pacific passenger train near Eureka, Mo., rifling the mail car but not molesting any of the passengers. A blizzard, the most severe in several sev-eral years, raged throughout Ohio on Saturday and brought with it. death and a long series of accidents. There was an eight-inch snowfall, accompanied accom-panied by a biting cold wind. The-movement to combat the'liigh prices of meat is spreading rapidly and is assuming a national character. The heads of the leading packing houses of Kansas City and Chicago refused to discuss the. effect of the movement upon their business. The decapitated and mutilated body of a woman, identified as that of Anna Furlong, was lound in a room m a resort re-sort in Chicago. The head was missing miss-ing and the police believe it was carried car-ried away by the murderer in an attempt at-tempt to conceal the woman's identity. iden-tity. The $:J0,000,000 suit brought under the Sherman anti-trust law against the American Sugar- Refining company in connection with its absorption oi the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company, com-pany, was formally discontinued on Saturday by Judge Lacombe in the United States circuit court, in New York City. With a story of hardship and narrow nar-row escapes from death, Captain W. A. Griffith and the twelve members of the crew of the British ship Alexander Black, which was totally wrecked on the coral reefs of ivahulaui on January Janu-ary 4, arrived in San Francisco January Janu-ary 22, on the steamship China from Honolulu. An explosion of carbonate in a dwelling house of the Pittsburg Coal company in Unkmtown, Pa., blew the house to pieces and severely injured seven men. The injured are miners. They were thawing the carbonite in a stove. Deposits of $2,36S.7fll were tied up when the Southbridge (Mass.) Savings Sav-ings bank was closed by order of Judge Loring of the supreme court, who issued an injunction following the discovery by the bank examiners of an apparent discrepancy between the deposit ledger and statement of deposits. More than ?o(hi.000 in prize money will be offered this year for aviation meets held under the auspices of the International Aeronautic federation. Fourteen meets are scheduled between be-tween April 1 and November 2. for which 5410,000 has already been promised. prom-ised. Paul O. Stensland. former president of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank of Chicago, and Henry W. Heting. formerly its cashier, who were convicted con-victed in connection with the wrecking wreck-ing of the bank and the disappearance of $1,300,000 of its funds, have been pa roled. Declaring that it. is as important, that college women should be taught the scientific care of infants as that college men should study agricultural problems. Dr. Edna A. Day, professor of home economics in the University of Missouri at Columbia, Mo., has planned for the women students an elective course in the raising of babies. ba-bies. A single bullet fired at a negro by Howard Grannis. a fifteen-year-old lad. at Los Angeles, fatally wounded Geo. Wilson, a school boy, and seriously inju-'d Charles Kendig. his com-pan com-pan i- Fifteen men, three of them Americans, Ameri-cans, were killed at Fishkill Landing. N. Y by a premature explosion of nitro-glycerine in a tunnel that is to form part of the local aqueduct which will carry water from the Ashokan dam in the Catskills to New York City. The big government dirigible sent to Los Angeles by the war department for exhibition during the aviation meeting, has been found practically worthless. Not a single flight was made by it, as it was found that it could not hold gas. Howard Chandler Christy spanked his wife one time when she swore at him, according to testimony in the hearing at Zanesville, O., of Mrs. Christy's suit to gain possession of Natalie, the couple's twelve-year-old daughter. Playing football in Virginia is made a misdemeanor under a bill offered in the senate by Captain Parks of Page county. WASHINGTON. Senator Carter has prepared a bill authorizing the issuance of patents to states for public lands chiefly valuable valu-able for the development of water power. The news conies from Washington that the government suit for the dissolution dis-solution of the merger of the Llnion Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads will not be dropped. Attorney General Wickersham has found nothing so far in his investigation to warrant such a conclusion. No new stars will be added to the flag before the summer of 1911. according ac-cording to the plan under consideration considera-tion in the senate committee on territories. ter-ritories. The program is said to have the indorsement of President Taft. It provides for the reporting of an entirely new bill for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona as states. "States rights" was the burden of most of the addresses delivered at the conference of governors on Wednesday, Wednes-day, with particular reference to the conservation of resources and the regulation of public service corporations. corpora-tions. FOREIGN. Negro . members of the Cuban congress con-gress have called to the attention of the president that they are caused much annoyance by being refused admission to lodging houses and hotels. ho-tels. Prince Max Egon Furstenberg, the Kaiser's intimate friend, and. Prince Christian Hohenlohe, two of the richest rich-est magnates of royal rank in Europe, Eu-rope, have gone into business as hotel ho-tel proprietors. A large building in the course of construction, near the viaduct in Char-leroi, Char-leroi, Belgium, the foundations of which had been weakened by the rans, fell, burying the workmen in the ruins. Twelve men were killed and a score of others injured. Mexico City experienced the coldest weather in twelre years when on Saturday Sat-urday the mercury dropped to 5 degrees de-grees below zero centigrade, or 23 Fahrenheit. Water pipes froze and snow appeared on the low mountain-tops mountain-tops surrounding Mexico City. President Madriz of Nicaragua has announced that General Estrada''s reply re-ply had served to end abruptly the peace negotiations and that reinforcements reinforce-ments had been ordered to the front with the purpose of striking a decisive blow at the insurgents' army. Servia is determined that the euten te with Bulgaria shall be preserved, The cabinet, therefore, has decided U expel from the country all the Macedonian Mace-donian voivodes who are hostile to a rapprochement between the two countries. coun-tries. Eight voivodes and thirty-two members of revolutionary bands have been expelled. After exchanges between the two cabinets, both France and Great Britain Brit-ain have decided to conform their answers an-swers to Secretary Knox's Manchu-rian Manchu-rian proposition to those of Russia and Japan, the latter two countries having declined the proposal for the neutralization of the Manchurian railways. rail-ways. . A score of people were killed when four cars of a Canadian Pacific passenger pas-senger train on the Soo branch jumped jump-ed from the track and, falling down a steep embankment, plunged through the ice into the Spanish river, near North Bay. Ont. Ayhao, the leader of the band of Filipinos who murdered Tilden B. Wakely of Chicago and H. D. Everett, in May. IflOS, and three of Ayhao's companions, have been captured by Hie constabulary, according to information infor-mation received in Chicago. Another1 English peer who is going in for the establishment of a new industry, in-dustry, is the Earl of Denbigh. Ixird Denbigh is devoting his attention to the growing of sugar beets in England, Eng-land, and has met with a considerable degree of success in his experiment. President Madriz of Nicaragua has sent a message to the supreme court demanding the trial of all implicated in the shooting of the Americans. Groce and Cannon. Ex-President Ze-laya Ze-laya does not appear officially in the proceedings of the court martial, but it. is believed evidence may be introduced intro-duced which will implicate him in the murder. During the last fortnight there have been thirty-four cases of bubonic plague and seventeen deaths, and fifteen fif-teen cases of yellow fever, three fatal, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. At Milagro there have been four cases of plague, and one death, while in Babahoy, four victims of the plague and three of yellow fever are reported. The committee of the University of Copenhagfii has completed its examination examin-ation of Dr. Frederick A. Cook's original orig-inal notes, and confirmed its previous I conclusions that not the slightest I proof tlnft the explorer reached the 1 north pole had been submitted. |