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Show ! liriir-p Donaldson, aged 5, and Mar-j Mar-j garet ("ancker. aged 4, were burned to j l"-ar h at Graham, Mo., by an explosion explo-sion uf gasoline in a smoke house where the children were playing. It is thought they set fire to the gasoline gaso-line with matches, j Judge Sea in the district court at 1 Dallas, Texas, instructed the grand jury to investigate the lynching of the negro Allen Browas, with a view of indicting the mob leaders. A mob of 5,000 men took Allen Brooks, an aged negro charged with criminally assaulting a 2-year-old white child, from the court room at Dallas, Texas, and after dragging him through the streets, hanged him. Hardly a word was spoken and not a shot was fired. Enrico Caruso, the tenor, lias received re-ceived two Black Hand letters demanding de-manding $15,000 or his life. There is some disposition among his friends to regard the letters as a joke, but Caruso Ca-ruso is convinced that his days are numbered, and he will not venture out of his room in New York City without a bodyguard. WASHINGTON. Following a dinner given by President Presi-dent Taft to Speaker Cannon, on Thursday, both the president and the speaker showed their ability as dancers, danc-ers, being laughingly applauded by the other guests. One dance, however was enough tor both the distinguished gentlemen. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, chief of the biological survey, contends that th solution to the high prices of meat is to permit the farmers to raise dee' on their farms and kill them for th trade. The house has voted down a propo sition to provide residences in for eign capitals for diplomats. Bills providing for the purchase of $10,000,000 worth of real estate in Washington for the future use of the government have been approved by the senate. After a conference with President Taft on Tuesday, leaders of congress announced that they would oppose all amendments to the several administration adminis-tration bills when it became apparent that the amendments were offered in a spirit hostile to the main purpose of the measures. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, on the stand in the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation, denied the charge by Pinchot that he had given the deposed de-posed chief forester permission to write a letter criticising the president of the United States. A bill has been introduced by Representative Rep-resentative Henry of Texas which would declare the members of the "beef trust" recently indicted in New Jersey, fugitives from justice, and compel their extradition to New Jersey Jer-sey to stand trial. The house committee on naval affairs af-fairs has voted for the construction of two battleships, one repair ship, two fleet colliers and four submarines. FOREIGN. Dispatches from Bluefields announce that the insurrectionary movement headed by General Estrada against the Nicaraguan government has been practically crushed, and that nothing is left to the insurgents but guerilla warfare, in the hopes that the United States will intervene. According to Premier Gouin, the order or-der prohibiting the exportation of pulp wood will be ratified at the legislative legis-lative assembly of Quebec, Canada, and will become operative September Septem-ber 1. London's portion of the $11,000,000 issue of first mortgage 4 per cent gold bonds by the Rock Island, Arkansas Arkan-sas and Louisiana Railroad company was so largely over subscribed that the list was closed a half hour after it had been opened. Eugenie Chiesa, the well-known Republican Re-publican deputy, must fight three duels following too free mention of noble women in the Italian chamber of deputies. Count Giacomo Morando and Generals Prudent and Facia are the challengers. The president of Colombia has taken tak-en extraordinary steps toward dissolv- NEWS OF A WEEK IH CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTER-MOUNTAIN. Seven or eight buildings were carried car-ried away by the flood at Palisade, Nevada, Ne-vada, and a number of people had narrow escapes from death. Slow work is being made of the endeavor en-deavor to rescue the bodies of the victims vic-tims of the snowslide at Wellington, Wash. Trees and big boulders are mixed with the other wreckage, making mak-ing it difficult to reach entombed bodies. Two men lost their lives when a suspension bridge over the Snake :'iver at Glenns Ferry, Idaho, was washed out by the high waters. The men were swept into the raging torrent tor-rent and drowned in full view of doz-?ns doz-?ns of persons who were powerless to lid them. A snowslide at Dorsey, Idaho, is reported re-ported to have killed two men, and at Adair, Idaho, :i man is reported to have met a similar fate. The vallejs of Idaho, from the headwaters head-waters of the Snake to the Oregon line, and from the Owyhee to the stricken Coeur d'Alene district, are ueing swept by the most disastrous Hoods in the history of tne state. DOMESTIC. The promotion of insurance companies, com-panies, all kinds, fire, life and casualty, cas-ualty, have reached proportions never before attained. New companies proposed pro-posed since January 1 have capital aggregating $60,000,000. Dr. James R. Hull and Mrs. Alma P. Vaughn, under indictment on the charge of having administered poison to the woman's nusband, who recently died at Kirksville, Mo have been released re-leased on bonds pending trial. Twenty-three miners were killed in the Mexican mine on Douglas island, Alaska, when the powder magazine exploded, and eight men were seriously, serious-ly, injured, of whom it is feared four will die. The magazine contained 275 pounds of powder. Twenty Republican editors of the Eighteenth congressional district at a meeting at Danville, 111., indorsed Speaker Cannon's policies, and called upon "him to again be a candidate for congress. Whether suffrage in the proposed states of New Mexico and Arizona shall be limited to those who speak English is bothering the senate committee com-mittee on territories. E. E. Powell shot three men, State Senator E. L. Travis, Representative A. P. Kitchin and Deputy Sheriff Dunn, at Scotland Neck, N. C, because be-cause of a grudge. Travis and Kitchin are seriously injured and Dunn fatally fa-tally wounded. Marcus Jennings, who had trouble at Lexington, Ky., several years ago with John Mukes, a negro, on Friday shot and killed George McComas, a negro, without the slightest warning. Jennings, as far as known, never saw his yicum before. Dr. George A. Fritch has been found guilty at Detroit, Mich., of manslaughter, man-slaughter, in connection with the death of Maybell Millman, of Ann Arbor, Ar-bor, the jury having decided that the girl came to her death as the result of a criminal operation performed by Dr. Fritcn. Hogs reached the record price of $10 a hundred weight on the Indianapolis market on Thursday. About 4,000 people in Ohio are now homeless on account of the floods. After sentencing an oleomargarine dealer to six years' imprisonment, ludge M. K. Landis, in the United States district court at Chicago, ordered or-dered federal inquiry into the methods meth-ods of disposing of oleomargarine. Henry S. Pritchett of New York, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of Teaching, declares de-clares that the United States supports too many physicians. While Europe maintains the proportion of one physician phy-sician to every 1,500 people, the United States has a physician for every 56S. The body of E. J. McGannon, a business busi-ness man of Clovis, N. M., was found hanging in a cement plant at that place. It is believed he was poisoned and his body hung up to make it appear ap-pear he had suicided. Lester Picks, a cousin of the dead man, has been arrested. ar-rested. The school children of St. Louis are to imitate the birds in drinking water, standing with their mouths gaping open while the water is spurted into their mouths from fountains and by this means avoid the unsanitary drinking drink-ing cup which is a spreader of disease. An increase of wages amounting to 20 per cent on all passenger engines and 25 per cent on all freight engines is the demand which the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen is staled to have made on all roads operating west of Chicago a:id lm.-ih of the Ohio river. The inquiry am horized by the last legislature in the high cost of toed in California and the operations of alleged al-leged combines of dealers in fish, raisins anil other lines of trade.' was begun cn Wednesday by a legislative committee. ug tne present cougress ui mat cuuii-try cuuii-try and calling what is described as the constituent assembly to meet at a date in the near future. "Canada has no more need for . a navy than a man in hades has for a buffalo overcoat," said C. ivtagrath, member of parliament for Medicine Hat, Alberta, in the commons in a speech on the naval bill. The recent batles at Tisma and Tiptapa, Nicaragua, appear to have been real fights, it being estimated that between 250 and 300 men were killed. Searchers have come upon bodies scattered over a large territory, terri-tory, wounded men who had dragged themselves away and succumbed. During their hunting trip in Africa Colonel Roosevelt and his son, Ker-mit, Ker-mit, killed some 500 specimens of large mammals. The hag included the following: Seventeen lions, eleven elev-en elephants, ten buffaloes, ten black j rhinoceroses, nine white rhinoceroses, (nine hippopotami, nine giraffes, three leopards, seven cheetas, three giant j elands, three sables, one sitatunga j and two bongos. According to a telegram from Galveston, Gal-veston, Texas, a deal has been closed whereby the Mormon church becomes; ; owner of more than 50. Oho acres in 1 the state of Ciiahuila. Mexico, upon i which i; will establish, the largest : colony on this continent outride ol j Utah. i The ne'ivs conns from Alaska that Martin Harris, aged 0". who was es- tahlishing a mission among the In-idians. In-idians. had died, after sutTering freezing freez-ing of both feet in a journey to the : head of Xebesna river from Tanana j crossing. |