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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN 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. Mrs. Augustine Pierce and son, Edward, Ed-ward, have ben accused of the murder mur-der of the husband and father, Gus-tave Gus-tave Pierce, at Mud Lake, in Fremont county, Idaho. A younger son, Paul, has made a confession, declaring that he shot his father in defense of his own life and that his mother and brother helped him bury the body. Mrs. Ella McCormick, aged 80, became be-came lost in the edge of the desert, says a San Bernardino, Cat, dispatch, dis-patch, and lived for a week in an abandoned mine 'tunnel, living on groceries gro-ceries with which she -had started to her homestead when she lost Ihep way, being finally discovered by a searching party. The shortest sentence ever, imposed In a Wyoming court was that g'lven Sam Smith, facing a score of burglary bur-glary charges and shot in an attempt to escape arrest, who was last week sentenced to five hours' imprisonment imprison-ment in the state penitentiary and to pay a fine of $500. The seventeenth National Irrigation Irriga-tion congress, in session at Spokane, decided to ask congress for an appropriation ap-propriation of ten million dollars and commended the Mississippi deep waterway. wa-terway. The next session of the congress con-gress will be held in Pueblo, Colo. Nine persons were killed and between be-tween forty and fifty injured as the result of the colision of two passenger passen-ger trains on the Denver & Rio Grande near Colorado Springs. The wreck was due to a misunderstanding of orders. Richard W. Young of Utah was elected second vice-president of the National Irrigation congress at the Seattle meeting, while L. Newman of Montana was chosen third vice-president, i The interstate commerce commission's commis-sion's hearing in the famous Utah rate case will be held in Salt Lake City early in October and the fuU commission will be in Utah for the hearing. Robert Isniger, of Spokane, has beAi elected chairman of the executive execu-tive committee of the National ilrriga tion Congress. - Within a month a hearing will begin be-gin in Seattle that government officials of-ficials claim will disclose proof of gigantic gi-gantic frauds in connection with coal lands in Alaska. In the district court at Boise, Idaho, Judge Wood held constitutional the local option law passed by the last legislature. The act was attacked on behalf of the liquor interests. Judge Wood admits the law is imperfect, but says it. does not present inconsistencies inconsis-tencies sufficient to justify him in declaring de-claring it repugnant to the constitu tion. Cora Cook, aged 13, of Marysvale, Utah, was instantly killed by lightning, light-ning, the bolt striking her during a violent electrical storm. DOMESTIC. Harry K. Thaw, the slayer oi Stanford White, has failed to secure his release from the asylum, Justice Jills having dismissed the writ oi habeas corpus, declaring the release f Thaw would be dangerous to pub lie peace and safety, and ordering him sent back to Matteawnn. It it the opinion of the judge that Thaw is still insane . Ascertaining after eight years ol married life that his wife was a ne-gress, ne-gress, Alfred Haberman, a white man of Columbus, O., shot her and himself. Neither can recover. Mrs. Haberman was a beautiful woman anci looked like she was white. The couple have a son 7 years old. The Hotel Arlington, at Santa Barbara, Bar-bara, Cat, the largest wooden structure struc-ture in the county, was destroyed b? fire Sunday. Several hundred guestr from all parts of the country were i; the hotel, but all escaped. The alarm was given just as the guests were e; tering the dining room. John Stoner, a negro, sued a white man who killed his cow. and wa lynched because of his daring. Tlr residents ot Doss. Texas. becam-angered becam-angered because of the negro's actior The mob threatened him Thursday night and the hanging followed. J. H. Ostby. a prominent Duluth Minn., grocer, was shot and killed b his eleven-year-old son, as the resul of an argument between the fathe and son. H. Miles Moore, one of the founders foun-ders of Leavenworth. Kans., anil widely known throughout the south west from his connection with border troubles before and after the civi' war, was struck by a runaway ho:sc and instantly killed. Mr. Moore was S3 years old. Miss Elizabeth Phillips, wide known as "Miss Santa Claus," becau of her work at Christmas time amoi he poor children, committed sulcid it Philadelphia by inhaling Ulumina ing gas. Failing health was g!v 'i he reason tor the deed. The sneriff of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, has flatly refused to .ontinue the work of evicting the strikers and their families from the louses owned by the Pressed Car cnipany, the company having de-lined de-lined to furnish him men to remove he household goods of the strikers. A San Francisco woman has been ranted a divorce from her husband iio has been dead six years. She ued for divorce from the man she lad married after her husband's leath, but inadvertantly gave the lead man's name in the complaint. Agnes Braseesso. a young laundry .vorker, was found in the room ot George Curry, an ex-convict, in San 'rancisco. with her throat cut and ter head beaten to a pulp. Curry later lommitted suicide. Two boys, neither of whom appear to be over 18 years of age, held up .he. cashier of the Valley bank at Santa Clara, Cat, at the point of shotguns and secured $7,000 in cash, rhey then attempted to make their escape in an automobile, but were captured two hours later. WASHINGTON. For the second time in his career, Or. Wu Ting-fang, the Chinese minster min-ster to the United States, has been recalled from the Washington mission mis-sion and been directed to proceed heme, where, it is expected, he will je assigned to other work. Work has been found for 3,000 persons per-sons during the past six weeks by the information division of the department depart-ment of commerce and labor,, must of .he men having been sent to the wheat fields of the northwest. Bernard Baker, who at the instance of President Taft has been investigating investigat-ing tho matter of freight rates over the Panama' railroad, has recommended, recommend-ed, that the government enter, the steamship business, believing that the government can successfully compete with the transcontinental railway lines. Tobacco, cigars and sugar are now admitted free of duty from the Philippines, Philip-pines, a certain prescribed amount being allowed each year. Strict account ac-count of shipments will be kept to avoid abuse of the free entry provision. The report is being circulated that trouble in the Cuban islands has caused the chancellor of the Cuban legation to seek an early appointment with President Taft, in an endeavor to have the chief executive solve the political po-litical problem for the Cubans. Orville Wright has sailed for Germany, Ger-many, where he will make a series of flights in demonstration of the merits of the Wrright aeroplane. John E. Wilkie, chief of the federal secret service bureau, has declined to accept the position of chief of police for Chicago. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, in an interview in Chicago, denies the report re-port from New York that he is ready to retire from political activity. FOREIGN. Thirty people were killed, at least 100 injured, while hundreds of buildings build-ings were destroyed or badly damaged, dam-aged, in central Japan on Saturday, as the result of an earthquake shock. The shock affected a wide area in the Shiga and Gifu prefectures. The powers have decided that Greece must comply with the demands of Turkey and force the people of Crete to haul down the Greek flag which they have hoisted. Rumors of trouble in the border states of Neuve Leon and Coahula, Mexico, are beting persistently circulated, cir-culated, despite official denials. Elidore Villazon has been inaugurated inaugur-ated president of Bolivia, succeeding Ismail Montt. Villazon is unpopular with certain classes, and it is expected expect-ed that disorders will ensue. China has appealed to the powers to take cognizance of the aggressions of Japan in Manchuria, declaring that the interests of the powers is that no me shall occupy privileged posltio:; in Manchuria. Fort Williams, Ont., is under martial mar-tial law. the result of a fight waged on special Canadian Pacific police by 1,000 striking dock laborers. The balloon Sirius has succeeded in flying over the Alps. The airship left Challons, France, under the pilotage of M. Spelterine, with three passengers. They landed near Locarno, at an altitude alti-tude of 5.400 feet. Lord Kilchener. commander of the British forces in India, has been appointed ap-pointed inspector general of the Mediterranean forces, having command com-mand at Gibraltar and Malta, and all the British troops in Egypt, the Soudan Sou-dan and Cyprus. An epidemic of smallpox has again broken out along the borders separ-uing separ-uing the republics ci Mexico and Guatemala. According to report scores of deaths and an appalling condlton exist on the Guatemalan side. Japan has officially notified the .;overs of her intention to proceed im mediately with the reconstruction and mprovement of the Antung Mukden railroad, without the consent of China antirtly ignoring the Chinese govern ment. Alter wandering in the mountains or five years, deranged, Francisco iartinez 1 suddenly regained his onses last Sunday and returned to ;is home near Villa Ahinuada, Chi uiahua Mexico. Martinez had beer, Iven up for dead long ago by his ti v Circuit Judge John T. Debnlt of Honolulu has received an annony-nous annony-nous communication threaten'ng that l any of the Japanese implicated i;. he strike conspiracy are convicted in he trials now in progress before him e will be assassinated. |