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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Ellston are dead as the result of the former running run-ning amuck Sunday at a picnic at Castle Rock, Colo., and W. M. Daniels is in jail, pending an investigation, charged with killing Elision. With the adoption of a constitution and by-laws the election of officers and the selection of members of advisory ad-visory board the convention of delegates dele-gates representing the different crafts of the railroad lines comprising the Harrknan system west of the Mississippi Mis-sissippi river, on Saturday at Salt Lake, completed the organization of the System federation. Charles F. Word, a lawyer of Helena, Hel-ena, was found dead in bed in his room Sunday morning wth a bullet hole' in his temple. He had accidentally accident-ally shot himself while cleaning a revolver. re-volver. William Marshall, the Denver gambler gam-bler who fired eight bullets into the body of his wife, killing her instantly, declares he was goaded to desperation despera-tion by spiritualistic revelations portraying por-traying his wife's alleged infidelity.- William Hill, his wife and their two iimall cnildren were murdered in their home in Ardenwald, a suburb of Portland, Port-land, Ore. The four bodies were discovered dis-covered by -Mrs. C. B. Mathews, a neighbor, who casually called at the house. There is no clue to the murderers. mur-derers. Strongly suspected of being the two highwaymen who held up and robbed the Commercial bank of Tooele, Utah, of $9,000 in currency, John Castle, aged 44, and John Vining, aged 29, have been arrested. E. W. Byrd, employed by . John Marki on the erection of a building in Seattle, became angry when discharged, dis-charged, and 'drawing a revolver he shot and killed Marki and then fled. W. H. Whipple started in pursuit and Byrd shot and killed him. M. Misner, justice of the peace, took up the chase and Byrd fire again, probably fatally wounding him. DOMESTIC While Dr. Loughead and James Clark of Letcher, S. D., were driving along the bank of the Jim river late at night, the earth gave way, the automobile auto-mobile was thrown itno the river and both were drowned. A hunchback sea cook, William De Graff by name, together with husky bargs men, Antonio Priskick and William Wil-liam Nelson, all of Boston, were locked lock-ed up in jail at Boston, Saturday afternoon, charged by the federal authorities au-thorities with murdering their captain cap-tain on the seas. Some details of the sinking of the steamship Taboga off the coast of Panamai a fortnight ago, have just reached New York City. More than a score of the passengers and crew lost their lives. Th-a patrolling of this section of the Mexican border, says a Brownsville, Texas, dispatch, by United States troops to prevent a violation of neutrality neu-trality laws has ceased, and the various vari-ous military sub-stations have been abandoned. Burglars blew open the safe in the FFnoh Creek, W. Va., postoffice. Fire followed the explosion and between twenty and thirty buildings were destroyed. de-stroyed. Dr. William J. Walsh, coroner of San Francisco county. Cal., was probably prob-ably fatally injured Sunday afternoon when an automobile in which he was driving went over a 400-foot bluff. Storms in New York on Saturday caused the loss of three lives, while the lwoc wrought by water, lightning, light-ning, wind and fire amounted to many thousands of dollars. Carrie Nation, the saloon smasher, died at Leavenworth, Kans., Friday. Paresis was the cause of death. Mrs. Nation had been in poor health for months and on January 27, hoping to recover from a nervous breakdown, shs entered the sanitarium in which she died. William Brand, former president of common councils of Pittsburg, was released re-leased from the penitentiary Friday after serving fourteen months for his participation in the councilmanic graft scandal. Millionaire W. E. D. Stokes, proprietor propri-etor of the Ansonia hotel, who lies Four girls were drowned and five other occupants of a small sailboat narrowly escaped death near Apple-ton, Apple-ton, Wis., on Sunday, when a squall struck the craft on Little Lake Butte des Morta and capsized it. One man is dead, another is under l arrest charged with first degree murder, mur-der, and six others are under arrest, , charged with disorderly conduct as a result of Saturday's developments in the strike of, 5, 000 garment workers at. Cleveland, O. Attributing their wrongs and sor- rows directly to the popularity of the hobble skirt, which has now a vogue I almost unparalleled, nearly 3,000 mill i girls in Olueyville, R. I., are on the verge of asta-rvaUon through the shutting shut-ting down of the mills. The first important battle between the prosecution and the defense in tile cases of B. H. Conners, A. P. Maple Ma-ple and F. Ira Bender, charged with an attempt to blow up the Los An- geles count.y hall of records, resulted ! in a victory for the defense Friday, the defendants being given another j week to prepare their defense. WASHINGTON ' The house of representatives on Saturday listened to a declaratioa of I the principle of "single taxation" by the son of Henry George, the greatest great-est advocate of that method of raising revenue. Just as the government is sitting in for the biggest legal game it ever played, the discovery is made that it is bound to lose and the Southern Pacific Pa-cific to win $500,000,000 if the play g'es on. The stakes are a great area of California's richest oil lands. Worthlts-s except as junk, the old monitor Puritan, which was sunk recently re-cently in Hampton Roads by a high explosive test and subsequently raised, rais-ed, will be sold to the highest bidder. The senate committee on foreign relations re-lations has decided to report favorably favorab-ly the treaty between Honduras and this country providing a loan of $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 from banking interests of the United States to meet the Honduran debt. E. M. Webster has just returned to the bureau of entomology from planting plant-ing the parasites of the alfalfa weevil in a number of fields near Salt Lake City. When the weevil appeared in Utah the bureau of entomology sent to Italy and Russia for a supply of the parasites. The Canadian reciprocity bill is ready for consideration by the senate. The finance committee on Thursday voted ten to four to report the bill Tuesday . without recommendation, and with the Root amendment to the wood pulp and paper clause tacked on. FOREIGN -The first aviation fatality in Austria Aus-tria occurred Sunday at Wiener-Neu-stadt. Vincenz Wiessnbach of Luxemburg Lux-emburg was killed by a fall of fifty feet from a monoplane of his own invention. in-vention. The second division of the United States Atlantic fleet under command of Rear Admiral Badger arrived at Cronstadt, Russia, on Sunday, from Stockholm for a week's stay. The American squadron w-as escorted from Reval by eighteen torpedo boats. The plague is abating in the interior in-terior districts of China to the north and west, but is increasing in the immediate im-mediate vicinity of Amoy. The storm raised by Spanish military mili-tary action in Morocco shows no sign of abating. The French press is unanimous in condemning the attitude atti-tude of Spain and the Nationalist section sec-tion is beginning to raise the "German "Ger-man bogy." La Patrie declares that German is "pokink up the fire" behind Spa. li. In an interview on Saturday, Francisco Fran-cisco I. Madero, the Mexican revolutionary revolu-tionary leader, who undoubtedly will be chosen president of Mexico, said. "If I should be elected president, Sen-or De la Bara will be minister of foreign affairs and General Reyes will be minister of war in my cabinet." cabi-net." Culican, in the state of Cinaloa, surrendered to the Aladeristas May 31. after nearly two days of fierce fighting, inMvhich hundreds are reported re-ported to have been killed, The city was nearly destroyed. Mazatlan, in the same state, surrendered without resistance on June 2. An indemnity of 12,000,000 pesos will be demanded of Mexico by the Chinese government for the slaughter of Chinese subjects in Torreon. The demand will be hacked up by a cruiser, crui-ser, which is on the way to Mexican west coast ports. The ' Anti-Rent league is becoming a real force in Rome. Several thousands thou-sands of persons have taken up their abode outside the city walls, in caves and tents. Where landlords have evicted tenants, terrorism keeps the dwellings empty. The Belgian c.'-inet of M. Schol'.aert lesigned Thursday. M. Sc-hollaert became be-came p-.eniier and minister of the interior in-terior in January, 1R0S. succeeding M. De Troos, who died the preceding month. Earnestly canvassing the best methods meth-ods of giving effect to those principle; which the present political situation in Mexico has brought to the front. Provisional Pro-visional President De la Barra and Francisco I. Madero sat alone for near ly three hours in Chapultepec castle, on Thursday, and had a heart-to-heart talk about the events to precede the national elections next fall. It is rumored that the venerable Franz Joseph of Austria may soor; give up the crown and turn err thr burden of government to Gntv.d V ' Franz Ferdinand. wounded in a New York hospital from bullet wounds inflicted by two comely show girls, Ethel Conrad and Lillian Graham, in the latter's apartment late Wednesday afternoon, is still in a serious se-rious condition. The strike of brick makers, called in Chicago May 1, as a result of which 40,000 men have been idle in the building trades, and $40,000,000 of building has been tied up. ended Friday. Fri-day. The settlement was a compromise. comprom-ise. One hundred policemen, summoned to the scene of a riot between striking garment workers and sympathizers and non-union workmen in Cleveland. O., charged on the rioters and in the fight one man was shot and at least six seriously injured. Scores suffered battered heads and bruises. |