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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven. Days Paragraphed V 1 INTER MOUNTAIN Joseph Fi. Ie.I.aster, assistant cashier cash-ier of the Northern Express company, who disappeared from Spokane, was short between $1,500 and $2,000, according ac-cording to information given out by persons who have been auditing his ! George Borup of New York, who was wi:h Peary in his successful dash I to the north pole, and Samuel Winship j Case of Norwich, Conn., bath graduate ! students at Yale, were drowned in ; Long Island sound Sunday afternoon when their power canoe was suddenly overturned by a heavy sea. Tht L'nited Stares army transport j litiford, bound for Mexico to rescue i 1,000 or more Americans who have 1 appealed for help, sailed Sunday from j San Francisco. j Twenty Oklahoma towns were struck by a tornado Saturday, and at least 40 were killed and 100 injured. in-jured. Court of errors and appeals decided decid-ed against stockholders of the Prudential Pru-dential Insurance company of America, Ameri-ca, who sought to have distributed as dividends $2,500,000 of the company's accumulated profits. WASHINGTON accounts. Seventy-one per cent of the capital stock of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad was voted at the special stockholders' meeting at Denver to authorize au-thorize the issue of $25,000,000 in bonds. Ten millions will be used in improvements on the roadbed in Colorado Colo-rado and Utah. Miss Judith Rice of Salt Lake, the artist's model, who attempted to commit com-mit suicide at Boston by shooting herself in the breast, is slowly rallying ral-lying from the effects of the wound. Indirectly a victim of the Titanic disaster, Edward H. Rothrock, city editor of the Spokane Chronicle, was shot and killed by Richard Aleck, a Russian laborer. Aleck is believed to be insane. Ben Gilbert, night depot express messenger for the Globe Express company com-pany at Grand Junction, Colo., is under un-der arrest, charged with the theft of $14,000 on the night of Friday, April 19, which had been , consigned from the Utah Fuel company at Salt Lake City to the coal camps at Somerset, Colorado. Basing its action upon the contention conten-tion that the state board of equalization equaliza-tion fixed the rate of taxes against the company's property too high, 'the Western Union Telegraph company has refused to pay its tax assessments assess-ments in practically every county in the state of Idaho, according to county coun-ty officials. DOMESTIC Mrs. John Lister was injured, prob- ranure to give ner exact position, a great field of floating ice. that ottered ot-tered a frigid barrier to hurrying to the ship, and the mistake of her captain cap-tain of rushing at top spetd through an ice-covered sea, combined to send the Titanic and her 1,600 victims to their watery -graves in the north Atlantic, At-lantic, according to testimony given by the captain of the Mount .Temple before the senate investigating committee. com-mittee. Another urgent appeal for aid for the sufferers from the famine and revolution in China, was issued by the American Red Cross at Washington Washing-ton Saturday. More than 1,000,000 persons are in need, the relief committee com-mittee at Shanghai cabled. As the first step in the money trust investigation the committee on banking bank-ing and currency has sent to more than 30,000 banks a request for detailed de-tailed information on all phases of their business. A nation-wide scheme to secure funds from women to erect a Titanic memorial in Washington was started by a contribution of $1 from Mrs. William H. Taft. The contribution) will be limited to $1. i The committee on privileges and elections "eported favorably the resolution reso-lution or Senator Culberson, providing for an investigation as to the amount of money and by whom contributed during the campaign of 1904 and 190S. As a means of regulating drinking, Senator Hepburn suggests that licenses li-censes be issued to the drinkers instead in-stead of to the saloon keepers. amy laiany, ana Mrs. j. u. Kant injured in-jured seriously when they jumped from the second-story window of a burning apartment house at Knoxville, Tenn. Five highbinders broke into a room in Salinas, Cal., where four Chinese were playing cards, shot three of them dead, wounded the fourth seriously se-riously and escaped. Theodore Goulet, formerly of Min-i neapolis, a prisoner in the Barnallillo county, New Mexico, jail, where he was awaiting trial for the slaying of policeman Alexander Knapp, sawed his way out of the steel cage in which 'he was confined and escaped to the mountains. Bringing twenty American refugees from Mazatlan, Mexico, the Comos liner Abyssinia arrived at Los Angeles An-geles Sunday night. The refugees brought tales of cruelty and outrage on the part of bandits who committed their depredations under the guise of being revolutionists. Robert Lee Meade, son of the late Brigadier General Meade, U. S. M. C, who commanded in the United States troops in the fight against Chinese Boxers in 1900, committed suicide at his home in Boston. The government's investigation of FOREIGN Dubois, the world famous anarchist, and Bonnot, the "demon chauffeur" of the "phantom death car" of the automobile-bandits, who have terrorized Paris for two years, were killed in a battle with police in Paris, the officers offi-cers using dynamite to rout the bandits ban-dits from their lair. Civil war again has broken out in Paraguay. Telegrams from Ascuncion state that four government warships bombarded the revolutionists who are commanded by former President Jara at Villa Encarnacion, 175 miles southeast of Ascuncion. The closing of the Dardanelles is causing such costly interference with international shipping that the powers pow-ers have decided upon a joint effort to induce Italy to abstain from active operations in the Aegean sea and restrict re-strict the Turco-Italian war to Trip-olitiana. Trip-olitiana. Republicans around Shanghai are attacking all residents who still wear queues, forcibly cutting off the objectionable objec-tionable appendages. A dispatch from Badajoz says a large consignment of rifles and amuni-tion amuni-tion has been captured at the frontier, and another consignment has been the so-called "bean trust." of southern California, will end in a compromise and the dissolution of the alleged combination. com-bination. According to reports on Broadway on Friday, a . gang of wire tappers took $75,000 from' bookmakers operating oper-ating poolrooms in New York City. City. The women of California have no right to serve on trial juries, according accord-ing to an opinion which the attorney general rendered last week. The attorney at-torney general holds that the amendment amend-ment to the state constitution granting grant-ing the elective franchise to women deals with their political rights and duties alone. The Southern Pacific company issued is-sued orders that no more wooden coaches shall be constructed for it. Dr. Francis Bacon, an eminent surgeon sur-geon and alienist and a recognized authority on yellow fever, is dead at New Haven, Conn., in his eighty-first yeor. Speaking at Newark. N. J., of his controversy with Colonel Roosevelt, and deploring the same, President Taft said: "I didn't seek this.. I am forced against the wall with my back to it and I am bound, if I have any manhood at all in me, to fight." Dr. D. K. Pearsons, the aged Chicago Chica-go philanthropist, died in a sanitarium sanitar-ium Friday. Death was caused by discovered in a Monastery at LaGar-dia. LaGar-dia. The republicans think by these two captures they have achieved a remarkable re-markable step against, the encroachments encroach-ments of the Portuguese, In order to replace the $20,000 Tabernacle Tab-ernacle of the Latter-day Saints, recently re-cently destroyed by fire at Magrath, Alberta, members of the organization will give toward the fund all the egs laid by their hens on successive Sundays. Sun-days. The battleship Koenig Albert, I named for a former king of Saxony, j was launched on the 27th. The pres-j pres-j ent Saxon king, Frederick August j was present and 'made a speech. Four men ' were killed by a cave-in at the Elisa mine at Cananea, Mexico. When rescuers reached the imprisoned impris-oned men, one was dead, and the I others d'ed within five minutes after being taken out. ! . The great bazaar quarters in; Da-j Da-j mascus have been destroyed by -fire, i Several persons were killed and many injured and the damage is estimated j at $10,000,000. M. Sazonoff, minister for foreign i affairs, in a statement on Russian I foreign relations made in the duma, referred to the abrogation by- the United States of the Russo-Americ.m treaty of 1S32. The minister said that President Taft had made the ao-: ao-: rogation in a form acceptable to in-: in-: ternational intercourse. pneumonia. He had given between i six and seven million dollars to small colleges. Military men and men prominent in public and private life gathered at New York on Friday to pay the last honors to Major General Frederick Pent Grant, who died here April 11. The funeral exercises were deferred to await the arrival of the general's daughter, the Princess Cantacuzene, from her home in Russia. Warned by a telephone operator that the Mineville dam had broken, 500 persons residing in the valley of Millbrook, Essex county, New York, fled to the hills and then watched the torrent wash their homes away. Two British warships are to be sent to Mexico to look after the interests inter-ests of British subjects. Conditions along the west coast ol Mexico become more alarming daily, according to refugees who told, of the fears of the friends of Virgil York, a wealthy mining operator, formerly of Alamogordo, N. M., and an American Ameri-can physician now missing, that the two men have been either killed or imprisoned by rebels. It is understood in Paris that the powers are considering the matter of advising Italy either to try to force the Dardanelles or definitely abandon the plan as her present indecision embarrasses em-barrasses international shipping |
