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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF 11 MEMS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men 1NTERMOUNTAIN Perry Newcomb of Provo, who created cre-ated a sensation In a Denver hotel while temporarily insane, by firing The late William Lee, head of the publishing rm of Laird & Lee, who lived In Chicago as a white man and died apparently without heirs, is claimed in the probate court by Mrs. Lucinda Anderson, colored, of Benton Harbor, Mich., as her husband. Mrs. Anderson claims Lee was a negro. Miss Schaapveldt, aged 21 years, was burned to death at her home in Lone Tree Iowa, when she lighted a match after having cleaned a spot from her clothing with gasoline. Harry K. Thaw's escape from the Matteawan state hospital will be the subject of a thorough investigation by the stale. Upon this the rival claimants claim-ants for the governorship are agreed. Benton McMillan, former governor of Tennessee, left New York on Saturday Satur-day for South America to take up his duties as United States minister to Peru. Mrs. McMillan and daughter accompanied him. several snots tnrougn tne window or his room into an office building across the street, has been released from ens"5, tody and will be taken to his Utah home. Edward Tungren, aged 30, a stationary station-ary engineer at Index, Wash., lined up five persons against the wall of the Gray hotel, and after robbing them, fired a fusillade from two pistols, killing kill-ing Dorothy Dunbar, proprietor of the hotel, and wounding two others. Ton-gren Ton-gren escaped. With its driver killed by a bolt of lightning, an automobile bearing two women, a baby, and another dead man, plunged unguided down a steep embankment on a road north of Cripple Crip-ple Creek, Colo., and hurtled over the side of the hill. Neither of the women snarp increases in ine prices oi fresh beef are expected to follow the drought that is scorching the cattle growing states of Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska Ne-braska and Oklahoma. WASHINGTON The United States will facilitate a. court test of the California anti-alien land law, but the initiative must come from some aggrieved Japanese representative. repre-sentative. President Wilson let it be known Monday that svh was the status of the situation. Fred G. Plummer, geographer of the forest service, was found dead in bed at his home in Washington, where he lived alone during the sumnTer months. It is believed he died Friday night of heart failure. "Tamn Tim" WilQnn rf Tmur Tnwn. nor the baby was seriouly injured. Consternation exists in Trinidad, Colo., and throughout that section of district No. 15, United Mine Workers of America, because of the killing of Gerald LIpplatt, former organizer of the miners' union, by G W. Belcher, a Baldwin-Federal detective. James Nichols, a prominent and wealthy rancher residing fifteen miles north of Twin Falls, Idaho, shot and Instantly killed Mrs. L. B. Stockslager, wife of Dr. Stockslager of Albion, then turned the revolver upon himself. Citizens of Brady, Mont., angered at the persistent refusal of tramps to work despite the urgent need for harvest hands, are seizing the recalcitrants recalci-trants and ducking them in horse watering wa-tering troughs until they agree to accept employment. I- DOMESTIC Pat Crowe, the kidnaper of the noted not-ed Cudahy case, has been positively Identified in the government hospital for the insane at Washington, where he was confined after being sentenced to thirty days as a vagrant for bathing in a park fountain. Mrs. Edna Godbe, -divorced wife of Tlirip-p W S dnrtho shnl nnrt Villofl former secretary of agriculture and holder of all records for cabinet service, ser-vice, visited his old haunts Monday on his way back to Iowa from Scotland. Scot-land. Officials and employees of his old department held an impromptu reception. Tariff consideration will be enlivened enliv-ened this week by discussion of the sugar schedule, the chief bone of contention con-tention in the tariff bill. An invitation to all the navies of the world to meet at Hampton Roads in January, 1915, and pass through the Panama Canal to the Panama exposition expo-sition at San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet from the United States navy, will shortly be issued by President Pres-ident Wilson. , FOREIGN Walter Hines Page, the American ambassador, called at the foreign office of-fice in Loudon on Monday and tendered ten-dered to tne foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, the regrets of the Am'r-ican Am'r-ican government for the recent attack made on the "British foreign office by Henry Lane Wilson, United States ambassador to Mexico." The incident is now closed. the judge and his third wife in the postoffice at Mitlin, Ga. What Is believed to be a recorfl shipment by parcel post passed through Albuquerque, N. M., on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, when 204 crates of peaches, in transit from Farmington to Gallup, were transferred there. The fruit had traveled a distance of 1,000 miles before it reached its destination. Charles Grafly of Philadelphia has been chosen to model the statue of the pioneer mother, which will be the central exhibit of the fine arts department de-partment of the Panama-Pacific exposition expo-sition at San Francisco. Mrs. James Vannuys, wife of a prominent retired farmer, and her daughter, Miss Lou Vananuys, were drowned while fishing from a boat on Reed's lake near Hampton, Iowa. Wilbur Scntlebury, a young who was with them, climbed ud on the i i j v laiuiitu x icf3iuv.uk i im plying Monday to President Wilson's note, which was recently delivered to the Mexican government through ex-Governor ex-Governor John Llnd, refuses mediation media-tion in the Mexican situation or any similar suggestion made by a foreign government. According to Juan Dozel, ex-colonel of constitutionalists, General Francisco Fran-cisco villa, at the head of his main column of troops numbering 1,500, is marching south from Ascension, Chihuahua, Chi-huahua, where he has been camping for the past two months, to San Buena Ventura. One hundred and fifty fishermen were drowned and many junks were wrecked in the roadstead at Macao by the typhoon which swept the Chinese Chi-nese coast. There also were many casualties in shore, the majority of them being due to houses collapsing. Ifr TTwmoliTifl T5q ti lfhn rat the mill. overturned boat and saved himself. "I've tried to get work, but there was no way out except disgrace. I want to die. A poor girl can't be good in New York," said Elizabeth Heath, an 18-year-old orphan, as she swallowed poison in view of a crowd In Stuyvesant park New York City. Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford Stan-ford White, escaped from the hospital for the criminal insane at Matteawan, N. Y., Sunday morning. A dart for liberty through an open gate, a dash into the open door of a powerful automobile aut-omobile that stood waiting outside, and a flight like a rocket for the Connecticut Con-necticut state line, forty miles away, accomplished his escape. J. A. Noyle, an attorney, is dead at Quincy, Cal., and F. G. Hall, editor of a local paper, is wounded in the leg as the result of a street fight between the two men late Saturday, over the construction of a new school building. Fire starting from lightning during a storm completely destroyed the barrel house, cistern room and bonded bond-ed warehouse at the plant of the Globe distillery at Pekin, Ills., causing a loss estimated at $125,000. tant suffragette leader, left England for France Saturday night, traveling across the channel by way of Southampton South-ampton and Havre. She will take the rest cure. The German government has decided decid-ed to refuse to participate in the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco Fran-cisco in 1915, but expects to be represented repre-sented at the ceremony of the opening open-ing of the Panama canal. Federals in the state of Durango, Mexico, are shooting all prisoners taken, regardless of nationality, according ac-cording to O. V. Seifert, a mining man from that state. The British parliament was prorogued pro-rogued Friday and will not reconvene until February next year unless something some-thing extraordinary happens. The king's speech, as read in the house of lords, was colorless. A Belgian syndicate has signed with the Chinese minister of communication commun-ication an agreement for a loan of $50,000,000 at 5 per cent interest in connection with the new railroad to be constsructed in the the provinces of Shan-Si and Sze-Chuen. Owing to an injury to his right hand which Freddie Welsh received I while training, it is announced that his bout scheduled for Labor day at Vancouver with Willie Ritchie for the lightweight championship of the world had been indefinitely postponed. Francis Johnson, an automobile manufacturer of Racine, was seriously serious-ly injured in the pouy steeplechase at Lal:e Forest, 111. Mr. Johnson's pony fell and rolled over him. Edwin Gould and William Nelson Cromwell started separate suits in the siipictne court of New York on Saturday against F. Augustus lleinze, the copper magnate, for sums aggregating aggre-gating more than $1,000,000. James Lister, a rich farmer, wan crushed to death under an automobile when it went Into a ditch near Con-r.-d, l:i. The Bible house at Constantinople received a telegram reporting that the Rev. Charles H. Holbrook, a missionary, mission-ary, had been shot and killed at Souchler, a small village eighty miles east of Sivas, a town of Asiatic Turkey, Tur-key, 425 miles from Constantinople. August Bebel, the German Socialist leader, was given an impresssive funeral fu-neral at Zurich, Switzerland. Twenty thousand Socialists followed the body from the city hall, where it had lain .n state, to a cemetery' -where it was ni-ematcd. Morris llillquist of New York represented the United States. The Countess Tarnovska. who in 1!H0 was convicted hi Venice of complicity com-plicity in the mui'tier of Count Kama-row Kama-row ski and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, was found deal on a St. Petersburg-Kiev express uzia Sunday, Sun-day, i-'lie had been banged. |