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Show " BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEIfS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM. Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepred for Busy Man. INTER MOUNTAIN The supreme court of Colorado has held that seepage water flowing toward to-ward a stream properly belongs to that stream and is controlled iby the 6ame priorities as water in the stream. George E. Schall, formerly a sergeant ser-geant in the hospital corps, U. S. A., was arrested at Vancouver, Wash., Monday, charged with the murder of his wife and three children at the presidio, pre-sidio, San Francisco, last April. Lillian Dawson, aged 14, and her Bister, Hortense, aged 12, were 'burned to death when the barn in which they were sleeping near Ogden, Utah, was destroyed by fire. The annual spring rush to the Seward Se-ward peninsula gold field began June 1, when the steamship Senator, the first of the regular liners to sail for Bering sea this season, departed from Seattle for Nome, Aalska, with 380 passengers and a full cargo of mining machinery, provisions and supplies. Parris Smith, an 18-year-old high school student of Anacortes, Wash , who was hit on the head by a baseball while playing in a match game, died Sunday in a hospital. Frank Diamond, who was arrested at Plains, Mont., as the result of his alleged confession of the murder of Former Governor Thomas Francis Meagher of Montana a.nd others, has repudiated his confession. Preparatory to enforcing the new "lazy husband" law, effective June 6, which provides that husbands who do not support their families shall be sentenced sen-tenced to hard labor, the proceeds of their work to be given to their wives, plans for the construction of a stockade stock-ade on sixty-three acres of logged-off county land near Seattle have been taken up by the county commissioners. commission-ers. August Daniel, while riding a motorcycle motor-cycle at 75 miles an hour in a race at Ogden, Utah, ran into a fence and was fatally injured. DOMESTIC Munroe Gohlson, a miner, committed commit-ted suicide at Joplin, Mo , toy lying down in his 'backyard, placing a stick of dynamite on his stomach, and lighting light-ing the fuse. His 'body is scattered over a good portion of South Joplin. No reason is known for his act. Ad Wolgast has "been signed for a twenty-round fight with Red Watson, a California lightweight, for June 20, according to 'the announcement of a San Francisco athletic club. The weight will toe 133 pounds ringside. Fire on the property of the War Eagle mine at Rossland, B. C, caused a loss of $5,000 Monday. The shaft house, tank house and other Ibuildings above ground were destroyed. The flames went down twenty-five feet of the 1,300-foot shaft. The directors of the Maryland club which recently concluded a race meet at Pimlico, have ordered that $10,000 be expended for poor persons suffering suffer-ing from tuberculosis. The babies' milk fund and the fresh air fund each received $1,000. Violence followed the inauguration of a strike at Boston toy several hundred hun-dred barbers and bootblacks. During a parade in the north end, the strikers strik-ers stoned shops that still were doing business and many windows were broken. Nine strikers were arrested. Postoffice inspectors have raided the offices of the Standard Mercantile Mercan-tile company, a mail order grocery concern at Cleveland, and arrested Leopold Kahn, the proprietor, on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Dug from a grave on the toeach, where they had been buried alive by a maniac, the three little children of George Walls, proprietor of a bathhouse bath-house at Atlantic City, N. J., and a leading politcal figure, are in a criti-sal criti-sal condition. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt won his libel suit against George A Newett, who charged the colonel with drunkenness drunk-enness and, having waived damages after the defendant had uttered a retraction, re-traction, the jury awarded the nominal nomi-nal damages of 6 cents provided in Buch cases by the law of Michigan. Pat Lawson of Poteau, Okla., 19 years old, was shot fatally on a train near Kansas City by John Sick, an express messenger. Sick, who says he believed Lawson and his companion, compan-ion, Andrew Pruett of Poteau, aged 20, were holdup men, was arrested as he came in off his run. Conventions of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen hereafter will be held triennially instead of every two years, as has been the custom. The Norwegian three masted ship Freia, which went ashore at Sunday Point, in a sixty-mile gale, was ' dashed to pieces. Her valuable cargo I of lumber is strewn for miles along I the coats. I In a recent bulletin the Kansas Agricultural Ag-ricultural college warns the farmers of Kansas that the gra,ssh(Kirs are I likely to cause serious damage In Kan- bas thin year. Judge Stiles T. Rowe, former circu:: Judge of Sebastian county, and recently re-cently candidate for attorney general of Arkansas, died at Fort Smith, Ark., from injuries he is said to have received re-ceived in a fist fight with Alonzo E. Willett, a carpenter. William Wiggins, 22 years old, hit on the head by a pitched ball during a game of 'baseball at Kearney, N. J., died of a fractured skull. He crumpled up at the base plate when he was hit and did not recover consciousness. Fire destroyed the plant of the Daily News Publishing company at Canton, O., causing a loss to machinery machin-ery and building estimated at $50,-000. $50,-000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Stewart Flege, age 27, an employe of a planning mill at Sioux City, shot and dangerously wounded his young wife, Rebecca Flege, and then fired a bullet into his temple. He will die. Benjamin J. Ness of St. Paul, recently recent-ly convicted in the district court at Bismaark, N. D., of having attempted to bribe two members of the North Dakota legislature, was 'sentenced to pay a fine of $500, or to serve thirty days in the county jail. WASHINGTON Representative Johnson of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, after being unanimously elected elect-ed chairman of the Democratic congressional con-gressional committee, Monday sprang a surprise toy asking unanimous con-mous con-mous consent to withdraw his name. Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, in a prepared speech on Monday, discharged discharg-ed verbal broadsides at the so-called "sugar trust," declared the free sugar schedule of the tariff toill "violated the pledges of the Baltimore platform not to destroy legitimate industry." Japan's rejoinder to Secretary Bryan's Bry-an's reply to the Japanese protest against the California alien land legislation leg-islation will toe submitted to the state department during the week. Secretary Bryan has signed the formal for-mal announcement of the seventeenth amendment to the constitution providing provid-ing for the direct election of senators. Secretary McAdoo announced June 1 the distribution toy states of the additional $10,000,000 of federal funds which the treasury department will deposit in the national banks. Appointment of a commission of nine to study plans for a federal system sys-tem of aid to vocational education has been indorsed by the senate committee commit-tee on education and labor. Senator Tillman, who proposes to abolish smoking in executive sessions of the senate to protect his own health, has sent a letter to each member mem-ber of the cabinet asking them to prohibit pro-hibit smoking in their respective departments. de-partments. FOREIGN A detachment of 300 Russian frontier fron-tier guards has been sent to the dis-trict dis-trict of Kalis, in Russian Poland, owing ow-ing to the receipt of dispatches de-daring de-daring that the Jewish inhabitants of the villages there, as well as the Christians Chris-tians having relations with them, had received anonymous letters threatening threaten-ing them all with death. Another important step toward peace in the Balkan states was an-nounced an-nounced Monday, Italy having conceded conced-ed to Greece the coast line of the former for-mer Turkish province of Epirus, between be-tween the river Kalamas and the toay of Phtelia. A report from a creditable -quarter says that a commercial and 'political understanding has been reaohed 'between 'be-tween the Greeks and Servians agains the claims of Bulgaria. The Chilean congress was opened June 1, with the usual ceremony. The president of the republic, Ramos Bar-ros Bar-ros Luce, attended, together with din, lomatic representative, military and civil authorities. The Duches of Orleans has begun suit for separation in the first civil court against her husband Prince Louis Phillippe, Duke of Orleans, the, French pretender. The Bulgarian chamber of deputies toy a vote of 127 to 17 authorized the government to accept Russia's mediation media-tion in the territorial difficulties with Bulgaria. The ministry of Justice has ordered the trial in June or early in July of Mendall Beilliss, accused of the murder mur-der of a Christian 'boy, Andrew Yush-chinsky, Yush-chinsky, in 1911, near Kieff, Russia. It is announced that the prosecutor will uphold the theory of ritual murder mur-der and that probably the trial will be held behind closed doors. Suffragettes are blamed for fires which started simultaneously in two railway station at Glasgow. The fires were extinguished after considerable damage had been done. A dispatch from a trustworthy source says that the Bulgarian troops have destroyed the village of Hadji, between Salonica and Serres, and have massacred the Mussulman population. popu-lation. The Spanish premier, Count Olvara de Romanoues, and the other members mem-bers of the cabinet resigned on Friday. Fri-day. Count Romanoues has been premier pre-mier since November 14, 1912, when he took office afcer the assassination of former Prtniier Canalejas. A party of Gorman fishernen fouDd the bodies of Lieutenant-Commander Walter Jcnetzky and Engineer's Mate Drackman of the German navy, who lost their lives on February 7 in the gulf of Danzig through the collapse of their aeroplane. The Scottish home rule bill passed Its second reading in the British house of commons on Friday, and was then referred to the committee. It follows somewhat the lines of the Irish home rule bill and was introduced intro-duced by William II. Frye-Cower., the member from East Aberdeenshire. |