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Show I BRIEF REVIEW OF A lEjra EVENTS 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 I NTER MOU NTAI N. "Mother" Mary Jones, strike leafier who was deported from the southern coal fields January 4 by the militia, returned to Trinidad Monday morning morn-ing from Denver and was placed under un-der arrest by militiamen. The legality of the state tax commission com-mission and Its recommended increase of more than $:!Ou,uuO.OoO in the assessed as-sessed valuation of Colorado property was upheld in a decision handed down by the state supreme court at Denver. J. G. Morrison, a Salt Lake grocery-man, grocery-man, and his 17-year-old son, were shot and killed by highwaymen Saturday Sat-urday night, the boy being killed in a revolver duel in defense of his father. E. E. Shumway, aged 51, president and general manager of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company, died at Denver, Den-ver, from the effects of poisonous gases inhaled in rescue work,- which resulted from the explosion in the Vulcan mine at Newcastle, Colo., December De-cember 17 last. Join, German, a miner, was shot and killed by a militiaman on sentry duty at Walsenl urg, Colo., when he refused to halt at command and crossed the sentry line into the military mili-tary camp. Aroused by jealousy to uncontrollable uncontroll-able rage, Marie Arthur, also known as Marie Jones, shot to death Frank "Broadway" Jones, a bartender, in Salt Lake City, and then, placing the revolver to her left breast, sent a bullet bul-let into her body, perilously close to the heart. DOMESTIC. With every bone in his body broken brok-en and his lungs punctured by the horns of a large vicious buck deer, Patrick Moran, for the last fourteen years head keeper of the deer preserve pre-serve on the Islip (Long Island) estate es-tate of the late Edward Hawley, was found dead Monday. Kichard McCreery, a millionaire, was sentenced to Ave days in the county jail in San Francisco, by a police judge for violation of the automobile speed laws. Owing to numerous complaintB and accidents, the police court judges nave agreed to jail sentences for offenders. of-fenders. Sis penerals of the. Mexican federal army, 3,300 fugitive soldiers and 1,500 refug'ees, who were driven out of Ojinaga, Mexico, by General Francisco ViHa's rebel forces have been put In readiness for a four days' march on foot over the sixty-seven miles of road to Marfa, Tex. The soldiers will be Interned at Fort Bliss indefinitely. Twenty-eight hundred Mexican federal fed-eral soldiers, six generals, 200,000 rounds of ammunition, two cannons, four large field pieces and 1,500 civilian civ-ilian refugees were in the custody of the United States army border patrol on Sunday as the result of the federal fed-eral army's evacuation of Ojinaga, Mexico, and flight to Presidio, Texas. Eugene Grace died at Newman, Ga., from the bullet wound he mysteriously mysterious-ly received in Atlanta nearly two years ago. He had suffered from partial par-tial paralysis since shortly after the shooting. His wife was charged with the shooting, but was acquitted. Bessie Moore, who shot and killed her sweetheart, Joseph Kelly, October Octo-ber 16 last, was found guT-ty of manslaughter man-slaughter in the third degree at Concordia, Con-cordia, Kans. Miss Moore, who is 1 years old, alleged that Kelly wronged her. Following the arrest of J. H. Connolly Con-nolly and his wife Mabel in San Francisco on charge of stealing a muff in a restaurant, the police raided raid-ed their rooms and found an outfit for changing denominations of paper money. One thousand seven hundred and eighty-one delegates, representing approximately ap-proximately 415,000 members, will attend at-tend the twenty-fourth international convention of the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America, which will open in Indianapolis, January 20, and continue con-tinue about three weeks. Dr. John Grant Lyman, promoter of the defunct Panama Development company, convicted at Los Angeles of having used the mails to defraud, was sentenced to one year and three months in the prison at Florence, Ariz. The annual stato hookworm report showed that 46.3 per cent of about 11,000 Texas children examined microscopically mi-croscopically during 1913 had hookworm, hook-worm, i Mrs. .Margaret Ellison, whose first husband was J. Clayton Erb, a Philadelphia Phila-delphia millionaire, for whose murder mur-der she was tried and acquitted five years ago. at Omaha, on Friday, was granted a divorce from Francis J. Ellison. El-lison. She married Ellison in Des Moines in 1909. John Dale, who for twenty years has defied revenue officers in the western west-ern counties of Arkansas, was found asleep in the woods near Waldron. Ark. and arrested by a United States marshal's posse on the charge of operating op-erating a distillery. The next move in the Thaw cast ! will be the filing by Thaw's eounsel of a petition asking that the amount ( of bail be fixed and a date for a hearing hear-ing on the question. Harry Kendall Thaw would not b( a public menace if he were releasee on bail, according to the report of tht commission appointed at Concord, N 11., by Federal Judge Aldrich to in quire into the state of Thaw's mentality. men-tality. Among the Injured in the Red Cross hospital in Presidio, Texas, is William Steinhouser, 17 years old, of Fresno, Cal. He was shot in tht arm while fighting with Villa's army George F. Crandall of Binghamton N. Y., the oldest mail carrier in the United States, tias retired at the age of 74. He has carried mail continuously contin-uously since 1S06. Three persons were killed and twenty-seven injured when six coaches of a Georgia Southern & Florida pass enger train from Macon to Palatka crashed through a trestle, near Cor dele, Ga. WASHINGTON. Congress settled down to the work of its long regular session on Monday, Mon-day, after being in recess since the passage of the currency reform bill just before Chritsmas. Thorough investigation of the strike conditions in the copper mines in the Calumet, Hancock and South Range district of Michigan, was proposed in a resolution by Senator Ashurst of Arizona. Equipment of all battleships with at least one aeroplane, the use by the navy of dirigible baloons and the concentration of all naval aeronautical, aeronauti-cal, training work at Pensacola, Fla., are among the principal recommendations recommen-dations of the board of officers appointed ap-pointed by Secretary Daniels to draw up a comprehensive plan for the organization or-ganization of a naval aeronautical service. Reorganization of the department of agriculture by abolishing all of the present thirteen bureaus and substituting sub-stituting four or five offices, grouping all allied activities, is contemplated in a provision carried in the agriculture agricul-ture appropriation bill, which the house committee on agriculture almost al-most has completed. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Hart-ford railroad and the department of justice have announce4 a preliminary agreement, designed to effect a reorganization reor-ganization of the New Haven and to prevent a suit for its dissolution under un-der the Sherman law. FOREIGN. The water receded along the coast of the Baltic and ended for the present pres-ent the diinger to the villages which have been inundated for several days. The residents, who had taken refuge on the surrounding elevations have returned re-turned to their homes. A series of 350 slight earthquake shook the town of Kagoshima at the southern end of the island of Klushiu on Monday. They were followed by the eruption of a volcano on Sakura, a small island in the Gulf of Kagoshima, Kagosh-ima, where two vlllagab were buried in ashes. Emperor William for several days past has joined his day laborers in sawing and splitting wood on the Imperial Im-perial estate surrounding San Sourci palace. He was advised by his physicians phy-sicians to take a course of manual labor. Juan Enrique Hacienda in Coahuila, property of the widow of the late President Pres-ident Madero, Sas been devastated by Huerta troops, according to announcement announce-ment of rebel officials in Juarez. They declare the buildings were burned and the cattle and domestic animals kill-ed. kill-ed. The shooting of dynamiters at sight is to be a feature of the martial law to be proclaimed throughout the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. At the re-opening of the Bulgarian scbranjo on Monday the premier, M. Radoslavoff, repudiated the rumor that the government intended to draw the horrors of a new war upon Bulgaria. Bul-garia. He added that diplomatic relations rela-tions between Bulgaria and her neighbors, neigh-bors, with the exception of Greece, have been resumed. Central Europe is experiencing the most severe winter in a generation. The blizzards of a fortnight ago, after af-ter abating somewhat, seem to have returned with renewed vigor. In eastern Russia 150 deaths from the cold has been offcially reported and stories of peasants devoured by wolves are numerous. St. Petersburg is in the grip of a snowfall of three feet, with communication almost cut off and food supplies low. Private letters from Avlona depict Albania as the prey of famine and anarchy. Owing to lack of money, business is at a standstill. Exports have ceased and imports are so small that the people face starvation. The Chinese parliament, which practically has been non-existent for months, w-as definitely dissolved by proclamation on Sunday, the administrative adminis-trative council having approved the proposal purporting to emanate from General Li Yuen Hong, vice-president cf the republic. It is announced that there is much suffering in Bulgaria as a result of the Balkan war. It is estimated that there are 500. 0"0 homeless people, and that thousands are without food and sufficient clothing. Lieutenant Mery, a military aviator, avia-tor, while making a flight 'at Santiago, Santia-go, Chile, fell 3,000 feet and was dashed to pieces, The visit to France by Premier As-quith As-quith will have no connection with international politics, according to ; communication issued at the pre nr'er's official residence. |
