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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlstor) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER.MOUNTAIN. V. A. Heize of the Davis-Daly Copper Cop-per company will visit the west in the inteirest of his copper holdings, the New York district attorney's office of-fice having accorded Mr. Heinze permission per-mission to leave New York for a .linf' Robert S. Lovett has been elected president of the Union Pacific railroad rail-road to succeed the late E. H. Harri-man. Harri-man. Fines amounting to $10,000 have been assessed against seventeen Seattle Seat-tle butchers convicted of selling putrid put-rid meats made odorless by sodium sulphate. Permanent reorganization upon an international basis is contemplated in the proposed revised constitution of the Dry Farming' congress, which will be presented at the fourth session ses-sion of the congress, to be held at Billings, Mont, L. E. Driskell, the young Califor-nian Califor-nian arrested at Ogden on the charge of having murdered Policeman Riley in Salt Lake City on October 5, has confessed that he shot Riley while the officer was taking him to the police po-lice station. DOMESTIC. Knud Rasmussen, the Danish-Eskimo explorer, after a visit to the far north, has written a letter in which he declares that he is firmly convinced, con-vinced, after interviewing a number of Eskimos familiar with Dr. Cook's movements, that the American explorer ex-plorer discovered the North pole, and sends his congratulations to Dr. Cook. United States Senator Martin Johnson John-son is dead at Fargo, N. D., from Patrick H. McCarren, state senator and Democratic leader of Brooklyn, is dead following an operation for appendicitis. appen-dicitis. No leader was ever more roundly condemned, yet at tie close or sixty-one years of his life he was probably the most strongly entrenched leader in New York state and has wielded some influence in national politics. In an address at Corpus Chrlsti, Texas, President Taft announced himself him-self as an advocate of deep waterways, water-ways, when such projects can be 6hown to be practicable, nd declared the piecemeal procession by jerK.s' policy of congress in the past should be replaced with a definite plan. A "divine healer," who has been in Battle Creek, Mich., for the last five weeks, declares that he is the original Francis Schlatter, who was reported to have died in Hastings, Neb., October Oc-tober 21. He asserts that he has abundant documentary evidence to substantiate his claims. Five persons and possibly more were killed in a wireck on the Paij Handle division of the Pennsylvania railroad near Collinsville, O., when two trains collided. Charged with the murder of Thos. 11. Patton, a rival in love, of Hendricks, Hen-dricks, Ky., twenty-two years ago, Alexander McParland has oeen arrested ar-rested at Hamilton, W. Va. McFar-land McFar-land had begun life anew, under an alias, had married and raised a family fam-ily of children. Henry Beiton, a blacksmith, shot and killed his wife at San Diego, Cal., and then committed suicide. The shooting took place in a park and was witnessed by several children. Rev. W, G- H. Troop, an Episcopal clergyman, who recently renounced the creed of his church for the Unitarian Uni-tarian faith, has been deposed from the ministry by Bishop Alfred Harding, Hard-ing, Episcopal bishop of Washington. WASHINGTON. Labor leaders have decided to wage with renewed vigor their fight before congress to obtain legislation to establish a department of labor with a secretary co-equal with the secretaries of other departments. After three months work the new addition to the executive offices of the White House are practically completed and will be turned over during the week to Secretary Carpenter and the executive staff of the president. Mrs. Gardner G. Hubbard, 84 years old, was thrown out of her auto- B-right's disease. Senator Johnson for years had been prominent in politics pol-itics and had served three terms In 3ongress. The medical profession was severely severe-ly criticized by Mrs. Elizabeth B-. Urannis at the National Purity congress con-gress at Burlington, Iowa, she having hav-ing commended the "New Thought" as a correction of what she called medical inefficiency. H. H. Cooper, a nephew of Col. D. B. Cooper, who killed former Senator B. W. Car-mack of Tennessee, shot and fatally wounded D. A. Wallace at Oklahoma City, after a dispute over linanoial matters. Three boys, whose ages range from V to 10, w.eire blown to atoms at San lose, Cal., while playing in an old tunnel with some dynamite which they had found. Ten men were killed and three injured in-jured as the result of an explosion in a coal mine at Hartshorne, Oklahoma. L!he men are believed to have gone 'ieyond a dead line with lighted lamps. Fire at Dayton, Ohio, destroyed four big manufacturing establishments causing a monetary loss of $750,000. Dr. Cook has announced that it will take at least six weeks to prepare pre-pare his data concerning the North pole for the Copenhagen university. The Bank of Minocqua, Wis., was robbed by four masked men. The robbers blew open the vaults and escaped es-caped with several thousand dollars. Justice of the Peace H. E. Coleman Cole-man and Constable John Redd of Mohave, Mo-have, Cal., are in jail, charged with having accepted bribes. One woman was killed and two women wo-men were hurt at Rochester. N. Y., when a balcony from which they were reviewing a parade, gave way. One man was shot and killed, another an-other received a gunshot wound, two policemen, one of whom probably vill die, were beaten with bottles, and ha'f a doen others were less seriously injured in a light following follow-ing the close of a Polish wedding celebration at West Hammond. Ills. James D. Parmer, whose wife, Mary Parmer, was electrocuted in fhe Auburn. N". Y., prison last March ;'or the murder of Mrs. Sarah Breu-an Breu-an at Brown ville, Jefferson count. tnd who was sentenced to death for complicity in the same crime, has been granted a new trial. Organized warfare on the tiaffie in girls was decided upon by the National Na-tional Purity . congre-js in the annual session at Burlington. Iowa. It was shown that the white slave traffic .las grown to enormous proportions Four men and thirty horses were burned to death in a feed yard at Wichita. Kans. The men were asleep in the hay mow, and perished there. , The fire was of incendiary origin. So great has been the demand tor ' lew Lincoln pennies that nothing else has been coined at the mint in : 'hiladelphia since the end of June. ; he coinage of fhe copper coins in he three and a half months has eached the total of 70,000.000 pennies. pen-nies. Rev. Adrian Van Huist, aged 9;s years, one of the oldest priests In the ..iLed states, was found dead In his nom at St. Ignatius college, Chi-ago, Chi-ago, of accidental asphyxiation ather Van Hulst was ordained a riest In 1839. mobile when it was struck by a street car in Washington, suffering injuries from which she died. Mrs. Hubbard was prominent in the oldetr set of Washington. Every one of the skins In the collection col-lection of Roosevelt trophies received in Washington from Africa has been found to be in good condition by the taxidermists of the Smithsonian institution. in-stitution. The big boost in income from internal inter-nal revenue continues and reports indicate in-dicate that internal revenue collections collec-tions during the current fiscal year will exceed last year's by between $12,000,000 and 15.000,000. FOREIGN. Twenty-five persons were killed in recent earthquake shocks at Bellput, a small town on the Quetta railroad, in the central part of Beluchistan. The handsome new building of the Young Men's Christian association, erected in Manila, at an expense of $125,000, was opened October 20. The principal address was made by former for-mer Vice-President Fairbanks. The Spanish cabinet, headed by Premier Maura, has resigned, the execution exe-cution of Ferrer 'having caused such a storm of public sentiment that the members of the cabinet decided to resign. re-sign. A banquet planned to be held in St. Louis in honor of the diplomatic representatives In Washington of Latin-American countries, was abandoned aban-doned because most of the governments govern-ments concerned have ordered their ministers to remain in Washington during the revolutionary movement in Nicaragua. T. P. O'Connor, member of the Kmglish parliament: has ar ived at the United States to raise funds from Irish-Americans to be used in the campaign cam-paign for home rule for Ireland. Governor Frear has issued a proclamation proc-lamation calling an extra session of the Hawaiian legislature at which it is expected important amendment? to the land laws wAM be made. Caesar Lombroso, the noted Italian criminalogist and alienist, is dead at Turin. He was born at Venice in November, lS'lfi. Professor Lombvoso was widely known for Jiis studies in criminalcgy. The vordict of the inquest into the death of William I. Buchanan, tie American diplomat, whose body was found in the streets of Ixjndon is to the effect that "death was due to natural nat-ural causes." Former Vice-President Fairbanks has left Manila for .tong Kong, a large party gathering at the pier at Manila to bid him farewell. A typhoon of unusual severity a". Hongkong. China, and in northern and central Luzon, on October 20 caused a heavy loss of life and much damage ro property. Swept away by a great sea which washed Uhe decks of the Canadian-Australian Canadian-Australian liner Marama, which arrived ar-rived at Victoria, B. C, on Tuesday, Mrs T. Sampson of Brisbane Bris-bane was drowned before her husband's hus-band's eyes during a gale when the liner was an hour out from Sydney. Several severe earthquake shocks were felt In Italy on Thursday, the most pronounced being at Aciroale, where ten houses fell and one man was killed by falling walls, while the people were all frightened from their homes and fled to the open fields. |