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Show I I History of Past Week Tke News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed Fifteen nerro8 boarded a train at Wybark, Okla., and attempted to lynch a negro named Manny, accused of horse-stealing, but the sheriff and trainmen beat the lynchers off. A thug arrayed in woman's skirts attacked Mrs Emilia Maderiaus in Oakland and after beating her until she will probably die. robbed her of 60. A Socialist mass meeting in Los Angeles, at which President Taft was denounced, resulted in a near-riot near-riot and the dispersal of a mob by the police. William R. Hearst has announced that he would accept the nomination for mayor of Greater New York as tendered at an independent mass meeting. Seventeen people were killed, ten of them Mexican laborers, and ten in-juerd, in-juerd, in a collision between a freight and construction train near Topeka. Kans. WASHINGTON. Sustaining a man has a right to board with his own wife, and discounting dis-counting the fashionable hotels as boarding places, the comptroller of the treasurer has approved reimbursement reimburse-ment of Dr. C. C. Nutting of the fisheries fish-eries bureau for ?2 a day for board and lodging with his wife last July. That alcohol in any form is but seldom sel-dom of distinct value in the treatment of disease appeared to be the concensus con-census of opinion of the twelfth international inter-national congress on alcoholism, held in London on July 1, last, according to a report of its proceedings Just made at Washington. The popularldea that the American Ameri-can Indians are decreasing in number num-ber is dissipated by official figures showing that today there are more than 300,000 red men in the United States. Chandler Hale of Maine, son of Senator Hale, has been selected as third assistant secretary of state to succeed William Phillips of Boston, who will become secretary of the American embassy at London, succeeding suc-ceeding John R. Carter. Mr. Carter will be appointed minister to Rou-mania. Rou-mania. The tonnage tax provisions of the new tariff went into effect Tuesday, sixty days after the enactment of the law, and the official estimate of the additional revenue from tonnage is approximately ?50,000 annually. FOREIGN. Captain Roald Amundsen, the well-known well-known Danish explorer, who is about to start on a polar expedition, has decided de-cided to try a remarkable innovation in the use of draught animals for polar po-lar travel. He will endeavor to make polar bears draw his sledges. A verdict of guilty has been rendered ren-dered against Auguste Tobel, a Berlin Ber-lin milliner, charged with the murder of Frieda Burthold, a young opera singer. Jealousy was the motive for the crime. The Paris Matin's Barcelona correspondent cor-respondent says he learns from an unusually well informed source that the courtmartial trying Senor Ferrera tor revolutionary agitation has sentenced sent-enced him to death, and that the sentence has been signed by the captain-general and now only awaits the approval of the superior council of war and marine. Apprehension is expressed in Germany Ger-many over the growth of the war party in Great Britain. This party is small, but it is influential and is gathering strength. Circulars are being distributed in north China, advising the people to institute a boycott against the Japanese. Jap-anese. Assertions are made that Japan has devastated the arable lands of northern China, has enslaved en-slaved laborers along the line of the Antung-Mukden railroad, that Japanese Japan-ese have beaten the men, insulted the women and terrorized, the people. It is expected that Emperor Nicholas Nich-olas of Russia will visit King Victor Emmanuel at Rome within a week. Signor Lelegari, the Italian ambassador ambas-sador to Russia, has returned to Italy to receive his majesty. The responsibility for the bomb outrage at Stockholm in which Ion Hammer, director of the Steamship Export association, was badly injured, is charged against a secret committee commit-tee formed by the Young Socialist party. In order to replenish the limited supply of corn in the republic of Mexico, the duty on that product frcm the United States has been temporarily tem-porarily rescinded. The calling of a special session of the Hawaiian legislature is being considered con-sidered by Governor Walter F. Frear to take up (he question of amend meiits-to meiits-to the land laws to De urged upon congress con-gress ai its next meeting. The epidemic of cholera, which for a time threatened to become genral in Seoul, Korea, has abated and the disease dis-ease is believed to be under the con-Irol con-Irol of the authorities, who adopted extreme ex-treme measures 10 stamn it out. The American and other diplomatic diplomat-ic representatives in Pslcing have x-pres:;ed x-pres:;ed to the foreign board I he re-grot re-grot of their respective governments over the death early this week of Grand Councillor ChangChih-Tiing. The imperial government will ask tor a loan of 5125.nnij.000 in the b& Sinning of T 91 n. tho Berlin Tageblatt says in its financial article, to cover leficits. This accounts, according to the newspaper, for the recent tendency ten-dency to sell imperial issues on the bourse. The cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg Peters-burg continues to run its course. The cases average thirty a day. Thirty-four Thirty-four ot the servants ot the Medvied restaurant, a fashionable resort of the capital, have been -stricken with the disease. INTER-MOUNTAIN. William Green was seriously injured in-jured by a bear while hunting near Midvale. Mont. After the bear had attacked him, a companion shot the beast, but not until it had badly clawed and bitten Green. The Alaska Central railroad has been purchased under foreclosure sale by J. P. Morgan and associates, who are building the Copper River & Northwestern railroad from Cordova Cor-dova to the Copper Motmtain, and have 3,000 men at work. Willie Boy, the fugitive Indian murderer, mur-derer, who killed his abducted sweetheart sweet-heart after slaying her father, has engaged en-gaged Sheriff Ralph's posse in a rifle battle at an isolated place on the desert, des-ert, known as Mesquite Wells, fifty miles northeast of White Water, Cat, putting the posse to flight. What proves to have been an attempt at-tempt to murder Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin, Bald-win, superintendent of the department depart-ment of young women of the Young Women's Christian association at Portland, and another unnamed woman, wo-man, the divorced wife of an alleged suspect, is revealed through the chemical analysis of two packages of tea mailed from Seattle on August 11, addressed to Mrs. Baldwin and the divorcee. Wilbur Benjamin, a full-blooded Indian, In-dian, has confessed to the murder of Violet Gilmer, a 15-year-old school girl, whose body was found near Rumsey, Cal. Benjamin says he waylaid the girl, and when she repulsed re-pulsed his advances, choked her to death. Paul W. Center, cook at a Telluride, Colo., hotel, was shot and fatally wounded by Under Sheriff Louis L. Knudson. The men had quarreled about the food furnished prisoners in the county jail. DOMESTIC. President Taft delivered his third "sermon" on his 13,000 mile trip at Fresno, Cal., on Sunday, taking as his text "That He Who Conquereth Himself Is Greater Than He Who Taketh a City." Commander Peary has sent a cablegram cable-gram to ex-President Roosevelt as follows: "Your farewell was a mascot; mas-cot; the pole is ours." A number of the men with the British and French cruisers, who took part in the Hudson-Fulton celebration, celebra-tion, failed to show up at their ships at sailing time and were left in New York. Fleet officers remained to search for the men. The Southern Iron and Steel company com-pany has filed for record In Gadsen, Ala., a mortgage for $16,000,000. The mortgage is given to the United States Mortgage and Trust company and John W. Platten of New York. After masquerading as a boy for three years, playing boys' games, working in a livery stable, driving a grocer's wagon and hustling heavy boxes and express packages, "Harry" Roberts has confessed to the police of Cleveland, O., that she is a girl who ran away from home. Pacific coast shippers before the interstate in-terstate commerce commission at Seattle on Friday began their fight tor distributive railroad rates that will let them extend their market eastward. east-ward. They asked for reductions suf-rtcent suf-rtcent to enable them to meet St. Paul and Kansas City half way. Water-logged and dismasted, with five remaining of her original crew of seven, the Kate Feore, from Mobile to Cuban ports, was towed into Port Arthur, Ar-thur, Texas. The vessel was stripped and whirled hundreds of miles out of her course by the hurricane of September Sep-tember 25. A cut cf 10 per cent in salaries of ail officials and employes of the city of Chicago, from Mayor Busse's 518.-000 518.-000 down to the lowliest laborer, has been agreed upon by the mayor and department heads, it is learned, for next year. Politics in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the only New England states holding elections this fall, looms up unusually la.ge for an off year. In those states the governorship governor-ship is at stake, while the income tax amendment lends great interest in the contests in each legislative district. William Randolph Hearst, once defeated de-feated for mayor of New York city by George B. McClellan, and later defeated de-feated by Oarles E. Hughes for governor gov-ernor of the state, was nominated for mayor at a mass meeting of four thousand of hiy admirers at Cooper Union. A former resident of La Porte, Ind., declares he saw Mrs. Belle Gunness, the woman wanted for several atrocious atro-cious murders in Indiana, on a train ncai Fort Worth. Texas, one day last weeK, on her way to Denver, but that Mrs. Gunness recognized him and left the train. In a head-on collision three miles south of Farmer City. Ills., between the state fair special from Springfield Spring-field and another Illinois Central passenger pas-senger train, four persons were killed and thirty injured, several perhaps per-haps fatally. |