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Show i I. History of Past Week Tke News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I' " INTERMOUNTAIIM Estranged from his bride of two months and seeing no hope of a re conciliation, Emilo Verburgghe, aged 31, shot himself through the right temple while seated on the porch of the residence of Jean Mignoliet, Belgian consul at Denver, where his wife has been living since the separation. separ-ation. Beatrice Knlpfflng, aged 17, has disappeared from her home 'in Salt Lake and is supposed to be traveling over the country dressed in boys clothing. Two prize fighters well known in the Rocky Mountain region, are in Denver Den-ver hospital, suffering from erysipelas. erysipe-las. They are Peter Jensen, "The Battling Dane," and Harold ("Young") Cody. It Is supposed they contracted the disease from an infected glove when they engaged in a preliminary at Leadville, August 17. Henry Southworth, who, in a fit of jealous rage, fired five shots into the body of E. L. ("Ned") Hanks, at Ogden Og-den the evening of August 12, must face a jury in the district court on a charge of first degree murder. G. A. Griffin, proprietor of a theater at Goldfield, Nev., was severely; injured in-jured when he was caught between two trolley cars at a street intersection intersec-tion in the downtown district in Chicago. Chi-cago. DOMESTIC President Taft began the presidential presiden-tial campaign of 1912 at Hamilton, Mass., on Saturday, his friends believe, be-lieve, in a speech that breathed defiance de-fiance and condemned the insurgent Republicans and the Democrats, combined com-bined to revise several schedules of the present tariff at the special session ses-sion of congress just closed. Thei 305-mile automobile road race at Elgin, 111., won by Len Zengel in a National, with Harry Grant second and Hugh Hughes third, was not accomplished ac-complished without its toll of death and injuries. David Buck, driver, and Ram Jacobs, . mechanician, were killed, kill-ed, while thirty people were injured when the grand stand collapsed. William Lee, 22 years old, has confessed con-fessed that he murdered his father, Richard Lee, his mother and younger brother, Clarence, and then set fire j to the family home at Boonville, Ind., I in the hope of concealing the crime. The special committee of the insur-, ance commissioners of the United States made public at Milwaukee, August 23, a report of its investigations. investiga-tions. In this report the business methods of a number of industrial, health and accident insurance companies com-panies were very strongly criticised by the committee. A new political ' party, the object of which will be to defeat instead of elect candidates for public offices, will be formed in Philadelphia by prominent society and suffragette leaders. Plans for .a trans-Mississippi river hydroplane next month of not less than 1,500 miles, sufficient to eclipse the worlds record just established by Harry N. Atwood, are well under way. Competition for s'eel orders continued contin-ued keen among the mills and fabricating fabri-cating shops last week. There is an evident intention to sell as much of the excess capacity as is possible during the next few months in antivi-pation antivi-pation of a dull period. Angered, he said, because Grace Lyons of Chicago broke her promise of marrige, Walter Hopper of Chicago Chi-cago attacked her on board the steamer Puritan in mid-lake and tossed her overboard. Her body was not recovered. Twenty-five persons were killed and more than sixty injured when a moving picture film exploded in the Cannonsburg, Pa., opera house. A panic followed the flash of fire, the kiled and injured being trampled under un-der foot by the terror-stricken patrons. pat-rons. Widows of the twenty-four firemen killed in the Chicago stockyards December De-cember 21, 1910, won a victory in their fight for the immediate distribution distri-bution of the relief fund of $211,000 raised for their benefit, when Judge Cooper entered an order directing the relief committee to make the distribution. distri-bution. Minnesoteans who rank as progress sive Republicans have received invitations invi-tations to a banquet in Minneapolis, September 7, at which a boom for Senator La Follette of Wisconsin for president is to be launched. Thirty-seven persons were killed and more than sixty injured when three cars of an eastbound Lehigh Valley train of fourteen coaches drawn by two engines, so filled with veterans returning from the G. A. R. national encampment at Rochester that every seat was occupied and the aisles crowded, plunged through a trestle near Manchester, N. Y. The Yoang Men's Christian association associ-ation has 53C.037 members, a gain of 39,446 during the past year, according to the association's Year Book of North America issued Friday. Determined he says, to cheat lm- j prisonment, Charles Hopper of Chicago, Chi-cago, who murdered Daisy Watts of Chicago, by throwing her overboard on a steamer in Lake Michigan, has absolutely refused to touch food or drink. Isaac Burns, an operator of a moving mov-ing picture machine, was probably fatally injured by the explosion of a film in the Hayes street theater in San Francisco. I A passenger train on the Delphos division of tne Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, was partly wrecked wreck-ed at Kinsey, Ohio, and ten passengers passen-gers were seriously injured. Afetr having attempted in vain to elope with Tessie Bowman, a year his junior, Ralph Terenary, 14 years old, of San Bernardino, Cal., leveled a revolver re-volver at her father and was soundly spanked as the result. The election of the Wiley ticket at the convention of the State and National Na-tional Association of Dairy and Food Departments at Dulutb. has apparently apparent-ly widened the split between the opposing op-posing factions. WASHINGTON Settlers under western reclamation projects may expect very little leniency len-iency from Director Newell in the matter of deferred payments. t A powerful addition to the navy was made on Saturday when the new batteship Utah was turned over to the government at Philadelphia and ordered to join the Atlantic fleet at Hampton Roads. The action of the German cruiser Bremen in holding torpedo exercises in Buzzards bay within the three-mile limit, without permission from the government, is regarded by high officers offi-cers of tne navy as a breach of international etiquette and a fit subject sub-ject for a protest to Germany. The unemployed in the Unite't? States will meet in Washington. D. C, from September 1 to 4, in annual convention, according to announce ment made by J. Eades How, leadei of the movement. R. J. Shields, who could not be found when wanted by the Lorimer investigating committee at its Washington Wash-ington sessions, has returned to Superior, Su-perior, Wis., and, it is said, will appear ap-pear before the committee when it resumes its hearings in Chicago this fall. FOREIGN The health of L. R. Keene, the veteran vet-eran financier, is causing his doctor considerable anxiety, Mr. Keene entered en-tered a nursing home in London, which is the English equivalent for a private hospital. The political situation in Portugal is taking a serious turn. The Republican Repub-lican party is completely divided. The advanced element under the leadership of Alfonso Costa, provisional provis-ional minister of justice, and the conservative con-servative section, under Antonio Almeida, Al-meida, provisional minister of the interior, in-terior, and Senhor Comachio, declared declar-ed open war at the elections for the presidency, the Moderates winning. Reports coming from in from all parts of Canada show the intensity of the election struggle, which , is now under full headway, and they reflect also the position and progress of the various elements on the main issue, reciprocity between Canada and the United States. The Canadian election precipitated by the American reciprocity treaty is in full blast and is one of the most heated campaigns ever held in Canada. Can-ada. The French cabinet on Friday unanimously unan-imously approved the negotiations ol Jules Cambon, the r'rench minister to Germany, and his instructions in the Moroccan situation, and now Germany must either accept or reject the proposals pro-posals of France, which are regarded in France as being final. Many people were injured and much damage done to property as a result of anti-Jewish rioting, which was renewed re-newed in southern Wales on Friday with redoubled fury. Many houses owned by Jews were looted and then set on fire by the rioters. Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, the globe trotter for a Paris newspaper, arrived ar-rived in Paris at 11:15 Friday night, completing his trip around the world in a few hours less than forty days the task he set out to accomplish. Prime MSnister Katsura, leader of the war party of Japan, has handed the emperor the resignations of himself him-self and members of his cabinet. The royalists in Galacia are about to. invade Portugal, according to the report of General Bastos, commander-in-chief of the forces on the northern frontier to the ministry of war. The announcement comes from Paris that Leonardo da Vinci's mas-I mas-I terpiece, "Moi:a Lisa," has mysteriously myster-iously disappeared from the Louvre, evidently having been stolen. Violent outbreaks against Jews have now occurred for three succes-j succes-j sive days in Monmouthshire and are giving the authorities great concern, as they are altogether a new phase in British life. Three girls are reported to have been burned to death in their home on Shuniah road, several miles from Port Arthur, Out. The girls were daughters of Thomas Schmidt, aged i from 1G to 5 years. The house caught ! fire and the girls were trapped in the upper story. It is reported that the former shah, Mohammed Ali Mirza, is surrounded at Savadup, in the mountains seventy-five miles northeast of Teheran. ! The repor' adds that he lost 300 men land two guns in a pitched battle with I the government forces. |