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Show I, T History of Past Week The News Happenings of Sevei Days Paragraphed Final steps toward the -oranizat.on of a national body for the reform of the currency at the next regular session ses-sion of congress were taken when a number of Chicago's leading business men adopted articles of incorporation to be forwarded to Springfield for the approval of the secretary of state. Mrs. L. S. Berg, wife of President Berg of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago railway, was burned to death in the Soo line wreck at Vergas, Minn. Four other persons were injured. In a confession made at Muskogee, Okla., John. Delaney declares he was sent to Salt Lake City by John J. McNamara, now in jail at Los Angeles, An-geles, for the purpose of dynamiting the Utah hotel. A police lieutenant, two sergeants and two Republican political workers were each sentenced to one year's imprisonment im-prisonment by Judge Wilson of Philadelphia Phil-adelphia on the charge of conspiracy to unlawfully imprison two reform election workers at the November election for district attorneys in 1909. A body found floating in San Pedro harbor Saturday has been identified as that of C. W. Caddigan, wanted in Minneapolis on a charge of having operated a gold brick swindle. WASHINGTON . President Taft and Attorney General Gener-al Wickersham will set their faces against any attempt to amend the Sherman anti-trust law along the lines suggested by Judge Gary in his testimony testi-mony before the Stanley committee. In the view of the administration the Sherman law needs no amending. Postmaster General Hitchcock has decided to increase . the extension of the postal savings system from 100 to 150 offices a week, with, at least 1,000 depositories designated by July 1st. Senator Lorimer has requested that he be permitted to appear before the new investigating committee to testify testi-fy in his own behalf. The request will probably be granted. Frank Pierce of Salt Lake on June 1 evered his connection with the government gov-ernment as assistant secretary of the interior and his successor was sworn into office. Mr. Pierce will go to Los Angeles, where he intends to locate and practice law. Public hearings on the Canadian reciprocity re-ciprocity bill practically were concluded conclud-ed by the senate finance committee Wednesday, and June 7 was fixed as the time when a vote will be taken on reporting the measure. The recent decisions of the supreme su-preme court in the Standard Oil and American Tobacco cases will result in a sweeping attempt to escure criminal crim-inal conviction of violators of the anti-trust law, according to Attorney General Wickersham. A proposal that all churches in the United States unite in a movement to bring together tlhe religious denominations denomi-nations of the world to secure international inter-national peace was made to President Presi-dent Taft on Wednesday by the Rev. William Moore Ede, dean of Westmoreland, West-moreland, England. FOREIGN Rurales, who had been sent to Santa Julia, a district in the western part of Mexico City, to quell a mob of too enthusiastic adherents of Ma-dero, Ma-dero, fired into the crowd, wounding two. Then the mob dispersed. Maria Ocampo, an Oaxaca Indian woman, thirty-five years old, who was in the service of Mme. Porfirio Diaz for nine years, declares that Senora Diaz guided the faltering hand of the president to his resignation and then took the" message from the reluctant hand of the old man and sent it herself her-self to the chamber of deputies. , The insurrecto leaders in Mexico are becoming anxious to disarm a large portion of their army, for, although al-though generally the soldiers have been orderly, many depredations continue. con-tinue. Serious rioting occurred in Leon, Mexico, the Rioters being led by a woman. The soldiers fired on the rioters, it being reported that 100 were killed, including the leader, and a large number wounded. "Red" Lopez, ordered imprisoned by Francisco I. Madero, Jr., on the charge that hehad "sold out" to American interests while in command of a section of the insurrecto garrison at Agua Prieta, has been executed. The insurrectos in Tijuana severed connection with the Mexican liberal party Friday, electing Dick Ferris president pres-ident of the new republic of Lower California. President Cabrera of Guatemala has granted valuable mining and public pub-lic service concession to the Guatemala Guate-mala Mining and Development company, com-pany, composed of American and French captialists. Ex-Senator W. A. Clark and ex-Lieutenant Governor Spriggs of Montana are said to be heavily interested in the enterprise. By official decree issued Friday by Provisional President De la Barra, of Mexico, a special presidential election has been called. Electors will be chosen October 1, and these will select se-lect the successor to Profirio Diaz Sunday, October 15. General Porfirio Diaz said his farewell fare-well to Mexico on Wednesday. With his wife and other members of the Diaz family he boarded the steamer Ypiranga, bound for Havre, France. Emperor Nicholas of Russia personally person-ally will visit the American battleships battle-ships at Cronstadt during their stay from June 11 to 18, and afterward will receive Admiral Badger and the fleet officers in the palace of St. Petersburg. Peters-burg. The emperor has not so honored hon-ored a foreign country since he visited vis-ited the French squadron In Rusnlan waters In 1901. I I' INTERMOUNTAIN Six members of a pleasure party of sixteen, out for a sail on Utah lake, were drowned Sunday when the launch capsized. They perished in the waves after a desperate battle for their lives which lasted nearly two hours. Ten other members of the party, clinging to the overturned launch, were rescued after they had been in the water for more than two hours. All were residents of Salt Lake City. The grubstake committee of the Denver chamber of commerce is sending send-ing a notice to prospectors to the effect ef-fect that the committee is prepared to receive applications in person or by letter, "from prospectors willing to take the field and search for minerals miner-als within the state of Colorado." Fire originating in the boiler room totally detsiroyed the Vancouver power pow-er plant, of the Portland Railway, Light and Power company, causing a loss of $65,000; insurance, $35,000. George M. Stewart, former postmaster, postmas-ter, of Seattle; Richard M. Arms, former for-mer superintendent of the municipal electric plant, and seventy-six , other Seattle residents, claimants of land In the Mackey coal group, have been notified by the Juneau land office to show cause within sixty days why their locations should not be cancelled can-celled for failure to comply with the requirement of the United States sat-utes. sat-utes. The' body of a man supposed to be Deil Duncan, aged 65, of Ogden, has been found in the hills in southwestern southwest-ern Cache county, Utah. The man is thought to have lost his way in a rainstorm and died of fatigue. Louis Long of Oakland, Cal., a prize fighter, was shot and killed, and a Mrs. Riley of Portland, Ore. was dangerously dan-gerously wounded by the woman's husband at Bend, Ore., while endeavoring endeav-oring to escape from an infuriated husband, who later surrendered to the police. Trailed to their room in a Denver hotel, two highwaymen made a stand against three detectives, and in the battle which followed one of the bandits, ban-dits, James Lynch, was mortally injured. in-jured. Almost one week to the hour after S. L. Von Phul of St. Louis and two bystanders were wounded in a midnight mid-night fusillade of shots fired by Harold Har-old F. Henwood in the Brown Palace hotel bar room at Denver, George E. Copeland, a wealthy mining man of Victor, Colo, an innocent spectator, died from the effects of his wounds. , DOMESTIC President Taft in a speech before the Western Economic society at Chicago, declared that the principal opposition to the Canadian reciprocity reciproci-ty agreement came, not from the farmer, far-mer, but from the "lumber trust," and from American manufacturers of print paper. Colonel M. F. Lucke, aged eighty-four eighty-four years, was found in a chain on his front porch in El Paso, Texas, where he had passed away suddenly. He served in the Mexican and Civil wars with distinction. Because several girls were mounted astride iu the reevnt confederate parade pa-rade at the Little Rock reunion, the Nashville, Tenn., bivouac of Confederate Confeder-ate Veterans will in future refrain from inviting womeu to take part in the parade. George Keressi has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the peniten-1 peniten-1 tiary by Judge Slusser in the circuit court, at Auror, 111., for the murder of his sweetheart. A windstorm, said to have been the most severe in years, swept lower Michigan Sunday night. At Lennon, Shiawase county, fourteen moving freight cars were swept off the track. Eight hundred miners employed at the Hollenbeck, Pa., mine of the Lehigh Le-high and Wilkesbarre Coal company went out on strike Friday. Their grievance is alleged excessive dockage. dock-age. For a time on Friday San Francisco had two chiefs of police and for the moment it looked as if Mayor McCarthy's Mc-Carthy's long and hard fight to depose de-pose Chief Seymour would be successful. success-ful. W. Hampton Caffey, 30 years old, a drug clerk of Pittsburg, Kans., has been sentenced to serve thirty years in the Kansas penitentiary for wife murder. He shot and killed his wife February 23, 1911, after a quarrel with her. Although the wheat will not be ready to cut for two or three weeks, Kansas farmers already have called for 12,000 harvest hands. Charles Gibson, 27 years old, was fatally wounded at Monongahela, Pa., the result of being shot through the body with a gas pipe ramrod from an old smooth-bore cannon while firing a Balute on Memorial day. Professor J. J. Abel of Hopkins haa produced a heart stimulant from poisonous pois-onous toads that excels digitalis. Successful Suc-cessful demonstrations of the new drug have been made. |