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Show CHIEF REVIEW OF A IKS 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. INTER-MOUNTAIN. It Is announced that the Copper Klver & Northwestern railway will be completed from Cordova .to the inland in-land terminus at Kenaicoot, Alaska, a distance of 200 miles, by the end of next year. Julius F. Stone, president of a bank at Columbus, O., and a party, have succeeded in navigating the Colorado river for 1,300 miles, from Green River, Utah, to The Needles, Cal. The young Finn desperado who attempted at-tempted to evade arrest by taking refuge in a farm house near Nampa. Idaho, where he locked himself in a room with Harry Garrett, aged 17, and threatened to kill the boy if the officers stormed the house, finally fell asleep and the boy made his escape. The officers then charged on the house and the Finn was killed, being literally shot to pieces. The voters of Twin Falls county, Idaho, have decided that me saloon must go. Twelve towns in that county will be "dry" as the result of the election. The opening session of the inquiry Into the Alaskan coal cases was held In Seattle on November IS. A new trial has been ordered in the Sharp coal case at Salt Lake City. Sharp, who was a coal dealer, charged the Union Pacific and Oregon Ore-gon Short Line railroads, through their agents, put him' out of business by refusing to sell him coal, and at the trial the defendants were convicted. con-victed. DOMESTIC. Following his arrest at Terre Haute, Ind., Claude Simpson,, a train dispatcher, confessed that he was one of the men who attempted to rob the Merchants bank at West Manchester, O., October 19. Simpson, who has been a train dispatcher at Terre Haute for two years, was on his vacation at the time of the attempted at-tempted roDbery. At the closing session of the twenty-ninth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, held at Toronto, President Gompers, Vice-President Vice-President John Mitchell and Secretary Secre-tary Frank Morrison were re-electeu and St. Louis chosen as the next place of meeting. Dr. Haldone Cleminson has been found guilty at Chicago of the murder mur-der of his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mrs. Cleminson was chloroformed, and the doctor claims the deed was committed by burgulars, but the jury failed to accept his explanation ex-planation of the tragedy. After being imprisoned for seven days, living on bark from the timbers and eating the leather from their oaps, twenty men were taken alive from the burning coal mine at Cherry, Cher-ry, Ills. The passenger steamer St. Croix was burned at a point three miles off Point Duma, Cal., the eighty-two passengers pas-sengers and the crew of thirty-six making their way ashore without any fatalities. Richard Watson Gilder, editor-in-chief of the Century Magazine, and widely known as an author and lecturer, lec-turer, died unexpectedly in New York City on November 18. Viucente Diaz, who declares he is the grandson of President Diaz ot Mexico, was arrested at Enid, Okla., on a charge of disorderly conduct. Failing to get bond, he was put to work on the streets. Director Lowell of the observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, reports the first apparent Antarctic snowfall of the season on Mars. Jchn Mitchell, the labor leader, has declared that, so far as he is concerned, con-cerned, he intends, regardless of cqn-sequences, cqn-sequences, while at liberty, to declare for the rights guaranteed him by the constitution. Troops have been sent to Cherry, Ills., to prevent any untoward demonstrations dem-onstrations at the coal mines while the bodies of the miners killed as a result of the explosion are being brought to the surface. Charles L. Warriner of Cincinnati, former treasurer of the Big Four railroad, rail-road, has been indicted by the grand jury on charges of larceny and embezzlement. em-bezzlement. Three unidentified men are dead, five others are seriously injured and twelve men and women are suffering from bruises and shock, the result of a fire in a lodging house on the river front in Pittsburx. Miss Daisy hoover, said to have been the best professional second basemen among women base ball players in the United States, was buried in the potters field at Kansas City last week, she having died In destitute circumstances at a local hospital. hos-pital. Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson of New-York New-York City, for many years regarded as one of the most powerful members ot the Christian Science church, has been excommunicated by the board of directors of the mother churh of New York City. The I'nited States circuit court for he ca tern district of Missouri has landed down an opinion declaring he Standard Oil company of New 'ersey an Illegal combination, oper-ttiBg oper-ttiBg in restraint of trade, and or-d;red or-d;red its dissolution. The opinion was filed simultaneously In St. Paul wd St. Louis. Two masked men dynamited the safe in the bank of Alleman, a small nation ten miles north of Dos Moines, Iowa, obtained l,ti00 and escaped. es-caped. Cassius Moody, at Kingston, Ky., killed his wife, fired his house and committed suicide. Two sniall children of Mrs. John Koran of Indian Harbor, Ind., were burned to death when the mother locked them in the house and went out shopping. Sheriff Davis, of Cairo, Ills., who permitted a mob to take a negro and white man from him and lynch them, has been dismissed from office by the governor of Illinois. WASHINGTON. Designs for new post cards have been approved by the postmaster general. gen-eral. On the ordinary card the portrait por-trait of the late President McKinley will appear, while on a smaller special spe-cial card will be a likeness of President Presi-dent Lincoln. Secretary Ballinger has issued a statement, in which he declares: "To say that I ever have advised, ordered or-dered or lent support to any effort to perpetuate a fraud upon the government govern-ment is not only false, but is intentionally inten-tionally so if made by any one who has taken the trouble to inquire into ;he facts." The United States government has demanded of Nicaragua an explanation explana-tion of the killing of two Americans who were found in the Insurgent army. Pending a satisfactory explanation, expla-nation, President Taft has refused to recognize Isidor Hazera, new Nicara-guan Nicara-guan minister. The Alsop claim against Chile for more than a million dollars, pending tor thirty-five years, has assumed a critical stage, Chile having refused to settle or submit the question of the settlement of the claim to The Hague, and the American minister is now on his way to Washington. FOREIGN. Satisfactory progress in the construction con-struction of the Panama canal Is shown in the annual report of the isthmian canal commission for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, just made public by the secretary of war. Former President Castro, an exile in Santander, Spain, is accused daily by the highest officials of the Venezuelan Vene-zuelan government of attempting to foment a revolution against the Gomez Go-mez regime. Unofficial reports indicate that the Pacific fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Sebree, has excelled the records of all Atlantic battleships in night target practice. The fleet is now at sea for battle and torpedo boat practice and will rendezvous at Oleongapo. A dispatch from Funchal, Maderia, says Eugene Higgins and his friends arrived there well. His yacht Va-runa, Va-runa, which went ashore, cannot be approached, as seas are breaking over her. The captain maintains that there was a strong and unusual current cur-rent which carried the vessel into the shoals. Lawrence Perin of Baltimore has purchased an ancient Moorish place at Ronda, Spain. Excavations have been going on for several days, and Roman archeological remains and much treasure have been found. The government has sent an architect to make an examination. The news comes from Vienna of an attempted wholesale poisoning of officers of-ficers who had just been promoted, sample boxes of pills, containing cyanide cya-nide of potassium, being sent through the mails to different officers by some unknown person. Captain Moder took some of the pills and died almost immediately. Ceremonies in connection with the interment of the late dowager empress em-press of China terminated on Sunday, when the sacrificial tablet was returned re-turned from the tombs and piaced in the dynastic temple of the Forbidden City. The viceroy of Chi-li and two higher officers have been punished on account of carelessness in connection with the funeral. The royalists of Paris have issued i manifesto announcing their intention inten-tion to unite with the Catholics at ihe coming general election in opposition oppo-sition to those candidates who are lot in sympathy with the church's attitude regarding the public school question. The Chilean government has opened negotiations with Washington vith a view of submitting tne Alsop laim of the United States against Jhile to a specially constituted court of arbitration at The Hague. The Irish land bill was passed in the house of lords, with some change in amendments recently proposed by he lords, to which the house of commons com-mons on November 5 refus agree. President Simon, on board the gunboat gun-boat I.iberto and escorted by a small flotilla, sailed for Cape Hatien on No-vemb No-vemb 11, to dispel discontent among partisans of General Leconte and to effect a reconciliation between General Gen-eral Turreno Jean Gilles and his adversaries. ad-versaries. The French chamber of deputies las adopted the revised duty on cottonseed cot-tonseed oil. The general rate is nine .rancs per one hundred kilometers, and the minimum six francs. Heretc-:ore Heretc-:ore there was a uniform rate of six iiancs. |