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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 Histor) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTER-MOUNTAIN. James A. Finch, a lwayer, who murdered Ralph Fisher, a lawyer, at Portland, November 28. 1908, was hanged at Salem on Friday last. Ralph Villiam3, a prominent mining min-ing man of Alaska, was acquitted at Valdez of the murder of Frank Dunn, formerly a roadhouse keeper at Su-sUtna Su-sUtna station Williams pleaded self-defense. The "starvation strike" inaugurated by the Industrial Workers placed in the Spokane jail, has been practically broken, the men deciding that a bread and water diet was better than nothing, noth-ing, and some of them agreeing to work on the streets as required of city prisoners. D. W. Woods, William Mathews, Lawrence Golden, Frank Grigware and Fred Torgenson have been convicted at Omaha of robbing the mail car of the Overland limited train on the Union Pacific, near Omaha, on the night of May 22. A runaway car of lumber collided with a street car at Vancouver, B. C, fourteen persons being killed and seven injured, two of whom may die. Locomotive firemen of forty-two railroads west of Chicago have filed demands for a wage increase of from 20 to 25 per cent. Approximately 25,-000 25,-000 men are involved In the demands and their territory covers all the west, southwest and northwest portions of the United States. DOMESTIC. Earl Bullock, the 17-year-old boy, who recently robbed the Eudora, Kan., bank, murdered a policeman and shot another man, making his escape, again mtered the same bank on November 12, shot Fred Starr, the cashier, and, when surrounded by a posse, com-mlted com-mlted suicide, shooting himself in the ed suicide, shooting himself in the head. Bullock was accompanied by William McKay, aged 15, on his last venture. McKay surrendered to the posse. A society for the prevention and study of infant mortality has been formed at New Haven, Conn., as a result of a conference of delegates from different sections of the country. coun-try. Quartermaster Sergeant Roy Ford, after killing Thomas Mulally, an army clerk, by hurling him from a window of the barracks at Alcatraz Island, to the rocks, blew out his own brains. The discharge of a Polander at Schnectady, N. Y., who indulged in practical jokes on workmen, employed by the General Electric company, has resulted in a strike of laborers, or helpers to the coremakers find moulders mould-ers at the foundry. In a pitchfork duel between two farmers near Laporte, Ind., Clarence Benninghoff was probably fatally injured in-jured by John W. Rank. Benning-hoff's Benning-hoff's body was a mass of wounds. A tong war is in progress in the Chinese Chi-nese quarters in San Francisco, several sev-eral members of both sides having been killed in the past week. Edward Hoff, a farmer living near Indianapolis, Ind., has confessed to pushing his wife off a bridge into the river, causing her death. Hoff declares de-clares he became angered because his wife insisted on using morphine. Robert Perry, an active Sunday school worker and writer of .many vacred songs, has confessed to the authorities at Los Angeles that he is guilty of the theft of eleven horses and buggies, which he sold in order to gain money to satisfy his passion for gambling. David J. Richardson, 'former cashier of the defunct Cosmopolitan Nationa' bank of Pittsburg, convicted recently of making false reports concerning the bank's condition, has been sentenced sent-enced to five years In the LTnlted States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth. Leaven-worth. President Hastings, head of the American Paper & Pulp association which comprises about one-half of the paper and pulp makers of the country, declares paper will never again be as cheap as under the Dingley tariff. This means additional expense for newspapers. Max Cohen, a cigar dealer of Chi cago. and his fiance. Miss Beatrice Shapiro, and a chauffeur, were killed when the machine ran into the Chicago Chi-cago river. The chauffeur's body nits been recovered, but the others are missing. As the result of a collision between the barkentine John S. Bennett and a schooner supposed to be the Merrill C. Hart, off Block Island, six of the crew of the Bennett were drowned when the vessel sunk, and it Is believed the other vessel went down and all on board were lost. Arthur Everton a self-styled hypnotist, hypno-tist, was unable to awaken Robert "impson, formerly a street car condue-'or, condue-'or, whom he had placed in a hypnoti tate, and Simpson is dead. Everton s charged with manslaughter and Is n jail at Sommerville, N. J. Clara Brodenheyer has confessed that her father, Harry Brodenheyer, a jeweler of Madison, Wis., was murdered mur-dered in the summer of 1916 by her mother, who is now in an tisane asylum. asy-lum. The girl admits he'plng her mother conceal the body. At the time of the tragedy it was thought by the officers that Brodenheyer had been murdered by robbers. Samuel F. Morley. who was farm manager of a large estate near De-roir, De-roir, Mich., is dead from a gunshot wound, which he declared was inflicted in-flicted by Bertha Lietzay, a cook at i he farm, who he said shot him because be-cause he refused to marry her. The Bank of Norden, S. D., was dynamited and $2,384 taken by the robbers, who escaped. The safe and building were wrecked. William J. Gaynor, mayor-elect of Mow York, has filed a statement with the secretary of state in which he swears that he did not expend any money to further his election. Tames F. Bendernagle, for thirty years superintendent of the Havemey-er Havemey-er & Elder sugar refinery, at Williamsburg, Williams-burg, N. Y., has been indicted, charged with conspiracy to defraud the government gov-ernment by false weighing of sugar. A mob took "Froggy" James, a negro, from the sheriff at Cairo, Ills., and lynched him, after which they burned his body, then forced the jail and took Henry Salznor, white, an uxorcide, to the street and shot him. The police were powerless and troops were called out to restore order. Arthur Hall, a Louisville dealer in second-hand furniture, entered the .Merchants National bank at New Albany, Al-bany, In-d., and shot J. Hangary Faw-cett, Faw-cett, cashier, killing him, and wounding wound-ing John K. Woodward, president of the bank, and James 'R. Tucker, a chauffeur, when they resisted his efforts ef-forts to rob the bank. Nels Jensen was fatally injured ana his wife and fi e children were burned to death when their home at War Road, Minn., was destroyed by fire.- . Franklin Taylor, a Brooklyn lawyer, law-yer, who ran for municipal judge at the recent election and lost, has filed his expense account, which totalled $832.23. with the county clerk. "All of which serves to demonstrate," Mr. Taylor comments in his paper, "that a fool and his money are soon parted." It is now claimed that Charles L. Wan-in er, of Cincinnati, former treasurer treas-urer of the Big Four Railroad company, com-pany, has embezzled over a million dollars from the company. WASHINGTON. Money spent by the United States in the Philipines was used to a good purpose, President Taft told the laymen's lay-men's missionary movement of Washington, Wash-ington, in an address m that city. The central bank question will not figure in the annual report of the secretary sec-retary of the treasury; the New York custom house situation will be dealt with exhaustively and there is no intimation in-timation of reducing the size of currency cur-rency paper. After an absence of more than three months, during which he has made a 13,000-mile trip through the west and south, President Taft slept in the White House Wednesday night. Commander Robert E. Peary's wife, when informed at Washington of a report re-port that the commander would head an expedition to seek- the south pole within the next five years, said that she knew positively this was untrue. FOREIGN. The Catholic clergy at Nantes, France, has refused absolution to Catholic children in the public schools, who are using the text books interdicted by the church. Serious floods in Jamaica have caused damage of a half a million dollars. dol-lars. The recorded rainfall from November No-vember 6 to November 10 was 48 inches. The Turkish ministry will urge upon the Ottoman parliament soon after it reconvenes November lu the adoption of a naval program, providing provid-ing for the expenditure within the next seven years of $100,000,000. King Edward on November 9 celebrated cele-brated his sixty-eighth birthday at Sandringham palace, surrounded by most of the members of his family and a few Intimate friends. Telegrams of congratulation were received by his majesty from all parts of the world. His health is considerably improved. Alice Paul and Amelia Brown, two window smashing suffragettes of London, Lon-don, have been sentenced each to one month at hard labor. The cut at Culebra, the backbone of the Isthmus of Panama, was half completed on October 23, according'to reports from the canal zone. At hat time 39.002.209 cubic yards had been -cavated and a similar amount of Gigging Gig-ging remained to be done. Because Bishop Nikadore of Nish. Servia. had a dream in which he saw i revolution in Belgrade, the deposition deposi-tion of King Peter and the crowning of Crown Prince George, and then 'alked too much about his dream, he ;s facing trial, for high treason. Orville and Wilbur Wright, the aviators, avi-ators, have been presented with the cross of the I egicn of Honor by the reoublic of France, through its consul-general consul-general at New York, M. Etienne Lanel. Several persons we-e killed and many others wounded a. Lima, Psru, In a clash between the police and a crowd. 'I he trouble began at the side of a bull ring when a nght between be-tween a lion and a bull turned out a fiasco. Fifty armed constables ra:ded an Indian village at Kispion, at the head waters of the Sweena river, at day light Sunday morning, says a Winnipeg, Win-nipeg, Man., dispatch. Several s..otr were fired before Indians, who hav been threatening the whites, were ar rested. |