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Show I BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEK'S 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. John Carlson, a bartender, is charged charg-ed with having murdered Andrew Anderson by hurling him through the window of Mrs. Hilda Johnson's room in Spokane, on the night of August 4, Mrs. Johnson making the charge in open court, creating a decided sensation. sen-sation. A treaty of peace and reciprocity entered into by the business men of Japan and those of the Pacific coast of the United States was ratified at a banquet given in Seattle by the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the eight large cities of the Pacific noast to the representatives of the six great commercial cities of Japan. Judge Munger in the district court at Omaha, overruled a motion for separate trials for tre four men charged with robbing the Union Pa-cic Pa-cic train near here, on May 22, Donald Don-ald Wood, Jack Shelton, Frank Grig-ware Grig-ware and Fred Torgesen. Their trial will occur about October 1. John Glinderman. a crazed butcher of Spokane, choked his wife to death and bit off the finger of a policeman when a number of officers came to arrest ar-rest him. Glinderman was formerly in inmate of an asylum. A party of the commercial leaders of Japan have arrived at Seattle and will make a tour of the United States, studying commercial conditions. The railroad running time from Chicago Chi-cago to Seattle will be reduced to sixty-two hours ten hours below the present schedule as the first move in a war declared upon all other western west-ern and northwestern railroads by James J. Hill of the Great Northern. DOMESTIC. Labor day in western Pennsylvania found nearly 30,000 men idle as a result re-sult of strikes, lockouts and walkouts. The Good Citizenship League of Altantic City, N. J., has begun a crusade crus-ade against liquor dealers for violating violat-ing the Sunday closing law. Five persons were killed and thirty-fiye thirty-fiye injured in a train wreck at Chewton, Pa., caused by a rail being displaced, supposedly by train wreckers. Marian Bleakley, the "incubator baby," is to be turned over to its mother, Mrs. Charlotte Bleakley of Topeka, Kans., after being kidnaped by Mrs. Stella Barclay of Kansas City. The year book of the Young Men's Christian association of North America, Ameri-ca, just issued, shows that the organization organ-ization now includes 1914 associations with 456,927 members, a gain of 10,-500 10,-500 in twelve months. Increasing agricultural, industrial and mining activity is indicated by advance sheets of the fortnightly statement of car surpluses and shortages, short-ages, compiled by President Hale of the American Railway association. Unable to get their hands upon Nathan McDaniels, a negro who is alleged al-leged to have shot and killed Policeman Police-man Walter Marshall at Clarksdale, Miss., a mob of hundreds of citizens caught McDaniels' brother, Hiram McDaniels, Mc-Daniels, and lynched him. William R. Hearst, at a meeting of the Independence party's county committee com-mittee in New York City, declared that he was prepared to use all his power in an effort to defeat Tammany at the approaching municipal election. elec-tion. Amid great secrecy. Miss E. ,L.: Todd, "the only woman aeroplanist in the world," has perfected a flying machine embodying a new principle. The machine will be tried out in a few days near New York City, in the presence of a selected company of scientists. Two hundred Mexicans have arrived ar-rived at Imperial, Cal., to begin picking pick-ing the first cotton crop ever raised in California. The present crop covers about 1,500 acres and ihose who have been following the experiment experi-ment predict that cotton will become one of the most important products of the Imperial valley. A strike of window glass cutters and flatteners of the country has been ordered by President Shinn. or the National union, unless the new scale, advancing wages 20 per cent, is accepted ac-cepted by the American Window Glass company. When an aeronaut made a balloon ascension at Syracuse, Ind.. a boy named Quinter Neef became entangled entan-gled in the ropes and was carried up 3.000 feet. He was unhurt. Thirty-eight children mourn the death of their father, John W. Miller, aged 90 years, who is dead at In diana. Pa. Mr. .Miller was married four times. It is estimated that the loss which accompanied the heavy frost or September Sep-tember in Muskegon and Oceana counties, Michigan, will reach at least $100,000. Preparations are already afoot In New York to make the home coming of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, I he discoverer dis-coverer of the North Pole, a national .vent. Edward Livermore, property clerk at the Princess theatre, San Francisco was shot and killed by his brother-in-law, William A. Stein, with whom he had been on bad terms for many months. Mrs. Livermore committed suicide about a month ago, and her brother, Stein, asserts It was Liver-more's Liver-more's cruel treatment that drove her to death. One-fourth of the business center of Texico, Texas, which is situated on the border of Texas and New Mexico, Mex-ico, has been destroyed by fire. A loss of $00,000 resulted. The blaze is believed to have .been of incendiary origin. Isaac Brock, who claimed to have seen twenty-six presidents elected, is dead at Waco, Texas, at an age said to be 121 years. According to Brock's family bible and otner documents, he was born in Buncombe county, North Carolina, March 1, 1788. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the noted American explorer, has discovered the North pole, after many hardships and after having been lost to the civilized world for eighteen months, many ot his friends having given him up as dead. The news comes in a laconic telegram, dated Lerwick, Shetland islands, in which Dr. Cook says: "Reached North pole April 12, 1908. Discovered land far north. Return to Copenhagen by steamer Hans Egede." Dr. Cook was born at Calicoon depot, Sullivan county, N. Y., in 1865. He was married in Brooklyn in 1902 to Miss Mary Hunt. WASHINGTON. Farm economists and scientists learned in agricultural problems, appointed ap-pointed as expert special agents for a brief term, are now in Washington assisting Census Director Durand and his staff in the formulation of the agricultural schedule of the thirteenth thir-teenth census. Soils of the United States are not wearing out and crop yrelds are increasing in-creasing rather than decreasing. These facts are demonstrated in a bul Ietin to be issued soon by the bureau of soils of the agricultural department. depart-ment. The need of a larger force of the mobile army was a condition which particularly impressed Brigadier General Gen-eral Arthur Murray, chief of the coast artillery of the army, during his in vestigation of the military situation in the Philippines and in Hawaii, from which points he has returned to Washington. The award of the contracts for the two new American Dreadnaughts ot 26,000 tons each, the battleships Wyoming Wy-oming and the Arkansas, will be made to William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, and the New York Shipbuilding company of Camden, N. J. During the few months prior to August Au-gust 5, when President Taft signed the new tariff bill, importers to this country almost doubled their shipments ship-ments on many articles on which a rise in duty was anticipated undei the Payne bill. J. Alden Loring and Major Mearns members of the Roosevelt expedition are about to undertake an extended trip through Kenia province. They wil rejoin Colonel Roosevelt about No vember 1. At the age of 62 years, Rear Ad miral C. S. Sperry has been placed on the retired list of the navy. Captain Samuel C. Lemly, former! judge advocate general of the navy who became prominent in connectior with the famous Schley court of in quiry, died at a hospital in Washing ton on Saturday. There was a deficit of $7,411,72 in the ordinary receipts and disbursements disburse-ments of the treasury department foi the month of August, as compared with a deficit of $13,103,949 for July Three thousand temporary clerks wjll be appointed in connection with the work of taking the thirteenth decennial de-cennial census. FOREIGN. The final draft of the agreement between China and Japan, in settlement settle-ment of the various Manchurlan ques tions that have been in dispute for some time, was signed September 4. The Japanese are pleased with it, but the Chinese declared themselves as being in a position of a man coerced by successive blows. Serum and vaccine for treating cholera have been discovered by the Italian doctor, Salambini. The serum has been tried in Russia in desperate cases and reduced the death rate, which was 50 per cent, lower than 23 per cent. The news comes from Morelia. capital capi-tal of the state of Michoician. Mexico, Mex-ico, thai floods ruined a large section of the Seamora district. A terrible cloudburst in the mountains caused rivers and streams to overflow, and miles of fertile valleys were ruined by water. The United States supply ship Rainbow, of the China squadron, lying helpless, with her machinery disabled, dis-abled, in the China sea, off Pedro Blanco, nearly 200 miles from Hongkong, Hong-kong, was picked up by the Blue Funnel line steamer Artillochus, according ac-cording to advices brought to Victoria, Vic-toria, B. C. Adolph Mayer, a kinsman of King Meuelik. of Abyssinia, who is in Berlin, Ber-lin, with a commission from the Abyssinian Abys-sinian government to purchase supplies, sup-plies, says that Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt had engaged a house at Khartoum, Khar-toum, where she would meet her husband hus-band when he came out of the jungle. Viscount Lascelles, aide-de-camp lo Karl Grey, governor general or Can ada, who shot a mountain goat and deer out of season during the governor gov-ernor general's visit to northern British Brit-ish Columbia, has been fined $275 by the British Columbia game wardens. |