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Show NEWS OF 11 WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in. a Few Lines. INTER-MOUNTAIN. The wire of Harry Wolf, an Indian who was poisoned at a picnic at the Crow reservation in Montana on Jan-nary Jan-nary 9, has confessed that she placed the poison in a drink served her husband, hus-band, and has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Her accomplice ac-complice and lover, George Thomas, a young buck, will serve sixteen months for his part in the crime. The IJallinger-Pinchot controversy seems to have been buried at the National Na-tional Conservation congress at Seattle, Seat-tle, a majority of the delegates appearing1 ap-pearing1 anxious to ignore the controversy. contro-versy. Ed. Hillan, alleged horsethief and ex-convict, who broke jail at Delta, Colo., and nearly killed Sheriff Williams, Wil-liams, has been captured at Monticel-lo, Monticel-lo, Utah, having been betrayed to the officers by a former pal. James J. Hill, the northwestern railway king, declares that the northwest north-west will harvest a wheat crop of 50,000,000 bushels, but that those who predict a bumper crop are simply encouraging en-couraging over-speculation. The discovery of radium ore in the United States is the object of a movement move-ment started by Thomas F. Walsh, millionaire mine owner of Denver, who has made a preliminary donation oi 55,000 to aid prospectors. The first local option election in Idaho resulted in defeat for the liquor interest, the people of Canyon county voting for local option and ultimate prohibition. Western banks and those of the interior in-terior generally are overflowing with money. They can get along with little lit-tle aid from eastern banks. This is the view of Acting Secretary of the Treasury Norton. By suddenly changing its course between be-tween Avondale and Nyberg, Colo., the Arkansas river has washed away over eight acres of valuable farming lands. The county commissioners are planning to erect permanent dikes. The channel of the river is so changed that the big county bridge at Nyberg is now useless. Ben B. Heywood, one of the proprietors pro-prietors of the Cullen hotel in Salt Lake City and formerly United States marshal for Utah, is dead from pneumonia, pneu-monia, following an operation for intestinal in-testinal troubles. C. L. Maxwell, all-round gun man and bandit, whose portrait adorns rogues' galleries in many states, was shot and instantly killed at Price, Utah, by Deputy Sheriff Ed Johnston. Maxwell apparently was looking for trouble, and he drew his revolver first. While his wife, from whom he had been separated for some time, was making a purchase in a grocery store at Brighton, Colo., Samuel G. Irvin, a ranch employe, walked into the place and shot her in the back. He then sent a bullet into his own head. Both died shortly afterward. DOMESTIC. The Pressed Steel Car company at. bchoenville. Pa., is being tried on a charge of peonage, the allegation being be-ing made that the strike-breakers are compelled to work by the company's guards. In full view of a large crowd, William Wil-liam Bedview of Cairo, 111., second baseman of the Cub-Giant baseball team, was instantly killed by lightning light-ning at Inlet park during practice before be-fore the game with Atlantic City. N. J. One thousand miners in the Youg-hiogheny Youg-hiogheny valley, Pennsylvania, have refused to go to work pending settlement settle-ment of a complaint concerning the use of the new explosive, carbonite. which they claim shatters the coal and decreases their earnings. The operators maintain they have no option, op-tion, as a state law reqnires the use of carbonite. J. O. Milliken. disciplinarian of Haskell institute at Lawrence, Kans., deo.la.res that the story of alleged traffic traf-fic in Indian, girls attending this school is absolutely untrue. Two laborers were crushed to death by a caving wall in a building in i course of construction in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Edward H. Harriman, the railroad king, has returned from his European trip, where he went in search o health, but is still far from being a well man. although he declares the trip was of great benefit to him. Swinging their drawn swords above the heads of the belligerents, and declaring de-claring that, unless the riot ceased they would make use of them, a company com-pany of negro Knights of Pythias prevented what for a time promised to be a serious race riot in Kansas City when a white laundry driver drove through the parade of 5,000 negro ne-gro Knights. Henry Ball, owner of several horses being raced at Henderson. Ky., shot and killed Ed Durke, of ficial starter, as the result of a quarrel. Millers of the country, who use patent devices for bleaching flour by means of nitrogen peroxide, have begun be-gun the collecting of a fund ot J50,-000 J50,-000 to be used in fighting the government gov-ernment in defense of millers who may be prosecuted for gelling bleached flour. The Manitoba drain Growers' association asso-ciation estimates the wheat crop in western Canada at 107,000,000 bushels. Because his wife refused reconciliation, recon-ciliation, following a separation, Edward Ed-ward Griffin, a lumber clerk, 32 years old, committed suicide at Oakland by taking chloroform. They had been married thirteen years. Three men on a farm west of Chicago Chi-cago were killed by lightning. George E. Hill, a driver, killed himself him-self with a razor at Los Angeles because be-cause he feared he would lose his mind as the result of an operation performed on his ear a few days previous. pre-vious. A coroner's jury investigated the death of John Mcintosh, wtto was beaten to death in the jail at Red Bluff, CaL, returned a verdict accusing accus-ing John Lowrey, another prisoner, of murder. WASHINGTON. Four million dollars, appropriated by congress for the militia, has been alloted among the several states and territories by Lieulenant-General Weaver of the general staff of the army. That leprosy is a disease that has fooled more than one doctor in its diagnosis was fully demonstrated in the Early case in Washington, which, after all, according to New York skin specialists, was not a case of leprosy, hut an unusual skin disease. dis-ease. President Tatt will recommend, in his next message to congress, the establishment es-tablishment of postal savings banks, believing these banks will appeal to those afraid to trust the ordinary-banks. ordinary-banks. A mammoth reception to President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, when he returns to Washington in October, has been arranged by the Central Labor union. A torchlight parade will escort the labor leader to the auditorium. It is expected 25,000 workmen will take part. FOREIGN. Jabez Wolffe, the English swimmer who started from Dover to cross the channel to France, was compelled to give up after having covered thirteen miles in eight hours. Solemn requiem mass for repose of the souls of the large number of Spanish men and officers engaged in the sanguinary battle with the Moors July 27, was dramatically celebrated at Melilla, August 27. Confined in an iron cage, strapped to the back of a swaying camel, El Roghi, the rebellious subject of the sultan of Morocco, who was captured recently by imperial troops, was marched through the streets of Fez on August 27, escorted by a strong guard Special dispatches received here from Melilla say that the Moorish chiefs, after further consideration of the communication of the sultan requesting re-questing them to cease their hostilities hostili-ties against the Spaniards, finally decided de-cided to continue the war until the Spaniards are driven from all their positions beyond Melilla. During three days fighting Detween the Spaniards and Moors, the latter are reported to have lost 1,000 men, while the Spaniards suffered a loss of 350. There has been another violent outbreak out-break of cholera in Russia, this time at Vitebsk. There were 114 cases and forty-two deaths last' week. A Spanish brigantine has been wrecked at Puerto Ventura. The captain cap-tain and eight men were drowned. A Paris newspaper published a statement that Princess Helie De Sa-gan Sa-gan (formerly Anna Gould) was robbed of $9,000 during her recent stay a"t Rheims, and her husband, the prince, at the same time was relieved of $10,000. The robbers have not been apprehended. Cholera has broken out at Rotterdam, Rotter-dam, there having been four deaths out of nine suspected cases, it ij the belief that the disease was brought from St. Petersburg. A special from Mateahaula, Mexico, says that fifteen miners were killed and thirty entombed by the dropping of a cage into the La Paz mine. The cable parted and the men dropped 1,500 feet. General Mariana, the Spanish commander, com-mander, is now planning to assume the offensive against the Moors, and expects to make a determined attack within ten days. The foreign office has leased the Delstein villa at Odessa. Russia, as a residence for the deposed shah of Persia. The loss of the missionary steamer Hiram Bingham and the death o Her master, Captain Alfred C. Walkup. is .reported in a cablegram from Sydney, N!. S. W. Because his love was not returned by a woman old enough to be his mother. Jose Flores. aged fifteen years, son of a prominent official of the Mexican government at Orizaba, blew out his brains with a revolver, killed a bull elephant Saturday. It is announced that the foreign debt of Honduras will be refunded by the negotiation of a loan with J. P. Morgan & Co. of New York. The drouth in Oklahoma. Arkansas and parts of southern Missouri since July 15 has been broken by a heavy rainstorm. Satisfactory yields o: i corn and cotton are assured |