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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker ot Denver, former president ot the General Federation Fed-eration of Women's clubs, died at San Francisco Sunday. Nino men were killed by powder explosion ex-plosion in the" Nevada Consolidated Copper company's mine at Ely, Nev., Sunday, when a large amount of black powder in a drill hole exploded. The grand lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, it Is said, probably will veto the proposition propo-sition to rebuild the Elks home at Bedford, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Z. Kirke of Littleton, Colo., were killed Thursday when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by an engine on the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande railroad at a grade crossing. Mr. Kirke was thrown from the automobile and killed instantly. Mrs. Kirke died later. Mrs. Agnes C Fitzpatrick, wife of Thomas J. Fitzpatrick of Dubuque, Iowa, a member of the credentials committee at the Elks' convention at Portland, died suddenly near Harlow-ton, Harlow-ton, Mont, on a special Elk train from Dubuque to Portland. John E. Brown was acquitted at Price, Utah, of the charge of having murdered his daughter and her husband hus-band at Moab, November 18. Brown shot James A. Dubois and his wife, but the jury decided the killing of the woman was accidental, and that he was justified in killing Dubois. Abe Attell showed his old-time form Wednesday at Tacoma by defeating Eddie Marino in ten rounds of fast boxing, in which the former champion led all the way. DOMESTIC The Panama limited southbound on the Illinois Central was wrecked Sunday, at Jackson, Miss., injuring five people. "While groping its way through a dense fog Sunday near Newport, the Fall River line steamer Commonwealth Common-wealth rammed the United States battleship New Hampshire. Both ships sustained considerable damage but no fatalities resulted. Damage aggregating $300,000 wa3 caused by a severe electric storm in Chicago Sunday. Four men were killed and four seriously se-riously wounded Sunday at Lake Charles, La., in a clash between union and non-union timber workers. Shock of an earthquake 2,500 to 3,000 miles distant was recorded Sunday Sun-day at the University of Utah by seismograph. seis-mograph. So violent was the shock that the east and west drums of the instrument were shattered. Relief from the three days' hot spell in Chicago came Sunday when a lake breeze caused the mercury to drop from ninety to seventy-five degrees de-grees in a few hours. Chas. V. Anderson, president of the Anderson Manufacturing company, of Salt Lake, is in Cincinnati, and Saturday Satur-day closed a deal with the Crescent Tool Co., of Cincinnati for the manufacture manu-facture of dies for devices held by the Anderson company. Experts are of the opinion that the new inventions are of great importance to broom, mop snd brush manufacturers. Senator Cummins of Iowa, progressive progres-sive Republican candidate for the presidential nomination at the Chicago Chi-cago convention, has formally de clared against the new party movement move-ment led by Theodore Roosevelt, and announced his allegiance to the old party. A lone bandit who late Friday entered en-tered the Rome Savings bank at Rome, Iowa, shot Cashier F. W. Hile-man Hile-man and escaped with $800, was shot and killed by a member of a party that had been scouring the country in motor cars for several hours in search for the robber. 'Whether there will be a third party organization in Missouri," said Governor Gover-nor Hadley on his return to Jefferson Jeffer-son City, Mo., on Friday. "I do not know. I know, however, there Is no occasion for any such organization." The headless body of Angelica Par-metier Par-metier was found by a farmer in the Blackstone river near Providence, R. I., and Henry De Shrover, with whom the woman had eloped from France, has been charged with her murder. Suffrage received short shrift Frl- i day at the hands of President Moore of the General Federation of Women's Wom-en's clubs in session at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Two attempts to bring the is-'sue is-'sue before the biennial convention were both ruled out of order. Twenty-two persons were killed and more than thirty injured, several j atally, when a heavy freight train i crashed into a passenger tralu near Latrobe, Pa. Eugene Yaglio, aged 45, Friday killed his brother. John Vaglio proprietor of the Central hotel at Dawson, Y. T.. his brother's wife and j their two children. Rosa, aged 16, tnd Christina, aged 9, and then committed com-mitted suicide. Jack Johnson declares that he intends in-tends to retire from the ring for good after .Labor day. The Jack Johnson-Jim Flynn forty- I five round fight for the heavyweight j championship was brought to a close in the ninth round by the state po- lice, after Flynn had resorted to butting but-ting tactics. Flynn made a poor showing against the colored champion. cham-pion. , I The South Dakota Democratic con- . vention, adopted a platform declaring for sweeping tariff reduction, presi- dential primary, popular election ol i senators and the recall i Richard Harding Davis, the novelisr, j and Bessie McCoy, the actress, are to be married on July 8, according to a statement made by Mr. Davis at his home in Mount Kisro, N. Y. Absolutely refusing by a vote ot two to one to indorse Taft or the action ac-tion of the national Republican convention con-vention held recently in Chicago, the Republican state convention of South Dakota elected five presidential electors elec-tors bearing the Roosevelt label. The pleasure steamer Mattie Couch, plying between Memphis and the Arkansas Ar-kansas side of the Mississippi, turned over in midstream while outbound with scores of pleasure seekers Thursday Thurs-day afternoon. None was drowned, although a number of passengers had thrilling experiences. WASHINGTON Ten days' work for the house was mapped out Saturday by the rules committee which agreed to report next week several proposed rules to obtain consideration of pending bills. Mrs. M. E. Wehrkamp and daughter, daugh-ter, Katherine, related to the Knabe family, piano manufacturers, were asphyxiated as-phyxiated in their fashionable apartments apart-ments at Washington, D. C, Saturday. The working agreement between the Democratic and "insurgent" Republican Re-publican senators is at an end. It has been abrogated as the result ol conferences ever since the metal bill was passed in the senate by the Democrats in the absence of regular Republicans and without the aid of the "insurgents." The senate has passed the naval appropriation bill, carrying an expenditure expen-diture of approximately ?133, 000,000, the largest sum ever allowed the naval na-val establishment. The house' committee on public lands has favorably reported the bill granting a ninety-day preferential right of entry to lands adjoining their original entry designated as subjected to entry under the enlarged homestead home-stead law. The senate, in passing the Indian appropriation bill, adopted an amendment amend-ment to pay the confederated bands of Ute Indians of Colorado and Utah $3,305,257, being the net amount of a judgment rendered in their favor by the United States court of claims. President Taft will receive the formal for-mal notification that he is the nominee nomi-nee of the Republican party for president pres-ident at the White house in Washington Wash-ington about August 1. A congressional investigation of Secretary MacVeagh's administration in the treasury department is impending impend-ing as one of the results of a row of long standing between the secretary and one of his assistant secretaries, A. Piatt Andrew, which culminated Wednesday in Andrew's resignation. FOREIGN Morris Buttner, an American immigration immi-gration official, was arrested Sunday at Juarez, Mexico, accused of being a spy. Many soldiers and police were injured in-jured by missiles hurled from ' windows win-dows during serious riots begun by striking seamen and dock laborers at Havre, France. The German aviator, Schirrmeister, on Friday at Leipsig established a new world's record for duration of time in the air with four passengers. His machine remained aloft 33 min-uates min-uates and 42 .seconds. Federal cavalry took possession of the city of Chihuahua Friday afternoon. after-noon. No resistance was offered by the rebels, who moved north along the Mexican Central toward Juarez. No disorder occurred. The strike of the dockers at Bordeaux, Bor-deaux, France, in sympathy with the seamen of other ports has been only partly effective. It is reported that Pekin financiers purpose to advance to President Yuan Shi Kai a loan of $50,000,000 without any conditions concerning foreign supervision. sup-ervision. Miss Hiyo Miyohara. a Japanese, read the Declaration of Independence to a vast throng gathered about . the capitol steps in Honolulu on the Fourth. Because of her nationality, the local lodges of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Order of Red Men took umbrage and refused to participate in the day's observances. Prince Ludovie Pignatelli di Arra-gon, Arra-gon, a distant cousin of the king o! Spain, and weil known in the United States, shot himself in his apa tment in Paris, supposedly because he had failed to win the hand of .Mary Duke, daughter of Benjamin J. Duke of New York, head of the tobacco mist, tc whom he was recently reported engaged. en-gaged. An attempt was made to assassinate assassin-ate Sir Francis Henry May, governor of Hong Kong. A Chinese rushed at the governor near the postoffice and fired a revolver, but the bullet merely mere-ly perforated a chair in which the governor was seated, without doing further harm. The attack caused intense in-tense excitement. General Ivonct. the insurgent leader, lead-er, has not been captured. Latest reports re-ports say that Ivonet, who recently w-as wounded in the right arm, is fleeing flee-ing with one other rebel before the Cuban troops. |