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Show History of Fast Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. At Hinsdale, Mont., Frank, the six-year-old son of R. H. Hardin, was accidentally ac-cidentally shot by an elder brother and died from the wound. The older boy was examinging the gun when it went off. Caught beneath an automobile which overturned at a railroad crossing nine miles south of Greeley, Colo., Elmer Rust, the chauffeur, was crushed to death and Deputy Sheriffs Peterson and Frasier more or less seriously injured. in-jured. Secretary Ballinger, in an interview at Boise, Idaho, declared that he would not resign as long as the president was satisfied with his conduct of the affairs of the department. An expose of wholesale swindling of Indians on the Standing Rock reservation reser-vation may follow the arrest at Aberdeen, Aber-deen, S. D., of Sheriff George P. Perry of Corson county on the charge of selling liquor to Indians. , Buried in a shanow grave for over forty hours, the three-year-oid baby of Mary Georgia, daughter of a rancher, near Pierce, Colo., was rescued res-cued and lived several hours. The mother is under arrest., charged with burying the child alive. The much heralded insurgent stampede stam-pede from the Republican state convention con-vention at Missoula, Mont., failed to materialize, and the party platform recommends nothing more startling than the direct election of United States senators. President Taft's administration, Secretary Ballinger's conduct in office of-fice and the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill were indorsed by the state Republican convention at .Rawlins, Wyo. Attorney Attor-ney General Mullen, of Sheridan, was nominated for governor. The Democratic state convention in session at Provo, Utah, declared in favor of state wide prohibition, the direct di-rect primary law, the election of United Unit-ed States senators by vote of the peo-. peo-. pie, the initiative, referendum and recall, re-call, and the commission form of government gov-ernment for cities. DOMESTIC. Four men were killed in a wreck of a Mobile & Ohio freight train seven miles north of Cairo, 111. The operator opera-tor at the station was placed under arrest, charged with responsibility for the wreck. Captain Klaus Larsen in his little motor boat, the Ferro, late Sunday afternoon made a successful trip from the foot of the cataract through the whirlpool rapids of Niagara Falls to within a mile of Lewiston, a distance of four and one-half miles. Before leaving Beverly for Boston, President Taft announced that in his message to congress in Decemner, he will recommend the appropriation of 2 000.000 to begin the work of fortifying forti-fying the Panama canal. Many national questions are to be considered at the twenty-first, annual session of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Com-mercial congress, to be held at San Antonio, Tex., November 22-25, the call for -which was issued Sunday, by i Fred W. Fleming of Kansas , City, chairman of the executive committee. I The population of New Orleans is I 337,005, an increase of 51,951, or 1S.1 1 per cent as compared with 287,104 iu 1900. j Frank C. Nunemacher, president of the board of trade, of Louisville, Ky.. j head of a large printing and engraving J concern, and an active member of the National Association of Manufaetur- j ers. has been missing from his home for several days, and his friends fear he has met with foul play. County Judge H. M. Wursbach of Cuadaloupe county was shot Cut, not i fatally wounded at Sequin, Texas, by Adolph Seidemann, a rival candidate for the county judgeship, on the Inde-1 pendent ticket. In a desperate attempt to escape j from the New Mexico reform school j at Si ringer, N. M., thee youthful cespei -adot-s marly killed the assistant assist-ant superintendent. Insurgents were vie c.'ious in three out of tw cut -five congressional districts dis-tricts of Illinois in the primary elec- t-OIl. Arizona's constitutional ccnvuitiou, which will meet on October IS. will have forty-cue Democrats and eleven ; Republicans. j A reduction in the debt of the Am- crican commissioners for the foreign j missions from $:.15.:jS3 to f 6,005 during the last year is shown by ihe stare- men! of the board's accounts for the : year ending August 31. j Two' bodies, identified as those oi J Fred Kibbe and George Hillpot. Globe : business men. who left on a hunting1 trip, have been found at an abandoned ' stage station on the Fort Apache road, j 45 miles northeast of Globe. Ariz. Both men had been shot through the hr ad. j and it is practically certain that they j were murdered. i William M. Bradshaw. a guard in the fe.i-:ral per.iten iary at Leavenworth Leaven-worth shot Bertha Schmetz whiie at ! her home near Honon. Katis.. and then committed suicide. Miss Schmetz probably will recover. Two men were killed and 13 people injured, but none seriously, when two traction cars met in a head-on-collision at Union City, .Ind. Physicians in charge of Mrs. B. Clark Hyde, of Kansas City, whose husband is under sentence of life imprisonment im-prisonment for the alleged murder of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, say that her condition is so serious that she might die at any time. James Clark McGrew, who claimed the distinction of the oldest congressman congress-man in the L'nited States, died at his home in King-wood, W. Va., on Sunday, Sun-day, in his ninety-eight year. The strike of the miners of the southwestern' coal fields has been settled. set-tled. The miners claim a victory. Ebby Sheppard, the 16-year-old daughter of J. W. Sheppard, who, with his brother, Taylor Sheppard, was murdered at their home in Newkirk, Okla., has confessed to Couuty Attorney Attor-ney Burns and Sheriff Rader that she killed the two men. Henry S. Boutell, stand-patter Republican, Re-publican, wh'o has represented the ninth, a Chicago district, in congress for twelve years, was defeated in the primaries. WASHINGTON. Deplorable as it was, the accident on the battleship North Dakota, resulting result-ing from an explosion of oil, will not be permitted to check the development develop-ment of the use of petroleum as an auxiliary fuel on naval vessels. Frank Berlain, who was voted a medal by congress for heroism at the battle of Manila bay, died at El Paso, Texas. He was a member of the crew of Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympia and when the Spanish flagship was sinking carried a line aboard her, saving sav-ing nearly 200 lives. The war department has decided to send the Seventh and Eighth cavalry to the Philippines to relieve the Twelfth and Thirteenth. Chippewa Indians will be enriched by $2,800,000 if the offers for the timber on the Chippewa Indian lands in Minnesota are accepted by the government gov-ernment Trade between the United States and the Philippine islands increased 84 per cent during the year's operations opera-tions of the new tariff law, according to the department of commerce and labor statistics. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon nas been renominated by the Republicans of the Eighteenth congressional district dis-trict of Illinois. President Taft was 53 years old on September 15. Many congratulatory letters and telegrams was received at the president's summer home, but there was no particular celebration of the day. FOREIGN. The cost of living In France continues contin-ues to rise, and has increased by one-third one-third during the last decade. Ex-Empress Marie Charlotte, widow of the late emperor Maximilian of Mexico, who has been ill for a long time is reported to be failing rapidly. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the unhappiest man on earth is Abdul Hamid, the deposed sultan of Turkey. The former despot of Turkey is shivering shiv-ering with fear for his life. He ih in hourly dread of assassination by his enemies. A new governor of the Tangier district dis-trict has bees appointed. He is the seventeen-year-old son of El Mokri, the Moorish foreign minister. He entered en-tered on his duties with military honors hon-ors and artillery salutes. The cholera continues to decline in the Donetz iron and coal fields as well as in St. Petersburg, but the epidemic is reported to be spreading in the Volga provinces. A coal and iron famine fa-mine is inevitable. The Irish nobility Is getting some hard knocks. A few days ago the Earl of Courtown was fined for allowing allow-ing his workmen to use a net in fishing fish-ing in the river Cunavarra without a license. The net was also confiscated. The British ship Carnarvon Bay, from Liverpool June 20 for Sidney, has been wrecked on Kings Island. The captain and seventeen men have been picked up, but a second boat with fitteen men aboard is missing. The foreign military attaches returning re-turning to Paris from the French army maneuvers are loud in their praises of the scouting and other exploits of the aeroplanes. King Manuel of Portugual has appointed ap-pointed sixteen new peers, all of them supporters of the present ministry. The king also has sisned a decree Of amnesty am-nesty to those who have given offense to the government through newspapers. newspa-pers. Charles Cummings, a weii-known rancher, was shot and killed by his partner, Van Lee, in Mectezuma. So-nora. So-nora. The, two men had been on had trrms lor some time. The couutry is becoming worked up over the question as to whether the Priv.ce of Wales shall have his formal ir.vesture at Cardiff or Carnarvon, in Wales. Each of those places claim to have a prior and sole right to whatever what-ever glory and honor may attach to the ceremosy. I General Viljoen, whose dare-devil exploits won the admiration of the British during the Boer war, and who has been farming in America sine the trrmir.a-ion of the campaign, is about to plum to South Africa, having hav-ing been offered the post of assistant minister of native affairs. Alexander Ivanovitch rie XolidotT, Russian embassador to France and president of the second HaEnie conference, con-ference, died in Paris. Pen" prober 17. M. Nelidoff was stricken with apoplaxy while passinc through Munich, on An-"ust An-"ust S. j |