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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEjra EYENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Hom and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. The body of Laura Henderson, aged 8, was found in a well by her parents par-ents after they had returned to their home near Pocatello, Idaho, after attending at-tending a dance. The child's head had been crushed. Alfred Henderson, no relation to the dead child, has been charged with the crime. Fay Ogilvie, 17 years of age, committed com-mitted suicide at Richfield, Utah, by cutting his throat. He locked himselr In an outhouse and there slashed himself him-self with a razor, cutting his throat from ear to ear. Albert Meadows of Louisville, Ky., and Clarence Stoner of Lincoln county, coun-ty, Wyoming, under arrest at Pendleton, Pendle-ton, admit that they with a bandit who was killed, held up a train near Meach-am. Meach-am. Ore. They say the bandit killed by a deputy was Charles Manning, cousin of Hugh Whitney, a notorious desperado. desper-ado. Seventeen legislative questions, con Bisting or eight initiated bills, six referendum ref-erendum petitions and three proposed constitutional amendments are on file in the office of Secretary of State Peace at Denver, for submission to the voters of Colorado at the November Novem-ber election. The Oceanic dock, at Port'.and, owned own-ed by Balfour Guthrie & Co., was burned with a loss of $150,000. It was the third big water-front fire since winter. Lcuis P. Duncan, mayor of Butte, was stabbed three times on July 3, end i rostrate, shot his assailant, Eric Lanta'.a, a Finnish miner, in the abdomen. ab-domen. The mayor will recover, but his assailant is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Mislich, their j daughter, Mrs. William Mansfield, and i her baby, were fouud dead at Blue Island, a suburb of Chicago, all having j been killed with an ax. There is no clue to the murderer. Charles, the 2-year-old son of R. T. Armil of Davenport, Iowa, ate a small firecracker and died at a hospital before be-fore a surgeon could perform an operation. op-eration. A jury at Chicago awarded James B. Wilson, former conductor on the Baltimore Bal-timore & Ohio railroad, $75,000 for injuries in-juries received after he had been forced forc-ed to work sixty-three hours out of seventy-two, according to testimony. Dr. Carman, in whose office Mrs. Louise Bailey was murdered June 30, was shot at three times as he drove in his automobile through the town of Baldwin, N. Y., on July 5. None of the bullets struck him. An automobile driven by Frank Gunderson of Salem, Wis., became unmanageable un-manageable and dashed into a crowd waiting at the depot for an excursion train. Half a dozen persons were badly bad-ly injured. WASHINGTON. Three of the members of the federal reserve board nominated by President Wilson Charles S. Hamlin, W. P. G. Harding and A. C. Miller, have been confirmed by the senate. As viewed from Washington the Mexican situation appears to be at a standstill, so far as plans for the proposed pro-posed conference between the contending contend-ing factions over Mexico's internal affairs af-fairs are concerned. President Wilson has administered u mild reprimand to Brigadier General Robert K. Evans for a speech delivered deliver-ed before the Sons of the American Revolution in New York. General Evans was reported as describing the United States as a "meddlesome nation" na-tion" and the Monroe doctrine as a "Pandora's box." He also denounced the army as inadequate. President Wilson and the house leaders have agreed substantially on a bill granting a larger measure of self-government self-government to the Filipinos. The senate appropriations committee commit-tee has adopted an amendment to the sundry civil bill increasing the cost limit of the Utah fish hatchery from $25,000 to $50,000. The $200,000 appropriation for the aid of the Salem fire sufferers asked by President Wilson in a message to DOMESTIC. ' Dr. E. E. Coolley, a physiciaa of Danville, 111. has annuonced his candidacy for the Republican nomination nomina-tion for congress in opposition to Joseph Jo-seph G. Cannon, in the Eighteenth Illinois district. While their mothers watched the fire, ignorant of the fate of their sons, Arnold Brustman and Walter Carlson, each 7 years old, were cremated in a burning barn at Princeton, 111. It is believed be-lieved the boys were playing with matches and set fire to the hay. One aftermath of the dynamite explosion ex-plosion which wrecked a Harlam tenement tene-ment house on Saturday, killing four persons, was a conference of police officials on Monday at which a campaign cam-paign to suppress the activities of anarchists, an-archists, Industrial Workers of the World and kindred agitators wa3 planned. plan-ned. -Reports to the office of the United Mine Workers at Charleston, W. Va., Indicated that a majority of the miners min-ers in the Kanawha district had accepted ac-cepted the result of last week's referendum refer-endum and had returned to work. A solution of carbolic acid, which her parents applied to mosquito bites, caused the death at Chicago of Ethel Vaughn, 2 years old. Iowa's so-called blue-sky law, providing provid-ing for the regulation and supervision congress was refused by the house appropriations committee. 'By executive order, President Wilson Wil-son has exempted from civil examinations examina-tions the fourteen commercial attaches at-taches authorized by the new executive execut-ive appropriation bill.. Senator Borah of Idaho has began a fight in the senate to force consideration consid-eration of the Colombian and Nicarag-uan Nicarag-uan treaties in open session. President Wilson has nominated, Charles Mackay of Winnemucca, Nev., to be register of the land office all Carson City, Nev. FOREIGN. Juan Velasco, a Spaniard, is held by followers of Zapata at Los Frailes, near Atlixco, state of Puebla, for 1, 000,000 persos ransom. Velasco is the manager of an extensive Spanish cotton cot-ton manufacturing concern. The house of lords on July 6 passed by 273 to 10 the second reading of th9 bill to amend the Irish home rule bill. A package in the possession of two Russians, who were arrested at Bam mont, France, on the charge of vagrancy, va-grancy, was found to contain two bombs, each containing a high, explosive. The police declare one o the men admitted he was an anarchist, 'The Norwegian parliament has vot ed an appropriation of $27,000 to covei l the expenses of the Norwegian official exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition exposi-tion at San Francisco and a furthei $13,500 for the dispatch of a Norweg; ian cruiser to represent the nation at the opening of the Panama canal. Estimates of the number of the Irish Nationalists volunteers vary between, 80,000, which is the Dublin Castle figure fig-ure compiled by the police, and a. quarter of a million, which is the est!) mate given in platform speeches. Now that the bodies of the murder-ed murder-ed Archduke Francis Ferdjnand and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, repose beneath the castle chapel all Arstetten, a bitter controversy is raging rag-ing over the manner in which the funeral fun-eral was conducted. President Huerta has, jt is reported, received a virtually unanimous vote of confidence. The returns indicate th3 re-election of all present members of '.he chamber of deputies and the sen ate. The Athens papers publish dispatch. ?s from Chios, an island in the Aegean of investment companies, was held unconstitutional in a per curiam opln- j ton handed down Monday. The operation of the Wabash railroad rail-road for the ten months ended April 80, 1914, resulted in a defile! t of $1,-, $1,-, 500,000, according to a report of B. B. Pryor, receiver. President Wilson in an Independence Independ-ence day address at Philadelphia, vig orously defended the policies of his administration and excoriated the critics of his Mexican policy and the opponents of the antitrust programme, tho Panama canal free tolls repeal b:ll and the currency law. In the ruins of the tenement in New York City wrecked by the explosion of a bomb, which it is believed was intended in-tended for use against John D. Rockefeller Rocke-feller or his son, the authorities found evidence that Arthur Caron, who was killed with three others, had used his apartment as a center for the distribution distribu-tion of inflammatory literature and that it was filled with death-dealing explosives. Fifteen persons were drowned when the gasoline launch Superb capsized in the Linn canal, Alaska. The name of Theodore Roosevelt may be placed on the Progressive ticket as the candidaie for governor oi New York in the coming primaries, according to a letter from George W. Perkins, printed in the Palladium, the Connecticut organ of the Progressive party. Five persons, three of them Chicago-ans. Chicago-ans. were killed and Mona Dunne, daughter of Govi vn. r Dunne, was injured in-jured in auto accidents near Chicago on July 5. War upon the plague was urged frem the pulpits of all churches in N3W Orleans, the congreeavtions being a.k-ed a.k-ed to join in the general clean-up campaign. cam-paign. Four Italians were, kilted and eigh. others were seriously injured near Seville, Se-ville, O., when a work train on the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling railroad ran down a handcar. jeas, stating that a Turkish destroyer destroy-er on July 3 bombarded and captured a Greek sailing ship which was transporting trans-porting refugees to Chios. Reports received at Canton, China, say that 10,000 rersons have been drowned in "the West river floods, which this year are worse than usual and that deaths from starvation in the affected districts have been numerous. numer-ous. Mrs. Rebecca Clark, reputed to be the oldest BrUish subject, died a YVoodgreen. north London, at the age of 110. Mrs. Clark was a busy needlewoman needle-woman up to a week ago. Troops from the division of. the east have been ordered by General Pablo Gonzales to proceed at once to Quer-etaro, Quer-etaro, according to reports from Saltillo. Sal-tillo. Princess William of Wied. wife of the new ruler of Albania has left Durazzo with her children in consequence conse-quence of the critical situation there. She has gone to Bucharest. |