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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. Gold bullion valued at $57,000, part of a shipment of $170,000, from the Washington-Alaska bank of Fairbanks, Alaska, to the Dexter-Horton National bank of Seattle, on the steamship Humboldt, was stolen in transit and lead substituted in the strongbox that had contained it. Former United Slates Senator Joseph Jo-seph Maull Carey, father of the so-cajled so-cajled Carey enlarged homestead act, has announced, in a statement to the people, his independent candidacy for the governorship of Wyoming. Isaac M. Harrell was hanged at Salem, Ore., Friday for the murder of Walter and Herbert Newell. Harrell was a sheepherder employed by the Newell brothers, and the murder was committed after Harrell had been discharged. dis-charged. Captain T. D. Blom, prominent in shipping circles and head of a codfish company, was found in a park in the heart of Tacoma with his throat cut. He probably will die. Robbery was '.he motive for the attack. The bandit who was killed while holding up a Colorado Midland train near Leadville on the night of September Sep-tember 1 has been identified as a miner of Victor, Colo., named Chas. Anderson. The Denver county convention of Democrats chose Governor Shafroth as a delegate to the state convention, but instructed him, along with the other county delegates, to vote for Dr. Benjamin L. Jefferson as the county's candidate for governor. Colonel Samuel A. Merritt, 83 years old, a resident of Salt Lake City for many years, and one of the best known men in the west, died September Septem-ber 8. John D. Roselair, convicted of wife murder in Washington county, was hanged at Salem, Ore., September 8. Roselair declared the killing of his wife was accidental. DOMESTIC. After an absence of three weeks, Colonel Roosevelt is home again, weary from his western trip, but well satisfied with the result. He enjoyed every minute of it, he said. Two girl sisters, were drowned at Aurora, Ills., when a sailboat was capsized in the middle of the Fox river. Ida Vooris, 14 years old. died an heroic death, seeking to save her sister Clara, 8" years old. Claiming that his victim was a member of the Black Hand, who had been following him around this country for two years seeking revenge, re-venge, Francisco Scagtio, aged 21. of Philadelphia, shot and fatally wounded wound-ed Guiseppe Ceraclo. Lightweight Champion Ad. Walgast of Cadillac, Mich., and "Packey" Mc-Farland Mc-Farland of Chicago have been matched match-ed to meet in Wilwaukee on September Septem-ber 30, in a ten-round no decision bout. B. D. Talbot, a retired capitalist, shot and killed himself in his apartments apart-ments in San Francisco. He left a note saying that he had no relatives and leaving his body to a medical college.' col-lege.' What is said will be the largest j cheese in the world will be made in Appleton, Wis., for the national dairy show at Chicago October 20. The weight of the cheese will be 4.000 pounds. The National Conservation congress at St. Paul on Thursday adopted a platform placing tne seal of its approval ap-proval on national control of natural resources, and adjourned. Charles K. Hamilton, one of the best ' known American aviators, and who made the great race from Philadelphia to New York June 13 last, was seriously serious-ly and possibly fatally injured at Sacramento, Sac-ramento, Cal., when his bjplane crashed to the ground after a spectacular spec-tacular flight. The lower house of the Texas legislature, legis-lature, by a vote of 51 to 34, instructed instruct-ed senators and congressmen to work for the repeal of the fourteen i. amendment to the federal constitution, conferring the franchise on negroes. With her clothes ablaze, Mrs. Robert Carnahan, wife of a farmer living near Plymouth. O.. was rescued afler she had made futile efforts to rescue her two children, trapped in a blazing barn. Three coal passers are dead and seven machinists and firemen injured in-jured as the result of oil catching fire on the battleship North Dakota. The explosion resulted from a test of oil as fuel. Colonel Roosevelt refused to attend the banquet at the Hamilton club, Chicago, Chi-cago, unless the invitation to Senator William Lorimer, a member of the club, was recalled. The delegation having the affair in charge requested Senator Lorimer to remain away from the banquet, which he did. and Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt was present. Richard Brown, chief of the SaD Jose, Cal., fire department, was killed early Saturday by the overturning of an automobile. He was returning home In company with a friend, who ' escaped injury. ! Senator Lorimer has tendered his resignation to the Hamilton club of Chicago, following the recent incident of the refusal of President Roosevelt to dine at the club unless the senator was asked to remain away, and a score of the senator's friends will also tender their resignations. Jay Harrison, aged 26, shot Dr. Boyd Clinite, a young dentist, and murdered his 19-year-old fiance, Adele Kiser, in the home of the young woman's wo-man's parents in Redfield, S. D. He then turned the gun upon himself. Jealousy was the cause. I One of the worst marine disasters in the history of Lake Michigan navigation navi-gation occurred early Friday when car ferry Pere Marquette No. IS, flagship of a fleet of six steel car ferries owned own-ed and operated by the Pere Marquette Mar-quette Railroad company, sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan, twenty miles off Port Washington, with a loss of thirty lives. Announcement is made of a $500.-000 $500.-000 gift to the Evanston (111.) Hospital Hos-pital association by George W. Patten, Pat-ten, brother of James A. Patten. The money is to be used by the hospital as an endowment fund to be known as the Agnes and Louisa Patten fund. Three persons, two women and a man, were burned to death in South Cmcago when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a car loaded with molten slag from the Wisconsin Steel company. Duke Francis Josef of Bavaria is visiting the United States incognito, having registered -at a San Francisco hotel under the name of Mr. Walep, of Hamburg. WASHINGTON. A call for the first meeting in two months of President Taft's cabinet has been sent out. and the members will report in Washington on September Sep-tember 24. W. W. Ludlow, chief clerk of the treasury department since 1905, when he was appointed by Secretary Shaw, has resigned. Solicitor General Lloyd W. Bowers died at Boston Friday, of Complications Complica-tions arising from an attack of bronchitis. bron-chitis. Mr. Bowers was appointed solicitor so-licitor general by President Taft on March 22, 1909. He was born at Springfield, Mass., March 9, 1859. Surgeon Carter has been detailed by Surgeon General Weyman to visit the plague centers of Russia, Germany Ger-many and Italy, and report by cable to Washington the actual condition of the cholera situation. Failure to catch a baseball thrown swiftly by his brother in practice resulted re-sulted in the death of Edward Hodga, aged 12 years, of Washington. The ball struck the boy in the right temple. tem-ple. FOREIGN. Peppete, the famous toreador of Seville, Spain, was killed on Saturday in a bull fight. Lieutenant Whitmore of the constabulary, con-stabulary, two corporals and five privates pri-vates were drowned while crossing the Rio Agno Grande in the. Philippines. Philip-pines. Five new cases of cholera and four deaths in twenty-four hours are reported re-ported from southeastern Italy. President Estrada has sent a telegram tele-gram to President Castrillo, the Nic-araguan Nic-araguan minister at Washington, pro-yj&slng pro-yj&slng that the presidential election e postponed for one year. , A canvass of Kiev, Russia, to round up and finally sent away to the restricted re-stricted district set apart for them all of hose Jews who still remain in the city,'' and are unable to establish a legal right of residence, will be made soon. - , The last armed opposition to the new regime under General Estrada, the provisional president of Nicara gua, has ceased with the surrender of General Fernando Maria Rivas with 1,000 men and eleven cannon. With a silver key President Por-ferio Por-ferio Diaz on Saturday unlocked the new home of the Young Men's' Christian Christ-ian association in Mexico City, the dedication of which was the chief feature fea-ture of the day's centennial program. The municipality of Paris proposes to offer a prize of $20,000 to the French aviator making a flight with a passenger from Paris to Brussels and return on the occasion of the visit of the city council to Brussels on September Sep-tember 26. Robert Loraine, the actor, all but accomplished an aeroplane flight across the Irish channel on Sunday. Starting from Holyhead, Loraine directed di-rected his course to Dublin. Although he had trouble with his engine, he got within two miles of the Irish coast. The breaking of a wire then forced him to descend into the sea. He swam ashore and his machine was picked up by a steamer. : One of the most curious developments develop-ments in the conflict between the Canalejas government in Spain and Ihs Vatican over the religious orders is the reception given at the Spanish capital to the report that the queeh-mother queeh-mother may show her disapprobation : ol the tactics of the premier by ! abandoning the country and taking up her permanent residence in Austria. Aus-tria. In an interview at Panama, Richard O. Marsh, charge d'affaires of the American legation at Panama, intimated intimat-ed that if the Panaman government should ignore the wishes of Washington, Washing-ton, the United States would be compelled com-pelled to occupy or annex the republic repub-lic of Panama. A Berlin newspaper states with seeming authority that Brazil has asked the, German government io deputize one staff officer and ten ol-ficers ol-ficers of lower rank in the German army to give military instruction in I the Brazilian, army. |