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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlotor) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. Mrs. Nellie Moor, the second cousin cou-sin of Abraham Lincoln, and one of the best known woman in Aver, Mass., is dead at that place. Mrs. Moore was born in Missouri July 20, 1846. F. A. Wadwards, president of a Savings bank., is dead as a result of the accidental discharje of a revolver at his bank in Webster City, la. He was dusting off a counter when a feather caught in the firearm, discharging dis-charging it. James P. Scott and his 12-year-old son were smothered to death near Lynchburg, Va., under a wagonload of leaf tobacco. Scott and the boy were driving to the city to deliver the tobacco, to-bacco, when the wagon overturned, George Crocker, youngest son of the late California millionaire, Charles C. Crocker, is slowly dying at his home in New York City from a malady said to be cancer. INTER-MOUNTAIN. Ghouls stole the body of the Infant son of Harfield Conrad from its grave In Highland cemetery near Great Falls, Mont., and are holding it, pr& sumably for ransom. Five buildings were demolished, causing a loss of $50,000, when dynamite dyna-mite was exploded under the wine house of Joseph Mascarl In Danville, 111. The Black Hand society is charged charg-ed with the crime. WASHINGTON. Richard C. Kerens of Missouri, according ac-cording to a current report, will be appointed ambassador to Vienna upon the assembling of congress. Rear Admiral John K. Barton, former for-mer chief of the bureau of steam engineering en-gineering of the navy department, was stricken at his desk in Washington. Surgeons declared his trouble was due to a rush of blood to the head, which constituted a mild form of apoplexy. His recovery is said to be assured. The senate committee, after an exhaustive ex-haustive investigation, has decided that the present reclamation laws should stand, there being no reasons for radical changes. After appointing a sub-committee to supervise the publication of its documents, docu-ments, the monetary commission has adjourned for an indefinite period. The Nicholas Jacobs, a real estate dealer of Los Angeles and his two daughters and his two sons are dead, and Mrs. Jacobs and her two-months-old baby are dying as the result of a collision between their automobile and a trolley car. Latest estimates indicate a net revenue reve-nue from the corporation tax of approximately ap-proximately $25,000,000 annually and 122,000 corporations probably will have to pay the tax. Her throat cut and bearing many knife wounds, the body of Mrs. Andel Ayurrdl, a Mexican woman, was found In her hut at Ayers, twenty-five miles south of Rocky Ford, Colo. A Mexican, Mexi-can, who is suspected of having committed com-mitted the crime, is said to have fled to the hills. Mrs. W. W. Wheeler, a clairlDyant, who was convicted recently of having obtained money under false pretenses oy teiung patrons tney wouia mane fortunes by investing in South Dakota md Nevada gold mines, was sentenced In Denver to six years in the penitentiary. peni-tentiary. Two hundred miners employed in the Stanley coal mines around Edmonton', Edmon-ton', Alberta, went out of strike Saturday Sat-urday night because of dissatisfactory working conditons. As a result a coal famine is threatened here and the schools and the power houses will have to close. The gunboat Princeton has sailed from Seattle for Nicaragua, via San Francisco. DOMESTIC. The residence portion of Davenport, Iowa, was for three hours imperiled by fire which destroyed ten residences. Vincent and Joseph Altman, alleged alleg-ed bomb throwers of Chicago, have been acquitted. Dr. Frederick A. Cook has sent to the University of Copenhagen the data and reports of his discovery of the north pole. The records were taken tak-en to Copenhagen by Walter Lonsdale, private secretary of the explorer. John C. Calhoun, a former slave of the famous statesman, Calhoun, is dead at Pensacola, Fla., at the age of 115. Calhoun lived in Pensacola for forty years, and until fourteen years ago made his Hvng by daily labor in a sawmill. When a sheriff's posse attempted to arrest Jim and Charles Daniels, near Devon, Ky., for the shooting of George Christian as the result- of a feud, Mrs. Charles Daniels and her 16-year-old daughter opened fire on the Mficers, who returned the fire with the result that both women fell dead au-u-couimiLiee, oi wmcu senator Aldrich is chairman, will enter immediately im-mediately upon the work assigned to it. - FOREIGN. No tidings have reached Havana-of the missing steamer Mario Herrera, which left Havana October! 20 for Porto Rican ports. The Russian government Intends closing a contract with an American syndicate to develop the Trans-Siberian railroad, which will be double-tracked double-tracked throughout its length. The project involves hundreds of millions. The report comes from Africa that Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt, Roose-velt, in company with the Ohicagoan, Carl T. Akely, have killed four elephants ele-phants for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Had It not been for the recent troubles in Spain, King Alfonso would have been a challenger next year for the America's cup, it Is said. The threatening troubles at home prevented prevent-ed the issuance of a challenge. The revolution in Nicaragua Is spreading, In the opinion of Captain Shipley, commander of the United States cruiser Des Moines, which is off the east coast of Nicaragua. Smallpox Is epidemic in the Santa Barbara (Mexico) mining camp, nearly near-ly every family having one or more victims. Several Americans are In the number. Steps have been taken to form a branch of the B'nai B'rith In England. Many well knows English Jews are interested. in-terested. Frank A. Perret, the American vol-canoist, vol-canoist, has left Naples for the Island of Tenerife, where he will study the in the doorway. The two men escaped. es-caped. Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, in an article in his magazine, accuses Senator Clark of Wyoming of voting to pigeonhole Senator Owen's resolution reso-lution for a constitutional amendment to provide for the popular election of United States senators, although the legislature of Wyoming had memoral-ized memoral-ized congress in behalf of such an amendment. Roy Royalston, a negro, was lynched at Anniston, Ala., for assaulting assault-ing the wife of a white farmer. His body was riddled with bullets and then burned. When a sheiff's posse tried to put a stop to the noisy revelry at a negro "frolic" at Union, S. O, the negroes opened fire with shotguns, wounding nine members of the posse. All the wounded are expected to recover. A race riot was narrowly averted. Theodore Rizzo, who murdered Theresa Procopio, seven years old, and Freddy Infusino, two and a halt years old, in a lonely spot in Utica, N. Y., September 12 last was executed at Auburn, N. Y. Edward Backman, in jail at Galion, O., has confessed that he killed Policeman Arnada and a bystander rtt fitilnm-f in flerolipi- lOnlS eruptions which are taiting place ana compare the phenomena with those of Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna. Widespread allegations of deplorable deplor-able conditions in Portuguese East Africa, particularly in the islands of San Thome and Principe, credited by recent English and American writers writ-ers to the existence of a cruel slave trade in African negroes among the planters, are denounced as fabrications fabrica-tions by Colonel J. A. Wyllie, after two months' investigation. The invitation from the United States for Great Britain to participate in an International conference with a view of regulating the killing of seals in the waters of North America has ben referred through the colonial office of-fice to Canada. Admiral de la Pynere, minister of marine of France, has recommended the construction in 1910 of an Improved Improv-ed Dreadnaught of 23,000 tons and speed of 21 knots, and the building of two battleships annually until the number shall total nineteen. Of tfiese six will be of the Dreadnaught type. The great volume of American merchandise mer-chandise now being carried by rail caross the Isthmus of Panama and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is shown by the fact that for the fiscal year 1909 the goods transported amounted In while resisting arrest, and asked that his mother be given the reward for his arrest. The proposed $SOO,000,000 copper combine has been held up. temporari ly, at least, according to Wall street reports, until lawyers for interests concerned can figure out the effect that the Standard Oil decision will have upon the merger. The jury in the case on trial at Council Bluffs, Iowa, of John R. Dobbins, Dob-bins, for grand larceny ri connection with the loss by T. W. Ballow, a Princeton. .Mo., banker, of $30,000 on a "fake" horse race In that city more than a year ago, returned a verdict of guilty. "Bob" Randolph, formerly a hack-man, hack-man, has been arrested in Kansas City, charged with complicity in the kidnaping ol Marian Robert Bleakley. tho "incubator baby," at Topeka. Kan., August 21. At the time of the kidnaping it was said that four men and a woman were Implicated. value to more than $60,000,000. The statement has been issued from the foreign office of Berlin that there is no truth in the report published in London that Count Bernstorff, ambassador am-bassador to the United States, would be transferred to the court of St. James in order that he might assume the role of peacemaker between Germany Ger-many and Great Britain. Five miles of the Panama canal have been opened to navigation. This includes in-cludes the channel from the point in the Bay of Panama. Steamships plying ply-ing between San Francisco and Panama Pana-ma and the west coast of South America Ameri-ca and Panama and using this part of the canal daily. In one of the finest speeches ever delivered in the British house of lords, the former prime minister, Lord Roseberry, warned the lords they were risking the existence of tne house of lords by their present attitude atti-tude In the struggle with the house of commons. |