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Show b History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed G O IIMTERMOUNTAIN. Plans to kidnap Roland Harriman, son of Mrs. E. H. Harriman, hold him for a ransom of $100,000, and in case the ransom was not paid, to blind the hoy and otherwise disfigure him for life, have been frustrated by the arrest ar-rest at St. Anthony, Idaho, of three men, parties to the plot. Phillip Denardo, accidentally shot at Bingham, Utah, when another man was demonstrating the use of firearms, fire-arms, is dead. For the second time on record Mount Shuksan, one of the most rugged and difficult peaks of the Cascade range, was ascended Sunday, a party of twenty-five members of the Seattle Mountaineers' club reaching the summit after three days' climb. Fully 10,000 persons crowded their way into the tabernacle at Salt Lake City on August 24, and half as many more lined up on the outside of the big structure and enthusiastically applauded ap-plauded the address of Governor Charles E. Hughes, the Republican nominee for president. Thomas Gwilliam, a prominent ranchman of Falcon, Colo., and Mrs. Mary E. Simmons, his housekeeper, were found dead with bullet holes in their heads, having been murdered. Charles Evans Hughes said in an address delivered at Reno, Nev., that the prestige of the United States has been cut practically in half as a result re-sult of its dealings with Mexico. DOMESTIC. An initial reserve pension fund of $1,000,000 for accredited rabbis serving serv-ing congregations in the United States was recommended in a report by the special commission appointed in 1915 by the central conference of American rabbis, at New York City. Mrs. G. E. Parks, telephone operator opera-tor at Columbus, N. M, when Villa and his bandits raided the town March 9 last, has been presented with a silver dining service and a gold watch by the New Mexico chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Revo-lution for her heroism then. Two persons are dead as the result of the explosion of a gasoline tank during the Standard Oil company fire at Charles City, Iowa. The war game completed by the United States navy proved that "under fairly favorable weather conditions an attacking fleet has excellent chances to land troops within twenty miles of New York, Rear Admiral Austin Knight declares. Serum manufactured from human blood is pre-eminent in treatment of persons afflicted with infantile paralysis, paraly-sis, in the opinion of Dr. Simon Flex-ner, Flex-ner, director of the Rockefeller Institute Insti-tute for Medical Research. Rev. Ignatius Tomazin, 70 years old, who resigned his pastorate of a church in Albany, Minn, a month ago, after his parishioners are alleged to have attacked and beaten him, jumped to his death from the sixth floor of a hotel at Chicago. Secretary Lansing will attend the first meeting of the American-Mexican commission to adjust border differences, differ-ences, which will he held in New York September 4. Fifteen hundred employees of the American Printing company, a textile manufacturing concern, were thrown out of work when the company closed Its plant at Fall River, Mass., for an indefinite period. Henry J. Furber, 76 years of age, formerly a wealthy real estate operator, opera-tor, shot and killed himself in a Chicago Chi-cago hospital. He had been a patient there for several years. He left a fortune estimated at $0,000,000. Miss "Babie" Wright, a San Francisco Fran-cisco girl, swam across the Golden Gate in 31 minutes 35 4-5 seconds, setting an official Pacific Athletic association as-sociation record for women for the event. The strike of conductors and motor-men, motor-men, which had tied up street car traffic at Chattanooga for two days, ended August 25. The Illinois Manufacturers' association associa-tion has called a conference of similar sim-ilar organizations from many states to meet in Chicago August 29 to "uphold the principle of arbitration nd to secure united action on the part of industries with reference to the controversy between railroads and their trainmen." Glass manufacturers in the Pittsburg district have been notified by their London agents that an order in council coun-cil has been issued placing an embargo em-bargo upon American table glassware. glass-ware. Two men and one woman were fatally fa-tally burned, nine others, including a boy and two women, were seriously iburned and a number of others were less seriously injured when a large oil tank exploded at Charles City, Iowa. All street cars at Chattanooga ceased ceas-ed operation at 10 o'clock Tuesday night as a precaution againsl threatened threat-ened violence by strike sympathizers after a rock had been thrown through u car window, injuring a woman, and windows in another car had been broken by pistol shots. Jack Peacock of Brooklyn and Mat ion Arnold of Chicago were killed and seven other drivers and mechanicians were injured when eleven racing cars piled into a heap at the quarter-mile turn of the Recreation park mile track at Kalamazoo, Mich., on the getaway of the third annual auto derby. Aged Mrs. Callahan, grieved because be-cause her 18-months-old grandchild was soon to be taken away by the child's mother, at Nashville, Tenn., took the child into the yard, cut its throat and then her own. Suit for $100,000, based on an allegation al-legation of breach of promise, has been brought against the Rev. Dr. John ' esl.iy Hill, a prominent New York pastor, by Miss Lucile Covington of Chicago. Captain Edgar J. Spratling, commanding com-manding Company F. Fifth infantry, Georgia National Guard, was shot dead in front of his tent at Camp Harris, near Macon, Ga., by Mrs. Hat-tie Hat-tie Adams. WASHINGTON. Tentative plans for a joint session of the senate and house to hear President Pres-ident Wilson ask for legislation to prevent the threatened nation-wide railroad strike have been discussed. Conferees of house and senate working to reconcile differences in the Shields bill to permit construction of power dams by private enterprise in navigable streams have given up all hope of agreement at this session of congress and adjourned to November 22. Conservationists have made a hot fight on the measure. The workingmen's compensation bill, as passed by the senate, was accepted ac-cepted by the house with slight differences differ-ences of a minor character which promise to be arranged in conference. The army bill, vetoed by President Wilson because of provisions in its revision of the articles of war, has been accepted by the house with a revision re-vision approved by the war department. depart-ment. Opposition to President Wilson's demand de-mand for an eight-hour day to prevent pre-vent a strike is dying hard. As a last stand the railway executives are insisting upon a guarantee from the White House that legislation which will make impossible a similar crisis will be enacted before the November Novem-ber election. FOREIGN. Italy has formally declared war against Germany, and it is believed that Roumania, with which nation Italy long has had an entente, will follow the Italian government with declaration of war against the central cen-tral powers and their allies. More than 6,000 trade unionists, in an open air meeting in Hyde Park, London, on Sunday protested against the high cost of living. Speeches were made demanding a general increase in wages. Bulgarian forces have seized the Greek port of Kavala, on the Aegean sea, and all but one of its defending forts. The Mexican commissioners who are to endeavor to settle with an American commission points in dispute dis-pute between the United States and Mexico, departed Sunday from Mexico City for New York. The Parisian police have raided over 300 clandestine night houses wherein gambling, drinking, dancing and drug-taking drug-taking were indulged in by foreigners. Colonel Miguel Ahumada, governor of the Mexican states of, Jalisco and Chihuahua under the Diaz regime, died at his home at EI Paso, August 27. Colonel Ahumada, who was 71 years old, was a' veteran of the campaign against Maximilian and of several campaigns against the Yaquis in So-nora. So-nora. v Adolph von Batocki, president of the German food regulation, has issued is-sued an appeal to the women of rural Germany to divide their food with the women and children of the towns and cities. Eight persons were killed and thirty-six injured in the Zeppelin raid Thursday night, it was announced officially of-ficially at London. One hundred bombs were dropped. One Zeppelin reached the outskirts of London. An appeal for protection of Armenians Armen-ians in Persia during the advance of the Turks into that country reached the state department from the head of the Armenian church in India. Nearly 100,000 marks has been contributed con-tributed by a number of wealthy men of Bremen for presentation to Captain Koenig of the commercial submarine Deutschland and his crew. The shooting down by soldiers of a number of citizens of Gerona, Spain, capital of the Catalonian province of that name, is reported by the Havas correspondent at Terpingan on the Franco-Spanish frontier. German airships again have raided Ihe east and southeast coasts of England, Eng-land, dropping bombs. Duties on agricultural implements imported into Mexico from the United States have been reduced, by Carranza materially, while a reduction of 50 per cent has been made in freight rates for farming machinery on the National railway lines. The German government has issued a decree providing for the introduction introduc-tion of meat cards for the whole empire em-pire on October 2. Families butchering butch-ering for their own consumption are subject to the card system. The parliament has unanimously approved ap-proved the appointment by President Li Yuan Hung of Tuan Chi .lui as permanent premier of the Chinese republic. re-public. The Danish landsthing has rejected the proposal to sell the Danish West Indies to the United States, says a Fleuter dispatch from Copenhagen. |