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Show World Events For the Week SI FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9. A bag containing registered mail was purloined from the mail at the Short Line depot in Salt Lake City. Children's Day at the fair. Over thirty thousand people attended, of which it is estimated 17,000 were children. It is extremely probable that war will come in the Balkans. The world's record in drilling granite made by McNicol and Pickens of Butte, Mont., at Spokane, Wash., who drilled 56 5-8 inches in fifteen minutes. At a meeting of prominent mining operators held in Salt Lake City, practical assurance given that a mining temple will be built very soon. Samuel II. Lewis, master in chancery, and a well known attorney, attor-ney, died in Salt Lake City. Samuel Newhouse borrows $300,000 on the Boston block. With if the money the building will be completed. C. H. Anderson of Idaho, arrested in Ogden for passing a worthless worth-less $50.chcck at a gambling house. W. J. Bryan makes speeches in Missouri. Mrs. W. F. Anderson of Chicago won the western women's golf championship in St. Louis. The president and Judge Taft will hold a consultation in Washington Wash-ington on Sunday, October 18th. Roy Stewart of Salt Lake run over by a street car and his left leg mashed, necessitating amputation. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10. The bodies of a man and woman, bound together, face to face, found floating in the waters of Jamaica bay. They evidently committed commit-ted suicide. According to a postal card canvass of the New York World, Taft will have a plurality in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But New York, according to the same authority will go for Chanlcr (Democrat) for governor, against Hughes (Republican.) The new organ in St. Mary's cathedral in Salt Lake will be formally for-mally dedicated early in November. There will be impressive ceremonies cere-monies and services. Bankers and investors ol Utah state that conditions are strong and progressive. J. William Knight, Democratic candidate for governor, formally notified at his home in Provo, of his nomination. Mark Lessenger, a prominent attorney of Ogden, died. District foresters headquarters, it is now definitely known, will be located in Ogden. I The new battleship, the North Dakota, will be launched Novem- J ber 10th. A lone highwayman held up the stage running between Missoula and Bonner, Mont., lined up twelve passengers and took something from each of them. The State Fair, after the most -successful time in its history, closes. Over 119,000 people attended. There was not one accident during the entire week. A great portion of the letters stolen in the mail bag that was taken in Salt Lake was found in a back alley. The letters were thrown around. In them there were thousands of dollars in certificates, certifi-cates, postal orders and collaterals. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11. George Bernard Shaw, the English author, in a sermon on litera-ture, litera-ture, delivered in the city temple, London, says that Thackeray was. i in a biblical sense, a fool. I . Brigadier-General Allen, in a speech in Berlin, declares that con gress should appropriate at least $1,000,000 for military and aeronautic purposes. Members of the family and friends gather in the city cemetery, Salt Lake, and dedicate a memorial monument to the late Ebenczer ! Becsley. Judge Taft spends a Sunday of rest in Cincinnati, Ohio. , Senator LaFollette will begin the publication of a paper similar I to Bryan's "The Commoner." I John D. Rockefeller moved into his new million-dollar house at Pocahontas Hill, N. Y. He has eighteen watchmen, two detectives ' , and a bloodhound on guard. i Mrs. Stuyvcsant Fish, a New York society leader, says that I America is the greatest land in every way. She also claims that the I dircctotre gown will reign this year, and after that perhaps hoop i skirts. Farmers throughout the country are hoping for the election of ij Taft. J Col. Page Bryan, American minister at Lisbon, Portugal, is vis- I king Paris on his way to the United States. H MONDAY, OCTOBER 12. ) l Senator A. J. Bevcridge of Indiana addresses large audiences in 1 m Salt Lake theatre. ) Alice Juda Madelin of New Brunswick, N. Y,. claims that she ij was sold by her father for $100 and forced to marry a man she did j not love. I 'I bait Lake City council holds up licenses of twenty-three saloons. J American party to organize in Weber county. !1 1 John Wolf of Plain City runs amuck in Salt Lake and fires seven J I shots from a rifle, wounding one person and scaring many others. ill The annual session of the Utah State Teachers Association will wl meet in Salt Lake December 21st. Frank Rcmick, a Salt Lake bellboy, beats his wife on the streets VI of Salt Lake. He was arrested. flfl Governor Haskell of Oklahoma will probably sue W. R. Hearst ;1M for the stories Hearst has been printing in relation to Standard Oil. ij Mrs. Charlotte Decker of Seneca Falls, N. Y., died at the age j I Parliament, London, opens for a protracted session. 1 H oalt Lake's building permits for the week amounted to $47,200. j ffl Harry K. Thaw, refused by the court a motion for new trial, is jfl sent back to insane asylum. : ;H Ogden City Council engages in long wrangle over proposition to grant a saloon license to Edward Vidcr, a negro. October term of court opens in Utah county, Judge Booth pre- The Farmers and Traders' National bank of La Grande, Ore., ( IH failed to open its doors. It has deposits of $100,000. j IH TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13. i H In a students' class fight at the U. of U., F. W. Hansen, a fresh- H man, gets a broken arm. H Gov. Cutler, returned from a trip to the coast, declares that all H the West will be for Taft. H Oregon Short Line directors meet in Salt Lake and re-elect old H board. H A traffic bureau is launched in Salt Lake with C. A. Quiglcy H as president. ; H Senator A. J. Bevcridge predicts that Utah will go Republican. iH Hon. Win, Spry and Congressman Joseph Howell address resi- JH dents of San Pete county. iH Cedar V alley farmers plant their arid farm crops. H October 21st the Mystic Shrincrs will visit Ogden. H The special train carrying Judge W. H. Taft was wrecked near H Sterling, Ohio. Mr. Taft was not injured. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14. I Judge Taft feels sure that Ohio will go Republican. I George McAleer of Salt Lake was killed and four others badly I hurt in a rairoad collision on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad near I Jordan Narrows. I It is stated that the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company is now con- I trolled by the Standard Oil. I The School Board of Salt Lake City lets several contracts for .1 new buildings and additions to school houses. I The Utah State Firemen's Association will take some action I looking toward asking the Legislature to enact a law providing for a ! relief fund for injured firemen or their families. 'I There is a likelihood of the M. and M. Association and the Salt M Lake Commercial club consolidating. M Jurors drawn for November term of the Federal court. l Francis S. Monnett, former attorney general of Ohio, addresses M Democrats in Ogden. l Fifty acres of property in Bisbec, Ariz., burned out as the result I of a fire, the second one in two 3'cars. I Charles W. Morse and Alfred H. Curtis, former officials of the I Bank of America, placed on trial in New York, charged with violation I of the banking laws and conspiracy. Business in Utah reported as improving each day. Building permits calling for the expenditure of thousands of dolfars, issued in Salt Lake. h P Billy Samuclson has been making good as a pace follower in the 1! east, having recently defeated Eddie Root, Hardy Downing and IB George Wiley in a four cornered motor-paced bike race. Sammy j evidently saw that he was not in it with the other fellows in the n sprint races and has trained for pace following until he has it on the i bunch. j |