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Show News Story of a Week A COMPLETE HISTORY OF WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD INTER-MOUNTAIN. Four men were killed and twelve injured as the result of a collision between be-tween a passenger train and a freight train standing on the sidetrack t at Lemay, Utah, 80 miles west of Ogden. The head brakeman of the freight train had failed to close the switch. None of the passengers were Injured. A contract has been signed to stage the Jeffries-Johnson bout, on July 4, next, at Saltair, the bathing resort on Great Salt Lake. The bicycle track coliseum will be used and will have a seating capacity of 30,000. The proposed merger of the Utah Copper company, the Boston Consolidated Consoli-dated Mining company and the Nevada Consolidated Copper company has received re-ceived a check through an injunction secured by stockholders of the Nevada Con., restraining the Amalgamation until further argument on January 24. Three men were suffocated by powder pow-der smoke and nitro fumes in the Gunnison tunnel near Montrose, Colo., and thirty others barely escaped with their lives. Air currents of the tunnel tun-nel were reversed by the concussion of heavy blasts, and the smoke and gases were blown back upon the miners min-ers "before they could reach the por tal. St. - George, Washington county, Utah, may be on the railroad map when the route of the San Pedro, Los Angeles &. Salt Lake Railroad company's com-pany's line is revised. Engineers are to survey a probable right-of-way through that town. In a freight wreck early Sunday morning on the Colorado Midland near Busk tunnel, in Colorado, four men were killed and three others injured. in-jured. DOMESTIC. Frank Schermerhorn has confessed that he strangled to death Sarah Bry-mer, Bry-mer, a governess, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Schermerhorn says he was intoxicated intoxi-cated and did not know what he was doing. The price of a comely girl in New York' is twenty dollars. For this sum Elizabeth Harzo, 20 years old, was "sold" to a woman maintaining a resort re-sort in New York City, according to indictments returned by a special grand jury which is investigating the white slave traffic. James Humphreys, a wealthy young farmer, is in the county jail as a result of the inquiry into the killing of James Hatcher, a farmer, who was shot from ambush near Lin&.ey, Mo. Representative Harrison took a rap at ex-President Roosevelt on Tuesday when he denounced the former president presi-dent for appointing representatives to the third maritime conference at Brussels Brus-sels next April without due authority of law, and for his alleged numerous violations of the civil service law. It is rumored that Giffoid Pinchot, former United States forester, is to be chosen as president of the University Univer-sity of Michigan, to succeed Dr. Jas. B. Angell. J. H. Potts, 63 years old. dropped dead from excitement in an East St. Louis bowling alley, when his son, Thomas Potts, won the city championship cham-pionship for his team by making a strike on his last ball. Stockholders of the Barre Savings bank at Barre, Mass., have re-elected George Howard, who is 100 years old, to the bank's board of trustees. .William H. Mcllvoy, 74 years old, is dead at Madison, 111., leaving twenty-six twenty-six children and 118 grandchildren. He was a Civil war veteran and boasted that never wore a white shirt or collar, never used an umbrella and never had a picture taken. He was married three times. A national plan to encourage the growing of timber in the United States will be proposed to the civic federation conference on uniform laws by representatives of the National Lmber association meeting at Washington. Wash-ington. The proposed plan contemplates contem-plates that no tax of any kind be paid on timber or on timber land until the trees are manufactured into lumber. Placing three sticks of dynamite in the front of his shirt, William A. Bennett Ben-nett lighted the fuse and was blown to death, at New London, Conn. The smallest pension now paid by the Chicago & Northwestern under a revision of its system is $12 per month. Previously it had no minimum. mini-mum. The effect Is to increase the pensions of 125 individuals. Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson are said to be planning the , formation of a corporation to be known as the Jeffries-Johnson Moving Picture corporation. cor-poration. Barrett Eastman, dramatic critic and special writer on Chicago newspapers, news-papers, is dead at Biloxi, Miss. He ended his life there January 11, with poison. Mr. Eastman, who had been ill a long lime, went to Blloxl and registered reg-istered In the Brastau hotel as Wilson Blum. In Los Angeles Saturday Anna and Annlce Woody ai d, twin sisters, were made defendants in suits for divorce filed by their respective husbands, Eugene Eu-gene and Jason Woodyard, who are brothers. Desertion is alleged in each "U BP. John R. Walsh, former president of the Chicago National bank of Chicago, under sentence to five years' imprisonment imprison-ment in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kas., on the charge of misapplying misap-plying the funds of the bank, will have to serve his sentence, his attorneys having failed to save him from prison. One woman is dead, two others are missing and three are seriously injured, in-jured, one perhaps fatally, as the result re-sult of a fire that N completely destroyed de-stroyed an apartment house in the fashionable district of West, Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. "Two North river ferryboats collided collid-ed during a fog near the Jersey City shore, causing a panic among the. passengers, pas-sengers, many women fainting from fright, but all were gotten ashore safely. It is estimated that the American people pay for electrical service, in various forms $1,200,000,000 annually. WASHINGTON. "Most of the prices for food products pro-ducts are clearly out of all reason," said Cardinal Gibbons in an Interview In Washington, "and the people cannot can-not go on paying such prices when they are not earning any more than they were some years ago, when prices were not so high." Joaquin Nabuco, ambassador of Brazil Bra-zil to the United States, died at his home in Washington, Monday. He had represented his government in Washington since May, 1905. Applications for 200.000 membership cards to the Anti-Food Trust league, recently organized to fight, by boycott, boy-cott, high food prices, have been received, re-ceived, it was announced Monday, after af-ter the first meeting of the board of directors di-rectors in Washington. Secretary Ballinger has made it plain that he does not intend to resign re-sign under fire. When told of a report re-port that he was' to be succeeded by a man from Oklahoma, the secretary declared: "I don't intend to resign while there is anything to fight." In welcoming the conference of governors gov-ernors at the White house Tuesday afternoon, af-ternoon, President Taft addressed the governors as "My dear fellow executives execu-tives and fellow sufferers." Governor Hughes of New York and former Mayor Seth Low, New York City, spoke at the afternoon session. The east and the south have a right to ask the same attention by the national na-tional government to forests on the water sheds of the Appalachians as has been given to the west, declared former Governor Curtiss Guild, Jr., of Massachusetts, president of the American Ameri-can Forestry association, at its annual dinner In Washington. Transportation of the mails by railways, rail-ways, steamship lines and various star routes cost the government, during dur-ing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, $83,493,7G2, an Increase of $2,-350,553 $2,-350,553 from the cost in 1908. ' FOREIGN. President Madriz of Nicaragua has sent a message to the supreme court demanding the trial of all implicated in the shooting of the Americans, Groce and Cannon. Ex-President Ze-laya Ze-laya does not appear officially in the proceedings of the court martial, but it is believed evidence may be introduced intro-duced which will implicate him in the murder. The public has been aroused by the summary execution at Port au Prince, Hayti, of two sailors accused of having hav-ing stolen merchandise from the wharfs. Upon detection General Ferdinand, Fer-dinand, captain of the port, arrested the sailors, who were immediately shot without being given 'an opportunity oppor-tunity either to explain or confess. The Argentine naval commission has advised the government to authorize author-ize the construction of two Dread-naught Dread-naught battleships of 2S.000 tons each. The proposed vessels are to have a speed of twenty-two knots an hour and will carry twelve guns of 12-inch caliber. - - ' . Baron Otto Von Orban, a rich land owner, when riding through the forest for-est in Transylvania was pursued by wolves. His horse threw him and the wolves tore him to pieces. The voters of England on Saturday swept forty-three Unionist candidates into parliament, as against thirty-seven successful Liberals. . The Labor party was successful in having only six candidates elected and the Nationalists Nation-alists seated five of their men. The Unionist gains eighteen, Liberals gains 33, Labor gains over Liberals one. The grand vizier at Constantinople has sent cipher dispatches to the governor gov-ernor of the Hojas Vilayot, ordering him to keep a sharp watch on the attitude at-titude of the khedive during the visit to Mecca. France has been aroused by the American exposure of the white slave traffic and has entered into the campaign cam-paign with energy and a determination determina-tion to put an end to the tribute of young French womanhood paid to this modern Minotaur. While the fire which consumed the palace at Tatoi, Greece, Is reputed to have been due to accident, there are rumors current that it was of incendiary incen-diary origin, and that the police expect ex-pect soon to have the firebug in custody. cus-tody. 'M. Paderewski has presented to the city of Cracow, Austrian Poland, a statute forty feet high of King Ladis-las Ladis-las Jagiello, the Polish monarch who defeated the Germans at Grunwald in 1410. It is the work of the Polish sculptor, M. Wllwulski, and cost 12,-000. 12,-000. The king of Denmark has returned to Copenhagen from Vienna, whither has had proceeded on private business, busi-ness, and spent a few days with the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland at their country seat in Upper Austria. King Frederick will probably pay a visit to England in June next. - |