Show RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE happening that are making bistor information gathered from all quarters of the globe and given in a few lines INTER MOUNTAIN the government grand jury Is to in the affairs of the great western beet sugar company of mountain home idaho it being charged that the officers of the corn pany not only sold water rights sever al times over but also disposed ot government land to which it had no title rhe lury in the case against mrs mary M johnson accused ot having the seattle electric corn pany of by means of a fake dam age claim returned a verdict of not guilty the eleventh montana legislative hembly Is to meet in extraordinary session in helena on december 27 to consider appropriations for additions to the state capital because his friend a candidate at the late election was defeated at the polls john tand a harness maker committed suicide at santa barbara il tand threatened before election to take bis life in the event of his friend being defeated mrs olive burbank mother of lu ther burbank the horticulturist juose fame has spread to europe and earned recognition from the learned societies at berlin and paris died at santa rosa cal wednesday aged 96 years an explosion in mine no 25 of the cedar hill coal coke company twenty five miles northeast ot trini dad colo instantly killed two men early thursday they were robert ramey and james fedesco and both left families despite every effort of the local of bleers aided by outside talent not the least trace has been heard of the body of the little conrad boy stolen from its grave at great falls mont on thanksgiving evening many al lebed clews have been followed up without success DOMESTIC ghouls robbed the body of mrs alice bennett who was killed in a railroad wreck near ariz ot a considerable sum 0 money the united states cruiser buffalo with marines on board has been ordered to corinto to protect ameri cans and american property from the wrath of zelaya official announcement Is made of the purchase by J P morgan co of controlling interest in the six addition al independent telephone companies of ohio and indiana all doubt as to the fate of the five girls reported missing after the fire at sherwood s factory in philadelphia was removed when the bye bodies were found on the third floor or the damaged building seated at his fireside reading and in the presence of his family a wealthy politician living at gonzales N M was ed two brothers named torres have been arrested and are held tor hinves ti gation municipal dance halls as a tute for ornate halls were advocated by mrs joseph bowen president of the juvenile protective assida tion in an address at the luncheon of the ways and means committee in chicago the report of the national association shows that 8 bales of cotton had been ginned to decem her 13 1909 two women two men and three children lost thier lives and seven other persons were seriously injured in a tenement fire in cincinnati which broke out at midnight three of the dead were burned to cinders A broken rail caused the wreck of a passenger train on the southern rail way near greensboro N twelve passengers being killed and twenty tour injured three trains were wrecked near watertown S D because of the pe aliar action of frost in causing the rails to spread six passengers were killed as the result of a train collision near erie N Y while a score or more were in aured agnes claypool aged IS and her fiancee harvey bissell aged 24 were killed in an automobile accident at pasadena cal after buting all telegraph and tele phone wires entering the town of okia robbers dynamited the state bank of paoli secured 3 in cash and escaped the national good roads conven lion at topeka bans suggests na aid for permanent roads a system of national highgas high was connect ing capitals of the various states and ot state highways connecting various county seats use of federal prisoners for building roads and the establishment of road making on a strictly business basis four men are under arrest three at floria and one at xenia as the result of a safe blowing at lola and the subsequent pursuit of robbers by posses of citizens aided by bloodhound t at the close of the big game sea son december 15 it was found the cost of the chase had been thirty tour lives in new england and eastern canada among the score or more known to have been seriously injured five are not expected to recover and two will lose their sight mrs sally mckanney who tradition says led quantrell and his band into laurence kans on the memorable occasion of the sad ing of that town on august 21 Is dead after a long illness she had lived in em por a kans for thirty five years her bir holace was bagenalstown charles 1 warriner charged with embezzling while local treas aurer of the big four railroad corn pany did not go to trial at cincinnati last week owing to the absence ot one of hia attorneys another date for the trial will be set five robbers dynamited the sate ot the citizens bbate bank at oklahoma and escaped with 2 in cash before th of next spring the atlantic home and mediterranean fleets will be brought up to their max icum strength the power efficiency of the british navy has never been so complete and overmastering as it will be on that occasion there are thirty our battleships in commie slon robert roberson arrested at for forgery has confessed to the officers thit he killed george bowen captain of the baseball team at monroe ga on july 4 organized labor Is to fight the steel trust s open shop policy this decision having been reached at a conference con ferenc of labor leaders held in pittsburg washington land classification examination ot water resources investigations ot mine accidents and tests of mineral fuels and building materials formed features of the work of the united states geological survey dur ing the fiscal year 1909 according to the report of the director of the sur vey just issued for the construction and malate nance of military and post roads bridges and trails in alaska the war department has sub bitted to the house a deficiency estimate of for the current year s needs chang alu ting the new minister from china upon nis arrival at washington declared that the rela eions between the united and china were never more cordial than at present and that tha peo pie and government had absolute con in the united states the need of the united states navy for more enlisted men Is shown by orders issued placing in reserve the armored cruiser new boik which only a few months ago was placed in commission with the armored cruiser squadron ot the atlantic fleet arter having been completely rebuilt senator raynor of maryland has introduced a resolution authorizing the president of the united states apprehend and try the president of nicaragua tor his crime against two american citizens one ot the projects for the solution of the nicaraguan situation that has been strongly urged upon the state department Is the establishment ot a protectorate either singly by the united states or jointly with mexico FOREIGN plans are afoot it Is believed for he consummation of a confederation ot the central american republics leopold II 11 king of belgium died at brussels on december 17 follow ing an operation he born at brussels on april 9 1837 two children of syndney masters ot fort rouge manitoba were burned 0 death mrs manteis locked the children in the house while she was away william fee an aged american who Is said tp have had wealthy rela alves at albany N Y was killed and several mexican patients were in ared by an insane patient at the por elrio diaz hospital at chihuahua the french court has decided in faia vor of princess de anna gould in the suit instituted by her former husband count boni de cas bellane who wanted to have a tutor acceptable to him appointed for their youngest son the 1 ing of italy has recognized the services rendered by the salva tion army in the towns devastated by the earthquake in december last by appointing commissioner cosandey leader of the expedition which the army sent out to the grade of a cava here of the corona bitalla A contest over the succession to the throne of belgium Is possible the vatican Is reported to have confirmed the marriage a year ago of king leopold and baroness vaughan two sons are said to have been born from this union and both survive the el der is lucban 5 years old it Is re ported he will claim the throne die new regime in turkey seems no more competent to handle the sit bation ii macedonia than did the old 1 ie the list of political murders of greeks by bulgarians and vice versa dwindled to the vanishing point atie different factions of Bulgar lana hi e been still making it hot for each ler ase stanton zelaya his resigned aiom the presidency of nicaragua ha ing placed his resignation in the hands of congress declaring he did so tor the good of his country and to prevent the united states from intel in nicaraguan affairs two frenchmen have perfected an apparatus which will transmit like nesses of persons standing at either end ot a wire enabling people talking over a telephone to see as well as to hear each other the government of i anama has no lined the state department at wash ington that it will send a special plenipotentiary to in january to negotiate with the depre of costa rica a protocol or the arbitration ot the boundary line dispute between the two coun tries henry labouchere the noted radical editor in an interview in london ex pressed the belief that the house of lords was doomed and declared in favor of an elective upper house in the british parliament modeled on the plan of the united states senate G spiller an american pro krietor ot the astor house at colon and alleged owner of the cuban steamer gotori has been expelled from panama territory he was put aboard the royal mall magdalena bound tor jamaica and new by a decree of president Ob cildia news of several steamship dieas tera involving much loss ot life was brought by the monteagle ar rived from the orient at vancouver bodies of nineteen men and three women were washed ashore from tl e steamer Ki maru which foundered off |