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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A MOVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. General disarmament of the weapon-carrying weapon-carrying element of Tooele, Utah, is planned by Sheriff Philip Aljets as the result of a quarrel between two foreigners, for-eigners, which resulted in the serious bounding of one of the participants. Two million pounds of frozen beef mid mutton, the first direct shipments of this kind ever sent from Australia to Seattle, arrived Monday on the V.rltlHh ship VValmate. Officers of the company importing the meat say regular regu-lar shipments from Australia to Seattle Seat-tle will follow. The sudden disappearance of the Rev. George Gallup, vicar of St. Johns cathedral of Denver, lias created a stir in church circles, especially as Dean H. Martyn Hart, under whom the vicar worked, intimated that the vicar's disappearance was connected with a Bcandal. F. W. Imel, a paroled burglar from the Kansas state reformatory, who was arraigned charged with attempting attempt-ing to swindle a prominent business man of Pueblo, hanged himself In his cell. Senator Thomas of Colorado addressed ad-dressed 200 representative business men of Salt Lake, at a banquet Saturday Sat-urday night, on the currency bill, declaring de-claring that the new law is an improvement im-provement over the old banking act. Federal officers located a counterfeiter's counter-feiter's plant in Salt Lake and captured cap-tured Milton H. Lee, a venerable graybeard, as he was in the very ant of making a counterfeit $5 gold piece. The ancient counterfeiter had just taken- the counterfeit coin from the dio and it was still burning hot. i DOMESTIC. Increases in salaries amounting to about $10,000 a year were voted by the United Mine Workers of America in convention at Indianapolis. The supreme court has held that provisions of Arizona law exempting private fortunes of stockholders from liability for an Arizona corporation's debts were not effective in all states , where the corporations do business. Charles Ward well Schofield, once a prominent railroad builder of the west, 78 years old, was married in Brooklyn on Monday to Miss Jean W. Fitzsim-mons, Fitzsim-mons, aged 28, a trained nurse. Within With-in three hours he -was dead of pneu-f- monia. He realized that death was upon him and asked that the ceremony cere-mony be performed. j A meeting of the National Democratic Demo-cratic club in New York, Monday night, ended in disorder after a resolution reso-lution demanding that Charles F. Murphy Mur-phy be retired from the leadership of Tammany hall had been declared adopted on an aye and nay vote. Twenty guests in a hotel in New York City were trapped in their rooms by a lire which started in a cafe kitchen in the basement. They were rescued with ladders thrown against the side of the building and across the roofs. The manager was seriously burned. After conferring with his wife and a veterinary surgeon over the most humane way of destroying his pet cats, which had been models for his widely known magazine illustrations, Henry Richard Boehm, an artist, went upstairs in his home near Ossin-ing, Ossin-ing, N.'Y., and shot himself In th-3 head, dying instantly. Maury I. Diggs, former state architect, archi-tect, sought by the police of San Francisco on a warrant charging an offense against a 17-year-old girl, gave himself up on Sunday. Mrs. Laura M. Reuter was found not guilty of complicity in the mur-.der mur-.der of her husband, Charles T. Rea-' ter, by a jury in the district court at Bartelsville, Okla. This was Mrs. Reuter's second trial. Indictments against three railroads and the packing firm of Swift & Co. were returned by the federal grand jury at Chicago on charges of rebating rebat-ing brought by special agents of the interstate commerce commission. Richard C. ("P.lackie") Ford and II. D. Suhr were found guilty at Marysville, Cal., of murder in the second degree for the killing of E. T. Manwall, district attorney of Yuba county, August 30, last year. Approximately one-half the business busi-ness section of Burnsville, Tenn., was wiped out by fire Sunday. Ten business houses and one dwelling were destroyed. The loss is estimat- ed at $180,000. Frank Novak, a striker, was dangerously dan-gerously wounded at Houghton, Mich., in a gun fight with James Jensen and Exel Strang, non-union miners. Jensen and Strang were arrested, ar-rested, charged with the shooting. Charles E. Dana, well known as an artist and art critic, died at his home in Phi'udelphia, Sunday night, aged 71. Louis Bundy. IS years old, who killed kill-ed Harold Zlesche, a 15-year-old messenger, mess-enger, to get $20. was found guilty a' 3.6s Angeles of first degree murdei Under the verdict he must be hanged. Judge Thom;;s VeutreF.s, prominon". in Alabama polities, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed two buildings at Attalla, Ala. He occupied a room on the second floor of one of the buildings and was trapped by the flames. B. M. Blythe, who spent years In Mexico and was an intimate friend ol former President Porfirio Diaz, offering offer-ing him a home in Monrovia, Cal., when he was banished from his own country, died Monday after an illness of five months. Henry Siegel & Co. of Boston, one of the Siegel corporations for which recefvers were appointed a month ago, was adjudicated bankrupt in the United States district court at Bos ton. Trust legislation will be the sub ject of a series of five lectures to be delivered by former President Wil Ham H. Taft before the law school of the University of Minnesota on March 1G. John Henry, accused of killing three persons at Woodson, and who return ed to his own fireside, was brougnt to the jail at Jacksonville, 111. Henry declares he is innocent. WASHINGTON. The senate has requested the interstate inter-state commerce commission to invest-gate invest-gate charges that rebates have been received from the railroads by the United States Steel corporation. Former Senator J. S. Blackburn of Kentucky has been appointed a member mem-ber of the Lincoln memorial commission commis-sion by President Wilson to succeed the late Senator Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois. The literary test to be applied to immigrants was indorsed by house members on Monday by a vote of 173 to 120. A record vote on the proposition proposi-tion will come when the bill, is brought up in the house on final passage. pass-age. A six-year study of the sea mussel has just been completed by Dr. Irving Ir-ving A. Field, professor of biology at Clark university, acting for the United States bureau of fisheries. He finds that the mussel is a valuable article of diet, in the same class with the clam and oyster,, and far more plentiful than either. Exclusive rights for the government govern-ment to buy all radium found on public lands in private exploration and an appropriation of $500,000 for extracting radium from such ores were proposed in an administration bill by Chairman Foster of the mines committee. FOREIGN. A demand for the withdrawal from the Haitian capital of the German and American bluejackets and marines was presented on Monday to the members mem-bers of the foreign diplomatic corps by the citizens' committee of public safety. A definite settlement has been reached of the claims of the three daughters of the late King Leopold in connection with the property left by him. A strike of school teachers, the first of its kind in the British Isles, was in full swing in the county of Hereford on Monday. Eighty out of the 120 elementary schools under the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the county council were closed. Francisco I. Guzman, who figured prominently in the revolt against. President Madero in Mexico City a year ago, was executed in the front yard of a house occupied by General Francisco Villa at Juarez on Monday. Guzman had just come from Havana, where, it was charged, he had been given a secret mission by Felix Diaz to induce General "Villa to renounce General Carranza and throw the strength of the revolution to Diaz. Mexico will face starvation within six months as a result of the rapine, plunder and devastation which have come upon the country through its many revolutions, according to J. A. McCormick of Torreon, state of Coa-huila, Coa-huila, who is a cotton planter. Sharp fighting has occurred at Go-nalves, Go-nalves, Haiti, between the followers of the two rival revolutionary leaders, Senator Davilmar Theodore and General Gen-eral Oreste Zamor, formerly government govern-ment delegate at Cape Haitien. The Jesuit priests, Fathers Allain and Tallie, who were captured by ban-. ban-. dits, when they sacked and burned the ! town of Liuan-Chow recently, have ' been released and have reached a place of safety. Yale university benefits to the extent ex-tent of $500,000 under the will of the late Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Roy-al, high commissioner for Canada, who died on January 21. The Royal Victoria college at Mount Royal re-I re-I ceives $1000,000. An insane steera0e passenger shot and killed F. Wendt, third officer of the North German Lloyd steamer Brandenberg, on the voyage to Brem-erhaven, Brem-erhaven, Germany, from Galveston, Texas. An attempted is to be made by Emperor William to win back the sympathies of the Alsatians after their recent irritation in connection with the Zabern incidents by appointing a royal prince as viceroy. Another plan for a raid on Persia is said to have been put in progress by the former shah, Mohammed All Mirza, whose movements are a source of great anxiety to the government. Fifty thousand dollars in cash wus stolen at Boston on Don, Russia, while the mails were being transferred transfer-red from a railroad train to the post-office. post-office. The government official wh'j had charge of the mail was arrested. Twenty-two persons weve killed and seventeen injured in an explo siou of fire-damp in Achenbach colliery col-liery at Dortmund Germany. |