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Show NEWS OF 11 WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlstor) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTER-MOUNTAIN. Charles D. How-ell, former postmaster post-master at Havre, Mont., and at one time a prominent politician there, who disappeared October 22, has been found in jail in Seattle, accused of having robbed the Great Northern express office in that city on the night of October 10. The Astoria, Ore., wife of "Bluebeard'' "Blue-beard'' Gebhardt, who confessed to killing Anna Luther, declares that Gebhardt told her he had killed seven sev-en women. Orpha Gerulf, a waitress of Seattle, despondent over a quarrel with a man who had been attentive to her, told her fortune with a deck of playing cards to see how her love affair would turn out, and declared that the cards showed that she "was surrounded by death." A few hours later :;he shot herself through the heart. That the old mining camp of Virginia Vir-ginia City, Nevada, is sinking into the deep canyon on the side of which it is located and that it has aready slipped down hill eleven feet with the last few years is the starting announcement, announce-ment, made by Professor George J. Young, head of the mining and geological geo-logical department of the University of Nevada. That William H. Purdy, manager of the Grosvenor hotel, in New York City, chose death rather than face the consequences of a, shortatje of several thousand dollars in his accounts ac-counts is the belief expressed by the police as the result of statements made to them by the owners of the hotel. A mob of night-riders was put to flight iu Mason county, Ky.. by a sixteen-year-old girl, armed with a shotgun, when the men came to whip her father. The girl fired into the crowd and wounded two men. Some of them were recognized and arrests will follow. Charles C. Dickinson, president of the Carnegie Trust company and officer of-ficer and director in financial and railroad companies, was thrown from his saddle horse in Central park, New York, and seriously injured. Twenty lives were lost when the steamer hestia ran onto a shoal off the coast of Maine near Eastport, a mistake of the man at the wheel evidently being the cause of the accident. acci-dent. Only six of the crew are positively pos-itively known to have been saved. The people of Stockton, Cal., have been holding an unique celebration, styled "The Rush of '49," stirring scenes of the early days of gold-mining gold-mining in that state being depicted. WASHINGTON. "I don't believe Bryan Will be the next Democratic candidate for the presidency," said Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee, in an interview at Washington. Wash-ington. General Oliver O. Howard, last of the .Union commanders ot the Civil war, died at his home in Burlington, Vt., October 26, of heart disease. He was 79 years old. A heavy and general advance in the freight rates on lemons has been made by transcontinental railroads. Shippers of the American product are concerned seriously by the proposed advance, which, according to the tariffs filed with the interstate commerce com-merce commission, will become effective effec-tive November 15 next. James J. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the Great Northern railway, was the central figure at the opening session of the Dry Farming congress at Billings, Mont., on Tuesday, Tues-day, and made a very interesting and friendly talk, the growth of the west being his theme. Frank Kowalakes has pleaded guilty at Cheyenne, Wyo., of robbing a pest-house. pest-house. Not only did he carry off the furniture and carpets, but even loaded load-ed the stoves on a wagon and conveyed con-veyed the stuff to a second-hand man. DOMESTIC. Two hours after she had caused the arrest of her husband, Abraham Levy, a tailor, on a charge of abandonment, aban-donment, Mrs. Esther Levy visited the jail in Chicago, and before the startled lockup keeper had a chance to interfere, shot through the bars at Levy, inflicting a fatal wound. A prairie fire which burned over an area estimated at more than sixty square miles, in South Dakota, was checked after it had destroyed farm and ranch property worth $100,000. Several people had narrow escapes. John D. Rockefeller has made a gift of one million dollars for the purpose of fighting the "hookworm disease," a disease prevalent among the poorer classes of. the South. For the first time since his retirement retire-ment from the Tammany leadership, several years ago, Richard Croker was in New York City during the heat of a mayoralty campaign. Mr. Croker Crok-er is here from Europe, he insists, solely for the purpose of visiting socially so-cially with old friends. "Professor" Frank Hill, the herb doctor of Fall River, Mass., was held without bail for the murder of Miss Amelia St. Jean of Woonsocket, R. I., whose dismembered body was found near Tiverton, R. I., three weeks agu. Five children lost their lives when the girls' college of the Presbyterian church orphanage at Lynchburg was destroyed by fire. The victims were all inmates of the nursery. Geo. Earl of Kenosha, Wis., went to sleep on October 22, and is still sleeping, seemingly not disturbed by anything. The man has been awakened awak-ened several times since he dropped off, but he falls asleep against just as soon as he is left to himself. Arthur P. Heinze, who was convicted con-victed last June of advising a witness wit-ness in the United Copper company investigation to evade the service n a grand jury subpoena, has been sentenced sen-tenced to pay a fine of $250 and be imprisoned ten days in the iNew York City prison. United Slates Senator Martin Johnson John-son is dead at Fargo, N. D.. from Liright's disease. Senator Johnson A judicial opinion , which appears likely to overtnrow the government's entire criminal case under the antitrust anti-trust law against the American Sugar Refining company and its directors, has been handed down by Justice Holt of the United States circuit court in New York City. FOREIGN. A score of miners were killed by an explosion in the Rhymney Iron company's coluery in Glamorgen-shire, Glamorgen-shire, Wales. Manager Bowen and two companions, who attempted a rescue, were themselves overcome by the after-damp and perished. Passengers arriving at New Orleans Or-leans from Bluefields, Nicaragua, declare de-clare it is hard to get the truth about revolutionary movements, as the revolutionists rev-olutionists are inclined to exaggerate exagger-ate their successes. . Count Bioni De Castellane and his former wife, Anna Gould, are again in tbja limelight, each endeavoring to direct the education of their children. chil-dren. The French courts have intervened inter-vened and directed that the children become pupils of the Lycee of Jan-sen. Jan-sen. In the by-election in England, two suffragettes furnished a sensation when they attempted to destroy the ballot-boxes by smashing a bottle of corrosive acid on the ballot-boxes. Some of the election officials were painfully burned and the two women are under arrest. Much suffering among the poor is reported from all over the state of Tobasco. Mexico, as the result of disastrous dis-astrous floods. Although rains, which fell incessantly for more than three weeks, have ceased, some of the .rivers are rising, owing to the rush of waters down' the mountains. The boy crown prince of Korea is reported to have been inconsolable when the news of the assassination of Prince Ho of Japan, his aged tutor, was broken to him. A dispatch from San Juan Bautista, Mexico, says the Grijilivia river there continues rising and the condition of the poor has reached the starvation stage, owing to the impossibility of sending out provisions. The total damage will exceed $5,000,000. Henri Bernstein, the dramatist, and Francis Chevassau, a dramatic critic, fought a duel with pistols in Paris. Neither was injured. M. Chevassau Che-vassau fired and missed, while Bernstein Bern-stein did not discharge his weapon. Prince Hirobumi lti. the famous Japanese statesman, was assassinated assassinat-ed at Harbin, on October 25, by a Korean, Prince Ho was the greatest statesman ot new Japan, and it was tor years had been prominent in politics pol-itics and had served three terms in congress. Jack Willis, a young Cherokee Indian, In-dian, was shot and killed by Con stable Will's. alter Willis had' wounded Constable Ketcher. the fight taking place when Willis entered a crowded school room near Sleeper, Oklahoma, in an effort to escape the olticers. illis was shot down whiU in the midst of the frightened school children. Driven by a sudden impulse to get rich quick. James Mahan. aged 25. night agent for the American Express company at the union station at Peoria. Ills., originated a fake holdup hold-up story, after robbing the company safe of $4,000 in currency, but was caught. While asleep, Park W. Latimer, county surveyor and city engineer, was killed at Prescott, Arizona, by his wife, who then shot herself tl ro'ugh the heart. Jealousy is believed be-lieved to have been the cause of the tragedy. greatly as a result of his effoits that Japan has taken her place in the ranks of modern civilized nations. Twenty-five persons were killed in recent earthquake shocks at Bellpnt. a small town on the Quetta railroad, in the central part of Beluchistan. T. -P. O'Connor, member of the taigiish parliament ilas ar.iveo t --Tnited --Tnited States to raise funds from Irish-Americans to be used in the campaign cam-paign for home rule for Ireland. A banquet planned to he held in St. Louis iu honor of the diplomatic representatives in Washington ot Latin-American countries, was aban doned because most of the govern ments concerned have ordered their ministers to remain in Washington during the revolutionary movement in Nicaragua. The Spanish cabinet, headed by Premier Maura, has resigned, the exe cution of Ferrer having caused such a storm of public sentiment that the members of the cabinet decided to re sign. |