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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEErCS EVENTS RECORD Or THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM- IZED FORM. Home and Foreign News Gathered I A receiver for the Mononeahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke com I 1 pany, a $30,000,000 corporation, ha j ! been asked by Alexander Dempster, its former president, in a bill in equity filed in common pleas court at Pitts- burg. John Nicholson of Yandalia, Mo., has pleaded guilty in circuit court to mur-dering mur-dering his wife and their 9-year-old adopted son by pouring kerosene and gasoline over them while they slept and setting fire to their bed clothing. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. imprison-ment. Tattersall's horse market, at Lexington Lex-ington - Kv one nf the lnrp-pst in thp From All Quarters of the World, and Prepred for Busy Man. INTERMOUNTAIN Two linemen employed by the Mountain Moun-tain .States Telephone company, H. L. Bryan and VV. E. Chittey, were instantly in-stantly killed near Rupert, Idaho. They were extending a telephone wire across a high tension power wire when the two wires touched and the to men were electrocuted. Julius lirand was arrested at Denver Den-ver on a warrant charging him with the murder of Anna Dell Spencer, a J 0-y ear-old girl whom Brand ran over with his automobile. Fire which destroyed the Oregon Lumber company's plant at Dee, Ore., is estimated to have caused $500,000 loss. In an official report made public Sunday,' addressed to Governor Oddie and the members of the Nevada legislature, legis-lature, Attorney General Thatcher recommended the necessity for a country, was destroyed by fire Sunday Sun-day afternoon. Fifty fine saddle anl harness horses were killed, the loss being half a million. The Missouri supreme court has announced an-nounced a decision allowing the Standard Oil company of Indiana, which had been ousted from Ufa state, to continue business in Mis-siouri. Mis-siouri. WASHINGTON Democrats of the senate in caucus late Monday night approved the income in-come tax section of the tariff bill as revised by the majority members of the finance committee, voting, however, how-ever, to strike out the amendment which would exempt mutual life insurance insur-ance companies from the tax. A check for $1,116, S80 on Monday was transmitted to the treasurer of the United States by Postmaster General Gen-eral Burleson in payment for postal savings bonds to that amount, which had been applied for by postal savings depositories in the various states. President Wilson on Saturday approved ap-proved the plan formed by Attorney special session to be convened at an oarly date to investigate the receivership receiv-ership of the State Bank & Trust company. A revolting murder was brought to light at Ogden, Utah, Saturday afternoon after-noon when the body of Frances Ek-man, Ek-man, aged 10, was found in a trunk in the baggage room at the union depot. Mrs. Minnie Ekman, of Salt Lake, mother of the murdered child, has confessed to the murder. James L. Bacon, resident of Cripple Creek, Colo., and former Colorado legislator, leg-islator, charged with the murder of his wife and 6-year-old stepdaughter, May 27, when the Bacon home was destroyed de-stroyed by an expolsion of dynamite, died Friday, the result of wounds inflicted in-flicted by a penknife which he had been given to trim his fingernails. ' James L. Bacon, former representative representa-tive in the Colorado legislature, ia jail at Cripple Creek on a charge, of murdering his wife and stepdaughter-by stepdaughter-by blowing up the family home, attempted at-tempted suicide, cutting himself with a small knife he had borrowed with which to trim his fingernails. DOMESTIC Postmaster Arthur G. Fisk of San Francisco refused to tender his resignation resig-nation to Postmaster General Burleson Burle-son in response to the latter's request. Fisk's term of office expires in 19H3. H. Johnson, formerly of Itasca county, coun-ty, Minnesota, on June 3 obtained a $14,000 farm after waiting in front of the land office at Moosejaw, Sask., 6ince iMay 30. Johnny Coulon, bantamweight chim-pion chim-pion of the world, was taken to a nos- General McReynolds and the railroad attorney for the dissolution of the Union Pacific merger under the Sherman Sher-man anti-trust law. Postponement of the date on which the new sugar tariff shall go into effect - until March 1, 1914, and a change of date when the income tax shall be operative from January 1, 1913, to March 1, 1913, has been agreed upon by the senate finance committee. The house rules comimttee has agreed on a rule by which the deficiency defici-ency appropriation bill to be reported early in July will carry a specific provision pro-vision to abolish the commerce court and vest Its jurisdiction in the United States district courts. A change in the attitude of the United States toward the warring factions fac-tions In Mexico was urged in the sen. ate Friday, 'by Senator Fall of New Mexico, with the result that the fori eign relations committee of that body is to take up the question immediately. immedi-ately. FOREIGN The prolonged efforts of the powers to prevent the outbreak of a fratricidal war -between the Balkan allies seems to have failed just at the moment when it appeared possible for the four premiers to meet at St. Petersburg and submit their demands for Russian arbitration. The international golf match between be-tween teams of professionals representing repre-senting France and the United States opened at La Boulie, France, on Mon-dfl Mon-dfl v pital m Chicago on Monday, sullenng from severe stomach trouble. It. is said that the battering he received in his battle with Frankie Burns at Kenosha Ke-nosha last week aggravated his illness, ill-ness, the exact nature of which ha not been ascertained. Statisticians have just completed counting the nickels that were syent last year to see the "movies" shows. The grand total, said to be the first official count ever prepared in this country, is 6,380,000,000 nickels, or ?319,000,000, paid by 3,600,000,000 spectators. spec-tators. Thirteen persons in Wisconsin were reported dead Monday from the extreme ex-treme heat, while the prostrations will reach several scores. Rev. W. A. McKune, a Baptist clergyman of Utica, N. Y., visiting at Lodi, Cal., lost his life in the Mo-kelumne Mo-kelumne river in a futile attempt o rescue a drowning child. Enough people have volunteered as donors of skin to supply 10,000 square inches needed for grafting on the victims of the Husted elevator explosion ex-plosion at Buffalo, X. Y. Seventy people have volunteered. Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, accompanied by his white wife, Lucille Lu-cille Cameron Johnson, left Montreal for Havre on the Allan line steamer Corinthian at 3 o'clock Sunday morn- i n p- President Porras of Panama has promised to call a special meeting of the assembly to obtain a modification of the more stringent provisions of the law restricting Chinese immigration. immigra-tion. The Norwegian storthing, by a vote of 99 to 16, sanctioned' the contract arranged between the Marconi company com-pany and the late Norwegian government, gov-ernment, providing for a wireless service between Norway and the United States. A strike of 11,850 taxicab chauffeurs chauf-feurs out of the 12,000 in Paris because be-cause of their objection to police traffic traf-fic regulations, was brought to an end in a few hours Saturday by certain cer-tain concessions. Dr. Manuel Ferraze de Campos-Salles, Campos-Salles, president of Brazil from 1S98 to 1902, died June 28, aged 73. During Dur-ing his term of office as president he was responsible for much of the work of reconstruction of the republic. Governor Vargas of the department of Estill, in the north of Nicaragua, rebelled against the government Saturday Sat-urday after being relieved of his post. The uprising was immediately suppressed, sup-pressed, but Vargas succeeded in escaping es-caping and is now a fugitive. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, daughter of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the suf-fraget suf-fraget leader, led an attacking party The body of George Townsend, wealthy Chicago railway promoter, who disappeared from a hotel at Kansas Kan-sas City, June 24, was found Sunday on Goose Island, a small strip of land in the Missouri river, six miles west of Kansas City, Kans. Ten persons were drowned at Leechburg. Pa., when a raft feiry carrying about sixty-five persons, went down in the Kiskiminetas river. It is said the accident was caused by the passengers rushing to the forward for-ward end of the boat. The fifth day of unmitigated heat brought the death roll from heat for this hot spell at Chicago to above forty up to Sunday night. Ten deaths during the day were reported by the police. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Miss Wilson arrived at Cornish, N. H., Saturday and took possession of Har-lakenden Har-lakenden house, their summer home. I Six persons, members of one tam-i tam-i ily, lost their lives in a fire that de-1 de-1 stroyed a house at Lexington, S. C, I Friday night. The bodies were found in die ruins Saturday morning. to Downing street, London, Sunday afternoon for the purpose of imprisoning impris-oning the cabinet ministers. The expedition ex-pedition was unsuccessful. Serious fires have broken out on, the Konai peninsula, Alaska, and are devastating forests on the public domain do-main outside of the Chugach National Na-tional forest. The French aviator Maurio L. Foul-quier, Foul-quier, while testing a monoplane for the first time at Chalons, France, fell from a height of 250 feet, Thursday, and was killed. At an anti-American meeting in Tokio, a resolution was adopted declaring de-claring the Japanese cabinet had failed in settling the California question ques-tion and that the time had arrived for the people to assume a more determined de-termined attitude and extend the national na-tional prestige. Addressing the Canadian Medical association at London, Ont, Dr. Frank Billings of Chicago made an attack on tne widespread manufacture of vaccines vac-cines in the United States. He said that there was too much reckless experimenting ex-perimenting along this line. |