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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF ATOM 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 The Great Northern and the North- Thirty-eight thousand cattle were received re-ceived Monday at the Kansas City stock yards, the geratest single day's receipts in the history of the yards. The heavy shipments were caused by shriveled pastures and scarcity of water, due to the recent drought. Permits were granted Saturday, according ac-cording to customs and military officials of-ficials at El Paso, Texas, to the Huer-ta Huer-ta government to export 500, 00U rounds of ammunition and l.Ouu rifles to Mexico. Five persons were Instantly killed and three seriously injured when an express train on the Motion railroad crashed into a seven-passenger touring tour-ing car just outside the Chcago city limits. Chattel slavery, as "well as peonage, is flourishing in the Philippines. This startling assertion is made in a spec- ern Pacific Railroad companies ha1? revoked all passes issued to .Montana state officials and their deputies, numbering num-bering about 600, and it is expected that all the other roads operating through the state will take like action. ac-tion. Tired of living because he bad to work during the latter yars of his life, and despondent, it is thought, on account of domestic troubles and recent disagreements with an acquaintance. ac-quaintance. Max Rudavsky, 55 years of age, of Salt Lake City, fired a bullet bul-let through his brain. A new use for the despised English sparrow has been found by T. H. Parks of the Idaho Agricultura college, col-lege, and James G. Sanders of the University of Wisconsin. The sparrow spar-row is expected to destroy the alfalfa weevil. The Norwegian steamer Thode Fagelund and the German bark Thiel-beck Thiel-beck collided In Astoria harbor Saturday, Sat-urday, -with no more serious injury to either crew than a bad scare on board the Thode Fagelund, which carried car-ried 1037 cases of dynamite. Peter Moeller, the "king of Scow-town" Scow-town" and owner of hundreds of Bcows on the Portland watt front, shot and instantly killed one of his tenants, Alexander Brody, while Brody's wife sought to protect her husband in the presence of her two small children. lTlv DOMESTIC The indictment of Charles F. Mur-V phy, leader of Tammany Hall, Aaron J. Levy, leader of the Democratic majority ma-jority in the assembly, and James iai 'report by Commissioner Dean Worcester to the governor general. Banks in the central and the far western states soon will begin receiving receiv-ing their share of the $50,000,000 crop-moving fund that the government is placing in the agricultural states. WASHINGTON Free raw wool was agreed to in the senate on Monday without a roll call. No objection was made to ratification of the paragraph, though Republican senators will later demand roll calls on pending substitutes for the woolen schedule when the bill leaves the committee com-mittee of the whole.- An agricultural currency amendment to the administration currency bill was adopted by the house Democratic caucus cau-cus on Monday. Great Britain, France and Japan are among the nations which have interposed their influence upon the Huerta administration in Mexico in support of the efforts of the United States to bring about a peaceful settlement set-tlement of the revolution. The answer of the administration forces in the house to the criticisms of the new currency hill made by the conference of bankers at Chicago, will be a tightening up of the lines and a more vigorous indorsement of the bill as it now stands. The fate of tobacco pooling associations asso-ciations as well as other farmers organizations or-ganizations organized to get better prices -will come before the supreme court in October, when an attack will be made upon the constitutionality of the Kentucky statute legalizing tobacco pooling organizations. Frawley, chairman of the committee which investigated Governor SulzeTs campaign contributions, has been requested re-quested of the district attorneys of New York and Albany counties by Lynn J. Arnold of Albany, an ardent Sulzer supporter. Leo M. Frank was found guilty at Atlanta, Ga., of the murder last April of 14-year-old Mary Phegan, an employee em-ployee at the local National Pencil company's factory, of which Frank was superintendent. John Eible, 23 years old, third baseman base-man on the ball team of East Alton, 111., was struck on the head by by a pitched ball in a game Monday afternoon after-noon and is still unconscious. His skull was fractured. Governor Major has sent out letters to all the governors in the United States askinsr them not onlv to name Stuart Hunt, an American ranch owner and cattleman of Sonora, and two cowboys in his employ were arrested ar-rested Monday at Fronteras charged with being enemies of the Sonora state government. They were imprisoned im-prisoned by order of Jose Maytorena, the insurgent governor. It is reported at Bucharest that the European powers have selected for the Albanian throne Prince William Frederick Fred-erick Hermann Otto Charles of Wied, German, head of the Wied family and a nephew of Carmen Sylva, queen of Roumania. He is 41 years old and married Princess Pauline of Wurttem-burg Wurttem-burg in 1908. Jack Johnson's music hall engagements engage-ments in London were "postponed" Monday on account of the intense resentment re-sentment displayed on all sides. It delegates to represent their states, but to come themselves to the United States Good Roads convention and exposition ex-position to be held in St. Louis from November 10 to November 15. Governor Sulzer of New York intends in-tends to punish the Tammanychief, Chairman Frawley of the legislative committee, that has been raking up the anti-oulzer . ammunition, and Leader of the Assembly Levy, by pre- senting evidence against them to the -, grand juries of Albany and New York counties, through which he hopes to send them to prison. According to an American who arrived ar-rived at El Paso from western Chl-hauhua. Chl-hauhua. General Francisco Villas, revolutionists rev-olutionists are ill-treating women in each town they occupy. Many young girls have been carried into slavery. Two men were killed Instantly and a third probably fatally injured when gasoline speeder they were riding on the tracks near Higbee, Mo., crashed head-on into the engine of a freight train. M-rs. Owen Wister, wife of the widely known author, died Sunday morning at the Wister summer home et Saunderstown, R. I., after giving birth' to a daughter. The baby sur-vies. sur-vies. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will not is understood that the postponement will be made permanent later, as the London authorities have threatened to make trouble if the engagement of the negro pugilist is not canceled. It has been virtually decided, according ac-cording to the London Daily Graphic, that Prince Arthur of Cannaught will succeed his father, the Duke of Con-naught, Con-naught, as governor general of Canada. Can-ada. A dispatch from Constantinople gives details of negotiations between Turkey and Bulgaria by which, it is said, the latter has relinquished claim to Adrianople in return for compensation compen-sation elsewhere. Nanking is still violently resisting the attack by three government armies, arm-ies, and in the other districts "the general flabbiness" of the provisional administration encourages isolated risings against authority. Jack Johnson, the American negro pugilist, arrived in London Sunday and declared his intention to fulfill his music hall engagement. Johnson is booked to give a boxing exhibition on August 25. Porter Charlton, who is being taken to 'Rome from America to stand trial for the alleged murder of his wife at Lake Como three years ago, will have Onorvelo Camera, foreign minister min-ister of finance, as his chief coun- attend the birthday anniversary celebration cele-bration of the Progressive party to be held in Chicago on August 30. He so -Kinnounced at Kansas City while hefe on his way to New York from a several weeks' outing in northern Arizona. The charges made before the senatorial sen-atorial investigation committee by Martin Mulhall against Frank Feeney, a labor leader of Philadelphia, were declared to be "false and without foundation," in i committee report accepted ac-cepted by. the central labor committee commit-tee meeting at Philadelphia. Humors that General Felix Daiz will not be a candidate for president of . Mexico, at the election in October, are practically confirmed in a telegram tele-gram from General Diaz himself received re-ceived in New York. While hundreds of bathers and ploasure seekers looked on, two young men on an improvised raft of logs, were swept over the government govern-ment dam at Minneapolis, one drowning drown-ing in the swirling water below the falls and the other being rescued after af-ter he had clung to a pile of logs in midstream for three hours. sel. Serapio Rendon, a member of the Mexican chamber of deputies, has been excuted by federal soldiers. He was a strong adherent of Madero and was accused of having plotted to assassinate as-sassinate President Huerta. The Pekin correspondent of the London Times describes chaotic conditions con-ditions in the Yang-Tse valley owing to the dilatoriness of the government troops. He says that within a day's march of the Wu-Sung forts 2,000 southerners continue to defy the Wc tors. Deputy Hordes Mangel was shot to death . Friday night by federal soldiers sol-diers near Atzcapotzalco, a suburb of the capital. Mangel was a friend of the late President Madero and recently re-cently was subjected to an investigation investiga-tion on a charge of sedition. A telegram from General Blanquet, secretary of Mexico City, to General Francisco Castro, commander of the Juarez garrison, says tuat the federals have captured and shot Emiilano Zapata, Za-pata, the scourge of Morelos and Guerrero, together with a number of his officers and men. |