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Show News Stoiy ; of a Week I i A COMPLETE HISTORY OF WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING j THROUGHOUT THE WORLD i ' i A bill under the provisions of which horse racing would be resumed Id Tennessee with a state commission in control, has been introduced in the bouse of representatives. It would prohibit all but the pari-mutuel system sys-tem of betting. A. N. Perry, his wife, three daughters daugh-ters and a son were found frozen to death on Box Elder divide, sixteen miles east of Rapid City, N. D. They had started to town in a wagon and were caught in a blizzard. Advocates of woman suffrage in Delaware lost their fight when the senate on Saturday defeated a bill proposing a constituional amendment giving women the right to vote. The first conviction in the district attorney's crusade against grafters in the police department of New York was obtained Saturday. John J. Ilar-tigan, Ilar-tigan, a patrolman, was found guilty of perjury. High waves and treacherous winds capsized a skiff near Fort Madison, Iowa, drowning three. The fourth .member of the party was rescued. WASHINGTON The first sequel to President Wilson's Wil-son's determination to refer office seekers to members of his cabinet came Monday, when Secretary .Mc-Adoo .Mc-Adoo announced that he was compelled com-pelled to decline to receive personal applications for office. The plan advocated by former President Pres-ident Taft to have cabinet members occupy seats in congress and participate partic-ipate in the debates concerning their respective departments, probably will be championed by President Wilson, and an attempt made in the coming congress to enact the necessary legislation. legis-lation. Secretary of War Garrison has instructed in-structed Brigadier General Bliss to hold the arms and equipment of the Mexican federal soldiers, who, after being routed by the rebels from No-gales, No-gales, Mexico, fled over the boundary to Nogales, Arizona, and surrendered to Colonel Wilder. "Trust" investigations begun in the Taft administration are being contin ued witli unabated energy by Attorney Attor-ney General McReynolds. New inquiries in-quiries are expected as soon as the forces of the department of justice can reach them. Conferences between National Chairman Chair-man William F. McCombs and Democratic Demo-cratic leaders on Sunday brought out the fact that the administration intends in-tends to proceed slowly and carefully in filling federal offices throughout the country. FOREIGN A well defined report has reached London from the Riviera that Maxine Elliott, the well known actress, the pet of royalty and friend of aristocracy, aristoc-racy, quietly married at Nice Monday night Anthony F. Wilding, the famous lawn tennis player. The Greeks have occupied the town of Klissura, in Albania. The Turks offered stubborn resistance, but were forced to retire in the direction of Be-rat. Be-rat. The Turkish losses were very considerable. The Greeks lost thirteen thir-teen killed and forty wounded. The post mortem examination at Southampton, England, of the body of Frances Leslie, the young American actress, who was found dead Saturday on board the steamship Oceanic, showed that death was due to an attack at-tack of epilepsy. There was no evidence evi-dence of foul play. Colonel George K. Hunter of the Seventh cavalry has issued an order prohibiting the men of the Manila garrison gar-rison from appearing in public with native women, unless they are married mar-ried to the woman. Harry Lewis, the American welterweight, welter-weight, knocked out Jack Harrison, middleweight champion of England, in the third round of a twenty-round contest at the National Sporting club, London, Monday night. The European powers have decided practically to ignore the extravagant demands of the Balkan allies and to consider' their reply as tantamount to an agreement to accept the proffered mediation. A French aviator, Mercier, was killed kill-ed at Amberien, France, while testing test-ing an aeroplane. He attempted too sharply a turn, and the machine capsized. cap-sized. Miss Marjorie Masters, the suffrage school teacher who threw a pot of green paint through a window of the home office in London, has been sentenced sen-tenced to a month's imprisonment. The suffragets who again attempted attempt-ed to hold a Sunday afternoon meeting meet-ing in Hyde park, London, were mobbed mob-bed by a crowd of 10,000 persons. They were pelted with clods, oranges and other missiles, and in some in- INTER MOUNTAIN Governor J. M. Carey on Monday ordered Sheriff R. M. Hoops to pre-rent pre-rent an advertised prize fight from being be-ing presented at Cheyenne. Once before be-fore the governor stopped a scheduled fight, calling attention to the statutes of the state which prohibit boxing. The N'ihart Carey act commission bill was vetoed March 15 by Governor Gover-nor Jonh M. Haines of Idaho, and one of the most important measures passed by the recent legislature went Into the waste-basket. One of the three stockmen killed in the freight collision on the Union Pacific at Herdon, Neb., when five men lost their lives, has been identified identi-fied as James Mulligan of Fuller, Idaho. The governor of Idaho has approved the pure seed bill and the house measure meas-ure known as 339, authorizing a bond issue of $25,000 for the purchase of the Mosley farm near the penitentiary peniten-tiary so that the laud can be used to work convicts. The spring round up of wild horyes has begun near Meeker, Colo., and last week cowboys from the Lazy L outfit brought in the first bunch-r-seventeen head. They were all magnificent mag-nificent specimens. Northwestern Colorado is now the only section of the state where wild horses can be found, and they prove a not-to-be despised de-spised source of revenue to cattlemen. cattle-men. Utah's tenth legislature adjourned March 13, on the sixtieth day of the session, the first time in the history of the state that a legislature has adjourned ad-journed oni time. DOMESTIC Streets of Nuevo Laredo, the Hex-lean Hex-lean town opposite Laredo, Texas, were the scene of a battle, early Monday Mon-day morning in which twenty Carran-zistas Carran-zistas and fifteen federals were killed. Nearly fifty soldiers were wounded. Hie scheduled fight between Carl Morris and Jim Stewart did. not take place at Sapulpa, Okla. Just as the men we're about to enter the ring Adjutant Ad-jutant General Canton, with a squaa of state guards from Tulsa, marched to the ringside and declared the fight off. Judge Landis in the United States district court at Chicago has instructed instruct-ed a special grand jury to investigate butterine frauds compromised by the 'internal revenue department on March 4. To save the life of Roy Rankin, a Los Angeles detective, who was shot by a Mexican volunteer at Tiajuana, Lower California, recently, six ribs and the remainder of his right lung were removed in a Los Angeles hospital. hos-pital. ' Frank Gotch, wrestling champion of the world, has signed articles to meet George Lurich, for ten years the undefeated un-defeated champion of Europe, at Kansas Kan-sas City, April 1. It is said Gotch will receive $15,000. Lieut. Gov. Barrett O'Hara, of Illinois, Illi-nois, chairman of the senate committee commit-tee investigating the white slave evil in Illinois, announced Sunday he had received letters from governors of twelve states offering to co-operate with him to suppress the traffic of women and kindred evils. Three students of a college at Hills-boro, Hills-boro, N. C, have been found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the death of a fellow student, Will Rand, while the latter was being hazed last September. They were each sentenced sen-tenced to four months in jail. I Miss Josephine Kigitich, 35 years old, of Buffalo, while viewing the Niagara falls with a party of friends from va point on Luna island, lost her balance, fell into the river and was carried over the American falls. The body was not recovered. A sheriff's posse is searching the country near Medora, N. D., for an unknown man who is said to have attacked at-tacked Miss Emma Larson, a school teacher, and held her captive for several sev-eral hours. When released the young woman staggered into town and-collapsed after telling her story. Burglars on Sunday made a rich haul when they broke into a pawnshop pawn-shop in New York. The property stolen includes $25,000 worth of jewelry, jew-elry, diamonds and other precious stones and $(J0,000 worth of negotiable securities. The supreme court of Kansas has issued an order ousting from office the three city councilmen of Hucne-well, Hucne-well, Kansas, against whom charts had been filed by Mrs. Ella Wilson, the mayor of the town. Qtto liuckmaiin, a Santa Ke shop employe, at Albuquerque, N. M., shot and killed Louis Benavides and probably prob-ably fatally wounded Rafael Pargas and Prudencio Garcia, in a' street fight. Buckmann alleges the men attempted at-tempted to hold him up and that he shot in self-defense. Ninety persons were killed, scores severely injured and great property I loss sustained In the disastrous elec-I elec-I trical storm which swept parts of ' Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisi- ana, and Mississippi and Texas on ( March 13. stances tneir hats torn oil. A London journal devoted to sport and the drama says the details of an elaborate suffraget plot to carry off David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, are just beginning to leak out. Three hundred Albanian inhabitants inhabi-tants of Liuma, in the Turkish province prov-ince of Kossovo, were shot and killed without trial by Servian troops, according ac-cording to a dispatch from Urkup. Enrique C. Lloreute, the former Mexican consul at El Paso, Texas, who has been charged by the American Ameri-can authorities with violation of the neutrality lavvs, has been arrested at Chihuahua by order of General Rab-ago. Rab-ago. He is accused by the Mexican authorities of minor political offenses. of-fenses. The latest exploit of the militant suffragets in London is the obliteration oblitera-tion of the names on the gateposts by which houses in the l e.-i irn; !al streets are (list ir.gut:-!. oil. 1 ' .- e!::;' , used. |