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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF ! A lEIfS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT The- men's league for women's suffrage suf-frage has received Governor Sulzer's indorsement to a petition which It is circulating to present to the United States senate urging a suffrage amendment amend-ment to the constitution. "Too many persons who see the sign 'P. C In the heavens think it means 'preach Christ' when it means plow corn,' " said Vice-President Thomas K. Marshal! in addressing 20,-00( 20,-00( persons who had fathered at Mooaelieart. 111., on Sunday. HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM. Homo and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Propped for Busy Man. INTERMOUNTAIN None of the six persons most seriously seri-ously injured in the overturning of five Colorado & Southern coaches of an excursion ex-cursion train at Eldora, Colo., will die. according to statements by physicians. Helena's population has grown 1.3S9 over 1912, according to the new Polk directory which is now being distributed. distrib-uted. In 1912, the city's population was 16,911, while it " is now given as 18,300. An active campaign is being carried on in Montana in accordance with the law recently passed which provides that aliens may not "tote guns" without with-out a written permit from the state's properly constituted officers. Twenty-seven passengers were injured, in-jured, six probably fatally, when five coaches of the Denver, Boulder & Western train overturned near Eldora, El-dora, Colo., on Sunday. In the five coaches were 125 passengers. With a bible in his hffnds and in the act of delivering the invocation at the evening services in a Dayton, Ohio, church, Rev. V. B. Slater of Youngstown, O., was arrested by detectives de-tectives on the charge of non-support of his wife and two children. Governor Hodges of Kansas has written the governors of all the states west of the Mississippi river asking them to meet in Wichita October 22, to discuss state and national legislation. legisla-tion. Attended by thousands cf mourners, many of them relatives or close friends of the victims, the funeral of the twenty-one unidentified dead, who lost their lives in the Binghampton, N. Y., fire, took place on Sunday. WASHINGTON Senator Bacon of Georgia on Monday Mon-day took the oath as the first United States senator elected by direct vote of the people. Increases in commodity and' class rates averaging U to 40 cents per hundred pounds to and from points on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad, lying between Sioux City and Duluth and South Pacific terminals ter-minals and southwestern intermoun-tain intermoun-tain territory, have been ai5Drovd bv The postoffice at Delta, Garfield, Hyrum and Lehi, Utah, and Elk River, Riv-er, Plummer and Kimberly, Idaho, have been designated postal savings depositaries, effective September 2. Morris Fretwell, aged 33, a block Blgnal lineman employed by the Southern South-ern Pacific company, at Ogden, was electrocuted when he came in contact with a transmission wire carrying 10,-000 10,-000 volts of electricity. Danger of forest fires in California, Washington, Oregon and Idaho is increasing, in-creasing, according to reports received during the last few days from the district dis-trict foresters in the west. Barricading himself in his room and while three deputy sheriffs were attempting at-tempting to gain entrance to arrest him on a charge of insanity, T. H. Potthoff, 35 years of age, a checker at the Denver & Rio Grande freight office at Salt Lake, fired a single shot Into his brain, death resulting. Chris Jordan was proclaimed the winner of the championship wrestling the interstate commerce commission. Democrats of the house banking and currency committee have agreed to allow al-low themselves two weeks more of wrangling over the administration currency cur-rency bill. Then a Democratic caucus will consider the measure. Administration officials are disposed to take an optimistic view of the nego-tiontions nego-tiontions with Japan arising from her protest against, the California anti-alien anti-alien land law, and believe that a complete com-plete understanding is almost in sight. A bill providing a penalty for the retention or misuse of confidential government records, documents or papers pa-pers by former employees of the government gov-ernment has been introduced by Senator Sen-ator Smoot. A division in the Republican ranks over the revision of the tariff became apparent Monday when nearly a dozen Republican senators began a series of conferences to perfect substitute schedules sche-dules that will be offered to the tariff bill under the leadership of Senators T Tni 1 : when Yokel went through the ropes from sheer exhaustion and was unable un-able to come back and continue the match. DOMESTIC The center of the grandstand at the Galveston (Texas) beach automobile race course collapsed just before the beginning of the races Monday. Several Sev-eral persons were hurt, none fatally. There was no panic and. spectators quickly settled down to watch the I races. A spectacular fire that originated in the grand stand or clubhouse at the j Mizzou baseball park, the home of the I Eioux City (Iowa) Western league j team, destroyed the grand stand and elub house, the city planing mill company's com-pany's plant and the Warneck tank factory, The total loss is placed at about $75,000. The federal gunboat Ta'mplco was destroyed by a bomb dropped from an aeroplane over Guaymas harbor, declared de-clared an official insurgent message received at Nogales, Ariz. It was said that Aviator Didier Masson made three flights over the harbor before he succeeded in hitting the boat. A mob, after several hours' search through swamps, captured John Shake, a negro, hanged him to a telephone tele-phone pole in the negro settlement at Dunbar, Ga., and riddled his body with bullets. Shake was believed to be the burglar who shot and dangerously wounded J. F. Hammock, a merchant. Four men were killed and several others seriously injured near West Nutley, N. J., when, an Erie construction construc-tion train jumped the track and dashed dash-ed into the midst of a gang of track repairers who had stepped aside to President Wilson has received further fur-ther assurance from leaders in the house that his currency reform bill will receive favorable support in this session. These assurances have been made in the face of a sharp split among the Democrats in the house banking committee. FOREIGN A case of cholera has developed at Bemesziget, Hungary, near the Servian frontier. It is announced that Kabyle tribesmen tribes-men between Tetuan and Ceuta, Morocco, Mo-rocco, have ambuscaded and attacked a carriage containing a party of Spanish Span-ish war officials. Secretary Guitrriz, Senor Mazona, a servant and a coachman, coach-man, and a babe in arms were killed, I A Mexicn federal gunboat was re-1 re-1 ported to have fired on constitutionalists constitutional-ists at the mouth of the Rio Grande Monday morning. Constitutionalists hold Mattamoros, twenty miles ui the river opposite Brownsville. Texas. After two nights of quiet, firing was resumed Monday at Shanghai. Shells burst over the bandstand in the foreign for-eign section and a Portuguese boy received re-ceived mortal injuries, and other foreigners for-eigners had narrow escapes. Sylvia Pankhurst, the militant suffragette suf-fragette who was out on license under the "cat and mouse," law, was the leader of a suffragette demonstration in London which surpassed all previous previ-ous affairs of the sort. 'In the rioting Which followed Miss Pankhurst was arrested. Trustworthy reports of appalling massacres and devastation .by Turkish irregular troops come from districts in Thrace which the Turks are reoc-ennvins- The eonnfrv about Maleara. let. ine irain pass. George Robinson and his wife and their two children, Alice and Matthew, both aged 12, were found dead at the Robinson farm home at Rumsey, Ala. Authorities believe it a case of murder and suicide. For swimming in bloomers, without a skirt, Dr. Rosalie M. Ladova was arrested ar-rested at the Jackson park municipal beach at Chicago, and taken to a police po-lice station, after she had put on her street clothes. President Joseph F. Smith, with a party of notables from Salt Lake City, dedicated the site of the new $ 1 .00,-000 .00,-000 temple as Canadian headquarters at Oardston on Sunday. Over 2.000 adherents of the church from all parts of Alberta were present. Two women were drowned in the St. Lawrence river at Montreal, when an automobile in which they were sitting sit-ting ran off the deck of the ferry steamer South and into I lie nei Miss Ruih Morrison and Mrs, .1. choyne. were the victims? The governor of Pennsylvania has approved the bill reducing the working work-ing hours of women from sixty to fifty-four a week with not more than ten hours a day. No female under 21 years of age Is permitted to work lu a manufacturing establishment at night. northeast of Gallipiolis, according to reports, has been converted into a human slaughter house. Some of the leading Tokio newspapers newspa-pers accuse the Japanese cabinet of lack of diplomatic adroitness in the negotiations connected with the California Cali-fornia alipn land ownership legislation. legisla-tion. A telegram from Saloniki printed in the Paris edition of the New York Herald says the Greek army occupied Xanthi on Saturday and reported that j the Inhabitants, including Americans j and Englishmen, were massacred by i the Bulgarians. ! M. Chambeners. an aviator, was , killed near Toulouse, France, when a hydro-aeroplane he was driving fell. King Alfonso and (Jueeu Victoria of Spain arrived at Paris. France, Friday, Fri-day, traveling incognito on their way to the Cowes regatta. They were accorded ac-corded an enthusiastic reception by a crowd which recognized them while they were out shopping together. Greece and Sei via have rejected the Roumanian proposal for the conclusion conclu-sion of a provisional armistice during the conference at Nish. The two governments gov-ernments say they can consent to the cessation of hostilities only after the signatures of an armistice and of the peace preliminaries. |