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Show n ? History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER MOUNTAIN George M. Lewis, one of the best known tailors in Salt Lake City, committed com-mitted suicide at 7 o'clock Sunday morning by jumping from a fifty-story window of a business block. Edmund F. Richardson, a prominent promi-nent attorney of Denver, who was one of the counsel for the defense in the Moyer-Haywood trial in Idaho four years ago, and Horance Gran-field Gran-field of Mount Vernon, N. Y., a wealthy weal-thy mining man, were killed in Era automobile accident near Denver. W. L. McMoran, 45 years old, who came to Seattle from St. Paul two weeks ago, committed suicide in .s room in a hotel in Seattle on Sunday, by cutting his throat with a pocket knife. John Tiugler, a farm hand, is alive and apparently unhurt after being hurled fifty feet when his rig was struck by the fast Shasta limited of the Southern Pacific railway at Ger-vais, Ger-vais, Ore. Joseph R. Kingham, assistant postmaster post-master at Cheyenne, has been arrested arrest-ed and lodged in jail, charged with embezzling $23,336 from the postal money order funds. According to officers, of-ficers, Kingham has confessed. Th Colorado legislature has adjourned ad-journed without electing a successor to Senator Charles J. Hughes. The bagageman, J. R. Moat, was killed and Mail Clerk Parkinson injured in-jured when a Salt Lake Route train ran into a washout near Akin, caused by an irrigation ditch overflowing and washing out the track. While on his way to his home in Denver on a bicycle, having been called home as the honored guest at a surprise party, Clark W. Green was run down by an automobile and killed the police ambulance bringing his body to his home, where his friends were assembled. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jo-seph Albino of Kaycee, Wyo., were frightfully burnsd when their sheep wagon caught fire from powder with which they were experimenting while the parents w;ere herding sheep. The boy, only ten years old, heroically saved his older sister's life by dragging drag-ging her to a nearby stream and extinguishing ex-tinguishing her burning clothing. Fifteen children, inmates of the Children's home in Boise, Idaho, were poisoned by the use of milk in which it is alleged, formaldehyde had been placed by the milk dealer. All of the children were made seriously ill, but have recovered. The state pure food commissioner is making an investigation, investiga-tion, and arrests may follow. DOMESTIC William Schumacher, a 25-year-old Chicago tourist, was "steered" to a hotel room in San Francisco by a confidence con-fidence man, and soon thereafter locked lock-ed into it, handcuffed and robbed by another one. Jumping into the Ohio river from a window of a train going forty miles an hour, John Tucker, who was being be-ing returned to Linton, Tnd., from iElizabethtown, 111., to stand trial on the charge of forgery, is believed to have been drowned. Christopher Snyder, who claims to be a wealthy mining man of Montana, was arrested on board the steamship Manchuria at San Francisco by Deputy Dep-uty United States marshals on a cabled Warrant from Honolulu charging charg-ing him with smuggling opium. : With a hard right swing to the jaw Jim Flynn of Pueblo, Colo., knocked out Al Kaufman of San Francisco in the tenth round of their fight at Kansas Kan-sas City. The steel steamer wisher was sunk off Wyandotte in the lower Detroit river in a collision with the steamer Stephen Clement of Cleveland. Chief Engineer W. W. Auhl and Steward Louis Sugden and Sugden's wife are believed to have been drownd. Eight men were scalded, two so seriously thai they may die, when the main steam pipe to one of the boilers of the steamer State of Ohio, operated oper-ated by the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit company, at Cleveland, exploded. ex-ploded. The excitement caused by the government's gov-ernment's failure to hurry action in Alaska coal land cases reached a climax cli-max at Cordova on Thursday, when 300 business men and citizens formed form-ed a mob and, armed with shovels, marched to the oean dock of the Ala. ka Steamship . company, where they proceeded to throw several hundred hun-dred tons of British Columbia coal tnto the bay. William J,. Bryan, speaking at the tercentennial celebration in Chicago, of the King James translation of the Bible, challenged materialists and those opposed to the theory or divine di-vine inspiration of the Bible, to show they were right by producing a nook superior to that volume. President Tal't was the guest of honor at a reception given in Philadelphia Phila-delphia by the Medical Club or Phil adelphia. The president was hailed as the one executive who had done most for the advancement of medical science. Nearly a score cut of 100 miners li, i the Hartford mine of the Republic Iron and Steel company at Negaunee, I Mich., were cut off from escape when the timbering of the mine took fire, seven of the-men losing their lives. Twenty-one new indictments, according ac-cording to reliable authority, were voted late Thursday by the grand jury at Los Angeles against the accused ac-cused dynamite conspirators, James and John McXamara, and Ortie Mc-Manigal. Mc-Manigal. . Former United States Senator Alfred Al-fred Beard Kittredge of Sioux Falls, S. D., died at Hot Springs, Ark., Thursday, after a month's illness with liver and kidney trouble. He had been unconscious for forty-eight hours. His senatorial service ended two years ago. WASHINGTON In an interview in Washington, Manuel L. Queson, one of the resident resi-dent commissioners of the Philippines, Philip-pines, has made a bold demand for Philippine independence, declaring it is high time the United States made good its promise of thirteen years ago that his people would be held as wards only until they were fit for self-government. self-government. Senator Warren called upon the president on Sunday and on behalf of the Cheyenne frontier committee presented pre-sented an invitation to him to attend the frontier day show in August or September. Postmaster General Hitchcock has designated thirty-six additional post-offices post-offices as postal savings depositories, which, including those previously selected, se-lected, will make a total of 129 established estab-lished since January 1. Representative Buchanan of Illinois, a member of the house naval committee, com-mittee, has again taken up the question ques-tion of responsibility for the sinking1 of the monitor Puritan, looking to a reopening of the inquiry. General Wood and Secretary of War Dickinson are bitter in denouncing denounc-ing the circulation of stories of intervention inter-vention at this time, saying they considered con-sidered them calculated to work infinite infi-nite mischief and endanger the lives of Americans in Mexico by inflaming the natives and even to plunge the two countries into war. FOREIGN General Porfiro JDiaz has issued a manifesto to the people of Mexico, declaring de-claring his intention to resign the presidency as soon as peace is restored. re-stored. In this manner the president has virtually acceded to the demands of Francisco I. Madero that he make announcement of such intention. Australia's new system of universal univer-sal military service is now in being and it is reckoned that by the middle of the year from 80,000 to 100,000 youths between the ages of 14 and 17 will have been enrolled for the defense de-fense of the commonwealth. The Russian government will lose no time in enlarging and increasing the efficiency of the navy. It has been decided that the keel of four Dreadnaughts for the Black sea fleet are to be laid by the end of May. Porfiro Diaz, president of Mexico, was born September 15, 1830, on the anniversary of Mexican independence. independ-ence. Oaxaca was his birthplace. His father was a Spaniard and his mother of Indian extraction. The revolutionaries are threatening Sheklung, on the East river, fifty-seven fifty-seven miles north of Hong Kong and forty-five miles east sjT Canton. The authorities have dispatched troops to intercept them. Adjournment of parliament for two months while Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Canadian parliamentary delegation delega-tion are in England attending the coronation cor-onation will mark the beginning of an educational campaign for reciprocity throughout Canada under the direction direc-tion of the Liberal members of the house.' When General Madero heard of the dispatch from Mexico City concerning President Diaz's resignation, he immediately im-mediately gave orders to have troops stop marching. Couriers were sent ahead to halt the advance guard also. The court mourning for King Edward Ed-ward was ended Saturday, the first anniversary of the 'death of the monarch. mon-arch. The occasion was commemorated commemor-ated with a memorial service at Windsor which was attended by the queen mother, Alexandria, King George, Queen Mary, practically all the royal family and the members if the late king's household. A serious duel was a few days ay) fought at Dantzic between Herr Oeobelhausen, a dentist, and Heir Me'ssner, a surveyor, three shots be-, ing exchanged. At the third Meiss-ner Meiss-ner was badly wounded. The servants' union being formed in Vienna threatens to give trouble in the kitchen, as the milinery workers' union gave trouble to the society loaders over ttieir Easter hats and gowns. ' Mademoiselle Thirlion, an attractive Paiisian resident of Cologne, Germany, Ger-many, has been arrested, charged with being a spy and obtaining the secret mobilization plans of the German Ger-man army from an army officer. The Japane.-e have established ti consulate' at Aigun, a Chinese town of Manchuria on the Amur, eighteen miles from the Russian frontier, and this has caused the Russian government govern-ment to inquire the reason for this step and whether it was taken for strategical or commercial purposes. A cablegram received in London by the Hongkong and Shanghai banking bank-ing corporation describes the situation situa-tion at Canton, China, as quieting down, following the rebellious outbreaks. out-breaks. Railway traffic between Canton Can-ton and Hongkong has been resumed. |