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Show History of Past Week Tke News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I -I INTERMOUNTAIN Smith is sure to be elected mayor of Grant's Pass, Ore., when the votes are counted on polling day. Of the three tickets in the field, each is headed head-ed by a different man by the name of Smith. One man was killed and several others were injured when a steel bridge east of Maple Valley, Wash., on the Columbia & Puget Sound railway collapsed and fell into Cedar river. Miss Anna Hopper of Spokane, a white woman, has filed a breach of promise suit against Gong Lee, a Chinaman, Chi-naman, aged seventy years, residing at Pullman, Wash., and claims $50,000 damages. George Louden, who is alleged while postmaster of Elk River, Idaho, to have embezzled $4,582 November 10 last, was arrested at Los Angeles by postoffice inspectors. Louden is said to have confessed and will be taken to Idaho for. trial immediately. The supreme court of Montana has affirmed the judgment of the Silver Bow court in the case of W. A. Roberts, Rob-erts, convicted at Butte for the murder mur-der of William Verholz and given twelve years in the penitentiary. William S. Sandercock, aged 47, was beaten and shot to death by burglars at Garfield, Utah, early Wednesday morning. Two suspects are under arrest. DOMESTIC Pasquale Jfarchesi, an Italian merchant mer-chant of Kenosha, Wis., admits beheading be-heading his wife and his cousin anc namesake, whom he found occupying Mrs. Marchesi's bedroom. Three hundred and fifty bankers and members of their familiesi who have been in New Orleans for th American bankers' convention, sailed Saturday for a cruise in the Caribbean sea to Panama. Miss Mildred Sherman, youngesl daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Willianc Watts Sherman and heiress to mil lions, was married in New York, Sat urday afternoon to Lord Camoys, a young English nobleman. Charles A. Mitchell, aged 46, a well-known well-known newspaperman, employed on a Milwaukee paper for several months committed suicide by drinking carbolic carbol-ic acid. Three persons were killed and twe seriously, perhaps fatally, injured, when an inbound train from Riverside wrecked an automobile at a grade crossing near Colton, Cai. WASHINGTON It is announced in Washington that Senator LaFollette's western speech-making speech-making tour will not begin until after congress convenes. Convicted on the testimony of his own sister, the widow of his victim, Arthur Cornwell, a printer, aged 23, who killed his brother-in-law, James Courtney, in Washington last June, was found guilty of 'murder in the second degree. In addition to choosing a meeting place for the next Republican national convention the Republican national committee on December 12 is expected to go on record regarding the presidential presi-dential preference primary. The abolition of the 20 per cent difference in favor of Cuban sugar provided by the present tariff law and the substitution of an ad valorem rate of from 40 to 55 per cent for the specific rates probably will be undei-taken undei-taken at the coming session of congress. con-gress. President Taft has directed the warden of the Atlanta penitentiary to transfer Charles W. Morse, the New Policeman Charles G. Castor is dead in a San Francisco hospital and Policeman Po-liceman Thomas Finnelley is so badly wounded that there is little hope of his recovery as the result of an attempt at-tempt to arrest Paules Prandoegos, a Greek on the charge of murder. To prove to skeptical men that suffragists suf-fragists can rear children, as one of their main purposes, members of the Illinois branch of the Equal Suffrage association have planned a. county fair at Chicago, at which the main feature fea-ture will be a baby show. By the grave of the wife he murdered mur-dered July 18 the body of Henry Clay Beattie, jr., was buried in Maury cemetery, Richmond, Va., shortly after sunrise Sunday. Executives of the international unions of shopmen employed by the Rock Island road have accepted the road's wage and labor schedules, thus ending talk of a strike which would have affected 6,000 men. Beulah Binford, the girl who figured prominently in the Beattie trial, is living liv-ing in seclusion in New York City, preparatory to submitting' to an operation oper-ation for appendicitis, which is to oe performed soon. What is believed to have been an attempt to injure Governor John K. Tenner of Pennsylvania, or if not that, a practical joke that might have been serious, was discovered at Charleroi, Pa., the home of the ' governor, near Pittsburg, where a powder bomb was found. A peace officer dead after a battle with two Indians and an Indian girl dead from injuries received in a runaway runa-way during the battle, were the casualties casu-alties of a fight in an attempt to arrest ar-rest two Indian desperadoes for shooting shoot-ing at Roderick McArthur, a merchant of the town of McArthur, Cal. Samuel Gompers has been re-elected as president of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor, and the next annual convention will be held in Rochester, N. Y. Six men haxe been convicted of assaulting as-saulting Mary Chamberlain, a school teacher, near Lincoln Center, Kans., and pouring tar on her. Four have been sentenced to one year in the county jail, and the others will bo sentenced later. Samuel B. Axtell, former editor of a newspaper at Lodi, Cal., was found guilty of having murdered Charles Sol-lars, Sol-lars, a business man of Lodi. The jury recommended that Axtell be confined in prison for life. York banker, to the United State army hospital at Fort McPherson, near Atlanta, where he will remain under federal authority and will be given medical treatment. The time and place for holding the Democratic national convention will be decided by the Democratic national na-tional committee in Washington at noon, January 8, according to an announcement an-nouncement made 'by Norman E. Mack, chairman of the committee. FOREIGN Canton is said to be practically in .the hands of brigands. Grave troubles are feared. General Lung is almost powerless to maintain order and contemplates con-templates flight. Some anxiety is fell by the foreigners. The state of Oaxaca, Mexico, has formally declared that it does not recognize rec-ognize the central government. This action was taken by the legislature and ratified by Governor Benito Juarez. The West river is swarming with pirates and traffic to Wu Chow in Kwangsi province is seriously imperilled. imper-illed. The steamship companies are greatly alarmed and are considering the suspension of service. They are continuing for the present with armed crews. A- bloodless pistol duel took place in Paris between Professor Langevin and Gustave Theory, who made public letters alleged to have been written by Madame Curie to Professor Langevin. Lange-vin. An important movement is now in progress with the object of driving the Arabs out of the oasis and of extending ex-tending the Italian front. Missionaries arriving in Pekin from Tung Chow Fu, eighty miles northeast north-east of Sian Fu, give accounts of the recent revolution in the province of Shen Si, where the anti-foreign element ele-ment declared its intention to exterminate exter-minate foreigners, Christians and Manchus, but only partly succeeded.. Neutral commerce is seriously threatened by the proposed blockade of the Dardanelles by Italy and Turkey's Tur-key's consequent defensive measures. The ambassadors of the foreign powers at Constantinople are conferring on the subject, as it is believed that Italian action will not be delayed much longer. Russia has informed France and the other powers that she Insists on the neutrality of the Dardanelles as provided in the treaty of London in 1871. This notification follows tue With but one dissenting vote the American Bankers' association in session ses-sion at New Orleans, gave its unqtia'i-fied unqtia'i-fied approval to the proposed Aldrich plan for the reform of the currency. Congress was urged to deal with the proposition as an economic question outside the. domain of party politics. The "third degree" method used by the police in forcing confessions was characterized as an "unwarranted assumption as-sumption of a dominating and browbeating brow-beating attitude" by the supreme court of California in granting a hew trial to Agostino Borello, convicted of arson in Amador county. Henry Clay Beattie, jr., went to his death at dawn Friday, at Richmond, Va., the confessed murderer of his young wife, although the confession was not made public until four hours after he had paid the toll exacted by the law. Beattie walked to the electric elec-tric -:hair with a firm tread and a sne. on his face. John F. Dryden, founder of the Prudential Pru-dential Insurance company of America, Amer-ica, an d at its head practically all of his life, and former member of the United States senate, died at Newark, N. J., Friday. report-that Italy, in furthering the war against Turkey, intended to blockade the Dardanelles. A Nanking" dispatch says the revolutionary rev-olutionary forces on Saturday captured cap-tured Tiger Hill fort, outside the walls of- the city, and which commands the city and river. Several big guns were taken. A number of imperialists imperial-ists have joined the rebels. Lady Constance Lytton and Lady Sibyl Si-byl Smith, leaders in the suffragette movement in London, have been sentenced sen-tenced respectively to a fortnight and a week in jail for smashing windows. That a conspiracy exists in Mexico participated in by adherents of General Gen-eral Bernardo Reyes to foment a general gen-eral rising against the government of President Madero, was declared Friday Fri-day by Mexican officials, who caused the-arrest of more than twenty men charged with being members of a Reylsta band. Sixty passengers, it is estimated, lost their lives through the plunging of i train into the Thouet river Thursday, Thurs-day, -wing to the breakdown of a bridge on the state railway at Aon-treuil-Bellay, France. |