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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEKS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT -HAPPENINGS IN ITEM-. IZED FORM. Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepred for Busy Man. INTER MOUNTAIN Northwestern lines report difficulty In getting refrigerator cars to carry the potato crop and say their cars were returned to them very slowly. It is now reported that the Mormon refugees from Mexico may settle in Idaho. There came near being a riot at Bingham, Utah, on Saturday, when deputy sheriffs arrested four Cretans on suspicion of having been implicated impli-cated in the shooting at the United States mine on the morning of October Oc-tober 24. For refusing to salute the American flag as a part of the daily class exercise exer-cise in patriotism, Lena Eyler, aged 13 years, was suspended indefinitely from the public schoob in Salt Lake. The small gasoline schooner Os-prey Os-prey and her entire crew of six men were lost at the entrance of the port of Marshfield, Ore., when the vessel crashed into the jetty in a heavy sea. Richardson and Backstrum, two of the convicts who escaped from the Wyoming penitentiary at Rawlins, Wyo., on October 13, were killed by a posse near Powder Springs, on the Colorado-Wyoming line. The United States government began be-gan in the federal court at Seattle on Wednesday the presentation of its case against Edwin F. Meyer, former principal clerk in the Puget sound navy yard storekeeper's office, who is charged with conspiracy to defraud. DOMESTIC Efforts of the defense in the trial at Salem, Mass., of Ettor, Giovannitti and Caruso for the murdef of Anna Lopizzo to bring out the wage issue as the basis for the industrial disturbance dis-turbance last winter were unsuccessful. unsuccess-ful. A. C. Probert was sentenced from six to eight years in the penitentiary at Taos, N. M., on a charge of embezzlement. em-bezzlement. Probert was convicted of embezzling $500 from Roy A. Clifford while president of the State Savings bank at Toas. The threatened strike of the Canadian Canad-ian Brotherhood of Railway Employees against the Canadian Pacific Railroad company for higher wges and shorter hours was quietly inaugurated Monday. Official notice has been received at Phoenix, Ariz., from Washington that the time for opening the Roosevelt dam and Salt River irrigation project had been extended to December 1, 1913. Declaring that she is happier1 than she has been in years because of her confession at Los Angeles to having killed two women in Missouri, Mrs. Pensy Hastings Lesh is in the city jail awaiting ihe arrival of the sheriff sher-iff of Pettus "ounty, Missouri. Eighteen ff twenty-four members of the Republican national committee, who have notified Chairman C. D. Hilles of the choice of a vice-presidential candidate to succeed the late James S. Sherman, favor Governor Hadley of Missouri. Charged with kidnaping two Americans Ameri-cans on American soil and delivering them to a foreign army is the unique charge of which Ramon Munez stands convicted at El Paso, Texas. The jury recommended four years' imprisonment. imprison-ment. Indictments against four railroad companies charging them with violations viola-tions of the laws in concessions granted in shipments of alfalfa seed from Omaha to points in nearby states have been returned by a grand jury in the federal court at Omaha. WASHINGTON Reports on the cost of running the government for the year ' beginning July 1, 1913, which have been prepared pre-pared by heads of departments for congress, and which are now in the hands of the government printer, show congress will have to appropriate at the rate of $1,500,000 a day. In an effort to avert a threatened car shortage throughout the country the interstate commerce commission has issued a warning to railroads and shippers recommending measures to improve the situation, which has already al-ready become menacing to industries and commerce. Thirty-two states have notified Sec retary Knox of their ratification of the proposed income tax amendment to the federal constitution and four have notified the state department ol its rejection. To become effective thirty-six states three-fourths of those in the union must ratify. The department of justice has decided de-cided there is no ground for prosecuting prosecut-ing Robert G. Valentine, former commissioner com-missioner of Indian affairs, on charges that he carried whisky on an Indian reservation during a tour of inspection while he was at the head of the Indian bureau. FOREIGN The fighting between the Turks and Greeks around Janitza was of the most stubborn character. The fields around the city are covered with dead and the road from Janitza to Saloniki is strewn with war material thrown away by the retreating Turks. A Constantinople dispatch to the London Chronicle, which was received by an indirect route, says that the situation in the Turkish capital is grave. The hostility to Europeans is increasing and displayed arrogantly. The home secretary, Reginald Mc-Kenna, Mc-Kenna, was prevented from making a speech in Holborne, England, town-hall town-hall because of the -uproar caused by suffragettes. The secretary escaped a mauling by fleeing with his wife through a side door. The flight of the Turks from Uskup was another case of "save himself who can," the officers inciting the men to get away, no matter where. They melted away like mist. Saloniki is in a state of panic. Afcout 20,000 inhabitants of the surrounding villages have flocked there, besides hundreds of fugitives from Uskup and 7,000 Anatolian soldiers sent from Constantinople. Con-stantinople. Monte Christi, on the north coast ol the Dominican republic, has been attacked at-tacked by revolutionists. The defenders defend-ers put up a stout resistance and the fighting which occurred was of a desperate des-perate nature. A complete division under General Smolensky landed at Stravos, on the northwest of the Chalois peninsula, and occupied the villages and mining district as well as the capital, Poligyro, from which the Turkish officials wera expelled. Thirteen salesgirls were killed, a score were injured and several are missing as a result of the destruction destruc-tion by fire -f the John Brackett dry goods store in London. The girls lived on the premises. The fighting on Saturday south) ol Luke-Burgas was of the most murderous murder-ous character. The Turks offered a splendid resistance, but were overwhelmed over-whelmed by the Bulgarian artillery fire, 20,000 Turks being killed or wounded. A German cruiser has arrived at Vera Cruz, Mexico. The vessel has lately been patrolling West Indian waters and the state department attaches at-taches no special significance at her presence there. Telegrams from Acapulco report much damage done by a hurricane there. The little :steamer Cora Belle and nine iron lighters there sunk, over 1,000 tons of coal being lost. Colonel Billinghurst and the Peruvians Peru-vians express their determination ol punishing the authorities of the Putu-mayo Putu-mayo rubber field atrocities. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Velez de Villa has been arrested ar-rested by order of the minister of justice jus-tice for complicity in the outrages. The election of General Mario Me-nocal Me-nocal and Enrique Jose Varona, respectively, re-spectively, candidates for the presidency presi-dency and vice-presidency of the Cuban Cu-ban republic on the conservative ticket, and of all the other candidates put forward by the conservatives has been conceded. Strains of sacred music coming from a church window so affected C. H. Rose, that he surrendered at the Dallas, Dal-las, Texas, jail, declaring lj.e had killed W. H. Morris in Covington Ky., twenty-four years ago. With simple but impressive ceremonies cere-monies the body of Vice-President James S. Sherman was laid awa7 Saturday afternoon in a crypt within a beautiful mausoleum in Forest Hill cemetery, Utica, N. Y., President Taft members of the cabinet, justices and members pf congress being present. After drugging a trusty, sawing through two iron bars and scaling a jail yard wall, four former inmates of the Kern county jail at Bakesfield, Cal., are fleeing through the hills with two posses in pursuit. An operation for the tranfusion ot blood was performed upon Mrs. Charles Char-les Pinkerton, daughter of the late President Chester A. Arthur, a: her home at Mount Kiscoe, N. Y. The operation lasted more than two. hours. Judge E. Shaw of the district court of appeals at Los Angeles will eat a whole crow, reasonably well cooked and seasoned, if Colonel Roosevelt should be elected president. If Wilson Wil-son wins, W. E. Chap:n, a local artist, must eat the crow. Governor Wilson sustained a three-inch three-inch scalp wound early Sunday when the automobile in which he was riding rid-ing from Red Bank to Princeton struck a. m'ound in the road at Hightstowu and hurled him against one of the steel ribs supporting the roof of the car. His remarkable attachment for a horse, the use of which had been dewed de-wed him, led Glen Shipley, a young miner, of Bisbee, Ariz, to kill the horse and then attempt to commit suicide, after gaining forcible possession of the animal. For hours Friday afternoon and evening eve-ning thousands of persons filed through the Oneida county courthouse it Utica, N. Y., and gazed for the last time upon the face of the vice-president, whose body was lying in state in the rotunda of the building. It is astimated that 25,000 people passed through the building. Mrs. Pensy Hasting Lesh. who is In Jail at Los Angeles awaiting removal to Sedalia, Mo., where she probably will be tried for the murder by poisoning pois-oning of Mrs. Eliza Coe of that city and Mrs. M. A. Quadntance of Green-bridge, Green-bridge, Mo., a 'half dozen years ago, has been declared sane by Dr. James T. Fisher, a prominent alienist. Mrs. Russell Sage is to donate a new freshman dormitory for Harvard to be called Standish hall. Announcement Announce-ment of the gift 'was made Saturday by the committee which is working to raise $1,800,000. |