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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven. Days Paragraphed 1' 1 INTER MOUNTAIN Edward L. Hanks, manager of the Don Philippine band, was shot to death at the entrance to the dancing pavilion at Glenwood park, Ogdeu, Utah, by Henry Southworth of Farmington, who accused Hanks of stealing his wife and breaking up his home. After twice attempting to kill his sweetheart, Nellie Cohn, a white woman wo-man of the underworld, at Ogden, Utah, Tom Washimi, a Japanese, fired a bullet through his throat and died almost instantly. Accompanied by F. H. Newell, director di-rector of the reclamation service, and other officials of the interior department de-partment and a party of newspaper men, Secretary Fisher of the department depart-ment of the Interior visited the Strawberry project and several Utah cities last week, on his way to Alaska. DOMESTIC When a skiff struck a snag in the Mississippi river at Riehl's station, six miles above Alton, Illinois, three young women of Upper Alton were drowned. They were Flora, Mary and Ella Broglie. Miss Matilda Moisant, sister of the late John B. Moisant, who was killed in New Orleans last year, was awarded award-ed a pilot's license by the Aero Club of America on Sunday. Efforts of the police to break up a meeting of alleged anarchists in San Francisco on Sunday showed net results re-sults of three riot calls, the arrest of ten men, the narrow escape of two firemen from a hurled knife, a detective detec-tive badly bitten in the hand and a great deal of excitement. A mob of 500 wbites captured and shot to death an unknown negro who criminally attacked and shot Mrs. Redden Red-den Campbell, near Durant, Okla., and afterward burned the negro's body. Clad in a uniform of gray, the body of General George W. Gordon, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Con-federate Veterans, and member of congress from the Tenth Tennessee district, was laid to rest at Memphis on Sunday. Congressman Henry C- Loudenslager Med at his residence at Paulsboro, IN. J., Saturday. Mr. Loudensiager was elected ten times to congress from the First New Jersey district. Unable to stop the ceremony, the mother of Sadie Acres of Quincy, Cal., who eloped and married Edward Prince, did, however, soundly box the ears of the groom and then turned her daughter over her knee and spanked spank-ed her. "We have never been parted, never have quarreled and never have contemplated con-templated any sort of legal proceedings," proceed-ings," is the statement given out by Ethel Barrymore, the actress, and her husband, Russell Griswold Colt. Prices of beef are to be raised and retail dealers of New York say the advance makes the cost of meat pass the high-water mark of last tall. Prices have been steadily advancing for two weeks. Miss Florence Hopwood, a Minne- i apolis girl, is to become the wife of Charles G. Gates, son of John W. Gates, who died last week in Paris. Following an admission by Chief of Police Tilgham of Oklahoma City, Okla., that it is impossible to put bootleggers out of business there without with-out a big increase in aie police force, Governor Cruce has staled that he would appoint 500 special state deputy dep-uty enforcement officers to assist in the work. j Deputy Sheriff Brentwood was wounded in a battle between a posse and bandits who held up officials ot i the Chino Copper company near Hur- ! (ey, N. M. The United States government will shortly come into possession of tour islands Naos, Flamenco, Perico and Culebra at the Pacific entrance to the Panama canal. Fire, believed to have been caused by an explosion in the engraving department, de-partment, wrecked the building of the Louisville Herald and destroyed the plant. The most severe earthquake felt iu that vicinity in years shook business buildings at San Bernardino, Cal., on Friday with such severity that the oc-Dupants oc-Dupants fled into the streets. The damage was trivial. Squatting on public and private lands in the canal zone is growing to an appreciable extent, especially imong men at work on the waterway. water-way. ' S. J. Gallion, a ranchman, living near Columbia, Mo., has received ;hree letters demanding that he leave his vile oi he will be killed. He was Wyoming m search of work when he received a fake telegram tele-gram telling him his baby was dying. Reports from Pacific coast points that unions of railroad shop employes have served notice that they will cancel can-cel all agreements in thirty days are explained by railroad officials as meaning the unions have asked to be granted a conference within that period Zachariah Walker, a ne'.::o des-ier- ado, was carried on a cot from the hospital at Coatesville, Pa., and burn- 1 ed to a crisp by a frenz:ed mob of men and boys. The negro had shot j and killed Edward Rice, a special po-' po-' liceman of the Worth Iron mills. Two persons were killed and thirty injured when the Pennsylvania eigh-teen-hour train, en route from Chicago to New York, jumped the track on the western outskirts of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The annual reunion of the army of the Philippines enucd at Detroit with the selection of -Manila, P. I., for the 1912 reunion. The proposal to affiliate affil-iate with the Spanisn War Veterans was rejected. James J. Jeffries, the pugilist, arrived ar-rived Friday at Juneau, Alaska, from Seattle on the steamship Jefferson and began completing arrangements for his three months' hunting tour of Alaska and the Yukon territory. WASHINGTON Disregarding a telegraphed request from President Taft for a contrary course, the senate committee on foreign for-eign relations on Saturday agreed upon up-on an amendment to the British and French treaties, eliminating the provision pro-vision conferring special powers on the proposed joint high commission. Encouraged by the successful trial for two weeks of postal savings system sys-tem in the great postoffices of New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Boston, Bos-ton, Postmaster General Hitchcock has decided to extend the system. A . country-wide investigation of the wholesale and retail prices of all foods, which will require nine months to complete and .which will represent the most thorough inquiry of its kind yet attempted, has been begun by the bureau of commerce and labor. Despite the fact that the senate is still struggling with a second investigation inves-tigation of the election of William Lorimer of Illinois, that body has, by unanimous vote, ordered an investigation investiga-tion into the validity of the election "of Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin. Wis-consin. The house has passed the Warren bill granting leave of absence to homesteaedrs in various western land districts until April 15, 1912, on account ac-count of prevailing Crought conditions. condi-tions. Senator Bailey of Texas has resigned resign-ed from the national monetary commission com-mission and his resignation has been accepted by the senate. FOREIGN The census for the union of South Africa shows a population of all races of 5,938,499, of which only 1,278,025 are whites. More than 500 lives were lost and great devastation ashore and afloat resulted from a typhoon and tidal wave which' swept over Japan July 26, according to advices just received. Serious rioting growing out of the strike took place at Liverpool on Sunday. Sun-day. One policeman was killed, being struck on the head with a brick, and many persons were injured. That the Catholic pary will attempt to persuade Francisco De La Barra, the present chief executive, to accept the nomination for the presidency and, failing that, throw its support to Francisco Fran-cisco I. Madero, is political gossip at Mexico City. The total number of deaths from plague in British India and the native states from January 1 last to the end of June was 650,690. Recent statements show 532 centenarians centen-arians at present alive in Bulgaria, of whom 1SS are women. Ten peasants peas-ants are over 125, eighty-eight between be-tween 120 and 125, and 234 more than 110 years old. ' King Peter of Servia has become reconciled to his son, the ex-Crown Prince George, aud has directed that all his, debts are to be paid. The marshal has already paid off about $50,000. At the Dublin criminal lunatic asylum asy-lum an inmate named Oliver Corin attacked at-tacked another old man named John Fitzsimon, killing him. At the inquest Corin said that he killed Fitzsimon because he was tired of looking at him. Reliable information confirms the earlier leports of a clash between the political factions of Quito. President Eloy Alfaro has resigned and is now at the Chilean legation. Since the veto bill has become a law the Irish leaders in parliament are confident the way is now open to home rule, and from the statement of Home Secretary Churchill in the house of commons that the government govern-ment intends to pass a home rule measure during the present parliament, parlia-ment, their confidence um.u. so seme extent justified. A resolution to pay members of the house of commons $2,000 annually lor their services was carried by a vote of 260 to 159 on Thursday. Official statistics regarding the cholera chol-era situation in Italy show that from August 1 to August 5, inclusive, there were 1,039 cases and 3S0 deaths. The strike of dockmen, lightermen, coal porters and carmen, which for several days bus seriously disturbed all business in London and resulted in a shortage of foodstuffs, ooal, petroleum pe-troleum and other necessities, was ended Friday with the settlement ot the llghterers' dispute. Seven Dominion government grain inspectors were sentenced to terms ranging from two mouths to six years for thefts from freight ars in the Canadian Pacific yards at Winnipeg. The proceeds of their robberies were . y al u e d at nearly .Q, 000. |