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Show I r i I I " i History of Past Week Tke News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed After deliberating two hours and half, the jury found Claude Swanson Allen guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing of Judge Thornton Thorn-ton L. Massie at Hillsville, Va., in .March. The jury recommended that bis punishment be fifteen years in the penitentiary. Mrs. Jesse C. Barnes shot and killed Mrs. W. W. Judd at Buffalo Valley, Tenn., as the result of attentions Mrs. Judd is charged with having paid to Mrs. Barnes' hsuband. Enactment by western states of uniform uni-form laws which would tend to drive out land swindlers was urged at the closing session of the reclamation congress at Chicago. After sixteen years services as an engineer, George Hogle, 53 years old, died of apoplexy in the cab of his locomotive lo-comotive at East Buffalo, K. Y. Charles S. Jordan, well-known actor, ac-tor, who killed his wife at Somerville, Mass., in 1909, must pay the death penalty. The United States supreme court has refused to grant him a new trial. WASHINGTON Immediate legislation to prevent the promiscuous use of habit-forming drugs is urged by President Taft in a message to congress. The high prices of meat probably will be investigated by the federal government. An inquiry to supplement supple-ment the previous investigations into the packing business is planned at the department of justice. The commerce court which the house voted to abolish was provided for in the legislative, executive and judiciary appropriation bill reported to the senate on Saturday by the appropriations ap-propriations committee., ' Appropriation bills will be pressed, IN, ERMOUNTAIN One man was killed and four others Injured when an aeroplane fell upon the crowd in the grand stand at Seattle, Seat-tle, the result of an accident brought about by the aviator dodging a man who had rushed upon the track where he had intended to alight. The executive committee of the national na-tional rrange had selected Spokane for the next national convention meeting place. The dates for the 112 meeting are November 13 to 25. Rev. D. M. Hand, pastor of a Moscow, Mos-cow, Idaho, church, who is accused of wronging a girl member of his congregation, congre-gation, has been bound over to the September term of the district court for trial. Louis Carara was killed and George Flessa seriously wounded at Terrill, in Churchill county, Nevada, when V. B. Terrill found them working on a mining min-ing claim of his which they had relocated, re-located, and opened fire without warning. warn-ing. Terrill gave himself up. Because his wife had filed suit for divorce, Isadore Hoffman, aged 47, a Jew peddler, of Salt Lake, shot the woman to death and then killed him- self in the presence of their three children. chil-dren. DOMESTIC Glenn Staples, a well-to-do farmer of Angola, N. Y., shot his wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. M. Fillmore Brown, and then himself. Mrs. Brown and the murderer died instantly. Physicians Phy-sicians say Mrs. Staples will die. For seven years Missl Alma Pitlin-zer, Pitlin-zer, a young woman of Cincinnati, has been living the life of a recluse in Topanga canyon, eight miles north of Santa Monica, Cal. Ill health caused the young woman to desert society for solitude. Nine stereotypers who struck in sympathy with the pressmen on Chicago Chi-cago daily newspapers on May 2, returned re-turned to their former positions on Saturday. Mrs. Jane Quinn, accused of shooting shoot-ing and killing her third husband, John M. Quinn, at Chicago, was found not guilty. The woman had testified that her husband was killed by a burglar. bur-glar. James J. Ward, an aviator, was arrested ar-rested at Chicago on Saturday on a charge of bigamy. His wife, Mrs. Maud Mae Ward, who sued for an annulment of her marriage, caused his arrest. Mrs. Ward charged in a warrant that her husband had a wife the tariff revision fight continued, the Lorimer case debated and other legislation legis-lation discussed in congress this week. Following an exhaustive Investigation Investiga-tion of the increased cost of living, the department of commerce and labor la-bor is about to lay bare a series of most startling facts on the subject ever placed before the American public. pub-lic. Senator Borah, backed by Senator Heyburn, made a successful assault upon the conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill Friday, because the senate conferees had agreed to eliminate the senate amendment amend-ment providing for classification and segregation of all lands in forest reserves re-serves suitable for agriculture and opening . such lands immediately to settlement. FOREIGN A contract has been concluded between be-tween the Chinese government and E. K. Howe, the representative of the Robert Dollar company of Shanghai, for the construction of the new Hankow Han-kow electric car lines, including paving. pav-ing. The estimated cost is between $13,000,000 and $20,000,000. The Hotel Modern, Escobosas cafe and La Moda store at Nogales, So-nora, So-nora, were destroyed by fire and three lives are believed to have been lost. The onium merchants of India living when he married the complainant com-plainant on April 22, 1911. Mrs. W. C. Bradford, a widow with grown sons and daughters, was shot dead Saturday night by William G. Landis, a prosperous storekeeper of Buckeye, 'Cal., during a quarrel. Aroused by the state of anarchy that exists throughout Cuba, Senator Fall of New Mexico expressed the firm belief that the time is not far distant when the1 United States must annex that island and administer its affairs. One woman was probably fatally injured in-jured and a score' of persons were hurt' when a motorman of a St. Louis car became panic-stricken at a shower of electric sparks and jumped from the car, permitting it to collide with a work car. Andrew Mellon, the P'ctsburg millionaire, mil-lionaire, whose divorce suit has been dragging through the Pennsylvania courts for years, has at last gained the custody of his son i"d daughter. Miss Violet Adams ol Gres.iville, N. Y., was knocked senseless by a baseball base-ball while watching a game in that I claim that they are threatened with I ruin because of the alleged disregard of China of the existing treaties, and have appealed to the government to save them. Henry Biroth of Chicago, honorary president of the American Pharmaceutical Pharma-ceutical association, died in Baden Baden, Germany, May 29. He became be-came wealthy thrugh the manufacture manufac-ture of pepsin.- He was 73 years old. An aeroplane with two aviators, Collardeau and Robi, aboard, capsized in a squall at Savigny, France. Robl was killed and Collardeau suffered a fractured leg. A serious fire broke out on the Cu nard steamer Carmania, lying at hei dock at Liverpool. The fire, which, j was extinguished, was confined to the saloon quarters, which practically were destroyed. The damage is estimated esti-mated at thousands of dollars. Mass meetings to protest against the Turkish barbarities were held thorughout Bulgaria or Sunday. All the political parties have united to determine the best methods by whiet) I Chirstians can be protected against ! the continued depredations of the 1 Turks. ! The Californians resident in Lou-1 Lou-1 don are planning a pageant of Pacific ' coast history for the Panama-Pacific 1 exposition to he held at San Fran-J Fran-J cisco in 1915. I American residents iu the London ! hotels generally disagree with Mie ' article in the Morning Standard, stating stat-ing that there is a prejudice on the part of hotel managers against Amer-ican Amer-ican guests, which is given as one I reason why Americans curtail then j visit there and go on to Paris and j the continent. j General Estenoz, the real leader ol ; the negro insurgents, has captured and burned the town of Lamaya, on the j branch l'ne of the Cuban railroad, i thirty miles from Santiago. : All steamships Hying ;he German flag wiil be compelled to cany wireless wire-less apparatus with a radius of at least 100 miles after October 1. A statement from President Yuan Shi Kai, just received from Peking, outlines the Chinese leader's plans for building up an army which will be equal to that of Germany. His plan is based on universal conscription. The general council of the International Interna-tional Transport Workers' federation, whose headquarters are in Berlin, is preparing to act on the appeal of the British dockers to proclaim a world wide boycott of British shipping. Americans are being robbed and evicted from their properties in southern south-ern Sinaloa. Mexico. village. She fell on her head and fractured her skull. City Councilman Harry F. 'Dougherty 'Dough-erty of Atlantic City, N. J., has beer-arrested beer-arrested on a; charge of having accepted ac-cepted a bribe of $500 for voting for the passage of an ordinance providing for a concrete board walk along the beach designed to cost a million dollars dol-lars or more. Physicians attending John P. St. John, former governor of Kansas, who is ill at his home in Olathe, of urao-mic urao-mic poisoning, said his condition was extremely grave. He is 75 years old. Hampton's Magazine has suspended publication and the June number will not be issued. One of the losers in the magazine is Speaker Cham) Clark, who is said to have invested $4,000. Three heavy explosions shook the downtown district of San Francisco Friday night, the explosions in each instance being caused by a bomb ;hrower. No one was injured. In one of the most sensational lightweight battles fought iu Philadelphia Philadel-phia in years, Ad Wolgast, champion of the world, defeated Young Jack O'Brien of Philadelphia on Friday in a bout that went the limit of six rounds. Rudolph Katz, Socialist candidate for congress from the Seventh New Jsersey district and an organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World, has arrested at Paterson, N. J., and sentenced to serve six months in jail for interfering with employes of a silk mill. |