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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN Rev. Samuel Ii. Moyer, pastor of a church in Pueblo, Colo., was almost Instantly killed by leaping from the third-story window oT a hospital. Miss Eva Trombley and Frank H. Thibodeau, her uncle, were drowned while bathing in Bachelor slough, near Ridgefleld, Wash., and George Young, affianced of the young woman, nearly lost his life in an attempt to save her. Joseph Tarova, a chauffeur, was shot and killed at Seattle by a passenger in his car, who fired at him five times as he started to race past another car. After killing his driver the passenger leaped from the automobile and decamped de-camped in the darkness. Citing numerous violations of the federal banking laws and charging the officers with negligent, unsafe and unauthorized conduct, twelve stockholders stock-holders of the Commercial. National bank of Salt Lake have asked for the appointment of a receiver. Record-break.ng export tlour orders for September and October delivery have been booked by Seattle millers mill-ers during the last two weeks. One mill has Chinese orders ror 100. or sacks of bluestem cut-off, and others are running full capacity. Involuntary proceedings in bankruptcy bank-ruptcy have been commenced in the federal court at Denver against the Star Loan company, which operates a chain of offices in Colorado and the northwest. Dr. Oscar A. T. Haruff, a prominent physician of Pueblo, was probably fatally fat-ally injured and George J. Smith, a rancher living fifty miles north of here, was seriously hurt when Dr. Haruff's automobile collided with a Rock Island train at a crossing near Pinon, Colo. The campaign for state uie prohibition prohi-bition In Texas w,ill continue. Tiiat much was decided by 500 delegates from many sections of the state, who met for a conference w;tn the prohibition pro-hibition siace executive cumrcittee at Fort Worth. The peddlers of Chicago have voted to call off the strike against the city ordinance which prohibits them from crying out their wares. Mrs. Providencio Mascari, a leper who for more than a yer nad been kept in quarantine at tne expense of the city of Baltimore, was released about two weeks ago and is now supposed sup-posed to be in New lork city. Because her husband hitched her to a harrow beside a team of mules and drove her around a cornfield a number of times, Mrs. Lafayette Choat, wife of a prosperous farmer, living near Birmingham. Mo., is sueing for divorce. Mrs. J. R. Conrad was killed near Terre Haute, Ind., while talking over the telephone to her husband, being struck by lightning. WASHINGTON The government will appeal to the supreme court the Harrimau merger suit, which was decided in favor of the railroads by the United States circuit court at St. Louis. The general arbitration treaties between be-tween the United States and Great Britain and the United States and France will be signed in Washington during the week, it is believed. Encouraged by the success of the postal savings system in the hundreds of cities whe' it is already in operation, oper-ation, the postmaster general will extend the system to ten large cities of the first-class. Arrangements are said to have been completed at Washington whereby Harry Atwood, the Massachusetts aviator, av-iator, will make an aeroplane flight from Milwaukee to Chicago for a purse of $10,000. The flight will be made August 10, along Lake Michigan. Michi-gan. Reciprocity with Mexico similar to Canadian reciprocity is proposed in a resolution introduced by Representative Representa-tive Burleson of Texas, calling on President Taft immediately to start negotiations with Mexico "looking to free commerce between the two countries." coun-tries." A cablegram from Charles P. Taft, brother of the president, denying that he was interested in Alaska or in Controller Con-troller bay and declaring that he never asked the president for any favors fav-ors for Richard S. Ryan, has been made public. FOREIGN The eleventh parliament, of Canada passed out of existence on Saturday, and upon the political complexion of a new one to be elected September 21 will depend the fate of the reciprocity agreement between the United States and Canada.. War over the northwest African antagonisms an-tagonisms will doubtless be averted, uut Germany, in the opinion of astute observers in all the capitals, will nol be r'ooled now as she was at the Al-gcclras Al-gcclras conference. She will drive a hard bargain. A ter five tense uours on the ledges ten miles at sea off Cape Sable, on the west coast of Xova Scotia, with a gaping gap-ing hole in her hull and holding four feet of water, the Canadian cruiser N'io'ie floated off with the assistance of lugs on Sunday and .s anchored in Shag harbor. The rescue of the vessel ves-sel was made possible by the wireless telegraph service. G;'im tales of loss' of ll'e and disaster dis-aster to shipping by the West Indian hurricane which swept the New England Eng-land coast Friday continue to come in. Eleven lives are known to have beea lost and the long list of fishing and coasting craft and yachts wrecked wreck-ed or disabled is constantly growing. The Haytien gunbo;., seventeenth of December, has returned to Port an Prince from Aux Cayes, where government govern-ment troops under command of General Gen-eral S-mon, son of President Simon, .ecenUy put down a rising. Canada wants 20,000 men from th" Unii.ed States to help harvest th? crops of Saskatchewan. Three labor leaders, including a ae! hew of former President Zelaya, have been exiled from Nicaragua. The revolutionary crisis iu J Lay ti, with the fall of President Simon's government gov-ernment apparently inevitable, caus ed the navy department on Friday tc order the scout cruiser Salem, sister of the Chester and one of the swiftest swift-est boats in the navy, to Port au Prince to reinforce the American war-shins war-shins patrolling the coast of the re public. Hawaii's million and a half 4 per cent bunds were oversubscribed more Lhan six times at the sale made by Treasurer David L. Conkling of Hawaii iu New York. They are twenty and thirty-year bonds and available as security se-curity for government deposits, as postal savings banK funds. The situation in lite Franco-German complication regarding Morocco is regarded re-garded as unsatisiaciory by France. All npgoUiiUens have come to a iUuidstiil. Coal famine continues all over Saskatchewan Sas-katchewan and Alberta. Even were the mines where strikes are on opened open-ed at once the famine could not be dispelled by winter. Railway officials agree that relief must come from across the line, and this is only possible pos-sible through suspension of the tariff. Immediately when the veto bill has been passed there will be an entire rearrangement of the cabinet, according accord-ing to the statement of a London evening even-ing paper. Whether the actual reshuffle re-shuffle will be niiile so' drastic as i? forecasted remains to be seeji. DOMESTIC Leon Martinez, the Mexican boy charged wun the ku.mg of Miss Emma Brown in Reeves county, one week ago Saturday, was found guilty o. murder in the first degree by a jury at Pecos, Tex., and his punishment fixed at death: Vaccination was characterized as a menace to mankind by jjr. J. Deason and Dr. Joseph F. Biehn, bacteriologists, bacteriolo-gists, who testified before Commissioner Commis-sioner Charles G. Hutchison in Chicago. Chi-cago. The will of Mrs. Margaret Daly-Brown, Daly-Brown, daughter of the late Marcus Daly, the Montana copp'er king, has just been admitted to probate in New York. She died April 29. The estate is valued at $2,000,,00, and is to be divided between her two minor daughters. daugh-ters. Bubonic plague, transmitted by ground squirrels, has appeared in California Cali-fornia and caused one death thus far. The case reported is that of Horace Flood, seven years old, of Contra Costa county, who was . bnteu by a ground squirrel. After a street car had run down a boy in New Y'ork, a mob attacked the motorman and conductor, laid them on the tracks and were about to run the car over them waen a lone policeman po-liceman seized the ringleader at the controller. - Reserves then dispersed the mob. Thirty-five firemen were injured in fighting a fire at Brockton, Mass., which destroyed the public market building in Main street, the Wool-worth Wool-worth company's building am; two ten-e-ment houses. Because the police had accused him of 'having stolen a bottle of cream from a house in the fashionable residence resi-dence district and had locked him up in the city jail, C. Pfister, eighty years old, hanged himself with a scarf to the bars of his cell in tae Los An-;eles An-;eles jail. When the boiler of a tract'on engine en-gine exploded near Algona, la.. Leonard Leon-ard Hart, engineer, was killed and Frank Meyers probably fatally injured. in-jured. Over the protest of Henry C. Yae-per, Yae-per, father cf his victim, Alexandre Callegos, the murderer of Louis D Yaeger, was hanged Friday at the territorial penitentiary at Florence, Arizona. Paul Geidel. a 17-year-old bellboy was brought before the coroner's jury in New York for the killing or Wil liam Henry Jackson, the aged broker whose dead body was found In hi;-apartment hi;-apartment with a rag saturated with chloroform stuffed in his mouth atrl his face wet w-th blood. Ce'dl has confessed that he killed Jackson. Archibald Hunt, a contractor who with seven others was shot Wednesday Wednes-day by Mohammed Husain. a frenzied Hindu, while walking along Clark street, Chicago, died early Friday from loss of blood following the amputation, amputa-tion, of his leg Former County Assessor Dalton, ot Oakland, Cal., who was convicted on the charge of accepting a bribe of $5,000 from the Spring Valley Water company, was taken to San Quentin penitentiary Thursday to begin serving serv-ing tho sentence of eight years imposed im-posed by the court. |