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Show History of Past Week s The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed 1 1 INTERMOUNTAIN Karl Kriedland and Miss Mary Lud- wig, both of Ogdeti, were married in Salt Lake on Saturday, and as a result re-sult of a dare from friends, the ceremony cere-mony took place in a funeral chapel. Mrs. Letha Larnara, the 15-year-old wife of Louis Lauiara, a Greek, committed com-mitted suicide in the county jail at Everett, Wash., by choking herself with a piece of rope. Lamara and his wife were arrested November 2, and were being held pending an investigation in-vestigation of their conduct. C. P. Page, lately employed in a mercantile establishment at Great Falls, Mont., put a bullet' Into his head and died instantly. Domestic troubles led to the deed. The officials of the Absarokee forest reserve are investigating charges of hunting guides at Livingston, Living-ston, Mont., and near Yellowstone park to the effect that sheep have eaten off the range around the northern north-ern boundary of Yellowstone park, keeping the big game of Wonderland Wonder-land away from the range. That ten-year-old Bessie Whit-tiker, Whit-tiker, daughter of A. O. Whittikerof 'Heber City, Utah, will recover from the effects of an accident eight weeks ago when she was badly burn-' burn-' ed by the explosion or a gasoline etove, is due to the heroism and Belf-sacririee of five boys of Salt Lake City, who have suffered the removal re-moval from their arms and legs of a sufficient quantity of skin to cover the burned arm and neck of the child. DOMESTIC At least eight lives were lost and scores of persons were injured, some fatally, in a tornado which swept Rock county, Wisconsin, at dusk Saturday Sat-urday night. Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of damage was done to crops, buildings and other property. prop-erty. In an attempted flight from Pasadena Pasa-dena to Long Beach, to officially end his Atlantic-Pacific journey, Aviator ' x C. P. Rodgers met with the worst mishap of his career Sunday, falling with his machine 125 feet and being seriously injured. Ten persons were injured when a crowded street car returning from the Kansas-Oklahoma football game jumped the track on "Hill grade," at Lawrence, Kans., half way between be-tween the main part of the city and the university grounds, late Saturday. Satur-day. The most dreaded of all labor troubles, a general teamsters' strike, i threalens New York, unless the city ! speedily settles its difficulties with the several thousand laborers in the street cleaning department. ! Jackie Clarke, the Australian, and 1 his partner, Hill, won the six-day bi- 1 cycle race, which ended at Buffalo, Saturday. Five teams finished with 1.075 1-3 miles to their credit. In the final sprint of a mile to break the tie Clarke finished first. Henry Meyers, 13 years old, of Bel-videre, Bel-videre, 111., was killed Sunday when , the storm lore the roof from a barn in ; ; 'which he had taken refuge. i With the intention of joining the : American colony of negroes in ' Liberia, the exodus of negroes from eastern Oklahoma began Sunday. ; Ten negro families left Muskogee for ; Monrovia, Liberia. j A fall, sustained when he rushed to ! the aid of his daughter, who had burned herself on a hot stove, brought back the eyesight of Henry Penniman ' of Paris Valley, Cal., who had been ' blind for seven years as a result of a runaway accident. i Across Uhe Sacramento rivef, ati 1 Sacramento, Cal., is being constructed by the Southern Pacific Railway company com-pany the heaviest swing span of any bridge in the world. The span is 400 feet long and weighs 6,300,000 pounds, j Arthur Turnbull, Democrat, won j the 'mayoralty of Canton, O., over j Henry Schilling, Socialist candidate, j by the toss of a coin, the election hav- Ing resulted in a tie vote. j Club women of San Francisco are j planning a system of pensioning wid- ; dws with children. j No joy came to Peter Odell, of ! Waterville, Kans., when he learned that he was heir to a quarter of a mil- ' lion dollars. He is SI years old, and j is slowly dying from an incurable dis- ease. Mayor Edward Crump was re-elected Friday in the municipal election at i Memphis, Tenn., by a majority of ap- j proximately 2,500 votes. Hundreds of enraged citizens surrounded sur-rounded the jail at Mcyersdale, Pa., threatening to lynch Isaiah Forman. aged twenty-two, a negro, who -is alleged al-leged to have attacked Ethel Morgan, a white child, aged nine, but the officers of-ficers succeeded in thwarting the mob. William W. Shannon, state printer nt Sacramento, Cal., whose office has been under investigation by a legislative legis-lative committee, resigned Friday, lie was accused of extravagant purchases pur-chases from paper and printing supply sup-ply firr;"-!. V1 For the first time In many years a woman has been elected to head the Wisconsin Teachers' association. The honor was bestowed on Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, superintendent ol schools of Kenosha. The convention went on record in favor of woman suffrage. Mistaken, it is supposed, for a deer, Jorda Sundberg, aged 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sundberg, was shot and killed near Corduroy, Wis. The hunter could not be found. Jeremiah T. Burke, for many years political agent of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific railroad in California, died Sunday Sun-day at his home in Beverly of pneumonia. pneu-monia. One death is credited to Saturday night's storm in Omaha. The body of P. C. Campbell, aged 63, for many years a watchman in a department store, was found within three blocks of his home. Mrs. Jane Quinn, thrice strangely widowed, was ordered to a cell by a coroner's jury at Chicago on Friday and flatly charged with the murder of her third husband. She was held without bail. It developed at the preliminary hearing of John Rech at Santa Barbara, Bar-bara, Cal., on the charge of having killed hfs new-born babe, that the child was buried alive. WASHINGTON The White House is occupied again. The president swung down from his private car Sunday morning morn-ing at 6:45 a. m. at the end of his 15,000-mile trip. A touch of winter will be felt over practically the entire country this week, and there will be many sudden sud-den changes in the weather, according accord-ing to the weekly forecast, issued by the weather bureau. A thorough judicial inquiry into the constitutionality of the long and short haul provision of the present interstate commerce act will be the result, it is expected, of the issuance by the commerce court of temporary Injunctions in the Pacific coast freight rate cases. "Young Men Go West and Make Honey," is the form to which Uncle Sam has changed Horace Greeley's famous advice. Profits of about 150 per cent a year can be made in the bee industry on some of the reclamation reclama-tion projects of the west, according to officials of the reclamation service. FOREIGN A dispatch to a London news agency from Nanking says martial law has been proclaimed there. General Gen-eral Chang Jen Chung, the viceroy, is executing all suspects, including some of his own men, and is enlisting enlist-ing numbers of roughs. It is reported that the proposed scheme for the separation of Africa provides for the withdrawal of Bel gium from the Congo, which will be divided between Great Britain, France and Germany. Food supplies in Nanking are becoming be-coming exhausted. A Tien Tsin dispatch dis-patch to a London news agency says that Shantung province declared its independence on Friday, the government govern-ment officials taking office under the new regime. Signorina Laura Abbate, the 20-year-old daughter of a wealthy merchant mer-chant at Palermo, has been kidnaped by brigands in broad daylight in one of the main thoroughfares of the Sicilian capital. The steamer Minnesota of the Great Northern Steamship company, which on Saturday stranded in. the Kurusima passage off Shikcku island and later was floated, arrived at Kobe, Japan, Sunday. ( Yuan Shi Kai and the Chinese government gov-ernment exchanged telegrams Sunday Sun-day morning. Yuan has agreed to come to Pekin to discuss the situation, situa-tion, but he adheres to his resolve not to accept the premiership. Strong forces of Turks and Arabs, supported by artillery, delivered a determined attack on the Italians Friday all along the line between Hamidleh and Bounieliana, but were repulsed. No more than 7,000 troops are operating oper-ating around Hankow, the remainder being scattered along the railway. Imperialists assert that the Pekin au-. thorities have ordered that there be no aggression pending a settlement of the revolt. Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg appeared before a hostile house at Berlin on Thursday to defend the Mo-roccan-Congoese agreement and exhausted ex-hausted his skill in explaining the great advantages of a friendly settlement settle-ment with France, seeking to show the future value of the colonial acquisitions acqui-sitions and to disprove the reports that Germany had backed down before be-fore British menace. A. J. Balfour has resigned the leadership lead-ership of the opposition. The news of Mr. Balfour's resignation caused the utmost surprise and, in some quarters, quar-ters, consternation. Federals and rebels met in battle at Juchitan. Oaxaxca, . according to meager information obtained from official of-ficial sources. Two hundred are reported re-ported dead. A new lord mayor of London, Sir Thomas Boor Crossby, M. D., was induced in-duced into office Thursday, and at the lord mayor's banquet Premier As-quith As-quith made his fourth successive speech in honor of such an occasion. Foreigners who have not been given the opportunity of witnessing engage ments at Hankow except at a distance are hearing horrifying stories of brutality. bru-tality. The imperialists have hanged men and failing to strangle them, tor tured them to death, prodding them with bayonets or crushing them to L death wjth stones. |