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Show I.1 History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seveiv Days Paragraphed INTER MOUNTAIN Thomas H. Harrison, thirty-four years of age, journeyman painter of Birmingham, England, ate a hearty meal at Reno, Nev., plunged into the tank. of hot baths there, fainted and drowned in four feet or water. The victim in the mysterious box car murder at "Umatilla, Ore., was not as reported, John Casey, a Spanish war veteran of Brockton, Mass. A description de-scription of Casey does not fit the murdered man. Allen W. Taylor, one of the colored porters of the Overland Limited train which was held up at Reese, twelve miles west of Ogden, Utah, early in January and in which William Davis, colored, was killed outright, died Friday, Fri-day, in Chicago, from the bullet wound. The supreme court of Idaho has held valid the right to select lieu lands in place of school indemnity sections 16 and 36 unsurveyed and held in reserve by the government, and to sell the lieu lands for the benefit ben-efit of the common schools. The decision de-cision means millions of dollars to Idaho. Joseph Kingham, former assistant postmaster at Cheyenne, peladed guilty guil-ty to embezzling ?23,336 of postoffice funds, and was sentenced to ten years in the federal prison at Leavenworth. A Denver & Rio Grande passenger train was wrecked near Minturn, Colo., on Wednesday, two passengers being killed and 27 injured. DOMESTIC John P. Dietz will spend the rest of his natural life at hard labor at the state .. pentitentiary at Waupun, Wis., by the verdict of the jury, for the murder of Deputy Oscar Harp in the battle of Cameron Dam on October Octo-ber 8 last as a result of Dietz's fight with the lumbermen. Charles King, a prosperous farmer aged thirty-eight, and his son, Roscoe, aged eight, were pinned beneath an overturned automobile near Santa Ava, Cal, and drowned in less than three feet of water while returning tome Sunday from a trip to Newport beach. President Taft came out publicly Saturday night against the recall of the judiciary. In his speech before the conference on reform of the criminal crim-inal law and procedure in New York, the president made his attitude plain. A demand for the cleaning up of the Illinois legislature was made by State Senator Walter Clyde Jones before be-fore a meeting of 700 Republicans, comprising the Progressive Republican Republi-can league, in Chicago. That the police and low politicians collect $2,500,000 a year in graft and blackmail from unfortunate women of New York is the direct charge made by Howard S. Gans, former assistant district attorney of New York under William J. Travers Jerome. 1 Going into a state of coma, Charles F. Davenport, 40 years old, of New York, told his aged mother, Mrs. G. R. Davenport, that he had come back from heaven to suffer for two days, and that hsi soul had been saved. He suffered intense agony for the two days and died Saturday at the hour he predicted. Two negroes are dead and one mortally mor-tally wounded and four deputy sheriffs sher-iffs are wounded, one fatally, as the result of a murder committed by one of the negroes near Montgomery, Ala., and of a spectacular fight that followed fol-lowed an effort to capture the murderer. mur-derer. An alleged shortage of about $25,000 In the accounts of H. Besette, tellei; of the People's Savings bank of Woon-socket, Woon-socket, R. I., was reported Friday. It !s said by the police that Besette has made a confession. More than 1,200 men have deserted from the United States army division of 20,000 men that was rushed into camp on this side of the Mexican border, bor-der, and eighty per cent of them, it is claimed, have crossed the line into Mexico to join the rebels. The Western Federation of Miners j has been granted full affiliation with the American Federation of Labor. News of the issuance of a charter was made public at the headquarters of the latter organization Friday. The passengers and crew of the New York & Cuba Mail Steamship company's liner Merida, sunk after a collision with the United Fruit company's com-pany's steamship Admiral Farragut off Cape Henry, arrived at Norfolk, Friday night. Not a soul was lost. Colonel Harmon Tyler, commander of the Connecticut National Guard and a national figure in the Grand Army, died at his summer home at Hartford, Conn., Friday, after a brief illness. The home of Benjamin Gredero at Los Angeles was destroyed by a dynamite dyna-mite bomb, Friday night. The police believe the destruction of the house was caused by the explosion of a bomb with intention of killing Gredero Grede-ro and his three sons Willie, Joseph and Samuel, aged from eight to Jif-feen. Hubert iv?nip, an old IiuIko. ha ' just been relased from the Oklahom.-: penitentiary after serving nineteen years for a murder committed by his stepson. The confession of the stepson, step-son, who died recently and confessed that he was the real murderer, led to Kemp's release. A triple drowning took place in Blue lake at Onawa, Ills., Sunday afternoon, when a boat in which six boys were riding was struck by a huge whitecap and sank. James Snyder, aged twenty-two, a first baseman on an amateur ball team at Patoka, Ills., was probably fatally injured iu a game when a fly bull struck him on the head. Eighteen indictments were returned at Oweusbui-g, Ky.t Friday, against eighteen well known citizens of Mclean Mc-lean county, growing out of the spectacular spec-tacular lynching of the negro, William Wil-liam Potter, at Livermore, about three weeks ago. Three of the indictments charge murder. WASHINGTON Senor Jose Vasconcelos, diplomatic agent lor the Mexican revolutionists in Washington, has furnished latest figures of the number of men fighting under the insurrecto banner, showing that there are 42,000 men under arms. Exports from the United States for the first time in any twelve months' period passed the two billion dollar mark, being $2,012,749,505 for the year ending with April, according to figures prepared by tne department of commerce and labor. Postmatser General Hitchcock will designate fifty postal savings banks next week, making a total of 179 in existence. Hereafter 150 to 200 depositories depo-sitories will be designated every month. Secretary of War Jacob McGavick Dickinson of Tennessee, the Demo-craticjmember Demo-craticjmember of President Taft's cabinet, cab-inet, has resigned. Henry L. Stimson of New York, recently defeated Republican Re-publican candidate for governor of tmt state, has been given the port-fo'io. port-fo'io. J. Ogden Armour and nine other Chicago packers must go to trial on federal indictments charging them-with them-with conspiracy to control the price of fresh meats, in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. This was decided de-cided Friday by Judge Carpenter of the United States district court. ' FOREIGN ' , After formal and official identification, identifica-tion, the body of Lafayette the Great, the vaudeville performer who lost his life when the Empire music hall at Edinburgh was burned, was cremated Medical experts claim that the epidemic epi-demic of suicide among children which prevails in Vienna and has shocked the city for the past few months is due to over education. Between 1908 and 1D10 seventy-four 'male prisoners were condemned to death and forty-seven executed in London. Ten women were sentenced to death, but all were reprieved and given life sentences. The flag of Denmark, a plain red banner bearing on it a white cross, is the oldest flag now in existence. For over 300 years both Norway and Swe-!-clen were united with Denmark under this flag. J. S. Emerson, a lumber manufacturer manufac-turer of Vancouver, who has also started a hardwood lumber business in the Fiji islands, is in New York City. He says tint British Columbia is solid for reciprocity. Maria Krissoff of Vilna, Russia, is petitioning for a divorce because her husband shot off her high heels as she was walking in their garden one ' morning. American commercialism has spread to Abyssinia. Mr. Love, United States consul general at Adis Abada, reports to the state department that an American cotton house has concluded con-cluded contracts with people of Abyssinia, Abys-sinia, involving three quarters of a million dollars. Ugly rumors of a threatened massacre mas-sacre of Jews at- Kiev, Russia, are afloat. It is reported that the Jews have divided the city into districts for organized self defense. Tbe Norwegian government has tak- en up the adaption of wireless telegraphy teleg-raphy to the peculiar geographic conditions' con-ditions' of the northern lands. Central Cen-tral radiograph stations are to be established es-tablished in Christiania, Mandel, Bergen Ber-gen and Ilamraerfest, which will give communication over a wide area. It is announced that President Diaz has just fifteen days from May 14, to agree to terms of peace acceptable to Francisco I. Madero, Jr., and his followers. fol-lowers. Should he refuse, the insur-rectos insur-rectos under the leadership of General Gen-eral Madero will begiu a march upon the city of Mexico. Herr Bekemuller, an aviation pupil, was killed at Berlin, when his aeroplane aero-plane crashed against a building hidden hid-den from view of the pilot by a heavy mist. General Madero has established th provisional capital of Mexico in Jua'ez. His next logical move is to march on Mexico City, the capital of the country. It is reported that Juan Estrada has resigned the presidency of Nicaragua, having appointed the vice-president iu his place, and loft the country. The constituent assembly will, it is said, discuss the legality of the presidency of Adoll'o Diaz and probably will elect General Menu to succeed him. Mexico's provisional government became be-came an established fact on Frilay with (he naming by Francisco 1. Madero, Ma-dero, Jr., provisional president, of his cabinet officers, and the establishment of a capital at the captured city oT Juarez. |