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Show NEWS OF A WEEK l - CONDENSED FORI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines, INTER MOUNTAIN In tie arrest of a man giving the name of Elmer Schmidt in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, it is believed that William The worst fire which has visited Omaha's .rota.il district for years! started nhortly after midnight Friday. The loss will reach several hundred thousand dollars. The First National bank of New Berlin, N. Y., which closed its doors a few days ago, is more than $200,000 short in funds, according to an esti-"mate esti-"mate of the new cashier. The former cashier, who is a physical wreck, admits ad-mits the shortage. The Mississippi river levee at Panther Pan-ther Forest, nineteen miles above Greenville, on the Arkansas shore, gave way late Friday and the water is finding its way over 200 square miles of rich farming lands and several sev-eral prosperous towns. Pleasant View, the home of Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder of the Christian Chris-tian Science church, is advertised to be sold on May 23 next. The tax levy amounts to $417, and this the executors execu-tors of the estate have declined to pay, thinking it excessive. WASHINGTON Schmidt, sought the country over during dur-ing the last ten weeks as the murderer mur-derer of Mrs. Marcia S. Groff, who was strangled to death at her home in Salt Lake, January 21, has been captured. Supposedly stricken with an acute attack qf heart disease, J. Bevan Phillips, Phil-lips, a prominent sheep ranch owner and coal operator cf Congress county, Wyoming, fell dead from his automobile. automo-bile. C. S. Tingey, secretary of state ot Utah, who has been in southern California, Cali-fornia, is recovering rapidly from a serious operation at a hospital in Los Angeles. A private dispatch, said to have been sent by an official of the war department at Washington, was received re-ceived at Fort Cheyenne, Wytk, declaring de-claring that Frederick Funston would succeed Major General Grant. By agreement Thursday between the management of the Denver & Rio Orn,nrlfi railroad and the four trans- A prophecy that the ores held by the United States Steel corporation would be exhausted within twenty-five twenty-five or thirty years and that the natural nat-ural resources of the far west would be utilized was made before the house steel committee by Joseph Sellwood, an ore expert. Radical reductions in freight rates on wool, both in sacks and in bales, transported from western points of origin to eastern destinations, have been prescribed by the interstate commerce commission. It means a saving to Utah shippers alone of over $100,000. The sub-committee o miners and operators which is endeavoring to frame a new working agreement between be-tween the anthracite ruiners and the coal companies, renor3 progress. Labor conditions .in plants of the United States Steel corporation were denounced as a brutal system of in- portation brotherhoods firemen, engineers, en-gineers, conductors and trainmen negotiations of three months ended with the men being granted an increase in-crease in wages and better working conditions. According to a unanimous opinion of the stale supreme court of Utah, handed down Thursday," the liquor law passed by the last legislature repealed re-pealed by implication all ordinances in effect in cities and incorporated towns at the time the state law became be-came effective. Fire started by a spark from an en- gine dropping into loose hay in a feeC store destroyed property valued at $300,000 in South Butte. An entire , block was wiped out. Finley McRae, national grand treasurer of the Fraternal Order of ! Eagles, died in Helena, Mont., following follow-ing an operation. DOMESTIC Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross and probably 'ihe most widely known American wouan of her day, died at her home, Red Cross, in Glen Echo, Md., April 12, at the a'ge of 90. Mrs. Julia O. Martin of Evanston, 111., was brought to McAlester, Okla., i and placed in jail on the charge of I having caused the death by poison of her mother, Mrs. Sophronia A. Moore, i aged 78. A report that the Great Northern, dustrial slavery in the senate labor and educational committee report. The house has voted $23,000 for the expense of the investigation of the shipping trust and $4,000 additional addi-tional to wind up the investigation of the steel trust. President Taft and ' Secretary Stimson are arraigned severely in a sensational report on the Ainsworth case presented to the house on Tuesday Tues-day by the military affairs committee. FOREIGN Zach. Farmer, formerly a resident of Moberly, Mo., was shot and killed by the rebels near Irapuato, Mexico, according to a message received by his sister. Joseph Hamill is dead at his home at Strassberg, Sask., at the result of the accidental discharge of a shotgun when wind blew shut the door of a barn as he was entering. A bomb exploded inside a taxi-auto in the Rue de Lyons, Paris. The blast shook the neighborhood, smashing windows, and wrecking the motor car. The chauffeur and several pedestrians pe-destrians were injured. The quasi-official relations, which by force of circumstances have existed ex-isted between Marion Letcher, the United States consul at Chihuahua, and General Pascual Orozco, commander com-mander of the rebel forces, were broken Frid.ay when Orozco formally notified Mr. Letcher that he no longer through James J. Hill, had purchased two miles of lake front near Frt William, Wil-liam, Ont., as a site for steel works and blast furnaces and as an eastern terminus for a new line of railroad through western Canada, is current. By a majority of mo're than 23,000 out of 25,000 votes cast, locomotive engineers on fifty railroads east ot Ohicago and north of the Norfolk & Western have authorized a strike, should further negotiations with the railroads for increased pay fail. Word has been received at Nome, Alaska, that John Viedel, an old miner, was found frozen in a snowdrift snow-drift near the east fork of the Solomon Solo-mon river. He was on his way from Council to Casadepaga. Professor Walter E. Howard, firsi dean of Middlebury college, at Middle-bury, Middle-bury, Vt, is dead at the age of 63. Professor Howard served as United States consul at Ontario, and Cardiff, Wales. Aside from a break in the Ashland levee north of Natchez, by whic h several sev-eral thousand acres of Jefferson, county were flooded, the dykes of the Mississippi river safely held back, the flood on Thursday. General Frederick Dent Grant, com-' com-' mander of the department of the ! east, died of heart failure, superin- recognized the latter in an official capacity. ca-pacity. It is officially announced at St. Petersburg Pet-ersburg that the powers have made I proposals of mediation to Constanti-' Constanti-' nople with a view to bringing an end , to the war between Turkey and Italy over Tripoli. Twenty persons were arrested at Nankin and immediately beheaded. They were charged with complicity in a plot to dynamite the yamen and kill Huang Sing, who has been put in control of the Nankin sphere. The origin of the astounding dispatch dis-patch from Madrid, which purported to have the authority of the papal nunciature there, announcing the death of the pope, is incomprehensible incomprehen-sible to the va.tican. The pope Is in excellent ehalth. General William Booth, chief of the Salvation army, received many congratulations con-gratulations at London on Wednesday Wednes-day on his eighty-third birthday. The general is in better health than last year. j Practical expression is given in the 'French budget for 1913, introduced S into the chamber of deputies Wed- nesday, to the remarkable wave of j patriotism now sweeping over I France. The estimates provide for ; duced, it is believed, by the deadly j ailment that killed his father, Ulysses ! S. Grant, at 12:30 o'clock Friday, at a hotel in New York. Eight charges of nitroglycerine were used in an unsuccessful attempt to loot the safe in the bank oC Red : Ford, Oklahoma. The outer vault door was blown cut but the sate itself, it-self, withstood the robbers' attack. Maine delegates to the national Re- publican convention are pledged to Colonel Roosevelt. 1 President Taft charged in a speech ia New York that many of those persons per-sons who advocate the recall of judges or the recall of judicial decisions decis-ions are insincere demagogues, acting without sufficient knowledge of the need for preservation of the constitution constitu-tion or its guarantees. The federal grand jury m New-York New-York which investigated the alleged destruction of certain papers desirer1 by the government in its anti-trust suit against the United States Steel corporation, failed to find anyone euilty of violation of law. '$16,000,000 more than m iyi2 for na-I na-I tional defense. j American conductors and engineers I employed by the National Railways of Mexico will walk out April 15 nn- less some unforeseen circumstances intervene. The rairoad managers refused re-fused the demands of the men. . A. Wilson, superintendent, was killed and W. Woods, a laborer, se- i riously injured in an rxploion at the ' Canadian Explosive company's plant at Northfield, B. C. Thousands of perms have been killed and whole Indian villages swept away by the eruption of Chiri-qui Chiri-qui ..leak, near Bocas del Tero, Panama. Pana-ma. The peak, as far as is known, never has shown volcanic activity and the sudden bursting of fire and lava from the crest took the inhabitants inhabi-tants by surprise, A large number of passengers were , drowned by the sinking of a Nile ex- cvrsion steamer after a collision with i another steamer in the vicinity of the j Great Dam on the river, about fifteen I lles to the norlhwesL of Cairo. ' r |