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Show In spite of the frequent report t. the contrary. Secretary Bailiiige says: "I have denied any intention ol resigning, and still deny It." Driven almost insane with his desire for cocaine, Thomas Moore, a druj "fiend," serving time in the Ogden jail attempted suicide by cutting his right wrist with a jagged pocketknife in his cell Saturday morning. Uhlan, driven by Charles Tanner established a new world's record ai Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, by trotting a mile without a wind shield in 1:584 beating Ixm Dillon's record for the same feat, by 2Vi seconds. The police and a score of citizens ol Farmington, Mass., with all the 70C men of the fif;h regiment of the state militia now in camp, are searching the vicinity for John Morrisey, an escaped typhoid fever patient. John H. Walker, president of tin Illinois miners, at a caueas of llli nois delegates, charged that a numbei of delegates had been offered international inter-national offices if they would change their attitude in regard to the strike in Illinois. For two years, Thomas Mooney, -It years old, kept the fact that he hit Ezekiel Grewell, his stepfather, S8 years old, on the head wiiTi a club on a farm near Ilorton, Kan., and killed him. But his guilt bore heavily on his conscience and a few days ago he confessed con-fessed to a friend. Gustave Carlson, a globe-trotter, was found by trainmen at Hoquaim, Wash., in a sealed box car, with knuckles and elbows battered to pieces from his efforts to attract attention at-tention to his predicament. Ho had starved to death during his four days Imprisonment. A riot among militiamen occurred at Gray's station, Ga., following the killing of E. S. and Morris Ethridge-Morton Ethridge-Morton feud. The European-American bank. New York, closed its doors Saturday. Losses incurred through poor loans caused its failure. Colin Stewart, builder and former owner of the Hotel Maryland, founder of the Annandale Golf club and considered con-sidered one of the wealthiest men of Pasadena, Cal., shot and killed him self Thursday. With her throat cut from ear to ear, the body of Mrs. o.Iseph Wolfe, of Denison, Texas, was found by her daughter lying full dressed upon a William Mason, a transfer man of Salt Lake City, attempted suicide by shooting, Tuesday, on account of disappointment dis-appointment in love. Twelve men are dead and a score are suffering from painful injuries as the result of the collision on the Northwestern Pacific railroad at lg-nacio lg-nacio station, California. ' WASHINGTON. NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FOI 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. W. F. Robinson, mayor of El Paso. Texas, was killed by a falling wall, while attempting to warn firemen of the same danger. E. Nathan, a real estate dealer of New York, committed suicide by shooting at Cheyenne, Wyoming. Influenced by their study of occult phenomena, A. D. Roach and his bride ended their lives in a suicide pact at San Francisco. The sheep camp of the Jay Em Cattle Cat-tle company, in Converse county, Wyo., was raided and the camp wagon and outfit burned. The Wyoming Wool Growers association detectives were at once put on the trail of the raiders. The interstate fair and exposition to be held in Denver September 3 to 17, has added an aviation contest to the program. The exposilon grounds afford af-ford an ideal place for such an event, and everything in connection w-ith the national show, which is rapidly being prepared, will cap the climax of all events in this line. At a banquet given by the Helena Commercial club Friday night, it was authoritatively announced that former Senator W. A. Clark had subscribed $o,000.000 of the proposed bond issue of the Helena &. Butte Electric line, construction work on which is to begin be-gin this fall. The state board of equalization met at Helena, Mont., Friday, and fixed the assessment of the various railroads operating in Montana for the year 1910. The main lines of the transcon-tinetal transcon-tinetal roads were raised 5 per cent, or to $10,025 a mile. Mrs. W. E. Cowan of Salt Lake City, who is connected with the Indian service, ser-vice, who has been matron of the lower Brule agency in South Dakota, and who returned home two weeks ago for! a vacation, has been ordered to Carson j City, New, where she will become: matron of the Indian school there. DOMESTIC. j Gifford Pinchot will inspect the oil, The coinage of a 2V2-eent piece by the U. S. government is urged by a New York banker, who declares that the use of such a coin would mean a saving of $39,000,000 yearly to consumers. con-sumers. Ellhu Root's brief summing up for the United States in the North Atlantic Atlan-tic fisheries case at The Hague confirms con-firms the conclusion already made by the majority of impartial observers who have followed the decision that the decision will be in the main favorable favor-able to their contentions. The government derived $289,728.-015 $289,728.-015 from collections of internal revenue, reve-nue, including the corporation tax during the fiscal year ending June 110 last, according to the preliminary report re-port of the commissioner of internal revenue. This is an increase of $4::,-51 $4::,-51 5,290 over the previous fiscal year. FOREIGN. The Great White City of Brussels, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $100,000 000. Two persons were killed and a number were injured. An outcry is being made by Genua-newspapers Genua-newspapers because a French aviator avia-tor crossed the frontier. Some of the papers -said he ought to be shot for the off e use. In the New Zeland budget it is proposed pro-posed to introduce a scheme to contribute con-tribute a share of the cost of maternity mater-nity expense to wives of low waged workers and the poorer small settlers. The waters of the river Sumida in Japan are still rising, and the Honjo and Fukadawa wards of Tokio are nearly submerged. Tens of thousands of persons are hornless and straving. One of the tlr.ee more embankments guarding Tokio has broken. A certain Youravleff. who has just been executed, is credited with having hav-ing committed no fewer than 2G5 crimes. It is stated that Youravleff j developed a. special propensity for pillaging pil-laging monasteries and killing priests. Three princes of lhe church, headed by the pope's legate. Cardinal Cannti-telli, Cannti-telli, 200 bishops and archbishops, representing the whole Christian world, priests of lower rang innumerable, innumer-able, an dnot less than 200,000-Catholic laymen, will he in Montreal next month in a body with the International Interna-tional Eucharist conference. Ireland is still losing population. The excess of births over deaths in 1009 was 27,780, according to the registrar reg-istrar general's report just issued, but as 2S.G7G people emigrated during the year, there was an actual decrease ol S90. Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse of the Crimea war, died, Sunday, Sun-day, at the age of ninety years, in London. She was the only woman who ever received the Order of Merit and the first woman to follow a mod-krn mod-krn army into battle as a nurse. fields of California in their relation to government conservation Sept. 11. It is claimed that the opening of the Panama canal will change flow of immigration im-migration to western coast cities. j Steadily gaining in strength and free-thus free-thus far from any taint of blood poi-j soiling. Mayor Gaynor is one step nearer to complete recovery.. i A Salt Lake man got a divorce on I the grounds that his wife wouldn't take : a bath once in six months. I "Paris has nothing on New York1 for gaiety, pleasure, cooking, wines i and theatres," says a French nobleman. noble-man. Jacob C. Seeley of West Branch, Mich., shot his wife and then sent a bullet through his own head. He died instantly. It is expected the woman will recover. :. J. W. Bryan, who claims to be a' cousin of William Jennings Bryan, was arrested by Patrolmen Carstensen and: Woodward and taken to police headquarters, head-quarters, where he is being held on the charge of forgery. ! Benny Prinz,. a young balloonist, met death Friday afternoon at the close of the aviation meet at Asbury Park, Nj J. In making a do-uble parachute drop, The second parachute failed to open, : and he fell more than 2,000 feet. i ! Andrew Roullow, apparently a high-; ly educated music teacher of Boston.' is held by federal authorities because he tried to cash fifteen Russian gov-: ernment bonds, which were identified ; as having been stolen from the treas-1 ury at Tiflis. Russia, in 1907. At Abbot, ten miles south of Hills-boro, Hills-boro, Tex.. P. M. Firmin. a member of Battery A. Texas National Guard, shot and killed A. B. Puekett and O. L. Williams of the hospital corps. Firman Fir-man and his brother, also a member of company A. were arrested. I Sheriff Histins of Cleveland. Ohio.! seized the money tills of the book-1 makers operating at the race track in! that city. Saturday, and as a result. . it is predicted that the race track will bo closed permanently. I i An opened envelope ot a registered letter, containing two hank certifi-: cates for $5,000 each, was found in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, and investigation inves-tigation showed that the letter had' contained a third certificate for a similar amount, which is missing. Horatio Newton, a newspaper carrier car-rier of the Salt Lake Telegram was killed by a switch engine on the Salt Lake route. Loaded down with roasted ducks, chickens, geese and pigs and every imaginable oriental delicacy, 250 Chinese Chi-nese of Chicago gathered at Rose' Hill cemetery and did honor to their departed relatives. "New York is the best behaved city in the country. It has improved wonderfully won-derfully in the last ten years, and appears ap-pears to me to be getting better all the time," says Rev. M. A. Matthews of Seattle. |