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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM 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, INTERMOUNTAIN A United States mail pouch that arrived ar-rived at Walsenberg, Colo., on the Colorado & Southern train No. 8 from the north at 6:15 Sunday morning, morn-ing, was stolen and rifled. The empty pouch was later found in a corral. Mrs. Marcle Goff, aged 52, was robbe.d of her diamonds, assaulted and strangled to death at her home in Salt Lake. Jack Rose, a roomer in the house, is under arrest, but, stoutly maintains his innocence. The fifteen-months-old child of George Hellis was drowned in a small reservoir near Arvada, Colo., when it fell into a hole cut in the ice so that water might be drawn from it. . The cause of the dust explosion m the coal mine at Kemmerer, Wyo., which caused the death of five men and the injury of eighteen, has not yet been determined. B. Moyes of Reno, Nev., on Friday shot and killed his former wife and then killed himself. The woman's body was found lying in the yard and Noyes was .found dead in his house some distance away. W. Frank Noot, constructing engineer engi-neer of the United States army post at Fort Logan, Colo., has been ordered to sail for Honolulu from San Francisco Fran-cisco February 5, and to begin there at once the construction of a complete brigade post for permanent occupancy at the earliest possible date. Daniel Fleming, a Southern Pacific railroad trainman, convicted at Redding, Red-ding, Cal., of having murdered George Vallier, a Tacoma youth, on the roof of a Pullman car, near Redding, has been sentenced to ten years in San Quentin prison. DOMESTIC Frankie Burns won the right to box Johnny Coulon1 for the bantamweight championship of the world when he got the decision over Johnny Daly at te West Side Athletic club, New Orleans. Or-leans. Mrs. Anna Yeamans, who has delighted de-lighted theatre-goers in a role of a rollicking Irish woman for' fifty-nine years, is seriously ill at her apartments apart-ments in New York, following a stroke of paralysis. Betrayed by a burglar alarm he had stolen, Joseph Sullivan, who, was captured cap-tured by detectives attracted by we clanging of the gong, was given a term of three months in San Francisco Fran-cisco for the theft. Experts estimate that the present "butter boom" thus far has cost New York consumers about $6,000,000. Five persons are known bo be dead and more than a score injured as a result of a rear- nd collision on the Illinois Central ',c Kinmundy, 111. J. T. Harahan, Sr., former president of the Illinois Central, was among those killed. Kate Shelley, heroine of the Honey Creek flood disaster in 1S81, died at her home near Boone Iowa, a quarter of a mile from the Moingona bridge, across the Des Moiifes river, the scene of her heroic deed. In the first fifteen days of January the fire insurance companies of the country became liable for $15,000,000 in losses, according to statistics prepared pre-pared by a Hartford company. A woman's law school which will be devoted to the fitting of young women for the bar, has been founded by Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltse, at Los Angeles, An-geles, pioneer woman - lawyer of that city. Edward R. Perkins, vice-president of the New York Life Insurance company com-pany and a brother of Gearge W. Perkins, Per-kins, is dead at his home in East Orange, N. J., following an operation for appendicitis. Beaming with happiness over the release of her husband, Mrs. Charles W. Morse arrived at Atlanta, Ga., Friday, Fri-day, with the official papers from Washington granting the former New Yorker his freedom. An official call has been made for the Democratic national convention for 1912 to be held in Baltimore on June 2,5. Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, who is matched to fight Jack Johnson for the world's heavyweight championship, champion-ship, knocked out Al Williams of Cleveland in the second round of a bout scheduled to go ten rounds, at Toronto on Wedensday. Mrs. Nancy Hall, mother of little Ruth Hall, who died several weeks ago at Lancaster, O., after eating pancakes pan-cakes in which arsenic was found, has been indicted by the grand jury charged with murder in the first degree. de-gree. Mrs. Hall collected $200 insurance insur-ance on her daughter's life. While prisoners in the San Diego, Cal., jail locked in their cells slept Friday night, a thief ransacked the place, stole neckties, shirts and a number, of articles of value and s::r-ceeded s::r-ceeded in evading the guards tnl ViiHin? his hootv. Eldridge E. Wright, killed in the Kinmundy wreck, was a son of General Gen-eral Luke E. Wright, former secretary secre-tary of war, and made his home in Memphis, Tenn. He was about 30 years old and unmarried. Speaking before the New Haven (Conn.) Chamber of Commerce Friday Fri-day night, President Taft made a plea for continuance of his economy and efficiency commission; declared that the administration has no desire to persecute business, but that it will continue to enforce the law against monopoly and unlawful combinations, and urged business men of the country coun-try to get together with him to insure in-sure property. Records which the government contends con-tends will show members of the Chicago Chi-cago butter and eggs boards also were affiliated with the Elgin board of trade and that they worked in conjunction con-junction to fix the price of butter and eggs, were introduced in evidence Friday Fri-day in the hearing before Master in Chancery Morrison. WASHINGTON About six persons in every one hundred thousand in the United States were murdered in 1910. This statement is made by Dr. C. M. Wik-burn, Wik-burn, statistician of vMal statistics of the census bureau. World peace was strengthened by the signing in Washington Saturday Satur-day of a general arbitration treaty between the Argentine republic and the United States of Colombia. Promoters of fraudulent schemes who had obtained $77,000,000 from the public were put out of business during the fiscal year ending June 30 last, according to the annual report of Robert S. Sharp, chief inspector of the postoffice department. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the chemistry bureau of the department of agriculture, the storm center of the pure food law administration controversy con-troversy last summer, is given a clean bill of health in the report of the house committee that investigated the charges and counter charges. The director of the reclamation service ser-vice reports that about $67,000,000 has been expended in the work of reclaiming reclaim-ing arid lands and that approximately twice that sum will be expended before be-fore the present reclamation program is completed. FOREIGN A Havana paper publishes an article arti-cle to the effect that a tract of 40,000 acres which was desired by the navy department for the extension of the United States naval station at Guan-tanamo Guan-tanamo on which a Cuban commission had placed a valuation of ?900,000, is now about to be sold to an American company for $2,000,000. A plot to- kill one of the American officials has been discovered at Teheran, Te-heran, and this explains the attempt against the American, Colonel Bruce, attache to the treasury gendarmerie, who was shot at while leaving the barracks on Janaury 16. A former officer of the gendarmerie has mada a confession of the plot, in which he implicates himself. The situation in Belfast, Ireland, is becoming more grave daily because of the Orangemen's determination to prevent the Churchill-Redmond meeting meet-ing there on February 8. Rioting is feared. Practically all of the foreign envoys en-voys have notified their respective governments that some aclion by the powers is necessary in China at once, if armed intervention is to be avoided. News of the suicide of Mrs. Sherwood Sher-wood Hall of Grand Rapids, Mich., who jumped overboard from the steamer Cleveland during the voyage from Bombay to Yokohama, was brought to Victoria, B. C-, by the steamer Titan. "The net result of the British and Russian action in Persia renders a nation which was making progress toward peace and order and was building up its finances for the establishment es-tablishment of a constitutional government gov-ernment a land of chaos and anarchy," an-archy," says W. Morgan Shunter, the American who was dismissed as treasury-general of Persia recently. It is unlikely the foreign powers will permit the latest demands of the Chinese republicans, which include the abdication of the throns and the surrender of its sovereign powers, as well as the exclusion of the Manchus from participation in the provisional government. Turkish officers, including Colonel Riga Bey, were taken trom tne British Brit-ish steamer Africa on Saturday by the Italian cruiser Volturno and made prisoners of war. The dispute in the cotton trade in England which culminated in a lockout lock-out affecting about 300,000 men on December De-cember 27 has been settled. The question ques-tion at issue between employers and workers was the employment of nonunion non-union labor. It appears now to be absolutely certain cer-tain that fighting between the Chinese , revolutionists and the imperialists ; will be resumed on the morning of January 2S unless Premier Yuan Shi : Kai concedes the demands of the re-: re-: publican government. I The whole of the province of Azer-1 Azer-1 baijan, in the northwest of Persia: bordering on Turkish territory, is rapidly passing into the occupation of Russian troops. Seven Rtist-ian military posts have been established along the road from I'rumiah lo Kb-! Kb-! hoi, a distance of about 120 miles. A terrific atlack was made Friday by a large body of Turks and Arabs on an Italian column which was on the march about ten miles from the town of Tripoli. After several hours fiL-ht-j ing the Italians succeeded in beatin7 I off the attacking party. |
