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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven. Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. Bill Flannery, employed as a sheep herder, received probably fatal injuries in-juries in a fight with William T. Baines, a ranchman, when the sheep which Flannery was herding strayed into a pasture owned by Baines, near Meeteetse, Wyo. Leonard Piro, an Italian bartender, was assassinated while on duty in Salt Lake City. It is believed the shooting was the result of a feud which had its beginning in Italy. There is no clue to his murderer. While going at a high rate of speed, an engine and eight cars of a passenger train left the track near Pueblo, Colo., and ran along on the ties for a considerable distance. None of the cars were overturned, and not a passenger was injured. The Portland Oregonian-New York Herald Mount McKinley expedition has failed to reach the summit of Mount McKinley, and is on its way back to Seattle. The members of the expedition declare that no human being be-ing has ever reached the summit of the mountain. Miss Minnie Thomas was instantly killed and Charles Walters fatally injured, in-jured, when Walter's automobile was struck by a Milwaukee train on the road between Butte and Anaconda, Mont. Both were residents of Anaconda Ana-conda and Walters was employed as a stereotpyer on the Anaconda Stand ard. DOMESTIC. For the first time in American murch history, possibly for the first time in the history of religion, the deaf and dumb are to have a church of their own in New York City, in which both services and sermons will be said in the sign language. While attending a barbecue near Lamasco, Ky., Axeltree Cooper, chief witness for the state against the night riders, was shot and fatally wounded. In a fight near the Export coal mine at Greensburg, Pa., a striking coal miner was shot and killed and George Davis, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., a member of troop A, Pennsylvania state constabulary, was seriously wounded. Nearly a score of others received minor injures. Mrs. Joseph Melio, of Antioch, Cal., became suddenly insane and drowned her four children. A new bread trust is being formed. It will be called the Commercial Bakeries Bak-eries company, and has been incor porated in Delaware. Hartwell Grubbs, a Tennesseean by birth, who amassed a fortune in St. Louis, will head the concern, and it will be capi talized at ?30,000,000. Mrs. Juan Lebo, a Mexican woman, and two children were drowned m a flood which swept through Gallup, N. M., following a cloudburst in the mountains. moun-tains. A new party has been launched in Pennsylvania, in opposition to both the Republican and Democratic parties. par-ties. The convention, composed o.r 117 delegates, denounced both the old parties as being under the domination domi-nation of the liquor industry. John Junkin, the negro convicted of the murder of Clara Rosen, a wh'te girl, who was killed while returaiL? from choir practice in (Xtumwa in February, 1908, were hanged at noon Friday in the penitentiary at Fort Madison, Iowa. Hurled forty feet through the ai" when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a train at a read crossing, Mrs. John Z. Kleinsas-ser, Kleinsas-ser, wife of a wealthy German ranch er, and her small daughter were killed at Reedley, Cal. News has been received of the as sassination on July 22 in the Yaqt: valley, near Cocorit, of Mrs. Jennie Soudilleri, an American woman, and her two sons. The bodies were mutilated mut-ilated in a horrible manner with an axe. . The secretary of the United Butch ers of America says that an effo;-; will be made at the convention to be held in Chicago, August 15 to 19, tc operate and establish independent co operative abattoirs, rendering plantf and tanneries, declaring that the packers are responsible for the high price of meats. A victim of the "white phi-rue." Joe Gans, the former lightweight champion cham-pion pugilist, will live only about tv weeks more, according to a statement state-ment made by his physicii.n at Prcs-cott, Prcs-cott, Arizona. Basing their appeal on "The app'i cation of the unwritten law to wo men," the Era club, one ol" the lead ing woman's organizations of Louisiana, Louis-iana, has called upon ail other or ganizations of women to pledge the;i support to secure the exoneration of Mamie McLaughlin, charged with murder. Nearly every bridge in Hancock county, Kentucky, has been carried away, many miles of public highway rendered impassable, and railroad? washed out in many places, as the result re-sult of a twelve-hour rain. In a race war between and negroes at Slocum and Elkhart, Texas, at least fifty blacks were killed or wounded, while a score of white men are dead or suffering from bullet bul-let wounds. Tie war was the result of a white farmer attempting to collect col-lect a debt from a negro. Troops and Texas rangers are now on the grounds to preserve order. Joseph A. Wendling, accused of the murder of little Alma Keilner, aged 10, at Louisville, Ky.. has been arrested ar-rested .Jn San Francisco, after a search of four months' duration. Friends of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the vanished explorer, believe that he is now in seclusion at the home of his brother, W. L. Cook, in Brooklyn, and that he has been there since July 2. Fire which started in a bakery wiped wip-ed out an entire business square at E'stancia, the county seat of Torrance county, New Mexico. John Velton, an old-time resident of Clifton and Morenci. Arizona, shot and killed E. E. Cook, a conductor on the Morenci Southern railroad, as a result of trouble of long standing. Cook was unarmed. WASHINGTON. Congressman Charles O. Tyrrell, of the Fourth Massachusetts district, died suddenly Sunday. Death was due to a hemorrhage of the brain. He was 65 years old. John G. Carlisle, former secretary of the treasury, died suddenly in New York on Sunday, of heart failure, at the age of 75. General Oliver, acting secretary of war, has appointed a board of engin-. eers charged with the responsibility of raising the battleship Maine in Havana Ha-vana harbor. Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeaer, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, in his report of operation for the fiscal year ended June 30, urgently recommends government control of all wireless plants. The enormous sum of $1,718,000,000 is owed by the 15S cities in the country coun-try having each a population of more than 30,000. The figures show net indebtedness in-debtedness and are given out by the census bureau as a result of its canvass can-vass for 190S. The government census enumerator is authority for the statement that the birth rate of Oyster Bay, N. Y., is only 5 or 6 per cent more than the death rate. Nearby localities make twice as good a showing. FOREIGN. Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, accused of the murder in London of his wife, formerly Belle Elmore, a vaudeville actress, was arrested on Sunday on board ship, off Father Point, Quebec. Claire Leneve, his stenographer, was also arrested. The couple were registered reg-istered on board ship as Rev. John Robinson and son, and the girl for whose sake Crippen is supposed to have murdered his wife, was dressed as a boy. More trouble is in store for the British Brit-ish government. The suffragettes have given notice that they will resume re-sume militant tactics immediately after af-ter parliament reassembles in November. Novem-ber. Lady Abdy, who recently secured the honor of being the first English woman to make a flight in an aeroplane, aero-plane, is an enthusiastic believer in the future of air navigation. She has offered to back a scheme for an aerial passenger line between London and Paris to the extent of $250,000. The announcement by Prince Nicholas Nich-olas of Montenegro that he has decided de-cided that after August 8 he will assume as-sume the title of king instead ot prince of Montenegro, will not, it is believed, further complicate the Balkan situation, and will be ac quiesced in, not only by Austria, hut by the other powers as well. Furs will cost less next year if the anticipation made by Lotd Slratii-coma Slratii-coma at the meeting of the Hudson's Bay company prove correct. He said there will probably be a further increase in-crease in the present year in the fur collection, which would have the ef feet cf reducing the enormously hij;h prices which had prevailed in the iur market. It is stated that Pasha, chief of the Turkish general staff, and Djavad Pasha, director of - the Turkish staf; college, will attend the grand maneuvers maneu-vers of the German army, which this autumn are to be held iu the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Danz;g. Between fifteen and twenty men were killed in an engagement at Peru. Spanish Honduras, in an insurrec- ' plenary movement, according to a dispatch dis-patch brought by passengers on the steamer Gribb to New Orleans. Explaining that he was terribly bored with life, a man named Joseph Reslowsky committed suicide at Budapest, at the age of 102. He left a letter stating that after waiting patiently pa-tiently half a century he decided to take the matter in his own hands. Congress, by a vote of 174 to 54 rat'-fipd rat'-fipd the election of Marphill Hermes Fcrsec for president of the republic of Erazil. Ho will assume offic November No-vember 15 next. Marshal Fons'.-c at the present l ine is in Europe. An extraordinary crime occurred in a factory at Lisbon, where a man who was responsible for the .smooth run nir.g of a large machine called li::-sweftheart. li::-sweftheart. of whom he was jealous, to the machine room and kill: d her with a razor. lie- then approached a brge wheel, which was revolving with great rapidity, and dashed himself him-self between the spokes. Emperor William is trying to solve questions of Socialism by frequent changes of the ministry. In the past six weeks there have been no less than five ministers appointed by the kaiser. |