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Show Because she refused to 'marry him, j Omer ravl:, Hgcd 18, shot and killed Miss Nellie Monyhu, 22, at her home in Washington county, Arkansas, and then attempted suicide, but was un-successful. un-successful. I It is announced that William J. Bryiin. ( . Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, and Robert L. Henry of Texas are to be members of Wood-row Wood-row Wilson's i ;.:.!. .et. Mr. Bryan will he secretary of state, Mr. Palmer secretary of the treasury and Mr. Henry attorney general. A. V. Rentz, who was arrested in connection wit a the murder of August Herman and his wife, whose dead bodies were found on their farm near Sparta, Wis.. Friday, confessed Sunday Sun-day that he had killed the old couple. Elmer Loomis, an Iola, Kans., high school freshman, will suffer permanent per-manent injury to his eyes and may lose his sight altogether as a result of hazing, red pepper having been thrown into his eyes. James Higgins. a 22-year-old highwayman, high-wayman, was killed in Chicago in a desperate fight with the police after the young man with a companion had held up and rot-bed the customers and proprietors of two saloons. WASHINGTON President and Mrs. Tart were the dinner guests of the secretary of agriculture, agri-culture, James L. Wilson, and his daughter, Miss Flora Wilson, Monday. This is the sixteenth annual dinner Secretary Wilson has given in honor of a chief executive. Direct taxes upon the incomes of citizens of the United States, whether derived from idle capital or from the conduct of business, were made possible pos-sible Monday by the ratification of the sixteenth amendment to the federal constitution. The house banking and currency committee is preparing to consider the report of that body on the money trust which C'liai'maa Pujo, with the aid and assisumce of Samuel Untermyer, counsel coun-sel !ur the Pujo sub-committee of the, committee, no'.v is drafting. The custom long followed by cigar manufacturers allowing employees to make twenty-one cigars a 'week each for their own consumption without paying the regular internal revenue tax upon the product, has been legalized legal-ized by congress. Eulogies on the life of the late Senator Rayner of Maryland were delivered de-livered Sunday in the house of representatives repre-sentatives by Representatives Lewis, Talbott, Linthicum, Konig, Covington and others. Provision for the tactical organization organiza-tion of the United States army into three infantry divisions and one cavalry division is made in an order issued by direction of President Taft. FOREIGN King Menelik of Abyssinia is dead, according to a dis patch received from Add s-Abeba. His successor, Prince Lidj Jeassu, one of his grandsons, entered en-tered the capital on Sunday with great pomp. Tlie Balkan war has been resumed. The bombardment of Adrianop'.e began NEWS OF H WEEK II 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 ITaight's local option bill, the principal prin-cipal feature of Which is the requirement require-ment that common carriers shall keep a record of all shipments into "dry" territory, .passed tlie Idaho senate on Saturday- and will be transmitted to the lower house for ratification. Suffering from acute melancholia and hallucinations, Hazel Thompson, IS years of age, a patient in a Salt Lake private sanitarium, committed suicide by drinking a solution of cyanide of potassium. The approval by the Idaho legis1!-ture legis1!-ture of the proposed constitutional F.mendment providing for the election of senators by direct vote brings the-total the-total up to ten states that have approved ap-proved the amendment. Chris Christenscii of Salt Lake City declares that bullet wounds in his breast, following an attempt at suicide, sui-cide, led to the discovery of a cure j for tuberculosis. For five years Chris- J tensen has suffered with the disease; but now he feels that he is on the high road to recovery. That the consumer is paying four or five times the price for farm commodities com-modities that the producer receives and the recommendation that a public pub-lic farmers' market be established in Salt Lake were features of th3 address ad-dress of D. P. Smith, manager of the Salt L ake "Growers exchange, at the roundup at Logan, "Utah. DOMESTIC Cipriano 'Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, called on Mayor Gaynor In New York on Monday. Castro is enjoying brief liberty in the city, having hav-ing been released on bail pending argument argu-ment on a writ of habeas corpus. Joseph Patrick Tumulty, to when Governor Wilson refers as his alter ego, is to be secretary to President Wilson. This is the first member of the president-elect's official family to be announced. 1 Jimmy Clabby of Hamir"nd, contender con-tender for the middleweight tite, climbed a step higher in the ladder to the championship oh Monday by outpointing Knockout Brown of Chicago Chi-cago in ten rounds at Milwaukee. Mrs. Magdalen Herredo was instantly in-stantly killed Sunday night when she opened a package containing a bomb that her husband, Bernardo Herredo, found in the hall of their apaitments in "New York City. Miss Fughtmann, a boarder, was seriously injured. Frank M. Ryan, the -convicted labor leader, who arrived in Chicago Monday, after being released on uond from , the federal prison in Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kan., spent the. day in conferences confer-ences with, his attorneys and labor men there. Bearing a note from a passenger on the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, now in mid-ocean on the way to Bremen, a carrier pigeon dropped exhausted en (he roof of a New York ho. el late Sunday. All Los Angeles excursion records were broken Sunday when l.f'S.) visitors visi-tors from Utah, Nevada and Montana arrived in four special trains and two regular trains from the Ctah capital. A coroner's jury at St. Louis, hold for the grand jury Mrs. Pearl Bell Stebbens and Mrs. Nell Carpenter, mothers of two boys who were foi:nd dead of gas asphyxiation in the same bed The canal officials say that they are not -perturbed, by the land slides which have recently occurred in the Culebra cut and that they expect to turn on the waters at the . appointed time, before the end of the year. Four "persons are known to be dead, another i-s dying, and ten are in hospitals suffering from burns or broken bones as the result of a hotel fire at Sacramento, Cal. Louis Duryea, a Brooklyn youth, tied his father's sword to a chiir Saturday, then lunged forward and impaled himself on the blade. Found dead in the hall, the family thought he had died of heart disease until examination disclosed a deep wound In his abdomen. After eleven days devoted to procuring pro-curing a jury, the second trial of Clarence B. Darrow, former counsel for the JlcXamara brothers, on a jury j bribing charge growing out of the fa- : mous dynamite trial, finally got under : way at Los Angeles on Friday. A boy's cry of '-fire'' and the smoke from an exploded reel of a motion picture machine in a New Ycrk theatre Sunday night resulted in a panic among the audience of 40 persons per-sons and a rush for the exits in which two women were killed and eleven other persons injured. Judge Windes, at Chicago, sentenced senten-ced Mrs. Louisa Lind'.off, found guilty of the murder of her son Arthur,- to serve twenty-five years in prison, bu! later set aside te sentence because her counsel was not in court, and continued con-tinued the case until February 21. at 7 o'clock Monday night, and a small skirmish occurred at the Tchatalja, lines. The armistice had lasted exactly exact-ly two months. j Followers of General Zapata attack-I attack-I ed a passenger train traveling from Mo:ico City to Czuniba, forty-five ! m'.lrs south cf the capita! Monday, ; k.l ing or w'cundiiig all t':-e twenty i soldiers in the train's csrort. Four I male passengers were Silled and ir-.i-'o' j cf the wo'inen T,as:-engvi-s were carried car-ried off by the rebels. Giuseppe Nosri an Italian aviator, wl:i e making a flight rt the areodrcme i at Tin in, Mond.iy aflerncon, fell with I I is machine frcir. an altitude of 100 ; fe; t and received injuries which re-j re-j suited in his death. j Sam Griggs, well known in Canada as an evangelist, plea-.'ed guilty at Winnipeg to a charge of bigamy and was sentenced to one year in prison. Griggs married a young widow there while he had a wife living at London Ontario. Salazar's rebels have reinvaded the Mexican Mormon colonies from Guadafupe, having gone there because be-cause of the good looting that the colonies col-onies and their abandoned houses alto al-to rd Oil in sufficient quantities and of a quality to ma!;e the Standard Oil menace in England a negligible quantify quan-tify has been pi oven to exist at Nottingham, Not-tingham, according to G. Cobbe, a wen-known Loudon oil expert. An explosion of a quantity of blasting blast-ing powder in a hardware store at Cienfuegos, Cuba, resulted in the death of ten poisons, including the proprietor and his wife and their two children. Scores were injured. The fourth annual carnival of Panama Pan-ama began Sunday. The city is gaily decorated, an elaborate program of entorlaiunicnt has been arranged and j temporarily business- has been sus- 1 pended. Baron Ilkeston, a distinguished member of the Liber-cl party in the r.ritish house of lords, died Friday at the age of 73. Lieut. Humphrey W. Smith and nine bluejackets of the British cruiser Perseus Per-seus are believed to have been lost while watching for pirates on the Oman coast of the Persian gulf. They had teen detached in one of the cruiser's cutters, which appears to have sunk with all hands during a sudden gale, as no trace of them has since been found. Alarmed by rumors that his child would be kidnaped by suffragettes, Winston Churchill has four police-men constantly on gusH );,:ide 'lis house. |
