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Show BRIEF -REVIEW OF A WEE1LSEVENTB RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT - HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men Jack Martin, a special deputy sheriff, sher-iff, was slain and J. B. Bird, a private detective, was fatally wounded when they were fired upon hy an unknown ' negro while returning from a coal mine north, of iSpringville, 111., with a negro prisoner. Mrs. Antonio Zinsk and her twin babies were burned to death when her home at Utica, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. The entire side of a four-story bnick storehouse in Hartford, Conn., collapsed and crashed through the frame dwelling house of John Hughes, immediately adjoining. As a result two persons are dead, three fatally injured and another seriously hurt. Meade Barr, former inmate of the Indiana reformatory at Jefferson-ville, Jefferson-ville, Ind., has confessed before the Dallas county, Texas, grand jury that he murdered Miss Florence Brown in INTER MOUNTAIN. Judge Charles H. Carey, representing represent-ing the Bell Telephone company in the suit at Portland of the government against that concern, insinuated that the attorney general of the United State had attempted to influence and intimidate the "United States court. The suits of Mrs. Maria Faustino and Filomeno Braun against the Great Northern railroad for loss of a husband hus-band and father, respectively, in the avalanche of March 1, 1910, which killed 93 persons at Wellington, Wash., were dismissed at Seattle. After terrorizing the residents of a fashionable district of Denver, and after af-ter standing off a squad of policemen police-men for three hours, Albert Preston, a drunken negro, was shot and killed by the officers. Two trainmen were killed and one injured in a collision, Saturday, between be-tween two extra freight trains on the Oregon Short Line near Soda Spring, Idaho. From recent investigation in connection con-nection with the Minidoka irrigation project in Idaho it has been ascertained ascertain-ed that certain lands that were temporarily tem-porarily withdrawn from all forms of disposition no longer appear oece'sary j to the interests of the project. The secretary of Jhe interior therefore has restored about 29,300 acres to the public domain to he subject to settlement settle-ment and entry. Col. John K. Rankin aged 75, for years head of the Crow Indian agency in Montana and a veteran of the civil war, died at his home in Lawrence, Kans., on Wednesday. j DOMESTIC. I Dallas on July 28. Clarence Altes and Charles Johnson, John-son, advertising man and linotype operator op-erator respectively on a Mattoon, 111., newspaper, were burned to death when fire destroyed a boarding 'house in which they were asleep. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has nominated William Wallace, Jr., of Helena, Mont., to be assistant attorney general. gener-al. The senate has confirmed the nomination nom-ination of former Senator Cockrell of. Missouri to be the civilian member of the army board of ordinance and fortifications. He succeeds William Warner. The inter-state commerce commis-sions's commis-sions's order reducing the freight rates on lemons from California to Atlantic seaboard points from $1.15 to ?1 has been upheld by the supreme court of the United States. Secretary Bryan and Ernest Bau-mann, Bau-mann, charge of the Swiss legation, on Monday signed a convention extending ex-tending for another five years the general arbitration treaty between the two countries. An ultimatum has gone from Washington Wash-ington to President Huerta that he must resign the presidency of Mexico without loss of time and must not leave as his successor Gen. Aureliano Blanquet, his minister of war, or any other member of his official family or of the unofficial coterie whom he might be expected to control. A block of Colorado marble inscrib- len thousand cartridges, taken' from army stores, have been stolen and smuggled across the Mexican border from Douglas, Ariz. They , were abstracted from cases belonging to the Ninth (negro) cavalry. j Henry S. Boutell, former congress- j man for Illinois, has been elected cnairman of 'the board which will arbitrate ar-bitrate the differences between officials offic-ials and the conductors and trainmen of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. Patrick Martin, formerly national 1 vice president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Irish National Land j league and its successor, the United ; Irish league, died Monday at Balti-more, Balti-more, aged 67. ' A 6ixty-fcot span of a wooden trestle tres-tle over the Southern railway near Richmond, Va., collapsed under the weight of a combination freight and , passenger train, the engine, tender 1 and three box cars dropping ir to thir- , ty feet of water. Three trainmen j were killed. i Mrs. Ida Leckwood, accused of pois- I oning her 9-year-old daughter Viola, is on trial at Minneapolis, charged j with murder. She is alleged to have confessed to the killing of the child. Six of the eight Leckwood children died sudenly, but Mrs. Leckwood de- ! ed with the coat ot arms or ooioraao has been placed in the collection of state memorial stones that decorate the interior of the Washington monument monu-ment FOREIGN. General Luis Terrazas, reputed to be the wealthiest man in Mexico, is reported a prisoner of the Mexican federal authorities at Juarez. Military Mili-tary officials in Juarez deny knowledge knowl-edge of his presence. Price Collier, the American author, died suddenly at Copenhagen while on a visit to Count Weddel. General Felix Diaz, fugitive from Mexico, arrived at Havana on Monday Mon-day on the steamer Esperanza, to which he had been transferred from the United States battleship Michigan Michi-gan off the Mexican coast. . The second ballot in the general election in Italy was taken Sunday, and returns indicate that the strength of the various parties will not be materially changed from the figures given out officially last we,ck. The Furness line freight steamer Manchester Commerce, which left Montreal on Friday for Manchester, England, struck an iceberg early Saturday Sat-urday morning in the Strait of Bella Isle and sustained severe damage. Manuel f'alern tliA r-anrlirlnin nf thfl nies that they were poisoned. j Although there are nearly 53,000,000 sheep in the United States they represent rep-resent less than 5 per cent of the total number of domestic animals on the country's farms. Ida May Keller, convicted of the murder of her husband Arthur Kellar and their 7-year-old daughter, who were slain last June as they slept in their beds at Harrison, Mo., was denied a new trial and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. A proclamation asking the newspapers newspa-pers of the state to publish on No-veJmber No-veJmber 19 the Gettysburg address of President Lincoln has been issued by Governor Dunn of Illinois. The jury at Los Angeles which tried Louis Medina, nephew of Bmllio Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader, on a charge of murder, disagreed and was discharged. Medina 'was accused of having killed a negro rival for the affections af-fections of a negress. Edwar Ikerd, a railroad fireman, formerly of Bedford, Ind., &hot and killed his wife and himself in City park, Kansas City. They had been separated. The Indianapolis Traction & Ter- liberal party in the Mexican presidential president-ial elections, was a passenger On Ihe steamer Coreovardo which sailed for Havana on Sunday. Senor Calero la on his way to Washington. The officials designated to supervise the returns of the election of Mexican Mexi-can deputies have declared elected eleven out of the twelve candidates to represent the federal district. One of the candidates is declared to have received an insufficient number of votes. British shipowners and merchants, in every line of produce and 'manufacture, 'manufac-ture, have carefully laid plans lor any change that will come over the trade I of the world as a result of the opening I of the Panama canal. The government of the duchy of Brunswick, Germany, which has been without a reigning duke since 1SX4, was assumed on November 1 by the young Prince Ernest August of Cumberland. Cum-berland. The first United Stales ambassador to SpiilM, Colonel Joseph 10. Willard of Virginia, wan received Friday hy King Alfonso. The a in bassador and his staff were osoerl'-d to tin; alaco ininal company, whose men went on ut.riko October SO, attempted to run its cars Sunday, hut gave up when notified by Superintendent of Police Ilyland that the police would he unable un-able to prevent bloodshed unless the ears were withdrawn. A.-i an indirect result of what, is said by the police to he bitter a n I i-A nn-i-i-can feeling anion:; fh" l.lion .anils or Mexicans in I. oh Angeles, Adol.o Moreno, Mor-eno, a .Mexican, was shot and lulled by Albeit. C. Staples, a. policeman who had been shut at. by Moreno cr one of his four companion!!. JI. Kliner Gibb, widely known as ft dry goods merchant both in the wholf: nale and retail trad'-, died suddenly at hlii home In Morri.-ilown, X. .1. Death wan due lo heart disease. It la ei I-jnate I-jnate that he lef-i. a fortune of nearly $r,,00'i,000. iy a ciei ae,i men 1 01 me royal guarus. Speaking Warp-,! of the house of us-Kcinnly us-Kcinnly was iP f'.iled in the ipinilron-nial ipinilron-nial election hy iJcsincss Msiag'T Grimes of tin- Fishermen's union, says a St. Johns, N. I-'., dispatch. Grimes id a Socialist. Women of Mexico are playing a prominent, par1 in Ihe warfare of Iho southern republic, oiihcr as "sohlad-eras," "sohlad-eras," foraging successfully for their men folk in the armies, (,',- occasionally occasional-ly as aculal lighlcrs. Many women have left their hoim-n rather Ihau remain re-main alone, and a. few of lln-m have gone under lire from mot I ves of revenge, re-venge, II. is reported that the liability Insurance In-surance on the roceni. mine disaster near Cardiff, Wales, In which a-hoiit -100 men lost I li' 1 1- liven, nio'4iit,!i to nearly half a million dollars. |