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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven. Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. According to complete official returns, re-turns, the plurality of Governor John A. Shafroth, Democrat, at the recent election in Colorado, was 17.7MJ. Of this Denver county gave him a plurality plu-rality of 13,(i.",7. LeRoy Scott of Denver, a senior in the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, died Sunday in the university hospital from supposed opium poisoning. He was 30 years old. The authorities believe the student took an overdose of some patent head-ache head-ache cure. Mat. It. Green, aged 24 years, a lineman line-man in the employ of the Clark Klec-tric Klec-tric company of Tooele, Utah, met death by being electrocuted while repairing re-pairing one of the company's lines between be-tween Stockton and Tooele. Denver's Italian quarter is wild with excitement over the discovery of the body of one of their countrywomen, frightfully mutilated, in a roadside ditch, six miles north of Denver. It is believed the woman was murdered to prevent her giving information desired de-sired by the authorities. The safe of Edward C. Roberts, who keeps a meat and general store in Butte, was biown up and about $850 in ;ash and checks secured. The safecracking safe-cracking was the work of professionals. profession-als. J. G. William Hassing, an electrical worker of Portland, fired two shots into his wife's head and .then turned the weapon upon himself. Mrs. Hassing Has-sing died at the hospital half an hour afterward. Hassing may recover. Governor Shafroth of Colorado has issued a call for the first annual contention con-tention of the American Apple congress, con-gress, to be held in Denver, December 15 to 17, at the Albany hotel. The governors of all apple-growing states ire invited to attend and send delegates. dele-gates. W. V. Lawlor, one of the prominent ousiness men of Butte and well known throughout the state in real -estate and mining circles, . died unexpectedly Wednesday morning following an oper-ition oper-ition for intestinal trouble. DOMESTIC. Michael Cudahy, founder -of the packing firm bearing his name, died it a hospital In Chicago on Sunday of double pneumonia. Mr. Cudahy had been ill five days, the disease becoming becom-ing serious Saturday morning. The citizens' strike committee, which has investigated conditions in the families of, striking garment workers work-ers in Chicago, have reported that five thousand babies are starving as a result re-sult of the labor war. Fire in a factory building in Newark, New-ark, N. J., caused the death of twenty-Bve twenty-Bve girls, while half a dozen are reported re-ported dying and twenty-two less seriously seri-ously hurt. Most of the fatalities were the result of the girls jumping from the third and fourth floors. . Chicago is in the throes of a diphtheria diph-theria epidemic. There are approximately approxi-mately 800 cases in the city at present ind for the last month the number has been increasing steadily. Gertrude Goldstein, a ten-year-old Brooklyn girl, is dead as the result of swallowing a turkey bone with her Thanksgiving dinner. Richard Lowe, a negro, was quietly lynched several miles outside Mayo, Fla., for entering the bedroom of the daughter of R. M. Cobb, in the heart of Mayo, late at night. William Waldorf Astor, the expatriate expat-riate on Thanksgiving day provided a big dinner for newsboys of New York. Astor cabled his regrets at not being present. John Sears, a mulatto, is charged with the murder of Rev. Anzil Armstrong Arm-strong and his wife, Annie Armstrong, at Trenton N. J. Jesse Bluestone, a former member of the Pennsylvania legislature, and Samuel Mosensen, were found guilty at Pittsburg of complicity in the white slave traffic. A grand jury in Hudson county, New Jersey, on Friday voted to return 'our indictments against James J. Gallagher, Gal-lagher, a discharged city employe, who shot and wounded Mayor Gaynor on August 9. Five men are dead as a result of the premature explosion of dynamite in a Santa Fe rock cut east of Barstow, Cal. It took five hundred grains of cyanide cya-nide of potassium, the most deadly poison, to kill Gypsy- Queen, a trick elephant, executed in New Tork for the murder of her keeper, Robert Schiel, on October 20. United States Senator Lafayette Young, appointed by Governor Carroll Car-roll to serve until the coming general gen-eral assembly, has formally announced an-nounced that he is a candidate before be-fore the legislature to fill the unexpired unex-pired term of the late Senator Do Hi ver, which terminates March 4, 1913. Six persons are missing and two are known to have lost their lives as the result of a fire which broke out at Winthrop Beach a shore resort in the suburbs of Boston. Y'oung's hotel, a $50,000 building, and several cottages cot-tages were destroyed. ! For the first tim in his care.T, Battling Bat-tling Nelson was knocked out on Saturday, Sat-urday, Owen Moran defeating the Durable Dur-able Dane in the eleventh round of what was to have been a twenty-round contest in San Francisco. Two men carved each other to death wir.h razors in Chicago, following follow-ing a quarrel over two young girls. A third man in tiie fight who was badly ' shr.-.hed about the head managed to make his escape. Federal Judge Robert W. Taylor was stricken with paralysis and died at Cleveland. O., on Friday. While serving in congress from lib" to 1903, .Mr. Taylor conducted the trial of Representative Rep-resentative Brigham Roberts. WASHINGTON. I The income of the 202,490 corporations corpora-tions of the I'nited Slates which are subject to tax under the corporation tax law was $3,125,470,000 for the ! year which ended on June 30. i That the population of the United Slates and its possessions now exceeds loo.oUO.OOO, is the estimate made iu Washington from the census figures so far iTmounoetl. The population of the United States, the Philippines au i W ith only Portland, Oregon, Seattls ! and Spokane, Wash., and Duluth, j Minn., and Superior, Wis., missing, the i cities of the United States of 25.00C ; and over have an aggregate population popula-tion of 27,809,835. Ten men sentenced to the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, ' Kan., have beeu released on parole. These are the first releases under the new law providing that a federal prisoner pris-oner may be paroled with the approval of the attorney general after having served one-third of his sentence. Census Director Durand has announced an-nounced the correct population of Seattle, Se-attle, Wash., and Portland, Ore., as 237,194 and 207,214, respectively. It is generally understood that the opponents of Speaker Cannon will endeavor en-deavor to deny him even the privilege of the leadership of the minority forces at the next session of congress. For the fiscal year ended June 30 last, the United States department of agriculture announces the 25 per cent of national forest revenue which will go to the states for road and school purposes amounted to $506,194.84. The Democratic representation in the next house will be 227, against 163 Republicans and one Socialist, according accord-ing to the roster of the house just published. pub-lished. FOREIGN. , The ships of the Brazilian fleet which have been in the hands of mutinous mu-tinous sailors since November 22 have been surrendered- to the government. This action followed the granting of the mutineers' demands by the government, gov-ernment, including amnesty for all concerned in the revolt, higher pay and less work for the sailors and the adjustment of certain minor grievances. griev-ances. A jury in the court of assizes at Rouenburon, France, imposed the death penalty on Secretary Durand of the Coal Handlers' union, who was convicted of instigating the murder of Foreman Donge during a recent strike. The execution of Gunner Thomas Allen, sentenced to be hanged at Victoria, Vic-toria, B. C, lor the murder on august 1 of his commander, Captain Peter El-liston El-liston of the British army, has been postponed until February 2 by an order or-der of the criminal court. John A. Cook, the American railroad conductor, whose case attracted so much attention a year ago, has been acquitted by Judge Ramirez, at Guadalajara, Guada-lajara, Mexico, of the charge of complicity com-plicity in robbing freight cars on the main line of the Mexican Central. James M. Reid of Houston; Miss., a civil engineer, was killed in Mexico City by a policeman, who sought to avenge the burning of Antonio E.oder-igues E.oder-igues in Texas. President Diaz of Mexico declares that "the recent riots in certain portions por-tions of Mexico are the political doing of Mr. Francisco L Madero. According Accord-ing to the proclamations published, upon throwing himself into a revolution, revolu-tion, his object was to obtain the presidency pres-idency by force, since he was unable to do so by the votes of fellow citizens." citi-zens." .Winston Spencer Churchill, home secretary, returning to London after a speeceh at Eiaiford, was attacked in the train by a male suffragist with a dog whip, but detectives saved the secretary from injury. It is understood in Lisbon that a' syndicate has been hastily formed of some of the largest and most wealthy art dealers in New York and London to secure the magniilcent treasures which the royal palaces of Portugal are known to contain. The last statement of Dr. Crippen it published in a London paper in the form of two final letters to Ethel Le-neve. Le-neve. Crippen throughout declared his innocence to Miss Leneve. John Redmond's catr.pajgn in Cork against William O'Brien has led to serious se-rious rioting by the rival factions. Several persons were injured in Dublin Dub-lin on Saturday and Sunday. Telephones wil, in all probability shortly be installed at Jerusalem, as a system is being installed in all cities by the Turkish telegraph department. A force of 400 revolutionists were defeated by government forces in an encounter near Chihuahua, on Sunday, the revolutionists losing heavily. By announcing the privy council for Monday, on the eve of dissolution of parliament, King George selected the most emphatic method of showing his determination to act as becomes a constitutional monarch in a great constitutional con-stitutional crisis. ' |