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Show Two of Aineilea'n most H .i 1 1 1: ;'. avl.'fc lorn mil (li'iilh mi Ha I u i (I ;i y . John II Molssanl, the liiv.f man In (loas lh I T j : I ; : 1 1 ' i r i j r ' : I on ;m noioplan ; 'villi a passi n;e i-, and winner 'if the i-,en;,a lionnl race around Hi" slaluc of Llbei; ly, I'll lo hi:! cii-al.h In New OrlennH Arch lloxi'.fy, the former Hull, Lake chauffeur, vim only a few J;iyn ng: established u worlil'H aviation record lor height, the man who look Colonei Roosevelt. iii In Ihe all-, f'-II to lilf death while trying lo win Iho Miche lln prize for sustained Hlghl. at A Angeles. A man w;is burned to death, a blind child Impaled on a picket fence and her molher fatally burned In a lire llial. followed an explosion at I'allanuri. N. J., believed to have been the work of lilaek Hand members. WASHINGTON President Taft ban an thorized formal recognition of the new constll utlonal t government of Nicaragua, following tn receiiil. of official dispatches announcing announc-ing flic eleclion of General Juan J. Kslrada aw president. Prosecution by the government designed de-signed to accomplish the dissolution of "Standard Oil" and of the American Tobacco organizations, embodying the greatest "anti-trust" fight of the generation, gener-ation, will be taken up for the second lime by the supreme court of the United States at the beginning of its work for the new year. Through the practical institution of the postal savings bank system on Tuesday, January 3, the United States . government will give the people facili-lies facili-lies for saving a part of their earnings. Their establishment Is regarded as the most far-reaching financial step taken by the government since the authorization authoriza-tion of national banks, and their operation opera-tion will be watched with interest by' financiers throughout the world. Members of the committees of both houses are studying the whole Panama canal question with a view to press legislation, providing for tolls, fortification fortifica-tion and other features of maintenance after its opening in 1915. Jail sentences will be insisted upon by the government in the "bath tub trust" cases, despite the fact that attorneys at-torneys for the defendants are pleading plead-ing for cash fines for their clients. Representative Rainey of Illinoii now desires a congressional investigation investi-gation of the African hunting trip, as organized and carried out by the Smithsonian institution. FOREIGN - - . The special correspondent of the London Chronicle at Lisbon says that he hears from a trustworthy source that the life of the provisional government govern-ment hangs by a thread. That Chihuahua revolutionists are not Maderists, although they are generally gen-erally credited with being followers of the Coahuila millionaire, is the belief be-lief of Gerald Brandon, the Mexican Herald correspondent, who has just returned re-turned from the scene of hostilities. General J. Juan Estrada, by the unanimous una-nimous vote of congress on Saturday became the provisional president of Nicaragua for a two-year term. Adolfo Diaz, former minister of the interior, was elected vice-president. A very severe winter with heavy snows is causing many disasters in Italy, especially in the province of Cuneo, where railway communication has been interrupted. Many avalanches avalan-ches are reported. No permanent good has resulted to the health of the czarina from her long sojourn in Germany. Those who have seen her majesty recently declare that she is a hopless invalid. Announcement is made that- Andrew Carnegie has given $1,250,000 for a Carnegie foundation for life savers i9: Germany. M. Vizandios, an inspector of antiques, an-tiques, was brought into a magistrate's court in Athens on a charge of trafficking traf-ficking in university diplomas. He committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. The bullet also struck the magistrate, wounding him seriously. serious-ly. Paris has another murder mystery, the victim being a woman, as was the case in the Baroness B. mystery. The murderer had apparently strangled the woman, named Annie Knoll, who is said to be related to a member of the German parliament. The strike of the motormen and conductors on the Winnipeg street railways, rail-ways, which begau December 18, came to an end on Saturday. The men surrendered sur-rendered the point they had been contending con-tending for. . Queen Helena of Italy met with a slight accident Saturday night. Just before midnight, not wishing the new year to begin without kissing the children, chil-dren, she was making her way to their rooms when she stumbled on the staircase stair-case and fellfi injuring her left arm. A condition of anarchy is reported existing among the insurrectos, by a well known mining man who has returned re-turned from the Minaca, Mexico, district. dis-trict. Foreigners express the fear that once the insurrectos find themselves hard pressed, they will kill a few Americans Amer-icans in the hope of bringing about aB History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven. Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN Preventing two men sent by her husband hus-band from carrying off her small child Mrs. 'Victoria C. ilerold of Tacoina shot and seriously wounded Harry Williams, Wil-liams, a commercial traveler lor a Chicago Chi-cago house, living in Seattle. He is In a hospital and probably will die. The llewett Stale bank, at. liasin, Mont., which was closed by the slate hank examiner November 28, and placed plac-ed in the hands of a receiver, is paying pay-ing Hie depositors 50 per cent of the amount of their deposits. Chris Yegr n, a Hillings, Mont., banker, bank-er, has been arresled on the charge :f illegal fencing, the Indictment having hav-ing been returned by the recent fed-! fed-! sral grand jury. He was l cleaned on bonds. I At the convention of the Utah I Woolgrowers' association held in Salt Lake Wily, the sheep men bitterly denounced de-nounced the action of the forest service ser-vice officials witli reference to the rules and regulations regarding the reduction in the number of sheep which are allowed oil the national forests. j After a cold night's walk of twenty ! miles, William Lockaby, a sub-con-I tractor on the big irrigation ditch being be-ing built near Hall, reached Philips-burg, Philips-burg, Mont., and gave himself up to the sheriff, asserting that he killed his part n i r, G. orge A. Miller. According Accord-ing to the story told by Lockaby, the 'two men had quarreled about settlement settle-ment of their affairs. Organization of Utah woolgrowers probably will be perfected to protest against the actions of forest service ohicials in cutting down the individual individ-ual allotments oa national forests and aiso to fight proposed reduction of tariff on wool. Professor Joseph F. Merrill of the University of Utah was elected president pre-sident of the Utah State Teachers' association at tha close of a most successful suc-cessful convention held in Salt Lake City. DOMESTIC Louis Dace Letsilier, aged e'ghty-It-.rce years, the olde 't pioneer of Sioux City, Iowa, died at his home Sunday, lie was barn in Canada in 1S27 and came to Sioux City in 1S54 from St. Louis. Mrs. Isabella Martin was sentenced, on Saturday at Oakland, Cal., for the second time to life imprisonment for laving dynamited the home of Superior fudge Cgdeii in Oak'.and in 1007. Robbers blew up the safes in the Citizens' and State banks of Water-rille, Water-rille, Kan., and escaped with ?S.000. The Citizen's hank lest $G.0C0 and the State bank ?2,000. The buildings were wrecked. One passenger, James A. Ee'l of Kansas Kan-sas City, was killed, five passengers ivere seriously bruised when a San Antonio & Arkansas Pass passenger ;rai was wrecked at Pettus, Texas. A detachment of United States sol-liers, sol-liers, commanded by Lieutenant McMillan Mc-Millan of the Twenty-third infantry en-:ountered en-:ountered a band of armed Mexicans aear Minora Saturday morning, dis-irmed dis-irmed and dispersed them. William Strickler shot and killed his wife and nineteen-year-old stepdaughter, step-daughter, Beulah Kile, in their home at Baltimore. Strickler then fired a bullet into his own body. Domestic trouble was given as the cause. After shooting and killing his wife in a fit of insane rage at New Boston, Iowa, and keeping a sheriff's posse at bay for hours, Christian Schock, a farmer, aged 40, was captured and placed in jail. He had recently been released from the asylum. Speaking before the American Home Economics association at St. Louis, Prof. Walter F. Wilcox of Cornell Cor-nell declared that there will be no children in the Unied States under 5 years of age in the year 2020. Babies, Ba-bies, accordingly, will have disappeared disappear-ed from this country as early as 2015. Joseph Magee, widely known on the race track of this country and Canada Cana-da as a bookmaker, dropped dead in San Francisco as he walking along the street. H. C. Beck, a passenger engineer, was found dead in the cab by his fireman while the train was running fifty miles a hour, near Bird-in-Hand, Pa. Death was due to heart disease. A test is to be made of paper towels tow-els for use in Kansas school houses. If the test is successful all schools will be furnished with individual towels tow-els on rollers. The towel, after use, lAmerican intervention. Norway's "mutual consent" divorce law has been in effect now for just a year and has on the whole been thoroughly thor-oughly satisfactory in its rorking. Even the clergy, w-hich looks with disfavor dis-favor upon divorce, is inclined to concede con-cede that the law has tended to a higher high-er standard of morality. Ernest Bigras died at Montreal. Quebec, as the result of a fight with Raul Cassovant over a girl, a nail having been driven into his head. Cassavant is alleged to have struck his rival down with a club from which the nail protruded. is burned. 1 Becoming suddenly insane, Will Johnson, a negro farmer near Atlanta, Tex., killed his father-in-law, seriously serious-ly wounded his wife and 10-year-old daughter, set Are to his house, and, barricading himself in a cotton gin, shot seven other negroes, two of whom probably will die, then killed himself. After an altercation at the depot in Tucson, Ariz., Pat Boyle, a Twin Butte miner, was killed by J. B. Canelli, a railroad officer, who is now under arrest. ar-rest. Canelli ejected Boyle from a train. i |