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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed 1 J Two hundred Republicans whe were active for Roosevelt in the recent campaign bolted the Republican party at a meeting in Ford hall, Boston, Saturday and formed "The Progress ive Party of Massachusetts." Emil Seidel. former Socialist mayor of Milwaukee and candidate for vice-president vice-president on the national Socialist ticket, in an address at Appleton) Wis., on Saturday, called Theodore Roosevelt a "fakir." Two thousand flood refugees, made homeless by the Hymelia crevasse waters, are being fed and housed at the United States naval station at New Orleans. "Gunboat" Smith of California knocked out Hugh McGann of Indian-' Indian-' apolis in tbe second round of a scheduled sched-uled ten-round bout in New York. Smith weighed in at 179 pounds and McGann at 1S3. .WASHINGTON The federal government closed tbe fiscal year June 29 with a surplus oi $32,000,001), according to estimates on incomplete returns from the various sources of revenue the country over. The tariff board went out of existence exist-ence Saturday, because congress had refused further money for its worX, The board was formed in October, 1909. ' Secretary of tbe Navy Meyer is ie-covering ie-covering so rapidly from his mild attack at-tack of typhoid fever that arrangements arrange-ments have been made to remove him to his sleeping porch. Every common carrier, railroad and steamship line in the United States was affected by the suspension by the interstate commerce commission on j Friday of the new proposed reguia- j tions restricting the dimensions ol pieces of personal baggage. j Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison Morri-son of the American Federation of Labor, La-bor, recently sentenced to one year and nine months in jail, respectively, for contempt of court, have filed an appeal from Justice Wright's decision and gave bail. 'Execution of their sentence was stayed. FOREIGN Lue Cheng Hsiang, minister of for eign affairs, has been appointed minister min-ister to succeed Tang Shao Yi. Th! latter's resignation was accepted b President Yuan on Saturday. The assembly as-sembly has endorsed the appointmenl by a vote of 74 to 10. Another severe battle at Tripoli on June 2S is described in an official dispatch dis-patch received at Rome. Tbe Turks left 200 dead and a large number of wounded on the field. The Italian losses totaled ten dead and sevenly-eight sevenly-eight wounded. Herr Schadt, a German aviator, was killed at Mulhausen, G-ermany, Sun-! Sun-! day while testing a military aero-j aero-j plane. The airman, -at a height of 250 yards, was thrown from his ma-; ma-; chine. j The battleships' of the third and fourth divisions of the Atlantic fleet, ! now in Cuban waters, have been ordered or-dered north to their home stations. Tbe gunboats, however, will remain ! about Cuba. Five prisoners were killed ami j twenty wounded in a battle following : an attempted jail delivery Sunday at Turres Nuvass, Portugal. The pris- i oners reached the roof of the prison before the were apprehended by the troops. Fifty to 100 persons were killed and $10,000,000 damage done by a tornado which struck Regina, Saskatchewan Saskat-chewan Sunday aCternooru Several business blocks, apartment houses and residences were wrecked. It is learned from an iiutboritative source that the health of the German Ger-man empress is causing anxiety to her physicians. j A general campaign of destruction j in the postoffices throughout tbe country was begun in England by suf- fragists. They smashed the wmdowa j of the central postolfice and of the i Reform club at Manchester. Some oi i the London branch offices and those j at Hitchin and Letcbworth were raided. j General Evaristo Estenoz, the rebel . leader, and 100 insurgents were killed j in a battle at Vega Bellaco, six miles i from Micara, in the vicinity of Son- go, by government, troops under command com-mand of Lieutenant De La Torre. I Baron Vincenzo Paterno, a former 'cavalry lieutenant of the Ka.ian j army, has been sentenced to li.e ira- j prisonment for the murder of Prin- j cess Giulia Triton a di Sant Kila, j lady-in-waiting to Queen Hce'.na. j T. R. Anderson. I'nited States con- j ! sul at Hamburg, Germany, under j President Lincoln, died at his home; j in Columbus, O., a;-,ed 79 years. j I Two of the tweaty-ihree seamen in- j ! jured on board the KYench as moved : ; cruiser Jules Miehek-t o.i ilyercs by I : liie premature ex; lysion of a sU-'ac! ; gun. are dead at fee naval hospital a! j ' Toulon, and t'.r.ce oJie. s are dyi'.s. Cart. A. . Rc.strc-n of the (.' : ; a- '.l.ia has been presented with it cid ; !tf!.i! and mi iiMr.vr. iu-d a:M.oss o. ' '.U'.n'-is by the t;;y of Lieerpeol Lor '.. s work in ire j.ne," the survivors o; ' ' the Titanic d:s:is;er. i The naval cmmc'.l has asked the ! ; Ch.lt-an geve:r,!::ent to arm the new I ! coast loriilicatioas with Aeecrr-an j guns. The German cannon were re- 1 jecied by the council. The fort.fiea-! fort.fiea-! lions were cariied out under the supervision su-pervision of an American artillery officer. of-ficer. General Roolh, the head of tbe Salvation Sal-vation Army, in the course of an in- I terview in London, said: "I am still hoping to go to America and Canada, as I bargained for." General Booth is now on the high road to recovery, although he is incurably sightlese. INTERMOUNTAIN United States Judge Cornelius H. Hanford's personal habits were in quired into Saturday at Seattle by the house judiciary sub-committee, and two witnesses testified they had seen the judge apparently under the influence influ-ence of liquor. Mrs. Mabel Muir of Denver is dead and four others, among them Miss Ida Logsdon of Colorado Springs, are more or less seriously hurt as the result of an automobile plunging over a hundred-foot embankment in Griffin park, Los Angeles. The Progressive party of Colorado was incorporated at Denver on Friday, Fri-day, its chief object being to further the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt 3r some other progressive for president presi-dent of the United States. Mayor A. G. Rushlight, Chief of Police Slover, Captain of Police Batty Bat-ty and Detectives Maddux and Reid were indicted by the county grand jury at Portland, Ore., for alleged conspiracy to bribe Deputy District Attorney Frank Collier. Between Denver and Seattle Miss Emma Parker, 19 years old, travebng with her trousseau to be married to Dick Graham, has disappeared. Her friends fear she has met with foul play. Bert Dalton, the alleged slayer of City Marshal Hansen of Cokeville, Wyo., had his preliminary hearing Tuesday and was bound over to the district court, which meets in Evan-ston Evan-ston the first Monday in September. Red bandanas, emblems of tbe new "progressive" party, were distributed at Seattle, Monday, by Colonel Walter Wal-ter C. Brewer, millionaire mine owner and former Indian scout under Buffalo Bill, to every man, woman and child he met. DOMESTIC L. H. Schuerman, said to be a United States Senator Newell Sanders, San-ders, one of t'ie Taft leaders in the preconvention campaign, gave out a statement Saturday night in which he denounced as untrue tne story that a compromise had been laid before the Roosevelt people by the Taft forces at Chicago. Billy Papke, the Illinois fighter, Saturday night in Paris won an easy victory from the Frenchman, Marcel Moreau, in the fifteenth round Papke twice floored Moreau with left and right hooks. Vandals, taking advantage of the absence from their Fairview home of William J. Bryan and members of his family at Baltimore, tore up and hauled away 56 two-foot squares of cement sidewalk. Vice-President Sherman, who went to Big Moose with the intention of staying several weeks, returned to Utica Sunday ' because the altitude there did not agree with him. Fourteen persons were injured Sunday, Sun-day, two probably fatally when gas leaking in a subway conduit at Baltimore Balti-more was ignited . , The third annual Boston aviation meet opened Saturday with a varied program and competitions participated participat-ed in by some fifteen aviators. "When T. G. Ferguson, driver in a trotting race at Santa Cruz, Cal., fell dead from his sulky in the stretch, Dot McKinney, his mare, finished first in the race, circled the track and trotted to her stable. Three persons were killed, four injured, in-jured, one possibly fatally, Sunday, when an automobile of G. V. Strope, a retired merchant, collided with a train at Kansas City, wealthy furniture manufacturer of Carrollton, Ky., shot and fatally .wounded Miss Elizabeth Morse, 2S years of age, daughter of the post- master at Lyon. Mich., in a closed taxicab at Grand Rapids. Mich., and when pursued by the police be shot himself, probably fatally. "Red" Watson of Los Angeies fought four rounds with one arm at San Francisco before the referee stopped the fight in the eighth and gave the decision to Fr.tnkie Burns of Oakland. Oak-land. Watson's left ana was put out of commission in the third round. ! Utah was representee in a big sut- frage parade at Beltire.ore, frYHa? night. In the line of march were thret.-preity thret.-preity girls bearing a banner inscribed, in-scribed, "Women Have Vote.l Since iy.)0 in Utah." Three volunteer firemen r.ie deed and five others injured, one prolirhiy fatally, as the result of a lire at Guinea, Gui-nea, Kans. The New York Assets 'Realty company com-pany has begun a supreme court aet'on against Charles W. Morse, the banker, who was recently released from prison, pri-son, to recover $1,000,000 damages. The company is the assignee of the Western Development company, which in turn is the assignee of An bur P. Heinze. A coroner's jury composed entirely of clergymen at Philadelphia rendered ren-dered a verdict of gross negligence against the driver of an automobile which had run down and kilied a woman. |
