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Show History of Past Week Tke News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed ll. . i INTERMOUNTAIN Robert Bradbury, wanted at Moscow, Mos-cow, Idaho, for jail breaking, arrived at Spokane Saturday from Buffalo, N. Y., with a record of three escapes from jail since he was convicted of having robbed a postoffice. A great Utah home-industries campaign, cam-paign, which is expected to sweep from north to south and from east to went, will be inaugurated by the Manufacturers' Man-ufacturers' association of Salt Lake. Fire starting from a defective gasoline gas-oline stove in a restaurant swept through the business district of Grangeville, Idaho, destroying half a soore of buildings. The loss is estimated esti-mated at $150,000. Louis P. Sichler, receiver for the Washington Orchard Irrigation and Fruit company, filed a preliminary sohedule at Seattle, showing liabilities liabili-ties of $3,275,595 and nominal assets of $1,285,103. While the Ogden police were investigating inves-tigating his story of having been a pal of William Schmidt, alleged slayer of Mrs. Marcia Groff, who was strangled stran-gled to death in Salt Lake City a month ago, William Arthur Neuen-dorff Neuen-dorff hanged himself with a piece of baling wire in his cell at the Weber county jail. Amasa B. Campbell, one of the foremost fore-most mining operators of the west, died at Spokane of cancer of the throat. Mr. Campbell virtually died of hunger and thirst, having been unable un-able to take nourishment of any kind for some days. He was 67 years old. Four men are dead and nine others oth-ers are suffering form burns and painful hurts as a result of the wild run of an ore train along the tracks of the "Copper Belt" branch of the D. & R. G. on the mountain-Bide above Bingham Canyon, Utah. Delegates from every mining, state In the northwest attended the opening open-ing session of the Northwest Mining convention at Seattle. Plans were broaohed for forming mining associations associa-tions in every oamp in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. DOMESTIC Whatever Frank M. Ryan and other Indicted union officials have said in their office about the dynamite con-Bpiraoy con-Bpiraoy since last October is alleged to have been learned by the government govern-ment through a telephone apparatus concealed in the headquarters of the international Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. Gifford Plnchot, in a signed statement state-ment made public Saturday night, announces an-nounces that he has withdrawn his Support from the LaFollette candidacy candi-dacy and that he will hereafter advocate advo-cate the nomination of Roosevelt. Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, who was the principal speaker speak-er at a peace meeting in Philadelphia Philadel-phia on Saturday under the auspices of the ynivresal Peace union, declared de-clared in his address that "industrial peace .must precede the peace of na-i na-i tions." Members of the forty-ninth annual convention of district grand lodge , No. 4, B'nai B'rith, participated at : Los Angeles Sunday in laying the i cornerstone of the new $75,000 orphans' or-phans' home at Huntington park. With five cases of yellow . fever among its crew the British ship Akalis put into Salina Cruz for medical medi-cal aid early last week, according to advice just brought to San Diego. Elmer Zacher and Issy Hoffman, Oakland ball players, tried at Oakland Oak-land to catch oranges dropped from an aeroplane flying at an altitude of 550 feet, but failed. Joe Ketchel, a Chicago pugilist, is reported to be dying as a result of engaging in a boxing exhibition with "Billy" Walters, at the Naval Training Train-ing station in North Chicago, a suburb. sub-urb. Officials of three big aero organization organiza-tion at a meeting in Chicago decided to hold the James Gordon Bennett cup flight, a grand circuit contest of 1,500 miles, and several minor events In Chicago this -summer. George H. Decker, employed as a nurse in the Brooklyn home of Samuel Sam-uel E. Hassett, known as the hermit millionaire, has been arrested, charged charg-ed with conspiracy to defraud his employer em-ployer out of his property by "criminal "crimi-nal means." L. M. R. Bradley, a wealthy lumber dealer of. Bay City, Mich., shot and killed himself at Arlington, Cal. It is believed that his mind had become unbalanced. Mrs. Lucy D. Fisk, widow of James Fisk, Jr., who was shot more than forty years ago in New York by Edward Ed-ward S. Stokes, as the climax of a bitter rivalry between the two men for the smiles of the famous beauty, "Josie" Mansfield, died Saturday at South Boston, at the age of 76. She died amost penniless. Angry Greeks swarmed about the city Jail at Sacramento for an hour on Sunday, howling for the blood of George Vavas, a Sicilian, who stabbed stab-bed John Glanoulis through the heart William E. D. Stokes, who was shot I and wounded by Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad on June 7, in New York, charges that in the struggle -nhioh ensued en-sued in the corridor a Japanese jiu-jitsu jiu-jitsu expert delivered a "death blow" over the left kidney from which he is slowly dying. Miss Margaret Cameron, the protege pro-tege of the late Edwin Hawley, who declares that she has found a will which makes her the heiress of that estate, has assumed charge of Haw-ley's Haw-ley's magnificent home at Babylon, Long Island, and the dead railroad king's retainers have accepted her authority. au-thority. Johnny Coulon of Chicago was still the bantam champion of the world at the end of twenty-round fight with Frankie Burns of Jersey City at New Orleans on Sunday. Opening of an aviation meet at the old Emeryville race track near Oakland Oak-land on Saturday, was baptized with blood. Aviator William H. Hoff of San Francisco lies probably dying in a hospital and a half-dozen of his fellow avaitors had hair-breadth escapes. es-capes. A conference committee of twelve, representing forty-eight eastern railroads, rail-roads, ill meet union representatives in New York jsoon to discuss the recent re-cent demand of the Brotherhood of Looomotive Engineers for increased pay. The meeting probably will be held next month. WASHINGTON A grave diplomatic situation between be-tween the United States and Colombia has been preciptated by the publication publica-tion of a letter which Senor Pedro Nel Ospina, the Colombian minister, has written to Acting Secretary Huntington Wilson of the state department, depart-ment, suggesting that it might be "inopportune" "in-opportune" for Secretary Knox to visit Colombia on his projected tour of Central America. Members of the Moss committee of the house of representatives, after a preliminary investigation, state that the surface of the Florida Everglade Ever-glade scheme to procure millions from small investors has not been scratched. Representative Henry of Texas, chairman of the house rules committee, commit-tee, made a sensational speech in the house Saturday in which he attacked the money power in Wall street and demanded an inquiry Into "the black hand methods of the financial mafia in this country." Norman E. Mack has resigned, as chairman of the Democratic state committee and George M. Palmer, former for-mer minority leader of the assembly, has been chosen his .successor. !To end alleged wholesale frauds in interstate commerce, shippers, consignees and bankers hve appealed ap-pealed to the senate interstate commerce com-merce committee to Tecommend leg-isation leg-isation making railroads liable for all statements in bills of lading. The bath tub trust case brought by the government against fifty defendants defend-ants and decided in favor of the government gov-ernment at Baltimore, has been appealed ap-pealed to the supreme court. FOREIGN Among members of the house of commons the rumored retirement of Herbert H. Asquith from the premiership premier-ship is the chief subject of conversation. conversa-tion. Not much surprise would be caused if the premier in a short time relinquished his office and accepted a peerage. Believing that all the insurrections insurrec-tions against the government are largely a result of the publication of sensational news, President Madero and his cabinet have appealed to the permanent committee in congress to suspend that article of the constitution constitu-tion providing for a free press and have been given a negative reply. President Madero has accepted the resignation of Abraham Gonzalez as minister of the interior. Gonzalez has reassumed the governorship of the state of Chihuahua. German Aviator Schmidt died at Berlin from the effects of a fall of 100 feet while he was flying in his biplane. bi-plane. The cause of the accident was the breaking of the elevating rudder. rud-der. Various miners' unions throughout Great Britain are sending formal notices no-tices to the coal mine owners notifying notify-ing them that the men will quit work March 1, when nearly 1,000,000 men and boys will go out on strike. The bitterness of Germans against Great Britain evoked by last summer's sum-mer's events has not yet passed away. References in the reichstag Thursday to the mission of the British Brit-ish secretary of war unmistakably were cool, except on the part of the Socialists, who warmly favor better relations between Germany and Great Britain. Suffering among the hungry millions mil-lions in famine-stricken provinces of China is graphically described in a report to the American Red Cross from Amos P. Wilder, consul general at Shanghai and a member of the Shanghai relief committee. Conditions Condi-tions are worse than ever before in seven provinces. According to a Shanghai dispatch to a London news agency. Dr. Sun Yat Sen has resigned the presidency in favor of Yuan Shi Kai. The grand maenuvers on a wai scale of troops in the Philippines has begun. Nearly 6,000 men of all arms are taking part, the troops being divided di-vided into two armies. The British miners' federation has decided to appeal to the miners ol Europe and America to boycott all at tempts to export coal to the United Kingdom la the event of a strike. |