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Show Following the posting of notices threatening all negrues if they did not "quit the town," uie last of 150 negroes left Hominy, Okla., early Sunday morning. In preparation for the national political po-litical campaign of 1912 a call has been issued by the board of the Na tional League of Democratic clubs foi a conference in Indianapolis April 1! and 13. Judge Wickham of Chippewa Falls, Wis., has denied a new trial to Mrs Annie Sutherland, convicted of murdering mur-dering her husband, and sentenced her to fifteen years at hard labor ia the state prison. Officers of Canadian and America! express companies, in conference ii New York City, announced a reduction reduc-tion in through rates soon to take effect ef-fect between all offices in the United States and many of Canada. WASHINGTON The exports of the United States increased in the principal articles of trade more than $126,000,000 in 1910 over the outgoing commerce of the previous year, according to figures compiled by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. President Taft, in a speech before the Pennsylvania society of New York City, made it plain that the Panama Pan-ama canal is a naval asset, as well as a convenience of commerce, and declared de-clared that the United States should fortify the canal. In response to the request of Hayti, the American government has formally for-mally tendered its good offices to both Hayti and Santo Domingo in a friendly effort to bring about a settlement set-tlement of the territorial dispute that is seriously threatening the peace of the two countries. The center of population of the entire en-tire United States and the centers of-the of-the various individual states will be determined by Geographer Sloane, who is now working on the center of population for the whole country. Asserting in the senate that the pending ocean mail bounty bill is a mere entering wedge to a general ship subsidy, which may require an annua) expenditure of from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, Senator Cummins of Iowa has made vigorous onslaughts upon that measure. New Orleans won the first round of the fight for the location of the Panama exposition when the exposition committee com-mittee of the house, by a vote of 9 to C, decided in favor of it as the site for the fair to celebrate the opening of the Panama canal in 1915. FOREIGN The Japanese who asaulted United Unit-ed States Vice-Consul Williamson at Dalny last month, were convicted and given a light fine, according to news brought by the steamship Oanfa from Yokohama. A special dispatch to London from Peking says that because of the plague, the diplomatic body has closed the legation quarters. A Lima dispatch says the aviator I!irlovucci made a flight to Callao at a height of 200 feet, circling over the warships in the harbor, and returning return-ing to the race course there, where he made a perfect landing. After three years' experimentation, Prof. Wagner Von Jaurregg of the University of Vienna claiiris to have cured 23 per cent of the cases of progressive pro-gressive paralysis out of 1,300 patients pa-tients by injections of Modi's tuber-lin. tuber-lin. A man named Mohamed el Puah was hajiged in Tripoli, a North African Afri-can state, for having killed an Arab in a moment of frenzy. This is the first execution that nas taken place there for thirty-four years. The belief that police had murdered mur-dered a coolie at Hankow, China, caused serious rioting. British and German gunboats landed detachments detach-ments and fierce fighting followed, in I , - j J History of Past Week Tke News Happenings of Sevei Days Paragraphed I NTERfvlOU NTAI N The town of Payson, Utah, suffered a $45,000 fire on Saturday night, a business block, a livery stable and three stores being destroyed. Geenval Owen Summers of Civil and Philippine war fame, died at Portland, Saturday, of pneumonia, after an illness of two days. General Summers was 60 years of age. B. Ram and Singh Ram, Hindoos, brothers, committed suicide in a hotel ho-tel in Tacoma. The case is regarded as remarkable, as Buddhism provides a terrible penalty after death for suicide. sui-cide. ' Three thousand people attended the Inaugural ball at Carson City, Nevada. Conspicuous in the assemblage were many of the divorce colony of Reno who came in a special train and returned re-turned home before dawn. Cecil E. Thompson, accused of stealing steal-ing $600 from a registered envelope In the postofflce at Adrian, Texas, was wrested at Edmonds, Wash. Bills have been Introduced in the Colorado legislature for $250,000 for a Colorado building at the Panama exposition ex-position at San Francisco. DOMESTIC Returns from Saturday's election shows the ratification of the constitution con-stitution of the proposed state of New Mexico by a majority of approximately approximate-ly 18,000. The Right Rev. Abraham Grant, bishop of the Africa Methodist Episcopal Epis-copal church, died at his home at Kansas City, Kan., Sunday. Grant was born a slave. Hacked to shreds, apparently by a knife or similar weapon, and disfigured disfig-ured almost beyond identification, the body of George Washington Hall, a contractor, was found inside the storm door of his residence in Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Giorgio Rabaglita, an Italian barber bar-ber at Los Angeles, shot himself when detectives broke in the door of his barber shop, whicii had been closed for a month, and found the body of an unidentified man, whom It is supposed Raboglita murdered. One Chinese was captured and several sev-eral shots were exchanged with smugglers a few miles down the coast from Santa Barbara, Cal., when Immigration officers from Los Angeles Ange-les encountered what is believed to have been a landing party from the smuggling schooner wnich the reve-nua reve-nua cutters, Bear and Orient, have been trying to locate. Caroline B. Martin, convicted of the murder of her daughter, Mrs. Ocey Wardlaw Martin Snead, at East Orange, N. "3., has coniessed that she ' placed her daughter In a bathtub to revive her from a dose of morphine, and that the shock of the cold water caused her death. Before 80,000 people Clarence II. Walker of Salt Lake made his first successful flight on Selfridge field, San Francisco, Sunday afternoon. Walker handled his machine with the ease of a professional and was given an ovation by the spectators. Mrs. Nellie Allen, 21 years old, shot and killed her father, John B. Boyer, a wealthy planter, at their homo, near Maysville, Ark., after the two had exchanged ex-changed several shots. Jack Johnson, heavyweight pugilist, has offered $10,000 to $5,000 that he can knock out Al Kaufman or George Cotton. Led by the mother of Bessie Anderson, Ander-son, 6 years old, who was kidnaped from school by Victor Roberts at Put-num, Put-num, Oklahoma, a posse captured Rob- prtw Thorp is; fpnr nf a lvnnhlnir. which ton Chinese were killed. According to the Vienna Tageblatt, the health of the ex-Sultan Abdul Ha-mid Ha-mid is so unsatisfactory that it is proposed pro-posed to remove him to a sanitarium in Germany. A telegram from Etchmiadzin says that Mattheos II., Catholicos of all the Armenians, has died of apoplexy. Mattheos II was honi some sixty-seven sixty-seven years ago in 'runcey, and was educated in the Armenian schools in the capital. 1 Some 2,000 armed Albanians in tho mountains of Dibra, in reply to tho I offer of an amnesty in case they lay down their anus and promise amendment amend-ment for the future, will demand complete com-plete amnesty and many reforms. It Is reported that the Duke or Con-naught Con-naught will be appointed regent, dur- j ing the king's absence in India for tho coronation durbar. This probably will delay his replacing Lord Grey us governor general of Camilla. The news comes from Tnixlllo, Honduras, dial, Gonminndrr Archibald II. Davis of I he Unileil Slates cruiser Tnroma Friday afternoon seized tin iirineil ship lio net, General llonilla's chief iiKscl., cast Hie rebel crew nsliore, mniini'd her wilh gunners and engineers and ordered her out of the Inner harbor. In Copenhagen tju-ro Is a unique I Jewish family consist ing' of five gen-enilinns gen-enilinns -- greal - greal.-gnuulinol her, great - granilniollier, gia nil mol her, mnllier anil daughter. This has been pioilneivl by a series of early tusr-1 tusr-1 hires, I he clilesl. child of which lias Lewis M. Woolwine, 2.5 years old, was kliled at Los Angeles when his lutomobile collided with a wagon, skidded and turned over, crushing bim beneath It. After formulating the plan that It believes will lead to the unification ol the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist Episcopal South and the Methodist sub-committee, composed of three members from each, has adjourned. J. S. Meade, an ambulance driver, ind Robert Sliult, a veteran of the Soldiers' home, wero shot and Install In-stall I ly killed at Danville, III., by How-ird How-ird Tucker, another veteran, as the result re-sult of a quarrel. In order to save the lives of their babies, two Yankton Indian women, aught; in a storm on the prarlo near Roseland, S. 1)., ul ripped off their blankets and wrapped I lie little ones in them and then crooned lliem to sleep while they themselves wero frozen to ileal h. liarlow Jtrown, the Illairsville, (la., man who was sewed up In the carcass Df a mule, while 111 ail alleged intoxicated intoxi-cated condilliin several weeks ago, has Rone Insane as the, result, nf blood poi-niniing poi-niniing conl racled from l.ho mule carcass. car-cass. The four men re sponsible lor the grim Joke have lied Ilin country. Following a quarrel, Mai Ho Ha.iul-lals Ha.iul-lals was shot and killed on Hie street In llnltlinorn by 1 Ionium I'lnso, who uriorward turned tlio pistol upon lilui-Rolf, lilui-Rolf, Inflicting a wound from which he (lied In a hospital an hour later. Tim victims wtrs i -'iioul DO years old. been a daughter in each case. The working of mines In Mexico Is already hampered by tho wholesale desertions de-sertions of workingmon, who are V 'v-Ing 'v-Ing In large numbers, and who Invariably Invari-ably take with them Hit) mules and burros used to carry the mine products pro-ducts to Hie railroad. I |