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Show I lii m History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN Hugh Merrill, formerly judge in Wyoming, who for two weeks has been in a hospital in Chicago, following follow-ing a stroke of paralysis, has practically practi-cally recovered his health. David H. Moffat, banker and railroad rail-road man, builder, of the railroad known as the "Mofrat" road, now headed for Salt Lake from Denver, died from an attack of grippe in a JNew York hospital on Saturday, at the age of 72. The river steamer Mascot burned to the water's edge on the Lewis river, near Woodland, TVash. Sidney Illinge, steward of the boat, lost his life. The burning of the steamer followed fol-lowed an- explosion of the fuel ol tank. Three men were killed and five others severely injured by the explosion explo-sion of an engine in the rod mill of the Minnequa steel plant of the Colorado Colo-rado Fuel & Iron company at Pueblo, Colo. DOMESTIC The Daily News ot Brunswick, Ga., was indicted by the United States grand jury which adjourned Saturday for violation of the postal laws by publishing advertisements of a lottery. lot-tery. Two persons were killed and four injured when a Delaware & Lackawanna Lacka-wanna passenger train, running at high speed, crashed into a street car at Buffalo, N. Y. L. rS. Naftzger, formerly president of the Fourth National bank of Wichita, Wichi-ta, was found guilty by a jury in the federal court at Wichita, Kans., of buying stolen postage stamps. The offense of-fense is punishable by a maximum centence of five years ifi prison and a fine of $5,000. The Catholic church has decided to push its work among ie negroes and Indians. Cardinal Gibbons has issued a special appeal to the churches of his own state to contribute liberally to his work. The American Red Cross has cabled another $2,000 to China for the relief of the starving millions in that empire. em-pire. The money was sent to the American consul general at Shanghai for distribution. Thirty firemen were overcome by the fumes of ammonia while fighting a fire which destroyed a warehouse of the Monarch refrigerator company in Chicago and caused a $10,000 loss. An unidentified hero died in an ambulance am-bulance in Cleveland, Sunday afternoon, after-noon, after he had snatched Ernest Paker, a child, from in front of a fast train on the grade crossing. The man's attempt to save the boy proved fruitless, the lad dying m a hospital. William J. Bryan was 51 years old on Monday, and the occasion was celebrated cel-ebrated by a dollar dinner in his honor at Lincoln, Neb., at which 900 were present. One man was killed, two firemen overcome, a patrol driver was knocked knock-ed from his seat and trampled under foot by wild steers, and 500 head of cattle perished Saturday in a spectacular spec-tacular fire which for a time threatened threat-ened the entire stock yards in Chicago Chi-cago Interest in the strange disappearance disappear-ance of Miss Dorothy Arnold was revived re-vived Saturday when three squads commenced to drag the three lakes in Central Park, New York City, in search of the young woman's body. A The so-called state-wide prohibition bill has been signed by Governor Col-quit Col-quit of Texas. It provides for the submission of a constitutional amendment amend-ment for state-wide prohibition at an election July 22 next. Adin Ballou Capron, until March t representative in congress from the second Rhode Island district, died at his home in Stillwater, R. I., on Friday. Fri-day. He was seven times elected to congress as . a representative. Dr. Edward W. Hubbard, a well known physician and surgeon, formerly for-merly of New York City and Providence, Provi-dence, R. I., is dead at his home in Pasadena, Cal., as the result of burns sustained when his clothing caugnt fire from his pipe. Nine men, including a former railroad rail-road president, bankers, brokers, and financiers, were indicted by the federal fed-eral grand jury at Cracago on Thursday Thurs-day in the Matanuska river coal land cases. The - announcement comes from Oakland, where Joaquin Miller has been ill for some time, that the aged poet is well out of danger and on the road to complete recovery. Branche Cole, aged IS, has written writ-ten from Los Angeles, Cal., to Governor Gov-ernor Carroll of Iowa, requesting that he aid in locating her mother, from whom she was kidnaped by her father fa-ther at Keokuk, la., thirteen years ago. Just prior to his dealh in Los Angeles, recently, the father confided to the girl the story of her earlier life. Charles Elliot Mitchell, who was United States commissioner of patents under President Harrison, died of apoplexy at New Britain, Conn., on Friday. Thomas Fitzgibbons, Sr., and his wife, Nora, were found dead in their homes at Ansonia, Conn., with theii skulls crushed and the house on fire. Their son, Thomas, Jr., is under arrest ar-rest charged with the murder. Mrs. John Schenk of Chicago mistook mis-took her husband for a burglar and shot him, inflicting fatal wounds. At Shreeveport, La., C. C. Korne-gain, Korne-gain, a railroad rate clerk employed by the Yicksburg, Shreeveport & Pacific Pa-cific railway, was shot and killed Saturday Sat-urday by a Mrs. Hanie of Greenville Miss., who assorts Kornegain caused her to desert her family. Five men, one of them John Jop-ling, Jop-ling, general superintendent in the coal department of the Missouri, Kansas Kan-sas & Texas railroad, are dead as the result of an explosion of black damp in the company's mine at Mineral, Kans. At 5: -IS p. m. Saturday, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt pressed a button which set the machinery in motion opening the gates of the Roosevelt storage dam, the waters from which will be used in reclaiming 250,000 acres of land in Arizona. Orders have been received at San Antonio, Texas, from Washington that Gen. Carter's maneuver division shall hold itself in readiness to break camp and take the field as if for actual ac-tual warfare within two hours. WASHINGTON Nine more states must ratify the proposed income tax amendment before be-fore it can become a part of the federal fed-eral constitution. Reports received in Washington from the capitals of the forty-six states show that the amendment amend-ment has received favorable action in the joint legislatures of twenty-six. President Taft, according to present plans, will confine his message to the extra session of congress to Canadian reciprocity and the establishment of a permanent tariff board. x The navy department is preserving what it regards as a consistent attitude at-titude in declining to accede to the demand of the various religious organizations or-ganizations that it refuse to allow the battleship Utah to accept the silver service donated by Utah on the ' ; ground that one of the principal pieces bears a portrait of Brigham Young, and a picture of the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City. As the first direct result of the government's gov-ernment's anti-trust suit against the so-called "electric lamp trust," the department of justice has received intimation in-timation that the prices of all electric light bulbs will be reduced 33 1-3 per cent all over the United States. Careful study of the neutrality laws has left the administration's advisers doubtful if the United States can prevent pre-vent the shipment of arms and ammunition ammu-nition to the Mexican insurrectos. FOREIGN The Japanese conquest of the Formosa For-mosa savages has only been begun, according to mail advices received from Yokohama. Tuere are 110,000 of these aborigines, who live in the mountains that extend the full length of the island. With the leader, Louis Rodriguez, and seven of his followers dead on the field of battle at Tecate, Mexico, and the remnants of his band scattered scatter-ed to the four winds in the mountains; moun-tains; with the Mexican federal infantry infan-try holding the passes and hamlets, the revolution on the west, side of the mountains in northern Lower California Califor-nia received a severe blow on Friday. The war begun in Formosa by Japan Ja-pan last year, and which has caused the death of hundreds of Japanese soldiers and thousands of natives, has resulted in the Japanese gaining control con-trol of 125 square miles of territory between Gerau and Shinshiku. Eight thousand savages have surrendered their firearms. It is understood the Mexican government gov-ernment has made overtures for peace witfi the insurrectos. The insurrecto leaders declare that before they will listen to such proposals, President Diaz must agree to declare null his election of 1910 and must agree to submit to a new election under the terms for a free ballot allowed by the constitution of 1S57. He must agree to grant all tne political reforms de- manded. The insurrectos must not be required to surrender their arms until peace is assured. A dispatch from Saloniki to the Frankfurter Zeitung says that the Young Turks' control committee has. received a dispatch from the seat of hostilities in Yemen that the Turkish troops are putting the Arabs to flight everywhere, and that the machine guns have caused great havoc among the tribesmen. Investigation of the accidental death at La Paz, Bolivia, of Malcolm Knowles, son of American Minister Horace G. Knowles, developed that the trolley pole of an electric car fell and, striking the young man, crushed his skull. The dry farming congress meeting at Adelaide, Australia, has decided to adopt the system followed in Wyoming Wyo-ming which several Australian experts ex-perts recently investigated. The results re-sults of the experiment will be tabulated tab-ulated for purposes of comparison. The rigorous winter Just closing has caused extreme suffering and probably many deaths among the people peo-ple in the barren Labrador peninsula penin-sula who have been cut off for months by great ice fields from the possibility possibil-ity of securing food and clothing. A total of $875,709,925 gold has been invested in twenty-one years by foreign interests in Mexico outside the mining industry, according to u bullet iu issued by the bureau of ' manufacture man-ufacture of the department of commerce com-merce nnd labor. Americans head the list. |