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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A lEifS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM. Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prep;-ed for Busy Men. INTER M OU NTAI N With a letter from his mother-in-law announcing her coming for the Christmas holidays gripped in his hand, Kenneth K. Kane, of Denver, a railroad clerk, aged 4D, fired a bullet through his brain late Sunday afternoon. after-noon. Glen 11. Mack, a wealthy resident or Ogden, Utah, shot and seriously injured in-jured his wii'e and then attempted suicide, being probably fatally wounded. wound-ed. Mack was intoxicated. Police of Spokane are searching for Mrs. Minnie Eigie and May Benna, sisters, who disappeared after reciv-ing reciv-ing a threatening letter from a former for-mer convict. It is feared they have been murdered. Fifteen hundred sacks of potatoes, weighing 100 pounds each, were disposed dis-posed of at the potato exposition conducted con-ducted by one of the public markets at Seattle, as an experiment in reducing reduc-ing the cost of living. The prices ranged from 40 cents to 60 cents a sack, the average being 45 cents. The market quotation on potatoes was $1.50. Charged with having poisoned the last, food remaining in the house for the sustenance of his wife and five children, and with having caused the death by that means of his 3-year-old daughter, Edwin Stoddard, a homesteader home-steader living on Toroda creek, fifteen miles from Curlew, Wash., is being sought by the authorities. Prices for the necessities of life in Salt Lake are higher than for thirty years, and prices on practically every staple food are 24 to 100 per cent higher than they were December 20, 1907. DOMESTIC The Los Angeles Produce Exchange has decided to discontinue the activities activi-ties of its butter and egg committee In quoting and fixing prices. This act-Ion act-Ion was the result of the government's suit against the Elgin butter interests. Dashing the Christmas hopes of Mormon refugees who thought they would be able to return to their Mexican Mexi-can homes in a short time, the Mexican rebels have again gathered their entire en-tire strength south of Juarez in the vicinity of the colonies. An unidentified negro was shot and Instantly killed while attempting to rob the crew and passengers of a train near Chandler, Okla. He was shot by an operative of a detectice agency who was a passenger. For the first time since she was a child 4 years old, Miss Lillian Patrick and her father, Albert T. Patrick, recently re-cently pardoned by Governor Dix of New York, met Sunday at St. Louis. The young' woman is now 16 years old. Governor Osborne of Michigan has announced that so anxious is he to "get back to nature" he has given his two automobiles and his horses to friends and will hereafter seek recreation recre-ation as a pedestrians. The torpedoboat destroyer Balch was launched Saturday from the Cramp shipyard at Philadelphia. Miss Grace Balch of Washington, D. C, a descendent of Commodore Balch, christened the vessel. An unidentified man on the steamer Sima, coaling at San Francisco, dislocated dis-located the vertebrae of his neck by trying to hang himself, and then the jolting of an ambulance put them back again. Jack Johnson, the negro world's champion heavyweight pugilist who la at liberty on a $30,030 bond on a charge of violating the Mann act, has purchased a Christmas present for his white wife, formerly Lucille Cameron, a home in the heart of the exclusive Lake Geneva summer resort, near Chicago. Chi-cago. Four ''auto bandits" attacked two paymasters of the Silk Finishing company com-pany of America, in Chicago, beat them into unconsciousness and robbed them of $1200 for the weekly pay rolls. Eggs at 24 cents a dozen were on sale at twenty stations in Boston on Saturday. Various stores, polling booths and Wagons were used for the purpose by women conducting the campaign. President Taft, in a speech at St. Augustine, Fla., congratulated the south upon the election of a Democratic Demo-cratic president, predicted nation-wide prosperity under the new administration administra-tion and spoke of the way this nation takes the quadrennial verdict of the people at the polls. ' Daniel J. Sully, the dethroned cotton cot-ton king, is making plans to return to New York and again enter the game of speculation. Sully, owing to a court order in a suit that he lost, has been an exile from New York state for several sev-eral years, but he has given orders to file suit for the reopening of the case. Cornell has a perfect woman, according ac-cording to an announcement by Dr. Esther Parker, the physical examiner at Sage college. Miss Elsie Scheel of Brooklyn is the most perfect physically physi-cally of any student she has ever examined. ex-amined. , ) i I i A party of treasure hunters, headed !.y Miss Barry Till and Miss Genevieve Davis, has left Panama for Cocos island. is-land. The island lies in the Pacific about 550 miles sou'hwest of Panama and for years has been the lure o! reasure seekers. Nine persons, five men and four .-.omen are detained by the police in r-onneetion with the brutal murder ol T. II. Logue, a diamond merchant, in his office in Chicago. A private bank in Chicago which advertised to pay 100 per cent interest a year, "on all deposits from 1 cent to $15,000,000," was closed with the arrest of F. B. Carson, its promoter. J. Frank Hickey was found guilty at Buffalo, N. Y., of murder in the sec ond degree in having strangled tc death Joseph Josephs, a 7-year-old boy of Lackawanna. October 12, 1911. John S. Huyler. aged 19, the young est son of the late John S. Huyler millionaire candy manufacturer, feli beneath a train at Morristown, N. J. and was killed. WASHINGTON More than 200 Japanese coal miners were entombed and are probably dead as the result of a terrible explosior which occurred in the Ubari colliery a' Sappore on the island of Hokklado. News of the coming to America un der the name of Ruiz of Cipriano Cas tro, one time president and practicall; dictator of Venezuela, has been sent t the state department from the Ameri can embassy in Paris. The new series of stamps for parcels post matter have been issued and will be sent to all postoffices before the law takes effect on January 1. Ordl nary postage stamps will not be accepted ac-cepted in payment of the carriage oil parcels post matter. The foreign trade of the United States in 1912 will exceed all previous records. Figures indicate that the imports im-ports of the year will approximate $1,-800,000,000, $1,-800,000,000, against $1,563,000,000 in 1910, which was the former high record, rec-ord, and that the exports will aggregate aggre-gate $2,400,000,000, against $2,093,000,-000, $2,093,000,-000, against $2,093,000,000 in the former for-mer high record year for exports, 1911. Railroad companies and steamshij combinations control the regulai steamship lines of the United States and have destroyed competition on many of the water highways of commerce, com-merce, declares Luther Conant, Jr., commissioner of corporations, in a report re-port to President Taft. - President Taft's ultimatum to Mexico Mex-ico was telegraphed Friday to Mont gomery Schuyler, Jr., American charge d'affaires at the Mexican capital cap-ital in the absence of Embassador Henry Lane-Wilson. FOREIGN Madame Bloch, a novelist, who on July 31 shot and killed Mrs. Minni Bridgeman, wife of James E. Bridge man, an employee of the Paris branch of an American life insurance company, com-pany, was acquitted in the assizes court at Paris on Monday of the charg of homicide. The London Post published an authoritative auth-oritative Greek account of the recent fighting at Epirus, according to which Ali Riza Pasha, the Turkish command er at Janina, and his chief of staff Djavid Pasha, both were killed and the entire Turkish artillery in the San goni Pass fighting were captured bj the Greeks. The name of Samuel T. Adams, ai present assistant secretary of the interior, in-terior, is persistently mentioned as tht future occupant of the secretaryshir. under President Woodrow Wilson. The Mexican chamber of deputies has levied a flat 5 per cent increase od import duties. This action, however, does not dispose of the general tariff revision bill which provides a special tax on numerous articles, especially luxuries. The British schooner Geoglana, with ten passengers and a crew of five, foundered off Lttcea, Jamaica, in trying try-ing to make that port during tne November No-vember gulf storm, and all on board were lost, according to dispatches just received. ' The Vienna Relchspost says it lea ns from Cattaro on the Adriatic sea taat the Servian forces are assisting the Montenegrins. It is reported from the island of Chios, off the Turkish Asiastic coast, that the Greeks have bombarded the village of Pitos, where the Ottowan wounded are in the hospitals. Thirty-five men were imprisoned when the Nelson tunnel of the Happy Thought mine at Crede, Calo., caught fire and all were rescued after fifty tons of debris were removed. Afilm caught fire during a cinomato-graph cinomato-graph performance at Barraqus, Germany. Ger-many. The flames spread with great rapidity, causing a dreadful panic. Twelve persons were killed and twen ty persons injured Charles Jones, an American employed em-ployed as a telephone lineman in the Yaqui river district, was found dead near Potero, Mexico. There were four bullet wounds in his back. The British armored cruiser Nata! sailed out of Portsmouth harbor with ihe body of Ambassador Reid on board Saturday afternoon, amid a salute oi nineteen guns. A Rome newspaper publishes a sensational sen-sational story that a young anarchist Henry Dal Ferro of San Giovanni, in Persiceto. near Bologna, who was des ignated by lot to assassinate King Victor Vic-tor Emmanuel, attempted to commit suicide rather than carry out his mis slon. A colony of American negroes, twenty miles west of Durango, is re ported to hare been attacked by a band of rebels. Two pf the defenders according to the report, were wouuder and a number of women werp mi.-treated. mi.-treated. The rebels sacked Ur Vr.'C |