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Show r 1 I History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed L ') INTERMOUNTAIN William J. Bryan arrived at Rawlins, Raw-lins, Wyo., early Sunday and rested most of the day at the home of John E. Osborne, chairman of the Democratic state central committee. The Ne-braskan Ne-braskan made no political speeches. Elmer Dewey, convicted at Salt Lake of the murder of Policeman Johnston, and sentenced to life imprisonment, has been granted a new trial. Finloy Martin of Sioux City, la., was instantly killed, and James H. Scan-Ian, Scan-Ian, of Los Angeles, was seriously injured and another man slightly injured in-jured when a speeding police automobile automo-bile ran into a crowd in Salt Lake. James Cook, formerly a conductov on the Mexican Central railway, was adjudged insane at Seattle a few days ago as a result, it was declared by a lunacy commission, of ill treatment received two years ago while he was a prisoner in the Mexico City jail. Eugene B. Bayne, J. W. Keere and J. VV. Mehargue, formerly cashier assistant cashier and director, respectively, respec-tively, of the defunct Boise State bank, at Boise, Idaho, have been arrested. They are charged with making false reports concerning the affairs and financial conditions of the institution. The Nevada Consolidated, at Ely, New, has issued official announcement of a general raise in wages to take place October 1. Employees who are now receiving $3 or more per day will be advanced 25 cents, while those receiving re-ceiving less than $3 will be given a raise of 20 cents a day. Establishment of a board of medical men to pass on persons desiring to become marnied as to their becoming fathers and mothers was indorsed by the convention of physicians of Utah at Ogden. DOMESTIC Police and paraders fought with knives and clubs at Lawrence, Mass., before a demonstration by members of the International Workers of th& World. ' Two officers were stabbed, and a number of demonstrators were clubbed. By auto-suggestion sight has been restored to Miss Stella Adams, of Boston, who had been totally blind for three years. Dr. Kenneth Van Allen opened her sightless eyes after a seven months', treatment. Earthquake shocks were felt in several sev-eral sections of Whiteside county, Illinois, on Saturday. Pictures were shaken from walls, doors were jarred open and dishes were scattered from shelves. Richard George, son of the late Henry George, died Saturday at the home of his brother-in-law, Richard Robel'ts, Brooklyn. Mr. George had been ill for a long time with Bright's disease. Judge Loren W. Collins, former justice jus-tice of the Minnesota supreme court and a man of national note in the G. A. R., died at his home in Minneapolis, Minneap-olis, following an attack of heart trouble. Ten per cent of the population of the United States is permanently defective de-fective and is an economic and moral burden on the other ninety per cent, and should be eliminated from society, so-ciety, asserted Bleecker Van Wagenen of New York, in speaking to the international in-ternational congress on hygiene and demography at New York. As the climax to rioting in Augusta, Ga., and shooting of three citizens by state guardsmen Governor Brown has proclaimed the city to be In state of insurrection and ordered the immediate enforcement of martial law. Demar Bowman, the Mormon who was captured by the Mexican rebels '.nd held for $1,000 ransom, was liber-ited liber-ited and has returned to Pearson. It has just become known that pll.500 in gold was mysteriously itolen September 18 from the National s'ewark Banking company. The money, ,n three bags, was tawen from the eller's cage while most of the employes em-ployes were at lunch. The theft was ipparently accomplished from the cor-idor cor-idor by means of a long pole and 100k. Andres Cuevas, one of the oldest esidents of California, is dead at So-;oba So-;oba reservation in San Jacinto. Rec-rds Rec-rds prove that he was 110 years old. Two brothers were electrocuted in he state prison at Eddyville, Ky., on Friday. They were James and Charles Smith, negroes, who killed an aged ' nember of their race in a small town n eastern Kentucky a year ago. Judge Frederick S. Nave, formerly United States district attorney for Arizona and later an associate justice if the Arizona supreme cour, died at Tucson, Friday, aged 39 years. Three persons were killed, three seriously se-riously injured and six others slighter slight-er hurt when a passenger train bound Irom Chicago to Jacksonville was vrecked near Plainview, Ga. ! William H. Bell, a twenty-year-old ank clerk, has confessed that he rou-' rou-' ed the First National bank at Pen-' Pen-' sacola. Fla., of a package containing !:'.n.O0Ti. Mystery surrounds the death of C. I A. Pfanschmidt, aged 47, his wife, aged 43, their 15-year-old daughter j Blanche and Miss Etta Kaempen, 24 years old, the charged bodies of three of whom were found after the Pfan I Schmidt home near Payson, 111., had been burned. Governor Wilson will leave Ne York on October 2 for a western trip which will take him as far as Denver, Den-ver, lie will speak there on the nighl j of Monday, October 7, after spending Sunday with W. J. Bryan at Lincoln I Neb. Practically 12,000 textile operatives at Lawrence, Mass., have been affected j by the strike inaugurated by the In , dustrial Workers of the World to show their sympathy for Jose E. Ettor anc Arturo Ciavannitti. ' John Caskey, aged 60, shot and killed kill-ed Frank Hendricks and his two sisters sis-ters at New Freedom, Pa., after whict be suicided. WASHINGTON Two more lives were sacrificed t( aviation at the United States arm; aviation field, College park, Maryland near Washington, on Saturday, whei Corporal Scott and Lieutenant Rock well were killed. Charges that both the spirit and let ter of the decreedissolving the Stand ard Oil company of New Jersey ar being violated were sent to the de partment of justice at Washington 01 Saturday by S. W. Fordyce, Jr., coun sel for the Waters-Pierce Oil com pany. President Taft in a prepared inter view Tuesday night repeated his re cent claims of strength, said he be lieved he would be elected, and gav his reasons for denying that he hac been oversanguine. As an incentive to organize rifle teams the war department offers 1 trophy to be known as the nationa school shooting trophy, which will rep resent the high school team champion ship of the United States to be com peted for by-ten boys from a schoo' in addition to which prizes will b( offered for state and city competition,' among the schools. FOREIGN "Coronela" Alanis, wife of the rebe colonel of that name, is leading band of rebels twenty-eight miles easi of Juarez, -Mexico, according to a re port received by General Steever ai Port Bliss. King George of Greece curtailed hii visit to Copenhagen and left Sunday night for Athens in consequence o: I the crisis in the Balkans. He has alsc I postponed his visit to Paris to mee; President Fallieres. A cabinet ' crisis in Japan, says i Tokio dispatch to the London Times is threatened over the proposal tc establish two permanent militarj bases in Korea. It is reported the wai minister has presented his resigna tion. Only a tiny spark now appears nec essary to explode the Balkan powdei ! magazine. Every element' for a tre mendous upheaval seems ready. Sever European armies are now under mobil ization or calling in reserves. I The cigar industry in Manila is practically prac-tically suspended. Fifteen thousand ; men are out on strike and less thar j one thousand are at work.- The cigar-: cigar-: makers object to the scheme of gov ernmental regulation. Taking advantage of the departure of Blanco, who has with him some J 2,000 troops, the rebels have become much bolder in Durango, and private I telegrams tell of their occupation o ' Nazas, Rodeo and Guatimape. j As the crowning proof of -their de termination never to submit to the j dcmination bf an Irish parliament ; thousands of Ulsterites unionists ! and orangemen devoted Saturday tc j signing the covenant of resistance tc home rule. I A group of rebels have secured 20C pounds of cyanide from Natividad min-i min-i ing camp in the Ixtlan district, Mex-' Mex-' ico, declaring they would poison the drinking water in regions which are not under their control. ! The English navy has undertaken the building of an immense airship, ' which it is said will be the largest j ever constructed. The big ship is now being built at Alders-hot. It will have a capacity of 350,000 cubic feet. i report received Saturday says i that the insurgents at Masaya ran up ! a white flag Saturday. This leaves I Leon the only stronghold still defying defy-ing the government. - Five members of one family were drowned in the Pigeon river in Canada, Can-ada, the victims being William McCaffrey Mc-Caffrey of Trotnon, sales manager, of the General Electrical company, hla wife, mother and two children. A fourteen-pound muskellunge, which had been hooked by Mr. McCaffrey, was responsible for the drownings. Vilhjumur Stefansson, the young explorer ex-plorer who discovered the blonde Eskimos, Eski-mos, has uttered a vigorous protest against invasion of their country in the far north by white men. In his judgment the advent of civilization among them will cause the deaths of many of them and not improbably the extermination of the entire tribe. The Turko-Italian negotiations probably prob-ably have entered their final phase with the arrival at Ouchy, Switzerland, Switzer-land, of Rechad Pasha bearing Turkey's Tur-key's latest proposals. If these are acceptable to Italy, Rechad Pasha will arrange the peace treaty. It is not expected a peace treaty will be signed before October 15. Methods of warfare employed by the Nicaraguan rebels are indicated in the report that during the bombardment bom-bardment of Managua 132 women and children were hit by projectiles, while not one man was injured. |