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Show History of Fast Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I' ' Mrs. Richard Hurst, tried at Cola-water, Cola-water, Mich., for the killing of her divorced husband, was convicted of manslaughter. On November 12, a short time after the couple had been separated. Mrs. Hurst shot and killed Hurst at her home. She claimed self-defense. self-defense. Clarkston Willcuts, 70 years, old, one of the wealthiest and most prominent promi-nent citizens of Marion, Ind., was assassinated as-sassinated by an unknown man, who called him to his door at his home and shot him. The grand jury at Chicago has returned re-turned an indictment charging Mrs. Rene Morrow with murdering her husband, Charles B. Morrow, an inventor, in-ventor, whose body was found December De-cember 28 on the rear porch of his home. The federal grand jury at Indianapolis Indian-apolis which has been investigating the dynamite conspiracy, will, it is believed finish its work this week. WASHINGTON Following a sweeping investigation covering almost every great steel manufacturing plant in the United States, the department of commerce and labor, in a report now ready for the senate, accuses practically every corporation of maintaining a system of labor as cruel, relentless and unnecessary un-necessary as the galleys of ancient times. Mrs. Belle Vedder Fleming, 59 years of age, a daughter of Indiana Hanks, whose mother was a sister of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln, was married ' Saturday to Brigadier General David Stewart Gordon, Gor-don, TJ. S. A., retired, 79 years old. Friday being the fifty-third birthday INTERMOUNTAIN Krnest Walters, a Norwegian, employed em-ployed in the building of the dam at the mouth of Logan canyon, near Logan, Lo-gan, Utah, was buried by a cave-in in the exploration trench at the dam site. Officers at Hazen, Nev., arrested on description and brought to Reno a man supposed to be Cooney Ellis, wanted for the killing of Ed Tonkey near Gerlach, January 23. John Stackhouse, under arrest in Denver for cruelty and accused of feeding the breakfast of his wife and two daughters to the family dog, declares de-clares that arguments that he may offer in extenuation of his acts will have no weight against the beauty of his two daughters and he is resigned to his fate. A society for the abolishment of the practice of tipping servants and urging urg-ing the improvement in sanitary conditions con-ditions in hotels of small towns is being organized by traveling men in Portland, to be known as the Western Travelers Protective association. The $5,000 damage case against the Denver & Rio Grande for the killing of a prisoner who was chained to a car seat, has been settled out of court. The prisoner was burned to death when the car was destroyed by fire. A. B. Edler, a former resident of Salt Lake, has been arrested at San Diego, Cal., on the charge of using the United States mail to defraud. The arrest was made on the complaint com-plaint of Adolph Richter, a prominent real estate dealer of Salt Lake, who alleges that Edler, under the name of Floyd Scott, endeavored to sell him ten lots, the deeds to which had been forged. Assistant Fire Chief Robert Wolfe was killed, one fireman was severely burned and property loss totaling $200,000 resulted from a fire in Walla Walla, Wash. DOMESTIC After fighting for ten days to resist Ihe efforts of the officials of Idaho to have him taken back, to Hailey to face a charge of embezzlement, Geo. H. Kautz, a well known contractor of Hailey, under arrest at San Diego, on Saturday, gave up his struggle. What is believed to have been the lightest sentence ever imposed on a counterfeiter was that of one day's imprisonment and $250 fine given to George Wilson of San Francisco. Wilson, Wil-son, in pleading guilty, told the court that he had made the spurious coins and passed them only to satisfy himself him-self that he could turn out good imitations. imi-tations. J. J. Moore, a wealthy coal dealer of San Francisco, was shot and fatally injured near the home of Mrs. Moore Saturday night by J. Timothy, Mrs. Moore's chauffeur. Moore and his wife had been separated. Four persons were burned to death or suffocated and five others are in a serious condition as a result of a fire at the home of Curtis Hale at Clay-tonia, Clay-tonia, Pa. A. J. Murray, of Fargo, N. D., convicted con-victed butter thief, who is charged with being a bigamist, was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary on the theft charge. Charges that he assaulted and attempted at-tempted to kill Frank M. Ryan, president pres-ident of the International Association Associa-tion of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, were made in warrants issued is-sued at Indianapolis against Robert J. Foster, a detective. George A. Terry, formerly a clerk of the National Banking corporation, corpora-tion, who pleaded guilty to having embezzled $13,000, testified in the superior court at San Francisco that he had drunk 100 quarts of beer witn-in witn-in six hours. The conference at Louisville on child labor adopted resolutions urging urg-ing congress to enact Senator- Borah's bill creating a children's bureau in connection with the department of commerce and labor J. P. Morgan is withdrawing a large part of his collections of art objects from the Victoria and Albert museum in London because he wants them in this country and not because of any dissatisfaction with the museum management. man-agement. The coroner's jury that inquired into the Illinois Central wreck at Kinmundy, 111., brought in a verdict placing the blame for the death of J. T. Harahan and three others upon Henry Schneiderjohn, operator at Edgewood, and Harry J. Brcecker, flagman on train No. 25. The Alaskan Steamship company's wooden steamer Santa Ana went ashore in Karta bay, Alaska. Her nine passengers were taken off in a launch. Investigation of fraud in an election elec-tion of national officers of the United Mine Workers of America is to be made by the executive board of the organization. I William (Billy) Delaney, known all jver the world as a famous trainer of pugilists of 'the last half century, died at his home in Oakland after an 'llness of several months. anniversary oi tne emperor oi lier-many, lier-many, President Taft cabled to Berlin Ber-lin a message extending hearty congratulations con-gratulations in the name of the government. gov-ernment. Secretary of War Stimson, acting upon an exhaustive report from the general staff, has decided that no less than sixteen, and probably eighteen, eight-een, existing army posts should be abandoned at once. Speaker Champ Clark in a public statement Saturday, declared he was a candidate for the Democratic presidential presi-dential nomination, standing on his own feet, "without leaning on any other candidate." More than $20,000,000 worth of automobiles auto-mobiles were exported from the United Uni-ted States during the past year. . FOREIGN Major Baude, the only surviving French officer who served through the whole of the Crimean war, is about to celebrate his eightieth birthday birth-day anniversary. He is still remarkably remark-ably hale and hearty and enjoying life at his beautiful villa at Neilly-sur-Seine. England is enjoying a remarkable burst of spring in winter. In many parts of the country the bursting forth of flowers and buds suggests that spring has begun. The steamer Chicago Maru brought news of the rescue Dy villagers off the west coast of Japan of twelve men of the crey of a Russian vessel which had been derelict in the sea of Japan for fifty-six days. The death at Malaga of a man named Juan Pastrana Garcia has terminated ter-minated a life of extraordinary length. He was born at Almagria in 1799, being be-ing thus 113 years old at the time of his death. The British consul at Hodeida has sent a request to this government for the dispatch of warships to that port. His action was due to threats by the Italian vessels to bombard the town. The King of Spain, accompanied by the queen and leading members of his ministry and diplomatic corps, opened the new Cietral Marconi wireless wire-less telegraph station at Aranjuez by sending felicitious messages to nearly every ruler in Europe and to King George and Queen Mary, who were at sea. The agent of Gaby Deslys rays that the reports circulated regarding her marriage are incorrect. A mob broke into the Quito peni-:entiary peni-:entiary in spite of a double guard ind lynched Eloy Alfaro, former president pres-ident of Ecuador, his brother and J'cur other former revolutionists. The small French passenger steara-:r steara-:r Tavignano, which takes the nails from Tunis to Sfax, Suea, Zarzis and Biban, on the east coast 3f Tunis, was arrested ten miles off Biban by Italian torpedo boats on Friday, and taken to Tripoli, where she is being held. The timely arival of the police at Lodz, Russian Poland, just prevented a band of fanati..l women from crucifying cru-cifying a man whom they had adopted as their "Savior." The new cathedral at Khartoum, which has been erected as a memorial to Genera! Charles Gordon, who was killed when the city was captured by the Mahdists, was consecrated on Friday. The earthquake in the Ionian is'ands was more disastrous than at first reported. At Cephalonia several buildings were destroyed and eight persons were killed. Two unmasked men, armed with revolvers, re-volvers, entered the Hillcrest branch of the Royal Bank of Canada at Vancouver, Van-couver, B. C, in broad daylight, drove Manager Steaves and one of his clerks into the vaults, knocked tne other clerk unconscious with a blow from a revolver butt, and escaped with $1,999, all the money that was in the till. Emile Pougnet was arrested at Re-gina, Re-gina, Sask, charged with the murder of Mrs. Guissienne Legrand near Paris. France. The crime was committed com-mitted January 9. 1910 |