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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I NTERMOU NTAI N Two men, believed to be two of the three bandits who held up the Imlay, Nev., saloon, killing Jean Qullici, the proprietor, and mortally wounding his wife, have been captured and arc now In the Winnemncca jail. During a terrific windslorm at Cheyenne, William Long was blown across the railroad yarus on the soaring soar-ing roof of a box car. He escaped with a broken leg. George E. Gardner Gard-ner was blown under a train and lost, an arm. . Thomas Lynch, a rancher near Lew-iston. Lew-iston. Mont., was on a load of hay when a team ran away. He was thrown off, receiving injuries that proved fatal. The secretary of the interior has tentatively allotted $1,000,000 to expedite ex-pedite the work on a storage reservoir reser-voir in the Boise river for the Boise irrigation project, Idaho. The news comes fom Helena that an agreement has been reached between be-tween corporate interests and Thomas J. Walsh whereby the Helena lawyer is to get the United States senator-ship senator-ship in succession to Thomas H. Carter. Car-ter. Frank R. Gooding, rormer governor of Idaho, has been chosen as president presi-dent of the National Woolgrowers' association. as-sociation. Three masked men entered the saloon sa-loon of Eugene Quilici at Imlay, Nevada, Ne-vada, and shot the owner dead, following fol-lowing by shooting his wife in the back. She is believed to be fatally Injured. The robbers took $1,200 in cash and departed In the darkness. While sitting in his home in Seattle, Seat-tle, Thursday night, Captain of Police Po-lice John Sullivan was" shot by some person who fired through the window. win-dow. Sullivan was taken to a hospital, hospi-tal, and it is said he cannot recover. He was formerly chief of police. DOMESTIC The legislature of Texas convened In its thirty-second session Tuesday to adopt "fewer and better laws," if general gen-eral sentiment can be taken as indicative. indi-cative. Eight persons were injured when a street car on the elevated road in Kansas City jumped the track. The Carnegie Trust company bank in New York City has closed its doors. Playfully pointing a rifle at his 10-year-old playmate, Margaret Black, at San Rosa, Cal., Manuel Desilva, 6 years old, pulled the trigger and the girl fell dead. The boy didn't know the gun was loaded. William G. Meyers, past grand exalted ex-alted ruler of the Order of Elks, and said to be the original "Hello Bill" of that organization, died at his home in Philadelphia, Saturday, after a long illness. George L. Evans is under arrest at Oklahoma City, pending an investigation investiga-tion of the death of his wife, supposedly supposed-ly poisoned. The Rev. Du Bois H. Loux, pastor of the Center Congregational church at Meridan Conn., who has embraced socialism and written a novel presenting present-ing his theories of modern social problems, prob-lems, has resigned his pastorate. Opposition of the Union - League club of New York to Jews has resulted result-ed in the refusal of admittance to the club of William Loeb, Jr., collector of the port of New York and at one time secretary to former President Roosevelt. The explosion and fire that almost destroyed the plant of the General Electric company in Minneapolis, injuring in-juring three men and causing an estimated esti-mated loss of $750,000, left the city practically In darkness. A satisfactory agreement has been reached between the Vacuum Oil company, an American corporation and the Austro-Hungarian minister of finance, in the controversy between that company and the oil companies controlled by Austro-Hungarian capital. capi-tal. After his father had been arrested in connection with the shooting to death of his grandmother, a five-year-old boy of Danville, Ky., confessed that he had shot the woman accidentally accident-ally and had run away to escape a whipping. Frederick Plaisted of Augusta, Me., took the oath of office in the hall of-representative of-representative Thursday and is now governor of Maine, the first Democrat to hold the office in thirty years, or since the completion of the term of trs father, the late General Harris M. Fiaisted. The little mining town of Hart, Cal., was destroyed by fire Thursday with a loss of more than $20,000. With the appointment of a board of control, composed of one member from each of the tobacco counties of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, an independent inde-pendent movement to combine the growers into one organization started at Lexington, Ky., on Thursday. According to statements made in Cincinnati by President Barney Drey-fuss, Drey-fuss, the joint schedule committee of the National and American leagues has arranged the schedules for both leagues so that each club will save between $1,000 and $5,000 in railway fares next year. Al O. TniNkett, who uriol apd killed J. I). S. Ncely, a p! -miinent oil man, In the Palace holel at Caney, Kims., will plead Hcll'-derense, although Nocly wiih unarmed. Davis ElkitiB, son of the late United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins, will be the successor to tho vacancy cauHod by the death of his father for the few days that will elapse pending the election of a senator by the legislature. legis-lature. Experiments In the breeding of animals, ani-mals, similar to those carried on with plants by Luther Burbank, are announced an-nounced by Dr. Ernest Castle, a scientist sci-entist at Harvard university. Six person perished in a lire which destroyed the "House of Five Entrances," En-trances," a five-story lodging house in Chinatown in New York. The tariff board expects to finish Its raw wool investigation in the states cast of the Mississippi river by the middle of this month and will be ready to proceed with work on tho western states soon. WASHINGTON Armed with what his friends declare de-clare ample proof that he had been to the north pole, Captain Robert E. Pc-ary appeared before the subcommittee subcom-mittee on private bills or tne house on naval affairs on Saturday and submitted sub-mitted his evidence. Oscar Solomon Strauss of New York, former caoinet minister and for more than a year and a half American einbassauor to 1 ut .y, has resigned. Between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 will be carried in the diplomatic and consular con-sular appropriation bill, which the house committee on foreign affairs will report during the week. Activities of the geolical survey in the classification and valuation of the government's western coal lands, begun in 1908, have resulted in an increase in-crease of the price set upon the lands of more than $4,000,000, according to a statement issued by that bureau. That the railroads of the United States have not demonstrated that their management is both efficient and economical, is the contention made in a brief filed with the interstate inter-state commerce commission by W. H. Haynie and H. C. Lust, on behalf of the Illinois Manufacturers' association associa-tion in the pending investigation of proposed advances in freight rates. Corporation magnates, who have figured conspicuously in the charges affecting the administration of the Philippine lands, have been asked to testify in the investigation before the committee on insular affairs. The investigation will probably be wound up at this session of congress. FOREIGN In South Africa there is just now a recrudescence of the color question, and in the Union parliament a Dutch member has introduced an amendment amend-ment to the marriage bill forbidding marriage between whites and colored persons. The roof of a tunnel in a copper mine in Rio Tinto, Spain, fell, burying many of the workers. Five bodies were recovered and five injured men were taken out. The liquor question promises to become be-come a dominant issue in France. It is likely that Defore long the government govern-ment will draft a drastic measure to reduce the number of drinking places. The popular fury aroused by the publication again of the monarchist newspapers in Lisbon culminated on Sunday in violent manifestations. The offices of three were wrecked and it was necessary to order out troops to disperse the mobs. Because of his failure to enjoy the confidence and support of the grand council of China, Tang Shao-Yi has resigned from the presidency of the ministry of posts and communications on the plea of ill health. The Archbishop of Lyons, France, has issued a dioceasan decree forbidding forbid-ding Catholics reading four Republican Republi-can newspapers published in the diocese di-ocese and declaring the reading of the papers a sin. Jean Candido, the leader of the recent revolt in the Brazilian navy, and forty-four other mutineers, have met sudden deaths. Candido succumbed suc-cumbed to grangrene while a prisoner; pris-oner; twenty-six of his associates died from sunstroke while engaged in repairing the fortress on Cobras island is-land and eighteen others were suffo cated in their cells in the prison on Vil'egainon island. A London paper publishes what it claims is the text, of an agreement between Russia and Germany on Per sian affairs. According to the text printed. Germany disclaims any political poli-tical interest in. Persia and recogniz es Russia's interests in northern Persia. Per-sia. Russia on her part agrees to co to give Germany commerce in Persia operate in building the long proposed Bagdad railway and its branches and equality of treatment. Negotiations by the commissioner appointed by the Hontluran govern ment and New York bankers for re funding the Honduran indebtedness aj e still pending and the main features of these negotiations is a loan to be secured by the customs receipts of Honduras, which are to be collected under a treaty to be ar ranged with the United States. Citizens of Honolulu held a mass meeting to protest against the em ployment in the central grammar school there of Miss Tokei Miamoto, a Japanese. Andrew Carnegie has declined to contribute toward a project to convert con-vert Yasnia Poliana, the estate of Leo Tolstoi, into an international preserve. pre-serve. In a battle in London between po lice and anarchists, two of uie latter were burned to death in the buildinj in which they had barricaded them selves and fought all day. |