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Show r " History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERM0UNTA1N Harry Bubb, after beating Robert Wheeler at Bull Lake, Mont., inflicting inflict-ing injuries which may prove fatal, returned to his cabin and shot himself. him-self. Preparations for Christmas at the home of Daniel O'Connor, a mail carrier car-rier of Seattle, ended in a fire which cost the lives of his children, Bert, aged 6 months, and Donald, 3 years old, seriously injured four other persons per-sons and destroyed the O'Connor residence. res-idence. Three men are dead, two are dying and four others are seriously ill as the result of gas poisoning caused by i leaky main under a rooming house in Seattle. , As a result of a quarrel in Los Angeles, An-geles, during which robbery was charged, W. H. Harries, a building contractor, shot Mrs. Dagmar Carroll. The woman, who came to Los Angeles recently from Ephriam, Utah, is not expected to live. Four men who robbed the postof-fice postof-fice at Colburn, Idaho, were pursued by the sheriff and a lone deputy, one Df the robbers being killed and the Dther three surrendering to the officers. offi-cers. Sixteen members .of the Lafayette, Colo., union of the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America have begun serving a years' sentence each in the county jail, for violating a temporary injunction Title wage dispute between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and silxty-one railroads west, north and situth of Chicago, has been settled. set-tled. Vhere will be no strike. Tn. stead, ie e;;nineers get an average 'increase ,of lo 1-3 per cent of their 1910 wa:: scale. Aintomobile carrying four persons tfrfm Seattle went over a ID-foot bank on the seashore road near Santa Bar-j Bar-j bara, Cal. Mrs. M. Johns was injured i perhaps fatally, while her two sons, M. J. and H. S. Johns, and the latter's wife were severely bruised. A Christmas holly wreat swinging from a chandelier forced open a gas cock and caused the asphyxiation in Chicago of Mrs. Eda May Simpson of Toronto, Canada. Mrs. Simpson was dead when found by her daughter. Damat Cappuano, a prosperous fruit dealer of St. Louis, was shot and killed Saturady night. The police attribute at-tribute the murder to a Black" Hand society. This is the second outbreak within the week in the neighborhood where Cappuano was killed. Ralph Shannon, 10 years old, died in his home in Cleveland in convulsions resulting from an attempt to hang himself because his mother would not allow him-to go to a moving picture show. Detective Jesse Gilman of Chicago, who was shot by Gregori Graci, is dead. Gilman was attempting to arrest ar-rest Graci after the latter had fired four shots in a quarrel with a former employer. 1 WASHINGTON President and Mrs. Taft and their family spent Christmas at home, except ex-cept for attendance at church in the morning. An increase in the exportation of manufactured cornnfo-dities and a decrease de-crease in the exportation of foodstuffs last month is noted in figures compiled by the bureau of statistics. The Democrats who have been advocating ad-vocating the pro-oleomargarine legislation legis-lation expect to secure passage of some general measure along that line at the restraining striking miners ot tne northern Colorado coal district from Interfering with non-union men. Cattlemen in the western part of 5f Montrose and San Miguel counties, Colorado, are greatly concerned over the presence in that section of the state of Navajo Indians from the Utah reservation, who are reported to be killing cattle and deer in abundance. DOMESTIC While his wife and daughter were entertaining guests from San Francisco Fran-cisco at a house party in the rooms below, J. B. Cook, one of the best known hotel men in California, committed com-mitted suicide at Yosemite, Cal., by shooting himself in the head. Edward Morris, head of the Chicago packing company whose building was destroyed in the fire in which many firemen lost their lives, on Sunday mnounced a gift of ?25,000 to the citizen's relief fund for the aid of the Bremen's widows and orphans. Mark Lee, a Chinese leper, who has been confined for some time at the tuberculosis hospital in Passiac, N. J., will be set free this week by the board Df health and allowed to return to his laundry. The health board is of the opinion that leprosy is not communicable com-municable in this climate. Mrs. Louis Patterson was so seriously serious-ly injured that she died, and her husband, hus-band, Louis Patterson, was badly hurt when the sled on which they were soasting down a hill in McKeesport, Pa., swerved into the curb. A coal mine at Washington, Pa., ibandoned fifty years ago, gave way ind carred down a large foundry of Zannizer Brothers & Stein. John A. Stein, vice-president of the company, and twelve workmen were severely Injured, but none wall die. Mrs. Anna Lehmann died at Apple-ton, Apple-ton, Wis., Saturday at the age of one hundred years and six months. She was born in Germany, and last' July celebrated her one hundredth birth-flay birth-flay with a big German picnic, at which she danced the minuet and sang German songs. When Seymour Borrer was taxing an interurban car to the barns in Columbus, Co-lumbus, O., he say Paul Martin, an 3-year-old boy, sink into the Scoto river. Borrer cut the trolley rope loose and, using it as a lasso, dragged the boy to the shore. Thomas Benton Hord of Central City, Neb., said to have been the largest cattle feeder in the world, died Saturday at Minneapolis, Minn., where he went a few weeks ago to consult a specialist. He has suffered from paralysis for two years. In attempting to rescue his wile from their burning home in Indianapolis, Indianap-olis, H. Kellemeyer was burned to death, while the wife, after being trapped in a second-story room by the flames, escaped by jumping from the window. While riding the range fifty miles from Globe, Arizona, Walter Williams, foreman of the Chircahua Cattle company, com-pany, was fired upon by a party of Apache Indians whom he surprised in the act of killing beef. Williams re-1 turned the fire and one Indian fell. United States Sncaior Lafayette! Young upon his arrival in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday, renewed his request ! for a special primary to determine who shall fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator Dolliver. William Quinn bet $10 that he could swim the East river at New York with the thermometer 12 degrees beiow freezing. He lost his wager and may lose his life. The icy water sapped his strength in just one minute. Three business houses in New Orleans Or-leans were destroyed by fire, causing ! a loss of $250,000. I next congress. Completed statistics show that more than thirty-two per cent of the national nation-al banking power of the United States now is represented in emergency currency cur-rency associations. In commuting to life imprisonment the sentence of death passed on John Wynne at Honolulu. Hawaii, President Presi-dent Taft takes the view that intoxication intoxi-cation may be urged in extenuation of a crime. FOREIGN It is understood that the widening of the Kaiser Wilhelm canal in Germany Ger-many is to be hurried on and that about $10,000,000 will be required for the purpose in the forthcoming budget. Eight passengers were killed, some of them instantly and the others burned burn-ed to death, and twenty-five more injured in-jured in the wreck of the Scotch express ex-press near Hawas Junction, England. Three million people in China are on the verge of starvation as a result of floods. The recent revelations concerning the wholesale executions ordered by courts-martial in Russia have started a crusade against capital punishment which is giving the government serious seri-ous trouble. The election having resulted in a victory for the progressive Liberal forces, it is predicted that within three years the British house of lords will either be abolished or that its power for evil will be taken from it. The oldest man in Scotland, James Grieve, has just died at Cor-an-tee, 110 years of age. Mr. Grieve had spoken with men who had seen Prince Charlie, and had heard his grandfather describe that historic personage. News has reached San' Domingo of an engagement along the Dominican and Haytien borders. Several are reported re-ported killed. A gunboat will be dispatched dis-patched with troops to be sent to the scene of the trouble. A region of thirty-three miles wide by nearly sixty miles long in China has been swept by the worst flood in the memory of man. The people lost severything they had. The imperial government has voted 40,000 taels for the twelve devastated counties, but it is a mere drop in the bucket. After a stormy all night session the Spanish chamber or deputies has passed the government's "padlock bill" by a vote of 108 to twenty. This is a notable victory for Premier Canale-ja?, Canale-ja?, obtained after a bitter fight involving in-volving not only the opposition of Spain, but the Vatican, whose seal of disapproval was set upon the legislation legisla-tion even before it had been submitted submit-ted to the cones. The people affected by the f-mine in China are in the Huahi river valley. The number of sufferers continues to grow, and, according to advices, between be-tween two and three million are in distress. An explosion of hydrogen gas at the admiralty Izlar armor works, says a St. Petersburg dispatch, killed four workmen, mortally wounding nine and seriously wounding twenty-live. For the relief of the famine stricken people of China, Acting Secretary ot State Huntington Wilson has cabled $.",000 to Mr. Calhoun at Pekin as the initial contribution of the American National Red Cross society. Charges of eros-s frauds in elections in the several cantons in Martinique are made. After the polls wore closed the ballot boxes were brought here by the government officials and placed under protection. In the night the office of-fice in which thpy were locked up was entered and the boxes were rifled |