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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. More than 600 miles of new railway track will be laid in Montana, at a :ost of about $25,000,000, is the announcement an-nouncement made recently by prominent promi-nent railway officials. Right-of-way ,ias been secured for the greater part it this new mileage, and a number of parties of surveyors are in the field. Fire is destroying the heavy timber along the state road to Laramie river, fifty miles west of Fort Collins, Colo., iccording to reports brought in by a rancher. R. C. McConnell, forest ranger at Manhattan, has been ordered :o father a force to fight it. David S. Murray, formerly general manager of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, leaped from the roof of the Deseret National bank building in Salt Lake City and was instantly killed. Financial reverses led to the deed. Murray was 48 years of age and is survived by a wife and a daughter. DOMESTIC. After much suffering, the fifty-two men comprising the crew of the British Brit-ish freight steamer West Point, Glasgow Glas-gow for Charleston, S. C, which burned to the water's edge in mid-ocean, mid-ocean, are safe. New York is beginning to awaken to the danger of a cholera epidemic. The recent hold-up of the Lusitania, because of a suspicious case aboard, has served to bring home the fact that only the utmost care can prevent the introduction of the plague. Suffragists, far and near, throughout through-out the United States, are centering their efforts in New York. In a political politi-cal sense, New York is now considered the pivotal state among suffragists. Fred Ziringer, a barjflaniweight boxer, died at Pittsburg from a drink of carbolic acid, which he took by mistake mis-take for a cramp medicine. Elmer Bryson, aged 20, and Ray Holt, aged IS, of Pana, Ills., were drowned in the Mississippi river at Alton, Ills., while swimming. Lying on a cot in a hospital ward in San Francisco with his spine so badly bad-ly fractured that death was only a question of days, Frederick J. Baker, a driver in the local fire department, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Edward Ballard, twenty years old, was killed in a baseball game at Wis-ner, Wis-ner, Mich. A foul tip hit him over the heart while he was catching. The collapse at Boston during an amateur baseball game of an old bleacher stand carried down more than 200 persons, including many women and girls. One boy was killed and four were injured. As a result of a strike of the local union of structural iron workers, structural struc-tural work on practically all of the larger buildings under construction in Kansas City has been discontinued. Mrs. Nellie Boyle, one of the four Holly Rollers who entered upon a fast w-hich lasted thirty-eight days before being interrupted recently by the police, po-lice, died at the county hospital in Los Angeles of starvation. John H. Bartlett, a fa'i'iner, is dead at his home in Dalton, Conn., as the result of a hog bite. He was attacked by a big boar, receiving a slight wound in the leg, blood poisoning resulting. re-sulting. The Socialist party is to make a special effort, during the next two years to make converts among the officers of-ficers and men of the United States army, according to Edward F. assidy, general organizer. Weighted down with a heavy stone, the body of a well-dressed woman was found lying in three feet of water in the Delaware river near Torresdale, Pa. Mrs. Catherine Fogarty was drowned at Boston in an attempt to save her 2-year-old child who had fallen into a pond and a stranger about 60 years old was drowned while trying to save the mother. The body of Frank T. Tucker, assistant assist-ant attorney general of Wisconsin and candidate for the Republican nomination nomina-tion for attorney general at Oskosh. Wis., Thursday morning, was taken from the Fox river. It is believed he fell into the river during the night while nking his way to a train. At a neighborhood well in Lincolton, X. C, where his mother and five other women had gathered to draw water. Theodore Gilbert, five years old. was instantly killed and the women more or less seriously hurt by a bolt of lightning. Charles Kahole. a seventeen-year-old boy of Jamaica, L. 1.. may lose his life as the result of a wager with another young man as to which could consume the most whisky. Kahole won the bet by finishing a quart bottle bot-tle and making a start on a second bottle Rain, varying from a half to two and a half inches, fell over southwest Texas, from Lartdo on the south. Corpus Christi on the southeast Hid Luling and Victoria to the east. This is the first general ruin in this section sec-tion in three months, . ! Charles K. Hamilton, the aviator, in i the first trial in his new flying ma-: ma-: chine "Hamiltonian," remained in the ! air at Agricultural park. Sacramento, Cal., for one minute and four seconds Monday morning, covering a distance estimated at about two miles, alighting alight-ing with such speed as to slightly disable dis-able the machine. Five masked men who had planned to hold up and rob the New York and New Orleans limited train on the Louisville & Nashville railroad escaped es-caped in a boat on Bayou Sara, twelve miles north of Mobile, Ala., after holding hold-ing up by mistake the light engine which was stopped at the bridge over the Bayou. Asphyxiated by noxious gases within 200 feet of the mouth of the San Carlos Car-los tunnel in the New Idra quicksilver mine at Hollister, Cal., was the fate of Foreman John Williams, his three daughters, Elvina, aged 15 years, Marie, Ma-rie, aged 12, and Marjorie, aged 5, and a dog belonging to the family. WASHINGTON. Officials both of the state department depart-ment and of the army express surprise sur-prise that any question, has been raised at this time as to the right of the United States to erect fortifications fortifica-tions along the Panama canal. Colonel Roosevelt's speech at Osa-watomie, Osa-watomie, Kan., has aroused a fierce controversy and discussion in Washington Wash-ington and the probable effect it will have upon the tariff issue is the main question, as Kansas is the central point of the present campaign. One hundred and twenty-seven sail and steam vessels of a total gross tonnage ton-nage of 14.020 were built in the United Unit-ed States during the month of August, according to a report by the bureau of navigation. Through the energy and co-operation of the post office employees throughout through-out the country, a saving of $11,000,000 became possible in the postoffice department de-partment this year, according to a statement by P. V. Degraw, fourth assistant postmaster general. President Taft has announceu mat Beverly, Mass.. will continue to be the summer capital, for the next two years at least. With an increase of $3,273,325 in the public debt and a total deficit of $17,371,468.08, the United States treasury treas-ury closed the second month of the fiscal year, keeping on an even keel, all circumstances considered, with a working balance of $30,826,057.23 on hand, and the general fund down to $S9,523,207.59. The appointment of George E. Roberts, Ro-berts, of Chicago, to be director of the mint, to succeed A. P. Andrew, promoted to be assistant secretary of the treasury, is announced. FOREIGN. The second annual sporting congress opened at Vienna, September 5. Ote thousand delegates are present, most countries being represented. Prince Karl Kinsky is the president. The Hungarian government has begun be-gun an investigation as to the causes of the great emigration, especial,' from Hungary and the eastern provinces, prov-inces, to the United States. Promoted by recent events in Macedonia, Mace-donia, the officers at the headquarters headquar-ters of the Third army corps at Salonika Sal-onika have drawn up a new plan of campaign, enabling the Turkish army to make a simultaneous attack on the Greek and Bulgarian frontiers. According to telegrams received from Venice, the Countess Larnewski has grown so violent in her hysterical fits thar. it has been found necessary to confine her at times in a strait-jacket. strait-jacket. It is feared that she is losing her sanity. . The first English beet sugar refining refin-ing factory may soon be seen at Maldon, Essex, where a site of twen. ty-six acres has been secured by a Dutch "firm of refiners, acting in conjunction con-junction with Essex agriculturists. About $1,000,000 will be put into this business. The youngest divorced couple in the world is to be found in the court of Abyssinia. On May 16 of last year the Princess Ronianis Onesk was married to the Prince Lidj Eyassu, the heir-apparent, the bride being then eight years of age and the bridegroom bride-groom 14. Now they have been divorced. di-vorced. While forty years ago Germany and Frances were equal in population popula-tion with 40,000,000, official statistics now show that France has dwindled to 39,000,000, and Germany numbers 65.000.000. One of the notable features of the trend of travel from America to Ireland Ire-land th's year is the visit of 12.000 Americans or Irish-Americans. Under the auspices of the Irish Homegoing association hundreds of Irish have come back temporarily for a visit. Leon Morane. the French aviator, broke the world's record at the aviation avia-tion meet now in progress in Havre, France. His monoplane artained a height of 6 SS9 feet. Thirteen deaths from cholera and twenty five new cases of the disaase have been reported from the infected districts of southastern Italy during the last twenty-four hours. Alexander Millerland, minister ol public works, posts and telegraphs on Monday at Paris, opened the second international congress of telegraph, telephone and technical experts. The chief question uefore the congress is I the preferability of the manual over the automatic or combination telephone tele-phone systems. The cholera situation in Russia grows more alarming. Already the figures show that there have been more than 20,000 deaths from the : plague, and new points of infection j ..ire reported daily. |
