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Show Bert C. Lewis, former private secretary sec-retary and chauffeur to C. H. Toliver, an airship inventor of San Diego, has confessed that he alone was responsible respon-sible for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Toliver at the Toliver home. Because he believed he was not a success at manipulating a typewriter, Samuel I. Herschberger, tiO years old, a telegraph operator for the Western Union for more than forty years, committed suicide at Albany, X. J. Xew evidence purporting to show that the Titanic was going at full speed with all but five of her twenty-four twenty-four boilers lighted on the night she History of Past Week Tke News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed il H met her fate has been given by Fred Barrett, former chief fireman of the Titanic. Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota Minne-sota has announced his candidacy for the United States senate to succeed Senator Knute Nelson. WASHINGTON Both the navy and the army are under direct orders from .the depatt-ment depatt-ment of state. The department believes be-lieves that it will be compelled to use the army in an invasion of Mexico, and it is determined that every regiment regi-ment shall have its entire force on American soil ready for instant movement. move-ment. In response to Nicaragua's importunities impor-tunities for money for trie payment ot debts, the United States government in a forceful note suggests that the Nicaraguan government oblige its partisans par-tisans to disgorge claims which were paid to them after the revolution, amounting to millions of dollars. Two thousand marines will probably prob-ably be sent to Cuba at once to protect pro-tect American interests. President Gomez of Cuba on Sun- INTERMOUNTAIN While experimenting with a man-lifting man-lifting kite, George Croft, aged 19, of Ogden, Utah, was severely burned by the wire of the kite coming in contact with the high voltage wiers of the Utah Lighe & Power company The St. Joe river has overflowed its banks for forty miels from the head of navigation to Chatcolet, says a dispatch dis-patch from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and over fifty farm houses along its banks have been abandoned by their owners. A stranger walked into the office of Sheriff German at Ellensburg, Wash., talked for a moment with the sheriff and four deputies who were in the room and departed with the sheriff's watch -chain Charles. F. Warren, for more than twelve years general agent of the Santa Fe in Salt Lake, and one of the best known railroad men in the west, filed Sunday in a Salt Lake hospital. Seven would-be suicides are being nursed back to health in hospitals in different parts of the state of Nevada, and upon recovery will be prosecuted under a law enacted by the last legislature, legis-lature, making attempted suicide a felony. Because he did not wish to be a witness wit-ness against his father, who is under indictment on a charge of burglary Arthur Sherrhorn, eleven years old, killed himself at Missoula, Mont. Springing his own death trap, Joseph Jo-seph Seng was hanged for the murder of William Lloyd at the state penitentiary peni-tentiary at Rawlins, Wyo. Bernard F. O'Neill, formerly president presi-dent of the State Bank of Commerce of Wallace, Idaho, left New Westminster, Westmin-ster, B. C, on Friday for Wallace, where he will stand trial on a charge of fraudulent banking. DOMESTIC day sent a telegram to President Taft in which he protests in friendly but firm terms against intervention by the United States. Denial of a rumor that Senator Lor-imer's Lor-imer's resignation had been taken back to Washington by Vice-President Sherman is made by William Lori-raer, Lori-raer, Jr. A bill which legislates General Leonard Wood out of the high office of chief of staff and the virtual control con-trol of the army of the United States, has been agreed upon by the senate and house conferees. 'The state department has declined to rule in favor of the holding of Brazilian Bra-zilian coffee by the valorization committee com-mittee in New York. The department depart-ment informed the Brazilian embassa- Judge William P. Lawlor dismissed the last twenty-seven indictments against former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz of San Francisco in the trolley trol-ley and gas cases on Saturday. Schmitz is now entirely freed from the graft prosecution. Brs. Belle B. Heiden, the wealthy widow of the late Charles M. Heiden, former head of the Albany Brewing company, plunged out of the window of her apartment on the eighth floor of an exclusive apartment hotel in New York and was killed. William D. Pastorious was sentenced In criminal court in Pittsburg to serve four to six years in solitary confinement confine-ment in Riverside penitentiary after being convicted of sending a bomb to Alexanedr R. Peacock, former partner Df Andrew Carnegie The steamer Algernon reports by wireless having received the body of a. member of .the Titanic crew namea dor that it must await the decision of the federal court in New York, where the case is now pending. FOREIGN It has been learned that part of a shipment of dynamite which President Presi-dent Taft excepted some time ago consigned to the mines in the state of Chihuahua had been captured by rebels and carried south. That congress had requested Ma-dero Ma-dero to resign the presidency and that he had agreed to do so on June 1 is the substance of a telegram re: ceived at the rebel army headquarters in Chihuahua from Mexico City The Cuban government has expressed express-ed through Minister Beaupre its gratitude grat-itude to the United States for sending the Prairie to Guantanamo. A Tien Tsin dispatch says two walled cities near Cbao Yang, Manchuria, Man-churia, have been occupied by a niiii- McCready, a native of Belfast. While expressing the conviction that he would be the Democratic nominee for the presidency, Speakev Champ Clark has announced that he would file his candidacy for re-election to congress. Farnum Fish, the eighteen-year-old aviator, made a successrul flight from Chicago to Milwaukee on Sunday, covering the distance, ninety miles, in a trifle over two hours. The Eutaw house, the oldest hostelry hos-telry in Baltimore, was damaged to the extent of $75,000 by fire which started in the basement from an explosion ex-plosion of unknown origin. All guests escaped. Mrs. James Garland, by her marriage mar-riage to Francis Cushing Green of New York, is said to lose control of the income of a $10,000,000 estate, which goes to her five children. Jake Samuels, a negro charged with criminally assaulting Mrs. Walter Ramsey, wife of a farmer, was taken from officers at Nashville, Tenn., by a mob and riddled with bullets. bul-lets. Charles W. Tlrown, city commissioner commis-sioner of Jacksonville, 111., was shot to tieath by Ambrose Hurley, former chief of police, who then committed suicide. The men had been at outs for some time. A verdict of not guilty was returned in the federal court at Cleveland for the eight wall paper manufacturers and jobbers who were tried for alleged alleg-ed violations of the Sherman law in tary force, presumably royalist rebels. reb-els. Dowager Queen Louise of Denmark is in a serious condition, says a Copenhagen Cop-enhagen dispatch to the London Mail. She has been removed to Fruensboge, suffering from a nervous shock. It is reported on good authority that Turkey will not agree to a conference con-ference of the powers for the settlement settle-ment of the Italian-Turkish war. The .Turkish government, however, it is announced, will agree to submit the question of the seizure of Tripoli hy Italy to The Hague tribunal for arbitration. arbi-tration. The insurrection and the serious labor troubles as a result of the renewal re-newal of the longshoremen's strike are believed to warrant American prepareuness for intervention in Cuba at a moment's notice. Dispatches from Merida indicate that the disorders in Yucatan are growing. The attack of the Indians on Tekantoc is said to have been bai-banc in character, several persons having been killed and their bodies b.$ ned. General Ivonet, with 150 negroes, J mounted and armed with new rifles, is pillaging the stores at La Carolina, Cuba, insurgents have appeared near Bayamo and Jiguani, to the west, which heretofore has been reported tranquil. The body of the late King Frederick VIII o Denmark was buried Friday afternoon in Denmark's abbey at Ros-kilde Ros-kilde among the tombs of the thirty- conspiring in restraint of trade in the conduct of their business. The business section of Lebanon Junction, Ky., was practically wiped out by fire which swept the length cf the town's main street. The loss is estimated at from $200, 0n0 to $250,-000. $250,-000. A man named I. W. Davis, reported to be an Englishman, called the American Amer-ican flag "a dirty rag" when a young girl with a bundle of small flags in her hand attempted to pin one on his coat at San Diego. He was driven out of town by infuriated citizens. By a vote of 557, thirty-eight more than necessary, the general conference confer-ence of the Methodist Episcopal church at Minneapolis elected W. H. Thirkield, president of Howard university, uni-versity, a negro institution at Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, the eighth and last of b'shops or general superintendents. j three ot his predecessors on the Dau- ish throne. j The board of trade inquiry at London Lon-don into the Titanic disaster was adjourned ad-journed Friday until June 4, alter .tuj completion ol tne evidence of the wireiess operators. Wireless messages from the island of Hawaii report that the summit of Mauna Loa is hidden in clouds, os that from the inhabited valleys and beach it is impossible to tell whether the volcano is in active eruptionor not. When last visible it was sm'oK-ing. sm'oK-ing. A baud of negro insurgents, apparently appar-ently under the command of General Ivonet, attacked and captured El Cnel Del Sitio, four miles from Pal-ma Pal-ma Scriano on the Bayamo branch of the Cuba railroad. They sacked the town, committing many outrages. |