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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A TO EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIIM Section of the Overland route through Wyoming has already been decided upon by the officials of the (Lincoln Highway association. Ivy Roland, 9 years of age, who was fatally burned when splashed with Mazing turpentine by a playmate In Salt Lake City, is dead. Track laying on the Denver & Salt Lake railroad from Steamboat springs to Hayden and Craig was begun August Au-gust 28. The work will be pushed rapidly and the line will be completed and trains running into Craig on or before December 15. Dr. D. D. Cairnes, Canadian government govern-ment geologist who has just returned to Seattle from the Shushanna, Alaska, Al-aska, gold district, issued a signed statement warning persons against stampeding to the district. Foxhall Keene of the American polo team in its recent contest with England, Eng-land, was seriously injured at the polo tournament of the Cheyenne Mountain Country club at Colorado A second seizure of paper currency, printed in the United States and sent to the border by express, was made at Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday by federal officials. The currency was intended for use of the constitutionalists constitutional-ists in Mexico and was seized as contraband con-traband of war. Harry K. Thaw's lawyers, successful success-ful so far in keeping their client in jail safe from the immigration authorities, rejoiced when they received word from Quebec that the trip of William Travers Jerome to see Sir Lomer Gouin, provincial premier and attorney attor-ney general, had been in vain. The steamship Imperator, the largest larg-est vessel afloat, was swept by fire as she lay at her dock in Hoboken with her crew and 1,131 steerage passengers pas-sengers aboard. Second Officer Herman Her-man Gobrecht and a seaman met death in fighting the fire. Twelve thousand acres of oil lands in the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma have been offered for lease by the interior department through Cato Bells, Indian commissioner. WASHINGTON Unusual interest is attached to the forty-sixth annual Trades Union congress con-gress which opened in Milton hall, England, Monday, owing to the existing ex-isting unrest in the labor world. The number of delegates is 663, making a record, as they represent a membership member-ship of 2,250,000 workmen of various trades. .Representative J. T. McDermott of Illinois, before the house lobby committee, com-mittee, made a categorical denial of the charges againsts him by M. M. Mulhall, former lobbyist. Secretary of Commerce W. C. Red-field Red-field is given the family Bible and the stand upon which it rests as his Springs. He was thrown during the play. Madison, Wis., was selected as the next convention city for the conference confer-ence of governors of the United States at the Wednesday session of the con-fernee con-fernee at Colorado Springs. j DOMESTIC A gigantic opium smuggler's plot in which federal officials, steamship employees em-ployees and Chinese are all involved, developed here with nearly a score of arrests. The opium ring has been operated at this port since 'August, 1910, and Surveyor of the Port Justus Jus-tus 'S. Wardell-estimates their profits at close upon $500,000. From a cell in the Raymond street Jail in New York, Elizabeth Trendle, a Brooklyn girl, appealed, by letter, to President Wilson to issue her permit to dress as a man. Mrs. B. A. McGough, an aged resident resi-dent of New York, on a visit at Sea-bright, Sea-bright, N. J. was scared to death by a clap of thunder during a severe electrical storm which swept the northern nor-thern New Jersey coasts early Satur- Mary A. Redfield, which was filed Friday. Four billion postal cards will be required re-quired by the postofftce department during the next four years and Postmaster Post-master General Burleson has asked for sealed proposals for furnishing that number. The Republican congressional committee com-mittee organized and outlined its gen-ral gen-ral plans for the coming campaigns. Representative Frank P. Woods of Iowa was elected chairman. He announced an-nounced that the committee's work from now on would not be in the line of direct aid to individual candidates. An insurgent movement among Democratic senators that threatened to break party lines on the income tax was headed off by the leaders by an agreement to revise the tariff bill so as to levy a heavier tax on the incomes from large fortunes. FOREIGN A band of 150 gypsies attacked the inhabitants of the town of Lunel, France, with guns and revolvers. Gen- day. Death claimed a heavy toll in the Labor day auto races at the state fair grounds when four of the six high-powered cars entered in the twenty-five-mile free-for-all race were wrecked at the far side of the mile track , in sight of the 5,000 spectators, kijling four racing men, I Train No. 444, southbound, on the Jjecorah branch of the Chicago &. Rock Island, was wrecked within two miles of Mayjnard at 3:45 Monday. The engine en-gine w6 derailed, rolling down a ten-loot ten-loot embankment. Three were instantly instant-ly killed and thirty-five others were more or less seriously injured. With the ending of the 1912-13 cotton cot-ton season, Galveston established what local records showed to be a nvorld's cotton receipts. The International Congress of School Hygiene ended Saturday, at Buffalo to meet in Brussels in 1905. Fritzi Scheff of foot-light fame filed a valuntary petition in bankruptcy at New York Saturday. Mrs. John Kelly of Portland, Ore., was killed and a half dozen persons were seriousl injured Monday night at Oswego, six miles south of here, when a load of slabwood fell from a car in a passing train and raked a crowd on the platform who were awaiting the coming of a passenger train. A wireless message from President Wilson was the signal for the opening open-ing of the National Conservation exposition, ex-position, the first in the history of the country devoted to the cause of con- . 6ervation. The message was received about 10 a. m. Monday at the wireless wire-less station on the exposition grounds. Three Fort Simpson trappers, who have just returned to Edmonton Alberta from a long journey to the fnr nnrlK InnW 5lQ tilin1 V U h 1 H 1 m H T darm?s engaged the gypsies and a pitched battle ensued in which one gendarme was killed and three were badly wounded. Both houses of the Chinese parliament parlia-ment passed resolutions requiring the government to try the members of parliament who had been placed under un-der arrest, before the supreme court in Pekin. Americans in Mexico are heeding President Wilson's warning to get out and state department officials believe that two weks hence there hardly will be a thousand of them left in tne troubled southern republic. Thirty-five hundred men perished in the seven constitutionalists attacks on Torreon between July 17 and July 28, and since that time fever has become an epidemic, food is scarce and no .aid has been a'-'e to reach the city. The Mexican government is very silent on the message which President Wilson read before congress Wednesday, Wednes-day, outlining the situation in this re-puDlic re-puDlic and the attitude of the United States government. The grand cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau has been conferred on Andrew Carnegie by Queen Wilhelm-ina Wilhelm-ina of the Netherlands in commemoration commemor-ation of the inauguration of the Palace Pal-ace of Peace. Germany has no intention of changing chang-ing her recent decision not to exhibit officially at the Panama-Pacific exposition ex-position in San Francisco in 1915. Hundreds of army pensioners in Chelsea hospital, the old soldiers' home of London, went hungry Tuesday, Tues-day, owing to the strike of electricians electric-ians of the public works department declared because of the employment of non-union painters at the admiralty. admir-alty. Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., Steiansson, the Arctic explorer, that he is the discoverer of the tribe of blondo Eskima. They claim they discovered dis-covered the Eskimo. Labor day was observed with union leaders asserting that the day marked the passing of the two million point in the membership of the American Federation of Labor, the largest number num-ber of union workers in the history of the country. Navy department officials are greatly great-ly incensed over the action of a Maryland Mary-land state's attorney and deputy sheriff sher-iff in allowing a youth convicted of theft to escape punishment by enlisting enlist-ing in the navy. .Seventy-five American men, women and children from Madera and other Chihauhau towns arrived at El Paso Friday on a special refugee Mexican North western train. Dr. 10. 10. Gordon, a prominent physician phy-sician of Cairo, III., was shot and killed kill-ed Monday Dight by Harvey R I :elds, un insurance solicitor. ianea in nis auempi to swim cue English channel Tuesday. He entered the water near the South Foreland at 6:45 a. m., and left the water at 4:04 p. jn. The murder of Arthur Lawton, a British subject, and Eric Von Thaden, a German, on Senator Edurado Iturbe's ranch iu western Michoachan, is officially reported. Advices from China tell of the death ot Father Francisco liernat, a Franciscan Fran-ciscan missionary, at the hands of Chinese fanatics in a remote region of north Shensi. A dispatch from Constantinople gives details of negotiations between Turkey and Humana by which, it Is said, the latter bus relinquished claim to Adrianople in return for compensation compen-sation elsewhere. Nanking is still violently resisting the attack by three government armies, arm-ies, and in the other districts "the general HabbiiifKB" of the provisional administration encourages Isolated risings against authority. |