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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEIfS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM. Horn and Foreign New Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepred for Busy Men. INTER MOUNTAIN Ezra Neilson, 22 years of age, of Smithfleld, Utah, was killed Monday by lightning. He had just left his home driving a hayrack for a load of hay east of town. He had not gone far when both he and his team wer killed. Upholding the validity of the Oregon Ore-gon law of 1899 authorizing criminal prosecution on "informations" by district dis-trict attorneys as distinguished from "indictments" by grand juries, the supreme su-preme court has affirmed the conviction convic-tion of Lem Wood, a Chinese, convicted convict-ed of muredring Lee Tai Hoy in Portland, Port-land, Ore., March 7, 1908. The western governors, in their annual an-nual meeting at Salt Lake City, held last week, adopted a set of resolutions embodying fourteen declarations of principles, which they insist must toe put in operation by the federal government gov-ernment if the west is to 'be allowed to develop on an equal footing with the east. Lawrence Smith, 19 years of age, was almost instantly killed when the meat market wagon he was driving was struck by the Rio Grande flyer for Denver near Murray, Utah. The coroner's jury which investigated investi-gated the killing of Elaine Paulson, the girl who was run down and killed In Salt Lake hy an automobile driven by the fire chief, W. H. Bywater, has returned a verdict declaring that the accident was avoidable and was the result of reckless driving. The success of all the so-called "regular" candidates for office in the election held by the Butte Miners' union, the' parent body of the Western West-ern Federation of Miners, is conceded by Socialist watchers. Jacob D. Cole of Albert, Colo., while walking with a party of friends near the summit of Mount Wilson, California, in the moonlight, lost his footing and fell from a precipice to his death. DOMESTIC Benjamin Knisely, aged 40, a farmer living near' Beaman, Iowa, shot and Instantly killed two of his children, attempted to kill a third and then committed suicide by blowing off the top of his own head. "By January 1, 1915, anything that floats can pass through the Panama canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Pa-cific oceans," declared Colonel-George W. Goethals, chief engineer of the canal zone, who arrived at New York on Monday. The state railroad commission of California has granted the application applica-tion of the Southern Pacific company com-pany to issue $30,000,000 of two-year notes at 5 per cent, for improvement of and extensions to its lines. Resolutions adopted at a Japanese mass meeting at Honolulu ask the removal re-moval of United States federal immigration immi-gration officials stationed there, accusing ac-cusing them of unfairness and unnecessary unnec-essary harshness in their dealings with Japanese returning from visits to Japan. With delegates in attendance from all parts of the United States and Canada and several from foreign countries, the ninth annual convention conven-tion of the Associated Advertising clubs of America befan Monday at Baltimore. A five-story 'building in Cincinnati, comprising the Hotel Elmer and several sev-eral lodging- houses, caught fire early Sunday morning. Firemen made sensational sen-sational rescues of guests of the hotel. Peter Inglis, 70 years old, died Sunday from injuries received in the collapse of the Auditorium approach in the Empire day disaster at Long Beach. This makes the thirty-ninth victim of the accident. The world conference of Seventh-day Seventh-day Adventists concluded its twenty-four-day quadrennial session at Ta-koma Ta-koma Park, Md., Sunday, and thousands thou-sands of delegates from all parts of the world left for their homes. Albert Mouw, aged 20, residing near Orange City, is dead, and John Van-derwarf Van-derwarf of Chicago, aged 25, is lying in a hospital at Lemors. Iowa, in a precarious condition as the result ol an automobile accident early Sunday. Charmes M. Faye. for fifteen yea is managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, died Sunday at. his home in Aurora. Au-rora. 111. Mr. Faye hud been connected with the Daily News lor thirty-two years. Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall arrived at Indianapolis, June 7. for their first visit home since the inauguration, inaug-uration, lie said the job o being the second highest officer in the land "is very pleasant." Five Aberdeen, S. D., young women were injured, two seriously in an automobile aut-omobile accident Sunday. The machine ma-chine struck a rut in the road and turned over twice. Chris von der Ahe, owner of the "four times winners," the St. Louis Browns of the old American association, associa-tion, was buried Sunday at St. Louis. One of the largest crowds of at! letes and followers of college athletics athlet-ics that ever gathered in Philadelphia outside of an- intercollegiate meet assembled as-sembled in St. James Roman Catholic church in West Philadelphia Monday jVo pay a last tribute of respect to Michael C. Murphy, the noted trainer who died June 4. Dissolution of the so-called Eastman East-man Kodak trust was asked in a civil suit filed at Buffalo, X. Y., by order of Attorney General McReynolds on Monday. Captain John S. Brewer, at one time champion wing shot of the world, was found dead in his humble lodging in Hammonton, N. .1. It is not known what caused his death. Joseph Tovens, employed in lumber camps near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., shot and killed two deputy sheriffs who had arrested him in connection with a stabbing affray at Brimley. Criminal indictments against fourteen four-teen secretaries and former secretaries secretar-ies of lumber associations throughout the country have been dismissed at Chicago at the instance of the department depart-ment of justice. WASHINGTON In recognition of the coming great celebration on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Get-tysburg, the United States geological survey announced Monday that it had produced a map of the battlefield which it was prepared to sell to the public at half price. The power of the states to fix reasonable rea-sonable intrastate rates on interstate railroad, until such times as congress shall choose to regulate these rates, was upheld Monday by the supreme court of the United States in the Minnesota Min-nesota freight and passenger rate cases. A petition signed by 60,000 Oregon school children, expressing the desire that the hattleship Oregon be detailed to lead the parade through the Panama Pan-ama canal at its formal opening, has reached Secretary Daniels. Revising their policy, again, Demo-cratic Demo-cratic leaders in the senate have decided de-cided to put a countervailing duty on imports of livestock and grains, fresh meats, flour and other grain products. President Wilson apparently has established es-tablished a rule that in the absence, from the city of the heads of departments, depart-ments, assistant secretaries shall sit in their places at the cabinet table. President Wilson has1 refused to in' terfere with the death sentence of Nathaniel Na-thaniel Green, a negro, who last Christmas assaulted a white woman almost in the shadow of the dome ol the capitol. Green will hang. FOREIGN The British directors of the Peruvian Peruv-ian Amazon company, of whom Sir John P. Lister-Kaye is the best known, are held "deserving of severe" censure by the committee of the house of commons which investigated the atrocities in the Putumayo rubber fields of Peru. The new Hungarian cabinet was formed Monday 'by Count Tisza, speaker of the lower house of the Hungarian parliament, ' George Wyndham, who was chief secretary for Ireland from 1900 to 1905, died Monday in Paris. He was in his fiftieth year. V. V. Murphy of Cowichan, a noted cricketer who played against the Australians Aus-tralians in two games during their recent re-cent visit to Victoria, B. C, was killed when, a motor car in which ho was riding was struck by a train. Emily Wilding Davison, the martyr to the militant efforts of women to obtain the suffrage, died Sunday in a London hospital as the result of a fracture of the skull sustained in an attempt to stop the king's horse, An-mer, An-mer, during the running of the derby. Vilhjalmar Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, arrived at Esquimault, Sunday, Sun-day, and took charge of the work of preparing the expedition which he will lead into the Arctic this summer for scientific research under the auspices of the Canadian government. War is almost inevitable between the Balkan allies, according to a Sofia So-fia dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse. ' The Mexican government will not attempt to recapture Matamoras immediately. im-mediately. It will organize as soon as possible a column of 2,000 men, but for the present these troops are not available. The gunboat Vera Cruz, on which it was intended to send a force to Matamoras to dislodge the rebels, still is at Vera Cruz. The Belgian steamer Kurland from Antwerp struck a mine near the Island of Phleva in the Gulf of Athens. Ath-ens. She was seriously damaged and had to be towed to Phalerum and beached. A society organized for the purpose of waging war on British rule in India : has been discovered, with widespread ramifications. The police of Calcutta have arrested forty-four Bengalis of 'good family, charged with conspiring ' to carry out a wholesale massacre. Disdaining a ransom of ?20.oOO of-I of-I fercd by the friends of Colonel Pas-j Pas-j cual Orozco. Sr.. father of the former ! rebel chief, Emilio Zapata hits tauter! the old man to be put to death as a spy. A battle between police and strikers, strik-ers, in which seventy persons were severely wounded, was fought in the suburb of Frauendorf, Germany, as the sequel to the killing of a striker by a non-striker. The Belgian government is carrying on negotiations with a group of bankers bank-ers in Paris for a loan of about $120,-000,000 $120,-000,000 at 4 per cent interest. The British government has decided i to lay down three battleships of the i present year's naval program imme diately, instead of next March, as orig-unally orig-unally intended. |