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Show History of Past Week TKe News Happenings of Seven. Days Paragraphed INTER MOUNTAIN There is no longer any doubt that the names of Taft electors will go on the Republican ballot in Nevada this fall. Colonel Maxon. Republican national na-tional committeeman for Nevada, filed the list with the secretary of state on Saturday and received a receipt. Five unidentified men were killed and two injured in the wreck of a Great Northern freight train near Macon, Mont. All of the men, who were beating their way, were riding in a car of .lumber. Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic Demo-cratic party, Colonel Roosevelt told the people of Montana on Saturday, had nothing to propose for dealing effectively ef-fectively with the trust problem. The Mountain States Telephone company is constructing at it3 Denver headquarters a $7,000 fire escape just because its operators wear high-heeled shoes. In a recent practice drill 100 of the girl operators were required to try their skill at descending a fire escape es-cape and it was found that many of their heels caught in the holes in the iron platforms and steps. J. W. Hill, said to be otherwise known as "Jack" Murphy, one of the trio of bandits who are alleged to have murdered Night Marshal Frank Col-clough Col-clough in the Vienna saloon at Mid-vale Mid-vale on the night of August 7, has been arrested near Heber City, Utah. Charles E. Winter, novelist and song writer of state reputation, has With the head nearly severed from her body and arms and trunk frightfully fright-fully slashed, Lydia Berger, known as the most beautiful woman of the night life in San Francisco, was found in her bed by her maid. Rev. H. Grefe, pastor of the Lutheran Luth-eran church in Germantown, Iowa, was burned to death before the eyes of his children and several other persons per-sons while pinned beneath a wrecked motor car "A panic i3 on .the way. It is sure to come, no matter who is elected Republican, Democrat or Bull Moose," said Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate candi-date for president, in a speech at Phoenix, Arizona. Oconto, Wis., on Friday experienced the worst flood in the history of the city, the result of a log jam, and many thousands of dollars damage was done. Many houses were washed away. WASHINGTON Although President Taft will not intervene in-tervene in Mexico without the fullest deliberation on a step that would mean war, his friends declare that intervention in-tervention is nearer than it has been since the first American troops were rushed to the border eighteen months ago. President Taft returned to his summer sum-mer home at Beverly from Washington Washing-ton and New London on Saturday and conferred with political leaders from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island for some hours. The new battleship Pennsylvania, the only one authorized by congress at the last session, will be fully as large as the great battleship which the British government has just ordered, or-dered, according to plans of the naval general board. Intervention in Mexico and the possibility of President Taft calling a special sesison of congress to determine deter-mine whether American troops will be sent across the line are widely discussed. dis-cussed. It is known that the government govern-ment has been pressed on many sides to take such a step. An official warning from Washington Washing-ton has been- sent to Leader Emilio Campa that Americans or American property must not be molested. mo-lested. Dr. F. L. Dunlap of- the bureau of chemistry and associated chemist under un-der Dr. Wiley, while the latter was chief of the bureau, has resigned to accept a commercial position in Chicago. Chi-cago. FOREIGN The commercial and other privileges acquired by Russia from China in 1881 in the territory occupied by Russian troops on the borders of Russian and Chinese Turkestan are to remain in force until 1921. The Canadian Pacific railway has announced that work would be begun this year on a tunnel eight miles long through the Rocky mountains to eliminate elimi-nate the grades of Rogers' pass. Kaiser William has completely recovered re-covered from his illness. He was greatly touched by the interest shown in his welfare. He read references in the newspapers regarding his health and carefully filed them for reference. Another attack on Cananea is expected ex-pected daily. Rafael Campa, the rebel leader, has sent word for Americans to keep away from the firing line and none will be harmed. He also sent word that he had killed six of his men for attacking women and girls. The Grand Duchess of Hesse has hit upon a novel scheme in waging war against tuberculosis. She has had all match manufacturers in the grand duchy print instructions on the boxes of matches, showing what to do .to prevent tubercular contagion. been chosen as the nominee tor con-gressman-at-large from Wyoming by the Progressive party. Governor Oswald West will close his Portland office and return to Salem, the capital, having placed his anti-vice campaign in the hands of authorized agents of the state. These agents, the governor said, would proceed pro-ceed with the moral purification of the city. Simeon G. Hazleton, superintendent of the United States smelter at Mid-vale, Mid-vale, Utah, and Bert Booth, city councilman coun-cilman of Midvale, were almost instantly in-stantly killed when an automobile in which they were riding collided with a street car. DOMESTIC Six were killed, sixteen seriously injured in-jured and several others slightly injured in-jured at the motordrome at Newark, N. J., when a motorcycle ridden by Eddie Hasha at a ninety-two mile gait got beyond his control and dashed into the crowd. Helping out the church at which his mother was wont to attend divine worship is President Taft's latest act of charity. His gift of $200 has lifted a load from the minds of the little congregation at Millbury, Mass. Zoe Priddy, one of three young giPIs who escaped from the state home for girls at Aurora, Ills., was shocked unconscious un-conscious while walking on the "third rail" of an electric railroad, and after her companions, terro-stricken, fled for aid, was struck and killed by a car. Four hundred employees of the Great Northern ore docks at Superior, In the new British navy regulations as set forth by First Lord of the Admiralty Ad-miralty Winston Churchill, the most popular among the many reforms initiated in-itiated is that abolishing a rule which compelled a defaulter to perform extra ex-tra work, to stand on deck during "stated easy" times and to take his meals there under the eye of a sentry. James Uryee. British ambassador to the United States, arrived at Honolulu Hono-lulu on Friday, on his '.etuiu to Washington from Australia, where he spent the summer. He was officially welcomed to the islands outside the harbor by a launch loaded with dignitaries. dig-nitaries. Accompanied by his wife and Postmaster Post-master General Pellitier, Premier Robert Rob-ert L. Borden has returned to Canada Can-ada from his official visit to the British Brit-ish Isles. The premier was greeted royally by the citizens of Quebec. American refugees who have talked with Campa, the Mexican rebel commander, com-mander, say that the rebel chief denies de-nies that he ever threatened Americans. Ameri-cans. He insists, however, on disarming dis-arming all foreigners and declares that he will seize all horses and saddles. Recognizing the strategic importance import-ance of that point, inland gateway into Mexico, the federal government has decided to fortify the town of Juarez with light and heavy artillery. Reliable information from Nicaragua received at Panama, is to the effect that two American marines have been killed there. Louis Carlrobia committed suicide in Paris, following the lines of his i own book, "Technics of Suicide." He ' prepared for suicide with the utmos I care. , I A typhoon destroyed many streets in the city of Taihikohu. the capital of Formosa, and also devastated the northern districts of the island. The tea crop was not seriously damaged. Cheche Campos and Francisco Del- toro, at the head of 1,300 rebels, have '. left the Sahuaripa and Alamos district : in Sonora and crossed into the state . of Sinoloa. ' Wis., went on strike Saturday, demanding de-manding an increase in wages. Industrial Indus-trial Workers of the World agitators are believed to be behind the strike. The district in western Kansas infected in-fected by a mysterious horse disease has spread from eight to twenty-six counties, according to reports to the state live stock commissioner. Twelve thousand persons have contributed con-tributed thus far to the Wilson campaign cam-paign fund. The fund at present totals $175,000. This was stated Sunday Sun-day night at Democratic national headquarters. Robert Smith, 28 years old, and his niece, Annie Griffin, aged 4, were instantly in-stantly killed on Main street at East-port, East-port, L. I., when an automobile in which they were riding collided with another rapidly moving car. Performing the wild west acts depicted de-picted on show bill boards, the 11-year-old son of J. J. Hanehan, or Cen-terville, Cen-terville, Iowa, accidentally hanged himself with a lasso in a tree near his home. James L. Flood, son of the late bonanza king, is about to expend the sum of $100,000 in a scientific attempt to prevent the decaying of the trees and plants on his Menlo Park estate in California. Mrs. P. S. O'Mara of Salt Lake City hooked a sword fish weighing 240 pounds, on light tackle, at Avalon, Cal., and landed her catch after a fight that lasted four hours. Mexican rebels crossed the boundary bound-ary and were engaged by United States soldiers on the Lang ranch lifty miles east of Douglas. Thirteen American troops held back twenty-five rebels, killing five and wounding one of the Mexicans, it is reported. Two dead, four carried to the hospitals, hos-pitals, thousands hurrying out of the city to the fields and lakes, two million mil-lion men, women and children enduring en-during witli such patience as they could another day and night of crashing crash-ing heat, was the result of the heat at Chicago Friday. |