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Show History of Past W eek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. A. B. Edler, former supreme court reporter of Utah, died suddenly at Los Angeles, following an injury from a pitchfork, through which blood poison developed. Miss Jean Rutherford, 21 years old, committed suicide in Seattle by saturating sat-urating a silk kimona with chloroform and wrapping it about her head. Great Falls, Mont., will not obtain a re-enumeration of its , population under the demand made by representatives represen-tatives of that city. Director Durand has refused to' allow a recount. Friends of United States Senator Thomas H. Carter, of Montana, who was defeated for re-election, assert, that the senator has been tendered an appointment as a member of the supreme court to fill . the vacancy caused by the retirement of Associate Justice Moody. Mike Veiring, fireman at a hotel in Great Falls, Mont., was instantly killed when, standing on a sheet-iron plate in front of the furnace, he attempted at-tempted to turn on an electric light A power line of the electric company had become entangled with the lighting light-ing circuit. Ralph Johnstone, the brilliant young aviator, holder of the world's altitude record, dropped like a plummet from a height ,of 500 feet into the inclosure at Overland Park aviation field at Denver on Thursday and was instantly instant-ly killed, every bone in his body being be-ing broken. Charles Moore of Pierce, Colo., filled his pipe with tobacco from a pocket of his hunting coat and a l-i-e cartridge got mixed with the tobacco. The resulting explosion shattered the pipe and the bullet grazed Moore's head, inflicting a slight wound. Ex-Senator Clark of Montana has donated $150,000 to the Los Angeles Young Women's Christian association, to be used in' erecting a home for working girls, as a memorial to his mother, Mary Andrews Clark, who died in Los Angeles a few years ago. DOMESTIC. Governor-elect Eugene N. Foss of Massachusetts has issued a statement in which he demands that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge withdraw from the field for re-election. In the event of a refusal, Mr. Foss declared he would go into every section of the commonwealth common-wealth in a campaign to defeat the senator. Two girls were killed near Union-ville, Union-ville, Mo. while returning from a dance, while their escorts escaped serious inury, when their team ran away. Two years in San Quentin for having hav-ing beaten a non-union worker with a piece of gaspipe, was the sentence imposed upon Charles Stevens, a striking iron worker of Los Angeles. Richard Croker, the old Tammany Hall leader, landed in New York from Ireland on Sunday for his annual visit to Palm Beach. He will spend a few days in New York and take no part in politics. Relatives have been advised that John R. Lockhart, a former resident of Scott City, Mo., has been assassinated assassin-ated near Gatos, Mexico. Joe Bernard, a Newfoundland navigator, navi-gator, is heading eastward from Point Barrow, Alaska, in his fifteen-ton gasoline gas-oline schooner Teddy Bear in an effort ef-fort to retrace the route followed by Captain Raold Amundsen four years ago, when he discovered the Northwest North-west passage. Myron Crippen, father of Dr. H. H. Crippen, condemned to death in London Lon-don for the murder of his wife, Belle Elmore, died at Los Angeles on Sunday, Sun-day, ft cm old age and grief over his son's conviction. Confessing, according to the police, that he had shot and killed Mrs. Richards aud probably fatally injured her daughter, Mrs. Peter Fauls, after having been caught stealing at her home near Pottsville, Pa., Frank Mitchell has been placed in jail. Insurgent leaders, who have attacked at-tacked the integrity of the administration administra-tion of the national grange, patrons of husbandry, may be expelled unless they prove their charges, according to advices from Atlantic City, N. J. Thomas Baron, one of the wealthiest wealthi-est farmers of Drake county, Ohio, was killed by his son Charles, 24 years old, while the two were shooting rats in the granary. Decapitated and dismembered, crushed and mangled beyond all recognition, rec-ognition, portions of the body of a man were picked up along the railroad rail-road track in Sacarmento. being strewn for almost an entire block. Judge John E. McCall, in the United States circuit court at Jackson, Tenn., rendered a verdict which ended the efforts of the government to have assessed as-sessed against the Standard Oil company com-pany of Indiana penalties aggregating more than ?30,000,000. The judge instructed in-structed that a verdict of not guilty he returned. Wassili Ivankowski and Andre Isuen have been sentenced to death for the murder of Thomas A. Landregan, a s'poe manufacturer, and Policeman Ja:".es H. Carroll in Lynn on June 25 la... ;.. Twenty years in San Quentin penitentiary peni-tentiary was the sentence imposed on Robert Thompson, convicted of murder mur-der of Eva Swan, a stenographer, whose body was found in a deserted building in San Francisco. A search is being made in Calitor- ; nia for Anna L. Hodge, a school teacher, who disappeared a few years ago, after receiving a legacy of SM0,- j 000. It is believed she was either I robbed and murdered or placed in ! some asylum. The New Mexico Constitutional con-i con-i vention has rejected the prohibition amendment. Another trunk murder mystery has been unearthed in New York City, a trunk which had been stored for six years being found to contain a skeleton. skele-ton. The trunk belonged to a man named Lewis, who has disappeared. In a pistol fight in a rooming house in Dallas, Texas, Joseph D. Bullock was killed and M. W. Van Dusen wounded. The shooting was the result re-sult of a domestic quarrel, WASHINGTON. i In the basement of the office building build-ing of the house of representatives at ' Washington, skilled mechanics, are constructing what is said to be the first triplane in the world equipped with double engines. Henry Martyn Hoyt, counselor for the department of state, died at his home in Washington, Sunday morning, from peritonitis. He was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., December 2, 1856. Four men were killed on Saturday by the premature explosion of a five-inch five-inch gun at the Indian Head proving grounds of the navy. The breech block of the gun, which was being tested, blew backward into the gun crew. President Taft, at the close of his visit to the Panama canal,1 expressed himself as pleased with the progress being made on the canal. The so-called reduction in the price of meats is a deliberate manipulation of the market, according to Dr. Haw-ley Haw-ley W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture. agri-culture. Interest on deposits in postal savings sav-ings banks will be paid only once a year. The board of trustees decided upon that interpretation of the law at a conference at Washington on Wednesday. 1 FOREIGN. Sir Wilfred Laurier, premier of Canada, Can-ada, celebrated his 69th birthday on the 20th. He received congratulations from all parts of the British empire. Sir Wilfred is in splendid health and vigor. Lees Court at Faversham, Kent, England, the ancestral home of the Earl of Sondes, with its prioeless contents, con-tents, was discovered by fire Sunday morning. The damage is estimated at $500,000, but no intrinsic value could be placed on many of the treasures with which the house was filled. After a life-long battle for the right as he saw it, Count Leo Tolstoi has been vanquished in a contest with the grim reaper, his death occurring Saturday Sat-urday morning at Astopava, Russia. Countess Tolstoi and the attending physicians were at his bedside when the end came. Imposing national ceremonies in the Tuilleries Gardens, in Paris, in connection connec-tion with the dedication of a statue erected to the memory of Jules Ferry, the French statesman, were marred by an assault upon Premier Briand, who, while walking with President Fallieres, was struck twice in the face by a royalist. The insurrection which was said to have been planned for Sunday against the government of Mexico failed to materialize. The police of Moscow forbade the theatres from suspending their performances per-formances because of the death of Count Tolstoi. Nevertheless the playhouses play-houses were closed, as the actors refused re-fused to appear. Mrs. Sumner Clarke of Peoria, HI., and Colonel J. J. Harrison, the explorer explor-er and discoverer of pygmies in Congo, were married in London on Saturday. General Yin Chang, the new Chinese minister of war and the viceroy of Manchuria, have prepared a report to the prince regent stating that energetic ener-getic measures must be taken by China unless the nation wishes to lose Manchuria to Russia and Japan. One hundred persons, including the chief of police, were killed in riots at Pueb'.a, Mexico, on Friday. The trouble trou-ble began when policemen attempted to break up a meeting of anti-re-elec-tionists, a woman firing the fi-at shot, killing the chief of police. The Japanese press does not seem pleased at the announcement that an American syndicate has loaned fifty million dollars to China. According to Francisco I. Madero, anti-re-electionist candidate for president presi-dent of Mexico, now in exile in San Antonio, a revolution in Mexico is inevitable. in-evitable. He says foreigners will not be molested, as the revolt will be only against the present government. There has been a recrudesenee of cholera on an ominous scale in Constantinople. Con-stantinople. There were eighteen j deaths on Friday. j The third session of the eleventh ! parliament of Canada opened ar Ottawa on Thursday with the usual picturesque ceremonies. The speech from the throne, delivered by Earl Grey, expressed gratification over the settlement of the fisheries dispute and confidence in a satisfactory satisfac-tory outcome of the tariff negotiations between the United States and Canada. Can-ada. The first division of the American fleet of sixteen battleship?, that will make a two months' visiting cruise ot . French and English ports, arrived at I Torquay, England on Tu-'-s'Jny. K |