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Show I l L I I 1 ! M i - I History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN The snapping of an aerial cable across the Platte river at the government govern-ment Pathfinder dam, fifty miles southeast of Casper, Wyo., hurled a gang of workmen in a tram car 169 feat to the rocks. Five are dead and several others seriously injured. J. Grossmutz, a Seattle tailor, returning re-turning home Sunday night, found the body of his 24-year-old wife lying on the dining room floor with a bullet hole in the left temple. Upstairs he found Philip Bromberg, 30 years, fatally wounded. Bromberg had shot the woman and himself. Mrs. Pearl Henke, aged 25, wife of President Henke of the Washington State college at Pullman, Wash., while temporarily insane, jumped form the second-story window of a hospital at Pullman, breaking her neck. Shunted about from place to place as the result of the long government Investigation to determine whether he was a leper or not, John R. Early, formerly for-merly of Washington, D. C, has been found at Summit, Wash., and will be fenced in on an acre of land. Early's wife and three small children are with him. Suffragist leaders of Washington are preparing to circulate a petition to be signed only by women, asking President Taft to appoint a woman to the federal bench for the district of western Washington, to succeed Judge George Donworth, who will retire soon. The county grand jury at Portland Indicted Wong Si Sam and Lew Soon on Friday on a charge of murder in connection with the death of. Seid Wah Bing, the Chinese whose mutilated muti-lated body was found recently in a trunk in the Seattle depot. Governor Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada Ne-vada has issued a call for . the state legislature to convene in special session ses-sion on February 23 at Carson City. The session is called for the purpose, says the governor in his proclamation, "first, to provide for a state loan for the purpose of enabling the state to transact business on a cash basis, and second, to provide for a state tax levy." DOMESTIC Discovery of a tunnel headed toward to-ward the vaults of the Bank of Commerce Com-merce at Oakland, was discovered Saturday. The tunnel was fifty feet long and had seventy feet to go before reaching the bank vautls. By action of a city council committee, com-mittee, docks to cost $4,400,000 are soon to be built by the city of Chicago Chi-cago as a start toward the realization of the new harbor plans. Work on the Panama canal progressed pro-gressed steadily in January. With one working day less, the canal diggers dig-gers excavated 2,641,441 cubic yards in January, as against 2,439,276 the preceding month. Women who persisted in remaining in the court room at Fort Worth, Texas, where J. B. Sneed is on trial for killing Captain A. G. Boyce, were ejected. The court held that the testimony testi-mony was unfit for women's ears. John M. Hitchcock, for many years a co-worker of Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, died of apoplexy at his home in Chicago on Sunday. Mrs. S. H. Schermerhorn, wife of a Chicago broker, was seriously burned when an alcohol stove overturned in a compartment of a sleeping car near Emporia,' Kans. . . J. Pierpont Morgan, czar of American Ameri-can finance, has retired from active business life. The business interests of J. P. Morgan & Coare now in the hands of his younger partners. Just as the chaplain was about to pronounce the benediction at the close of the morning chapel service at the state penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., Sunday, Albert Prince, a negro under sentence for assault with intent to kill, fatally stabbed Deputy Warden War-den E. D. Davis. Three children were burned to death, one man fatally injured and a woman seriously hurt in a mysterious explosion which destroyed the home of Isaac Smith, a farmer living near Maxwell, Iowa. Theodore "Ted" Marks, one of the bast known figures in the theatrical world, died Friday in New York City after a several weeks' illness. Ten thousand men are searching in a territory 100 miles square for the murderer of little Goldie Williams, whose body was found in a vacant house in Grand Island, Neb. Former Senator W. A. Clark Friday afternoon laid the cornerstone of the $250,000 Mary Andrew Clark memorial home at Los Angeles. . Colonel W. H. Stewart, hero of the battle of the Crater and former com-mander-ln chief of the United Confederate Confed-erate Veterans, died at his home in Portsmouth, Va., of pneumonia. He was 73 years old. Robert G. Fowler of Gilroy, Cal., the ocean-to-ocean aviator, officially finished fin-ished his long flight across the continent conti-nent when he landed at Moncrief park, Jacksonville, Fla., on Thursday. After imprisonment in the shaft of I the Fairmount Coal company's mine near Danville, 111., for fifteen hours, fifty miners were released. The men were entombed by the breaking of a .vheel on the cage about 100 feet be-'ow be-'ow the surface. Harry Loper, owner of a cafe which A'as destroyed by a mob in a race riot at Springfield, Ills., three years ago, was awarded judgment for $7,750 igainst the city in the circuit court. Loper's place was destroyed because, t was alleged, he aided the sheriff n spiriting away negro prisoners. The Chicago Record-Herald says that plans for the formation of a territorial ter-ritorial organization of railroad shop jmployees that will include every railroad rail-road operating west of the Mississippi river are being secretly perfected by labor officials. The sixty -two miners entombed in .he Bunker Hill mine at Sutter Creek, Cal., by a cave-in in the mouth of the shaft, were rescued Thursday after a night , of desperate work by miners join nearby mines. None of the men were injured. WASHINGTON For the purpose of solving diplomatic diplo-matic problems and acquiring more accurate information as to conditions in Central and South America, Secretary Secre-tary of State Knox, by direction of President Taft, will make a five weeks' trip to the Spanish-American republics bordering the Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico. President Taft has reprieved for ninety-one days Mattie Lomax, a ne-jro ne-jro woman under sentence of death at Washington for murder , of her husband, hus-band, pending decision of a case in the District of Columbia courts. Senator Reed of Missouri will intro luce a resolution providing for a con ! stitutional amendment to bar any man from holding the office of president of the United States more than two terms of four years each, the filling ol an unexpired term to be regarded as a full term,' . . A reduction of the cavalry force of the United States army from fifteen to ten regiments, with ' a consequent reduction of the enlisted force of the army by 3,980 men, was voted into the army appropriation bill in the house late Friday, after a bitter fight. With the termination of the investigation investi-gation into the election of Senator Lorimer of Illinois, an announcement was made Friday by Attorney El-bridge El-bridge Hanecy, counsel for Lorimer, that he will shortly file a plea of res adjudica, which means that a final de cision in the case is as far away as ever. FOREIGN The Alaska-Canadian boundary survey sur-vey will be completed this year, ac-coring ac-coring to the present plans of those in charge of the work. A party of tvnty-five men will leave Seattle for the north soon, and will cover the last stretch to the Arctic ocean. Floods continue in every part of Portugal, but the southern districts are most seriously affected, and the distress among the population is acute. At Oporto a large number of barges on the river Douro have been swept away. The Democratic teritorial convention conven-tion at Manila for the election of delegates del-egates to the national convention at Baltimore was marked by quarrels and resulted in a divided convention, two sets of delegates being selected. The interparliamentary peace union has called the next interparliamentary conference for September 17 next. The place of meeting probably will be in Geneva. W. Morgan Shuster sailed from London on Sunday for America on the George Washington, his wife and two children joining him at Cherbourg. The British embassador held a long conference Sunday with the Spanish minister of foreign affairs on the subject sub-ject of the Franco-Spanish negotiations negotia-tions over the Moroccan situation. There has been a clash at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, between the United Unit-ed States and Honduran authorities over the enforceemnt of a government decree directing representatives ofW. S. Valentine to surrender to government govern-ment authorities the railroad, wharf and other properties held under the lease by. the Valentine syndicate. Seventy-five marines from the United States gunboat Petrel landed and seized the wharf and railroad. Dr. Peter Spahn, the leader of -the Clerical Center party, was elected president of the German reichstag, defeating August Bebel, the leader of the Social Democratic party, by 196 votes to 175. Winston Spencer Churchill, the first lord of the admiralty, on Friday attended a luncheon arranged by the Clyde Navigation trust at Glasgow, Scotland, and in a speech painted a roseate picture of the preparedness of the British navy to meet all eventuali ties. John Casey, formerly of Lebanon. Pa., and five Austrians and Bulgarians, names unknown, were killed, and five injured by a premature exp'osion of dynamite at the camp of Jchnson & Casey, contractors, near Fort Francis, Ontario. Rebels shouting vivas for Vasquez Gomez raided a number of haciendas in the vicinity of Torreon on Wednesday, Wednes-day, and near Salinas a passenger train was fired on. Two members of the train crew were wounded. President Madero on Wednesday declared to a committee from the anti-re-electionist party: "For no reason will I change any of my ministers. The members of my cabinet are honorable hon-orable men. They are patriots. shall not permit any of them to be slandered as you are slandering them." |