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Show NEWS OF ft WEEK If! CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. Much property was destroyed at Rock Springs, Wyo., by a cloudburst. The rain was the heaviest experienced experi-enced in this region in many years. Homes were flooded, livestock drowned and streets torn into gul-leys gul-leys by the heavy downpour. Mrs. Doris Meier Newins, one of the most popular members of Denver society, has instituted suit in the district dis-trict court for a divorce from Jarvls W. Newins, formerly local agent for the Niagara Insurance company. Commissioner Caminetti of the immigration im-migration service has suspended Frank II. Tape, an interpreter at the Seattle station, pending further investigation in-vestigation of charges involving examination ex-amination of Chinese immigrants. The convention of the Western Federation Fed-eration of Miners went on record at Denver in favor of amalgamation with the United Mine Workers of America. The state department of agriculture seized 5,142 sacks, or thirty-four carloads, car-loads, of Manchurian corn that had just arrived at Seattle on a Japanese steamer. The corn, like that of two previous shipments seized, is infected with weevils, and the consignees probably prob-ably will be obliged to grind it into stock feed. The building of the Moffat tunnel by a private company is said to have received re-ceived favorable consideration' at a meeting in Denver between officers of the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad company and members of the tunnel commission. , DOMESTIC. Mrs. Bessie J. Wakefield of Mid-dlebury, Mid-dlebury, Conn., convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree, in: participating in the killing of her husband, hus-band, William O. Wakefield, at Cheshire, Che-shire, on June 23, 1913, was sentenced to state prison for life. The Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis railroad went into receivers' hands Friday. The action was brought by the Bankers' Trust company of New i Strenuous effort 'ire being mad! by Austria and Ser'a to recall from the United States for military service the many thousands of their citizens who are employed in American factories. fac-tories. The harbors along the Labrador coast are blockaded by ice and the condition of the fishermen is most serious, according to Captain Johnstone John-stone of the United States revenue cutter Seneca, which arrived at Halifax, Hali-fax, X. S. Henry Spencer, who murdered Mrs. Mildred Allison Rexroat, a teacher of dancing at Wayne, 111., was hanged Friday at Wheaton, 111. Spencer lured Mrs. Reroat to Wayne with a promise prom-ise of a professional engagement. The Panama canal, which will be open to commerce in another two weeks, is destined at the outset to become a strategic highway of the world if the present hostilities between be-tween Austria-JIungary and Servla develop into a general conflict involving involv-ing the other great European powers. The body of Blanche Yorke, mysteriously myster-iously missing since July 8, has been found buried in the cellar of the residence at Tamworth, Ont., of Dr. C. K. Robinson. A warrant for the arrest of Dr. Robinson, -charging him with murder, was immediately issued. is-sued. WASHINGTON. During the first nine months of its operation the Underwood tariff law, according to the department of commerce com-merce figures announced July 31, yielded somewhat less revenue than the Payne law, slightly more than the Dingley law and one and a half times as much as the McKlnley and Wilson laws. Complaint by the Chinese minister to the state department that Gen. Hwong Hsing, Lin Sun and other alleged al-leged Chinese agitators, were fomenting foment-ing in San Francisco a rebellious movement against the government of China has been referred to the de-patment de-patment of state. Secretary Daniels has signed the contract plans for the new battleships authorized by congress this year. These ships, to be named the California, Califor-nia, Mississippi anu Idaho, will be the largest battleships as yet designed for the United 'States navy, and will cost 7,800,000. President Wilson has called a conference con-ference at the White House In an effort to avert a strike which would tie up practically every western railroad'. rail-road'. Revolutionizing of the government's reclamation policy is proposed by Representative Underwood, the Democratic Dem-ocratic leader, in an amendment to the senate bill to extend from ten to twenty years the time allowed settlers on irrigation projects to pay for their water rights. York following the failure of the road to pay interest on $2,000,000 bonds due on June 1 of this year. George Chip of New Castle, Pa., was awarded the decision in a twenty-round fight with Sailor Ed Petros-key Petros-key at San Francisco. Both men are middleweights. Mahlon M. Garland of Pittsburgh was elected supreme dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose at the convention conven-tion at Milwaukee. The firm of Deutsch Bros., private bankers of New York, was taken over at its own request by the state banking bank-ing department. According to the department, de-partment, the firm appears to be solvent, solv-ent, its embarrassment being due to a lack of ready cash. The Seep Purchasing agency, the principal buyer of Pennsylvania crude oil, has issued an order to its agents restricting the purchase of oil until conditions in Europe become more clearly defined. No more than 100 barrels of crude oil will be purchased pur-chased from any one producer or firm. European demands for gold on New York will be met by transfers from the United States subtreasuries, so as to keep the metropolis always prepared prepar-ed to meet all calls. Two Austrians were probably fatally fatal-ly injured in a fight with Servians at Los Angeles. The transport Hancock has sailed from Norfolk for Guantanamo, Cuba, with 400 marines to add to the force mobilized there for possible developments develop-ments in Haiti. Starting their second campaign for woman's suffrage, Ohio suffragists invaded in-vaded the statehouse at Columbus and placed on file initiative petitions for the submission in the November election of a proposal to amend the constitution so as to give women the right to vote. Indictments charging conspiracy to extort money were returned against Roy Tangney, business agent of the Machinery Movers' union, and Christopher Christ-opher Dunne, business agent of the Van Drivers' union at Chicago. The body of Elliott Marshall, a lawyer with offices in Wall street, New York, who has been missing since July 23, was found Wednesday by firshermen. No trace of robbery or violence was apparent. Armed with repeating rifles and firing volleys into the air, eighteen former employees of a Wild West show seized the entire equipment of the recently disbanded company and drove off a train crew which had at-' tempted to take twelve of the show cars out of the railroad yards, at Alton. Al-ton. 111. The Boston, Cape Cod & New York canal, connecting Buzzards bay with Massachusetts bay and enabling coastwise coast-wise vessels to avoid the dangerous passage around v.reck-strewen Cape Cod, was formally opened July 29. FOREIGN. Constitutionalist leaders at Tam-pico Tam-pico predict there will be no peace conference between the delegates of General Carranza and Provisional President Carbajal at Saltillo. The Russian cabinet has decided to put before parliament a bill introducing introduc-ing a system of universal education. The German military authorities have posted notices that the railroad station and tracks at Koenigsburg have been placed under military guard. Nobody is allowed to approach nearer than 100 yards of the tracks and culverts. A Central News dispatch from Berlin Ber-lin says the Russian troops blew up the frontier railroad bridge of the Warsaw-Vienna railroad between Gra-nica, Gra-nica, Russian Poland, and Szozakova in Galicia. The headquarters of the Women's Social and Political union, the militant mili-tant suffrage organization, has sent a proclamation to all its branches in the United Kingdom, ordering the cessation of all acts of militancy during dur-ing the continuance of the International Interna-tional crisis. Mrs. Dacre Fox and another miliO ant suffraget raided Buckingham palace pal-ace in a further effort to present a petition to King George. They were both arrested before they had got far within the precincts of the palace. Drowning of more than 3,000 persons per-sons and property losses of ?4, 000, 000 resulting from great floods sweeping through twenty-nine districts in the province of Kwano-Tung, China, is reported. re-ported. The Austro-Hungarian forces invading invad-ing Servia total 500,000 men, according accord-ing to a newspaper dispatch from Rome. Canada is making preparations to aid England with regiments should the mother country become involved in the European conflict Twenty-five persons were killed and fifty others injured, some fatally, by an explosion of fireworks during a festival at Tudela, Spain. Most of the dead were decapitated by the force of the explosion. A dispatch to the London Times from Durazzo says the Austrian Lloyd steamship service from the Adriatic sea is completely interrupted. Gold coin had almost disappeared from circulation in Paris, and even silver is becoming scarce, so that many of the small storekeepers are unable to give chan-ge. More than 200,000 persons standing stand-ing bareheaded and silent in the streets of Dublin Wednesday night witnessed the funeral procession of three persons killed last Sunday when the King's Own Scottish Borderers fired into a mob during an attempt by the police and the soldiers to seize arms which were being . brought into! I Lublin. I |