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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEKEVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTER MOUNTAIN. To assist King county and Seattle In providing work for idle men during dur-ing the winter, the state finance board has decided to take up within ten days $50,000 worth of King county road bonds recently contracted for by the state. Charles W. Wappenstein, ex-chief of police of Seattle, after serving twenty months of a penitentiary sentence sen-tence for accepting bribes from keepers keep-ers of a disorderly house, has been pardoned by Governor Lister. A surprise marked the progress late Friday at Portland, of the trial of Edmund E. C. Von Klein of Chicago, charged with polygamy, when Mrs. Louis Illstrup Von Klein, his wife, appeared ap-peared unexpectedly and testified against him. Hiram E. Booth, United States district dis-trict attorney for Utah, was on Fri- Although Bix of the eight coaches of a Wabash train were derailed, part- i ly telescoped and took fire in a wreck near Montgomery City, Mo., only four of the 400 passengers were injured none seriously. Judge Benjamin B. Lindsay, founder foun-der of the juvenile court at Denver, Colo., and Miss Henrietta Brevoort, stepdaughter of Dr. F. J. Clipper ot Detroit, Mich., were married Saturday Satur-day at Chicago. The Alaska Coast company's steam- , er Jeanie, which struck the rocks at I Point Clark, Calvert Island, B. C, while southbound from Alaska, will be a total loss. J. M. Glover shot and killed in his home at Los Angeles, Daniel DeVil-lers DeVil-lers of San Antonio, Texas, former officer in the Boer army and divorced ' husband of Mrs. Glover. It is announced by a Chicago lyc-eum lyc-eum that Vice President Thomas R Marshall has signed a contract to lecture at least four weeks, after the close of the present session of con- t gress. The vice president will receive ! ?300 a lecture, according to the an- : nouncement. j WASHINGTON. j The house on Monday passed the conference report on the administra- I tion currency bill by a vote of 298. ! to 60 and sent the report to the senate. sen-ate. j President Wilson has made public a letter addressed to Secretaries Gar-i Gar-i rison and Daniels, respectively, re-: re-: questing that "a very serious reprimand" repri-mand" be administered to those army ; and navy officers who participated hi I the recent dinner of the Military Or- day removed trom omce on the order of President Woodrow Wilson. The order was received by Mr. Booth in the afternoon and was operative at the close of business. The state emergency board, called at Salem, Ore., by Governor West to , provide a fund of $50,000 in order to ' give work to the unemployed during , the winter on state roads, refused to j authorize such expenditure from state funds, declaring that only the legislature legisla-ture could make this appropriation. Members of the Utah Electric club of Salt Lake have passed resolutions in favor of Salt Lake county voting a bond issue of $1,000,000 for the construction con-struction of good roads. DOMESTIC. After escaping death under the wheels of a locomotive by hanging suspended from a bridge over the j Rancocas creek near Trenton, N. J., George Taylor, 60 years old, traveling travel-ing salesman of that city, was jarred i into the water below as the train crossed the bridge, the shock causing his death. De Kalb, 111., claims the honor of being the first city in the United States on the route of the Lincoln highway to change officially the name i ministration's Philippine and other policies were satirized. The senate on Monday confirmed the appointment of Brand Whitlock, mayor of Toledo, O., a former newspaper news-paper reporter and author of several "best sellers," to be minister to Belgium. Bel-gium. President Wilson let it be known; Monday that some other corporations besides the American Telephone & Telegraph company had shown a disposition dis-position to take the initiative in reorganizations re-organizations to conform with tha Sherman anti-trust law. Government ownership of the nation's na-tion's telephone lines would cost less than $900 000,000, and would present no greater difficulties of financing than did the Panama canal, Representative Repre-sentative Lewis of Maryland told the house on Monday in an exhaustive analysis of his proposal to have those lines operated by the postoffice department de-partment FOREIGN. By a presidential decree issued at Mexico City, until the end of the present pres-ent year is made a legal holiday in order to check the run on the banks at Mexico City, particularly that on of its principal thoroughfare. Main street, to Lincoln highway. Five boys were drowned In Wisconsin Wis-consin on Monday, all the result of skating upon thin ice. One i death from accident for every 700,000 tons of coal mined in six oi the coal producing counties of West Virginia in the first eleven months j of 1913 is shown in the report of Earl Henry chief of the bureau of mines. Notwithstanding Governor Glynn's refusal to appoint him a special deputy dep-uty attorney general, District Attorney Attor-ney Whitman proposes to continue unremittingly his investigation of alleged al-leged graft in the state nighways department de-partment in New York state. Nineteen persons were injured, four of them seriously, iu the wreck of the Texas & Pacific passenger train No. 3 westbound, fifty miles east of El Paso. Texas. The wreck was caused by 'a broken rail. Court records of Los Angeles county coun-ty were cleared Saturday of the last vestige of the famous McNamara dynamiting dy-namiting case when the indictments charging bribery against Clarence Darrow,' who was counsel for the dynamiters, dy-namiters, were dismissed. Two hundred passengers were slightly injured when tho Canadian 1 Northern train from Duluth. Minn., and Fort William, Out, was derailed f near Lorette. Man., and live coaches, ; n baggage car and a diner overturned 1 Into the ditch. j Pursued by a hundred passengers through seven cars of a subway train I In HrooUlvn, a youth suspected of bo rne jauK. oi Louuuu auu iuexico. Welsh tinplate makers have booked book-ed orders for some 4-0,000 tons for delivery de-livery to American canning and oil concerns between now and June. Of all the foreign warship that have arrived in Mexico waters, it appears probable that the Japanese cruiser Id-sumo Id-sumo will be the first to. ie represented repre-sented by its marines and bluejackets in the Mexican capital. Fresh eruptions have caused further fur-ther destruction of life among the natives of the island of Ambriri in the New Hebrides group, according to a report received at Paris from the captain of the French gunboat Ker-saint Ker-saint on his arrival at Nouemea, New Caledonia. C. B. Robinson, a botanist in tha bureau of science, department of the interior of the Philippine islands, has been killed by natives of Amboyana island, Malay archipelago. He had undertaken an expedition for a study ol the flora of the island. Yaqui Indians are attacking many Mexican freighting outfits traversing the section around La Dura, according accord-ing to Americans who have arrived recently from the Sahuaripa district Brisk battles are not unusual, they say. the Indians winning the majority major-ity of lights. A large part of the business quarters quart-ers of Georgetown, British' Guinaiia, which is also known as Detnarara, was destroyed by fire Monday morning. morn-ing. Twenty persons were killed and many injured. Scores were rendered lug a pickpocket leaped from the i front platform of the train as he was i about to be seized and was crushed j to death against a pillar of the tunnel, j Former President W illiam Howard j Tn ft stood on a window ledge in the Bedford branch of the Young Men's Christian association In Brooklyn on! Sunday and told a crowd of 80(1 per- I sons thiit he had "seen many good men go down to hell in the Philip- 1 pines'' because they lacked home j training and when they "got. n tired 1 feeling" they found a "dash of Scotch reached the right spot." The mother of former Police Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Charles Becker, who Is In the death house 111 Sing Sing awaiting ex-, eeullon for the part he played In tho murder of Ionium Rosenthal died at her homo in New York on Friday. I There has been a tremendous increase in-crease lately In the number if young ' men offering themselves to the army recruiting forces for military service; j last month there were 5,000 applications, applica-tions, 2, 000 more than ever before recorded re-corded In a similar period In time of pence. More refugees who arrived nt El Paso on Thursday reported that he-fore he-fore Gen. Francisco Villa, the rebel leader, allowed their train to start from Chihuahua City. Mexico, he exuded ex-uded from the Mexican families sums ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. 1 General Villa has issued an order I declaring that "anyone who hereafter j loots or molests property of foivign-! foivign-! ers or .Mexicans, will he executed." ! Tho right to confiscate property will ris; only with the rebel governnient j Willi befitting ceremony the "Mona Lisa,'' brought to Rome uuder guard 'from Florence, was Handed' oer to i tho French embassador, M. liarriere, iit the ministry of instruction on Sun-' Sun-' day. By appealing directly to General lluerta on Friday, Nelson O'Shaughu- . cssy. American charge d'affaires, obtained ob-tained from him almost immediately , unequivocal consent to the release of I three Americans now in jail, w hoso liberation has long been delayed by j legal maneuvering. Japan has decided to inaugurate a ! steamship service w ith Its terminus iiit Boston, by way ot l'nnama. Tho I steamers will cull at Now Orleans and New York. Hubert Bertram Slack, a well known English aviator, was killed In nu automobile auto-mobile accident between Loudon and St. Albans on Sunday. Cannibals In Neurnocklonherg, nn Island In tho Bismarck archipelago, have massacred Dr. Denlger mid another an-other German scientist, together with fetirteeu natives Who scconipauled thrill. |