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Show j.' 7 History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed Advocating the revival of the ducking duck-ing stool and the whipping post as the most effective and fitting punishment for scolding women and the like, Redmond Red-mond Welch, superintendent of police of Lowell, Mass., has stirred up a hornets' hor-nets' nest among the fair sex all over the state. A race riot was precipitated at Galveston, Gal-veston, Texas, by the stabbing in a resort of Winfield Joel, a soldier from the camp at Fort Crockett, by an unidentified un-identified negro. One Mexican and four negroes were severely beaten, and the house, in front of which the stabbing occurred, was set on fire and burned to the ground. Thirty men were caught in a great slide of earth at the Norman mine near Virginia, Minn. All but one were killed. At present 14,618,761 Roman Catholics Catho-lics are in the United States, according accord-ing to the 1911 Wiltzius official Catholic Ca-tholic directory. WASHINGTON President Taft has appointed former for-mer Senator Cockrell of Missouri as commissioner on the part of the United States to retrace and definitely definite-ly determine the boundary line between be-tween Texas and New Mexico. The United States secret service has been called into the Mexican mix-up mix-up and Chief Wilkie's men are as busy as any in the army and navy. To them has been given the task of locating lo-cating and keeping watch on every known filibusterer in the United States. It is rumored in Washington that Secretary Knox and Acting Secretary Wison were not in sympathy with President Taft in the matter of mobilizing mobi-lizing troops on the Mexican border, and apparenty wish to avoid responsibility. respon-sibility. Some idea of the wnmensity of Uncle Un-cle Sam's payroll may be gained from the report just submitted at the request re-quest of the senate. The total number num-ber of the employees, exclusive of those In the army, navy and census, is 684,769. FOREIGN Formal proceedings began at Viter-bo, Viter-bo, Italy, on Saturday in the trial of thirty-six members of the Neapolitan Camorra, including the alleged head of the organization, Enrico Alfano, also known as Erricone, for the murder mur-der o Gennaro Cuoccolo and his wife, Marie Cutinelli Cuoccolo, "the beautiful Sorrentina." Fire at Nome, Alaska, destroyed the telephone exchange, putting all the telephones on the peninsula out of service. Temperature of 12 degrees de-grees below-, zero baffled attempts to extinguish the flames. Eleven federal soldiers dead, eleven wounded, with the losses to the rebels reb-els unknown, is the result of a battle just east of Agua Prieta, on Sunday, between forces under General Blanco, the revolutionary leader, and Colonel . Mora, "Bud" Mars and Captaia T. S. Baldwin, Bald-win, the American aviators, made three successful flights at Osoka, Japan, on Sunday, in the presence of 400,000. This was the first demonstration demonstra-tion of aviation in Japan. A severe earthquake, accompanied by strong detonations from Mount .Vesuvius, occurred Sunday evening. Investigation showed ' that a great landslide had dropped from the upper part of the crater. The Danish government recently decided to allow heads of families the privilege o changing their names if they feel so disposed, without incurring incur-ring any legal costs. There are more of the "idle rich" class in America than in any other country, according to a return made to the London board of trade by G. R. Askwith. He shows that less than thirty-nine per cent of the people in the United States have any gainful occupation. Several officers in the Australian land forces have written to friends in Vancouver, B. C, asking to be put into communication with the Mexican revolutionary party, with a view to raising a force of colonials to aid in the rebellion. Resurrecting a provision of the Mexican constitution not used in fifteen fif-teen years, and acting under its authorization, the government will I INTERMOU NTAI N Three Italians being held at Price, Utah, on the charge of having murdered mur-dered an American at Sunnyside, have been taken to the state prison for safe keeping, rumors of intended lynching having been circulated. Four were killed and one injured by a snowslide that destroyed the boarding house at Gold King mine, near Gladstone, in southwestern Colorado, Colo-rado, on Sunday. Three of the dead are women. The International Congress of Farm Women, .the first organization of its sort, has just been formed at Colorado Springs, Colo., as an auxiliary to the International Dry Farming congress. The Salt Lake Route is out of commission com-mission as a transcontinental line. The trouble is in the same section, the Meadow Valley wash in Nevada. The present trouble is due to heavy rains in that section. Mrs. Mary W. Harriman, widow of Edward H. Harriman, and executrix of his $100,000,000 estate, has just given to the state of Utah a check for $798,-546.85, $798,-546.85, a sum of money almost equal to the annual revenue of the state, and by $100,000 the largest inheritance tax payment on record. The money comes by virtue of the Utah inheritance inheri-tance tax law. DOM ESTIC The United States torpedo boat Burrows has sailed from the Philadelphia Phila-delphia navy yard bound for Norfolk, where ammunition and other supplies will be taken aboard. Her ultimate destination is said to be Vera Cruz. George May, a noted mountain feudist, feud-ist, who is charged with the killing of Sherman Meredith and the latter's wife in a fight in Clay county, is under un-der arrest at Winchester, Ky., May having admitted killing eight men. The mystery that has cloaked the relations of Madame Calve and Sig-nor Sig-nor Gaspari, the Florentine tenor, was cleared up Saturday when they sailed 1 from New York on the American Ameri-can liner St. Paul, admitting that they had been man and wife for a year. Th seventh annual session of the National Child Labor conference, held it Birmingham, Ala., ended Sunday. The work of the conference was directed di-rected mainly towards securing uniform uni-form child labor laws. Congressman C. B. Ransdell of Sherman, Texas, has announced himself him-self as a candidate for United States senator from Texas to succeed Senator Sen-ator Joseph W. Bailey, whose term will exp'ire in 1913. Falling from the fifth story of a hotel in San Francisco, Edward H. Tucke, an attorney of Lowell, Mass., was picked up lifeless on the skylight our floors below. Late dispatches from Mono county, Cal., confirm the death by avalanches during the recent storm of seventeen people. Fire which broke out on the fifth floor of the Munroe hotel in Cincin nati caused a panic among the guests. About a dozen persons jumped from the second story and some sustained Blight injuries, but none was seriously serious-ly hurt. Practically the entire business district dis-trict of Webber's Falls, Okla., was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. Only one store was left standing. The total idle freight cars on March 1 were 192,673, according to a statement state-ment by the American Railway association. asso-ciation. The statement says that since January 1 the increase of surplus cars has been unchecked. The Red Cross has cabled $3,000 to the American consul general at Shanghia, making $25,000 which al- ready has been sent to China in this way. The sum of ?8,000 was spent in Seattle for food supplies. The fire that threatened to destroy the town of Douglas, Arz., was extinguished extin-guished after it had destroyed property prop-erty value at $100,000. President Taft, in a speech before the closing session of the Southern Commedcial congress at Atlanta, Ga., made a plea to the young men of the new south to take up the political issues is-sues o. the day from a broad and liberal lib-eral standpoint and to elimnate from their consideration narrow . partisan-shrip partisan-shrip and sectionalism. Embassador De ia Barra in Washington Wash-ington and Minister Limantour in New York have issued sharp statements state-ments in'repy to intimations that our troops might cross into Mexico to stop disorder. They agreed that no government in that . country would consent to such action, and the people peo-ple would resent it. With the wrist tied to the' tail of a wild horse, the body of what has been identified as a Papago Indian was found by a detachment of the First United States cavalry at the edge of the Gila river near Mesa, Arizona. It is believed the Indian was condemned con-demned to die in this manner by members of his tribe. Fred Schwarz, aged 30, a member of a prominent family living on a ranch near Healdsburg, Cal., shot and killed hlsN two grown sisters, Lena and Louisa. No cause Is known for the tragedy. set aside for six months certain personal per-sonal guarantees. Those detected in highway robbery, of raiding a village or farm, or train wrecking, etc., will be summarily executed upon arrest. London papers tak a serious view of the situation in Mexico, and the concentration of American troops on the border. The Spectator points out that the Germans have never admitted ad-mitted the Monroe doctrine, and in the event of the United States becoming becom-ing thoroughly involved in Mexico, it would not be surprised to sec Germany Ger-many pushing claims in south Brazil or the West Indies. The reciprocity agreement was indorsed, in-dorsed, the' loyalty to Great Britain affirmed, annexation scouted, the development de-velopment of Canada proclaimed and friendship between farmer and manufacturer man-ufacturer recommended to Canada iu the hiuse of commons on Tuesday by Sir Wilfred Laurler, prime minister min-ister of the Dominion. A statetr. -,ut inspired by the German Ger-man government declared that it would not interfere even if the United States should decide to annex Mexico. Whether there is rea'.ly danger of an immediate break between Austria and Germany or between Turkey and Austria or not, the question is agitating agitat-ing political leaders In Austria. There are persistent reports that the physical condition of President Diaz has lately become such as to alarm his adherents, and that momentous mo-mentous developments are to be pre- pared for. |