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Show m REVIEW OF A lEIfS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM. Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd PrepT-Ted for Busy Msn. INTER MOUNTAIN The jury in the case of Eernard F. O'Neil, former banker of Wallace, Idaho, charged with making a false report of the condition of the State Bank of Commerce of Wallace, failed to agree and was discharged. James Haugey and George Strakal were so badly burned that they will die when the contents of a ladle containing con-taining four tons of molten copper was accidentally spilled upon them at the Washoe smelter at Anaconda, Mont. The supreme court of the state of Washington has affirmed the conviction convic-tion of Jay Fox, editor of the Agitator, Agi-tator, a paper published at the Home colony, an anarchistic community in Pierce county, for inciting disrespect for the law and urging the breaking of laws by printing an article entitled "The Nude and the Prudes." The official canvass of the presidential presiden-tial vote shows that Woodrow Wilson carried Idaho by 1111 votes. The figures fig-ures give Wilson, 33,921; Taft 32,910; Roosevelt, 25, 530; Debs, 11,942; Chapin, 1018. DOMESTIC That as agent for the Internsaonal Harvester company he spent $300 or $400 in 1903 to kill a bill pending in the South Dakota legislature which would have authorized the manufacture manufac-ture of -binding twine in the state penitentiary, was admitted by Michael Mich-ael H. Lamb of Mission, Texas, at the opening session of the St. Louis hearing in the government's suit to dissolve the International Harvester company. A telegram of congratulation from Mrs. John Jacob Astor was received on Monday by Mrs. Adele Nasrallah, a humble member of the Cleveland, O., Syrian colony, who was widowed by the Titanic disaster, and who has Just become a mother. This is the third "Titanic" baby. The commission form of municipal government was inaugurated Monday In New Orleans. Martin Behrmann, mayor for eight years, was sworn in for another four-year term. J. Frank Hickey, confessed murderer mur-derer of boys, personally entered a plea of not guilty to the indictment charging him with the murder of Joseph Jo-seph Joseph, the 17-year-old Lackawanna Lacka-wanna boy, October 12, 1911, when arraigned in special term of the supreme su-preme court at Buffalo, N. Y. His trial was set for December 6.- Women will take a prominent part In this month's city elections in Massachusetts. More women will probably go to the polls than ever before, be-fore, the present registration exceed-' ing that of former years. The movement started last week to bring about the recall of Mayor George Alexander of Los Angeles has been abandoned as suddenly as it was begun. Trial of the men indicted for alleged al-leged violation of law in connection with the management of the Washington-Alaska bank of Nevada of Fairbanks, Alaska, which closed its doors January 4, 1911, owing $900,000 to depositors, half of which has been paid to them, has begun in the federal fed-eral court at Valdez, Alaska. With two vertebrae of his nec. fractured, George Walker, a member of the University of New Mexico football foot-ball eleven at Albuquerque, N. M., is in a serious condition, but may recover. re-cover. The Kansas -board of canvassers has issued a certificate of election as governor, George H. Hodges, Democrat. Demo-crat. The action followed the denial of the supreme court to grant Capper, Cap-per, Republican, a rehearing in the Waubaunsee county legal ballot case. Charles H. Hyde, former city chamberlain cham-berlain of New York, has been convicted con-victed of bribery, the pnishment for which is ten years' imprisonment or $10,000 fine, or both, at the discretion of the court. Robert Smilie, president of the British Brit-ish coal miners' federation, made an address at the Chicago federation of labor on Sunday in which he declared that nationalization of the coal mines and railroads of Great Britain was now the subject of English labor unions. Hundreds of unsuspecting Chica-goans Chica-goans have been eating horse meat recently, according to investigators of the city health department. A north side sausage manufacturer is under arrest. The discovery of a Red Cross rivalry in the raising of funds for relief work in the Balkan states has caused the American Red Cross, to issue a formal statement that all organizations and persons except those belonging to the Red Cross of the Uni'.ed States who solicit or receive funds in the name of the Red Cross are acting in violation of the law. The trial of Carl Reidelbach, the "human bomb," who threatened to dynamite -the police station in Los An--ules and its occupants, has been set t';r December 4. Harold Willis Powe.'l, or ' .Moirtasi. Harry." as lie was Iki;ipi- V-.iow;; throughout the country. beMeve; tc be the last surviving scout who was with Custer at the battle of the Little I Big Horn, fell dead in a hotel at Wor- cester, Mass., on Monday. 1 Mine. Sarah Bernhardt, who began i her vaudeville tour at Chicago on ; Monday, was escorted from the railroad rail-road station to her hotel by a squad of mounted police on her arrival. A procession of automobiles followed the noted actress to her hotel. Governor Glasscock of West Virginia Vir-ginia has approved the sentence of the military court in the cases of Felix Salmon. Anglo Bulette, Rock Spinelle, and "Newt" Gump, convicted convict-ed of disorder in the martial law district. dis-trict. Each was given five years in the penitentiary. The snows of Mount Shasta, o0 miles from San Francisco as the crow 1 flies, may become that city's water ' supply, following the refusal of Secre- tary of the Interior Walter Fisher to turn over the Hetch Hetchy val-! val-! ley as a reservoir for the purpose. I WASHINGTON j The senate and house settled down to work on Monday for the high pres-I pres-I sure session that is to end the Sixty-second Sixty-second congress. The great Harriman merger, created creat-ed when the Union Pacific Railroad company bought 46 per cent of the stock of the Southern Pacific system, was ordered dissolved on Monday by the supreme court of the United States as a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. President Taft has appointed Geo. D. Rockhold postmaster at Dallas, Texas, to succeed Sloan Simpson, who was said to have been a supporter of Colonel Roosevelt and a friend of Cecil Ce-cil A. Lyon. Thomas A. Edison was held not to have been the inventor of the moving picture film by the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, which reversed re-versed a decision of a lower court granting an injunction and damages to Edison's assignees against a film company of Chicago. The court held that Edison's work in the development develop-ment of motion pictures lies solely in the camera apparatus. To President-elect Wilson will be left the task of determining whether the tariff alone is' to be considered at the special session cf congress next spring, or whether cpecial legislation legis-lation shall be taken up, or whether the tariff is to be revised as a whole in a single bill or by schedules one section at a time. FOREIGN Lieutenant General Uyehra, Japanese Jap-anese minister of war, formally tendered ten-dered his resignation to the emperor on Monday, owing to the refusal' of the other members of the cabinet to accede to his demand for the increase of the army by two divisions, and collapse col-lapse of the cabinet is threatened. An earthquake of considerable intensity in-tensity was felt at Guadalajara, Mexico, Mex-ico, Monday morning. No fatalities are reported, but walls of a few badly constructed houses were thrown down. Lightning struck down seventeen mourners while they were standing at a graveside in Germiston in Rhodesia. Rho-desia. One of them was killed - and five others were so severely injured that their lives are despaired of. , Woodrow Wilson on Monday heard the first tariff discussion since his election as president of the United States. He visited the Bermuda parliament, par-liament, where he was loudly cheered, and sat among the members for three hours, listening to the debate. The British steamer River Meander, Mean-der, New York for Naples, has been abandoned at sea and probably has foundered. Her captain and crew of 'hirty men were rescued by the steamer Ikbal, which entered Halifax harbor Sunday light. The miiltary governor of Saloniki, effectually to preserve order, has disarmed dis-armed the whole population without distinction of race or religion Bulgaria has come to the end of her resources in men and has called out the drafts of 1913 and 1914, who are youths of 17 and 16 years, while one army corps in front of Adrianople consists of old men. A crisis has arisen over the refusal of the Japanese minister of war, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant General Uyehera, to accept a cabinet decision rejecting the scheme for increasing the military forces m Korea. According to a semi-official statement state-ment from Salonica, 1 SO Greeks who took refuge in a mosque in the village of Mavrova were killed by Turkish troops who had retreated through Fiorina. Another French airman, Paul Aron-del, Aron-del, was killed Saturday at Juvisy-Sur-Oige, twenty-five miles from Paris. He was flying around the aerodrome aero-drome in his mc-noplane when he took a turn too sharply. Details of a serious outbreak of a bubonic plague at Noumea, New Ca'e-donia, Ca'e-donia, have reached Sydney on a ship from the French i-l:ind. which lias been placed in quarantine by the health department. The Chinese republic is on the verge of declaring war against Russia, Rus-sia, say official cablegram received by the Chinese consul and Chinese newspapers published in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Chinese all over the world are contributing for a great war fund. That there will eventually be established estab-lished a Pacific fleet as a unit of the imperial navy, and comprising divisions divi-sions from Canada, Australia and N'ew Zealand, was the declaration made by Admiral King Hall, commander of the Australian navy, at a hir.iquct Auckland. |