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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Sevei Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. Louis Marvin, a shoe clerk of Sa-lida, Sa-lida, Colo., is at the point of death as a result of a slight prick on the finger from the point of a shoe lace. Blacking on the metal tip caused blood poison. Caught by the mail crane of a swiftly moving express train at Platt-ville, Platt-ville, Colo., F. G. Tiffany, a Union Pacific brakeman, was carried several hundred yards and then hurled 100 feet through the air, being seriously injured. Walter Archer, a 17-year-old boy of Salida, Colo., plunged 700 feet to his death in an aeroplane of his own construction. con-struction. The lad had been experimenting experi-menting with air craft for some time, but had kept his researches a secret and very few people knew of his invention. in-vention. Lying face downward in a pool of blood on the floor of his own office, the dead body of S. E. Turner, Union Pacific station agent at Devil's Slide, a station thirty-two miles east of Og-den, Og-den, Utah, was found by his bride of one month. Turner had suicided. The First State bank at Stevens-ville, Stevens-ville, Mont., has taken over the control con-trol of the Bitter Root Valley bank. The two banks will be merged under the name of the First bank. The engineer, fireman and brake-man brake-man of a Rio Grande train were killed near Soldier Summit, Utah, when the boiler of an engine exploded. It is supposed the water supply ran too low. .. J. A. Delfelder of Wolton and George S. Walker of Cheyenne were re-elect-Bd president and secretary, respectively, respective-ly, of the Wyoming WoolgTowers' association as-sociation and Thermopolis was selected select-ed as a meeting place next year at the meeting in Sheridan, Wyo. Gold receipts at the United States assay office in. Seattle for the month Df November reached a total of $1,-558,234.57, $1,-558,234.57, an increase of more than 100 per cent over the receipts' for No-rember, No-rember, 1909. The November, 1909, receipts amounted to $722,70.67. Mrs. David Goldstein, wife of a wealthy junk dealer of Denver, is probably the only woman in the United Unit-ed States who has gone on record as never having owned a hat. This was the testimony in a suit for separate sep-arate maintenance. Walter H. White, a well-known resident resi-dent of Hamilton, Mont., has been acquitted ac-quitted of the charge of murdering his flay-old infant. The jury reached a verdict after only ten minutes of deliberation. de-liberation. The Woman's' Non-Partisan league Df . Spokane has, adopted resolutions opposing the appointment of ex-Senator Turner of Spokane to the supreme court, because he is alleged to have assumed hostile attitude toward woman's wo-man's suffrage. DOMESTIC. Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, dis'-coverer dis'-coverer and founder of the Christian Science, is dead, at the age of 89. Her death occurred at her home in Boston, due to pneumonia. Mrs. Eddy leaves an estate valued at $2,000,000. Another man who was convicted in connection with the assassination of Governor William Goebel of Kentucky Ken-tucky will seek vindication at the polls. James Howard has announced an-nounced his candidacy for state sena-1 tor. Miss Bertha Woodworth, daughter of W. W. Woodworth, a prominent member of the Texas Oil company, was attacked by Lloyd B. Shaffer at her home at Houston, Texas, and it is believed received fatal wounds. Shaffer Shaf-fer used a razor, and afterward slashed slash-ed himself, probably fatally. The death at Presque Isle, Maine, of Billy Dunning, one of the few boxers box-ers that could point to a draw with Jack Johnson, world's champion heavyweight, made the sixteenth fatality fa-tality of the prize rinp in 1910, while there are at least two other boxers now lying at death's door in hospitals. hospit-als. J. J. Miller, menjber of the Traders' Livestock Exchange of Kansas City, testified in the circuit court on Saturday Satur-day that members had been fined for trading "with the wrong people." Two hundred feet will be tha ma.i-mum ma.i-mum height of buildings in Chicago Hereafter. The present code limits the height to 260 feet. The new provision pro-vision goes into effect July 1, 1911. Natural gas exploding in an undertaking under-taking parlor at Vinita, Okla., caused i fire damage of $150,000 and the injury in-jury of four men. William Thaw III and Miss Gladys Virginia Bradley of Bridgeport, Conn., were married Thursday at the Hotel 3t. Regis, New York. The bridegroom is a nephew of Harry K. Thaw, al-tiiough al-tiiough the two are nearly of an age. Strangled to death for the money secreted se-creted in the house, received as royalties royal-ties from oil wells on her property, was the conclusion reached at a coroner's cor-oner's inquest at Sistervllle, W. Va., into the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, Al-len, S7 years old, whose body was found in a mutilated condition in the house where she lived alone. Quong Fong. a grocer, and his clerk 1 Quong Dou, were shot in a grocerj u Chinatown, New York City. The clerk probably will die. The assailant, also an Oriental, entcrec ;he store and opened fire. Robert and Charles Ferris, 9 anc 5 years old, were burned to death their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Caesai Ferris, were probably fatally injured and the only other members of thf .amily, Naude, 11 years old, and baby, were badly hurt, in a fire whicl: destroyed the Ferris home at Rev noldsville, Pa. Emily Reich, a 15-year-old schoo' girl, of New York City, is dead, a victim, physicians believe, of excessive exces-sive rope-skipping. She was suddenly stricken at her desk in a public school. L. C. Dulaney, accused of bribing State Senator Bilbo to cast his vote in the senatorial caucus for United States Senator Leroy Percy of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, has been acquitted. WASHINGTON. Congress will be asked for an appropriation ap-propriation of $10,000, to be expended under the direction of the secretary of the interior, for the purpose of locating lo-cating and developing springs and water holes, and for the erection of durable monuments near accustomed lines of travel in the deserts of California Cali-fornia and Nevada. Republican members of the Bailin-ger-Pinchot investigating committee have assembled in Washington to begin be-gin the final revision of the majority report on the Ballinger inquiry. A cut of $14,000,000 in the estimates for the running expenditure of the government during the next fiscal year was reported to President Taft as a result of his ultimatum to the various vari-ous heads of departments at the cab inet conference. President Taft informed his cabinet officers, after scrutinizing the fina' draft of the estimates of the various government department for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1911, that there must be a further and deeper cut in them; that they would not do in their present form. Senator Eugene Hale of Maine, Republican Re-publican leader of the senate by vir-ture vir-ture of his position as chairman of the party caucus and the committee on appropriations, ap-propriations, foresees little of accomplishment accom-plishment in the coming short session of congress. FOREIGN. An aeroplane carrying an Italian officer and a private fell from a height of eighty feet at the military grounds at Centocelie, Italy. Both men were killed instantly. Serious rioting followed the outbreak out-break of the bubonic plague in Shanghai, Shang-hai, according to steamship advices. The Countess de Nicolai and her son and the chauffeur in charge of an automobile in which they were driving driv-ing were killed at Lemana, at a railroad rail-road crossing. The automobile waa struck by an express train. It has been learned that the peace commission, which left Chihuahua to treat with the insurrectos, was acting under the authority of Governor Sanchez San-chez and not President Diaz. Agitation is going on in Japan to induce the Japanese government to hold public trials of the twenty-five Socialists accused of plotting against the life of the emperor. The Japanese Japan-ese newspapers which at first attacked attack-ed the government for its crusade against Socialism, have turned against the Socialists. For the first time in nearly 300 years, British peers have been allowed allow-ed to take part in parliamentary elections. elec-tions. At the elections on Saturday the Unionists gained seven seats and the Liberals four, making a total gain for the Unionists of three. The peace commission has returned to Chihuahua and reported that , their work was greatly embarrassed by the fact that soldiers followed at their heels and prevented a conference. An important step has just been taken by China to expand and increase in-crease the efficiency of the army and navy. The throne has jssued edicts creating a navy department, which, up to the present, has consisted merely mere-ly of a tentative board for the conduct of naval affairs. The Portuguese government is preparing pre-paring a decree for the separation oi church and state. This has resulted in collisions between Republicans and Clericals in parts of the country. As the result of the extraordinary agitation in recent months by Chinese anti-opium societies, the imperial senate sen-ate has passed a resolution looking to the prohibition of the drug. A dispatch from Salonikl, European Turkey, says that a Greek band attacked at-tacked a column of Turkish troops near Santaquaranta, mortally wounding wound-ing three. Insurrectionary troubles in Mexico took on an entirely new and unexpected unex-pected aspect on Saturday, when it became known that the government intervention resulted in the Mexican Intervention resulted in the Mexirau government, for the first time in j thirty years, suggesting peace .terms to an enemy. President Diaz and Vice-President Coral of Mexico were inaugurated on "riday. There will be no change in the personnel of the cabinet. In accordance ac-cordance with custom, each of the ministers submitted his resignation to the chief executive through the minister min-ister of foreign relations. Each was asked, however, to retain his portfolio. port-folio. An attack on Ferrinafo, Peru, in the department of Lambayoque, has been repulsed by government troops. The rebels were dispersed. Many were killed on both sides. |
