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Show History of Past W eek Tke News Happenings of Seven. Days Paragraphed The Digges bill for the disfranchisement disfran-chisement of negroes has been passed by the house of delegates of Maryland Mary-land and now goes to the governor for his signature. John Anson Howard, said to be the son of an Ottawa millionaire, was killed Sunday morning when au auto-mcbi'e auto-mcbi'e which he was driving plunged from a mountain road sixteen miles from Delmonte, Cal.. and lodged in the top of a tree. Sylvanius Jchi.son, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Roswell, X. M., is dead from the effects of a blow on the head from a monkey wrench hurled at his chauffeur a week previous pre-vious by an infuriated farmer, after Johnson's automobile had frightened the farmer's team. Three hundred thousand organized miners of the bituminous coal fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas have quit work, the last shift going on duty Thursday night, pending settlement of a new wage scale. Two negro murderers who were in the Portsmouth, Va., jail awaiting the date of their execution, have escaped by cutting a hole in the roof of the building. E n his sentence to eight yoar6 in the XV w Jersey state prison for, bigamy has not shaken the loyalty of two of the "wives" of Emil Karl von Mueller, the "marrying count." One of the women has sent him money, and another has called on him at thy prison. WASHINGTON. Within two months, according to the present plans of the administration, there will be a gathering in Washington Washing-ton or Ottawa of representatives of the American and Canadian governments govern-ments for the purpose of negotiating a reciprocity treaty between the two countries. Representative Foss of Illinois declares de-clares that we need a navy today so strong that in every hour of international interna-tional emergency we will be able to insist upon our just demands with any other nation on the fact of the earth. The battle ground for woman's suffrage suf-frage will shift to Washington this month, when the forty-second annual convention, of the Xational Woman's Suffrage association convenes there on the 14th. The Taft administration is about to defend itself aggressively before the people of the United States. The opening guns will be fired on Saturday Satur-day in Washington by the president in person, and in Chicago by Attorney General Wickersham. Representative Sims (Democrat) of Texas has introduced a resolution in the house prohibiting the election of any special or standing committees by secret ballot in caucus. The proclamation of the president granting the minimum rates of tariff under the Payne-Aldrich act to Canada, Can-ada, Australia and a number of countries coun-tries less important commercially, signed Wednesday of last week, completes com-pletes the extension of the country's minimum rates to the whole world. About 130 nations and dependencies are included in the list. FOREIGN. Hubert Leblon, the French aviator, was killed at San Sabastian, Spain, as a result of his motor breaking when he was 190 feet from the ground, the machine falling with terrific ter-rific force against the rocks. Emigrants are at present making an unprecedented rush from Southampton South-ampton to the United States, and both British and German liners to the utmost capacity have had their steerage steer-age quarters filled. The little principality of Monaco, famous for its gambling, is demanding demand-ing a constitution and probably will receive it. The principality has a population pop-ulation of about 19,000, but only about 1,200 of these are Monegasques, the rest being chiefly French and Italian. The German balloon Pommern, which made an ascensiou at Settin, Germany, Sunday afternoon, met with a series of accidents which ended in a diaster in the Baltic sea under most tragic c'urcumstances. Three men INTER-MOUNTAIN. Because his discharge from the army shows that he was one of the two men who captured Jefferson Davis near Savannah, Ga., forty-five years ago, John Wolf, aged TO years, was released from the Seattle jail on suspended sentence. Wolf was convicted con-victed of "boot-legging." The jury in the trial of Walter H. Moore, president of the defunct Oregon Ore-gon Trust and Savings bank, of Portland, Port-land, charged with accepting a deposit de-posit after he knew the bank to be insolvent, returned a verdict of "not guilty," but recommending that Moore be most severely censured by the court. Copies of a letter signed by J. J. Tobias, "Chancellor of the Chicago Law school," and advocating Gifford Pinchot as a candidate for president of the United States, have been received re-ceived in Denver. Wilson Peterson, a rancher, living near Marshfield, Ore., became suddenly sudden-ly insane and shot his wife twice and attempted to kill his daughter, aged 20, and Bessie Hope, aged 18, who was visiting his family. When the girls attempted at-tempted to disarm him, Peterson then committed suicide. Satisfying the decree of his chief and conforming to the laws of his tribe by paying the doctor's fee and purchasing the rude coffin for the Indian In-dian "bad man" he had stabbed to death, Henry Dickins, a Modoc county Indian, surrendered to the authorities at Alturas, Cal., was given a preliminary prelim-inary examination and acquitted on the ground of self-defense. DOMESTIC. After a trip covering nearly 8,000 miles by rail, traversing twenty-six stales, Mrs. Russell Sage is back at her home in Xew York feeling better bet-ter than she has felt in a long time. It is said she gave away $500,000 and plans to give away another half million mil-lion as a result of the trip. Judge Cottersell in the United States circuit court at Guthrie, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, granted a temporary injunction injunc-tion restraining the officers of seven counties of Oklahoma from enforcing the collection of alleged excessive school taxes from the Missouri, Kansas Kan-sas & Texas and St. Louis & San Francisco railways. Savants from all parts of the world will gather in Pasadena, Cal. next August Au-gust and ascend Mount Wilson. Xearly a hundred leading scientists of America Amer-ica and Europe have accepted invitations invita-tions extended by the Carnegie Solar observatory to participate in the third regular convention of the International Internation-al Union for Co-operation in Solar Research. Re-search. Vreesweck & Valdermans, one of the most important firms on the oil exchange iat Amsterdam, failed on Saturday. Their liabilities are reported report-ed to be between $1,125,000 and $2,000,000. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is the latest lat-est Xew York millionaire to find place on the personal tax assessment list. His assessment was fixed at $250,000, and was not disputed. Four persons were burned to death in a prairie fire in McPherson county, Nebraska. With a deep gash in the side of his head, Hugh McFall, a prominent business busi-ness man of Mansfield, Ohio, was found dying on his doorstep. It is believed he was assaulted by robbers. More than 3,000 white and negro men, women and children, employed in the Americau Tobacco' company's stemmeries at Louisville, Ky., struck on Thursday for hieher waeres. lost their lives, including the radical member of the reichstag, Werner Hugo Hu-go del Brueck. Ex-President Roosevelt was given a tremendous reception at the Theatre San Carlos, Naples, where he attended attend-ed a performance Saturday night. Americans in the boxes started the cheering, which was taken up by a i great body of students seated in the third gallery. Gradually the telephone is spread-ir spread-ir r its network over the old world, and now it is putting forth tentacles toward the holy cities of Christendom and Islam, Jerusalem and Mecca, in short, are to be connected up by telephone tele-phone with Constantinople. Reported discovery of gold in British Brit-ish Xew Guinea is causing excitement in Australian mining circles. While Sava Todorvitch was dancing on his wedding day at Verbitsa. Ser-vla, Ser-vla, a naked dagger accidentally flew from the hand of one of his friends and pierced his heart. The scout cruiser Uunningham has ! been sent from St. Vincent, Cape Verde, to Monrovia. Liberia, it having become generally understood that England and France have warships on the way to the seat of trouble in Liberia, Li-beria, and the American government fears they may seize some excuse fot intervention, which may lead to permanent per-manent domination. Details of the great storm of March 13, on the Japanese coast, shows that more than 1,100 fishermen perished. The tempest was most severe off Chi ba and Ibaragi prefectures. Miss Martha B. Biackstone, daughter daugh-ter of C. J. Biackstone, was murdered by a masked burglar in the home of Mrs. Sarah J. Dow, at Springfield, Mass. Miss Harriet Dow. daughter of the house, was shot in the head and removed to Springfield hospital, dying. dy-ing. The murderer escaped. Beseeching Judge Dupuy of Chicago Chica-go to sentence him to life imprisonment imprison-ment as an incurable morphine user. Christian E. Makers, pleaded guilty of larceny and was sentenced to the penitentiary for an indefinite term of from cue to ten years. George W. Griffin, a negro porter, was awarded $1,000 damages for false arrest and imprisonment from Daniel M. Brady, a manufacturer, by a jury in the supreme court at Xew York, reversing the action at a previous trial when the court laid down the dictum that a colored man could not suffer shame to the same extent as a white man as the result of false arrest. ar-rest. Commander Robert E. Peaiy, in an interview in Chicago, declared he was positively through with polar explorations explora-tions for all time. "I am absolutely at the end of my career as an ex-ploter," ex-ploter," said he. "Reports that I am to lead an expedition into the antarc-'.ic antarc-'.ic regions are not true " . Announcement of a $50,000 gift by Andrew Carnegie to build a library to )e called the Frances Folsom Cleve-and Cleve-and library, in honor of President Cleveland's widow, was announced .t the seventh annual reunion of the Veils college alumni in Xew York. |