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Show History of Fast Week TKc News Happenings of Seveiv Days Paragraphed INTER. MOUNTAIN. Miss Atlanta Knight of Butte was 6c-riously injured in an automobile accident near that city, and Mr. and Mrs. II. V. O'Neil of Butte and S. White, a St. Paul business man, were slightly hurt. Nathaniel Bledser, the negro soldier of the-Twenty-fifth United States in fantry, convicted of assault on a Seattle Seat-tle white woman near Fort Lawson last June, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment Three men were badly hurt and 262 head of cattle were burned to death, in a collision between a cattle train and a freight train near Calhan, Colo. William H. Bailey, a cigarmaker, ol Grand Haven, Mich., who suicided at Denver, because of ill health, left a note, which read: "Be sure I am dead. Then bury me in the cheapest pine box you can find and dress me In my old clothes. My wife and babies need every cent they have." By the terms of the will of Rufus Clark, known as Potato Clark, which was admitted to probate at Denver, Thursday, the United States government govern-ment is bequeathed f 3,500, because, according to the will, in 1863 Clark knew of the defrauding of the government gov-ernment of an equal amount by a man whom he does not name. DOMESTIC. Jesse Frick, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, was fatally injured when an automobile automo-bile collided with a motorcycle on the State Fair speedway and crashed through the fence into a crowd of spectators. Jealousy is said to have prompted Martin Robinson, a young farmer, near Lafayette, Ind., to shoot and kill Miss Grace Eller, 17 years old, and to fire one shot at Willard Southworth, who was visiting her. Robinson then shot himself and may not recover. That two steamers plying between Mew Orleans and Central and South American ports sank, porbably in the STucatan channel during the recent storm, with a total loss of 64 lives, Is the belief in shipping circles. Joel Finley, a prominent cattle man, ind Tom Bybee, a deputy sheriff, fought a duel with revolvers on the principal street of Valentine, Texas. Finley fired four bullets into Bybee's body, killing him instantly. Mrs. William G. Clarke, a Cleveland, Cleve-land, O., matron, Friday became the mother of her third set of triplets. She is also the mother of four pairs of twins and herself is the only sister sis-ter of twenty brothers. A milk train running east on fast schedule collided with a freight train on the St. Paul road at Portage, Wis., and Thomas Stedford, conductor, was killed. His body was burned in the fire which followed the wreck. Three other trainmen were hurt. Three hundred thousand dollars' worth of counterfeit Nicaraguan five-peso five-peso notes, freshly printed, were seized, and the printer who made them, the engraver who made the plates and the man charged with se-;uring se-;uring their manufacture were arrested arrest-ed in Chicago on Saturday. Dreaming during the night that her son would be killed, Mrs. Alfred Schmidt of San Rafael, Cal., was awakened by neighbors to be informed shortly after daybreak her 13-year-old son George had been shot to death accidentally ac-cidentally by his cousin, Fred May, 18 years old, with whom he had gone hunting. Thomas Desmond, formerly sheriff of San Francisco county California, and one of the leaders of the expedition expedi-tion from the Irish Nationalists that went to the rescue of six Irishmen incarcerated in-carcerated in the Fremantle prison in Australia in 1875, died Sunday after a short illness. The raising of silk worms is to be undertaken on a large scale by English Eng-lish capitalists at Great River, L. I., a suburb of New York. Two women were killed and a score of other persons hurt when three ; coaches of the Hocking Valley passenger pas-senger train, northbound, was ditched near Harpster, O. Charles Little has confessed to the assassination of Mathew Crawford, at Jackson, Ky., and has been sentenced to death, the jury being out but six minutes. Ten persons were injured, none of them fatally, when a building in Louisvil".e, Ky., collapsed. Approximately ,500 men employed in the mechanical trades on the Missouri Mis-souri Pacific & Iron Mountain system walked out in sympathy with the striking machinists on Friday. An intercostal canal, not less than nine feet deep and with a bottom width of 110 feet or more, to extend from New Orleans on the Mississippi river, to Brownsville, Tex., on the Rio Grande, is the aim of the Interstate Inter-state Inland .Waterways league, in session at Beaumont, Texas. After using Welsh coal in the city's fire engines for nearly fifty years, the New York fire department has decided de-cided that the home product, selected coal from Indiana fields, is not only cheaper, but also develops greater energy. The Philadelphia club of the American Ameri-can league won the world's championship champion-ship on Sunday, winning from Chicago by a score of 7 to 2, making the fourth game they had won from the Chicagoans out of five played. A Becond charge of murder has been entered against Mrs. Belle Lavin, the j San Francisco lodging house propriet-1 propriet-1 ress, arrested in connection with the Los Angeles Times disaster. Ralph Wilson, aged 19 years, right halfback of the Wabash, Ind., college I is dead and two St. Louisans are in-j in-j jured as the first toll of "new football" in St. Louis. Frederick Gebliardt of Astoria, L. I., has been found guilty of the murder, in April last year, of Anna Luther, a young woman whom he had duped Into marrying him to get her money. Ex-Senator David Bennett Hill, who for many years was the ruling spirit of New York Democracy, died at Albany, Al-bany, N. Y., October 20, at the age of 67. Two men were fatally injured and ten others bruised in a collision, in the fog, of interurban cars near Pittsburg. WASHINGTON. The Interstate Commerce commission commis-sion is taking steps to take care of the additional business necessitated under the new interstate commerce law. Old employees of the commission commis-sion are now being advanced in rank and new men are being put in the vacant places. The board of trustees of the postal savings bank system has approved a list of forty-eight second-class post-offices post-offices at which the plan will be given its first trial. The list includes one office for each state and territory. Secretary of the Interior Ballinger has transmitted to the war department depart-ment a letter from W.'R. Logan, superintendent sup-erintendent of the Glacier National park in Montana, commending the United States troops called out to fight the forest fires. The Interstate Commerce commission commis-sion has decided that its order in the Reno rate case, involving class freights, shall become effective on December De-cember 1. Orders in other Paacific coast cases involving commodities, will become effective within the next few months. Material reductions are made on class rates. Briefs on behalf of the government and the Press Publishing company of New York, were filed in the Supreme court of the United States on Friday, in what is termed the Panama libel case. Seventy-seven men heroically gave their lives in efforts to subdue the disastrous forest fires in the west during dur-ing the latter part of August, according accord-ing to figures given out by the forest service. Practically all the corporation tax, aggregating in excess of $27,000,000, has been collected by the treasury department. de-partment. The officials say it was collected with less annoyance and was paid apparently with less reluctance than any other internal revenue tax. FOREIGN. A temporary lull in the fighting in Formosa is being used by the Japanese Japan-ese for the construction of electric wire entanglements, which are expected expect-ed to compel the aborigines either to surrender or to make a final stand. The province of Chansi, China, has furnished the youngest parents on record. A lad of 9 is the father and his wife, a girl of 8, is the mother. They are of the aristocracy of the city of Tai-Yuan Fu. Prince Francis Joseph Leopold Frederick of Teck, brother of Queen Mary, died Sunday. Ha had been ill for some time and recently submitted to two operations. He was born in 1870. Dr. Hawley H. Crippen has been ' found guilty by a London jury of the murder of his wife, formerly Belle Elmore, El-more, the actress, and has been sentenced sent-enced to be hanged on November 15. Ethel Clare Leneve, his alleged accomplice, ac-complice, is yet to be tried. An attempt was made on Sunday to assassinate Major General Pino Guer-ra, Guer-ra, commander of the Cuban army. ' General Guerra was leaving the presidential presi-dential palace when he was shot in the leg and seriously wounded His assailant was captured. The king of Siam, Chulialongcorn I, is dead, following an illness of a few days. He was born September 21, 1853. Eighty-five per cent of the inhabitants inhabi-tants of American Samoa are suffering from the hook worm disease, according accord-ing to the annual report of Captain F. Parker, U. S. N., retired, governor of the American island of the Samoan group. Decrees have been published at Lisbon, Lis-bon, abolishing the exceptional laws put in force with the advent of the republic, including " those concerning anarchists and the ones restraining newspapers from publishing undesirable undesir-able news. Salvadore Cisneros, Marquis de Santa Lucia, who was second president presi-dent of the Cuban republic, died at his plantation near Neuvitas from injuries in-juries received in falling from his horse. Count Tolstoi has a second time refused re-fused the offer of the Nobel peace prize, but has recommended that the prize, which amounts to about S,000, be handed over to the Russian sect of Doukhobors, as the most pronounced pro-nounced adversaries of war. Great Britain has proposed that all the powers recognize the republic of Portugal at the same time. Germany-has Germany-has replied approvingly of the sug-I sug-I gestion. I The official reports on the cholera j situation in Italy indicate an increase 1 in the spread oi the disease. |