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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. Fifty-one miners were enbombed in the Starkville mine, eight miles from Trinidad, Colo., on Saturday, as the result of an explosion, followed by black damp. There is no hope of any of the men being recovered alive. Six persons were hurt at tne Puy-allup Puy-allup valley fair grounds, at Tacoma, when one of the racehorses hurdled a four-foot fence and dashed into a crowd of spectators. Looting the safe of the uptown ticket tick-et office of the Oregon Short Line, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad companies in Ogden, burglars got away with cash and negotiable paper the value of which, is variously estimated at from $660 to 51.500. At least fifteen persons were injured and a great many more badly shaken up as the result of two open street cars colliding with a heavily loaded lumber wagon in Salt Lake City. Following a quarrel over a debt of $100, Paul Freeze shot and killed Frank Gilmore, hauled his body twelve miles in a wagon, dumped it Into a well and drove the team of the dead man to town, where he put it in a stoble at Great Falls, Mont. Freeze claims self-defense. The total attendance at the Utah State fair, at Salt Lake City, is estimated es-timated at 150,000. DOMESTIC. WhilA Tnnkinp- nn jisppnr in R hal- Forest fires in Minnesota have destroyed de-stroyed three towns, many farm houses hous-es and lumber mills, it being estimated esti-mated that between 100 and 200 settlers set-tlers have met death, while the monetary mone-tary loss will reach into the millions. Joshua Rees, a farmer or Mason county, Kentucky, repulsed a band of night-riders who attacked his home. Many shots were exchanged, but it is not known that anyone was seriously seri-ously injured. Taking careful aim with a "gun that was not loaded," James B. Lawson, a concessionaire at an Oakland amusement amuse-ment park, pulled the trigger and sent a bullet through the brain of Marry Coogan, an attendant at a neighboring concession. United States Senator Robert L. Taylor, three times governor of Tennessee, Ten-nessee, and whose term in the United States senate does not expire until 1912, vr:t.s nominated for governor by the regular Democratic convention. The towns of Graceton, Williams, Harsprings and Pitt, along the Canadian Cana-dian Northern railway in Minnesota, have boen wiped out by fire. A scnoo! teacher and a child at Williams are reported burned to death. Harvey Bannon, a leading merchant of Solomon, Ky., died from strychnine poisoning twenty minutes after he had taken a drink of whisky for stomach stom-ach trouble. It is not known how the poison got into the whisky. WASHINGTON. The Isthmian canal commission reports re-ports that on August 13 there were 35.S67 employes actually at work on the canal and the Panama railroad, and of this number 29,950 were canal employes. At the present rate of increase of Hindoo immigration it has been predicted pre-dicted that more than 5,000 dusky natives na-tives of India would arrive in the United States in the coming year. An alleged scheme for the assassination assas-sination of President Taft wras unfolded un-folded to Miss Delia C. Torrey,'- aunt to the president, by a stranger who called at her home in Milbury, Mass. loon at Easton, Mo., John Richland of Elwood, Kan., fe.ll 100 feet when the rope holding the parachute to the baloon broke. A telephone wire broke his fall and he may recover. With 11.4 deaths to every 1,000 inhabitants, in-habitants, St. Paul in 1909 led the cities cit-ies of 100,000 class in point of low rate of mortality; Cleveland had the second lowest rate with 12.8. Four hundred children escaped in their night clothes from the fire which destroyed the Mount St. Joseph Orphan aslylum in San Francisco. John F. Dietz, who has defied arrest ar-rest at his farm home near Winter, Wis., for some time, has finally surrendered, sur-rendered, after one officer had been killed, two or three deputies wounded, wound-ed, and four members of the Dietz family wounded. A canvass among clergymen by the chairman qf the National Woman Suf-rage Suf-rage press committee shows that Episcopal clergymen favor votes for women in the ratio of more than two to one. Among the Baptists the proportion pro-portion is seven to one, Congrega-tionalists Congrega-tionalists eight to one,. Methodists ten to one, and Presbyterians eleven elev-en to one. A case of cholera has developed in the steerage of the Hamburg-American liner Moltke, which has been detained de-tained at quarantine in New York harbor as a possible cholera carrier. Taken unawares at the close of religious reli-gious services in the jail at Santa Ana, Cal., Sheriff Lacey and Miss Christian KerL a missionary, were thrown into a cell by prisoners, an alleged . murderer and a forger, and held for nearly an hour, while their captors escaped. Seventeen of the twenty or more men who lost their lives in the explosion ex-plosion which wrecked the Times newspaper plant were laid to rest in graves side by side in Hollywood cemetery cem-etery in Los Angeles on Sunday. Plans for the exploitation of the resources re-sources of the south were discussed at the opening session of the opening conference of the Southern Commercial Commer-cial congress held in Atlanta, Ga., Friday Fri-day and Saturday. The Standard Oil company, through its official publicity representative, J. I. C. Clarke, has announced that the company "has inaugurated a campaign cam-paign to increase the worlds consumption con-sumption of refined oil," and is lowering lower-ing prices of kerosene in Europe and the far east. This action follows that cf August last, when the Standard Oil company reduced refined oil in bar rels 1 cent a gallon from 9 to 8 cents at the refinery, and refined oil in tanks from 6V2 to 5V2 cents a gallon. gal-lon. In part the statement reads: "The Standard Oil company has inaugurated inau-gurated a campaign to increase the world's consumption of refined oil. The level of prices for refined oil today to-day in the United' Slates is lower than at any time during recent years, and as a direct result of these prices the consumption ef refined oil in this country is in-creasing. The same policy pol-icy is now being actively pursued abroad." Vice-President Sherman and United States Senator Lorimer will sit at the same banquet in Chicago October 12, when local Knights of Columbus will celebrate Columbus day. Expected strife on the floor of the state Republican convention at Detroit De-troit did not develop. A platform circulated cir-culated not to arouse the ire of regulars regu-lars or insurgents, was adopted. Fire, which for a time threatened the lives of 150 miners, broke out in Hartshorne Electric mine, about sLx miles west of Danville, Ills. The men were all rescued. The man has mysteriously disappeared. disappear-ed. It is believed this story was a hoax. The tariff commission, which was Instructed to gather data which would permit of a scientific revision of the tariff, is going to have a fight for existence ex-istence when congress meets. An organized or-ganized effort is to be made to eliminate elim-inate the board as a factor in the consideration con-sideration of data bearing on the tariff tar-iff revision. Assistant Secretary Pierce of the interior department has gone to southern California, to investigate conditions in the oil regions. With the work of the eighth International Inter-national Prison congress practically concluded, delegates begun leaving Washington on Saturday after the executive ex-ecutive body had chosen London for the next meeting in 1915. . FOREIGN. President Braga of the new republic of Portugal declares that "there can be no progress in Portugal until the power of the church in affairs of state is absolutely broken." Foreign resident of Amapala, Hon-durous, Hon-durous, have fled from that city to escape es-cape outrage at the hands of the commandant, com-mandant, who has given orders that all American and English in the place are to be .jailed and their property confiscated. The employes of the steamer Sier ra, including the captain, have been arrested at Honolulu, charged with smuggling opium. The steamship Mackinaw, from Bering Ber-ing sea, reports that Mount Shishald-in, Shishald-in, on Unimak island, close to which all ships pass in entering Bering sea, is in more vigorous eruption now then at any previous time since it began its activity five months ago. The expulsion of the monks from Portugal has begun. No time will be lost in driving them across the frontier. fron-tier. Several hundred nuns have been assembled and will be deported out of the country. The damage done to the city at Lisbon Lis-bon by the recent bombardment was surprisingly slight. The total number num-ber killed has not been ascertained, but it probably does not exceed 300. The question of the formal recognition recogni-tion of the Portugese republic already is the subject of exchange views between be-tween the powers. So far as France and Spain are concerned, it is understood under-stood they will follow the lead of Great Britain. Captain Macievich, the Russian military mil-itary aviator, was killed at St. Petersburg Peters-burg In a fall from a Voison biplane. The accident occurred during an altitude alti-tude competition, which was won by Captain Macievich, who reacheii a height of 3,935 feet. The only evidence of the recent perturbation per-turbation at Lisbon, Portugal, are small bodies of -troops stationed in the principal open spaces of the city, and the passage now and then of red Cross ambulances. On the loth inst., sixteen shovels in the Culebra cut excavated 2" 797 cubic yards of material in an eight-. eight-. liour day, breaking all records. Recent events in Portugal that startled the world are discussed with calm by all classes. The general feeling feel-ing evidently is one of relief that a crisis long anticipated was surmounted surmount-ed so speedily with comparatively little violence and such a brief dislocation dislo-cation of the national life. The long-awaited revolution in Portugal Por-tugal has bro'.-ien out. Lisbon is in the hands of the Republicans, the royal standard has been torn from the palace pal-ace and the flag of the revolutionist:; raised in Its place. King Manual has fled from the capital. |