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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF ii mm EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM. Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prep"ed for Busy Man. , INTER MOUNTAIN Desirous that his victim should ihave car fare with which to get safely home, a robber who held up Mrs. C. E. Reynolds Rey-nolds in- Pueblo, returned to her 35 cents, after he had pocketed the remainder re-mainder of the contents of her handbag. hand-bag. A controversy has arisen between the reclamation service and some of the prospective water users under the Strawberry valley project, which probably prob-ably will serve to delay the application applica-tion of water to all of the lands' intended in-tended to be irrigated by the project. The interstate commerce commission commis-sion has held that, on grain shipped from Montana points, Omaha was entitled en-titled to and should enjoy the same rates as are maintained contemporaneously contempora-neously from the same points of origin orig-in to Minneapolis. It has become known at Brush, Colo., that superintendents of the American Beet Sugar company refineries refin-eries at that city, Sterling and Fort Morgan recently have received orders from the board of directors to cut all appropriations made at the March meeting of the board 35 per cent lower than the estimate given at that time. New wage contracts presented by the shop crafts of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad and providing for increases in-creases in pay ranging from 7 to 13 per cent will not be signed by the company, according to a Denver dispatch. dis-patch. James Ryan, wanted for alleged complicity in a swindle by which two women claim to have been fleeced out of $26,590 in Chicago last November, Is a prisoner at Cheyenne, Wyo. DOMESTIC A negro youth of about 19 years, who wandered into Bolton, Vt., was hurled into the Winooskl river, where be was drowned, it is charged, by four men, who had accused him of stealing their dinner pails- The crew of the steamer Uganda, which encountered heavy Ice and sank In the straits of Mackinaw Saturday night, has arrived at Port Huron, Mich., on the steamer Donaldson, which took them off their sinking ves-Bel. ves-Bel. When the American fleet sails for the Mediterranean in January it will be nearly twice the muzzle energy of the famous battle fleet sent around the world in 1907 by former President Roosevelt, and of half again as great tonnage. A temporary truce has been declared by the warring Bing Kong and Suoy Sing tongs, in San Francisco-Mrs. Francisco-Mrs. Winfield Schafer, 22 years old, Is being detained at the county jail as principal witness against four Tnen find two women, who, she declares, kidnaped and detained her four days In a tent at St. Joseph, Mich. Through the Panama-Pacific exposition exposi-tion commission the state of California Califor-nia has refused to participate in the expenses of ex-Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, who visited California Cali-fornia last May, ostensibly to boost the exposition, on the ground that that official used the occasion to aid President Taft's political aspirations. Evelyn Arthur See, leader of the "absolute life'' cult, was taken into custody at XTiicago on Monday and removed to the state penitentiary to begin his sentence for the abduction of Mildred Bridges, one of his followers. follow-ers. Every possible legal Btep has been taken to keep him out of prison. Ray Pfanschmldt was found guilty at Qulncy, Ills., of the murder of his father, mother, sister and Miss Km ma Kaempen, a visitor. The Jury fixed the penalty at death. Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, declared Sunday that the Second Sec-ond division of the United States army will remain mobilized at Galveston and Texas City "until the causes of tho mobilization are removed." George A L. Row, 50 years old, clerk to the hoard of, poor directors at. Wil-Ilamstown, Wil-Ilamstown, I'a., committed suicide early ear-ly Sunday by drowning himself In the ocean at Sunset Beach, Cal. Mrs. James Colbert of South AU.le-boro. AU.le-boro. Mans., was killed by a burglar early Sunday, and an hour later Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Powers, neighbors, were shot and severely wounded. The same robber Is believed to have figured fig-ured In both affairs. Former President Taft has accepted an Invitation to read a paper on a subject to be announced later, at tho mutual meeting of tho American Bar association at Montreal In September. An air blast, generator! by the fail o( 3,000,000 tons of capping al. "ln Miami mine, seven mlleH from Globe, Ariz., killed three minora ami Injured 100 others, four probably fatally. Burl Anderson of Modford, Ore., won from Knockout Brown of Now York by a clean knockout In tho fifteenth round of their scheduled twenty round lightweight light-weight bout at Ixih Angeles. The California legislature seems determined de-termined to pass the alien land bill, discriminating agains the Japanese, ; in spite of the requeue of the authorities authori-ties at Washlngtos not to tto so. The first serious u:-eak in the main dikes in the lower Mississippi valley occurred Monday when the Woodlawn levee, just north of Mayersville, Miss., went out, flooding four counties. The federal district court at New York has dismissed the petition of the Oceanic Steam Navigation company, limited, as owner of the White Star liner Titanic, for a limitation of liability liabil-ity resulting from the loss of the Titanic Ti-tanic The court held that the company's com-pany's liability is $3,000,000. In a street duel in Franklin, Ky., on Sunday, Judge John H. Goodnight, aged 35 years, and William Taylor, aged 45, were slain, while James Taylor, Tay-lor, son of William, was fatally wounded. Bound and gagged in his own operating oper-ating chair Benjamin Frieman, a dentist of New York, watched three men rifle his office and depart with gold platinum worth $4,000. The robbers rob-bers gained entrance to Frieman's office of-fice as patients. WASHINGTON After a lively fight, house Republicans Republi-cans in open caucus, voted Monday in favor of an aggressive constructive tariff campaign during the consideration considera-tion of the Democratic tariff bill. Every railroad line in the country was a defendant In a heaTing before the interstate commerce commission In a proceeding instituted by the National Na-tional Baggage committee, attacking, as illegal and unjust, the excess baggage bag-gage rates exacted by the carriers. With more than 500 delegates from all parts of the country in attendance, the biennial mid-year conference of the General Federation of Women's clubs convened Monday at Washington Washing-ton for a four days' session. Presenting the necessity for special tariff experts to assist the president in negotiating reciprocal trade agree-mests agree-mests with foreign countries, Representative Repre-sentative Payne of New York has introduced in-troduced a bill to create a tariff commission. com-mission. Secretary Lane has initiated a new administrative policy of direct dealing between government irrigation project water users and interior department officials with a view to a better understanding under-standing among all Interested parties. Secretary Lane has under consideration considera-tion a proposal that the unclaimed lands of the west be turned over to the department of agriculture for settlement set-tlement and development as soon as the engineering works are finished by the reclamation service. FOREIGN J. S. Douglas, vice-president and manager of the Cananea Consolidated Copper company, was driven out of Cananea, Mexico, on Mondsy, by a mob of 2,000 idle miners and smeltermen- Two children of Isadora Duncan, the American dancer, a girl of 5 and a boy of 3, and their English governess, govern-ess, were drowned as tho result of an automobile In which they were riding i along the Boulevard Bourbon In the 1 suburbs of Xui'illy-Stir-Seine, plunging from the roadway into the River Sein-3. Delegates represent ine; Turkey and ! all the Balkan allies with the exception excep-tion of Montenegro, signed an armls-i armls-i tice on Saturday at Bulalr. Sir Charles Day Rose, M. P., president presi-dent of the Royal Aero club, yachtsman yachts-man and breeder of race horses, died at London, Sunday, his death occurring occur-ring from heart failure, following his first flight as a passenger in an aeroplane. aero-plane. The supcrdreadnought Provence w..s successfully launched Sunday at Lo-rient, Lo-rient, Franco. The rapid construction of the Provence constitutes one of tho most remarkable achievements lii the French government dockyards. Twenty thousand persons assembled at a great meeting at Liege, Belgium, on Sunday, listened without the slight-est slight-est disorder to addresses on the strike situation throughout the country. During a military aviation competition competi-tion at. Turin tho benzine tank of the aeroplane piloted by Sfavorosoff exploded. ex-ploded. The aviator had a passenger named S'allo aboard. Sallo was burned to death and the aviator was seriously injured. The snffragets hail plenty of evidence evi-dence that the public lias tired of militancy mili-tancy and only the protection afforded afford-ed by large bodies of police saved the, women from the hands of angry mobs In lyondon on Sunday. Twelve million dollars Is the figure compiled In trustworthy circles of Belgium's Bel-gium's loss In the first six days of the strike for equal political rights, which has been Joined by about 100 000 men, half tllo male working population of the country. A premature explosion o? dynamite occurred Saturday between the Pedro Miguel locks iinrl the Mlrnllorcs locks of the Panama canal. Three men were killed and twenty-throe wiiiinileil. II. is announced Unit ex King Manuel Man-uel of Portugal Is engaged to iiinrrv princess Augustine Vlctorl:;, daughter of Prince Wllholiu of I lohenzollern. The preparations now being made for the wedding of the kaiser's daughter daugh-ter to Prliico Krnest of Cumberland promise If to be onn of the most brilliant bril-liant ceremonies over seen In lOuropo. Three aeronauts wert killed by tho buist.lng ol a spherical balloon at u suburb of Paris. The balloon belonged to the army aeronautical corps and tho crew consisted of live army officers. Tho American Jockey, Danny Mall or, dnsplt , his Increasing weight, pei-lorni-orl a remarkable feat at the Newmarket Newmar-ket raco coiirHn on Tlniisday by win-uIiik win-uIiik four out of six races. |