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Show History of Past Week Tke News Happenings of Sevea Days Paragraphed For tho first, tlmo in the history nl aviation In Ibis country, a loaded bomb was dropped from an aeroplane on Camp Sell'iidge field at San Francisco Fran-cisco on Sunday and exploded. Tho experiment was made by Lieutenant Crlssy of I he coast artillery, fly Ins with Phillip I'armalee. Four persona were killed and four injured In an explosion which occurred occurr-ed at Niobara, Neb., Sunday evening. The explosion was caused by a leak in a gas plant In tno cellar of tho hotel. it. If. Whll emore, aged 08, leaped from a window in the eighth story of the Miiruelte hotel In St. Louis, killing kill-ing himself instantly. Despondency over his continued illness and the death of his wife was the cause. . Charles ,T. Everet, charged specifically specifi-cally with having lorged Now York drafts drawn through the People's Savings bank of Seattle to the amount of $1,821, was arrested Sunday in Hot Springs, Ark., by detectives, after a chase through half a dozen western states. WASHINGTON The increase of the membership of the house of representatives to 423 will not result in tho domination of that body by parliamentary or political politi-cal rings, in the opinion of the census committee of tho houso. As the result of intervention by Congressman Joseph Howell of Utah, and others, Congressman Mann of Illinois Il-linois gave notice in the house on Friday that the proposal to create a national department of health, reported re-ported favorably from tho committee on interstate commerce, would not bo brought before that body for a vote until protests had been heard. An investigation of the relative strength of the various classes of national na-tional banks is to be undertaken ' y the comptroller of the currency. Banks will be" classified according to their capital. That the senate at this session must face the question whether the constitution consti-tution shall be amended so as to require re-quire the election ot senators by direct di-rect vote of the people was made apparent ap-parent Friday. A vote, which many senators considered a test of sentiment, senti-ment, resulted largely in favor of the proposition. Everything in the way of forest preservation must not be expected from the federal government is the opinion of President Taft, who addressed ad-dressed the annual banquet of the American Forestry association in Washington. The Virginia delegation in Congress plans to have the naval fleets of the world rendezvous at Hampton roads in 1913, whether the Panama Canal exposition is held in New Orleans or San Francisco. A measure providing for a limited parcels post on rural free delivery routes has. been reported favorably from the senate committee on post-offices post-offices and post roads. FOREIGN President Estrada of Nicaragua his reiterated his assurance to the American Ameri-can government that he has taken every, precaution to prevent any violation vio-lation of neutrality by Nicaragua in connection with' the Honduran revo-: revo-: lution. The strike of the railroad men in Portugal having ended, normal train service has been resumed. The strike of the gashouse workers, however, continues, but it is expected to speedily speedi-ly terminate. Advices from Bedajose, Spain, five miles from the Portuguese frontier, say the Portuguese government has acceded to the demands of the garrison garri-son at Elvas which mutined recently and demanded increased pay. Reports from Harbin say the Chinese are vigorously opposing the summary disposition of the bodies of those who have died from the Bubonic plague. The authorities dare not burn them, the people desiring that they remain intact, so that tneir ancestors may recognize them in the future life. The news comes from Ceiba, Honduras, Hon-duras, that Truxillo has been captured by revolutionists, and that the rebels INTERMOUNTAIN M. Henry Murphy shot and killed Miss Anatolia Wunderlo in Denver on Sunday, because the girl refused to speak to him on the street. It is believed be-lieved that Miss Wunderle's refusal of his attention affected him mind. W. Lewis, aged 38. a section lore-man, lore-man, and Thomas O'Dell, a bartender, have been arrested at Ogden, Utah, and identified by trainmen as the two men who held up the Overland Limited Limit-ed at Reese, Utah, on January 2, killed kill-ed one colored porter and wounded another, and robbed the passengers. Congressman Howell has succeeded in having appropriated $25,000 for the extermination of alfalfa weevil in Utah. The money will be carried as an item in the agricultural appropriation appropria-tion bill. John Anderson, a saloon proprietor, proprie-tor, and Ben Christensen, a bartender bartend-er in his employ, were instantly killed on Sunday when they fell from a third story window of a hotel in Seattle ivhile they were engaged In a friendly scuffle. According to the t-ensus bureau Salt Lake City's percentage of growth Is higher than any of the other Utah clties containing more than 5,000 inhabitants. in-habitants. After ordering and eating a sumptuous sump-tuous supper at a Tacoma cafe, Archie Ar-chie B. Shelledy, an expert chemist and assayer from Aspen, Colo., placed the muzzle of a revolver to his breast and fired. The bullet tore through his heart. He was a sufferer from consumption. con-sumption. The Boston and Montana mines at Butte closed dowrn early Friday morning morn-ing in consequence of the severe cold weather prevailing at Great Falls, freezing up the ore and some pipes about the works. John Terhune, president of St. John State bank, committed suicide at Colfax, Col-fax, Wash., by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. DOMESTIC The battleship Arkansas, the largest fighting ship ever constructed in this country, was launched Saturday from the yard of the New York Shipbuilding Shipbuild-ing company at Camden, N. ,J. Eastern capitalists are to enter the sardine industry in Alaska. Boats will be fitted up and the sardines put up on the boats. According to a report of the National Nation-al Association of Wool Manufacturers, there is a considerable decrease in sheep in the United States. The number num-ber is placed at 41,999,500, a decrease of 293,703 from 1909. This decrease occurs mainly in the far western states. Millions of pounds of butter, cheese, poultry and millions of dozens of eggs held in the cold-storage warehouses in Chicago wil be thrown on the market mar-ket before May 1, and a general tumbling tumb-ling of food prices is expected at once, according to commission merchants. The trial at Springfield, Mo., of Walter Wal-ter A. Dipley and Goldie Smith, charged jointly with the murder of Stanley Ketchel, who at the time of his death, October 15, had the middleweight middle-weight championship, began on Monday. Mon-day. Following the delivery at her home in Verona, Pa., of a note saying her husband had started for Canada, Mrs. George Langdon drank carbolic acid and died an hour later. Perfect drill saved 225 deaf and dumb children from fire, when flames broke out in the upper stories of the institution for the Improved Instruction Instruc-tion of Deaf Mutes in New York City, while the thirty instructors were all at supper in the basement. A bill to force negroes to attend separate schools and prevent the marriage mar-riage of whites and negroes under heavy penalty has been introduced in the Kansas legislature. Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow of Scne-nectady, Scne-nectady, N. Y., arrested in Albany, confessed that she had given her five-year-old son carbolic acid, and left his body in a swamp near Albany. She gave as her reason for the deed, a constant struggle against poverty. Her friends declare the woman is in-lane. in-lane. Twenty firemen were injured, one perhaps fatally, and damage aggregating aggregat-ing $150,000 was caused by a series of five fires in New York City on Thursday. President John Hanan of the National Na-tional Boot and Shoe Manufacturers association, at the annual convention in New York, denounced the present ;ariff agitation as inimical to the return re-turn of good business conditions. A bottle of a chemical compound, Iropped by or crushed in the pocket of James Norbon, a well known mining min-ing engineer, is believed to have caused an explosion on the Southern Pacific ferryboat Berkeley, plying between be-tween San Francisco and Oakland, which brought instant death to Norton Nor-ton and seriously injured two other nen. After more than forty-five years of tctive service, Rear Admiral Edward 3. Barry, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, has applied for retire-nent. are advancing upon other towns. At the sight of the Bonllla forces, it is believed that one-half or more of the government troops will join the former. The sympathy of the citizens of Ceiba is plainly with Bonilla, and he would have litt'e trouble taking this point. Dispatches from Tashkent, Russian Turkestan, say further earth shocks have been felt at Vyerny, capital of Semiryetshensk. These, however, have been slight. The intense cold continues. contin-ues. Recent avalanches buried the villages vil-lages of Solori and Polli, near San Damiano, Italy. Many houses were swept away, but after several days all the inhabitants and cattle were rescued. An expedition of General Bonilla's forces landed on the northern coast of Honduras near Truxillo Wednesday and communication between that point and Tegucigalpa, the capital, has been interrupted. The roof of a tunnel in a copper mine in Rio Tinto, Spain, fell, burying many of the workers. Five bodies were recovered and five injured men were taken out. It is costing the Canadian Pacific railway $1,500 a day to feed 500 passengers pas-sengers tied up at Calgary on the way to Vancouver, and no forecast is mailt as to when the road will be open. The backbone of the revolution in Mexico appears to have been broken, according to advices from Mexico City. The Turkish government will have to make another fight for the possession posses-sion of the $4,500,000 deposited in Germany by the deposed sultan, Abdul Hamid. A number of attachments have been filed against the deposit |