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Show Henry Dorman. 115 years old, died at his home in Liberal, Mo., on Monday. Mon-day. He served In both the Mexican war and the civil war. Family records rec-ords showed that he was born in Steuben Steu-ben county, N. V., January 10. 1799. Three bodies were removed from the ruins of the Missouri Athletic club at St. Louis on Sunday, bringing the total of dead recovered to twenty-nine. twenty-nine. Thirty are uelieved to have perished in the fire. All the bodies which sank with the Old Dominion liner Monroe when she was rammed by the Nantucket off the Virginia coast on January 30, have been swept out of the wreck by a strong submarine current. "Walter L. Goodnow, aged 63, owner of several department stores in New Hampshire, was killed at South Pasadena, Pasa-dena, Cal., when the automobile which he was driving was struck by a suburban sub-urban electric train from Los Angele3. WASHINGTON. Ambassador Page's explanation of his London speech touching on the Monroe doctrine and the Panama toll repeal is satisfactory to President Wilson, who regards the incident closed clos-ed so far as the administration is concerned. con-cerned. Prompt legislative action to prevent a radium monoply is necessary, a report re-port of the senate mines committee declared, with the recommendation that the Walsh bill for government control of radium lands be passed immediately. im-mediately. President Wilson, at a conference on Monday with the house judiciary sub-committee on trusts, put the stamp of administration approval on the substance of the four bills to amend the anti-trust laws which the committee submitted in a practically final form. BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEjra EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. Tliram C. Gill took the oath of office of-fice as mayor of Seattle on Monday, without cereniony. Mayor Gill's first, official act was the appointment of Austin K. Griffiths, late candidate of the Seattle Ministerial association for tbo mayoralty of Seattle, as chief of police. Curled up fast asleep on the top of a hill about a mile southwest of the Arthur plant, little Rosa Patro, the 7-year-old daughter of Mike Patro, a mill man at Garfield, Utah, was found by S. Tsutui, a Japanese boy. The girl had been missing for twenty-four twenty-four hours. C. M. Scott, a former banker of Sun-nyside, Sun-nyside, Wash., pleaded guilty to three charges of forgery at North Yakima, Wash., and was sentenced to one to twenty years imprisonment on each charge. "Mother" Jones was liberated from the detention camp at Trinidad on Monday and sent to Denver, but the aged woman declares she will go back Alvey A. Adee, who has been second sec-ond assistant secretary of state for nearly thirty years, is reported as about to resign his position. , Open debate on repeal of the toll exemption clause of the Panama canal act will begin late this week in the house, and a vote in that body on the Sims bill to carry out the recommendations recommen-dations of President Wilson is expected ex-pected by Saturday night. It is announced that g. total of more than. $30,000 has been appropriated by the Carnegie endowment for international inter-national peace in the aid of the fight for the repeal of the tolls exemption clause of the Panama canal act. FOREIGN. G-aston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, Fi-garo, was shot and killed by Mme. Henriette Caillaux, wife of Joseph Caillaux, the French minister of finance. The tragedy was the result of continued attacks made by the editor ed-itor upon Mr. Caillaux. Dr. James Devon, prison commissioner commis-sioner for Scotland, when attacked by an irate militant suffraget armed with a dog whip, took the law in his own hands and knocked his assailant down with 1 a well-aimed lefthand blow. Hanouille, a French aviator, was drowned at San Sebastian, Spain, when he fell into the sea with his aeroplane. The accident was caused by the breaking of the rudder. Pirates boarded and looted the Norwegian Nor-wegian steamer Childar off Hong Kong, carrying off booty to the value of $30,000 after overpowering, binding and gagging the six Europeans on board. A cyclonic gale swept over the United Unit-ed Kingdom on Monday. The wind reached a velocity of seventy miles an hour, driving many vessels ashore. A tug foundered in the Thames with the loss of five lives. Eighty-three persons, according to the official estimates, were killed by the earthquake which occurred in the prefecture of Akita, island of Hondo. If the new tariff law threatens the extinction of Hawaii's sugar industry measures will be taken by the government gov-ernment to protect it, by either removing re-moving the application to Hawaii of the Chinese exclusion act, or by doing away with coastwise shipping restrictions. restric-tions. Sir John Murray, the noted naturalist natur-alist and oceanographer, was killed near his home, Challenger lodge, Wardle, Edinburgh, in a motor car accident which occurred while his daughter Rhoda was driving. A serious revolution has broken out on the Venezuelan frontier near Mo-rawhanna, Mo-rawhanna, capital of the northwest district of British Guinea. Four hundred hun-dred and fifty rebels, according to the reports, have raided El Terror camp and are preparing to attack the village of San-Jose. More than one thousand perished in the inundation of uie towns of Sa-nitza Sa-nitza and Achtyrskaja by a tidal wave from the '3ea of Azov. The wave struck the town during a violent hurricane hur-ricane wh'cli swept the province of Kuban, Russia. A serious earthquake occurred Sun'-day Sun'-day in the prefecture of Akita, island of Kondo. A number of persons in the city of Akita were killed and many houses destroyed. In the village of Kowakubi, which was ruined, there were many casualties. Eddie McGoorty of Oshkosh. Wis., was given the decision over Jeff Smith, another American fighter, at the end of a hard foug.it twenty-round lout at Sydney, N. S. W. James Logr.n, an American negro, is locked up at Juarez, Mexico, charged charg-ed with being a spy. Consul Edwards was assured that no summary action would be taken in the case. A strange disease, somewhat resembling re-sembling cholera in the speedy death of its victims, is reported raging it Jecori, Chihuahua, a district just freed from an epidemic of smallpox. and aid tho striking coal miners rallies. ra-llies. A. II. House and A. D. Perkins, Btrike-hreakers employed at the Oak Creek, Colo., mines, have been arrested, arrest-ed, charged with the killing of a striker and seriously wounding a second sec-ond in a street fight. The construction of the Denver & Bait Lake railroad from Craig, Colo., across Utah into Salt Lake, will be started simultaneously with commencement com-mencement of work on the Moffat tunnel, tun-nel, according to Jesse E, Fleming, president of the Moffat tunnel commission, com-mission, DOMESTIC. ' That no adult working person shall receive less than $2.50 a day for his work is the essence of an initiative measure which is being circulated in southern California for a place on the November ballot. An increase in wages is being Bought by the firemen and engineers on forty-eight railroads west of Chicago, Chi-cago, according to a statement made at a conference in Chicago of representatives repre-sentatives of the men and the railroads. rail-roads. That the United Stat.es was behind even Russia in enforcement of child labor laws, was asserted in a report read by Herschel H. Jones .at New Orelans before the national child labor la-bor conference. Although no proclamation was is-Bued, is-Bued, martial law existed in effect along the border for miles each side of Tecate, Cal., following the destruction destruc-tion by fire of the general store containing con-taining the United States postoffice and customs office and the murder of Postmaster Frank Johnston Saturday night by three men declared to be Mexicans. Miss Julia Highburg, 22 years old, of Minneapolis, was killed and perhaps per-haps sixty-five other persons injured, several probably fatally, when two coaches of a passenger train left the rails and rolled down an embankment at Mendota, Minn. General Scott has completed his investigation in-vestigation of the report that a tunnel was being dug at the prison camp at Fort Bliss, Texas, but found no trace of the alleged plot. Mrs. Corriune Stubbs Brown, a widely known Socialist and woman suffragist, and formerly a resident of Chicago, died Sunday at her home in New York from an attack of pneumonia. pneu-monia. A young woman who has been living at Los Angeles for more than two years under the name of Ella Evans, declares that she is really Dorothy Arnold, who disappeared from New York in December, 1910. Directors of the United States Express Ex-press company have voted unanimously to liquidate its affairs and dissolve it in the shortest possible time. They I blame the parcel post for loss of business. busi-ness. Fred Kohler, former chief of police of Cleveland, O., known as the "golden rule" chief, in an open letter announc-. ing his candidacy for sheriff, said he had "paid in full" for his dismissal from office a year ago. George Penrose, who was on trial with Mrs. Louis van Keuren. charged with killing the woman's husband at Chicago last June, received his freedom free-dom after Mrs. van Keuren had confessed con-fessed that she shot and killed hei husband. The United States customs office and postoffices at Te.cate were ! burned and the postmaster, Frank V. Johnston, wa snot dead by three bandits, according to advices received at San Diego. Warren Wiedenback was wounded. Observers of the tragedy trag-edy say the bandits, were Mexicans. Mra. Raymond Robins, one of Chicago's Chi-cago's wealthiest and most widely known settlement workers, took the witness stand in court in Chicago and told of her experiences picketing with waitresses in the attempt to boycott a restaurant on Randolph street. |