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Show NEWS OF 11 WEEK IfJ CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. Deputy Sheriff Eugene Taylor was fatally shot In an attempted jail-break by a federal prisoner at the county jail at Poeatello, Idaho. The deputy had entered the jail corridor when Charles Moore fired at him twice with an automatic pistol. The Cressen mine at Cripple Creek, Colo., has shipped a carload of gold ore valued at $1,000,000. This ore runs $200,000 a ton in value, which breaks the record established some years ago at Goldfield, Nev., when three carloads, 120,000 pounds, aggregated aggre-gated $820,000 in value. Because of the refusal of Governor Ammons of Colorado to accept responsibility re-sponsibility by requesting that all the federal troops in the strike district be withdrawn, President Wilson has decided to await further developments before ordering the troops away. Salt Lake has gained 47 per cent in building activity In the last eleven months over the corresponding period pe-riod of time last year, thus gaining third place among seventy-one large cities of the United States in rate of gain. W. F. Houghton, employed at the Garfield smelter, was shot and killed by A. E. Hutchinson, a miner, on the Btreets of Salt Lake, following a quarrel. quar-rel. Hutchinson w-as killed by a policeman po-liceman while resisting arrest. The National Woolgrowers' association associa-tion and the Commercial club are already al-ready at work on the big ram auction Bales and sheep show to be held in Salt Lake in 1915. Woman suffrage carried in the November No-vember election in Montana by a majority ma-jority of "14, according to the official canvass completed December 9. The vote was for, 41 302; against, 37,588. The Colorado coal strike has been :alled off by the United Mine Work-srs Work-srs of American, this decision being aased upon the financial condition of :he union and the fact that President IVilson recently appointed a commis-iion commis-iion to which the miners may be able :o refer their differences with their imployers. DOMESTIC- Otto Bellows, 23 years old, of Mc-Cool Mc-Cool Junction, Neb., shot and killed his mother, M:s. Frank Bellows, Friday, Fri-day, wounded his sister and then sent a bullet into his head. The young man is believed to have been insane. Andrew Carnegie has expressed decided de-cided opposition to a truce in the European war during the Christinas holidays. He declared that it would not be Christian, but immoral, to stop the fighting and then begin it again. More than 1,000 churches in New-York New-York City have combined forces to he-jp meet the problems of the unemployed unem-ployed in that city during the winter. Extradition of Harry K. Thaw from New Hampshire to New York to answer an-swer an Indictment for conspiracy to obstruct justice by escaping from Mat-teawan Mat-teawan insane asylum, has been taken under consideration by the supreme court after listening to oral arguments. argu-ments. Officers of the International and the World's Sunday School associations associa-tions at Pittsburg have made plans which they say will result in sending a Bible to each soldier in the warring armies of Europe. After 111 business days of involuntary involun-tary inaction a demand imposed by the European war which caused a suspension of regular dealings in all the leading financial markets of the world, the New York stock exchange has opened for limited dealings in gtock. Contracts for the construction of a two-mile automobile speedway in Jlay-wood, Jlay-wood, a western suburb of Chicago, tiave been signed. The total cost of the track, preparation and clubhouse is estimated at $730,000. A new district has been added to the territory of the A. A. U. and in future it will be known as the Philippine Philip-pine Amateur Athletic Federation. Geographically speaking, the district covers the whole of the Philippine islands. John Evers. captain of the pennant-winning pennant-winning Boston Braves, is dangerously dangerous-ly ill at a hotel in New York, suffering suffer-ing from pneumonia. Mrs. Ella Flagg Youns, superintendent superin-tendent of the Chicago schools, whose salary of $10,000 a year marks her among the highest salaried women oi the ctuntry, has been re-elected by a vote of 15 to 6. Assumption by congress of authority author-ity to prevent states from violating by laws, or lawless violence, United States treaties would do more to ire vent the possibility of war between this nation and anothe-r than increas ing the army and navy, former President Presi-dent William Howard Taft declared In an acMress at Sonimerville, Mass. Two men were killed and more than a hundred persons injured in New York in a rear-end collision between two crowded elevated railroad trains in Upper Eighth avenue. Fire brok out In both trains after the crash. Richard Canfleld, widely known sporting man of New York and Saratoga, Sara-toga, died at his home in New York from cerebral hemorrhage resulting from a fracture of the skull sustained in a fall on a subway stairway. Handcuffed together, Charles Washington Wash-ington and Breard Henderson, negroes charged with killing and robbing Cyrus Cy-rus Hotchkin, white, near Moorings-port, Moorings-port, La., were taken from officers and lynched near Shreeveport, La. Carl Scholz of Chicago has been re-elected president of the American .Mining congress. The following vice-presidents vice-presidents were chosen: Harry L. Day, Wallace, Idaho; M. S. Kemmerer, New York; Walter Douglas, Bisbee, James F. Callbreath of Denver was re-elected secretary. Leo M. Frank was sentenced in Fulton Ful-ton county superior court at Atlanta. Ga., to be hanged on Friday, January 22 for the murder in April, 1913, oi .Mary Phagan, a 14-year-old factory girl. Before being sentenced Frank again proclaimed Ii Is innocence. WASHINGTON. War risk insurance amounting to $15,231,201 was written by the federal war risk bureau from September 2 to December 1, according to the bureau's first statement of its work made to congress. Secretary of State and Mrs. Bryan were guests of honor Friday night at the International reception and ball given under the auspices of the Southern South-ern Society of Washington. The first complete compilation of returns under the income tax law was made public in the annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue. reve-nue. It showed returns for the collection col-lection year of 1913 by 357,597 individuals indi-viduals paying taxes aggregating $28,253,535. Secretary Daniels told the house naval committee that if an emergency emer-gency arose the Atlantic fleet could be dispatched to the Pacific within eighteen days to deal with any hostile hos-tile craft that might succeed in running run-ning the gantlet of American submarines subma-rines from Manila and Honolulu. The National Rivers and Harbors congress adjourned Friday after adopting adopt-ing resolutions favoring the building of a comprehensive system of water transportation at an annual expenditure expendi-ture by the government of not less than $50,000,000. Sereno E. Payne, veteran congressman congress-man from New York, died suddenly in Washington on Thursday from heart failure. FOREIGN. The proposal of Pope Benedict for a truce among the warring nations during the Christmas holidays is said by the official press bureau at Berlin to have been declined by Russia. Henryk Sienkiewiez, author of "Quo Vadis" and holder of the 1905 Nobel prize for literature, has been elected honorary member of the Russian Academy of .Sciences. Reuter's correspondent at The Hague telegraph's that the Dutch government's proposal for an emergency emer-gency loan of $100,000,000 was adopted adopt-ed by the second chamber of the state's general assembly. The Servians continue to assert that they have administered a crushing defeat to the Austrians and taken large numbers of prisoners and great quantities of war material. With the return of the French government gov-ernment to Paris from Bordeaux a squadron of aeroplanes is doing scout duty over the capital to ward off possible pos-sible attacks by hostile aircraft. In France 400,000 youths of the class of 1915 have gone into training in military camps and barracks. It is expected they will be ready for the campaign in the spring. A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Athens says that a Turkish gunboat gun-boat has been sunk by a Turkish mine at the entrance to the Bosphorus. The armored cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the protected cruiser Leipzig, three of the German warships which had been menacing British shipping, and part of the squadron squad-ron which sank the British cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth in the Pacific Pa-cific on November 1, were destroyed by a British squadron off the Falkland Falk-land islands on Wednesday. Approximately 2,000,000 Jews have been driven from their homes in Russian Rus-sian Poland, according to a cablegram from the Petrcgrad office of the Jewish Jew-ish Colonization association. The Swedish people are indignanl over the planting of floating mines along the coast of Finland, which has resulted so far in the loss of three large Swedish steamers and Che drowning of upwards of forty men. President Poincare and Premier Viv-iani Viv-iani arrived in Paris on Wednesday from Bordeaux and members of the diplomatic corps followed later in the day. Nicholas Ahlers. former German consul in Sunderland borough, England, Eng-land, has been convicted by the Dur ham assizes of high treason and sentenced sen-tenced to death. Artillery reinforcement in the shape of three field guns and a carload oi ammunition have been received by General Benjamin Hill's Carran.ista force besieging Naco, Sonora. In west Galicia activity along the untie line is increasing and the Alia-nan Alia-nan troops, an official statement from Vienna asserts, have driven the itussiaus from Dobczycc and Wie-ic.ka, Wie-ic.ka, taking more than 5,000 prisoners. pris-oners. Wrapped in flames and with tne sea about her ablaze from Ihe cargo jf gasoline she was carrying, only two men of her crew of thirty-six escaped loath when the British steamer Vedra uiled on the shore near Barrow, England, Eng-land, during a heavy gale, broke up :ind was consumed. |
