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Show j !j' j History of Fast Week TKc News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed " ' INTERMOUNTAIN William Howara, who shot John Often Of-ten at Lost Cabin, Wyo., March 9, and wino has been lying out in the mountains, moun-tains, gave himself up to the Lander authorities Friday. He was almost dead from starvation and exposure, but what he said he craved mos,t was a cigarette. IT 3 claims hie shot Ortez in self-defense. , Dr. R. W. Reasoner was shot through the heart and instantly killed at Colorado Springs by R. O. Davie, a negro, who attempted to hold up the physician. Before the doctor was killed he shot the negro three times. The latter will probably die. Roadmaster Carlisle of the Union Facific railroad was dangerously injured in-jured at Kimball, Neb., when a motor car in which he was riding with a Japanese helper was struck by an engine. en-gine. A young man named Gus Lowitt, who is said to have been concerned in some banking irregularities in Portland, Ore., committed suicide in Denver by jumping from a window on the sixth floor of a business block. DOMESTIC Fifteen hundred tons of Chinese money was aboard the steamer Ka-tuna, Ka-tuna, which reached New York Sunday Sun-day from the far east. The money is worn and mutilated and was sold as old copper by the Chinese government. govern-ment. The Lakewood flyer of the New Jersey Jer-sey Central railroad plunged through a crowd of several hundred persons about to board a local train at Knza-beth, Knza-beth, N. J., scattering theni right and left, and killed two women and a baggage master who tried to rescue them. The hunt for squirrels and other rodents which carry the deadly flea which spread the teubonic plague is to be carried into Monterey national forest. for-est. Hunting parties organized by the public health service will begin work as soon as the department of agriculture gives permission. A railroad passenger may lose his ticked and recover the value of it from the railroad company, according to' a decision rendered m the superior court at Los Angeles. The strike of the 200 brewery workers work-ers at the plants of the Los Angeles Brewing company, the Mair Brewing company and the Rainer Bottling company, first called in May, 1910., and which has been the direct or indirect in-direct causa of seriouis labor disturbances disturb-ances in that city, has been settled. Marion Lemp, granddaughter of the late William J. Lemp, began a legal fight at St. Louis on Saturday for a share of his $10,000,000 estate by filing fil-ing a suit in the circuit court asking that the court decree her one-eighth of the estate. Being a minor, she brought suit through her mother. Samuel Flnley Storey, editor of the Narrative, a weekly publication at Clarmont, N. H., was burned in his office of-fice Friday. Storey lived lone in his office and according to his own statement state-ment existed on nine cents a day. The 6-year-old son of S. O. Knight, a farmer living near Elsworth, Kans., while taking a small rifle from a cupboard, cup-board, accidentally discharged the weapon, killing his 8-months-old sister, sis-ter, who lay asleep in a cradle at the opposite side of the room. Widows and orphans of the victims of the recent stockyards fire in Chicago Chi-cago have filed an application for the appointment of a receiver for the $211,000 fund raised Ar their benefit, it being charged that the chairman of the fund committee has refused to distribute the funds. Benjamin C. Barnes of Washington, D. C, has 'been acquitted at Anderson, lnd., of the charge of having forcibly entered a sleeping car berth occupied by Miss Cecil Hill, foster daughter of Prof. William 1 Hill of the University of Chicago, on a Pennsylvania train as it was passing through that city on the night of January 26. According to information received from a telephone lineman near Plum-merville. Plum-merville. Ark., three persons were killed and twenty-five injured in a tornado which struck that town. The deadlock in the Iowa legislature legisla-ture ended Wednesday afternoon shortly before 1 o'clock, when Judge William S. Kenyon of Fort Dodge was elected United States senator to sir -cccd the late Senator Jonathan '. Dolliver, following perhaps the hardest hard-est senatorial contest ever fought in Iowa. Twenty-three persons are reported dead, more than 100 injured, two towns practically swept away, scores of buildings demolished. ?nd thousands thou-sands of dollars' worth of property damaged as the result of a tornado that raged in Kansas. Oklahoma and Missouri on Wednesday. Surgeons in an Oakland hospital have operated upon Mrs. Jean Thurn-herr Thurn-herr of Berkeley, a young woman of good family, who has been afflicted with kleptomania and recently served serv-ed a term in San Quentin prison for burglary. Father, son and two friends wore drowned in a cess pool at Corona, Long Island. The son, an Italian laborer, in frying to clean the pool, was suffocated suf-focated by gases and sank to the bottom. bot-tom. The father and the two friends met their death in endeavoring to rescue the son. x Daniel K. Pearson, Chicago's distinguished distin-guished philanthropist, celebrated his ninety-first birthday Friday b.t distributing dis-tributing $300,000 among educational institutions and for missionary work. W. A. Tawney, a brother of former Congressman Tawney. o Minnesota, committed suicide at his farm in Pierce county, Neb., Thursday night by hanging himself to a rafter of a barn. Wednesday, April 12, was the fiftieth fif-tieth anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumpler. WASHINGTON None but United States vessels hereafter will be allowed, by the terms of a. resolution offered Saturday Satur-day by Representative Hayes of California, Cali-fornia, to transport material for the use of the army or navy, or for the construction of the Panama canal and fortifications, narbors, navy yards, naval stations and other works for the United States. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska was stricken with vertigo on Saturday and fell unconscious as he was entering the pension building. He was hurried to a .hospital, and is expected to be out in a few days. Further than the flying of the American flag from the window of the house in which Abraham Lincoln died, there was little outward indication indica-tion in Washington, on Saturday, April 15, that it was the forty-sixth anniversary of the martyred president's presi-dent's death. In May and June the department of commerce and labor will prepare for enforcing the law which requires passenger-carrying vessels of the United States to he equipped with wireless on and after July 15. So many letters commending President Presi-dent Taft's proposed arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain are coming to the White House each day that a special stenographer has been assigned to take care of them. The Democratic party met its first serious trouble in the house of representatives rep-resentatives on Friday. At the close of a session marked by insurgency in the Democratic ranks, by reason of which the Republicans narrowly missed miss-ed scoring a triumph, the house passed pass-ed the Rucker bill for publicity of campaign contributions before election. elec-tion. The Canadian reciprocity bill formally for-mally was laid before the house just before adjournment Friday. FOREIGN It is claimed that a world's record in crime has been established in Brazil, Bra-zil, two brothers having commiited four atrocious and utterly unprovoked murders within two hours. The $30,000,000 loan to China by a group of American financiers, negotiations nego-tiations for which have been going on for some time, was signed at Pekin on Saturday. Forty or more insurrectos were killed kill-ed and more than 100 were wounded in a battle fought between Sauz and Santa Clara canyon, about fifty miles north of Chihua, on Sunday. Ola ,S. Humphrey, an American actress, and Prince Ibrahim Hassan, a cousin of the khedive of Egypt, were married at the registry office in Londan Saturday. The bridegroom is described as a bachelor, aged 32 years, and a prince of the Ottoman empire. So miserable Is the condition of the village of Fosa, in Spain, that the peopie threaten to emigrate in a body unless help is at once given by the government. ' Practically all the people peo-ple are destitute, there being no work of any sort to be done. Thirty women are being trained by the state of Victoria in the education department's conception of household work. At the end of three years, armed with certificates, they will be sent out to carry their domestic knowledge to many a home which lacks the skill of an up-to-date manageress. man-ageress. The Russian government is to look to internal improvement of the country coun-try as well as building a great navy for its defense. One of the plans mapped out is the building of a great canal across the country. Two Hungarian counts are In a serious ser-ious condition from wounds inflicted in a duel when they inei near Vienna. Pistols were first used, three shots being exchanged without effect. The two men, dropping their pistols, rushed rush-ed together with heavy cavalry swords. For originality in this land of fre-I fre-I quent change and novelty a duel between be-tween school boys near Paris, France, is entitled to the record. The young sters, who had trouble in their clas: room, went out to the "field of honor' 1 and fought it out with swords in the presence of a crowd of people, young and old. Mine. Anne Marie Louise Judie, famous fa-mous as a light opera singer, died at Nice, France, April 11. Edward Jardine was found guilty at Goderich, Out., of the murder of Lizzie Anderson on September 20 last and was sentenced to be hanged on June 16. Lieutenant Byasson of the French navy, while making an aeroplane flight at Chevre-use, France, fell with his machine and sustained injuries from which he died later. Ha was maneuvering a monoplane over the field when the machine capsized. j |