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Show Four detective sergeants are accompanying accom-panying Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chicago, in his rounds about the city in his speaking tour, in "anticipation , of an attack on his life, similar to the' shooting of ex-President Roosevelt. Arthur Smith placed his financee, ! Miss Aimee Cour, beside him in hi3 i biplane, at Fort Wayne, Ind., and flew to Hillsdale, Mich., seventy-five miles away, where they were married. Sunday was Theodore Roosevelt's fifty-fourth birthday and he celebrated quietly indoors with his family. Although no word has been received by the American board from any of the missionaries in the Balkans, no anxiety is felt for their safety. In tow of 'he steamer Watson, the coatwise liner Camino arrived at San Francisco, six days out from Portland, Or, with a story of furious weather, danger and disablement. Thanks to the wireless telegraph, the period of suspense sus-pense was shot. Governor Osborn of Michigan was one of the thirteen persons injured at Chicago in street car and train wrecks due to a dense fog. The governor escaped es-caped with a slight hurt to his right arm and Mrs. Osborn, who accompanied accompan-ied him, was unhurt. WASHINGTON The war department officials are delighted over the state of Pearl Harbor Har-bor defenses proved by last week's Hawaiian war games. A brief dispatch dis-patch has been received, giving a synopsis of work. The latest candidate mentioned to succeed Dr. Harvey W. Wiley as chief of the bureau of chemistry is Dr. Carl L. Ashberg, chemical biologist in the bureau of plant industry. President Taft got back to Washington Washing-ton on Sunday after an absence of. nearly two months. With the exception excep-tion of engagements in New York and Newark and one in Cincinnati, the president has nothing in prospect to take him awav from the r.anital. History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I' 1 INTERMOUNTAIN Friend Hyde, until recently superintendent super-intendent or a mining company at Atlanta, At-lanta, Ida., committed suicide at Seattle by inhaling gas. Incidentally, the two-story house in which he resided re-sided was wrecked and two neighbors were seriously injured Dy an explosion which occurred when they entered Hyde's room. Oliver W. Bates who was recently indicted by the grand jury at Boise, Idaho, on a white slavery charge, was arrested near Cardston, and will be deported to the United States. Emil Sorenson, who was arrested at Seattle, charged with opium smuggling, smug-gling, was pardoned from the federal prison less than six months ago by President Taft on the recommendation of customs officers. Walter Sanderson, aged 15, was accidentally ac-cidentally shot and killed while quail hunting near Salt Lake, the shooting being done by his chum, a 14-year-old boy. A blessing from Pope Pius, sent by Cardinal Merry Del Val, and read to thousands of persons by Cardinal John Farley of New York, was a feature of the .services attending the dedication of the new Immaculate conception cathedral in Denver on Sunday. A general strike of all copper min- Walter J. Tigan of Illinois, a third-year third-year man at the naval academy at Annapolis, who was court-martialed for having hazed a plebe by standing him on his head, has been dismissed from the academy by Secretary Meyer. Speculation connects the approaching approach-ing return to Washington of President Taft, contrary to arrangements previously pre-viously made for a sojourn at Hot Springs, Va., with the critical situation in Mexico, and there are hints of the possiblity of a special session of congress con-gress to relieve the president of a decision de-cision as to whether or not the time is ripe for intervention. Fears are felt in the navy department depart-ment for the United States transport Prairie, with tiO marines and the United Uni-ted States commission aboard, which was last heard from on October 2 off the coast of Santo Domingo. ' FOREIGN The swiftness and efficiency of the onward movement of the armies of the allied Balkan states is making Europe open her eyes. From the north and all along the line from Greece on the south they are crowding back the boundaries of the Ottoman empire. The ofteu-predicted and long-delayed day when the Turk will have his back against the wall seems at hand. Famine in Scutari and Adrianople is ers is not regarded as likely by President Presi-dent Charles H. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners, who has just returned to Denver from a tour of investigation in-vestigation through all the western copper fields. One man killed and another badly scalded is the toll exacted by a head-on head-on collision between two engines running run-ning free and a heavy freight train on the D. &. R. G. line near American Fork, Utah. The news comes from Portland that Harriman officials are preparing to s ike another blow against the Gouia and Hill lines in the traffic war now being waged in the northwest, and within a month will- issue an order closing the Denver gateway against the Burlington, Rock Island, Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific roads. In a clash between strikers and guards at Bingham, Utah, four men were shot, none fatally. .Three of the injured men are strikers. DOMESTIC The plant- of the Independent Pack-ng Pack-ng company, a five-story building near the stock yards, in Chicago, was practically prac-tically destroyed by fire Sunday. The loss was estimated at $100,000. For the first time since he came back to Oyster Bay from Chicago to recuperate recup-erate from his bullet wound, Colonel adding physical suffering to the wounds caused by Montenegrin and Bulgarian bullets and shells. Bread was $3 a loaf in Scutari on Sunday. The method of manufacturing sugar from cane so that the by-products will pay the cost of manufacture and leave the sugar a free product is announced by G. W. McMullen, the Canadian agricultural agri-cultural chemist. Felix Diaz, captured leader of an abortive rebellion against the Madero government of Mexico, assumed all responsibility for the uprising, in a statement made at 1m trial by court-martial court-martial at Vera Cruz. General Felix Diaz, leader of the rev- olution recently inaugurated in Vera Cruz, and three of his confederates i have been sentenced to death by the court-martial before which they were tried in that city. While not actually under martial law Havana is now under absolute military protection against disorders arising from the heated political campaign. Gen. Felix Diaz, the leader of the recent revolt here and Major Zerate, Colonel Antonio Migoni and Lieutenant Roosevelt on Saturday ventured outdoors. out-doors. He discovered that he is far weaker than he had thought. Charles J. Glidden and a score of other motorists, finished the Great Lakes to the Gulf tour on scneduled ime, reaching New Orleans Sunday afternoon. The journey wa3 without special incident. Nineteen persons are reported to have been ;stricken blind as a result of gazing at a light caused by workmen welding with an electric process on a trolley wire at Anderson, Ind. The total re;is'ration for the November No-vember election in California' is 988,-706, 988,-706, according to figures completed by the secretary of state. Brig. Gen. Henry Beebe Carrington, a noted Indian fighter and veteran of the civil war, died at his home at Hyde Park, Mass., Saturday, aged 88. David Krumish, aged 11, who fell on a picket fence in New York, a picket penetrating his left breast three inches, owes his life to the fact hat his heart is on the right side. Had iis heart been normal, he would have been instantly killed. Lima, officers under Diaz in his attempt at-tempt to overthrow the government, have been condemned to death by court-martial. According to Chancellor Von Beth- ; mann-Hollweg of Germany, meat famines are caused by the fast growth of cities. To the diet he states that tariffs and taxes have nothing to do with the problem. He suggested an encouragement of interest in farming might offer a solution. The foreign office at Berlin expects that intervention by the powers will follow the first decisive battle in the Balkans. Germany is fully prepared to co-operate with the other powers with this end in view. The Turkish garrison at Kirk-Kilis-seh, consisting of 5,000 men, surrendered surrend-ered to the Bulgarians. Two Turkish generals were among those captured. Viscount Peel, who was speaker of the house of commons from 1SS4 to 1S95, died Thursday at the age of S3. He was created a viscount on his retirement from the speakership. He was known in the United States as chairman of the British commission lo the St. Louis exposition. Robert Barr, the Scottish novelist, and ed'tor of the Idler, died on the 22nd of heart failure at his residence at Woldingham Survey, England. Ho had been ill for a month. Robert Barry was as well known in America ; as in England. Coney Island was saved from a serious seri-ous conflagration by the prompt work of the isiand firemen, assisted by apparatus ap-paratus from Brooklyn. One hotel and several bath houses were destroyed. de-stroyed. Police Lieutenant Charles Becker spends his hours in the Tombs planning plan-ning his fight to annul the verdict of the jury that convicted him of the murder of Herman Rosenthal Several officials of the Cloverleaf railroad were injured and a negro sorter was killed in the wreck of a special train bound for St. Louis, near Fillmore, 111. Lieutenant Charles Becker, charged with procuring the death of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, in New York, was convicted of murder in the first degree at three and a half minutes alter midnig'.U Thursday morning. Definite evidence has been secured by the police at Bridgeport, Conn., that the murder of Jennie Cavaglieri a young Italian woman, near Stratford, Strat-ford, alter she had been taken there by five men in an automobile, was an act of vengeance executed upon her for betraying secrets of "white slave-traffickers. slave-traffickers. The state supreme court of Nebraska Nebras-ka affirmed the ruling of the district court which held that the nominees of the Progressive party were entitled to a place on the ballot at the general election next month. |