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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN 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. Two men entered the Citizens' National Na-tional bank at Glenwood Springs, C'clo., in bread daylight and after holding hold-ing up two clerks robbed the safe and escaped on horseback with $10,000. A posse following the robbers exchanged shots with them, but they escaped. The taking of testimony in the Spokane Spo-kane freight rate cases has begun in Spokane before Commissioner Prouty af the Interstate CommerQe commission. com-mission. Presirent Taft reached Seattle on September 29, just two weeks after leaving Boston. The stampede to the Iditarod country, coun-try, in Alaska, promises to rival the rush to Dawson in the days of the Klondike boom. The pay streak is Dne mile in. length and 600 feet wide, running three cents to $1.25 to the. pan, DOMESTIC. New York City's share in the Hudson-Fulton celebration ended Saturday Satur-day night with a carnival parade and a display of fireworks and warship illuminations il-luminations on the Hudson river. Fire that threatened to destroy an sntire square in Pittsburg was gotten under control after $100,000 damage had been done. With delegates representing eighteen eigh-teen states present, the biennial convention con-vention of the National German-American alliance opened in Turner hall in Cincinnati. One of the slogans of the organization is anti-prohibition. Unless some legal loophole may he found. Charles W. Morse, the convicted convict-ed financier, will have to go back to the Tombs, owing to the lapse of two Commander Rcbery E. Peary wa given a royal welcome upen his a:' rival a' New York, on Ootol. r 1, on the steamer Rdosevelt. Peary arrived ar-rived in time to take part in the 60-mile 60-mile Hudson-Fulton naval parade Irom New York City to Newburgh. A Vnited States torpedo boat rammed ram-med the sightseeing excursion steamer steam-er Romona of Hudson in Newburgh bay. Little damage was done. The passengers on the Romona were panic stricken. Forest fires are causing considerable consider-able damage in many parts of the country at present. It will be several months before the total destruction is known, for the fire season has considerable consid-erable time to run. Abraham C. Eby, formerly mayor ol Burkeville, Va., who was convicted recently of using the mails to extort money from the Pennsylvania Rail road company, has been sentenced to eighteen months in the governmenl prison at Atlanta, Ga. WASHINGTON. An earnest appeal to the federal authorities au-thorities for further assistance for the storm sufferers in Terre Bonne parish, Louisiana, has been sent to Washington. There is no provision in the new tariff law for the remission of duty on zinc withdrawn for exportation from a bonded smelter, according to a treasury department ruling in a case relating to a zinc company at Pueblo, Colo. A cut of practically eight and one-half one-half million dollars in excess of ordinary ordi-nary disbursements over ordinary receipts re-ceipts so far this fiscal year, as compared com-pared with the corresponding period of last year, a million dollars a month gain in internal revenue, is reported by the treasury department. General Eliphalet Whittlesey, for twenty-five years secretary of the Board of Indian commissioners, died at Washington, September 29, aged 88 years. He was a native of New Britain, Conn. Dr. Anton Dohrn, fotmder and director di-rector of the famous biological station sta-tion at Naples, Italy, and well known to naturalists throughout the world, is dead, according to a cablegram received re-ceived at the Smithsonian institution in Washington. Raisin wine is taxable, according to a decision rendered by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Cazell. The tax will take effect October 1. All internal inter-nal revenue agents were notified by days between the expiration, on October Octo-ber 9 of his bail bond of $125,000, and the calling of his case before the United States circuit court of appeals on October 11. Parker Norton, owner of the Mineola Press, and Edward Baker, proprietor of a Mineola garage, were instantly killed in an automobile accident near Mineola, L. I. There has been a fresh outbreak of night riding in Kentucky. A tenant on the farm of T. J. McDowell, who had steadfastly refused to join the pool of tobacco growers, was taken from his home at night, stripped to tho waist and given thirty lashes. William H. Palmer, head of the firm controlling the largest fleet of coasting coast-ing schooners in the world, is dead at Boston, at the age of 50. The trial of Patrick Calhoun on a charge of having offered a bribe to a supervisor of San Francisco has been continued until November 15, at the request of the defense. John H. Manrow, a veteran engineer engi-neer in the employ of the Southern Pacific company, shot and killed his wife at Oakland, Gal., and then suicided. sui-cided. Manrow deserted his wife six months ago and had often threatened to kill her. William Mitchell, a white man, convicted of the murder of Squire W. H. Hindman in Rutherford county, Tennessee, and Cecil Palmer, colored, col-ored, sentenced to death for criminally crimi-nally assaulting a woman near Lebanon, Leba-non, Tenn., were hanged at the state prison at Nashville. The Southern . Pacific railroad pleaded guilty in the United States .-strict court at Los Angeles to rebating re-bating and was fined $1,000 by Judge V ellborn. A voluntary increase in wages for the 2200 moiormen and conductors employed by the Detroit United Ra'l-way Ra'l-way in Detroit and on interurban lines, who have been in the service of the company two years or more, has been announced. t rederick K. Burton, a newspaper man and novelist, died suddenly at ! iTtVe Hopatcorg. N. J. The cause is supposed to have been heart failure, tar. tiurton was the author of several novels, among them "Strong Heart." t---, -- a musician and composer of ability. Airs. .1. Jones, wife of a wealthv citizen citi-zen of Little Rock. Ark., wa? found by the Chicago police after she had wandered about Chicago lost and hungry hun-gry for two days, because she could i kno how to ask her way back, where they were stopping, and did no: know how to sak her way back. A joint debate on the tariff by William Wil-liam J. Bryan and Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas, at Atlanta. Ga.. is assured for some time next month. Captain Inman Scalby. commander of the White Star line steamer. Republic Re-public when she was sunk last February Febru-ary after a collision with the Italian steamer. Florence, has entered the University at Michigan as a freshman law student at 50 years of age. Henry Whiting Flagg. son of George A. Flagg, secretary and treasurer of the Calumet & Hecla Mining company, com-pany, was found dead by suicide in a room above the office of the company in Ashburton place. Boston. Young Fhigg was employed as a clerk for the Calumet & Hecla telegraph. FOREIGN. The report comes from Morocco that El Roghi, the pretender to the throne, was executed by Sultan Mulai Hafid and his chamberlain, who threw El Roghi, manacled and helpless, help-less, into a den of lions. After the lions had fearfully crushed the unfortunate un-fortunate man, they removed the body from the cage, poured oil on it, and burned the body. The British steamer Clan Mackintosh, belonging to the Madras Steam Navigation Navi-gation company, which was reported from Rangoon to have blown up at sea., has arrived at Calcutta. The steamer had met with no accident. Writs have been issued against Home Secretary Gladstone and the prison officials of Birmingham, England, in connection with an action for assault for the forcible feeding with a stomach stom-ach pump last week of a number of suffragetts who persisted in going on a "hunger strike" while in jail. A Spanish force from Zeluan, re-connoitering re-connoitering in the direction of Sokel Jemis, encountered the Moors and met with a serious reverse. General Diez Vicario, three other officers and fourteen men were killed and 182 men wounded. Cholera has become epidemic at Seoul, Korea, more than 500 cases having hav-ing been reported since the disease made its appearance in that city. Thus far no foreigners have been attacked. The authorities are sparing neither money nor work to stop the progress of the disease. A new race track under a new concession con-cession where races will be run every winter and possibly daily, will he built in the federal district of Mexico. It will be completed within five months, and night racing may be inaugurated. in-augurated. The people of Spain are celebrating the final victory of their troops in the war with the Moors, the war now being be-ing regarded as at an end. As it is manifestly impossible for Morocco to pay the indemnity demanded, Spanish occupation will follow. Unprecedented cvld weather in the valleys in the vicinity of Mexico City has destroyed the corn crops. It is estimated that the loss will reach twenty million dollars. The thermometer thermom-eter early Wednevd&y registered :2 degrees below the freezing point. The Fnglish house cf lords has passed the second reading of the Irish land bill, but promised tn introduce drastic amendments when it reached committee. It was stated in. the lobby that if the lords omit or weaken the powers' provisions for the compulsory purchase of land, the nationalists will refuse to accept whatever may be the view of the government. The Paris Figaro says that Cardinal Satolli came to France recently and at a secret meeting with the French cardinals explained what the pope expected ex-pected of them. The sequel of his visit was the letter issued by the French episcopate, denouncing the existing public school system ol France. The lord mayor of London has an tiounced his intention of opening a mansion house fund to assist Captair Robert F. Scott to raise money foi his expedition to plant the union jack at the south pole. |
