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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed n 1 I NTERMOU NTAI IN A man named Burke, a sheepherd-er sheepherd-er for Jacob Mills, near Lusk, Wyo., stabbed and killed a man named Black, a camp mover, after a deadly duel with knives. Dan Anderson, an old freighter, was killed from ambush while driving driv-ing from the P. Cross cattle camp on B.ig Box Elder creek, in Montana, to his home. He had delivered a load of hay to camp and his dead body was found in the bottom of the hay rack by his wife upon the return of the team to his home. Gasping for breath after two hemorrhages hem-orrhages from the lungs due to bullet bul-let wounds inflicted by Policeman Charels B. Hewston, with whom he engaged in a revolver duel at Portland, Port-land, Frank Ryan, a miner of Missoula, Mis-soula, Mont., made a dying statement in which he denies that he was guilty of any crime. Two trainmen were killed and three injured in a collision of Illinois Cen tral freight trains between Grants-burg Grants-burg and Simpson, Ills., Sunday. A mammoth Christmas tree for the 200 or more children made fatherless by the Cross Mountain explosion of December 9 was given at Briceville. Tenn., Saturday. The gifts, consisting consist-ing of clothing, toys and confections, were purchased with funds conlribut ed by menj women and children in many states'. Governor Emmett O'Neal of Alabama Ala-bama paroled twenty-six convicts and paroled for from twenty to ninety days four others as his Christmas gift to Alabama prisoners. Those paroled had been convicted of crimes ranging from robbery to murder. A mail car containing much Christmas Christ-mas matter was burned when a Northwestern railway train, east-bcund east-bcund from Oakdale to Omaha, was derailed near Albion. Neb. WASHINGTON The census bureau has issued a bulletin bul-letin showing that in 1910 there were only 3,G6S,700 turkeys on farms in this country, while in 1900 there were 6,-594,095.. 6,-594,095.. At this rate the turgey will be in the dodo class by 1290. Over a billion dollars' worth ol merchandise passed between the United States and British territory in the ten months endinp with October, Oc-tober, for which statistic? kve been compiled. Reindeer meat frosn Alaska soon may be a food common to the American Amer-ican table. This opinion is expressed DOMESTIC Five thousand poor families of the two Kansas Cities who went to bed Sunday night with saddened hearts because their pocketbooks were not bountiful enough to provide for a merry mer-ry Christmas, awoke Christmas morning morn-ing to find huge baskets of food, clothing cloth-ing and toys at their doors. Fire discovered early Sunday in the center of the business section of Har-risburg, Har-risburg, Pa., did damage estimated at ?100,000. Several firemen were overcome over-come by smoke. The American congressional committee com-mittee on interstate and foreign commerce, com-merce, which has been -making an inspection in-spection of the Panama canal, left Colon for the United States on Sunday. Sun-day. Three trainmen were killed and a fourth was probably fatally injured Sunday when a double-header freight train on the Virginia and Southwestern Southwest-ern railway ran into a boulder that had fallen On the track in the natural tunnel forty miles west of Bristol, Tenn. . Relatives have expressed the belief that John Scanlan, president of the Newburg (Missouri) bank, who has been missing since Wednesday, had been murdered for a large sum of by William F. Lopp, in charge of the government's reindeer service, who has just returned from a tour of inspection in-spection through Alaska on behalf of the United States bureau of education. edu-cation. Elaborate general regulations for the protection of explosives and other dangerous articles by freight the interstate commerce commission. commis-sion. President Taft sent another of his promised series of messages to congress con-gress on Thursday. This time he dealt with currency reform, Panama canal tolls and various governmental questions. Typhoid innoculation is to be introduced intro-duced by official order among the field force of the department of agriculture. agri-culture. This is the first time on record rec-ord that a civilian department of the government has taken such a step. The $500 limit on postal savings banks deposits will be removed in the near future, according to statements at the postoffice department Thursday. Thurs-day. i FOREIGN An official dispatch from Melilla, Morocco, reports an extended engagement engage-ment with tribesmen December 2. The Spaniards lost nine killed and thirty- money. Mrs. Adelaide Louise Erlanger obtained ob-tained an interlocutory decree of divorce di-vorce at Nyack, N. Y., Saturday, from Abraham L. Erlanger, the theatrical manager, with $1,500 a month alimony. ali-mony. When the legislature convenes in Phoenix, Arizona, some time during February, it will be asked to adopt the Swiss system of recall and let the Oregon system, which was voted out of the constitution December 12, on the ultimatum of President Taft, go by the board. Mayor Brand Whitcock of Toledo, O., announced Saturday that on the expiration ex-piration of his two-year term, which begins January 1, 1912, he will quit politics forever. He will devote his time to literary work. Mrs. Lewis Shank on Saturday actively ac-tively reinforced her husband, the mayor of Indianapolis, in his campaign cam-paign against the high cost of Christmas Christ-mas feasting. She stood in the public pub-lic market, selling dressed turkeys and chickens, walnuts and mince meat purchased by the mayor directly direct-ly from the producers. David Stettsy, floor walker in an Omaha ten-cent store, was instaii( y killed in the presence of a throng of Christmas shoppers during the rush Saturday evening. The killing was done in a scuffle with a shopper and is believed by the police to have been the result of an accident. Charging that inmates of Conk county, Illinois, charitable institu-y institu-y tions at Dunning have been robbed of money and personal property aggregating aggre-gating thousands of dollars were made Saturday by Dr. Stephen J. Pie-trowski, Pie-trowski, recently appointed superintendent. superin-tendent. Before a Christmas tree, which he was about to decorate, Fred Feasel, manager of a dry goods store at Sand w'ich, Ills., was shot and killed Sunday by his wife, who then committed suicide. sui-cide. She had shown tendencies to mental aberration since the birth of a baby six months ago. As punishment for carrying on a stock swindle by mail, alleged to have extended over a period of two j years and to have netted millions in j profits, four promoters of the firm of Burr Bros., incorporated, of New York City, have each been sentenced to a year's imprisonment on Black-well's Black-well's island". Five persons were taken into custody cus-tody after the discovery by the police po-lice of the partly dismembered body of Miss Mary Bolduc, 22 years old, of Manchester, N. H., in the apartment of Mrs. Jennie A. Shattuck at Jamaica Ja-maica Plains, Mass. Fred H. Thompson, a criminal lawyer law-yer prominent In southern California, was found guilty at Los Angeles of having accepted $15,000 from Orlando Altorre, a clerk in the money order department of the Los Angeles post-I post-I office, knowing the money to have been stolen. eight wounded. Albert Bolson, recently arrived from England, confessed at Winnipeg, the police say, to the murder of Caleb Barton and John Gould, proprietors of a saloon at Nelson, on Friday. They entered the saloon while Boson was at the safe. A band of Chinese brigands on Saturday Sat-urday attacked an imperial convoy which was on the way to Kirin, China, with a large amount of bullion. bul-lion. The robbers carried off $850,-000. $850,-000. The strike o fdockers and carters at Dundee, .Scotland, was settled through the mediation of the government govern-ment arbitrators Saturday morning. The men will receive the advance in wages they demanded. That the coming sugar crop in Cuba will break all records appears now to be reasonably certain. Conservative Con-servative authorities who recently accepted 1,700.000 tons as the highest high-est possible production for the year now predict 1,825,000 tons, which would exceed the record of 1910 by 25,000 tons. A heavy earthquake was experienced experi-enced at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, Nicar-agua, Saturday afternoon. The shock is said to have been the strongest felt in many years. The extent of the disturbance is not known, and -so far no damage has been reported. Persia has yielded to the demand of the Russian ultimatum that W. Morgan Shuster, an American who holds the post of treasurer general in the Persian government, be dismissed dis-missed from the service. Although the reports of Japanese military intervention in China are premature, it is understood that preparations prep-arations have been completed to send an expedition to China if necessary. neces-sary. A legislative proposal to provide for tariff war schedules applicable to the United States at the expiration of the Russo-Amerlcan treaty of com merce and navigation of 1S32 has been introduced in the Russian duma by ex-Presirlent Guchkoff and others representing the Octoborist and Nationalist Na-tionalist parties, which control the majority of the duma. The eastern districts of France vero swept by a violent tempest or rain and wind on Thursday, causing much dama-re to prope-ty and fishing craft. A number of fishermen were drowned. At the suggestion of Dr. Lyman Abbott Ab-bott and Dr. Mary Eddy, an American Ameri-can woman who has spent many years in Turkey, President Taft has taken under advisement the tendering tender-ing of the good offices of the United States as mediator in the Turko-Ital-lan war. The prosecutions against the coal combine In Australia, on which writs were served on August 20, 1910, for breaches of the Australian anti-trust law, resulted in each member of the trust being fined $2,500 by tte fed- |