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Show i History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed Petitions have been placed in circulation circu-lation at Phoenix, Ariz., for the recall of Governor George W. P. Hunt, on the ground that he is Incompetent and has disregarded the courts. Seven members of one f.imily were instantly killed arid the eighth was probably fatally iujun-d Sunday by a Grand Trunk passenger train which struck their automobile near Detroit. According to a'lv -.. to the Carranza consulate at LI Paso, Carranza columns col-umns have occupied .limine, and Casus Grandes. Chihuahua. A third column is said to he moving toward Ojinaga, opposite Presido, Texas. A million-dollar advertising campaign, cam-paign, stimulating a demand for steel products and opening new selling fields, was urged as a cure for business depressions by George H. Jones of Chicago, before the American Iron & Steel institute in session at Cleveland. WASHINGTON. . Formation of an American trust to handle American products abroad with assurances that they will not reach the belligerents, is announced by Secretary Redlieid. The company will have the unofficial recognition of the government. govern-ment. A naval aviation corps independent of the navy proper, with the same status as the marine corps, will be recommended to congress by Secretary Daniels as one step toward the improvement im-provement of the aviation service at sea. The federal trade commission has ordered an investigation of charges that combinations of cotton buyers exist ex-ist in North and South Carolina and George, to depress the price of cotton. Dr. Gary Grayson, past assistant surgeon sur-geon of the army and naval aide to President Wilson, and referred to as the "Cupid" in the president's romance with Mrs. Gait, is himself a victim of Cupid, and his engagement to Miss Gertrude Gordon, a ward of Mrs. Gait, the president's fiancee, is announced. Elaborate plans for a world-wide campaign for trade by the United 'States are revealed in the estimates of the department of commerce expenditures ex-penditures for the next fiscal year to be presented to congress this winter. FOREIGN. All the allies are now effectively aiding aid-ing Serbia in her struggle against the central powers and Bulgaria. French forces have effected a juncture with the Serbians. Eighty thousand Italian troops will be landed at Salonlki. Russian Rus-sian warships are participating in the bombardment of the Bulgarian coast. A Berlin dispatch says the number of business failures for the first six months in 1913, amounting to 2826, is the lowest record in comparison with former years, and compared with the last six months of t914 shows a decrease de-crease of 423, and a decrease of 1,664 as compared with the first six months in 1914. In her castle at Sayn, near Neuwied, the Princess Leonilla of Sayn-Wittgen-siein has just celebrated her one hundredth hun-dredth birthday. In an effort to outflank General von Buelow's army and relieve the pressure pres-sure on Riga, Russian warships have bombarded three towns on the Baltic coast of the Courland and have landed land-ed troops ninety miles northwest of Riga. Prof. Hans Delbruck, who was the kaiser's tutor in an interview, blames all militarism in Europe on Russia, and declares that the pope and President Presi-dent WSlson could bring about peace. Dr. Alfred F. M. Zimmerman, German Ger-man undersecretary for foreign affairs, at Berlin, has issued an official explanation explan-ation justifying the recent execution in Belgium of Miss Edith Cavell, the British Brit-ish nurse. A sharp fight between the advance guard of Villa's soldiers and a detachment detach-ment of Carranza troops from Agua Prieta, Sonora, occurred early Sunday between Agua Prieta and Fronteras. Turkish troops, with strong artillery artil-lery support, are moving along the Greco-Bulgarian frontier toward Serbia, Ser-bia, according to a dispatch from Sa loniki. It is reported also that the bombardment of Dedeagatch, the Bulgarian Bul-garian port on the Aegean sea, Is about to commence. Greece has declied for the present the allies' offer to her of Cyprus and other concessions, territorial and financial, fin-ancial, in return for her adhv-.rence to the Serbo Greek treaty of a.'Mance, which would mean her military V.d to assist in meeting the Bulgarian -ond Austro-German attacks against her former for-mer ally. The Chinese provinces of Kwantung, Kwangsi and Hunan are on the verge of a revolution, prepared by those who are opposed to the establishment of a monarchy. Great Britain has made a formal of-: of-: fer of the island of Cyprus to Greece ! as soon as Greece undertakes to in-S in-S tervene iu the war on the sides of the I allies, according to the London Daily 1 Telegraph. j According to a statement issued by the finance department, Canada, in ad j ditioti to meeting the ordinary and capital expenditures, has advanced more titan J20.U00.000 during the past six weeks to the imperial treasury to finance temporarily the heavy expenditure expen-diture of the shell committee in the I nonunion. i Emperor William lias notified King AU'on.-o that lie has pardoned the j Countess de Belleville. M!e. Thulier and the other Belgians condemned to death in Belgium for aiding in the i escape of prisoner soldiers, says a dispatch dis-patch to the Exchange Telegraph com pany from Madrid. The Bulgarians, according to their official report, have reached Uskup, an important junction on the Saloniki Xish railway, and have thus placed themselves across the rotue by which the allies' reinforcements for th Serbs would travel. INTERMOUNTAIN. Hr. K. C. Rivers, ase TS. a widely-known widely-known oculist ami prominent Denver c'liliman was drowned Sunday while duck hunting at Barr Lake, a private limiting preserve, 22 miles east of Denver. Den-ver. George I'laragr.tly, ' an Austrian, was arrested at Denver in connection uith the death of George Gray, an 1 'iigllsliman, who was crushed in the Machinery at the Colorado & Southern South-ern railroad shops August 26. A report from Cheyenne, Wyo., that Slate Tax Commissioner .John McGill baa sold his ranch holdings to the Toiler Toi-ler Livestock company for $220,000. The reported deal involves 1,800 head of cattle, 10,000 head of sheep and ti.OOO acres of land. The Rev. James West, pastor of the 1- irst llapllst church at Tacoma, Wash, was accidentally shot through the abdomen ab-domen while deer hunting, and is in a critical condition. Under a recently enacted workmen's work-men's compensation act in Montana, relatives of the dead and Injured in the recent mine accident at Butte will receive benefits aggregating more than $75,000. A New York lecture bureau has telegraphed tel-egraphed Judge Ben Lindsey of the juvenile ju-venile court at Denver an offer of $.10,000 for a three-year contract on the lecture platform. DOMESTIC. The conferences between the committee com-mittee of live representing the striking copper miners of the Clifton-.Morenci and MetcalT districts of Arizona and managers of the-Arizona, Shannon and Detroit Coppei companies closed Saturday, Sat-urday, without agreement. Because of an alleged traffic in carcasses car-casses of cholera-stricken hogs and diseased animals at East St. Louis, the slate livestock commission has suspended sus-pended Dr. Joseph A. Grosskretenz. deputy veterinarian in charge of the inspection department in East St. Denis, pending an investigation. The old light pavilion at Vernon, where many champions fought and won or lost their crowns until prize lighting was legislated out of California, Califor-nia, has -been destroyed by fire. Franklin R. Voorhces, head of a prominent brokerage firm by the same name, was shot and killed .by cue of two robbers whom he surprised in the act of -burglarizing his home In Chicago. Chi-cago. Fifty thousand women in the most magnificent appeal that any cause has ever known in New' York strode up Fifty-ninth street Saturday afternoon in the name of woman suffrage. Robert D. Rowden, an attorney who was secretly married nine days ago, was hacked to death under mysterious circumstances in a boarding house lu i,t. Louis. Secret service men and detectives of New York have unearthed what they declare to be a gigantic plot to blow-tip blow-tip munitions plants and steamships. In the elections to be held on November No-vember 2. full tickets are to be voted upon in only three states. Woman suffrage will be voted on in three states. Five vacancies in the house of representatives are to be filled. The death of Bryan Scott or Knox college, who died in St. Louis of injuries in-juries sustained in a football game, iwas the eighth football fatality this season, according to statistics avail-nble. avail-nble. The national shooting tournament :in progress at the state range at Jacksonville, Jack-sonville, Fla., since October 2 closed Friday with shoots for the United States trophy and the pistol championship. champion-ship. Villa has occupied, the Mormon colony col-ony of Colonia Oaxaca and has taken complete possession of the colony, according ac-cording to the reports brought to El Paso by American settlers. Marauders, continuing a campaign of arson across two states, started four fires early Friday in a big hop ranch across the American river from Sacramento. Sac-ramento. Cal., and did damage estimated esti-mated at 3.".,000. The establishment of a permanent council for national defense was urged ft3 a primary measure of preparedness by speakers at a mass meeting held under the auspices of the National Security Se-curity league at Boston. Two policemen shot two boys off a motorcycle in the Eas; Lake park district dis-trict at Los Angeles, killing one and probably fatally injuring the other. The police claim they believed the .boys were stealing the motorcycle. Arkansas lumber mills will furnish apr-oi:uately 3,o ono.noo feci of red oak tl 'her o the Russian government within tee next few weeks. Announcement that the human voice had been successfully projected across the Atlantic was made Thursday on behalf of John J. Carty. chief engineer engi-neer of the American Telephone & Telegraph company, at the company's offices at New York. A message was sent from Arlington, Va.. to Eiffel Tower, Paris. President Wilson has authorized the taking of a special census in El Paso. Texas. The law provides that a special spe-cial census may be ordered at the re? quest of a city willing to he ir the ex-Jer. ex-Jer. ;e. |