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Show ,o History of ' Past Week IMimrmirmiiiiwiiBiM-iiD.-jiT.Ji. "prr The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o m INTERMOUNTAIN. Thomas Henry Anderson, associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, died at a Dern-ver Dern-ver hospital following an operation. He came to Colorado last May to regain re-gain his health. Charles W. Fairbanks, Republican candidate for vice-president, made three different addresses to Salt Lake audiences on Saturday. Captain H. W. Wilson, medical corps, Second Idaho infantry, was shot through the leg by an Carranzista soldier sol-dier from the Mexican side of the border bor-der at Nogales, Ariz. He was not dangerously dan-gerously injured. Utah's thirty-eighth annual state fair opened to the general public September Sep-tember 30, to be open a week. Charles Warren Fairbanks, Republican Repub-lican viceresidential nominee, delivered deliv-ered an address in Salt Lake City, September 30. The First squadron of the Utah national na-tional guard has been ordered home from Nogales, Ariz. The order was issued Thursday night by Major General Gen-eral Frederick Funston at San Antonio, An-tonio, Texas. Members of the, First squadron will leave for Utah as soon as fresh troops reach Nogales ' to relieve re-lieve them. A. C. Thomas, Republican chairman of Sanders county, was shot and seriously seri-ously wounded at Thompson Falls, Mont, by Miss Edith Colby, a newspaper news-paper woman. Miss Colby's reason for shooting, she told the sheriff after her arrest, was that Thomas had insulted in-sulted her. DOMESTIC. Neighbors of Agnes and Alice Smet-ters, Smet-ters, maiden sisters, aged 48 and 50 years, seeing no activity about the home of the two women, at Lancaster, O., entered the house and found the two women and Miss Mar Stretton, 30, a visitor, sitting erect in rocking chairs and all. three dead. There was s no sign of violence or poisoning. Alleged blackmailers of a man described de-scribed as a "wealthy eastern manufacturer" manu-facturer" were taken into custody by federal agents in a raid on an apartment apart-ment house in Chicago. Eighty-five per cent of the 40,000 members of six railway shopmen's (unions on 20 western railways voted to on twenty western railways voted to refuse compromise proposals of the railroads to demands for an eight-hour day and a wage increase of 5 cents an hour. With two bullet holes in the forehead fore-head and one in the right arm, the body of a woman about 60 years old, believed to be Mary Kimball, Elkhart, Ind., was found by two boys in a wooded wood-ed section two miles east of Grand Rapids, Mich. Fifty-three persons were injured when the floor of the First Presbyterian Presbyter-ian church of Johnson City, N. Y., collapsed col-lapsed during the cornerstone v ceremonies. cere-monies. Seven of this number are seriously hurt, but it is believed all will recover. The American liner Philadelphia came into port at New York on Sunday Sun-day with fire raging in the hold beneath be-neath the steerage dining room. For three days the crew had waged a thrilling fight against the flames, and only a few of the 646 passengers aboard knew of the peril which threatened them. Captain John Rossi was drowned when his fishing schooner Savarina piled up on the rocks of Santo Thomas point, thirty miles south of Esenada, lower California. Edward P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe -ailway, has sent to the stockholders of the company an appeal to them to work for the passage of radical legislation to meet the situation created by the passage by congress of the eight-hour eight-hour law at the request of the four Frederick L. Small, whose wife was found apparently murdered in the charred ruins of the Small cottage near Mountainview, N. H.. is charged with murder. Mrs. Small had been beaten over the head and strangled by a rope tied around her neck. A plan for the reorganization of the International Mercaniijg Marine company, com-pany, which paves the way for the discharge of the receivers for the concern, con-cern, was approved at a meeting of stockholders in Iloboken, N. .1. Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain. known for her striking beamy and frequently fre-quently called the most beautiful suffragist suf-fragist in the United States, is going to take the stump against President Wilson and the Democratic national candidates. After a search by federal secret service ser-vice agents, which has extended over the entire country, William Kuobloch. wun escaped from the federal penitentiary peni-tentiary at Atlanta, Ga., August 29, with Lieutenant" Robert Fay. convicted con-victed bonvb plotter, was arrested in New York City. "Heavy exports of gold from this country to Europe may follow the close of the European war," said Paul M. Warburg, vice governor of the federal fed-eral reserve board, in his address before be-fore the American Bankers' association associa-tion at Kansas City. Two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Veeder, 70 years old, and Mrs. Caroline Cuther-beck, Cuther-beck, aged 68, both widows, were suffocated suf-focated by smoke from a fire which caused slight damage in a three-story frame building in New York City. Mother and son, Mrs. George Keith, aged 45, and Thomas Keith, aged 17, were drowned in the Chesapeake & Ohio canal at Point of Rocks, Md., when the mother plunged into the canal to save the life of her son. He fell into twelve feet of water. Ten persons were killed and thirty-three thirty-three injured when a Grand Trunk switch engine pushing three freight cars crushed into a crowded street car at Detroit. Officials of the Eastern Forwarding company, American agents for the German line of submarine merchantmen, merchant-men, were undisturbed over the report re-port that a life preserver marked "Bremen" had 'been picked up off the Maine coast. WASHINGTON. Prices of meat animals, hogs, cattle, sheep and chickens, increased 4.1 per cent from August 15 to September 15, compared with an average increase of 0.9 per cent in the same period the last six years. Responsibility for any statement that after the European war Japan would renew negotiations with the United States over emigration and alien land legislation was disclaimed by the Japanese embassy in a statement state-ment issued by the charge, Tokichi Tanaka. A personal letter from the emperor of Russia replying to President Wilson's Wil-son's note to the heads of five belligerent bellig-erent nations requesting concessions for the shipment of relief supplies into Poland has been received at the state department. American exports have passed the half million-dollar a month mark. Statistics Sta-tistics issued by the department of commence show that goods sent abroad in August were valued at $510,000,000, a record not only for this country, but for the world. FOREIGN. A bill just passed by the Norwegian legislature permits men of military age to choose whether they will serve their regulation period with the colors col-ors or go to wood-cutting in the gov- ernment forests. , Troops of the central powers have crushed the Rumanians between two forces in a battle which raged for three days in central Transylvania, says a London dispatch. The Rumanians are reported fleeing in disorder. The Chinese government has concluded con-cluded an agreement with the Siems-Carey Siems-Carey company of St. Paul, Minn., fina'nced.by the American International Internation-al corporation, for the construction of more than 2,000 miles of railways. The probable cost of this work will be more than $100,000,000. General Carlos Ozuma arrived at Chihuahua on Sunday with 1,500 infantry infan-try and cavalry from Saltillo by way of Torreon to take the field in western Chihuahua against the bandits led by Villa and Jose Ynez Salazar. Both houses of the Danish parliament parlia-ment passed the bill providing for a plebiscite on the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. It is believed the matter will be settled by the end of November. .. The military critic of the Frankfurter Frankfur-ter Zeitung says conditions for Zeppelin Zeppe-lin attacks on England are much more difficult than even a year ago. The British, he says, have had time to carry their defense measure to the highest perfection. Sofia reports state that an aeroplane dropped five shells on Sofia, killing one man and two horses and slightly wounding a woman and a child. The report comes from Mexico City that General Lucio Bianco has been sentenced to five years and nine months' imprisonment on a technical charge of disobedience of military orders or-ders and usurpation of authority. A Berlin dispatch says eleven British Brit-ish fishing steamships were sunk by a German submarine in the North sea September 23. Four Belgian lighters were sunk in one day at the entrance to the English channel by another submarine. Over a hundred Villa followers were killed, the bandit leader Baudelio Uribe was taken prisoner, and heavy casualties suffered by Carranza forces in a terrific fight at Cusihauririachic, it is reported. The Greek ministry is reported preparing pre-paring an ultimatum to Bulgaria as a prelude to war. This document, it Is said, will contain such demands and be set forward in such verbage that hostilities can be the only result. Floods have made breaches in the river levees in the region of Melbourne, Mel-bourne, Australia, inundating 100 square miles of the country. The town of Horocco has been virtually submerged. According to imprisoned crews of the armored automobiles used by the British on the Somme front, the famous fam-ous "tanks," as the British soldiers call them, the new machines have proved a complete failure, says a Berlin Ber-lin dispatch. The Danish parliamentary committee commit-tee has decided that a plebiscite shall be held before the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States is submitted to the rigsdag. This action was taken on the amendment of the conservatives. Within less than a century. Crete on Tuesday accomplished its eleventh revolution. The only resistance was met at Heraclion, not from the king's soldiers, but from anti-Venizelist inhabitants. in-habitants. Only a few were killed in the fighting, which lasted more than two days. |