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Show t! History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed a INTERMOUNTAIN. Robert 'Mitchell, aged 45, chairman of the Huerfano County Democratic . central eommiittee, and editor and owner of the Independent, was shot and, it is thought, fatally wounded at his home at Walsenburg, Colo., by an unknown assailant. Several automobiles were destroyed by a fire at Payette, Idaho, which started in Henshaw's livery stable and quickly spread to the Shank's livery and later to Bain's garage. All three buildings are a total loss. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has for- As a result of a heavy rainstorm, the streets and many buildings in Duj buque, Iowa, were flooded. Railroad tracks were submerged and numerous) washouts of roadbeds reported. Sentences ranging from six months in jail to one year and a day in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan-were Kan-were pronounced on the five defendants defend-ants convicted at Corpus Christi, Texas, of conspiracy to defraud the United States by voting unqualified aliens. A strike of bricklayers which had partially suspended building operations opera-tions at Omaha for several weeks, ended Friday when all idle men returned re-turned to work. To stop visits of the police to their places of business, two saloonkeeper at the trial at Indianapolis of Mayo;) Joseph E. Bell, charged with election conspiracy, declared they contributed $25 each to the Democratic campaign fund in 1914. WASHINGTON. President Wilson will not call a special session of the senate. While administration officials declare he has not finally made up his Mind, many of them considered it certain there would be no special session. State department officials indicated many laneu uvtr uic uiauaecuivut i. all his father's interests, and for all practicable purposes is now In control con-trol of the Rockefeller millions and will ibe their guiding force in the future, fu-ture, according to advices coming from Pueblo, Colo. Judges Granby Hillyer and A. W. McHendrie of the Third district court of Colorado, have granted the motion of H. H. Hawkins and F. W. Clark, attorneys for the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America, for a change of venue. The supreme court of Colorado has been asked to take original jurisdiction jurisdic-tion in a suit to determine the status of state-wide prohibition, which becomes be-comes effective January 1 next.. The Western States Water Power conference at Portland adjourned Thursday after adopting, 28 to 7, the majority report of the resolutions committee declaring for state control of the public domain. DOMESTIC. Major General Funston, commanding command-ing United States troops on the border, bor-der, and General Nafarrate, the Car-ranza Car-ranza comimander, disclaim for their men responsibility for the fighting Friday near Progresso, Texas, in which one American trooper was killed kill-ed and an officer was wounded. A cloudburst which covered a stretch of country north of Galena, Ills., for twenty miles, caused the greatest flood Galena has experienced for twenty-five years. The water covered cov-ered the business streets of Galena to a depth of from two to ten feet. Two masked men held up the store Sunday that the chance of recognition of the Carranza faction by the Pan-American Pan-American conference on October 9 is not so strong as it was a week ago. Washington has been host this week to the members of the Grand Army of 'the Republic. About 30,000 veterans, it is estimated, participated in the annual celebration. Ambassador Penfield at Vienna has been Instructed to make clear to the Austrian government informally that the United States must insist on the 1 recall of Dr. Dumba, the Austrian ambassador am-bassador here, and that his departure "on leave of absence" would not be satisfactory. Vice-President Marshall called at the White House on Friday and discussed dis-cussed with President Wilson the international in-ternational situation, national defense de-fense and other problems confronting the administration. It -was Mr. Marshall's Mar-shall's first visit to the president since congress adjourned last March. FOREIGN. It is semi-officially stated that Bulgaria Bul-garia has merely declared an armed neutrality, like Holland and Switzerland Switzer-land at the beginning of the war, and will continue conversations with the two belligerent groups. A German official communication says that after an artillery preparation prepara-tion of great intensity, which at some points lasted fifty hours, the expected Anglo-French offensive has begun on the western front. Information has been received at RArlin frmm Petroerad picturing con- dltions there as serious. Facilities for taking food supplies to, the capital are inadequate, and only 153 cars of wheat and flour reached the city in August, as compared with 2,132 in May. The German military authorities at Lille, Frendh Flanders, have again clashed with the populace, this time over the refusal of Lille factories to make sacks for use by thei Germans as sandbags for their defensive works. A dispatoa from Sofia, given out by the Overseas News agency, says the danger of a split in the cabinet has been averted. The Amsterdam Telegraaf says it has received news from Belgium that the Germans are preparing for the wholesale transport of wounded to that country. Officers and physicians recently inspected municipal buildings build-ings at Louvain and other places with a view to transforming them into auxiliary aux-iliary hospitals. In, an attack by Haitian rebels on an American force about two miles from Cape Haitien forty Haitians were killed. Ten Americans were wounded. Eighty passengers of a Southern Pacific Mexican train were thrown into a car containing hay, and then set on fire by a band of Yaqui Indians In-dians deserters, near Torres, Sonora, according to advices received at San Diego. ol me Diamond Match company at Ramsey bar, forty-five miles east of Chico, Cal. Jack Ramsey, an employe em-ploye of -tlhe company, was shot and probably fatally wounded. The robbers rob-bers escaped with between ?4,000 and $5,000. Herbert Heckler, '27 years old, an opera singer of Chicago, shot and mortailly wounded Miss Pearl Palmer, 23 years old, an opera singer, in New York City, and then sent a bullet through his own forehead. United States customs officials at Laredo, Texas, held up half a million rounds of cartridges and a large number num-ber of army rifles destined for use by the Carranza forces, on orders said to have emanated from Washington. Chief of Police Healey of Chicago 'has ordered all police furloughs cancelled can-celled and sumtmioned his chief, assistants assist-ants to lay plans for emergencies in anticipation of a strike of 40,000 garment gar-ment workers. The bodies of Capfc. Robert Mueller, former teller of the First National bank of Milwaukee, and his wife were found among the smouldering ruins of their summer cottage at Puckaway Lake, Wis. They had been murdered and the house set on fire. Joe Persons, a negro boy not more tahn 14 years old. was hanged at Jackson, Ga., for assaulting an 8-year-old white girl. To the half-hundred persons around the scaffold the boy admitted he committed the crime and Kier Hardie, the labor leader, died of pneumonia Sunday morning in a nursing home in Glasgow, Scotland, the city he loved more than any other. He was a product of the masses, and by the masses (ha was idolized. B. P. Fuller, manager of the Cudahy ranch at Santo Domingo, near Villa Ahumada, who was recently kidnaped for a ransom said to have been equiv alent to $2,000 in United States currency, cur-rency, has been released and has reached Villa Ahumada. As a "measure of elementary prudence," pru-dence," Greece lias ordered the mobilization mob-ilization of her naval and military forces. Thus the action of Ru'garia in making military preparations has brought the last remaining Balkan state under arms. General Prancisco Villa reached Juarez on September 23, according to what is believed to be good authority. His arrival was masked wiih considerable consid-erable s .crecy ;:n3 w as denied in Junrt .. Thirty-two liicmbrr- rf rh-i crew cf the Br'i'fh r-o,::-- r t r v, c'.i The t. :;.: Iho-.i rh; n f res in- h.i.i- i V "' ' ". n a" 1 jwhxh is ecu:r- oi u.-..:v.- ..txr.t.- !- stoically announced he was ready to die. Three trainmen were killed and four others seriously injured near La Platte, Neb., when a passenger train and freight train collided. One American cavalryman is dead, six are seriously wounded and eleven are missing as a result of the battle at Progreso, Texas, with more than one hundred Mexicans. Seventeen Mexicans are known to have been killed. Eight sticks of dynamite were found in the mail in Xew York City after having traveled by parcel post all the way from California. They had met with frequent bumps and had been s'.id through the big mail chute L'.t Grand Central station. The Briti.-h freighter Rumanian Prince arrived at Now York wi:h the se.oti sirvrapc passengers and lii'ty-si lii'ty-si moehners cf the c.e.v rescued f;o:n the Greek sii a i'.i'r Ailihia'., do- j Ftrcy-'d by fi"e at sea. j V;i:h::n Howard T r.."'. i r.el en pirr.r.t f ':" the Kr; uV.itvn pr. s oii-n- j thil m-:v. ::-.:: ion ;:i : h io i.ry W: h Ai' o.;: To .ii. at IT,; worth. .Vina.. w.: f. hi a ehi'iip of willows near to.vn. lie ; been murdered and robbed. Fiuy Mexican eantury hands wore driven out of Wrangell. southeastern Alaska, last week by a vipilanee eorn-piittee. eorn-piittee. They had been drir.kins and disorderly ever since being paid oT. |