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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF 11 WEEjre EKEHTS HECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. Frank Battens, aged 40. ended his life at Denver by swallowing a two-ounce two-ounce bottle of poison. He carried in his pocket a big roll of bills, amounting to several hundred dollars. Plans to kidnap Roland Harrlman, son of Mrs. E. H. Harriman, hold him for a ransom of $100,000, and in case the ransom was not paid, to blind the boy and otherwise disfigure him for life, have been frustrated by the arrest ar-rest at St. Anthony, Idaho, of three men, parties to the plot. Phillip Denardo, accidentally shot at Bingham, Utah, when another man was demonstrating the use of firearms. fire-arms. Is dead. For the second time on record Mount Shuksan, one of the most rugged and difficult peaks of the Cascade range, was ascended Sunday, I party of twenty-five members of the Seattle Mountaineers' club reaching the summit after three days' climb. Fully 10,000 persons crowded their way into the tabernacle at Salt Lake City on August 24, and half as many more lined up on the outside of the big structure and enthusiastically applauded ap-plauded the address of Governor Charles E. Hughes, the Republican nominee for president. Thomas Gwilliam, a prominent ranchman of Falcon, Colo., and Mrs. Mary E. Simmons, his housekeeper, were found dead with bullet holes in their heads, having been murdered. Charles Evans Hughes said in an address delivered at Reno, Nev., that the prestige of the United States has been cut practically in half as a re-ult re-ult of its dealings with Mexico. DOMESTIC. William M. Reed, a white man, and Virgil Cobb, a negro, cleared up a long-standing quarrel at Croweburg, Kansas, and chose a crowded picture show for a battleground. During the fusillade of shots, which soon cleared the house of spectators, both men were mortally wounded and died in a short time. The "Prohibition special," carrying J. Frank Hanly, presidential candidate, candi-date, and Dr. Ira Landrith, candidate lor vice-president, on their two months' tour of the nation, will stop at approximately 6f0 towns, it is announced an-nounced at the national Prohibition headquarters at Chicago. William G. Snyder, aged 45 years, Jled Monday from a broken neck sustained sus-tained a few minutes before when tie was struck in the jaw by Peter Shaw during a fist fight at Dallas, Tex. Abrupt widening of the European war zone on August 28, sent wheat values tumbling almost as if the market had no bottom. The extreme fall in prices was HYi cents, an amount virtually a parallel to the extraordinary increase witnessed two years ago on the day that hostilities v began. In trying to avoid running down tw'o farmer boys, near Chicago, William Wilder overturned his automobile in a ditch, killing his own child and seriously se-riously injuring his wife. Mrs. Wilder Wil-der was carrying the baby in her arms when the accident occurred. James J. Jeffries, ex-champion heavyweight pugilist of the world, is suffering from blood poisoning of the right hand at the Jeffries ranch, near (jOs Angeles. An initial reserve pension fund of 11,000,000 for accredited rabbis serving serv-ing congregations in the United States was recommended in a report by the special commission appointed in 1915 oy the central conference of American rabbis, at New York City. Two persons are dead as the result of the explosion of a gasoline tank during the Standard Oil company fire it Charles City, Iowa. The war game completed by the United States navy proved that under fairly favorable weather conditions an attacking fleet has excellent chances to land troops within twenty miles of New York, Rear Admiral Austin Knight declares. Serum manufactured from human blood is pre-eminent in treatment of persons afflicted with infantile paralysis, paraly-sis, in the opinion of Dr. Simon Flex-tier. Flex-tier. director of the Rockefeller Institute Insti-tute for Medical Research. Fifteen hundred employees of the American Printing company, a textile manufacturing concern, were thrown out of work when the company closed its plant at Fall River, Mass., for an Indefinite period. Mrs. G. E. Parks, telephone operator opera-tor at Columbus, N. M.. when Villa and his bandits raided the town Alarcli 9 last, has been presented with e silver dining service and a gold watch by the New Mexico chapter of (the Daughters of the American Revolution Revo-lution for her heroism then. Rev. Ignatius Tomaziu. 7U years old. who resigned his pastorate of a church in Albany, Minn, a mouth ago. after his parishioners are alleged to have attacked and beaten hint, jumped to his death from the sixth floor of a hotel at Chicago. i Some 12,000 U'sn of Ohio, Vermont and Kentucky national guard regiments, regi-ments, still held in state mobilization camps, were directed by the war department de-partment on Monday to proceed to the Mexican border. The American-Mexican Joint commission com-mission will meet at Portsmouth, N. H., probably Wednesday or Thursday of next week. One hundred and seventy-five people peo-ple escaped in their night clothing from the Hygeia hotel when fire destroyed de-stroyed the four-story wooden structure struc-ture at Block Island, R. I. Jack Peacock of Brooklyn and Marion Mar-ion Arnold of Chicago were killed and seven other drivers and mechanicians were injured when eleven racing cars piled into a heap at the quarter-mile turn of the Recreation park mile track at Kalamazoo, Mich., on the getaway of the third annual auto derby. WASHINGTON. Information has reached the navy department that steam submarines are under construction in Europe closely resembling the 25-Lb.ot boats designed by the department a year ago. The navy general board disapproved disap-proved the characteristics of the steam boats and congress was not asked to authorize any experimental construction. Tentative plans for a joint session of the senate and house to hear President Pres-ident Wilson ask for legislation to prevent the threatened nation-wide railroad strike have been discussed. Conferees of house and senate working to reconcile differences in the Shields bill to permit construction of power dams by private enterprise in navigable streams have givent up all hope of agreement at this session of congress and adjourned to November 22. Conservationists have made a hot fight on the measure. The workingmen's compensation bill, as passed by the senate, was accepted ac-cepted by the house with slight differences differ-ences of a minor character which promise to be arranged in conference. The army bill, vetoed by President Wilson because of provisions in its revision f the articles of war, has been accepted by the house with a re- j vision approved by the war department. depart-ment. FOREIGN. Germany has declared war on Rou-inania. Rou-inania. The action, decided upon at a huwiedly convoked session of the federal council in Berlin, was taken following the announcement from Bucharest Bu-charest that Roumania considers herself her-self in a state of war with Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary. It is estimated that the effective strength of the army which can be mobilized 'by Roumania is about 900,-000 900,-000 men, including ten regiments of Red Hussars and ten of Black Hus sars, with artillery aggregating 4S0 seventy-five millimeter guns, 160 field guns belonging to the reserve and a number of heavy guns. Juarez witnessed its first execution for several months on Monday, when Jose Victor Castillo, captured by customs guards in a clash with revolutionists revolu-tionists near Guadalupe, Chihuahua, recently, faced a firing squad. Captain John Astor of the First Life guards was married Monday at London to Lady Charles Mercef Nairne at Christchurch. Captain Astor is the youngest son of Baron William Waldorf Astor, formerly o( New York. Strong efforts are to be made during dur-ing the parliamentary recess for resumption re-sumption of negotiations for settle' ment of the Irish political circles. It is understood both the Unionist and Nationalist leaders are inclined to regard re-gard these efforts sympathetically. Germany will permit no exportation of sugar-beet seed until late this autumn, au-tumn, after her own demands have been supplied. A dispatch from Bucharest received via The Hague states that Roumania has been making munitions at a tremendous tre-mendous rate for the last three months. All the factories have been working full pressure twenty-four hours daily. Italy has formally declared war against Germany, and it is believed that Roumania, with which nation Italy long has had an entente, will follow the Italian government with declaration of war against the central cen-tral powers and their allies. More than 6,000 trade unionists, in an open air meeting in Hyde Park, London, on Sunday protested against the high cost of living. Speeches were made demanding a general increase in wages. Bulgarian forces have seized the Greek port of Kavala, on the Aegean sea, and all but one of its defending forts. The Mexican commissioners who are to endeavor to settle with an American commission points in dispute dis-pute between the United States and Mexico, departed Sunday from Mexico City for New Y'ork. Adolph von Batocki, president of the German food regulation, has issued is-sued an appeal to the women of rural Germany to divide their food with the women and children of the towns and cities. Colonel Miguel Ahumada. governor of the Mexican states of Jalisco and Chihuahua under the Diaz regime, died at his home at El Paso, August 27. Colonel Ahumada, who was 71 years old. was a veteran of the campaign against Maximilian and of several campaigns against the Yaquis in So-nora. So-nora. Eight persons were kiiled and thirty-six injured in the Zeppelin raid Thursday night, it was announced officially of-ficially at London. One hundred bombj were dropped. One Zeppelin reached the outskirts of London. |