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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEjra EKNIS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign Newt Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTA1N. Daniel Vanderpool, 4S years of age. Is dead at Greeley, Colo., while his assailant, Conrad Geissek, a farmer residtc.? near Greeley, who beat Vanderpool Van-derpool to death with the butt end of a rifle, following an attack on the farmer's young daughter, Kate Geis-eek, Geis-eek, has been exouerated by a coroner's coro-ner's jury- A masked robber held up and robbed W. H. Estabrook, manager of the Boston-Idaho Gold Dredge Mining company, of gold dust and nuggets valued at $2,180 recently near Idaho City, Idaho. Lynn and Harold Lovelace, brothers, broth-ers, 11 and 12 years of age, respectively, respec-tively, are in custody at Twin Falls, Idaho, charged, by their own confession, confes-sion, with the murder of Professor F. Thomas TIamill at his homestead forty-five miles south of Twin Falls. John, Birennan, formerly of Salt Lake City, is dead and Eben J. Gregory, also of Salt Lake, is in jail at Los Angeles, charged with his murder. mur-der. Brennan died because he defended de-fended his mother, being shot by Gregory. Another Indian "war" like the ticklish tick-lish chase for Tse-Na-Gat last winter Is in prospect at Bluff, Utah, the lonely lone-ly settlement on the San Juan, in the "Four Corners" country, according to reports brought by packers and range riders. Word was received in Salt Lake of the death at Nogales, Ariz., of Leon Radmall, 20 years of age, of Pleasant Grove, a member of the Utah battery. He was kicked in the head by a horse. A freight train was derailed near Lund, Wash., and one man killed. DOMESTIC. News has been received from Nome, Alaska, that the Canadian mounted police have captured the two Eskimos, Eski-mos, who in November, 1913, in the copper mine country of the Arctic region re-gion are alleged to have murdered the Rev. Fathers Leroux and Rou-vier. Rou-vier. Notices are out by the Pick and Mather Mining company that the buildings owned by the company at Biwabik, Minn., must be vacated or the men living in them must go to work. The loss of life from the tropical storm which struck Corpus Christi and ten adjacent south Texas counties on Friday night, is placed at thirteen, including in-cluding nine members of the crew of the small freighter Pilot Boy, which foundered off the Arkansas pass jetties Mrs. Morse Davis, widow of the Vancouver, B. C, mining man who died of poisoning at a Chicago hotel ten days ago, tried to jump from a window of St. Mary's Mission house, Attendants said. Four drownings, seven deaths and a number of heat prostrations were reported at Chicago, as'a result of the heat on Sunday, the second of the present heat wave. The maximum temperature reached in the afternoon was 91 degrees. A serum to combat infantile paralysis paraly-sis is being made from the blood of those who have survived the disease. While the method is a kind of forlorn hope, it is to be given a trial at New York. Dr. Clarence J. Lockhart, aged 2G, a prominent physician, was shot and killed at Freedom, Pa., by Stephen Hesler, aged 48, one of his patients. The wind that accompanied a severe se-vere rain and electrical storm Sunday evening blew over a large wooden hall in the camp of the Thirty-second Michigan infantry, bruisicg several men, and made the night uncomfortable uncomfort-able in all the military camps in the neighborhood of El Paso. Preliminary investigation in Chicago Chica-go of the recent rise in wheat and flour prices, and threatened rise In price of bread, by Chairman Hurley of the federal trade commission, is understood to have disclosed no evidence evi-dence of illegal manipulations. United States soldiers and national nation-al guardsmen stationed at Fort Brow-n, Texas, were driven from their quarters and have taken refuge in the city hall and other public buildings build-ings at Brownsville, on account of the gulf coast storm. Abraham I. Elkus, recently appointed appoint-ed American ambassador to Turkey, sailed August 17 aboard the Danish steamship Oscar II. He will go to his post by way of Berlin, Vienna and Sofia. Roy Pettit, 33, was shot and killed by his wife on a downtown street at Mount Clemens, Mich. Dozens of persons per-sons saw the tragedy. Pettit was night clerk at a hotel. Mrs. Pettit declared she killed her husband because be-cause 'he sought the company of others too much." Judge Edward T. Wade, who, as former judge of the speeders' court )f Chicago, has fined thousands of ,-iolators of automobile speed laws, n-as himself found guilty Thursday on tharges of speeding. He was fined 10. Representatives of American lum ber interests, aided by United States government experts, laid plans at a conference at Chicago to garner a big share of the business to be necessitated necessi-tated in Europe in rebuilding devastated devas-tated towns after the war. Another substantial decrease in the number of deaths at New York City from infantile paralysis and in the number of new cases has strengthened strength-ened the belief of the health authorities authori-ties that the epidemic is on the wane. Three deaths due to heat prostrations, prostra-tions, one by drowning and a number of prostrations was the toll of the torrid tor-rid weather in Milwaukee on Sunday. On the charge of sending a threatening threat-ening post card to President Wilson, Theodore E. Jones, 65 years old, a tobacco salesman who also claims to be a marine draughtsman, was arrested arrest-ed at his home in Baltimore. WASHINGTON. An unexpected Democratic revolt In the senate resulted in the immigration immigra-tion bill being taken up in defiance of the Democratic caucus and opened the way for efforts to displace the revenue bill as unfinished business. Investigation of reports from Panama Pan-ama that a 60,000-acre land concession at the Atlantic end of the canal is being be-ing sought by a Spaniard named Fernandez, Fer-nandez, presumably for Japanese interests, in-terests, has been ordered by Secretary Secre-tary Lansing. The national guard will be retained on the Mexican border until it can be withdrawn again without endangering American lives and property, declares Secretary Baker. President Wilson's week of conferences confer-ences with ranking officials of the railroads rail-roads and leaders of their employees threatening a nation-wide strike are believed by all parties to the controversy contro-versy to have brought the situation to a point where decisive developments develop-ments may be expected within a few days. The army appropriation bill was vetoed ve-toed by President Wilson because he would not accept certain provisions in the revision of the articles of war, forced into the bill by the house conferees con-ferees and commonly said in army circles cir-cles to be in the interest of certain retired officers "at outs with the army." Without debate or record vote, the child labor bill was accepted by the house with the senate amendments. FOREIGN. A report eminating from San Gero-nimo, Gero-nimo, Chihuahua, says that Villia died of blood poisoning resulting from his wounds at Tallamantes, near Parral, on July 9, and was buried near there. Roumania is reported to have cast her lot with the entente. No formal declaration has yet been made, but the situation is regarded so seriously in Berlin that the central empires are said to be preparing an ultimatum. Federtco Chaviz, formerly a Villa general, who was amnestied several months ago, has been executed by a Villa band operating in southern Chihuahua. Chi-huahua. Casualties among British officers for the last seven days of July were heavier than in any previous period of the war, again showing the effects of Jie present offensive onthe western west-ern front. Announcement is made that authorities author-ities of the de facto government in Chihuahua are considering the possibility possi-bility of the issue of a decree calling upon the owners of all mining properties prop-erties in the state to resume operations opera-tions within a specified period of time. American supervision of Dominican Domini-can finances soon is to be extended to internal revenue as well as customs cus-toms receipts. A budget system also is to be arranged. President Carva-jal, Carva-jal, it is understood, will accept the plan and recognition of his government govern-ment will follow. The German and Bulgarian forces, which have taken the offensive on the western end of the Balkan front, are pushing southward in Greece. Berlin reports the capture by German Ger-man troops of the Kreta heights, south of Zabie, on the foothills of the Carpathians, and the repulse of Russian Rus-sian counter attacks at Magura height to the southeast. The principal improvement in the larger Zeppelins, in addition to their great carrying capacity, is their Increased In-creased proof against anti-aircraft sheilfire, according to a naval officer who commanded a super-Zeppelin in a recent attack on points in England. A statement from the office of Adolph von Botochi, president of the food regulation board of Germany, says that information now at hand gives assurance that this year's crops will be much in excess of those of the last peace years. It declares Germany Ger-many is assured of supplies of all food supplies for another year. General Sir Sam Hughes, the Canadian Cana-dian war minister, arrived in Paris on Sunday from a week's inspection of the Britsh front of the Somme. One man was killed and several were wounded at Cienfuegos in a political po-litical riot between partisans of Santiago San-tiago Ray and Juan Florencio, rival candidates for mayor. . Fifteen starving Yaqui Indians on a food raid, swooped down on a settlement set-tlement eight miles inland from Guay-mas Guay-mas and killed a man named Wilson. The Peruvian government has submitted sub-mitted to congress a bill for the immediate im-mediate imposition of export duties of 10 per cent on crude petroleum and 20 per cent on benzine, gasoline and kerosene. The eighty-sixth birthday of Emperor Em-peror Francis Joseph of Austro-Hun-gary was celebrated at Berlin on August Au-gust 18 on a large scale in military and diplomatic circles. |