Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN agh 1011 M RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE happenings that are making history information gathered from all quarters of the globe and given in a few lines intermountain mrs augustine pierce and son edwayd have ben accused of the murder of the husband and father gustave pierce at mud lake in fremont county idaho A younger son paul has made declaring that he shot his father in defense of his own life and that his mother and brother helped him bury the body mrs ella mccormick McCorm lck agea 80 became lost in the edge of the desert says a san bernardino cal dispatch and lived for a week in an abandoned mine tunnel living on groceries with which she had started to her homestead when she alost thela way being finally discovered by a searching party the shortest sentence ever imposed in a wyoming court was that given sam smith facing a score of burglary charges and shot in an attempt to escape arrest who was last week sentenced to five hours imprisonment in the state penitentiary and to pay a fine of the seventeenth national irrigation congress in session at spokane decided to ask congress for an appropriation of ten million dollars and commended the mississippi deep waterway the next session of the congress gr ess will tie be held in pueblo colo bolo nine persons were killed and between forty and fifty injured as the result of the celision col ision of two passenger L assen trains on the denver rio grande near colorado springs the wreck was due to a misunderstanding of orders richard W young of utah was elected second vice president of the national irrigation congress at the seattle meeting while L newman of montana was chosen third vice pres ident the interstate commerce commissions hearing in the famous utah rate case will be held in salt lake city early in october and the full commission will be in utah for the hearing robert inniger of spokane has been elected chairman of the executive committee of the national irrigation congress within a month a hearing will begin in seattle that government officials claim will disclose proof of gigantic frauds in connection with coal lands in alaska in the district court at boise idaho judge wood held constitutional the local option law passed by the last legislature the act was attacked on behalf of the liquor interests judge wood admits the law is imperfect but says it does not present inconsistencies sufficient to justify him in declaring it repugnant to the constitution cora cook aged 13 of marysvale Marys vale utah was instantly killed by lightning the bolt striking her during a violent electrical storm DOMESTIC harry K thaw the slayer of stanford white has failed to secure his release from the asylum justice mills having dismissed the writ of habeas corpus declaring the release of thaw would be dangerous to public peace and safety and ordering him sent back to Mattea wun it is the opinion of the judge that thaw Is still insane ascertaining after eight years yeara 0 of married life that his wife was a alfred haberman a white man of columbus 0 shot tier her and himself neither can recover mrs haberman was a beautiful woman ani and looked like she was white the couple jiahe a son 7 years old the hotel arlington at santa barbara cal the largest wooden structure in the county bounty was destroyed by fire sunday several hundred guests from all parts of the country were in the hotel but all escaped the alarm was given just as the 0 guests were entering the dining room john stoner a negro sued a white man who killed his cow and was lynched because of his daring the residents of doss texas became angered because of the negros action the mob threatened him thursday night and the hanging followed J H ostby a prominent duluth minn grocer was shot and killed by his eleven year old son as the result of an argument between the father and son H miles moore one of the founders of leavenworth kans and widely known throughout the southwest from his connection with border troubles before and after the civil war was struck by a runaway horse and instantly killed mr moore was 83 years old miss elizabeth phillips widely known as miss santa claus because of her work at christmas carlst ChrisC mas time among the poor children committed suicide at philadelphia by inhaling illuminating gas falling failing health was given as the reason forthe for the deed J E alcord secretary and treasurer of the continental trust and savings bank company of toledo 0 lias has announced that of the banks cash is gone and also gave out the information that a bruste bookkeeper of the bank has been missing since july 28 jack johnson the colored pugilist who claims the heavy weight championship pion ship of the worldly h has as signed articles to fight james J jeffries Jeffri ea the fight is to take place within eight months before the club offering the largest purse the sheriff of allegheny county pennsylvania has flatly refused to cont continue dinue the work of evicting the strikers and their families from the houses owned by the pressed car company the company having declined to furnish him men to remove the household goods of the strikers A san francisco woman has been granted a divorce from her husband who has been dead six years she sued for divorce from the man she had married after her husbands death but inadvertently gave the dead mans name in the complaint agnes Bras cesso a young laundry worker was found in the room of george curry an ex convict in san francisco with her throat cut andt tier her head beaten to a pulp curry later committed suicide two boys neither of whom appear to be over 18 years of age held up the cashier of the valley bank at santa clara cal at the point of shotguns and secured in cash they then attempted to make their escape in an automobile but were captured two hours later washington for the second time in his career dr wu tingfang ting tang fang the chinese minister to the united states has been recalled from the washington mission and been directed to proceed home where it Is expected he will be assigned to other work work has been found for persons I 1 during the past six weeks by the information division of the department of commerce and labor most of the men having been sent to the wheat fields fielda of the northwest bernard baker who at the instance of president taft has been investigate ing the matter of freight rates over the panama railroad has recommend ed that the government enter the steamship business believing that we the government can successfully compete with the transcontinental railway lines tobacco cigars and sugar are now admitted free of duty from the philippines a certain prescribed amount being allowed each year strict ac count of shipments will be kept to avoid abuse of the free entry provision the report is being circulated that trouble in the cuban islands has caused the chancellor of the cuban legation to seek an early appointment with president taft in an endeavor to have the chief executive solve the problem for the cubans orv orvllle ille wright has sailed for ger ge many where lie he will make a series of flights in demonstration of tho the merits of the wright aeroplane john E wilkle chief of the federal secret service bureau has declined to accept the position of chief of police for chicago speaker joseph G cannon inon in an interview in ili chicago denies the report frow from w york that he is ready to retire from political activity FOREIGN thirty people were killed at least injured while hundreds of buildings were destroyed or badly damaged in central japan on saturday as the result of an earthquake shock the shock affected a wide area in the shiga and glou prefectures the powers have decided that greece must comply with the demands of turkey and force the people of crete to haul down the greek flag which they have hoisted rumors of trouble in the border states of neuve beuve leon and coagula Coa hula mexico are beang persistently circulated cu despite official denials elidore has been inaugurated president of bolivia succeeding small ismall montt Is unpopular with certain classes and it is expected that disorders will ensue china has appealed to the powers to take cognizance of the aggressions of japan in manchuria declaring that the interests of the powers is that no one shall occupy privileged position in manchuria fort williams out ont Is under inar mar bial law the result of a fight waged on special canadian pacific police by 1000 striking dock laborers the balloon sirius has succeeded in flying alyin 9 over the alps the airship left challans Ch allons france under the of 0 M Sp elterine with three passengers they landed near locarno at an altitude of feet lord kitchener commander of the british forces in india has been appointed inspector general of the mediterranean forces having command at gibraltar and malta and all the british troops in egypt the soudan and cyprus an epidemic of smallpox has a gain again broken out along the borders separating the republics of mexico and guatemala according to report scores of deaths and an appalling condition con diton exist on the guatemalan side japan has officially notified the powers power of her lier intention to proceed immediately with the reconstruction and improvement of the aftung mukden railroad without the consent of china entirely ignoring the chinese govern ment after wandering in the mountains for five years deranged francisco martinez suddenly regained his senses last sunday and returned to his home near villa Ah muada chihuahua mexico martinez had been given up for dead long ago by his relatives circuit judge john T debolt of honolulu has received an communication threatening that it if any of the japanese implicated in the strike conspiracy are convicted convict edin in the trials now in progress before him he will be assassinated |