Show ism r r vi er aft fa H 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 t I 1 intermountain INTER MOUNTAIN at least fifteen persons were injured and a great many more badly shaken up tip as the result of two open street cars colliding with a heavily loaded lumber wagon in salt lake city following a quarrel over a debt of paul freeze shot and killed hilled frank gilmore hauled ills his body twelve miles in a wagon dumped it into a well and drove the team odthe dead man to town where he put it in a at great falls mont alent freeze claims sell defense the total attendance at the utah state fair at salt lake city is estimated at the body of F W aiken the forestry law official who become lost in the hills southeast of missoula mont has been recovered aiken was a sufferer from brights disease and it is 19 supposed he was suddenly stricken while in the hills the man mail held at dillon mont for the attempted robbery of a barik bank has been identified by the marshal of kemmerer wyo as a fellow who was convicted at kemmerer some years ago of the murder of jack oconnor of salt lake city he was known there a as maylin F foley while thomas acal mcmaster aster was endeavoring deavo ring to repair an electric washing machine at brigham city utah he was electrocuted as a result of the wires having become crossed with a high power feed wire his sister ran to his rescue and was instantly killed when she touched his body DOMESTIC four arrests have been made in brooklyn in connection with the murder of william rice a millionaire in cleveland august 5 vice president sherman and united united states senator lorimer will sit at the banfe same banquet in chicago october 12 when local knights of columbus will celebrate columbus day expected strife on the floor of the state republican convention at detroit did not develop A platform calculated not to arouse the ire of regulars or insurgents was adopted fire which for a time ahr threatened the bhe lives of miners brolie broke out in hartshorne eldfrick electric mine about six miles west of danville ills the men were all rescued the standard oil company through its official publicity representative J 1 C clarke has announced that the company has inaugurated a campaign to increase the worlds consumption 0 refined oil and is lowering prices of kerosene in europe and the far east this action follows that of august last when the standard oil company reduced refined oil in barrels I 1 cent a gallon from 9 to 8 cents at the refinery and refined oil in tanks from 6 61 to 5 cents a gallon galion in part the statement reads the standard oil company has inaugurated a campaign to increase the worlds consumption of refined oil bil the level of prices for refined oil today in the united states is lower than at an anytime during recent years and as ao a direct result of these prices the co consumption asumption of refined oil in this country is increasing the same policy is now being actively pursued abroad s 1 plans for the exploitation of the resources of the nouh couill sicre disc discussed iosca at the opening session of the opening conference of the southern Corn commercial mor congress con giess held in atlanta ga fri ll 11 rl day and saturday brief and simple ceremonies marked tao ane retirement on thursday of governor charles E I 1 and the in angui aaion of lieutenant governor horacd torn ce white as his successor soras as governor af new york united states senator robert L taylor three times governor of ten hessee and shoso whoso term in the united states senate does not expire until 1912 aras nominated for governor by the re regular ular democratic convention the towns of graceton williams I and pitt along the canadian northern railway in minnesota Alinne sota have wen bien wiped out by fire A denoo teacher and a child at williams are reported burned to death when the engineer of a lake shore passenger train alighted from his engine at dunkirk N Y he 1 found a dead man mail sitting bolt upright on the pilot the man was probably killed while crossing the tracks washington WASI assistant secretary pierce of the interior department has gone to southern california to investigate conditions in the oil regions with the work of the eighth international I 1 prison congress practically concluded delegates begun leaving washington on saturday after the executive body had chosen london for the next meeting in 1915 mrs flora wilson will campaign in iowa with her father secretary of agriculture wilson wils on the latter after will 1 addrena a republican meeting at atlantic october 26 at which miss wilson will vill sing by an order issued by the flee department land grant railroads rail roada hereafter will receive only 1539 for each 2000 pounded of mail carried in excess of pounds the old rate was 1710 one man was killed and three others badly injured in an explosion in the fuse and primer shop of the washington navy yard the commission named by president taft to determine how the government may best supervise the issuance of railway securities will hold its first session in washington november 28 FOREIGN the dama damage 0 e done to the city of lisbon by the recent bombardment was surprisingly sight the total number killed has not been ascertained but it if probably does not exceed the question of odthe tho formal recognition of the republic already is the subject of exchange views between the powers so far as france and spain are concerned it is understood they will follow the lead of great britain captain bell the russian military aviator was killed at st petersburg in a fall from a biplane the accident occurred during an altitude competition which was won by captain mackevich Maci Alac evich levich who reached a height of feet the only evidence of the recent perturbation tur bation at lisbon portugal are small bodies of troops stationed in the prin principal cital open spaces of the city and the passage now and then of red cross ambulances on the dinst sixteen shovels in the culebra cut excavated cubic yards of material in an eight hour day breaking all records recent events in portugal that startled the world are discussed with calm by all classes the general feeling evidently is one of relief that a crisis long anticipated was surmounted so speedily with comparatively little violence and such a brief dislocation of the national life official statistics show that 2108 persons were legally executed in russia in 1906 8 the number of mill tary executions reported in thirty four years from 1875 to 1908 was 2615 of which 2410 were elvil civilians lans |