Show telegraphic j TALES TALE TEI TERSELY SELY TOLI TOLD A RESUME OF THE WEEKS DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES irn events of the past part seven days day reported by wire and prepared for the benefit of the busy reader irn Vao intia a russian russia girl 20 29 years old was imas shot and killed in a row boat on the lake at seattle and nd anatole Ves ileff so 30 years also a rus kus stan elan shot himself through the head at the same time the commission appointed ty by president wilson to investigate conditions in the coal fields ot of colorado will start or denver december 26 wyrle s nelson aged 26 real estate broker of billings 1 mont io n t was found de dead ad in bed at a denver deave r sant sail barium with a knife wound in his throat said bald to hive leave been self inflicted giovanni magaroli aged 30 on his way to new york to offer his services to italy was arrested in ogden utah charged with the murder ot of a fellow countryman named Phu chetti in flor iston nevada county cal and the serious arious wounding ot of the murdered mans wife elijah horton aged 65 years a retired farmer formerly ot of summit county now of salt lake has been missing for several days and his relatives tear fear for his safety the trial rial judge at ogden utah sentenced joseph henry martin twice convicted as the letter writer and blackmailer to a life term in the penitentiary lige lies higgins and joseph kitterman charged with assisting dr R C wildes in a recent robbery ol of a bank at chautauqua kan have been arrested in pueblo colo C E siller tax collector of 0 the borough of tamaqua Ta maqua pa was arrested as he be stepped from a train at portland ore on the charge ot of defaulting tor for DOMESTIC I 1 maury L I 1 diggs who with drew caminetti Cami Is under conviction in the federal courts at san francisco for white sla slavery iery married wednesday a at oakland miss hiss marsha wa warrington aring t on with whom he be made the trip from sacramento to reno nev that was the basis for or his conviction the nations harvests this year have Eur surpassed passed any ever before recorded the value of the principal farm crops based on prices paid to farmers december 1 was announced by the department part ment of agriculture in its final estimate as lalitha M folks aged 23 vassar graduate taking special work at the university of wisconsin shot and ailed herself in a lonely spot near madison wis wig no motive tor for the tragedy is known john J halpin who was deposed as lead head of the chicago detective bureau for or alleged acceptance of bribes to protect criminals was found guilty tuesday the interstate commerce commis eton blon has decided against california millers in their application for an order requiring railroads to grant them the same transit privileges at california milling points on wheat shipped from kansas and neighboring states as are granted at ogden utah and other points the light helit weight fight between frank whitney and ad wolgast at atlanta ga was stopped at the end of the fifth round when ts manager stated that wolgast was in no condition to continue after three hours bours deliberation the jury it a t phoenix ariz testing the sanity of i J IV Ke ermeen convicted of murder returned a verdict declaring the prisoner mentally responsible he therefore Is to be hanged banged january 7 under sentence previously imposed the value of purchasing power of german money in the new york market as represented by marks tell fell to its lowest known level on december 13 when bills of exchange on berlin dropped to 77 a decline of a cent from the recent minimum creation of a booker T washington mem morial endowment tor for the tuskegee institute was authorized zed to by the institutes trustees at tuskegee ala who announced that already had bad been pledged eight persons are reported to have been burned to death in a fire which destroyed a three story rooming house in chicago one man was killed several were ce verely injured and there were many minor accidents as a result of the snowstorm which swept the eastern section of pennsylvania R B sims warden of florence ariz penitentiary has been purged of contempt by the state supreme court for having tailed failed to hang william liam faltin a condemned slayer november 26 sims refused to execute falten on the ground that the prisoner was insane TIES miss edith channel a 23 year old girl who walked from topeka kan san ban francisco from a revolver shot tion arriving last august Is dead at isan franeisco francisco fro ma revolver shot through the heart apparently self in sifted enoch wood perry 84 years old widely known as an artist and a former united states consul at venice died wednesday at new york his better known work was portraits of jefferson davis general grant and brigham Brig hami young mrs orphia lawrence w was s chopped to death with an ax in a small cot tage in oakland where she and her daughter had been living following an estrangement between mis lawrence and her husband charles clarke lawrence a millbank mil mill lhand band lawrence was arrested witnesses at the trial of mathew A schmidt charged with murder told of finding a dynamite bomb at the home of F J secretary of the merchants and manufacturers association in los angeles on october 1 1910 the day the los angeles times building was blown up with a loss of twenty lives ilves washington Cust construction ruction of merchant ships in government navy yards was proposed by ly secretary redfield of the depart ment of commerce in a speech before the civic club at brooklyn Represent representative athe tavenner of 0 illinois made the first preparedness speech of the session in the house on wednesday urging government manufacture of all war materials passport regulations more stringent than aban those effective at present will be enforced by the state de un der an aji executive order issued by president wilson william 9 culbertson has been appointed as special counsel to the united states trade commission and has been direct directed ei to conduct an investigation vesti gation of the tariff laws and customs toms regulations of all the central and south american countries the united states government has cabled ambassador sharp at paris tor for presentation to the french freach foreign office a note vigorously protesting against the removal by the french cruiser descartes of six germans and austrians Aust rians from the american steamships iCaro carolina llna coamo and san juan early enlargement ot of the membership of the interstate commerce com mission with statutory power to act through subdivisions and appropriate and adequate ade guate legislation tor for control over railway capital capitalization Iza tion were among the he important recommendations made to congress in the commissions annual report FOREIGN the steamship oscar 11 II having on board the ford peace party arrived at kirkwall Kir kwall orkney islands december 15 the kirkwall Kir kwall is the port into which most transatlantic trans atlantic vessels which are held up for search by the british authorities are taken viscount alverstone Alv erstone former lord chief justice of england is 13 dead viscount alverstone Alv erstone for nearly thirty Y years lord chief justice of england was vas one most popular human and many sided men in british public life captain smith of the royal flying corps was burned to death while flying an aeroplane at farnborough darnborough Farn borough england while in the air the aeroplane suddenly burst into flames general pablo gonzales commander of mexico city tor for the de facto government ern ment has received a telegram that the head of general juan B hernandez former intimate friend of president Por porfillo firlo diaz and relative of geri gen eral Ilu aluerta erta was being shipped to him from esperanza state of vera cruz as a christmas present A report of the destruction of the super zeppelin L 22 was received front from Sch schleswig leswig by a copenhagen newspaper it Is said nearly all the forty members of the crew were killed or wounded at the meeting of the ministry at soria soda at which it was decided to convene the it was announced that bulgaria had bad enlarged her te territory ari by kilometers over miles the greek government has com mande ered all greek shipping in brit ish and Amre ican ports in an effort to supply the deficiency in food and coal which exists in greece as a result of the entente allies restrictions the report that the british steamship orterio has been sunk funk was con firmed iby lloyds the members of the crew were saved with the exception of two chinese who were killed the british and french troops haie successfully carried out their retirement from serbia across the greek frontier and by an arrangement with the greek government a clear roal road has been left tor for them to tall fall back on which is if being organized as a 2 base russian artillery destroyed a zep peline airship the night of december 5 according to details which have just arrived at petrograd Petro grad near the station of kalkun on the libau romin railway details have been received at pet bograd of the destruction of two turkish gunboats gun boats near the island of ken in the black sea about sixty miles east of the entrance to the bos by three russian torpedo boats general francisco villa left a deso lat trail behind him in his eastward atward ea flight to madera chihuahua after his defeat north of hermosillo according to delayed official reports yuan kal kai president of the chinese republic has accepted the throne of china tendered to him by the council ot of state he will continue to act as president until a convenient time for the coronation one hundred and ten persons are reporter 1 to have been killed in an explosion in the belgian munitions is factory c coryat at havre france |