Fair play., 1910-12-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Happenings In Foreign Lands and
Throughout the Nation Chron.
ieled In Paragraphs.

The unexpected happened when the
Oklahoma house and senate passed a
bill selecting a capitol site, Satisfied
that the senate woulG not yield in
favor of the Putnam City capitol bill
and fearing that the adjournment OF
A costly session of the legislature
without locating the capitol would In
lure the Democratic party, members
Of both houses in a conference decid-
ed to accept the terms of the senate
locating the capitol notheast of Okla
noma City.
Twenty persons were buried alive
in a landslide at Whitehaven, Eng
and, when a retaining wall gave way.
A great mass of earth swept down
apon q row of cottages.
Two men were shot, one being IN
stantly killed, at Girard street and
Bloomingdale road, Chicago, in con-
nection with the garment workers
strike
Despairing Of settlement of wage
differences with 10000 of their engi-
neers, representatives of 67 western
railroads have appealed for mediation
under the Erdman act
The census bureau announced the
1910 enumeration for the following
cities: Fort Smith, Ark 23,975; Hot
Springs. Ark, 14,434; Pine Bluff,
Ark, 15,1O2; Helena, Ark, S,772;
Jonesboro, Ark, 1928; Paragould,
Ark, 5,242; TeXarkana, $500.
Senator Lafayette Young of Iowa
addressed The senate for an hour and
senators and spectators in the gal
leries heard the other side of the
Iowa idea" and had great entertain
ment during the while. Senator Young
showed not the slightest embarrass-
ment at his precedent breaking per-
formance, he having been senator
only little more than week.
The Paradise state bank at Para
disc, Kas.. was robbed by a lone rob-
ber at II O'Clock in the morning, the
robber getting $500. Earl Ward, the
robber, eluded his pursuers for about
five hours, but was finally surrounded
by posse, when he shot himself
with fatal effect
The last will and testament of
Mary Baker G. Eddy, late head of the
Christian Science church, was filed
for probate in Concord, n. II. Henry
NJ. Baker, the executor, Immediately
petitoned for its approval and hear
ing thereon was ordered.
Ruling that the statute of limita-
tions did not hold good, the United
States supreme court handed down
decision in favor of the government
in the case of the United states
against Kissel and Harmed. This Is
the alleged conspiracy case that re
suited in closing down the plants OF
the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining COM
pany. The cases will now go back for
retriai.
Strike riots led by garment work
ers broke out anew in Chicago The
police in half an hour had arrested
12 men and five girls The girls are
charged with attempting to dynamite
house in which strike breakers were
lodged They deny the charge.
The supreme court of the United
States denied the Standard Oil COM
pany's petition for writ of certiorari
to review case involving rebates
between Olean and Rutledge, n. Y.
The company must pay $4,000 hne.
Mrs. Emeline Bernhard, her son and
two young men who lived with them
were found mysteriously murdered on
Mrs Berahard's farm near Martin
City, Mo. Their bodies were discov-
cred after neighbors had reported TO
the authorities that nobody had been
seen about the place for several days.
1t is believed the slayer beat the four
persons to death with weight from
an old-fashioned clock. The bodies OF
the three men were found under pile
OF hay near the barn and the widows
body was found in a closet in the
house Robbery is supposed TO have
been the motive of the crime.
Amelia Folsom Young, widow OF
the famous Mormon prophet and lead
er, Brigham Young, died at her home
in Salt Lake City. She was ~ years
old and her death was caused by
paralysis.
Secretary Ballinger of the depart
ment of the intreior in his annual re-
port says there are now remaining un-
appropriated and unreserved 7l1,9SG,-
400 acres of public land in continental
United States and Alaska.
All the passengers of the Alaska
Steamship company's steamship Olym-
Fla, which went on the rocks at Bligh
island, were taken off the ship, to-
gether with the mails and baggage,
and were conveyed to Valdez and
Ellemar, Alaska.
Charles Smith, AZ, railway locomo-
tive tester of Marion, o., died from
the effects OF swallowing his false
teeth four weeks ago.
Henry Guy Carleton, noted author
and playwright, died in Hot Springs
Ark, of paralysis, after years OF sur
fering.
DR.. George Edgar Vincent, dean oil
the faculty OF arts, literature and sci
ence in the University Of Chicago
has been chosen by the regents to
succeed DR.. Cyrus Northrop as pres
ident of the University OF Minnesota
and has accepted the office