The Semi-weekly leader., 1913-08-23
news OF THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
6 PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For
eIgn Countries Are Here Given
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Busy Readers.

1shed In typhoon that swept Macaro.
Numerous junks were wrecked,
houses we're swept away and the sea
wall collapsed.
Gov. Sulzer, sitting as member OF
the New York capitol trustees, opened
a number of bids for improvements to
the building. He was the only mem
ber of the board present.
Denial that he had abandoned his
lecture engagements for the year was
contained in statement dictated by
Secretary Bryan. He declared he
would resume this work as soon as
he got chance to take vacation.
Burglars who entered the Hermann
1ewelry store at Newport, R. l., some
time after the place was closed, OBJ
aained jewels and silverware valued
at about $4,000, but were frightened
away when additional booty worth
100000 was in their reach.
Eugene N. Foss, three times elected
governor of Massachusetts as Dem
ocrat, and candidate for the. Demo
cratic nomination for the presidency
last year, declared himself again a
Republican. but remained indefinite
regarding his reported candidacy for
the Republican nomination for re-elec-
tion.
The union of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of Amer
ica and the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, effected in 1906, was upheld
by Judge A. S. Van Valkenburg in the
United States district court at Kansas
City.
Twenty-seven men arrested in the
rioting in Minot, N. D., were tried, one
being freed under his declaration of
willingness to leave town. The other
26 were convicted and sentenced to 10
days hard labor on the chain gang.
Nine men are dead and one fatally
injured as the result of an accident at
the Coronado mine near Clifton, Ariz.,
when two heavily laden ore cars car
Tying 13 miners dashed down steep
grade for distance of $500 feet.
The Constantinople Bible House re-
ceived telegram reporting that Rev.
Charles V. Holbrook, missionary,
had been shot and killed at Souchier,
will ofC Two
town OF Asiatic Turkey.
An attack on. DIR. William Bayard
leo for President Wilson, was the
means used by Senator Penrose for
criticism of the Administrations stand
on Mexican affairs.
The worst electrical storm that has
visited the vicinity of Winnipeg for
years, accompanied by a 60-mile gale,
swept across Manitoba from Brandon
to the eastern boundary. Hundreds
of thousands of dollars damage was
done to buildings in Winnipeg and all
the towns in the province.
The New York capital was startled
when the amazing report, partially
verified, was circulated through the
senate and assembly chambers that
Mrs. William Sulzer stands ready to
come forward and assume full respon-
sibility for the governors checking
accounts, which are the basis for the
Impeachment charges connecting the
campaign funds with Wall street spec
ulation.
Josquin Mendez, Guatamalan min
ister at Washington, called on Secre-
tary Bryan and said he had received
full instructions from his government
to sign a general peace treaty, as pro-
posed by Secretary Bryan, with the
United States.
An invitation to all the navies of
the world to meet at Hampton Roads
in January, 1915, and pass through the
Panama canal to the Panama exposi-
tion at San Francisco, accompanied
by a fleet from the United States
navy, will shortly be issued by Presi-
dent Wilson.
2. ]. Duprey, tailor, who shot and
killed Henry Gronimus, a photog-
rapher, after Gronimus had been ac-
quilted of the charge of wronging
Duprey's 14-year-old daughter Stella,
was exonerated by coroner's jury in
Chicago. Duprey's defense was the
unwritten law.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the Eng
lish militant suffragette leader, ar
rived in Trouville, France, from Lon
don by way of Hayre to join her
daughter Christabel, who has been
staying at the seaside resort.
The big day of the thirty-second
triennial conclave Of the Knights
Templar, the day OF the great parade,
was celebrated when upward of 10000
sir knights marched through the
streets OF Denver in one OF the great.
est demonstrations OF It's kind In the
history Of the order.
Striking directly at the Mexican
Constitutlonalists, whom he de-
nounced on the senate floor. Senator
Smith Of Michigan introduced bill
to secure the deportation of their rep
resentative from this country.
News from Mexico City that John
Lind, personal representative of Presi-
dent Wilson, and FREDERICK Gamboa,
Mexican minister Of foreign relations,
had established unofficial relations BY
q personal meeung, brought encour-
agement TO administration officials at
Washington.
FORMAL notice of the imnaaehment