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NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM 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. Two burglars entered the home of Hyrum G. Hatcher at Salt Lake, knocked down, bound, gagged and chloroformed his wife, Mrs. Maude Hatcher, 38 years of age, and then proceeded to deliberately ransack the house. Three persons were instantly killed and two others probably fatally in jured at Twin Falls, Idaho, when a freight train crashed into an automobile driven by Henry P. Larson at a crossing at the south edge of the city. Eight indictments were returned by the federal grand jury at Cheyenne, Wyo., against Edward F. Trafton, charged with holding up fifteen stage coaches in the Yellowstone National Park July 29, 1914. Informations charging counsel for the United Mine Workers of America with subornation of perjury were quashed in the district court at Trinidad, Colo. Beachcombers, pillaging the wrecked steamship Santa Clara, near Marshfield, Ore., set the hulk afire. She blazed up from stem to stern and fell to pieces with the explosion of her oil tanks. After suffering agonies from burns accidentally received over seven weeks ago, while building a fire in the kitchen stove, Mrs. Domantile Adamson Oakey died at American Fork, Utah. Aside from a score or more of miners who have left town or secured employment elsewhere in the district, It is estimated that all of the striking employes of the Silver King Coalition properties at Park City, Utah, who walked out are back at work. DOMESTIC. The boundary line between Mexico and the United States has been chalked and marked at fifty-yard intervals by American flags at Naco, Ariz. This action was taken after a Villa soldier, escaping from Naco, Sonora, had been pursued by Villa cavalry across the boundary. Socialists of Texas in session at Waco, Texas, adopted a platform which contains the recommendation that the manufacture or sale of liquor in Texas be made a felony. A hydroplane is to be shipped from New York to Bogota, Colombia, where she will be used to carry the mails and government officials down the Magdalena river, between the capital and the coast, 600 miles. Four Chicagoans were killed when a passenger train struck their automobile at a grade crossing near Elgin, Ills. On allegations that they defrauded the government by shipping whisky concealed in coffins, four Chattanooga, Tenn., men were indicted by the federal grand jury. It is officially announced that Winston Spencer Churchill, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, has resigned from the cabinet and will join the army in France. American railroads are confronted with one of the most serious car shortages of recent years, owing to the huge grain crop of this country and Canada and the heavy tonnage from steel and munitions plants, cou pled with the inability of the railroads to get new cars fast enough. Refusal to indorse President Wilson's proposal for a continental army of 400,000 men marked the closing session at San Francisco of the sev enteenth annual convention of the National Guard association of the United States. That the United States is the only civilized nation which has not already in operation a system of rural credits, and that this nation must capitalize its settlers before its own sons can return to the farms, was the declara tion of Professor Elwood Mead of the University of California, speaking Thursday before the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, in session at Oakland. Twelve persons were killed and more than one hundred injured, many of them seriously, in a tornado which swept through the residence section of Great Bend, Kansas. The property loss is estimated at half a million dolMars. The superdreadnought Nevada com pleted another of her official trials Tuesday by running twenty-four hours at a ten-knot speed and consuming six pounds less oil per knot than her con tract required. The Merchants and Farmers' Na tional bank of Cisco, Texas, has closed dts doors upon the disappearance of the cashier, whose loans with the insti tution were excessive. As part of a plan to equip police men for warfare, all members of the New York police force have been no tified that they will be offered in structions in the handling of rifles. In an address at Chicago at a ban quet of the National Security league William H. Taft, former president o the United States, declared himself i favor of military preparedness.
