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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR B0S1REA0ERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Day Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME W. D. Lippett, first vice president of the Great Western Sugar company, t Denver, Colo., announced that the company will build In Colorado the first plant of its kind in the world for the refining of sugar from discard dis-card molasses. George Schoeder of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Man-itoba, who waa held responsible for the death of Robert Beck when he refused re-fused use of his boat to attempt rescue res-cue when Beck was drowned recently, recent-ly, has left Winnipeg, a Canadian press dispatch received at Seattle, Waah., Stated. Police guarded the Bchroeder home on the bank of the Red river while his household effects were being removed. lie had lived there twenty years. Texas was awardod two prizes in the national membership-extension contest in the National Federation of Music Clubs, at Portland, (Oregon. Mrs. Cecil Frankel, Los Angeles, vice president, announced at the convention. conven-tion. Texas received a prize of $100 for the state showing the most consistent con-sistent growth in club membership between be-tween June, 1924 and May 1925, and $5(3 for the state whose clubs showed show-ed greatest growth between January ond May of this year. On the heels of the reports of a dtrike of native copper ln the Mother Lode mining property at Baker, Ore., came news that captialists of Spokane Spo-kane are planning to spend approximately approxi-mately two million dollars to develop the eastern Oregon copper belt. A piece of sponge cake brought to the Los Angeles police headquarters headquar-ters by Cliff Bergere, automobile race driver, with the statement that he feared it was connected with an attempt at-tempt upon his life, has been found npon analysis to contain a quantity of deadly poison, the police announced. announ-ced. When arrested at San Francisco, Mears Hanson, 28, confessed to the police that he had tied up hand and foot between fifty and a, hundred girls and women in that city seeking employment em-ployment from him in answer to advertisements ad-vertisements for stenographers, typists typ-ists and apartment house managers. A jury in federal court awarded to the Brookings State bank of Brookings, Brook-ings, Ore., a verdict of $1 actual damages dam-ages and $17,500 punitive damages in the bank's suit against the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco. The Brookings bank claimed it had suffered suf-fered from practices of the reserve bank in forcing it to comply with the rule for par collection of checks. GENERAL President Coolidge will leave Washington Wash-ington the night of June 23 for his Bummer vacation at Swampscott, according ac-cording to plans tentatively completed. complet-ed. He will ride in a special train, arriving at Boston early the following morning. He will auto at once along the thirteen miles of Bay State beaches beach-es to White Court, the summer capital capi-tal ,at Swampscott. A brass band and several hundred persons met Albert Gowan and Charles Char-les McPhee, paroled rum runners of Glocester, Mass., as they stepped from a train that had brought them from Atlanta penitentiary. Efforts by the chamber of commerce and the city council to have the celebration called off were only partially successful. success-ful. They did succeed, however, in inducing those who were arranging the home coming to cancel plans for a parade. Chicago gunmen and thugs met a severe but costly repulse at the hands of police and citizens, when two gunmen, gun-men, one of them a nortorious "bad man" were shot to death and another but recently tried for murder, was fatally wounded. One of the gunmen, slain managed to eke out a shot as he fell dying, and it found its mark ln the heart of Joseph Baggott, a veteran vet-eran policeman. Baggott died later in a hospital. The tombstone over his father's jrrave ln Waldheim cemetery, Chicago, Chica-go, which fell "A'hen he attempted to climb it, resulted in the death of Lester Les-ter Laclche, 5 years old. His motiier was placing flowers on the grave and sobbing as the boy tried to climb the slender shaft three feet high. It toppled, top-pled, fracturing his Bkull. The United States blockade against rum runners along the Atlantic coast has driven the booze boats that formerly for-merly operated there into the Gulf of Mexico, according to officers of the coast guard cutter Commache that arrived at Houston, Texas, after a twenty-four hour cruise. Charges that a conspiracy among food adulteraters has nullified the federal pure food and drug act were laid before President Coolidge by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, former chief of the bureau of chemistry of the agriculture department. Edward Den, a veteran policeman of Chicago, defended $9000, receipts of the Chicago Motor Coach company at the probable cost of his life. Struck in the stomach by slugs from a sawed-off shotgun and wounded ln the leg by a revolver bullet, Dean chased four masked robbers from the company's office and fired six shots at them before he fainted 'from his wounds. Oscar F. C. Kunau, president of the Auto Knitter Hosiery company of Buffalo, N. Y. his wife and Burton Bigelow, manager of the compny are at liberty on $10,000 bail each as a result of charges of violating a federal feder-al statute ami using the mail to defraud. de-fraud. The company is engaged in the sale of knitting machines which are sold to the housewives, according to authorities with a guarantee that sox knitted on them will be disposed of by the company. About $6,000,000 is said to have been taken in by the company since its organization ten years ago. Stanley Darlington, a telephone wire chief of Dauphin, Kan., outlasted outlast-ed a bear In a test of patience. When at the top of a pole in the Riding Mountain forest reserve, Darlington heard a commotion and saw a full grown bear. For an hour Darlington sat atop the pole and the bear sat on the ground. Then Bruin departed. depart-ed. Only one bobbed-haired girl was among the twenty-four "most beautiful" beau-tiful" girls at Vassar college who earned the traditional daisy chain in the class day exercises. George E. Leach won a third term of mayor of Minneapolis by a majority major-ity of 8232 votes over James T. Ell-well Ell-well in the city's election, complete unofficial returns showed. The final fin-al count was: Leach 53,533; Elwell 45,301. Six members of the radical bloc of the Minneapolis city council which dominated the council 14 to 12, were routed by votes and the new city council will be 18 to. 8 antir-adical. The governor of Florida has approved ap-proved the act of the 1925 legislature to require daily readings of the Holy Bible in the schools of Florida. Readings Read-ings . once daily are required under provisions of the measure, but no sectarian comment is permitted. FOREIGN Dog meat is still an article of human hu-man diet in Germany, and the Berlin chief of police has decided that the inspection regulations governing other oth-er meat shall apply in the future to this article. The regulations prescribe pre-scribe also that dogs destined 'for slaughter must be examined for trichinosis tri-chinosis both before and after killing. Viscount Poullet, who held the post of minister of the interior under Premier Theunis, has succeeded in forming a cabinet at Brussels after ten days' efforts. Belgium has been without a government since April 5, except for the brief tenure of Aloys Van De Vyvere as premier. Great Britian and France have reached a complete accord on the problem of European security, and if Germany, to whom the accord will be sent, agrees to the conditions, a four-power pact will come into being based . on the inviolability of the Rhine frontiers as delimited by the Versailles treaty, it was stated at Geneva. Special dispatches from Vera Cruz, Mexico, report that more than 100 persons have been drowned and several sev-eral hamlets destroyed in the Isthmus region, caused by the overflowing of the Tehuantepec and Perros rivers. Rene Francois de Vleechouwer, known as Brother Usmar, of the orphanage or-phanage at Suberdeau, Canada, was found guilty of manslaughter for the scalding to death of 8-year-old Hector Galarneau, one of his charges, January Janu-ary 21. He will be sentenced later. The boy died following immersion in a tub of boiling water. Brother Usmar Us-mar contended that the scalding occurred oc-curred while he was changing Hector's Hec-tor's clothes. Officials of the Krupp concern characterized as "incomprehensible'' the demand of the allies in their disarmament dis-armament note for the dismantling of the plant at Essen, Germany. Misuse Mis-use of the Krupp works for military purposes is impossible, it was stated, for the reason that a subcommission of the alied control body is constantly constant-ly stationed at the plant to supervise faithful observance of the provisions of the Versailles treaty. A plot to assinate Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Benes, should he come to Vienna, has been discovered, according to Der Abend, an extremist extrem-ist afternoon paper. The paper claims that the plotters are members of the nationalistic organization "Awakened Hungarians," in Budapest, and that they are cooperating with Austrian "Hakenzreuzler," an antisemetic nationalistic na-tionalistic order. Approximately 1300 miners of tha Western Fuel company of Nanalmo, B. C, who struck when they voted against a 60-cent a day wage reduction, reduc-tion, announced that they would accept ac-cept partial reductions. This would include a cut of 20 cents a day for miners, 10 cents a day for drivers and no reductions for men earning less than $4 a day. Nine persons were killed and forty-six forty-six injured when a mail train fron Brisbane to Rockhamption, Australia, was wrecked at Gympie, Queensland, |