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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOB -BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN After hauling the 600-pound safe of the Azell Farr Coal company of Og-den, Og-den, Utah for a distance of four miles, robbers failed to find any money. Mardons Mousgian, Ogden, Utah, bacteriologist, charged with shooting his daughter, Sirron Mousgian, 13 with intent to kill, was adjudged insane in-sane by Judge James N. Kimball at a special examination. 'Sixteen prisoners are held in close confinement in the county jail dungeon dung-eon at Los Angeles following frustration frustra-tion of a daring escape plot. The men were tunneling their way to freedom and were within a few feet of liberty when seized by armed jailers jail-ers A fire in the Signal Hill oil fields north of Long Beach, Cal. destroyed two derricks and caused a loss estimated esti-mated at 5300,000. The Union Oil Company of Southern California and the Petroleum Midway company lost the derricks, tools and rigging. Carl Lindquist and L. B. Morris, constructional steel workers were sent hurling 4S feet downward by the breaking of a hemp rope that was used to raise an 1S00 pound steel girder in the o instruction of the new Continental National Bank building at Salt Lake City. The men were badly injured. The town of Goldfield, Nev., with the exception of sis buildings, was burned to the ground Friday. One man is dead from causes attributable to the fire, a roman is missing and is believed to have perished, and several sev-eral persons were treated for bunis as the result of the fire, now believed to have been a incendiary origin, started as part of a bootlegger's feud. The firing of a presidential salute on the Fourth of July by a British warship in an American port was a feature at Portland of the celebration in honor of President Harding. Captain Cap-tain Stanley L. Holbrook of H. M. S. Curley, which arrived for the celebration, cele-bration, conceived the idea and it was at once accepted by the celebration celebra-tion committee. , GENERAL - Floating in the basket of the ill fated United States navy baloon A-6G9S, A-6G9S, the body of Lieutenant L. J. Roth was found fourteen miles off Port Stanley Monday. The body and basket were found by the Canadian fish boat Onajag. P'ire, following an explosion, destroyed des-troyed the refining plant of the Interstate In-terstate Refineries, Inc., at Kansas City, with the loss estimated at 5200,000. Flames at times reached a height of more than l.'O feet The cause of the explosion has not been determined. At least two persons were killed and damage estimated at $1,500,000 was done by terrific wind, hail and rain storms which swept over the north central and northeastern parts of North Dakota, according to reports reaching Fargo. Twenty-six Texas oil promoters including in-cluding Dr. F. A. Cook, Artie explorer were indicted by the federal grand jury at Cleveland Ohio, Tuesday, on charges of using the mails to defraud and conspiracy to make fradulent use of mails. Meeting in the "Old South" for the first time in twenty-five years, the grand lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks opened the business sessions of its fifty-ninth annual convention at Atlanta Oa., Tuesday. The fisherman of Port Stanley more than a score of them were out on Lake Erie again early Tuesday, gathering their catches and scanning the surface for Lieutenant T. B. Null, missing aeronaut, or his body. Organized Or-ganized search for Lieutenant com-fianion com-fianion in the navjil balloon A-C,G!8 of Lieutenant J. L. Roth, whose body, was found In the balloon basket, has virtually been abandoned. Forty persons were injured, several probably fatally, when a two cur train (n the Niagara Fa lbs high speed line of the Jnte rnalonnl Railway company run into a open switch nt the northern city limits of Tonawandii. J'.olh cars went into the dit'-h, the first turning completely over. Congress, having conferred upon pbysl'-ians the dlHi-retlonnry right of prescribing )biior, cannot regulate the ciriounl a pbyHii-lan may prescribe, t'nlfd Stales I-'r-r ri a.1 District. Judge I'-ourquin for Montana held In sub-Mianee sub-Mianee Friday In a divbdnn. The court diHrni the three counts (u-alnal Dr. J. I'.. Frcund of Butte, one (if whl'-h rhnrgwl lilin with writing more than 100 pn-H'Tljillonn In ninety layn, a necond charging be Indued a )i-rmlt for more than a pint, of whisky to one patient and a third charging John D. Rockfeller, in a quiet way celebrated hi? eighty-fourth birthday Sundaj at his Tarrytown estate. Because Be-cause it was the Sabbath day the usual band to mark another milestone in his journey of life was dispensed with, nor did the oil king get his customary round of golf. He never plays golf on Sunday. President and Mrs. Harding celebrated cele-brated iSunday one of the most memorable mem-orable of their thirty-two wedding anniversaries by arriving in Alaska, the first chief executive and first lady of the land ever to visit the great northern terrtitory. Win. R. Day former United States Supreme Court Justice died at his summer home in Michigan following a long illness. In the midst of the blaring bands the farewell cheers of thousands of Tacoma citizens President Harding sailed Thursday for Alaska, the first chief executive of the nation to visit that territory since it came under the American flag fifty-six years ago. Henry Ford's first grand-daughter was born Saturday. She is the daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford. Ford has two other grandchildren, Henry II and Edsel B. Jr. both sons of Edsel Ford and Mrs. Ford, who before be-fore her marriage was Aliss Eleanor C. Lay. France at the present time is figiit-ing figiit-ing for the same principls as are upheld by the American (Legion, Marshal Foch declared in an Independence Inde-pendence day message received at national headquarters of the legion at Indianapolis. Captain Donald B. MacMillan, Artie Ar-tie explorer, and his picked crew of six sailed for the far north on the Bowdoin on another long cruise, the primary object of which is to determine, deter-mine, if possible, whether another "ice age" Is in the process of formation. forma-tion. The advance of glaciers the last seventy years has indicated this, and MacMillan hopes to bring back the scientific proof. Rear Admiral Edward W. Eberle gave up command of the battle fleet of the United States navy Saturday to Rear Admiral S. S. Robison with imposing ceremonies aboard the battleship bat-tleship California, now in San Francisco Fran-cisco bay. Rear Admiral Eberle will depart for Washington to become chief of naval operations. General J. C. Gomez first vice president presi-dent of Venezuela was assassinated in bed Saturday night says a bulletin from Caracas. Walter Warwick, of Cincinnati, has resigned as assistant secretary of the budget, to become financial agent of the Panama government, it was announced an-nounced at the treasury department. Warwick was formerly comptroller of the treasury. FOREIGN An earthquake of Bome severity lasting about 15 seconds was felt throughout parts of France Tuesday. No loss of life was reported. Heavy damage was done, Tuesday, to London, by a thunderstorm said to have been the worst in the City's history. The storm raged for more than six hours. About 20 of the bandits who held up a train on the Canton-Kowlton railroad rail-road near Canton Saturday, were killed kill-ed Tuesday in a battle with Chinese troops. The main body of the bandits however, escaped to the hills. France has compromised with Great Britain on the latter's desire for a writtfm answer to the British questionnaire ques-tionnaire on reparations and the Ruhr occupation, it was learned in official ijuarters at Paris. The British steamer Woron made port at Manila without her captain, A. Hope, who, the chief officer reported, has been missing since the morning of July 4, apparently having been lost overboard during the night previous. Shiuchow, in the northern part of Kwangtung was recaptured Saturday by Yunnanese troops supporting Sun Yat-Sen in his efforts to check the invasion in-vasion of the levies. On the West river, Kwangsai soldiers enemies of Sun Yat-Sen, are advancing on Shl-nung. Shl-nung. On the East river the position of the opposing armies is unchanged. The first seizures under General FteOoutte's decree giving the occupation occupa-tion forces power to take over private pri-vate property for reparation purposes were announced Monday. Three plants were taken over by the French, the first being a branch of the Kriipp locomotive works at Segeroth, a little station near Essen. Bandits Saturday held up a train-on train-on the Canton-Kowloon railway, fifteen fif-teen miles from Canton, killing a Chinese, military officer and ono soldier, sol-dier, and carrying off about ninety upper-class Chinese, who aro being held for ransom. Booty valued at $50,000 was also taken. Dr. George Ellery Halo, director of the Mount Wilson observatory, California, Cali-fornia, has been relieved at hlo own requflst of a'-livo duties und appointed honorary director, und Dr. Walter Sidney Adamas, his assislnnt has been made director In charge of operations. oper-ations. The metal workers' union at Berlin Ber-lin repenting a wage awnrd of ths minister of labor, has prwliilmod n general strike. The carpenters havo also decided to ceaso work, thus hold. Ing up building operations. |