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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUS! READERS 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 H. J. Mallen, Los Angeles business man and sportsman caught a 528 pound sword fish off Santa Catalina island. It is said to be the largest of its kind ever caught 'with a rod and line. The sword fish was twelve feet, six inches long and four feet ten inches in girth. His sword was 48 inches long. The fish knocked in the side of the boat and disabled the propeller in his final plunge. Nine persons were killed and five seriously injured when a tornado demolished de-molished the farm house of Henry Kuns, a farmer residing four miles east of Thurman, Colo., according to information received at Denver. It was reported that at least two of those injured would die. Two masked bandits entered the bank of Salt Creek at Lavoye in the center of the Salt Creek oil fields, 45 miles north of Casper, Wyo., held up four clerks and escaped with two sacks of money. The loot was said to have amounted to several thousand thous-and dollars, the total being unknown. un-known. A tempting offer which may carry Jack Dempsey, world's champion heavyweight boxer, across the Atlantic Atlan-tic to meet Tommy Gibbons, in London, Lon-don, was made to the champion by an English syndicate, it was announced an-nounced at Los Angeles by Jack Kearns, Dempsey's manager. For the first time since the Indians forsook the bow for the breachload-ing breachload-ing rifle, an American deer was killed kill-ed with an arrow. The animal fell to Miss Virginia Ayres of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, who uses a 52 pound bow, nearly double the strength of the ordinary or-dinary weapon, and steel-headed arrows. Chlorine gas will be forced into the Palisade mine, near Palisade, Colo., in the hope nf driving the three men who are alleged to have robbed the Palisade postoffice of more than $15,000 in stamps and cash from the property. In Montana, home state of Senatoi Burton K. Wheeler, selected by Senator Sen-ator Robert M: La Follette as the latter's running mate in the presidential presi-dential campaign, the La Follette Progressive party will endeavor to have the name of Governor Charles Bryan put on the ballot as candidate for vice president. Eight youths and a trio of bobbed haired girls, all of the eleven under 21 years old are in custody at Los Angeles as bandit suspects. Police alleged they participated in more than forty holdups and robberies, including in-cluding the robbery of Betty Blythe, motion picture actress, who lost several sev-eral diamond rings and a fur. The Bonanza, Jumbo and Mother Lode mines of the Kennecott Copper Company at Cordova. Alaska, will be closed for two or three months as the result of a fire that destroyed their power house, a storage house and a residence at Kennecott, northeast north-east of Cordova. The loss is estimated estimat-ed at $150,000. GENERAL Need of the "defense test" scheduled schedul-ed for. September 12 is demonstrated by the character of the opposition, Secretary of War Weeks says in a letter to Mrs. Anthony . Wayne Cook, president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in acknowledging ac-knowledging a communication pledging pledg-ing the support of twenty-seven veteran vet-eran and patriotic societies. H. W. "Brodie" Stephens of Anaconda, Ana-conda, Mor.t., former star end at Pennsylvania, was named as end coach for the varsity footbaU team this year at the University of Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. The announcement was made by Head Coach Lou Young ana completes the staff of coaches. William C. Pelky, chairman of the Republican state centra! committee; I John T. Toomey of Johnston and William Wil-liam (Toots) Murray of Boston were ' Indicted by the grand jury at Providence. Provi-dence. R- I., on charges of conspiracy in connection ivith the explosion of a "gas bomb" in the Rhode Island state senate June 19. Narcotics valued at $130,000, the erreatest quantity ever seized in Michigan were found by police in a trunk shipped from New York to i Detriot peddler, alleged to be the L.ool of a drug ring. Because he struck Mrs. Frank B. Ooyle, of Long Beach, Cal., and beat her husband with a pick handle, Aaron Deckleman a taxi cab driver of Chicago, was fined $1000 and osts and sentenced to serve one year in the house of correction last week. It was the maximum penalty. Robert P. Skinner, American consul con-sul general at London for more than 'en years has been ordered transferred trans-ferred to Paris to succeed Alexander M. Thackara, who retired as consul general on July 1 because of age. Consul General Horace L. Washing-on, Washing-on, stationed at Liverpool, will suc-cee suc-cee Mr. Skinner in London. Two violent rain and hail storms, v JJ o... Indiana, killing five persons, injuring injur-ing a dozen others and causing heavy property damage. Assets amounting to $332,530,953, were held ,by building and loan associations as-sociations in the United States at the close of last year, according to an inquiry conducted by the American Ameri-can Savings, Building and Loan Institute In-stitute and announced by the National Na-tional Association of Real Estate 3oards which is urging their formation. for-mation. Decision to terminate the army around-the-world flight at Seattle la.s been announced definitely, at the war department. The terminating point had been left open, pending consideration of claims of other Pacific Pa-cific coast cities to secure the designation. desig-nation. Lucian C. San Souci reporter on the Tribune, a French publication of Woonsocket, R. I., was branded with a large letter K on the forehead and the left wrist when he was "listening "listen-ing in" on a secret meeting near Blackstone, Mass., according to a story published in the paper. San Souci was lying in a field when three men, wearing flowing white robes, overpowered him. In a few minutes he was surrounded by a score of the hooded figures. The fashionable Le Paridis and hotel roofs were raided again in the polite, almost noiseless manner recently re-cently adopted by Washington pro-ihbition pro-ihbition agents. Two arrests were made, the man in each case, as usual, usu-al, being invited to accompany the raider to the nearest police station, where he was allowed to post collateral col-lateral for appearance. This was the third raid within the last few weeks at the Le Paradis. Herbert Barr Griggs, navy air pilot pi-lot of New York, paid the first penalty pen-alty for violation of a city ordinance which prohibits low airplane flights over crowded thoroughfares or beaches. beach-es. Charged with flying his machine only 125 feet above the heads of bathers at Rockway beach last week, he was fined $25 by Magistrate Goodman at Far Rockaway. FOREIGN The French academy has finished the first volume of its revised dic-t'.on3.ry dic-t'.on3.ry of the French language. The volume contains letters A to H. It took forty-six years to complete, having been begun in 1S78. Supposing Suppos-ing the learned body requires an equal amount of time to ponder over the seventeen remaining letters, ninety-six years. or very nearly a century will elapse before the great work is finally completed. Terrific floods have swept the island is-land of Formosa drowning more than TOO persons according to messages received at Tokio. Ten thousand houses have been demolished and large areas inundated. Japanese holiday makers in the Roshu coast towns of Hojo and Fate-yama, Fate-yama, at the entrance to Tokio liay. were thrown into consternation by a somewhat severe earthquake. " No I damage ha been reported. A very sli :lt shock wr.s felt in Tokio at the same hour. The establishment of a chain of museums from one end of the American Ameri-can continent to the otiier, depicting the development of the various brunches of the engineering imAistry that is the dream of George lies resident of New York, who is attending attend-ing the meeting of the British Asso. ciatioti of the Advancement of Science at Toronto, Ont. The painting of Lady Astor, the introduction of which iro the House of Commons raised such a hubbub recently, will be removed from the staircase where it hangs, during the parlimentary vacation, according to lobby reports. The Westminster Gazette Ga-zette says the removal is at the re-qutst re-qutst of the donor, Lady Astor. |