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Show EKJNfflF 1 FUST KB 4 Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN Fire of undetermined origin at ; Wichita Falls, Texas, destroyed the Wichita Falls & Northwestern Kail-. Kail-. way shops, with an estimated loss in excess of $12o,000. The buildings and all equipment, three locomotives, sev-; sev-; eral passenger coaches, and a number of box cars were totally destroyed, i while minor damcge was sustained by other rolling stock In the yards. E. A. Lindgren, 2 , federal game warden for western Iowa, was shot and probably fatally wounded near , Council Bluffs, Iowa, by three men j whom he Intercepted while they were ; killing game birds. The probable duration of the period ! of silver purchases under the terms of the I'ittman act, which guarantees domestic do-mestic producers tl an ounce for the j metal until such time as the 208,000,-j 208,000,-j 000 ounces sold to Great Britain dur-j dur-j lng the war have been replaced by j mint purchases, Is estimated at fifteen j months.' 1 ; i , , WASHINGTON . T-vo Indian hiefs positively identified identi-fied Barney MeBride. wealthy half, breed Indian, found slain hear ' Meadow Mea-dow es, Md., and expressed the belief that he was murdered in vengeance because of a feud between Oklahoma Indians and ojl interests. . A national referendum on the ship subsidy bill at the November congres-sional congres-sional elections was 4roip8ed by Senator Sen-ator Borah, Republican, Idaho, in a letter let-ter to Representative Wood of Indiana, Indi-ana, chairman of the Republican congressional con-gressional committee, made public. Mr. Wood replied that the committee was not advocating the bill and that he would canvass the members on the question. The federal district attorney in southern California Saturday was ordered or-dered by Attorney General Dangherty to investigate "whether the abandonment" abandon-ment" of trains on the Santa Fe railroad rail-road "was the result of a conspiracy by those operating them, or others, to interfere with interstate commerce and the handling of the mails." Home brewers and antj-Volstead-eans, beware the "booze powder," Is the warning sent broadcast by the post office department, in a recent circular, for stemming a tide of "dehydrated" alcoholic beverages of reminiscent names Is a steady job of the fraud section of the department. While high hopes for early settlement settle-ment are entertained by the adminls-tration, adminls-tration, averting the necessity of restoring re-storing to "drastic action" iy the gov-ernment, gov-ernment, repeatedly hinted at, results Grain prices for second week In August were the-lowest this -year. Approximately 24)00 cars ot fruit from northern California, are "on the rails," bound to eastern markets, according ac-cording to California fruit shippers and there are approximately 4,000 carloads remaining, much of It yet to be picked. The average value of each car is $1,000, shipping men said. This would bring the value of the fruit on route to about $2,000,000. The use'of the Deschutes river, Oregon, Ore-gon, and its tributaries for Irrigation of approximately 140,000 acres with power development was recommended to the federal power commission in a report of a board of engineers made public. . ,' GENERAL One person was killed and three were reported dying in a hos ital as t result of wild driving In an automobile automo-bile on a wooded road near Kills park at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The party was going at the rate of sixty miles an hour when the car struck a tree at a turn. It turned over twice. Miss Kd-ca Kd-ca Morgan was Instantly killed and Noble Stllman, Dan Clark and Vina Marsh were badly Injured, and it is expected they will die. The childish prank of two small beys endangered the lives of scores of passengers on the Panama Limited, the fast train on the Ixuisvllle & Nash- of the prblmged stoppage in production produc-tion are expected to keep- the government gov-ernment coal distributing machinery busy for a loni; period. Prohibition Director Carl Jackson if Wyoming reports to Commissioner llaynes that from August 1, 1J21, to 'ast June 30, there were C40 arrests n Wyoming for violation ot the Vol-dead Vol-dead act and fines Imposed a?gregat- ng $019,17.!. . During June alone there were 121 arrests and eleven complete itills, 2o2 rations of moonshine and ,!T,00 gallons, of . mash seized, with fines collected amounting to $4.'lo0. Typewriting in an airplane flying among the clouds, with radio machinery machin-ery duplicating the letters at a ground station miles away and reeling the message off in print, is a development announced by the navy department as giving to naval aircraft "a means of communication In advance of radio -telegraph and telephone systems now In current use." Successes already attained by experts working in conjunction con-junction with the navy, the department depart-ment asserted, assure the practicability practicabil-ity of the new scheme. That such a development will be of Incalculable alue to all forms of aviation, commercial com-mercial and military, follows Inevitably Inevit-ably on the heels ot the work now iteing done by the navy, it is predicted. predict-ed. ! FOREIGN Arthur Griffith, president of the vllle railroad near Washville, Tenn. The boys placed cross ties on the track "Just to see the train stall." they told the police. The ties were dlscov-ered dlscov-ered Just thirty minutes before the i tst train was due. I Indictments charging eleven persons ' with violation of the postal laws in connection with alleged stock selling ! swindles aggregating $7"0.000 were j made public at Chicago in .the United ! States district court clerk's office. Three firemen were blinded and a ! eeore vere overcome at a fire which j all but JJtzed pier D of the New York Central lines, at the foot of Sixty- fifth street and the Hudson river, no-; lng damage attl.000.00P, a New York. Attorneys for Evan Burrowes Fontaine, Fon-taine, a dancer, asked Judge Henry V. Borst in special term here to compel . attorneys for Cornelius .Vanderbllt Whitney, son of Harry. Payne Whit-ney, Whit-ney, to accept the service of a complaint com-plaint In a breach of promise action, which the lawyer, told the court, the dancer has brought against young Whitney, Fifteen locomotives of the Maine Ceutral, Boston & Maine, and fortius;! Terminal company, and a roundhouse were destroyed In a fl-e at Portland, Me. The damage was estimated at ' $1,000,000. The police said they sus pected incendiarism. Tages In the early history of California Cali-fornia passed before a noted assem-Li-.,f Aaia.-atam n thn convention Dally Eircann, died in Dublin of influenza, in-fluenza, it has been learned In Bel-fast. Bel-fast. Mr. GrifTlth was 111 only ten days and his illness was not considered consid-ered serious. Fighting is now in progress around Killarney, Erskine Chllders is leading the irregulars, numbering about .'00. Ccneral Dailey Is anxious to spare the famous beauty spot and Is reserving his fire when possible, but already there Is much firing heard. A semlolTif lal denial has been Issued Is-sued at Berlin stating that the crown prince had not made formal application applica-tion to the Wirth government for permission per-mission to return to lermany, but admitting ad-mitting the crd.n prince had put out informal feelers. Immediately after tho Rathenau murder word was car. rled through the 1 ack door of the German Ger-man eml assy at The Hague to the cro.vn prince that, in view of the situation sit-uation created by the murder, there was no possibility of seeking a solution solu-tion for his request to return to Germany Ger-many at that time. The French delegation to the con-feronce con-feronce on German affairs was amazed lo learn that the British govertmenfc proposes and Insists upon a reduction of the German reparations payments to about one-third the amount fixed by the London schedule of payment Of May 1!C1 that is, cancellation altogether al-together of the annual capital payments pay-ments of 2,000,000 gold marks and t h ave only the '-'0' per cent assessment of German exports. lliaKr Ul UlIV(lvvi of the American Bar association at a banquet which lasted until Saturday morning when former Senator Cornelius Cor-nelius Cole, within a few months of his 100th birthday, addressed the gathering gath-ering at San Francisco. Candidates favoring wine and beer and progresslvism within the Repub-lican Repub-lican party went down to defeat In the statewide primary election in Ohio, according ac-cording to returns. With knees knocking together in terror, George M. White left his home in Roxbury, Miss., where he had kept himself barricaded for four days. Insisting In-sisting on two policemen for protection, protec-tion, he was finally persuaded to appear ap-pear in Woburn court There he confronted con-fronted his wife, Mrs. Mary White, who had surrendered herself to the police and was to be arraigned on a charge of assault and attempted mur. der upon White, her sixth husband, tor his hiEurance. Military rule has been extended to the provinces of Ancona, Forma and .eghorn, Italy, where in the last fev days there has been sanguinary fight-ng fight-ng between the extreme Nationalists tnd the Communists, Pope Pius has sxpressed deep distress at the im reas-ng reas-ng hatred between opposing factions, which moves the people "farther away torn the teachings of the Divine Slas. ter." Sun Yat Sen, deposed president ol South China, who fled from Canton, is going to Shanghai to meet representatives repre-sentatives of Chang Tso-Lin, governor of Manchuria, together wi'lt leaders in Cheklang province and Genera! Fung, one of VVu Pel-Fu's officers, 1C perfect a combination against Wu and the Peking administration. Persons arriving at Liverpool frori Cork stated that the government housi and other buildings In the city ar burning. |