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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJEADERS i RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of tho Busy Reader WESTERN Three women and one man, all Mexicans, were Instantly killed when a machine In which they were passengers, passen-gers, wa3 si ruck ly the Union 1'aclfic Los Angeles Limited at Wineville, ten miles west of Riverside Calif. Decoyed into an automobile liy n pretty woman who naked them to allow her the way to a downtown Intersection, In-tersection, two employes of the Plggly W'lggly company at Oakland, Calif., were rohhed of $2200 company com-pany funds by two handils who leaped leap-ed upon the running hoard of the car. Mrs. Jennie Meyers appeared in Btipcrior court in Los Angeles on a contempt citation for failure to keep up alimony payments to her husband, Abraham Meyers. It was the first time, according to court attaches that a woman has been arraigned on such a charge in Los Angeles county". Work will be started at the Idaho Phosphate mine near Paris, Idaho, witnin the next week, according to Manager Eay Mcllwee, who says ne has received orders from a California Califor-nia concerne to ship several thousand tons of milled phosphate and that the first of this order would be shipped within 10 days. Report conies from Riggins, Idaho, that Mrs. Jessie L. Clay of that ,)laee and Miss Mary A. Harneman of Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, who has been spending the summer there have located a valuable copper claim within five miles of the village of Lucile. A specimen assay luns 33.9 with a ton value of $90.17. The vein which opens two inches on the surface is almost pure colcoprite. An earthquake which lasted one rimute at Fairbanks, Alaska, sent people scurrying from their homes and shaking buildings, was attributed by Professor Patty of the Alaska College Col-lege of Fairbanks to a volcanic eruption erup-tion in the Aleutian islands. Lucy Brown, Indian, credited in the annals of her tribe with being 120 years old, died at Yosemite, California. Califor-nia. She was the oldest of six generations gen-erations of the Brown family residing resid-ing at the Yosemite Indian village. With the nations equipment of destructive de-structive forces steadily augmented by new and more steadily discoveries, the march of civilization moves toward to-ward annihilation. Dr. Robert A. Mi' likan, Nobel prize winner and international inter-national authority on the mechanics of the atom, told the Los Angeles sector of the Association of the Army of the United States at a banquet at Los Angeles, GENERAL Seven Chinese who were smuggled Into this country from Hongkong in packing cases aboard a steamship Buffered so severely from starvation and hardships during the thirty-day voyage that one of them died seen after being taken into custody by the police and the six others were near death. Three Chinese' of Chicago charged with smuggling their seven countrymen also were arrested. A total of 14,412 deaths from accidents acci-dents during 1923 caused by automobiles automo-biles and other motor vehicles, excluding ex-cluding motorcycles, is shown in statistics sta-tistics assembled by the census bureau bur-eau covering the death registration area of the United States, which contains con-tains 87.6 per cent of the total population. pop-ulation. Hurling tear gas bombs and red pepper, police riot squads dispersed a mob estimated at between 7000 and 10,000 persons gathered in the street in front of the Arena Gardens audi torium, in Denver, where Aldrich Blake, former secretary to J. C. Walton, Wal-ton, deposed governor of Oklahoma, was scheduled to deliver an address on the "Ku Klux Kraze." The great Stillman divorce case is at an end. In informal truce, which may eventually pave the way. to a complete reconciliation, has been tacitly ta-citly agreed to by James A. Stillman, the banker, and his wife, Mrs. Anne U. Stillman. All legal proceedings against his wife have been withdrawn from the courts by the banker, it was sfid by a close friend of the family i:nd it is doubtful if any other will be pressed. The League of Nations Nonpartisan association announced that the results re-sults of a recently conducted canvass of I'nited Slates senators indicated that '"only eleven Republican senators sen-ators could be counted upon to support sup-port their parly's platform favoring American membership in the world court." Laura Jean LiMiey, widely .known writer, died at her Brooklyn home. She had been ill only a short time. She was born in this city sixty-two years ago. Lieutenant George t'udlihy, . U. S. N., flying a CI:;: seaplane, equipped with a 4 horsepower Curtiss molor set a new world's seaplane record for 10O kilometers (sixty-one miles) at the naval air meet at Lay Shore near Baltimore, lie covered the instance ins-tance in 21.04, an average speed o 17(1. Is2 miles an hour. The former mark was 129.75 miles an hour, held by England. Exchange of ratification between the United States and Canada of the convention to protect the hailbut fisheries fish-eries of the northern Pacific ocean took place at Washington. The con vention, signed at Washington on March 2, 1923, established a closed season of the halibut fishery from November 16 to February 15 of each year and provides for the appointment appoint-ment of a joint commission of four members to invesugaie and make recommendations rec-ommendations for the preservation' and development of the halibut fisheries fisher-ies in the north Pacific. An audience of 6000 persons cheered cheer-ed the playing of "Deutschland Uber Alles" at a New York theater, where the officers and crew of the ZR-3 were guests. There was no trace of unfriendliness when Dr. Hugo Ecke-ner, Ecke-ner, commander of the giant dirigible on her trans-Atlantic flight, made a speech in German. Further hearings on Pullman rates will be held by the interstate commerce com-merce commission November 6, at Washington. The Order of United Commercial Travelers of America is contending that present Pullman rates are too high. The Production Managers' association, associa-tion, an organization of theatrical managers, vot-2d at New York to dissolve, dis-solve, holding there is no further reason rea-son for their existence. A resolution was passed directing the board of directors to petition the supreme court for a legal dissolution of their organization. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge submitted sub-mitted to a minor operation at a Boston Bos-ton hospital, the second in a few months, Dr. John S. Cuningham, who performed the operation, said it had been entirely successful. FOREIGN Mexican consulates at London, Liverpool, Glascow and other points were ordered closed by the Mexican government. This move is not made as a demonstration of hositlity to Great Britain, merely as a minfes-tation minfes-tation of our self respect," an official offi-cial statement said. Northern Ontario, where a wet vote predominated, only to he mopped mop-ped up 'by the dry votes of the south as the province retained prohibition by a majority of 40.000 in Thursday's election, is demanding local option. Six persons have been sentenced to death for the murder of a village newspaper correspondent of the name I of Malinovsky, who, as the represen I tative of a soviet newspaper accused the village administration of anti-communist anti-communist activities. The anniversary of the death o( Lord Mayor MacSwiney was simultaneously simul-taneously commemorated at St. Finn Bar cemetery by national troops and a Republican procession headed by Lord Mayor French. (.m reaching the grave the Republicans found the troops in possession. The lord mayor requested them to withdraw, but they refused to do so until they had fired volleys over the grave. They retired somewhat but remained in the cemetery. The dissolution of the reichstag I and the advent of a new parliament in no way endanger the fulfillment by Gertnany of the London agreement on the Dawes reparation plan, Chancellor Chan-cellor Marx told the Associated I'ress. The special session of the council of the league of nations, convoked to take up the cutroversy between Great Britain and Turkey over the Irak boundary will open at Brussels this week. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, president of the provisional government of South China, is reported to have returned from Shiuchow. northwest of Canton, and to have taken refuge in the arsenal ar-senal there. The reporr says he i accujaipanied by a guarl of 2000 soldiers for his persons.', pratecil jn. |