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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM i ! RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from all Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines WESTERN Jeff Smith, Healdton oil field worker, work-er, was acquitted of the murder of Joe Cnrroll alleged bootlegger by s Jury in district court at Ardmoore, Okla. Customs officials at Los Angeles ! harbor boarded the palatial $300,000 ; -yacht "Ohio" controlled by K. V. ; Scripps, and seized and placed under ! government seal OSG bottles of liquor. ; The seizure was made on orders from the office of the Collector of Customs. Cus-toms. The house of representatives of the Arizona legislature, unanimously adopted a resolution petitioning President Pres-ident Harding to enter into negotiations negotia-tions with Mexico, looking to the acquirement ac-quirement by the United States of the strip of land lying between the present pres-ent Ixiundary of the two countries and a lino running due west from Nogales, Ariz., to the gulf of Mexico. Liotenant Paul M. Connor was killed kill-ed and Sergeant D. A. Templeman was Injured when their plane fell 200 feet at Woodward air Celd near Salt Lake City. Fnmk G. Yentzer, the Ogden Union Railway and Depot company, was fatally injured when a piece of sandstone sand-stone coping on the west wall of the depot, recently partially destroyed by fire, was jarred loose by a passing train, falling fifty feet, crashed " through a skylight upon Yentzer. Nine firmed sailors, plotting with 29 stowaways, held the voyage of the 6,000 ton freighter Taihu Maru under o virtual reign of terror during her voyage from Kobe, Japan to Vancouver. Van-couver. After being out for more than forty-eight hours the jury in the case of the United States against James I'ingree, former president of the I'ingree Natonal bank of Ogden, returned re-turned n verdict of guilty on the Lxth count. GENERAL ' The French steamer Propntrla, with several American passengers aboard, has sent out S. O. S. calls. .She gave ber pos tlon as 100 miles south of St. Pierre. She has been four days jammed in an ire field and has lost three tlades of her propeller and suffered suf-fered other damages. The message stated. Taul Rndin struck by a stray bullet from a labor fight in the rooms of a butchers union lecal at Chicago as he mounted the stairs to pay his father's dues, died. He was the twenty-seventh victim of Chcago labor shootings In the last 12 years and the third within two weeks. W. K. Stewart, charged with use of the malls to defraud In the sale of Texas land was found guilty by a Jury lu the federal court at Kansas City. An increase of two cents an hour for O",000 freight handlers and station laborers is announced from Chicago. At (ho same time an eight hour day with punitive overtime went into effect ef-fect for members of the Brotherhood of Hallway clerks. Armed residents of the villa of Borryvtlie, Virginia fought a pitched battle wtih robbers who bad dynamited dyna-mited Ihe post office safes. Ono robber rob-ber Is bolloved to have been wounded. ' Trapped in her apartment on the I I f'lrd floor of a burning .New York! I I tenement while flames roared j through the rooms, cutting off every . means of exit, Mrs. John lie.ily 1 threw her twin babies from a wla- dow and Jumped after them. : Theft of thousands of dollars of j registered mail from a Now York! Central train between Syracuse ami; j Albany svcrr.l days ago was reported! j by authoritative sources. T Chicago's labor war claimed its twenty-sixth victim when "Red" Ken-! Ken-! sella, notorious gnnster was shot to; ' death In a pitched battle at a meet-1 j Ing of the butchers' union. I The hones of an unknown soldier' who gave his life a century and aj ( half ago in the struggle for Amer-I ican Independence, were entombed ! j with honors In the Tucknboo New : York town hall as tho nation cele- brated the birthday of the unknown's' great commander In chief. WASHINGTON President Harding has signed the Smoot-Burton bill under which Congress Con-gress approved the plan by which Great Britain will pay her $4,G00,0O0,-000 $4,G00,0O0,-000 war debt to the United Statea during the next G2 years. The administration shipping bill was finally killed Thursday in the senate. The move to recommit the bill was supported by 2 Democrats and 7 Republicans. Horace M. Towner of Iowa, for years a Republican leader in the house of representaitves, was nominated nomin-ated to succeed E. Mont Reily as governor of Torto Rico. Representative W. Bourke Cockran, Democrat, New York, died suddenly Thursday. Mr Cockran, who cele-bated cele-bated his 69th birthday Wednesday, became ill and died early Thursday. He was on the floor of the house Wednesday night and made a spirited speech in opposition to the pending farm credits bill. Mr. Cockran's death, came as an Immediate result of a stroke cl apoplexy, it was said at his home. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Pa-cific railroad applied to the interstate commerce commisson for authority to issue 51, 000,000 in 4 per cent general gen-eral mortgage bonds. The seeurites will reimburse the road treasury foi expenditures made on additions and betterments. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace on behalf of the government, has served notice on the Armour and Morns packing interests that the amalgamation of their properties will he in violation of the packers and stock yards net, it was announced at the department of agriculture. A federal investigation of alleged irregularis in the sale of anthracite coal in communities stricken by a fuel famine was ordered by the senate. Speaker GUlett of the house is suffering from an attack of influenza at his home. His condition is said not to be serious. The supreme court refused to hold up the mandate of lower courts or-' dering the Imprisonment at Leavenworth Leaven-worth of "Big Tim" Murphy, Chicago labor leader, on charges of robbing the mails in that city. The naval scrapping program under un-der the Washington treaty will entail en-tail a direct cost to the government of about S.w.OO'J.OOU according to a report by the house appropriations committee. Selection of Fostmaster General Work to succeed Albert Fall as secretary sec-retary of the Interior, and of H. S. New of Indiana to become postmaster postmas-ter General was announced from the White House. The cause- of the great American straphanger is to be championed anew in congress. Cities that have been trying ever since the war to get car fares back to something like the prewar level are watching with much interest the light that is being waged in congress to bring back o-cent o-cent fare in tho District- or (Yilumbiai FOREIGN Reports from the neutral zone state that the Lithuanians broke the truce agreed upon between the Polish local lo-cal authorities and representatives of the Lllhuanian forces. Lithuanian bands are reported to have resumed their attacks against the the Polish police, entering the territory assigned to Poland. Damaged signals caused the derlal-mcnt derlal-mcnt of a train near Cohlenz. There were no casualties. The signal man was arrested. Walter Tatum, held on the charge nf attempting to poison Sir William llorwood, chief of Scotland l'ard, was found to be insane by a jury at. Loudon. Lou-don. A flareback of 0,1 in the tire and holler rooms of the United States destroyer des-troyer llulbert Thuiv.day morning in -Manila harbor snuffed out the lives of six enlisted men as they were changing shifts and passed by without injury one other sailor who was in the same eouipartmnet. Scores of Greek Christian and Ottoman Ot-toman refugees in the detention camp at Scutari are dying in the plagues of typhus and smallpox which are ravaging rav-aging the fugitives. Two hundred and ninety-seven refugees died in this camp within the past seven days. Tutankhamen's tomb was finally closed to visiters. Several hundreds of persons have inspected the tomb since the Inner chamber was opened. Carpenters are busy sawing lengths of heavy timber with which the whole shaft will be filled. The first official execution by tho Irish Free State since expiration of the government's amnesty offer came when Thomas Gibson form'.-.' sakiio: In, the national army w;. s shot for treason. |
