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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJREADERS 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 Confession of how ho robbed the; United States mails at Kellogg, Ida., ot a mall pouch containing SIL',000 in cash and ijL'.OUO in bonds March L'S, 1'J--, has been mailo at 'Seattle to po-tofflco inspectors by 10. J. 1 licks, they announced. Airs. C. (). Carruthera, alleged tiueen of the rum runners in the bonier country, was held In juif at Del Hio while federal agents conducted a man hunt In the Kio Grande country for members of her band. The "queen" and her first lieutenant, John Baker, her son-in law, were arrested after a brisk gun fight in which James A. Wallen customs inspector was killed. Damage estimated at .fliiO.ODO was caned by a fire which gutted the plants of the I'acific Foundry company com-pany and the Mission Foundry and Stove works at win Francisco. A leak in an oil feed pipe was held responsible. re-sponsible. Prohibition agents at San Francisco Francis-co siezed the sleamer Fearless anchored an-chored in the bay and confiscated its cargo of several thousands of dollars worth of liquor. Ninety nice hanpicked frops, guaranteed guar-anteed to be lr iilc jumpers and baritone bari-tone croakers, are at sea on the steamer Manila Maru, destined for a life on the island of Nippon. The frogs compose a consignment shipped from 'i'acoma to Japan for breeding purposes. Mark II. Shields, president of the bank of Gillette, V.'yo., and mayor of that city, was found dead in his room with a bullet wound in his head. The members of the California legislature leg-islature were among the victims of an early morning holdup of a madhouse near Sacramento. Mt. Lassen, near Wcstwood, Cali-" Cali-" fornia, is now erupting the heaviest volume of smoke and steam seen according ac-cording to observation. A jail delivery which hinged upon the smuggling into the Salt Lake county jail of a revolver and the assaulting as-saulting of a deputy jailer witih the leg of an iron bed was planned by members of the youthful quartet which escaped from the Utah state industrial school Thursday night, after af-ter heating a guard into insensibility, according to George II. Vine, chief jailer at the county jail. The shooting shoot-ing and capture Friday night of Albert Al-bert Wade, 1!) years of age, one of the members of the gang, is believed to have prevented an attempt to smuggle the gun into the jail. GENERAL Twenty corporations comprising the Leonard I!. Steel company enterprises, enter-prises, into which the public has poured more than KO, 000, 000 in the last three years, was placed in the hands of receivers at Buffalo, X. Y. by Federal Judge John G. Hazel. Ancillary receivers will be named for every store and branch of Steel corporations cor-porations in this and other, states. Fire which broke out in the barracks bar-racks of enlisted men at Fort Myers, Va., just across the Potomac river from Washington, destroyed one building and spread into an unoccupied unoc-cupied wing of the hospital. Apparatus Appar-atus from . Washington fought the blaze for two hours before it was brought under control. Investigation of the sudden death of Mrs. Helen Crawford AcUerman, an actress, known on the stage as Helen Crawford, moved on to the coroner's inquest after an autopsy had failed to show that death resulted from other than natural causes. Mrs. Ac-kerraan Ac-kerraan died in a hotel at Chicago. Circuit Judge Charles W. White of Michigan denied the motion of the defense in . the tral of twenty-two alleged al-leged radicals asking for a change of venue, on tho grounds that because of widespread publicity, fair and impartial im-partial trials of the alleged communists commun-ists in Berrien county is impossible. The floggers of two 17-year old youths who were seized at Bastrop Wednesday night and taken to a grove outside the city, where the lash was applied to their backs, are being sought by officers. The victims of the f loggers were George l'rice and Fred Sanders. PERSONAL Bepresntative Smith of Idaho and several other members of the house irrigation committee, left for Boulder canyon on the Colorado river, and later will visit tho irrigation projects pro-jects on the lower Colorado. Samuel Gompers, ".'!, president of the American Federation of Labor, is at Lenox i 1 ill hospital, in New York, suffering form influenza and bronchial bron-chial pneumonia, it was learned. His secretary, W. C. lloberts, announced that Mr. Gompers' physician, Ir. Gus-tav Gus-tav Fiscb, reported the patient's condition con-dition as serious. William Z. Foster, alleged leader in the communist party, the underground under-ground representative in America of tho Third International of Moscow, will go on trial in the Michigan, circuit court charged with violating the .Michigan law against criminal syndicalism. I am just plain citizen Joe Cannon now, back in my home town, to spend the balance of my days with my folks," declared Uncle Joe Cannon upon his arrival home at Danville, 111. Saturday. A salute of aerial bombs, and a few friends gathered at the station, constituted the greetings' he received, in compliance with his own wishes. Later, the home folks Intend to hold a banquet at which he will be the guest of honor, when they will formally welcome him home. After greeting "the hoys" 'at tho station, Cannon was escorted to his home, accompanied by his daughter, daugh-ter, Miss Helen Cannon, members of his party, and spent a quiet evening chatting with a number of old friends who called to pay their respects. Miss Evelyn Lyons, suffering from a fever of more than for three weeks is considerably weaker and appears ap-pears to be losing her appetitie. She ate only a little broth. I'hyiscians reported her temperature at 113 aud pulse 1-0. William K. Yanderbilt, who died in France July 'J.2, lirjfJ, left a net estate ot sr,0,'J:J0,i l-.-o, upon which the slate of New lorl; will eoliect an inheritance tax of t?l,!j.:4,r7 1, according ac-cording to a decree entered in surrogate surro-gate court of Suffolk county, New lork. Carrying out literally his announced announc-ed "open door" policy Secretary Work has ordered the door of his private office and those to offices occupied by other high officials 0 the interior inter-ior department kept wide open to any and all callers during office hours. L. Y. Ashbaugh, owner of the St. Paul Daily News, and formerly owner of the Minneapolis Daily News died at ;St. Paul, after a lingering illness. Will II. Hays, movie head does not intend to continue his work as ''organizer ''or-ganizer for the industry," after his Contract expires it is reported on good authority. FOREIGN The American debt funding commission com-mission lias completed the formal draft of the debentures which embodies em-bodies the terms of the debt refunding refund-ing settlement recently negotiated with Great Britain. No announcement announce-ment was made, however, as to when the contract would he submitted to the British representatives for the signature of their government. Frank Henderson, described as a leader among the irregular forces in Dublin, was captured in the street Saturday by Free State forces. Several Sev-eral other arrests were made in connection con-nection with the discovery of a big arms dump at Dublin. Sergeant Edward Josupeit a pilot of Dayton, Ohio and Sergenat August J. Christian ' a mechanic, marine aviators were killed at Port Au Prince Haiti, when their plane caught fire and fell 300 feet. Emma Goldman, deported by the soviet government because she attacked at-tacked the holsheviki system, has opened a political salon in Berlin. She has settled down and apparently feels much more at home than either in the United 'States or Russia. During the last few days the interallied inter-allied Iihineland high commission lias deported -50 persons from the old occupied area of the Rhineland, raising rais-ing the total of deportees from this territory to 93T, according to semiofficial semi-official German advices. A coup d'etat planned to occur about the middle ot the present month, has been nipped in the hud by the arrest of fifteen persons at Munrich accordng to the authorities. The ring leaders are said to have been Professor Fuch, a well-known dramatic critic; Herr Machuhe, a musical conductor and Dr. Kuehles, formerly legal advisor to the Munich town council. It is officially announced that King George's new grandson will lie christened chris-tened George Henry Hubert. The christening is to take place in London Lon-don this month. |