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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS 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 J. Wellington Boyle, 7-i, past im. periul potentate of the Order of the Mystic Shrine, died at San Diego, Cal., of heart trouble. In former years he was a practicing lawyer of Saugerties, N. Y. The body will be shipped there for burial. Additional human bones supposed by scientists to be tens of thousands of years old were uncovered near Los Angeles by excavators on the C'unajo ranch. Laboring in a quagmire under un-der a steady rain, the scientists brought to light what they regard as new evdence in support of their growing grow-ing belief that they have uncovered the fossils of "a race of thinking men antedating the semiapes of prehistoric India." Bids on special improvement work In the city of Ogden, Utah to cost approximately ap-proximately $150,000 will be opened eoon, it was decided by the city commissioners. com-missioners. The new projects include the building of the new Ogden river concrete bridge at a cost of $70,000, $30,000 for the construction of storm sewers, $50,000 for the waterworks department and $50,000 for street improvements. im-provements. The foot and mouth disease outbreaks out-breaks in Los Angeles are being held In check and in San Francisco all evidences evi-dences have been wiped out, federal and state officials announced. In other parts of the state the epidemic situation is being -controlled. Frank Siebert, a Winnemucca, Nev., auto driver, was struck by a Western Tacific train as he sat asleep in his Ford on the railroad track and was tossed several yards to one side, while the auto was ground to pieces. Siebert was picked up by trainmen and brought to town His only apparent ap-parent injuries were a cut on the head and several bruises. Cutting their way through the roof of the M. S. Bobbins jewelry and clothing store of Los Angeles, thieves escaped with diamonds valued at $60,-000 $60,-000 and $15,000 worth of clothing. The bulk of their loot consisted of 600 diamond rings. Frank R. Toy, former sheriff of Sheridan county, Wyoming was arrested ar-rested and charged with accepting bribes while in office. He was released releas-ed on $1000 bond for appearance April 8. The complaint filed declares that Toy promised to Helen Miklovich immunity im-munity from presecution for manufacturing manu-facturing illicit liquor. . GENERAL James Furber, Runway's Socialist mayor of Rahway, N. J. will relinquish relin-quish office January 1 next as the result re-sult of a special election, in which the voters decided, 2022 to 9S1, to abolish the commission form of government in favor of the councilmanic system. Mayor Furber was the main issue in the campaign. His administration has been under fire. Ed Lockhart, last of a trio of notorious notor-ious Oklahoma outlaws, was killed near Sperry, Okla., as he attempted to flee from a farmhouse where he had been trapped by a posse. Lockhart went like hi3 pals, Henry Starr and Al Spencer, "with his boots on" and de-fying de-fying the law. For the first time in history a railroad rail-road labor bank is to participate in financing the requirements of a railroad. rail-road. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Cooperative National bank of Cleveland, it was announced at New York, will join the National City company of New York in underwriting $3,500,000 issue of International & Great Northern 6 per cent bonds. William H. Anderson, resigned state superintendent of the Anti-saloon Anti-saloon league of New York recently convicted on a charge of forgery must go to Sing Sing prison for a term of from one to two years, Supreme Court Justice Wagner ruled fn denying deny-ing the former dry leader's appeal for a certificate of reasonable doubt. Warrants charging Waslov Simek, 23 of Detroit with malicious threat, to extort were recommended by tue presecuting attorney's office as a result re-sult of investigation into alleged attempt at-tempt to obtain $1,050,000 from Edsal R. Ford under threat of injuring his children. Butler Brothers, merchandise wholesalers, whole-salers, of Chicago, announced that in the public interest the firm had decided de-cided to discontinue the sale of revolvers re-volvers and pistols'. The company has handled such goods for more than forty years and its sales of them within with-in the last decade atone have amounted amount-ed to about . 1,500,000 it was estimated. estimat-ed. "The action was taken because of the growing sentiment throughout America against carrying concealed weapons," the announcement stuted. WASHINGTOrV Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, offered a joint resolution in the senate sen-ate requesting the president to invite "such nations as he deems wise" to send representatives to a combined economic an disarmament conference in Washington. Inauguration by the federal reserve board of a study designed to suggest practicable methods of stabilizing International In-ternational exchange and extension of the service of the department of agriculture agri-culture have been determined upon by 1'resident C'oolidxe as two steps in an administration farm relief program. pro-gram. Senator McKellar, Democrat, Tennessee Ten-nessee has renewed in the senate his demand for the resignation of Secre. t:iry Mellon. Prediction that the revenue and soldier Iwnu.s bills would be reported to the senate by the finance committee commit-tee within two weeks and that action on the measures would 'be speedily forthcoming was made 'by Republican leaders. Attorney General Daugherty handed in his resignation to President Coolidge Coo-lidge Friday and it was immediately accepted. Government counsel in the oil eases, on returning here announced that presentation of criminal evidence would be started, about April 10 before be-fore a special District of Columbia jury. Speaker Gillett's remarks about the senate made in a recent address in Boston stirred up a heated half-hour debate in the house, during which the speaker laid aside his gavel and took the floor to defend himself. A statement that "credits, rebates and allowances, made by the internal revenue bureau on tax returns would exceed a billion dollars, in addition to published accounts," was made by Senator King, Democrat of Utah, by the special senate committee investigating investi-gating the bureau. The senate has received the Fish resolutions, as adopted by the houst, to appropriate $10,000,000 for the pur. chase of food supplies for destitute women and children in Germany. The house approved the bill 240 to 97. The house naval committee has approved plans of the navy to establish estab-lish an aviation base ,at Sand Point, Wash. The committee also sanctioned sanction-ed proposals for purchase at a cost of $330,000, of a site for a naval supply depot in South Brooklyn, N. Y and for acquirement of a tract on Puget sound, Washington , to be used for a rifle range. FOREIGN , The final ceremonies of elevating Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago and Archbishop Hayes of New York to membership in the highest council of the Holy Roman Catholic church took place in the right transept of the Basilica of St. Peter's at Rome when Pope Pius gave to them their' broad-brimmed broad-brimmed red silk hats, symbolic of their new rank of cardinals. Six hundred houses were burned in a fire which swept Zoshigaya, a suburb of Tokio. Twenty persons were injured. Three thousand are homeless. home-less. Canada is prepared to recognize the soviet government of Russia "in the best interests of tooth countries,' Premier King wrote A. Yasikoff, agent in Montreal of the Russian govern, ment, who had asked whether de jure recognition of Russia by Great Brit, ain could be taken to signify recogni. tion of Canada. Fifty persons have been killed in a landslide in the seaport of Amalfi twenty-three miles southeast of Naples according to a dispatch from Amalt! to the Giornale d'ltalia. Dr. Zuniga Huete, chief defender of Tegucigalpa, died from wounds reeeiv. ed in the attack of revolutionists against the city, accordiug to advices received from the Honduran capital al San Salvador. Joseph McGrath, of Dublin who re. signed as minister of industry anrj commerce, declared that he and two or three others will resign member, ship in the Dail Eireann. The national assembly of Athens has passed a resolution in favor ol the overthrow of the Glucksburj dynasty and the establishment of s Greek republic. The American yachting team, hail ing from New York, has won the re. gatta for six-meter boats over the Cubans, scoring eighteen and a hall points to eleven at Havana, Cuba. The departure for London of Regin-aid Regin-aid MrKenna. Sir Robert Kindersly and Sir J. G. Sb-mp, British members of the experts committee, has given rise to reports that fundamental differences dif-ferences have cropped out in the work of the experts and that the British representatives have gone to consult their government. Cutlery which was once the property proper-ty of the late czar and which adorned the tables of the royal palace, is now in public use in an obscure restaurant restaur-ant in one of the slum districts oJ London. The American training g''hool foi nurses, which recently was closed bj the Angora ministry of the interior at Constantinople will be allowed to i resume its classes April 1. This li the largest school for nursing in Tur key. Sixty per cent of its students are Turkish moslem girls. |