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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOB BU5YREADERS 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 Seven persons were burned to death when fire destroyed the Louis-Spilchal Louis-Spilchal farm home, sixteen miles southwest of Dickson, South Dakota. The victims were six daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Spilchal and Bergen Roller, 69-year-old father of Mrs. Spilchal. The girls ranged in age from 3 tol4 years. James G. Ingram of Nevada, Mo., 78, was found dead in his berth in a Pullman car on the Union Pacific train near Walcott, Wyo. He was accompanied by two daughters, Anna and Louise Ingram, Mr. Ingram served in the confederate army during dur-ing the civil war. His father was the cousin of General Sterling Price, commanding the confederate forces in Missouri and Arkansas. Utah's coal production for August exceeds the total for the same month a year ago, as well as the tonnage mined in July of this year, according to a report issued by the Salt Lake office of the bureau of mines'. The production for last month was 386,-192. 386,-192. For August, 1923, it was 359,-527 359,-527 tons and for July, 1924, 364,948 tons. Dwight B. Heard, Republican, of Phoenix, and Governor George W. P. Hunt, Democrat, will be opponents for governor in the general election in Arizona, November 4. Their nomination nomina-tion in the state primaries was conceded con-ceded early in the race. Reports of a gold strike near Dease lake, in the Cassiar district, of British Columbia, have caused a stampede from Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, according to word received at Wrangell, Alaska from Captain Sid Barring-ton. Captain Barrington and his crew operating a passenger boat on the Stiken river river, left their vessel and departed for the field. - W. H. Klepper, president of the Portland, Oregon baseball club, Fred B. Rivers, secretary, and George Vranizan, his assistant, reported to the police that they were held up in the baseball headquarters of the Portland club in the down town office building shortly after 6 p. m. by a masked man who robbed them of approximately ap-proximately $5000 belonging to the club. Burns and Harney, Oregon, are planning for the celebration, September Sept-ember 24, which will mark completion comple-tion of the extension of the Oregon-Washington Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company into Burns. Three miners were killed at the Ruth mine of the Nevada Consolidated Consolidat-ed Copper company at Ely, Nevada, following a cavein which occured in a stope on the 700-foot level. The men who met death in the accident were Robert Bowlby, shift boss; Mike Drakolich and Pete Albin, miners. Miss Helen Wills, national and Olympic woman's tennis champion, retained her California title when she defeated Mrs. May Sutton Bundy of Santa Monica, 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the state tournament at Berkeley, California. W. E. Dowlin of Billings was named nam-ed chairman of the state Republican central committee to succeed Joseph Scanlon of Miles City at the conclusion conclu-sion of the state central committee meeting which was held at Helena, Montana. The permanent organization organiza-tion is now completed. GENERAL Repeating charges he made several sever-al days ago that Judge J. W. Ross of the United States district court, at Memphis, Tenn., was personally biased bias-ed and prejudiced against him, Clarence Clar-ence Saunders, former president of the Piggly Wiggly corporation, for the second tirce, asked recusal of the judge and the appointment of another anoth-er judge to pass on litigation in which his interest and that of the corporation is involved. An attack- on the government's new oil lease inquiry was made in the supreme court of the District of Columbia on behalf of Albert B. Fall former secretary of the interior now und'-r indictment. Harry Wills battered his way to a smashing one-sided victory over Luis Angel Firpo at Jersey City, N. J. in a gruelling twelve-round battle before be-fore a throng estimated at 75,000 in Boyle's Thirty Acre:;. Dominating the fight from start to finish, with an exhibition of ringcraft that completely com-pletely spiked Firpo's heaviest gun, his famous right, Wills beat the giant Argentinian into decisive defeat with a bruising, relentless attack to the head and body Paul M. O'Day, of Dallas, Tex., attorney, at-torney, was shot and killed as he entered en-tered a bank building. Four shots were fired from a shotgun. William Lester Crawford, another attorney, and son of the late Coloney W. L. Crawford, was taken into custody. Saved from death on the gallows by judicial mercy, Nathan Leopold, Tr., and Richard Loeb, of Chicago had their second narrow escape in as many days when the automobile bearing bear-ing them to Joliet from Chicago to expiate the death of young Robert Franks careened off the road while ?oing thirty-five miles an hour and plunged onto the unballasted tracks of the Chicago & Joliet Electric railway. rail-way. Charlie Paddock, world's champion sprinter, established a new world's record for 175 yards, equaled the mark for 100 yards, and, thinking he vas dashing 140 yards, did 135 yards in 1 3-5 seconds faster than the mark for 130 yards at Cleveland, Ohio. Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, was reelected president of the National Conference of Catholic Cath-olic Charaties, at the closing session of the organization's convention at Des Moines, Iowa. Chauncey Herrick of Oneota, N. Y., was elected national commander-in-:hief of the United Spanish War Veterans in final session of their twenty-sixth annual encampment at Michigan City, Ind. Twenty ballots were taken before Herrick won out over a field of six other candidates. John H. Kirby, president of the Southern Tariff association urged President Coolidge to retain the present duty on sugar. The president presi-dent has the sugar report of the tariff commission, three members of which are understood to favor a tariff reduction, but he gave no indication indi-cation to Mr. Kirby when he would act on it. Judge John R. Caverly, who heard the murder trial of Loeb and Leopold, Leo-pold, two Chicago youths charged with the murder of Robert Franks sentenced the boys to life imprisonment. imprison-ment. A monument at Mere point, near Brunswick, to commemorate the first landing in home waters of the American Ameri-can round-the-world fliers was proposed pro-posed at Portland, Maine by Senator Frederick Hale. He said that at the next session of congress his official of-ficial act would be to introduce a bill calling for the erection of such monument. Maine Republicans rolled up a plurality of 50,000 votes in the United Unit-ed States senatorial contest and a plurality of 36,000 in . electing a Republican Re-publican governor, tabulation of unofficial un-official returns indicate. President Coolidge has reappointed David J. Lewis, a Democrat of Maryland, Mary-land, as a member of the tariff com-nission. com-nission. Having confessed, according to the police, that she killed a sweetheart four years ago, after she had helped him hide the body of her eighth husband, hus-band, whom he had slain, Mrs. Euphemia Modich of Detroit was being be-ing questioned by the authorities in an effort to determine where her other husbands are. FOREIGN Nine persons were killed when an express tran left the rails near Hiroshima, Hir-oshima, in southwest Japan. Advises from Honduras says the American Charge d'Affairs, Stokeley W. Morgan, has1 informed the rebel leader, General Gregoria Ferrerra, lhat the holding of a peace conference is impossible as long as the rebels continue to advance on the city of San Pedro, in Sula. Frau Anna Balle, the fortune teller tel-ler of Freidrichshafen, Germany, predicts pre-dicts a safe trans-atlantic voyage to Lakehurst, N.- J., of the ZR-3, the giant dirigible built at Freidrichshafen Freidrichshaf-en by the Zeppelin company for the United States navy. A Tokio marine insurance company has written war risk policies covering Japanese ships and merchandise, up to 5,000,000 yen, in the disturbed areas of China. Money circulation in Italy now amounts to about 520 lire per capita, as compared with 77 lire in' 1914. In other words circulation has increased over 650 per cent, while the bold value of the lire has depreciated a little over 400 per cent. Assertion that the late Hugo Stin-nes Stin-nes used his influence in German politics pol-itics for personal gain is made by the Socialist party, which rerent'y introduced the draft of an amendment amend-ment to the taxation law of 1922. The act, sometimes called tha Stin-nes Stin-nes law, prohibited the state from 'evying inheritance taxes in cases vhere the entire esrtate is bequeathed to the widow. After a clash near Tibircia, Brazil, a column of more than 1000 well-squipped well-squipped rebels was obliged to retreat, re-treat, leaving some war material and prisoners in the hands of the Bra Lilians federal troops says a Santos dispatch to La Nacion. The federals fed-erals lost four killed. Belgium las notified the league of nations that it has ratified the international in-ternational labor conventions fixing the age of children for employment in industries, and limitations of night work for women and children. |