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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 Sevsi Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader x W r S T r R N EPITOME Joe Burns, 17, of St. Louis, Mo., will lose both legs and possibly his life as the result of a fall from a freight train in a railroad tunnel on the Great Northern system near Boulder, Mont. Both legs were so badly crushed below the knee by the train's wheels that amputation was necessary and physicians say he has but a slender chance for recovery. The youth tumbled off a freight car a part of a circus train to which he attached himself last spring when overcome by fumes as the train passed through the tunnel. Citizens sworn in as deputies escorted es-corted alleged members of the Industrial Indus-trial Workers of the World out of Fargo, North Dakota. They were taken in two groups and sent across two bridges over the Red river, into Moorhead, Minn. Mrs. Emma J. Agard, who was a second cousin to Abraham Lincoln, died at her home at Canon City, Colo., at the age of 71. Mrs. Agard was born In Quincy, 111., May 19, 1S54, the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. J. V. Hanks. She moved to Canon City with her husband in 18S1. Roald Amundsen's schooner Maud, which has been drifting in Arctic ice since June, 1923, in an attempt to cross the north pole, has reached Nome on her way to San Francisco to be sold. After Carl Lomen had taken possession of the vessel in the name of the Norwegian government, as vjce consul, United States Marshal Charles D. Jones went aboard with an attachment of more than $600 which an oil company contended was owed for fuel taken by the Maud before her departure in 1922, Preparations are under way for three separate investigations into the collision near Granite, Colo., of two passenger express trains of the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande Western railroad which resulted in the loss of lives of two trainmen and injuries, both minor mi-nor and serious to ninety persons. A provincial order in council at Victoria, B. C, gave British Columbia local option as to beer. In parts of the province beer is dispensed by the glass and in other parts by the bottle bot-tle only. The provincial government is the only legal seller of alcoholic drinks. GENERAL Construction work valued at several sev-eral million dollars has been tied up at Chicago by two strikes resulting from differences between bricklayers and plasterers' unions. The selection of Josephus Daniels as the leader of any movement for a national memorial to William Jennings Jen-nings Bryan is heartily approved by the widow of the Commoner, who is "deeply touched by the evident desire de-sire of the American people," to honor hon-or her husband, Mrs. Bryan declared in a statement to the Associated Press. Every Now York policeman must be able to. swim, and those who have not yet mastered the art will receive instruction, under an order issued by Folice Commissioner Enright. Because Be-cause of the gTeat expanse of water that surrounds the city the commissioner commis-sioner has decided that recruits will Fourteen mediums ai" ?sted by Sheriff Daniels in a raid on the Chesterfield Ches-terfield state camp at Manderson, Indiana, were arrainged in city court on charges of bunco steering and obtaining ob-taining money under false pretenses. They waived preliminary hearing and each gave $500 bond for appearance in circuit court during the October term of circuit court. The National Coal Railway company com-pany was granted authority at Washington Wash-ington by the interstate commerce commission to construct 8.5 miles of railroad in Carbon county, Utah. The new road is needed, the company set out in its application for development of coal fields now untouched by railroad. rail-road. About two hundred thousand acres of primeval wilderness to be enjoyed only by those who are willing to go by packhorse method will be added to Yellowstone national park, if the recommendations of President Cool-idge's Cool-idge's co-ordinating committee on national na-tional parks and national forests are adopted. The new prohibition army will be captained in large measure by the same men who now command Uncle Sam's enforcement squadrons. Out of twenty-four new district administrators administra-tors named by Assistant Secretary Andrews of the treasury, all but six already are in the service. Captain Francis Hale and his mechanic me-chanic of Boiling field, Washington, were burned to death at White Sulphur Sul-phur Springs, West Virginia, when the airplane in which they were returning re-turning to Washington, fell, taking fire as it crashed to the ground. Enraged at the attention Walter Johnson, 25, paid to Mrs. Rose Feleci, 19, her husband, Victor, branded his initials "V. F." on Johnson's cheek with a wire heated over a gas flame, as the victim lay tied hand and foot before him. Chicago police heard the story when Johnson, his face seared with the three inch high letters, stumbled stum-bled into a police station. Feleci could noe be found. Johnny Dempsey, brother of Jack, the heavyweight champion was accused accus-ed of insanity at Los Angeles and placed under observation pending hearing before a lunacy commission. The champion's brother was arrested on complaint of his wife, Mrs. Edna Dempsey, that he was addicted to dope and liquor and had "mistreated" her and their child "beyond endurance." endur-ance." FOREIGN The French and Belgian troops have evacuated Dusseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort, the "Sanctions Cities" which they had occupied since 1921. Mount Vesuvius has resumed extraordinary extra-ordinary activity, the volcano erupting erupt-ing great quantities of ashes and lighting up the whole countryside at night. Authorities at the volcanic observatory, ob-servatory, however, have expressed the opinion that no great danger is imminent. . The acute situation growing out of the boundary dspute between Nicar-augua Nicar-augua and Honduras has been reliev-by reliev-by the appointment of a commission to, locate and make visible the old frontier markers in the vicinity of Teotecacinte. " A deposit of coal found in Panama east of Gatun lake, will be leased to an American company. Six murderers went to the scaffold at Cario, Egypt with smiling lips and an air of contemptuous indifference about their fate, while the seventh broke down and had to be dragged from his cell by two trusty wardens. The men were paying the supreme penalty imposed on them for the murder mur-der of Sirdar Sir Lee Stack here last November. Paavo Nurmi, the champion distance dis-tance runner is now a Finnish knight and the possessor of the Order of the White Rose. These honors were conferred con-ferred upon the athlete by President Relander upon Nurmi's return from America and were in recognition of his advancement of Finnish interests not be passed in the police academy until they are proficient in swimming and life saving. The proteotive committee of stockholders stock-holders of the Denrer & Rio Grande Railroad company have announced that the $200,000,000 representative i stockholders' action pending in the New York supreme court, with G. Tracy Rogers and others as plaintiffs, and Kingdon Gould and Aaron J. Levy as defendants, will be tried at special term. An automobile accident has restored re-stored speech and hearing to 8-year-old Harold Fatz of Docksport, N. Y. The child has been a mute since an attack of infantile paralysis three years ago. Recently he was struck by an automobile, but was not seriously ser-iously injured. He now is able to talk clearly in short sentences and listens to a phonograph. A new word, kilocycle, gradually is taking the place of the word wavelength wave-length in the vocabulary of radio fans. The department of commerce ex,phiined in a statement that the marking or logging dials is found to have certain advantages in the new term kilocycle, which means frequency frequen-cy or the number of waves per second. sec-ond. The department of agriculture has $23,266.46 it doesn't know what to do with. It belongs to some sheep jrowers, but the department can't find out who they are. through his athletic prowess. Fifteen hundred seamen employed on overseas vessels, in a mass meeting meet-ing at Sydney, Australia, voted unanimously unan-imously against a resumption of work until the shipowners agree to demands de-mands that the scale of pay in force in July be granted for all British seamen. sea-men. More than fifty overseas vessels ves-sels now in Australian ports are affected af-fected by the strike, which began on July 14. The marrigae of Prince Henry and Lady Mary Scott will take place at the end of November, according to reports current in Mayfair, England. The engagement is expected to be announced next month. Lady Mary is the fourth daughter of the Earl of Buccleuch. The women say she is not beautiful in the the conventional convention-al sense, but she is declared to be very charming. An unexpected cabinet crisis occurred occur-red at Mexico City when Secretary of the Interior Gilberto Valenzula resigned re-signed owing to "substantial divergency diver-gency of opinion" between himself and President Calles concerning the gubernatorial election in the state ol Mexico. Eamon de Valera and the Republl can party executive committee have issued notice to party electors to abstain ab-stain from voting or taking part in j the Irish Free State elections in Sep-i Sep-i tember. At that time nineteen mem- hers of the senate are to be & ected. |