Show death brought to io an end at wash ington the daring and stormy political career of robert M la follett ot of wis win ansin peacefully the wisconsin senator pr last year an independent c candidate for president passed away at his home a victim of heart attacks from which lie he had been a suffered for a decade I 1 A check lay on the sidewalk for hours at a busy downtown down town street corner of chicago blown about by the wind and tramped on and ignored by thousands of pedestrians A passerby passer by finally picked it up and took it to the office of the chief of police it was fou found nd to be payable to a jewelry firm and had been lost by a messenger mee james H wallas WaIl lio executive secretary of the utah public health association cia tion was reelected for a third I 1 term as a member of the board of directors of the national tuberculosis association at the opening se session selon of the annual con convention bention of that organization held at minneapolis notification of italis willingness to enter upon formal negotiations tor for the refunding of its war debt to the united states Is understood to have been given to secretary kellogg by ambassador de martino Martl no 1 thirty two are dead thirty si six x in critical condition and at least thirty live five more are suffering f from rom injuries received when four cars and the engine of a seven car special train on the delaware lackawanna kavanna Lac western railroad were derailed and piled up on one another at rockport rockfort Rock port sag two miles west of hackettstown new jersey mrs katherine mortimer wife of elias H mortimer star witness in the senatorial investigation of former director charles R forbes administration of the veterans bureau and the court proceedings proc edings growing out of the expose eose was granted a divorce on grounds of cruet cruel and bar barbarous barou treatment at philadelphia thomas A edison inventor and scientist h ha offered his services as a witness for the defense in the noted scopes evolution case to 0 o be tried at dayton tenn july 10 according to john R neal of chattanooga tenn leading defense counsel john R neal local chief counsel has haa accepted mr Edi sons offer and he said he considers this a strong points in favor of the defense experiments are being made by several new york banks on telegraphic checks by arans mc ans of an instrument ment which pro photographs proto graphs the check at one town and reproduces it in another it was learned the innovation it is hoped will result in great facilitation of banking business checks have been successfully success fully telegraphed by the bank of manhattan company from new york to chicago FOREIGN the newspapers at oslo norway have released the news of the return of raold amundsen and his party from the north at the same time the news was broadcast throughout the country crowds filled the streets in the central part of the city singing and shouting hurrah and con granulating each other captain amundsen and his five companions jhc abe disappeared nearly a month ago in two aeroplanes aero planes into the silent un known regions of the north pole are safe this news reached listeners into the Spitz spitzbergen bergen raldo and they heard the dramatic message 1 I am all right the bones of peter the hermit one ne of the leading preachers of the first crusade are reported to have been found at huy while the ground covering the he ancient cloi sture was being leveled peter the die hermit also called peter of amiens akiens who was born about 1060 1050 died at huy belgium on july 11 1116 1115 he led the advance of the first crusade as tar far as asia minor in 1096 the home department of boklo has issued a statement sta giving the final figures and losses caused by the recent earthquake and resultant fire in tajima southwestern japan the figures are killed injured houses burned 1683 houses collapsed 1919 prior to the disaster there were houses in the district with a total population of labor members in the house of commons have started a movement to abolish the office of governor govern dr general of canada in the interests of democracy and ee economy onomy J S labor party leader from the floor denounced the proposed appropriation for maintenance of the governor generals office as aa a waste of money the chief justice of canada said could dir discharge charge the duties of the governor general j |