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Show TELE6BW TALES FOR BMJ.DEHS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Daya Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Punic swept the court and spectators, spec-tators, attorneys and attaches stampeded stam-peded for the doors at Los Angeles when a film exhibit of Charles Chaplin's Chap-lin's suit against Charles Amador cuught fire. The film operator beat out the flames with his hands before be-fore the fire spread. Mrs. S. Nuncey, who gave her age as 102 was arrested at San Pedro. California, charged with illicit possession pos-session of liquor. It was the second police liquor raid on her home in the past two months. Substitution of shooting for lethal gas in the execution of condemned prisoners is provided in a bill introduced in-troduced in the Nevada legislature. The bill has the indorsement of the warden of the state prison. Until the passage of the lethal gas law, condemned persons in Nevada were Allowed to choose either hanging or a firing squad. Accusations brought against him by Mrs. Mary Tenney, youthful divorcee di-vorcee and motion picture extra, were denied in their entirety by Jack Kearns, manager for the heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey, when be took the witness stand in superior court In Los Angeles in the trial of Mrs. Tenney's $200,000 damage suit based on allegations that Kearns had drugged and attacked her. K. R. Ewart, former treasurer of the South Dakota rural credits board, was pronounced guilty of contempt the state supreme court at Pierre, S. D., and was sentenced to three months in the Beadle county jail and to pay a fine of $500. W. C. (Billy) Lewis, clerk of Sweetwater county, died in the Wyoming Wy-oming General hospital at Rock Springs, Wyo. after several years of suffering and three months ol confinement. con-finement. Lewis was one of the pioneer pio-neer peace officers of this section, being be-ing identified with the policing of this city and county for the last thirty-five years. He was re-elected county clerk at the last election. Ten buildings, comprising most ot the business section of Main street, were destroyed bv a fire at Shoshont. Wyoming. The flames were fanned by a high wind, and low water pres-Bure pres-Bure hampered the work of firemen. The loss is estimated at more than $100,0090. Included in the buildings destroyed was the Shoshoni' State bank and the Savoy hotel. GENERAL Gradual withdrawal of the fedeial government from the inheritance tax field and greater economy In tax collection col-lection were recommended for public pub-lic consideration by President Coolidge Cool-idge in an address at the opening session of the National Tax association's associa-tion's national inheritance and estate (ax conference at Washington. The railroads opposing abolition of the present Pullman surcharge denied de-nied before the house commerce commission com-mission that the surcharge had re-iuce'd re-iuce'd Pullman travel appreciably. Henry Wolfe Bikle. counsel for the Pennsylvania, testified the surcharge was not going to railroads earning over 6 per cent and that most of the j surcharge revenue was given to rail-I rail-I roads having a low income. Charles Evans Hughes, secretary . of state, may have waiting for him j when he retires on March -1 a more j lucrative position. He has been ! ur'ted as te head of the Internation-f Internation-f Bl Council of Religious Education in ; its financial and organization wor:; at a $50,000 annual salary. J. L. ! Kraft, treasurer ot the council, meet-; meet-; mg at Chicago to discuss financial Problems, made the proposal. : Dr. Francis Peabody said that lames M. Rolph, son of the mavor 3f San Francisco, whom he has been attending at the City hospital at , boston. Mass. for four month was progressing favorably after his recu- : Deration from two recent reiapses He added that at no time had he been i m doubt as to the diagnosis of the u.ness as a severe one of typhoid fever, fe-ver, and expressed the opinion that! there was little doubt as to Rolph's i Ultimate recovery. A specially constructed vest containing con-taining K'fl.ono in jewels of the J. Milh.-ning Jewelry company of Chi-caog, Chi-caog, failed to baffle four robbers in an automobile, who kidnaped the 17-year-old messenger. W. R. Ranefit. who wore the vest. After robbing him of the jewelry they tossed him out of i heir car. George Campbell Carson .self styled styl-ed California "desert rat," probably will receive less than $."0O Oiul des pite the partial su' ess of his $20,-000, $20,-000, 0o0 damage suit against some of the country's largest smelters, which a court has decided are operating under un-der his patents. Henry Ford has bought the old tools and laboratory equipment of Thomas A. Edison now at Fort Meyers. Mey-ers. Fla. and will ship them to Detroit De-troit to be displayed in Ford's museum. muse-um. Workmen are busy assembling and crating the machines and various vari-ous bits of tools and other laboratory equipment with whicn Mr. Edison experimented and brought to perfection perfec-tion many of the world's most wonderful won-derful invpntinnc Frederick W. Upham, 64, of Chicago, Chi-cago, formely treasurer of the Republican Re-publican national committee is dead, at Palm Beach, Florida from cerebral hemorrhage. The house passed and sented to the senate a bill by Representative French, Republican, Idaho, whereby the federal government would relinquish relin-quish to Kootenai county, Idaho, its right to a parcel of land upon which the Fort Sherman military reservation reserva-tion was once situated. Fort Sherman was abandoned as a military reservation reserva-tion in 1886. Josiah Kiiby, deposed president of the $37,000,000 Cleveland, Ohio, Discount Dis-count company, entered pleas of not guilty to three new indictments returned re-turned against him last week by the special county grand jury and furnished fur-nished $5000 bond in each case. No trial date was set. After an hour's wrangle, the house passed a bill to reward the world fliers substantially along the lines recommended by the war department.. An appropriation of $100,000 for fighting the foot and mouth disease would be authorized in a resolution adopted by the senate. FOREIGN Corned beef and hardtack dropped from airplanes in daily flights over the Alps saved the lives of three Swiss Alpinists who, were marooned for eight days by storms in the Mar-inelli Mar-inelli shelter hut on top of the Ber-nina Ber-nina mountains. The finance minister, M. Clementel, closed the general discussion of the finance bill of the budget by a speech in the chamber of deputies at Paris, breal'iing confidence in France's ability abil-ity to overcome the difficulties of her financial situation. News of an attempt to assassinate Dr. Kitokuro Ichiki. of Japan, vice president of the privy council, in his home, has just become public. The new ambassador to the United Unit-ed States from Italy, Sig De Martlno, left for Naples to sail for New York. Ambassador Fletcher and members of the Italo-American society bade him farewell at the station. Promise of a $100,000,000 loan for the improvement of French finances and another $35,000,000 for the devastated de-vastated regions, to be floated in the United States as soon as the budget is definitely balanced and voted, was one of the remedies for France's troubled financial and economic situation sit-uation advanced by Finance Minister Clementel in an -address before uie chamber of deputies. Parliament will be asked to sanction sanc-tion an expenditure of 21,319.300 pounds for the air force during the fiscal year 1925-20. Sir Samuel Hoare. air secretary, announced at London. This is an increase of 1.93. '.MOO pounds over last year's estimates. The higher court at Rangoon, Burma, Bur-ma, has dismissed the appeal of the three Buddhist priests and one layman, lay-man, who last November were sentenced sen-tenced to prison terms for assaulting ;:nd ,-eriously injuring Professor and Mrs. Paul Gleason, American missionaries mis-sionaries attached to Judson collet here. King George of England is suffering l from a feverish cold, it was announ-Iced, announ-Iced, and will be unable to fulfill his I pubic engagement for a few days. j Reports from America that Big Ei 1 Haywood, the former 1. W. W. ! leaner, had returned to the United Stales are untrue. He is employed as a traveling speaker by the International Inter-national Society for the Kelief 0f Workmen in Prisons Abroad and has just completed a tour of southern Russia in which he made sixty-five speeches. |