Show telegraphic TALES FOR BUSY A RESUME OF THE WEEKS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES important events of the last seven days reported by wire and pro pre pared for the benefit of the 1 busy reader WESTERN EPITOME after nearly three days had beon been consumed con Burned in selecting a jury nine man and three women were impanel ed at los loa angeles to hear evi evidence delice concerning the abo alleged plotting of three men to kidnap mary pickford preen star and hold her for ransom court adjourned until tho the testimony Is started burled tor for eight eighteen pon days beneath tons of debris tho the body of christlo Chris nicker 7 daughter of mr air and mrs afro morrall maker ot of folhart No lhart mont was recovered from tile the accumulation of muck that flooded tho the ravine below tho the silver dyke mine on july when the darn dam broko broke after being weakened by earthquake shocks mrs afro may putnam christ 68 58 south dakota suffrage worker in 1012 a delegate to the democratic national convention Is dead at al tile the homo home of her daughter at pasadena calif TurRa Turg atee tco oregon and vicinity were covered with a sheet of water a toot foot deep which swept over the lowland washing out the tracks of the oregon railroad and navigation company to the aggregate of about one find and a halt half miles the greatest damage was done at nolson nelson and wea vea no loss of life has been beed reported william D brown 99 year old california pioneer and said to be the oldest shriner in tho the world died at berkely Her Iler kely calif ile he was born in char va and would have reached hla his ong hundredth birthday on december 4 ot of this year applicants for licenses to drive automobiles to in california must submit evidence of their mental and physical fitness under the terms ot of tho the law passed by the last legislature which became effective july the new law also forbids the use of speed traps as a mean of determining the rate at which a machine la is traveling the trap used for many was a method of timing ig tho the speed ot of a machine between two arbitrary biar ary points on the state highway GENERAL an important corps in now new york a great white collar working army raised the standard of revolt the municipal engineers 1600 strong and representing the largest single aggregation of their profession in the world outside of military establishments completed an organization which has lor for its abject improvement of a salary and conditions comparable with the dignity training and cespon visibility of the position mrs afro guinavere Gul Gui nvere sinclair gould could the mystery woman who borsook a chorus position on oil broadway to live with the late george J gould could for ten years prior to tho the death of his wife astonished her friends by becoming the bride of george st john broderick Broder lck viscount dunsford at new york ho Is the oldest son eon and heir of the earl of tax reduction to the amount of at least with exempt exemption ion of nil all taxes on incomes of or less and elimination of the miscellaneous and inheritance taxes was urged at washington by senator copeland democrat new york ile he advocated reduction in surtaxes sur taxes to 10 per cent sixteen persons were injured none fifteen hundred prohibition agents will lose their jobs not later than october 15 in the biggest shake up in the enforcement service since the enactment of the Vols toad act A vast major 7 t f the forty eight state administrators will be among those to go no more than will be appointed to the new force with which it Is hoped to make the nation completely dry Ilund hundreds reds were palo stricken and a whole north section of chicago was shaken chaken when a gasoline barge of the texas company on which were gallons exploded with a terrific and terrifying blast and a roar of flames which leaped feet into tile the air the barge known as the reliable was moored at the time in tile the north branch of the river just oft the oll oil companas comp anys north side plant and storage property seriously when the new england elk special running as second section of santa fe train no 10 was dot derailed ailed by a washout seventeen miles east of gallup N al M less than four hours before he was to be executed russell scott was saved from the gallows for tho the second time within a week when judge joseph B david coti convened a special session of court at chicago and issued Issue 11 a writ of habeas corpus staying the until time had been given ti nullo nto the condemned mans ly i another chinese revolt against foreign domination similar to the boxer rising of twenty five years ago la Is a possible outcome of the present anu foreign hut but not immediately probable 11 II 0 W wood head he ad on an englishman editor of tho the poking peking and times and tho the china year nook book said on ills hla arrival in now new york Clui eted in tile shadowy death cell in the county jail tit at chicago a ch chamber ani lie he has hag occupied through three periods of terror of death russell Itus soll T scott convicted slayer of joseph la Is dally daily and tor for long periods undergoing tests by the def defense ense hopes to convince a ju jury ry that scott has become lasance since sentence sen tonce of death was passed upon him and escape the rope via the same route taken by gone gene geary a notor lous killer mayor rolph of san francisco conferred with president palmer of the fleet corporation on tho purchase of the argentine brazil line and tho the pacific australian line both of which are now operated out of west t coast ports for tho the shipping board by swayne floyt no decision was waa reached news of the death of willlim jennings brynn bryan at dayton tenn camu to washington with stunning suddenness null and at a time when his name was blazing in headlines much as it did at tho the height of ills his political career twenty years ago ills efforts tit at dayton where he had fought with great spirit over the question of evolution Iti tion had bad given friends here the impression pres slon tliatha that ho WILS waa in vigorous health and it had been freely predicted that ills hla voice would ring out when tho the next congress assembled in ia a movement to throw into senate and house debate the cause tor for which he bo had fought in tennessee the tha now chicago union station covering thirty five acres and used by four railroads ling has been formally opened six weeks after some of its facilities began to function rank ing ng with the grand central and penn i sylvania syl vanla stations in new york as the largest railway depots in the ilia country tile the station has accommodations accommodation A tor for trains dally daily for passengers and tons tone of baggage federal legislation abolishing all radio broadcasting of advertising will bo be sought at tho the next so session salon of congress sol bloom of now york announced prior to 0 o sailing for a trip to england and france FOREIGN edgar addison bancroft american ambassador to japan died at kami ambassador bancroft was taken ill at Karul a popular mountain resort in central japan where he was spending biendl ng the summer about three weeks ago at first it was thought he was waa suffering from indigestion but ills his trouble later was diagnosed as a small duodenal ulcer the death Is announced of the noted painter leon augustin August ln one of frances foremost landscape artists and it a member of the institute prediction that the churches of tho the world including tile the church of rome would work ork in Inter denom union with bac one another was made by bishop william T manning of the episcopal diocese of now york before he left montreal on his vacation A routers reuters canton dispatch says saya a russian general gendral borodin has been appointed adviser to the canton government ern ment succeeding robert S norman an american mr norman Is from froin oakland calif and was legal adviser to the late dr sun yat son sen head of the canton government the budget for the fiscal year as submitted to the legislature at manila places the governments expenditure pend iture at while the income is estimated at leaving a surplus of approximately halt half a million ion tile the largest single item of expense Is for education amounting to approximately the second phase of the evacuation of the ruhr which has been occupied by allied troops since january 11 1923 began with the departure of troops garrisoned at essen complete evacuation of the ruhr Is to bo be concluded by july 31 when the ruhr will be definitely handed back to the german authorities in accordance with the ho london agreement fifteen persons were killed and hundreds reported injured when the packed Af melbourne elbourne australia veranda of a moving picture theatre collapsed the spectators were watching a parade on bourke street the world federation of aduca tonal dional associations took initial steps nt at edenburgh scotland to put into operation the organizations plan for future world peace and understanding i by adopting a series of resolutions recommending courses of study that will mill present to students a full conception of internationalism france Is faced with the possibility of a general bank strike by the end of next week tailing advantage of the increased business caused by new 4 per cent guaranteed loan the employees of one of the largest paris banks have gone on strike because the management refused to grant increases in pay and the employees of other banks hive have called meetings to decide whether to join the mover bank employees in marseilles are al ready eady on strike and the movement move shows hows signs of gaining in Al vignon toulon foulon and other cities |