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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 Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME The family of Jackie Coogan, famed fam-ed juvenile movie star, are planning to build a theatre at Los Angeles. Calif., which will cost $500,000, and with capacity for seating 3000 persons. per-sons. 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. Two trainment were killed, fifteen passengers were seriously injured and seventy-five others received minor hurts when two "Panoramic special" trains of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad crashed near the Little Mountain station of Granite, Colo. The failure of Telegraph Operator Op-erator Rehklau at Tennessee pass to deliver an order to train No. 8, east-bound, east-bound, to meet train No. 7, westbound, west-bound, at Granite, caused the accident railroad officials said. Unusual conditions in the vicinity of Mount Shasta, near Redding, Cal., have given rise to the belief among many that the old crater is getting ready for volcanic acivity. Investigations Investi-gations by the United States bureau of fisheries show that water of the McCIoud river is four degrees warmer warm-er than normal; that the surface of Mount Shasta is warmer than usual; tha the mud flow is increasing and that grass is dying in meadows much earlier than usual. Heat in the bowels of the mountain is believed to be the cause of the peculiar conditions. condi-tions. Dorothy Ellingson, youthful matricide, matri-cide, is sane, Dr. John C. Rogers, a member of the staff of the Napa State hospital, testified at San Francisco, in her trial on a murder charge. The girl was at the hospital under observation ob-servation for thirty days in April and May. The purchase of the sanitarium at the mouth of Ogden canyon and its conversion into a clubhouse for the proposed municipal golf course is recommended by the board of park commissioners of Ogden. Utah. GENERAL The long-continued controversy in the garment trades industry reached a new crisis when, 50,000 workers members of three union locals, left their machines in New York in obedience obed-ience to an order from their action committee." 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 explained 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 sec-od sec-od 1. The war against rum row Is to be renewed. Twenty navy destroyers will be strung along the North Atlantic At-lantic coast, from New London, Conn., to the Delaware river, in an effort to stop the flow of booze into New York from points across the sea. As the result of a pistol duel, Private Pri-vate Paul Nell, service battery, Fifteenth Fif-teenth Field artillery lies in Ft. Sam Houston general hospital at San Antonio, An-tonio, Texas, with a bullet iu his right shoulder, while Deputy Sheriff Tony Diaz and other officers are seeking the body of a Mexican whom Nell shot. Mrs. Lula Burt and Miss Marie Crot, policewomen of Chicago, with j thirteen years' service with the Chicago Chi-cago department, were instantly killed kill-ed when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train on a grade crossing one mile east of North Judson, Ind. Miss Bina M. West, supreme commander com-mander of the Women's Benefit association, asso-ciation, Port Huron, Wis., was elected elect-ed first woman president of the National Na-tional Fraternal Congress of America, representing 10,000,000 fraternalists, lit the closing session of the thirty-eighth thirty-eighth annual convention at Duluth, Minn. Mothers, fathers, and other relatives rela-tives of 13G girls are imploring the police of Chicago to find the missing ones. From January 1 to July 31, this year, police records show that 594 girls dropped out of sight. There were many others, but of them there is no record. Of the number on the police blotters, 458 have been found, or voluntarily returned. Some remained re-mained away a week, some five and six months, and many of them are wrecks. Dr. Henry C. Taylor, chief of the bureau of agricultural economics of the agriculture department, has resigned re-signed at the request of Secretary Jardine. Thomas P. Cooper, dean of the agricultural college at the University Uni-versity of Kentucky, has been chosen to succeed him. President Coolidge has approved the Belgian debt settlement. The agreement, rushed from Washington to Swampscott in a special mail pouch, was brought from the summer White House to Northhampton in a White House automobile by E. C. Geisser, personal stenographer for the president. Mr. Geisser was here when the president arrived from Plymouth, Vt., for an overnight stay. The special election for United States Senator for Wisconsin, to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Sena-tor Robert M. La Follette, will be held September 29. Governor Blaine issued the call. The special primary to nominate candidates for the election elec-tion will be held two weeks before the election, the law provides. The interstate commerce commission commis-sion has dismissed a complaint of the San Diego chamber of commerce, which asked that railroads be required requir-ed to establish joint routes via San Diego on traffic moving between Oregon Ore-gon and California and other parts of the United States. The dirigible Shenandoah will make a 300-mile western flight the first week in September, the navy department depart-ment has said. The trip has been so arranged that the Shenandoah will fly over fairs in progress at Columbus, Colum-bus, Ohio, September 3; Des Moines, Iowa, September 4; Minneapolis, September Sep-tember 5, and Detroit, September 6. Stops for refueling will be made at Chicago and Detroit. While fire was destroying drops behind the asbestos curtain, 4000 persons per-sons made an orderly exit from Loew's State theatre at St. Louis, in five minutes as the orchestra played the national anthem recently. A short circuit in the back stage electrical wiring was believed to have caused the fire. Damage was estimated at $25,000. Secretary Jardine has his tonsils removed at Walter Reid hospital in Washington. He was reported resting comfortably, but plans to remain in the hospital for several weeks to continue con-tinue treatment for a stomach disorder. dis-order. FOREIGN 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 ba ,ery charming. Advices from Moscow report the return to power of Leon Trotzky, with the appointment of the former war minister as chief of the economic econo-mic council. The Tsoul region has been completely com-pletely cleared of rebels by the French, it is officially announced, and the greater part of the tribe, with their goods and flocks, have offered unconditional submission. The Mongolian government has ordered or-dered the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural His- tory, under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, to cease its ex- I ploration and scientific work and to i leave Mongolian territority, alleging that Mr. Andrews has violated the terms of his agreement with the Mongolian Mon-golian scientific organizations. Forty Bulgarian communists waylaid way-laid and bent up Theodore Kouleff and Boris Vasoff, respectively president presi-dent and vice president of the Bulgarian Bul-garian chamber of deputies. The Aften Tosten of Oslo, Norway, slates (hat Captain Roald Amundsen, since his arrival home from his recently re-cently attempted trip to the North Pole, has been preparing a new air- I plane expedition for next summer from Spitzbergen over the polo and unknown Arctic regions to Alaska. The newspaper states lhat financiaJ backing lias been assured and that the expedition will Include Lincoln Ellsworth, the American who waa I with Amundsen's party this Bummor ' |