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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSY READERS K RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Daya Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader I WESTERN After wandering over the prairies for some time alter he had jumped from a Northern Pacific train near Jamestown, N. D., a man about 30 years old, who gave his name as Harley E. Gish and said he was a cousin of the two movie stars, Lillian Lil-lian and Dorothy Gish, is in a hospital hos-pital in a serious condition. L. Ilumphreyville, 74 years old, for several years had worked as a janitor jan-itor in an out-of-the-way Denver hotel. ho-tel. He ate sparingly and slept in a small stuffy room near the furnace room in the basement of the hotel. Those few who knew him thought he was penniless. Last week he was found dead, and a bank book in his clothing showed deposits in a savings sav-ings bank of $56,000. Of this, $11,000 was deposited only a few days ago, the book showed. Where he got his money, no one seemed to know. Samuel Shillington, 35, and his 6-year-old son, who were found dead in their home at Denver, were the victims vic-tims of a powerful poison, Deputy Coroner George Bostwick said. This announcement was made after a chemical analysis of the stomachs of the two dead persons revealed poison traces. How 20 venturesome young Americans Ameri-cans who left Los Angeles last May to seek thrills and take motion pictures pic-tures of wild animals and strange peoples in out of the way nooks of the Orient had to give up their romantic ro-mantic expedition without having seen a single wild animal or any out of the way place but Singapore, was revealed by several of the party who returned, begrimed from stoking in coal holes or greased with much dishwashing dish-washing in galleys. The liquor seized from, the British vessel London Merchant at Portland, Oregon, is safely packed in the ship's stores and State Prohibition Director Cleaver, in a signed statement, made full apology to the owners of the vessel and Captain Anderson that he raided the ship under a mistaken view of his powers as a state "dry" officer. Decreases of ten per cent in the plantings of winter wheat in Washington Wash-ington and Idaho and an increase of 8 per cent in Oregon are estimated in the December report of the federal division of crop and livestock estimates esti-mates for the Pacific northwest at Spokane. Wash. Secretary of War Weeks in a telegram tel-egram received at San Francisco approved, ap-proved, with conditions a plan to bridge the Golden Gate, the entrance to San Francisco's harbor. It is es timated the project will cost $21,000 -000. Five persons were killed, twenty-one twenty-one miles east of Chehales, Washington, Washing-ton, when a tree, hurled over a bluff by a high wind, crashed through the top of an automobile stage. GENERAL A young married couple, driving home in a small automobile laden ; with Christmas packages, died in each other's arms when the steerine i gear went wrong and their car plumr- ed upside down into Pelham bay, New lork. : Twelve employes of the Lehigh . galley Coal company at Scranton, Pa., who are to take a vote next i week on the question of joining in ; sympathy strike with the 12,(XXf em- ployes of the Pennsylvania Coal eom-, eom-, pany. who have been idle three weeks i were warned by District Union lead-i lead-i ers that any such action would be ! recognized at a violation of union ; laws, and would be dealt with accord-j accord-j mgly. I The national elimination balloon i race will be held at St. Joseoh. Mo. ; on Memorial day next year, according ; to a letter received at St. Joseoh ; from the National Aeronautic associ-I associ-I auon by Carl Wolfley, Missouri gov- ernor of the organization. The win- J ner of the event will be the United I States entry in the international con- , j test in Europe. Secretary' Work has assured Senator Sena-tor Gooding of Lh'ho that the Boise irrigation project would be the first one visited by the committee recently named with a view to outlining the plan of relief to be extended the settlers set-tlers under the fact-finders' law. Until Un-til this committee, headed by Dr. John A. Widtsoe, secretary of the fact-finding commission, has made its report on the Boise project the department will not be able intelligently to deal with the problem of the settlers, and Dr. Widtsoe and his associates will not be able to visit the Boise project until after the Denver conference, beginning be-ginning January 6. , Three navy men and a civilian met death at Norfolk, Va., when a naval ambulance seaplane returning from off the North Carolina coast with a hospital patient was swamped at the Hampton Roads naval air station landing. An additional gift of $500,000 to the University of Minnesota was announced an-nounced by William H. Eustis, -former mayor of Minneapolis, who has given more than $1,000,000 to the university and the Dowling School for Crippled Children. President Coolidge hopes to submit several judgeship nominations to the senate next week when congress reconvenes. re-convenes. There are nearly a dozen vacancies on the federal bench, including in-cluding three in the circuit court of .appeals. Each member of the jury which acquitted ac-quitted Lam Motlow, wealthy St. Louis distiller of a charge of murdering murder-ing Clarence T. Pullis, Pullman conductor, con-ductor, received a turkey as a Christmas Christ-mas present from Motlow. Accompanying Accom-panying each turkey was a letter inviting in-viting them to visit him if they are ever in Tennessee. Erie railroad shopment to the number of 9000 received a $600,000 Christinas present when a committee representing the several unions and General Manager A. W. Baldwin, agreed on a new wage scale, effective effect-ive January 1, by which wages are raised three cents an hour. The present minimum rate is 70 cents an hour and the average 74 cents. Elmo Bercciacini, 9-year old boy of Pawtucket, R. I., played the part of Santa Claus at his grammar school Christmas tree. Then he went home, so proud of his costume that he planned to surprise a neighbor living liv-ing on the floor above. The starway was dark, and Elmo lighted his way with matches. The costume took fire. He died of his burns. FOREIGN New manuals of history quite unlike un-like the prewar textbooks used in Germany are about to be introduced in the Russian schools. Dynasties take a second place in the new books, and the history of wars is overshadowed overshad-owed by economics, social history and the story of the people in the various states which make up the republic. The Irish Free State courteously but unequivocally defied Great Britain Brit-ain when in a note to the league- of nations, it declared it was unable to accept the British contention that the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 was not susceptible to registration with the league. A combined Franco-American service serv-ice was held in Belleau wood in memory mem-ory of the Americans who fell during dur-ing the war. Julian S. Wadsworth, a director of the Association for the Preserving of the Memory of 'the Chateau Thierry, made .an address, as did also the Catholic vicar of Belleau. The French government was represented repre-sented and many members of the clergy cler-gy were present. Pedro Leon Ugalde, former radical deputy, was convicted by a Santiago, Chili court martial of plotting to subvert sub-vert public order and instigate sedition sedi-tion among troops. He was sentenced senten-ced to three years' banishment from Chili. The delegation from the British trades union congress which has just returned to London from a six weeks' tour of inspection to Russia, in a preliminary report declares that the social, economic and industrial conditions condi-tions in Russia have enormously improved im-proved since a trade union delegation delega-tion made a similar visit in 1920, while the delegates agreed that rapid ra-pid progress in economic restoration now is going on. The streets of London are becoming becom-ing increasingly perilous. During the first ten months of 1924 more than 600 persons were killed and 61,964 injured in street accidents. This is an average of 100 deaths per annum more than 1923. Due to this increasing traffic danger Londoner:! are becoming more interested dailj in safety first measures. |