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Show iTELEGHAPHiG TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reporte ' by Wire and Pro-pared Pro-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Mrs. John D. Sherman of Estes Park, Colo., defeated Mrs. Wallace T. Perham, of Glendive, Mont., by a two to one vote in balloting for the presidency pres-idency of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, according to official returns obtained at convention headquarters head-quarters at Los Angeles. The national college of romance crashed when "Brick" Mueller, California Cali-fornia athlete hero, was sued for divorce di-vorce by his beautiful actress wife, Bernice Berwin. She charges that he was cold, indifferent and for a time deserted her. Conviction of Willam Kilpatrick, sheriff of Bonner county, Idaho, and his deputy, Henry Thompson, for violating vio-lating the Volstead act, was upheld by the United States circuit court of appeals at San Francisco. Kilpatrick was sentenced to a year in jail and a fine of $1000. Thompson was sentenced sen-tenced to six months in jail and a fine of ?500. Harry Severans, a third defendant is a fugitive from justice. Mrs. Beatrice Alexander and T. Little, both of Bonnet's Ferry, Idaho, are dead at Spokane, Wash., as a result re-sult of an automobile in which they were riding being struck by a locomotive locomo-tive at a crossing in Bonners Ferry. The woman was killed immediately and Little died shortly afterward. Amid the cheers of thousands blng-ling blng-ling with the firing of a presidential salute. President Obregon of Mexico arrived at the international boundary at Xogules. Six men and two boys members of a fishing party were pounded to death on the rocks of Newport bay jetty Santa Clara, Cal., when the launch In which they were heading out to sea was swamped and capsized. Five others were saved. That Kenneth lloss MacLean, and not Nettie Yolk MacLean, his girl wife, smothered to death their infant daughter in a hotel in Brunswick, Me., hist February beat and kicked his wife into insensibility and then abandoned her, are the sensational charges contained in two suits filed in the superior court at Tacomu, Wash. The size and quality of walnut crops may be increased every year through discoveries made by Professor Profes-sor I.. 1). Uatchelor director of the division of orchard management of the University of California it is announced an-nounced by university authorities. Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, president of the General Federation of Women's clubs in biennial session at Los Angeles An-geles announced she would ask the convention to petition 1'resident Coo-lidge Coo-lidge to call a new "international conference of world forces to further limit armament. GENERAL Before an impetuous Chicago, 111., crowd that broke a courtroom door from us hinges in an effort to see the confessed kidnappers and slayers slay-ers of 13 year-old Robert Franks, Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, millionaires' sons, pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping for ransom and murder and heard August Aug-ust 4 fixed at the date of their trial. One man was killed . and damage estimated at more than a million dollars done by a tornado, originating in the southern part of Indiana which swept west and north for about fifty miles. Edward H. Ililbert, 23 years old, was electrocuted when a high-TO'.tige high-TO'.tige transmission wire was blown across an automobile in which he was riding near Connorsville Two com- The Idaho Irrigation Company, through the Big Wood River Reservoir Reser-voir and Canal company obligated itself it-self under the Carey act to furnish more water than it had available, it was held by the supreme court at Washington, in affirming the deceis-ion deceis-ion of the district court in the case. American bankers have completed negotiations for granting a credit of $25,000,000 to the German gold discount dis-count bunk, organized by Dr. Hjal-mar Hjal-mar Schai-.t, extending an initial advance ad-vance of $5,000,000 made six weeks ago. Riding a rumbling tide of party enthusiasm, Calvin Coolidge was swept into nomination for the presidency presi-dency at Cleveland by one of the largest majorities ever given by a Republican convention. Before the firs- and only roll call was half completed, com-pleted, the story of his victory had been told as state by state the votes of solid delegations from east, west north and south were thrown to his support. Charles G. Dawes was nominated for vice-president. The Willis Campbell law prohibiting prohibit-ing the sale or importation of intoxicating intox-icating malt liquor for medicinal purposes was Monday declared valid and constitutional by the supreme court. The A. Guckenheimer & Brothers company of Freeport, Penn., and seven sev-en of the eleven individual defendants defend-ants were found guilty of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law in a verdict returned in federal court. Four of the individual defendants defend-ants were acquitted. FOREIGN President Millerand of France has resigned. The resignation of M. Millerand, which followed an adverse vote in the chamber of deputies, was contained in a letter addressed to M. Doumergue as president of tne senate sen-ate and M. Painleve as president of the chamber. The eruption of Vesuvius is increasing increas-ing in intensity. Two new craters have opened says a bulletin Issued by the Vesuvian observatory and all the three centers' are emitting lava, cinders and ashes whiles heavy rumblings are heard Inside. Viscount Kijuhiro Ishii, who negotiated nego-tiated the Lansing-Ishii agreement, is to succeed Masanao Hanihara as ambassador am-bassador to the United States, it is indicated on reliability authority from Japan. Germany has protested to the league of nations against the presence of French troops in the iSaar valley, the German coal region in which France was given by the treaty of Versailles the exclusive rights of coal mine exploitation for fifteen years. Villa Hermosa, capital of the state of Tebacso, Mexico, has finally been captured by the federals without firing fir-ing a single shot, the rebels having evacuated the place, marching toward Guatemala, according to a report from General Vicente Gonzales given out by the war department. A violent hail storm accompanied by unusual thunder and lightning swept the city of Milan, Italy, interrupting inter-rupting street car and light cervices and flooding a number of houses. Hail stones as large as nuts showered the streets. Firemen were called to 40 different spots to rescue persons trappd in houses the walls of which threatened to fall. James Keating American newspaper news-paper man and former publicity director direc-tor of the Czecho-Slovakian government, govern-ment, died at a Paris hospital after an overdose of a sleeping potion. He leaves a wife in New York. Mr. Keating had been well known in American magazine and newspaper circles for twenty years. He had carried on publicity work both in America and Europe. Attributing their action to public demands, owners of motion picture theatres in Tokio at a general meeting meet-ing launched a boycott against American Ameri-can films. Pope Pius has received in private audiences Monsignor Constantine Bohatecbewsky, newly elected Ituth-ernk::i Ituth-ernk::i bishop for the United States. Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of Pan Francis 'o in company with Vice Rector I'.urke of the American college in I'or.ie made a tour of the suburbs of the city, visiting several sanctuaries. sanctu-aries. ZS The "deadly power of the death ly" failed to materialize in recent overnmental tests, the English house f commons was told by William .each, under secretary of the air min. ;try. During the tests he said, one f the ministry's experts placed him-elf him-elf in the path of the ray only ten ards distant from the point of eman-tion. eman-tion. If the inventor's claim had een borne out the expert ought to ave disappeared, but the undersecre-lry undersecre-lry was pleased to report that he as doing very nicely, and when last en showed no S'gn of having suffer. 1. |