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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BliSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'8 DOINCS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Cays Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Charles M. Levey, president of the Western Pacific railroad company; I". V. Mas n, vice-president, and G. L. Phillips, assistant engineer, were hr)d up ,y two youthful bandits who rr,-erd Mr. Levey's private car at Th-'rnton, S n Joaquin county, Tues-i Tues-i 'V ar.d robbed them of approximately approximate-ly R1"0. Mr. Mason's watch also was ta'cen. V'ith temperatures ranging from 8 to Ifi degrees above the normal aver-ft aver-ft -e in e stern Montana the weather bureau reported no relief in sight. Ti;'?'ay. Milrs City and Wibaux looped the list Monday with temperatures temper-atures reaching 100 degrees. A -4S.O30 barrel oil storage tank be-lon be-lon i-g to the Southern I'acific railroad rail-road company, at Galveston, Texas, struck by lightening during a st rm Monday and was destroyed. Ground swells running 20 feet high, hr ke completely over the breakwater break-water at Los Angeles and carried all 1-'"S3 ob.'ects. Marines believe the ' lur-e waves were caused by earth s'.o -l'S. m a muddy track and under heavy c!o::ds following showers during the ni hi ami early morning. Robert Lee Shepherd, wo ri de the first lap i.. t'-e widely heralded pmy express race fr-'in St. Joseph to San Francis? Fran-cis? . got away promptly at 10 o'clock L.iday to the shot of a cannon. Many t' o-isan 1 pe-p:a including persons f ; om all p-irts of the country, wero s seailed at the spot where the historic his-toric p' ny express had its start in li"0 to see the start of the revival. A miili n dollars damage was caused caus-ed Tuesday by the worst electrical st mi to strike Alameda and Contra C sta eoun'ies. California in 50 years. Several parsons ' were injured, hun d.-c-rts were imperiled. Two tanks containing thousands of gallons of nr.ptha were fired by lightning which ruck the Standard Oil tank farm at Sanp -ld i. Damage was estimated 6t S."iC0.C00. Scores of nearby tanks are endangered by the huge blaze. The editorial rooms of the newspaper news-paper F.-xeelsior at Mexico City were the scene of a guu fight late Monday 1 etw. en members of the ' editorial sl-ff aid two men alleged to be members of the Ku Klux Klan, r'attiing between Ku Klux Klans-men Klans-men and m hs was resumed on the s-reets of Perth Amboy X. J Friday mi rci.ig as members of the order trb d t i escape from Odd Fellows hall where they had sought refuge d:rin: in attack on a klan meeting Tear day night in which more than 1C0 persons are reported to have been injured. The United States and Mexico have a Teed to resume full diplomatic re-1. re-1. t'ons. Formal announcement of t avreemint was made Friday by . th-; state department The restor-s!i restor-s!i n oT re-ati n3 carries with It full r:-: -- n't: on ly the United States of tin i" ;-"iT:nt of President Obregon. It .esults froir. th negotiations re- m'y ccn'-lud , in Mexico City by (' " r:; : P. W arren and John ilarton PERSONAL Alone in a shanty, Robert Young, a negro, is alleged to have opened fire on three automobiles loaded with police Thursday night at Johnstown, Pa., killing two detectives and probably prob-ably fatally wounding three police officers of-ficers before he was shot and killed. George H Gardiner, convicted murderer mur-derer of deputy sheriff Joseph. W. Irvine, Ir-vine, was executed at the Utah State Prison Friday morning. Angier B. Duke, 39, son of the millionaire mil-lionaire tobacco man, was drowned early Monday when a row-boat which he and four companions were boarding board-ing at the Indian Harbor Yacht club at Greenwich, Conn., capsized. Princess Anastasia, wife of Prince Christopher of Greece, and formerly Mrs. William I?. Leeds, widow of the American tinplate magnate, died in her London home Wednesday, She passed peacefully away at 11 :55 without with-out gaining consciousness, Prince Christopher, the queenmotlier, Olga, William B. Leeds, Jr., and his wife, rrincess Xenia, and other members of the family were at the bed side. A dispatch to Reuter's from Flushing Flush-ing says it was not the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda, the richest prince of India, who died on board a train near Flushing Wednesday night while on his way to the Holland city, but the Maharaja's son, Jaisingh Rao, who was educated at Harvard university. uni-versity. It is reported at Tokio that Baron Shimpei Goto, former mayor of Tokio, has accepted the office of foreign minister in the new Yamamoto cabinet. cab-inet. After firing five shots from a revolver re-volver in an attempt to kill himself in his apartment Thursday, and suf. fering only three slight scalp wounds, Charles Bowman, a New York broker, was arrested on charges of violation of the firearms law. J. A. Miller, a Presbyterian missionary mis-sionary from Illinois, returning to his station at the important railway town of Shuntefu, Chihli province, while driving from the railway to the mission with his wife and daughter was fired upon witlfout challenge by twenty Chinese soldiers. The driver was wounded, requiring amputation of his aru. The Americans were not injured. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, assembled leaders of each side in the anthracite controversy around his office of-fice table Monday told them bluntly that the proposed suspension of mining min-ing Sept. 1 could not be allowed. After a conference lasting most of Monday night, physicians attending James Klrkwood. film jactor, who was rendered unconscious Saturday when he was thrown from a horse, stated that the actor would live, as the crisis has apparently passed. FOREIGN Death and destruction were spread over an area roughly comprised within with-in a radius of fifty miles of Tokio, by fire following an earthquake, Saturday. The city of Yokohama was completely wiped out by the fire as was many districts of Tokio, Police Po-lice officials estimate the loss of lives at over one half million persons, and buildings destroyed as over three hundred thousand. A counter-revolutionary Republican Republi-can movement Is under way in Greece, says a dispatcli received nt Rome, Tuesday. The movement is gaining ground despite drastic measures meas-ures taken by the government, including in-cluding the immediate arrest of all suspects and the confiscation of arms, the dispatcli pays, The republic of Franco automatically automa-tically recognized Mexico Monday when Jules P.londel asked the foreign office whether Jean Perier, the present pre-sent French envoy extraordinary In London, would be acceptable as minister to this country. A majority of Kuhr miners from the Ische, Humboldt and Itosenblu-mendl Itosenblu-mendl mines voted Monday to resume work under control of the French. Five thousand workers discussed the project of ceasing resistance and 71 per cent voted favorably. Nineteen members of the crew of the French steamer I-imile Priant were believed lost when the vessel turned turtle In tho channel. Five survivors wero landed at P.urlogne. Kev. W. -A. Whiteside and !!'. F. J. Watt, P.ritish missionaries of tho "church missionary soci'dy were shot and hilled by bandits when traveling in Szeclnvon province, according to word received at Shanghai. A lively out''filt of rifle and machine ma-chine gun fire occurred In lUiblin Monday. The ahonllng was not ex-plained. ex-plained. IlaHoling In the Kail elections elec-tions proceeded with national troops patrolling the si reels. Tivu wirknien were killed and ten ''. -rs in iurod when a large naphtha-I naphtha-I nf s'iii exploded early Friday at ti " dye and chemical works of the I.i.rrett eoinp'r.y in Philadelphia. .:neric-;n Rags which the world rivf . have been at half mast for th". "'. tlirty d ys as eviden-e of the r, i ns m Hiraing for President I - d n : w' re hoisted to full staff - n iy at fc.i:,rise. The period of ii i in' m urn iir.' expired Sunday at t.-.'i a: ht. It.- t'Ct'Ily every one 0f the 1 ."."., O'Ki 1 - al v.' )!'I:er.-i of I'enn yhanla c ;.' :! t' " 'strike order" which i into eff ct. :,t midnight, Friday, ti-: ! ii o'aia i' S sib-rice prevailed ; I rd v r;io:n n' whore usually the r: ' 's filed wit'i tie s: ri"!:s of mine .- .;.-:-. is jiHin ' the m n to work. , : iiad of :'.".. 0'IO.WJ is to ,e rals'-d :i 'hi o::r,'.".v by the American Ko'l ' i' ,; f r relief work in Japan It was ; en ed at tie' White House. Tues-d Tues-d y. following a conference with I , a! I'-ni Cooiidge. . i. . or:; ma were drowned shortly a:-,- midnight Wednesday night .1 : ji a i: toi.ioloie In w ii h h t '.: y -. - i Id ;i p in .Myrtle P.eaeli -.- , e,-o Hi y Ii. d been upending the ', : l a e, ; n,u"ii a prl ly opened r ! ' o or ; !i V. a i a : in '.v rl r . . r ' a a v. S. ' '. " member o" : I y i," s--. n ,..., p d. ii' run v. a i c i r om" by .' mo' e i :. i at .1. ' U- ry :-i ''in nt at ; ; i , o-e h ii I' ii''l en out of t ' i : ,1 i - ' v 'lev.! Ich rag' d In li o Id n 'Pi ii--' '.V The Italian government has demanded de-manded a formal apology from tho fii-'o'l; government, an Indemnity of .,0,000,000 lire and lhat. full honors he! paid by the Creek rieel. to the llallan I f I, n Piraeus because of the gssas I -.inali n of the five llallan members ,f th,. fireco-.Mbanlan boundary nils I n nt Jarila, Al'mn'a. Monday. All the iiieml er i of the Free. Ktntd '"ovcrnment were Heeled to th" Hall j I'ilrann In Monday's inneral election I It was slat' d. So far the, count l kIiowb only one republican ubicled. ' |