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Show HEWS HISTORY OF " THE PAST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN ' Mrs. Alberta Meodous was murdered with u hammer at Los Ageb-s by Mrs. A. L. Phillips. Jealousy Is said to tiave been the cause. Five out of eleven Nebraska candidates can-didates for the United States senate In answering the quest ionalre sent out liy the Nebraska League of Women .Voters, which issued a summary of tho answers received, have declared themselves either for strict enforcement enforce-ment of the Volstead act or want (changes to make It more effective. 1 Carl Culahreso, who says he has b pei it most of his life in Jail, was released re-leased by Mayor Bailey of Denver on request of Dr. Daniel D. Lucy, city councilman, for an operation to cure his criminal characteristics. Dr. Lucy says the only minor operations are necessary and that they are almost certain to be effective in keeping Cal-ebrcse Cal-ebrcse out of further trouble. Harry Stolnhold, under arrest n't Los Angeles is charged with having .purchased a bible and rosary Willi a bogus check. The complaining witness, the proprietor of a shop, told the police lie accepted the check without with-out question because of the nature of purchase. Valon McDonald, alias Samell C. Ayres, arrested at Denver, charged Willi Impersonating a federal officer, is now charged with stealing an automobile auto-mobile belonging to Mrs. A. C. Ayres, Oakland, Calif. Th car has been recovered re-covered and Miss Anna Itathbun, who Admits coming to Denver with McDonald, McDon-ald, arrested. She says she thought lie was a real secret service operator Ifor he cashed several cheeks en route us a government man. The government balloon school at Jtoss field, Arcadia, near Los Angeles, will be, abandoned. Miss Chrlstabel Pankhurst has been traveling through the rural districts of the west gathering information on opportunities for British women immigrants. immi-grants. "The economic situation in both the old country and Canada would be benefited greatly by the extensive ex-tensive immigration of British wto-men wto-men to this land," Miss Pankhurst declared. de-clared. "This is the only solution for the problem of surplus women and the women are only too eager to come if they have opportunity." The bill authorizing Secretary Fall to investigate survey and report to congress on the Columbia basin irrigation irri-gation project in Washington state ihas passed the senate. The measure authorized an appropriation of $100,-000 $100,-000 to finance the work and called for the report to be made not later than January 1, 1924. GENERAL Alleging that the estate of the late Charlotte Hix owes her $10,000 for a thirty-one-year washing and ironing bill, Margaret A. Flannery, New York City, filed suit in the county clerk's office against the Greenwood cemetery authorities, as administrator of the 'Hix estate. Shortage of labor in mines, smelters, and mills has been a more pressing Influence in metals than the rail and coal strikes, although the importance of the latter factors is increasing. Buying Buy-ing sentiment may have been somewhat some-what repressed by labor troubles, but purchases against immediate requirements require-ments have been large. There are not more than a month unsold supplies. 'Copper wire mills and brass mills have two or three months' business on ;their books. Copper is .14 delivered. Zlnz jumped to the highest levels since Pet-ember, 1920, at 5.75, St. Ixiuis; lead 5.50, St. Louis. Andrew A. Melntyre, 44, was in-'stantly in-'stantly killed and Jack O'Kelly severely severe-ly shocked by lightning while reading a water meter during a storm on 'Lookout mountain, Tenn. "Uncle Johnny" Shell, of Kentucky, who claimed to be 134 years of age, lis dead of the infirmities of age. If Jills claim was correct, he was the oldest man in the world. lie left ov-jer ov-jer 200 descendants. His oldest daughter daugh-ter is 00 and his youngest son is 0 j-ears of age. He was twice married. His first wife died nine years ago jafter they had lived together for leighty-five years. His second wife died two years ago at the age of 30. Damage to crops, estimated at more tban 52,000,000, has resulted from the 'rise of the Grand river at Chillwothe, SIo., it Is estimated. Bundles of wheat could be seen floating down Hie ylver. Pinned beneath the lifeless body of hts father for more than twelve hours, 6-year-old Erik Mayer, seriously wounded, finally attracted attention of passersby who discovered a double Imurder and suicide at Cleveland. WAfchlL j i ON S-iT'tary Weeks has compiled a table showing Lhat the war d-partmei-t hook.s for the last fiBcal year show prospective savings in the department for that jK-rlod of approximately $75,-(, $75,-(, of which ,, "represents "repre-sents projects which were postponed to a later date," and $Ky,XJil,ixjO in funds which will tie returned to the unappropriated balance in ihe treasury. treas-ury. In July, lt)21, the war department reported a probable saving of $'J'.,-5',0 $'J'.,-5',0 as Indicated for the fiscal year l'J22. Lieutenant. James II. Doolptie ia authorized by the chief of the army air service to undertake a transcontinental transcon-tinental airplane flight from Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, I'la., to Itockwell field, San Diego, Die-go, Calif. Clerks employed In postoffices throughout i the United Statcs will, during the remainder of the summer season, be permitted to enjoy a half holiday each Saturday providing the work assigned to them has been completed com-pleted by noon on that day, under an order Issued by First Assistant Post-muster Post-muster General Bartlett. Low-flying over crowds or trick flying fly-ing over any populous area will be prohibited in any parts of the United States by an aeronautic safety code being drafted by experts of the bureau of standards the national aeronatuic association, and the Society Of Automotive Auto-motive Kngineers. I'ending passage of the redrafted Wadsworth-Hicks bill providing for a bureau of commercial commer-cial aviation In the department of commerce, com-merce, and which now provides for unified un-ified air control, the draft of the safety safe-ty code is tentative, but its principal 'provisions will include : Inspection of aviators and aircraft in, connection with the granting of license to pilots and air transportation; prohibiting of dangerous proximity of aircraft in flight; rules governing personnel and equipment of airdromes, including medical and signal equipment; aircraft air-craft radio regulation rules for landing fields ; lighthouses for night flying and landing. After year's suspension, recruiting for the navy, under orders published will be resumed. Sixty-five thousand men will have to enlist or peenlist in the coming year In order to beep the navy up to the 86,000 men authorized under the naval appropriation bill. Senator Burmim, Republican, New Mexico, has been directed by the senate sen-ate reclamation and irrigation com- I mittee to report favorably to the senate sen-ate the house bill authorizing the sale of surplus power developed under the Salt river reclamation project in Arizona. The measure would authorize author-ize the secreary of the Interior whenever when-ever surplus power is created to enter en-ter into contracts not exceeding fifty years in duration for its sale. FOREIGN The expedition to climb Mount Everest Ev-erest has been abandoned as a result of an avalanche in which seven porters por-ters were killed. Three members of the expedition, C. L. Mallory, T. H. Somervell and C. A. Crawford, had narrow escapes. . Four persons were killed and more than fifty injured when a passenger train jumped the tracks as it was entering en-tering the Gare du Nord, Paris, France, and smashed into the stone wall which lines the approaches to the station. President Obregon, who is at Cuei navaca, Mexico, ostensibly for rest, is understood to be conducting a personal per-sonal investigation of the recent kidnaping kid-naping of A. Bruce Blelaski. Armand Naudln, newly appoiated police perfect of Paris, was fired at as he was returning from the Long-ohamps Long-ohamps Bastile day celebration, the assailant, an anarchist named Gustav Bouvet, mistaking him for President Millerand. The poor aim of Bouvet saved M. Naudin, all three bullets fired missing their mark. President Milerand, riding in the carriage oif state, was just behind the perfect's automobile. Despairing of finding an American wife for King Boris, Premier Stam-houlisky Stam-houlisky is understood to have asked David Lloyd George to sugest a suitable suit-able mate for the lonely monarch. Maria del Phar Morena, the 15-year-old daughter of the editor of the Herald of Mexico City, who was murdered mur-dered a few weeks ago by Deputy Llorica. shot and killed the slayer of her father as he was leaving his home on Tonala street. Twenty-three persons were killed and thirty Injured when an express train collided with a mail train in the vicinity of Palencia. Entire families are reported to have been wiped out as the trains were crowded with holiday holi-day folks. In one case a mother and three daughters were killed, while in another a fnther and baby were the I only ones who escaped out of a family fam-ily of eight. General Luis Terr-anas, former Chihuahua Chi-huahua cattle king, and the Mexican government have agreed definitely upon up-on the transfer of his vast estate, approximately ap-proximately 6,500.000 acres, for which the government is to pay 13,600,000 pesos, a little more than $6,000,000 under un-der the present rate of exchange. The general will receive In cash 20 per cent of the purchase price, while th remainder will b paid for with paper pa-per lisued by th Mexican government. |