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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSH EADERS 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 The destruction by hammer and torch of what many nations in the world might consider a fair sized navy, has been begun in two Pacific coast shipyards Monday in compliance com-pliance with orders predicating the armament conference in AVashington. Seven "6hips of the line," six of them outworn in service, and the seventh the greatest of all, still less than half completed on the launching ways, are being fairly overrun by "stripping crews." A million dollars damage was caused caus-ed Tuesday by" the worst electrical storm to strike Alameda and Contra Costa counties, California in 50 years. Several persons were injured, nun dreds were imperiled. Two tanks containing thousands of gallons of naptha were fired by lightning which struck the Standard Oil tank farm !at Sanpabla Damage was estimated at 5500,000. Scores of nearby tanks are endangered by the huge blaze. The editorial rooms of the newspaper news-paper Excelsior at Mexico City were the scene of a gun fight late Monday betwew members of the editorial sjaff and two men alleged to be members of the Ku Klux Klan. The National Association of Attorneys At-torneys General, in annual session in Minneapolis Tuesday decided to conduct con-duct at once an investigation into the prices of g'asoline and petroleum products pro-ducts to discover whether there is any price manipulation. The investigation inves-tigation will comprise every state of the union, according to a resolution adopted. Fertile farms and ranches in the Arkansas valley in southeastern Colorado Colo-rado experienced one of the worst floods in recent years Wednesday night and early Thursday morning when an immense irrigation reservoir on the Apishapa river north of Fowler cracked and precipitated a great rush of water down the valley. The Equity Packing company of Fargo, North Dakota, whose affairs have been involved in controversy for several years, has filed a petition admitting ad-mitting its insolvency. GENERAL One negro was killed and one wounded early Monday when a band of white men dashed thru east Savannah, Sa-vannah, Georgia, land fired into tne homes in the negro colony. Play turned into tragedy, Spring-lake, Spring-lake, X. Y., when Charles Spindler. age 11, and William Hubbard, 10, died after being virtually roasted alive. The lads with companions were playing Indian, and the fire with which the captives were to be burned at the stake got beyond their control. Fire of undetermined origin broke out in the basement of the United States Capitol Tuesday but was extinguished extin-guished before it spread to other parts of the building. Eight men were buried beneath hundreds of tons of sand and dirt when an embankment at Baltimore, in the excavation of the colored high school claved in shortly before noon Tuesday. Five of the men buried were rescued by firemen and police. First Lieutenant Walter K. Ilirsch-emiller, Ilirsch-emiller, a service officer in the army air service, was killed and eighteen other reserve officers in training at Camp Mead, Md., were Injured Thursday Thurs-day in the collapse of an old barn in which they had sought shelter from the rain. Two marine officers were instantly killed and amother probably fatally injured in-jured when two phines In which they were flying, collided at an altitude of approximately 3,200 feet, plunged to the c-ronnd. PERSONAL 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 1 1 is wife and daughter was fired upon without challenge by twenty Chinese soldiers. The driver was wounded, requiring amputation of his arm. 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 iSept. 1 could not be allowed. After a conference lasting most of Monday night, physicians attending James Kirkwood, film factor, who was rendered unconscious Saturday when he was thrown from a horse, stated that the actor would live, as the crisis has apparently passed. Colonel Launcelot M Purcell, U. S. A., retired, of Seattle Wash., former chief of the surplus property division John C. Skinner, chief of the sales division of the quarter master's corps, Hertrand Weiss, Herman Miller, were indicted Thursday charged with conspiracy con-spiracy to defraud the government. After firing five shots from a revolver re-volver in an attempt to kill himself in his apartment Thursday, and suffering suf-fering only three slight scalp wounds, Charles Bowman, a New York broker, was arrested on charges of violation of the firearms law. Federal officers arrived at Paw-huaka, Paw-huaka, Oklahoma with ten men captured cap-tured in the Osage bills, Wednesday, whom they charge are members of the bandit gang which early Tuesday held up a passenger train near Okesa and escaped with registered mail. Edward Kelly one of the Republicans Republi-cans whom the free state authorities have been hunting, was shot and critically criti-cally wounded by government troops Saturday, near Belfast. Kelly iand a companion are said to have boon engaged en-gaged in posting republican literature. Secretary Mellon of the treasury let it be known definitely Monday after a conference with President Coolidge that he would remain in the cabinet State competition for Nebraska coal firms is threatened by Governor Bryan, Bry-an, who announces that he has almost completed arrangrents for supplying coal to local public committees to be sold to consumers below the present prices. John Pavlizon, Austrian coal miner, min-er, pronounced the outstanding hero of Tuesday's explosion In the Kem-merer Kem-merer Coal company mine No. 1, at Frontier, Wyo., was brought to the state meHtal hospital at Evansun, Wyo. Saturday. He is insane as a result of his experiences. FOREIGN A lively outgreak of rifle and machine ma-chine gun fire occurred in Dublin Monday. The shooting was hot explained. ex-plained. Balloting in the Dail elections elec-tions proceeded with national troops patrolling the streets. All the members of the Free State government were elected to the Dail Eirann in Monday's general election it was slated. So far the count shows only one republican elected. The city of Vera Cruz is entirely cut off from the rest of the country as a result of a general strike of railroad rail-road employees of that city. The strike was called In sympathy with electricians, who bad been out for some time. Eastern Oriental liner Cbangsha, British, carrying passengers and freight from Australia to Manila, has gone on the rocks at Tigl bank near the Tawitawi islands of the Philippines, Philip-pines, according to radio advices. France is standing pat upon her reparations re-parations demands, it was revealed when the foreign office officially published pub-lished the note sent to London In reply re-ply to the British reparations communication com-munication of Aug. VI. It Is a 50 page document, laying all France's cards upon the table, and answering the British document point by point. For the first time Franco officially sets forth 20,000,000,000 gold marks as her minimum demand from Germany, Ger-many, plus sufficient credits from "class" reparations bonds to pay any war debts claimed by France's allies. Eastern, southern and mid-western states, Thursday, shivered and donned don-ned overcoats as further records for cool August weather were broken and light frosts were reported in section gripped by the cool wave. The Cuban government Thursday became the first of America's wartime debtors to pay off the tots I amount of its loan. The second and final payment on the balance ot ?j,!l88,0O0, owed by Cuba was iaid to the treasury by the National City P.ank of New York, acting for the Cuban government. govern-ment. All records for a flight across the continent were broken Friday when Pilot. Wesley L. Smith of the air mall service landed at Ilempst.i-ad field, New York at 11:11 o'clock eastern I standard time. completing a relay mall Night, from Kan Francisco In lii bourn ami II minutes. A westbound mall train on the Chicago, Chi-cago, P.urlinglon & iiiii'-y railroad IiluriiO'd Into l.hrt ditch at Kimncll, lo-.va, early Saturday wht-n one of the tru I a of the coal tender was de railed mid ton; up a section of track. Premier Tomosnburo Kato died Friday Fri-day afternoon at Toklo, apparently from a complication of maladies that weakened bis heart beyond repair. Admiral l'.aron Kato was born In 1H5!) and has a distinguished career in the naval, administrative and diplomatic services before he was elevated to the premiership last year. Advices received from Seoul, Korea, said that !il'! are dead, and more than a thousand missing as a result of the recent tidal waves and storm In the western provinces of Korea. Tho damage to property was large. After Iwiring a bole through Ihelr prison wall, fourteen convicts escaped Friday from the national penitentiary. They Included Itam'.n Sllverra, the Spanish extremist, whoso extradition from Uruguay caused Communist strikes in P.uenos Aires and Montevideo Monte-video early Iaitt month. Ccn'Tal Ong, commanding an army of Peking troops at Chlhma, eight mil-is mil-is norUiweiit. of Amoy, delivered Monday, Mon-day, nn ull.imaliuii to ( 'hag-Tse-l'Ing the eastern ally of Sun Vat-Sen, say. In;; that Amoy must bu ovacuated. |