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Show NEWS STORY OF THEPAST WEEK A Complete History of What Ha Been Happening Throughout the World. Vv WESTERN A coroner's Jury decided that Alport Al-port lioone of Omuha, who was found tying beside a road Bitot to death, dl4 from tt self-inflicted wound, despite de-spite testimony by Muldle Oubertaon, yir old sclnool girl, that he was killed by hlKbwuymen who held them up whllo they wore out riding in i rented automobile. lioonu was said to have bean despondent but the reason for his despondency has not been disclosed. dis-closed. Oaj)tuin Iloiild Amundsen, Norwe gian explorer, has ulwndoned his Jlan for aa ulr flight from New York to Seattle and left New York by rail for Seattle to supervise the outfit-lnjf outfit-lnjf of his exploration ship, the Maud, Ills representative announced. Capt. .Ainundaon expects to resume his at-tompt at-tompt to drift past the North l'ole eurly in June. An ordinance providing a fine of $100 for any person appearing in public in a iDsnrao that conceals his identity, was enacted by the city commission, ers of Kansas Cty, Kan. Mayor Burton Bur-ton introduced the ordinance in support sup-port of his open letter in which he oulled on all employees of the city who belong to tho Ku Klux Klan, to resign from tho organization. Forty-six persons are dead or mis-Bing mis-Bing In tho Trinity river flood at Fort Worth, Toxas, a revised list indicates. Fort Worth was surrounded en three , sides by a sheet of water extending over an arou estimated tit 25 to 50 square miles. The property damage will be about $1,000,000, according to estimates. Two St. Paul women, both grand-mothurs grand-mothurs and each 00 years old, plan to start at once on the first lap of a 206-mile walk to Sioux City. Approximated $7,000,000 is to be Bpent for refrigerator cars by the Denver Den-ver & Itlo Grande Western Hallway company, according to an announcement announce-ment made by officials of the road. Prospects for bumper crops of fruits and vegetables on the western slope of Colorado have caused railway officials offi-cials to believe business will he unusually un-usually largo this year. Every citizen who cannot read, write and speak the American language, should be disfranchised, Thomas M. ftliarshall, former vice president, declared de-clared In an address at St. Louis. GENERAL Nearly $200,000 worth of imported whiskies, loaded aboard a big oceangoing ocean-going steam lighter, was captured by tho New York police after t thrilling two-mile chase down the bay. A flurry flur-ry of shooting and personal encounters encount-ers between the boarding police and the crew of the lighter figured at the end of the chase. Six men were arrested. ar-rested. Trim and athletic, attired in a soldier sol-dier uniform, and declaring she was beating her way to New York, where she expected to find more journalistic journal-istic atmosphere, a 20-yearold University Uni-versity of Missouri co-ed, detainaed t Chicago by the police, said she was the daughter of Dr. Ben Reitman, writer and. sociological worker for the Chicago health department. Darktown's Over the River Burying Bury-ing Society and its Sons and Daughters Daugh-ters of I will Arise have a competitor in the newest negro social organization organiza-tion of record the Grand Order of Turtles and Turtle Doves. It is a "marriage society" and holds forth in the Harlem "black belt" of New York Cityt. The officials of the society are in court charged with fraud. Tho union mine workers of Illinois do not want government intervention in the coal strike, but prefer to deal directly with operators, and the time when conference can be held is "not very far off," Frank Farrington, president of tho Illinois miners, declared. de-clared. The strike vote taken by the International Inter-national Brotherhood of Taper Makers was overwhelmingly against acceptance accept-ance of wage reductions proposed by manufacturers of news print paper, Jeremiah T. Carey, president of the brotherhood, announced at a conference confer-ence with the manufacturers. Fro-posed Fro-posed reductions which tho workers refused to accept included a 10 per cent cut from the present scale for skilled men of all crafts and the elimination elim-ination of all overtime for Sundays and holidays. With the county jail filled and tho home of Jailer Harris sheltering many women prisoners ,the Mill Creek section, sec-tion, Clay county, Mo., is quiet. In compliance com-pliance with Circuit Judge Hiram J. Johnson's orders for the arrest of every erson more than 12 years of age in the Mill Creek territory, the Jail houses 13G men and many more are under orders to appear before the grand jury to testify regrding the murder of a witness and th wounding of a deputy sheriff. j WAshnulun Annual losses of approximately $"., 100 are being catiaed by accidents acci-dents in Utah coiil mines, and the death rate und disability among Utah coal miners is steadily increasing, according to a survey Just completed by the United States Bureau of Mines, and tile statement is made that :o some other coal producing states tho losses ure relatively greater. This loss, stated in dollars ami cents, represents rep-resents wage losses of employees in the mines, the value of cotil not pro duced due to accident, disability of the men, and accident insurance premiums prem-iums paid. Strike ballots are being sent out by chiefs of the various shop crafts on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads. rail-roads. The Wisconsin Automobile Dealers association, organized for the purpose of fixing prices for ubed cars through dissemination of trade information, was held to be in restraint of trade and illegal under the state anti-trust law. Sale of surplus agricultural products to foreign countries was suggested as a means of 'bringing higher prices to farmers by Carl Yrooman, former Assistant As-sistant Secretary of Agriculture in an address before the convention of the Mississippi Valley association. The speaker urged his auditors to "find foreign markets for the farmers' surplus sur-plus crops by the skillful use of credits." cred-its." August Probst, the Swiss waiter, who has charged that he was "kidnapped" "kid-napped" because of his romantic interest inter-est in the daughter of a wealthy member mem-ber of the fashionable Rolling Rock Country club, near Pittsburg, will be deported from the United States under un-der an order issued by Assistant Secretary Sec-retary Hennlng of the labor depart-ment. depart-ment. "Don't worry, sweetheart, I'll escape inside of two years," Joseph Lauzon, charged with 200 burglaries in the last eighteen months, replied 'to the warm embrace of the woman who had gone into his cell to bid him goodbye. good-bye. Arrested with him, but later released, re-leased, Miss Virginia Betty Carroll told Lauzon, "If they give you fifty years I'll still be waiting for you when you're free." Lauzon told the police on his arrest, they said, that he had already escaped from prison twice. Owing to the immense potash resources re-sources of Utah and the fact that the producing plants in this state are closed, a petition presented to congress con-gress a few days ago by American potash producers from ruinous German Ger-man competition is of much interest. The petition, a copy of which has been received, charges that the German government, through the Deutsches Kali Syndikat, has, to all intents and purposes, destroyed property owned by American citizens to the extent of about $30,000,000 during the pa3t twelve months. Declaring that there has "finally been a man elected to the presidency of the Mexican republic who promises to be a true savior to his country," the Colorado senate, in special session ses-sion adopted a resolution calling on the United States to recognize President Presi-dent Obregan and Mexico. The previous existence on this continent con-tinent of a new genus and species of primate "much more closely resembling re-sembling the human type than it does any known species of ape," although distinct from either, is believed to have been established by the recent discovery of a small tooth in the faun-al faun-al deposits of Nebraska, according to a paper read at the concluding session here of the national academy of sciences scien-ces by Dr. Henry F. Osborne of the American museum of natural history. FOREIGN Thirty-two lives were lost when tha French steamer Deputy Albert Tail-landier, Tail-landier, a vessel of 3000 tons, bound from Rotterdam for Brest with a cargo car-go of coal, foundered off the northern coast of Brittany during a violent storm. The captain of the ship, the sole survivor, was picked up by the Greek steamer Pelagia. Voluntary economic readjustment or financial intervention by the United States," is, according to La Prenza the bireis of a report which has been submitted to the Cuban government by Carlos Manuel DeCespedes, Cuban minister to the United States. Germany has finaally agreed to resume re-sume the sale of dyes to the Textile Alliance of America without reserve, following a three months- period during dur-ing which she had first refused to sell any dyes to the alliance and then consented to sell a limited amount This decision resulted from a recent conference in Germany between an official of the alliance and the head of the German Dye alliance. It is regarded re-garded by the American alliance officials offi-cials as a distinct victory for the textile tex-tile industry of America. It will soon, in their belief, normalize the ship, ment of dyes from Germany to tho United Str.tes. Twenty persons are known to have, lost their lives and 30 were injured in a fire which swept the government govern-ment buildings at Malaga, Spain. A heavy earth shock, centering in Tokio, occurred last week. Considerable Consider-able damage was done to buildings in the city. The earthquake was preceded pre-ceded by an eruption of Mount Ash-ma-Yama, ninety miles northwest of Tokio, which broke out with a loud report, pouring forth volunes of ashes, ash-es, stones and srnok. |