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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BOSnBDERS 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 I WESTERN A sting of a wasp in the throat of E. S. Vickers, a carpenter of Saan-ich, Saan-ich, B. C, caused his death Wednesday Wednes-day night The wasp flew into a glass as Vickers was about to drink with the draught. The sting caused the throat to swell and strangled Vickers. Six men and a woman are in jail at Los Angeles as alleged members of a band of criminals believed to have obtained nearly 5100,000 in To burglaries bur-glaries and rabberies, the last few months. Adolph Zissler, the first man to break through the Argonaut mine at Jackson Cal., last August, in search of the forty-seven entombed miners In the Argonaut disaster, was killed Wednesday while working in the Princeton gold mine, Mariposa county, according to advices. He was engaged in "spitting a fuse," when he was caught in a powder blast. Martial law prevailed in Mexicali, capital of Lower California Monday as the result of the pitched battle late Sunday night between members of the Mexicali city of Governor Lugo of Lower California, in which two members mem-bers of the police force were killed outright and a dozen others seriously wounded. The Wyoming legislature convened in extraordinary session Monday to amend the state farm loan act in such a way as to reduce the interest rate from 6 to 5 per cent and increase in-crease the maximum loans to individuals individ-uals from 55,000 each to 520,000. These amendments were passed at the regular session last winter, but later were declared nullified because a clerk had failed to include them In the rolled act as it was sent to Governor Rots for signature. Mrs. Sara Nielson of Farmington, Utah. 56 years of age, was instantly killed Wednesday when, it is claimed, leaped from a southbound Bamberger Electric train at Farmington crossing. GENERAL The United States government, through Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Wednesday filed a petition peti-tion in federal district court at -St Paul, seeking division of the International Inter-national Harvester company into three seperate corporations. The government govern-ment alleges that the dissolution decree de-cree entered against the company in 1918 did not restore competition in the farm implement industry; that the company still is a monopoly and that the number of competitive concerns con-cerns is skrinking steadily. Fashionable New Jersey resorts, which received a shock when raids netting $300,000 worth of liquor were made in Lakewood and Point Pleasant, Pleas-ant, got another jolt Wednesday when detectives swooped down on five alleged al-leged gambling casinos in Pleasure Bay, West End, Allenhurst and Wanamassa. Gambling paraphernalia valued at $20,000 was confiscated and proprietors of the five resorts were arrested. PERSONAL Judge William Henry Gabbert. former chief justice of the Colorado supreme court and widely known in legal circles in (he Rocky Mountain district died at Denver, after a short illness. He was 74 years old. Pear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee U. S. X., retired captain of the ill-fated ill-fated battleship Maine, died suddenly at his home in New York Thursday. Admiral Sigshee had been in poor health for the last two years. Announcement was made at Philadelphia Phila-delphia of the death at Charlestown W. Va. Monday of Samuel Walter Washington, a descendant of George Washington's two brothers, John 'Augustine 'Au-gustine Washington on his father's side and Colonel Samuel Washington on his mother's side. Minnesota's representation in the United States senate has been turned over to the Farmer-Labor party as the result of another political transition the state went through in the special senatorial election Monday. Magnus Johnson of Kimball, Minn., a "real dirt" farmer, gained the coveted post vacated by the recent death of Senator Sena-tor Knute Nelson, additional returns Tuesday from the special election swelling his plurality. Ray Conley, United States secret service agent at Manila, over whose reinstatement by Governor Genera1 Leonard Wood a political battle has been raging for the past few days between the governor general on one sid and members of his cabinet and legislative leaders on the other, resigned re-signed Tuesday. Conley's exit is believed be-lieved to have relieved the situation. Th secret service man originally was charged with bribery, an investigation investiga-tion followed, he was cleared and the governor general reinstated him. Carl C. Magee, Albuquerque, N. M. editor, was found guilty of contempt on seven counts in Judge D. J. Leahy's court Saturday. Four citations cita-tions had been issued directing Magee to show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt, one of them on two counts and the others one count each. Magee was sentenced to nienty days in the county jail on each of the four citations. Elbert H. Gary Saturday made it plain that the United States Steel coroporation, of which he is head, planned within six weeks to begin eliminating the 12-hour day in its plants. Premier Baldwin, before the English house of commons and Marguis Cur-zon Cur-zon in the house of lords, demanded Thursday that the allies unite in fixing fix-ing a fair amount of reparations and asking Germany to pay it. FOREIGN A shipment of twenty-seven billion marks has been seized by the French occupation forces while in transit north of Eltville, near Mayenoe, and a German railway ofifcial and two assistants were arrested In connection connec-tion with the shipment. The striking dock workers at Liverpool Liv-erpool returned to work Thursday afternoon. The men at Birkenhead are still out, but are expected to re-, turn. No delay is considered likely in the sailing of trans-Atlantic liners. Th' re were no cases of murder, attempted at-tempted murder, manslaughter, or incendiarism in Ulster, Ireland, during dur-ing the past three months Lord Chief Justice Moore, said in opening the P.ell'ast crime commission. In the same period last year there were of these crimes respectfully .St), GO, '1 and 1 10. Conditions resulting from the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods shipped to Shangha, Chwanslia and upper Yangtze river porls have so Following disclosures at New York of the brutal treatment of patients in the Rrooklyn hospital , f or the insane, a movement has been set on foot lookinsr to local and state inquiries in-quiries into all such institutions throughout the country. Alleged mistreatment of John Holland Hol-land I. YV. Yv organizer at Fort Arthur, Texas, has brought an influx of I. W. YS'. cjtuaders to that city. In an estimated total of more than 20,000. Twenty-six Texas oil promotres, Including In-cluding Or. Frederick A. Cook, former for-mer Artie explorer, were indicted by the federal (rrand jury at Cleveland, Ohio on charges of usinir tho mails to improved at Cliansha that Japanese who sought shelter in the Japanese consulate and on board ships have been directed to return ' to their homes, according to information to the foreign office Tuesday. Four steamers, including a passenger passen-ger liner, have one ashore on the l"ru::uayan coast following the worst Kale in the south Atlantic in many years. The Mttnson liner Southern Cross, from New York, was not able to dock a Montevideo Wednesday and was forced to put out to sea to ride out the fiile. Representatives of five foreign countries have cabled to their home r'ovornmont.s from I'ckin. BtalinL' the defraud and conspiracy to make fraudulent fraud-ulent use of the malls. Five persons were instantly killed and two seriously Injured near Tena Haute, Ind., when a motor car which had stalled on the track of the I!l Four railroad wns struck by a passenger passen-ger train. An elevated train of seven wooden cars crashed into the rear of a subway sub-way train of steel coaches Monday at New York. Seven persons were reported re-ported Injured. Mrs. I'dan'he Vorhos, in, viho, po-li'-f. say, Is the "ticen of a bandit VWi. which has been operating alon' "overs' I.ane" In North Chlc.'iL-o, was arrested Tuesday In a raid ori a rooming hou.ie at. Chl'viK". Mrs. Vorlies, who said her home; was In Iianvlllc, HI., was dressed like a man, I'lie wore "shell:" trousers with bell bottoms and slit half way up to the l.ttee, h cup and army shh'l. M"r hair v;:ri cut. short. In npprewd 'vi I' en t er f.v.Mon. amounts to be asked for Individual victims of the lim-hinif bandit for the loss of one life and the American Ameri-can claim demands restitution for tho permanent injury of a woman. Ten Deaths wero reported Thursday Thurs-day from Paris, as a result of tho unprecedented heat wave Krlpplnn Paris and vicinity. Fifty-six Germans have been drowned drown-ed In the lihine since Saturday. All were swimmers who sought. relief from the heat. A P.elKlan court martial at Aix I.a Chapolle, Saturday Imposed Hie death penalty upon three Germans Count Von Keller, Fudui' ami Klnceuder, and lire Imprisonment at hard labor upon a fourth, I.orbeer, on conviction of sabot are. A number of persons are reported lo have been lulled and others In Jured and considerable damaie canned lo I hi i I 1 1 n i'H Ihroiit'h tho explosion Monday of a Inri'o depot, of artillery i mm im 1 1 (un at K ra 'iiyeva t.x, Hlxt; miles soul hensl. of I'.elctvide. |