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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN 11 CONDENSED FORM RECORC? OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from all Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line WESTERN Buffeted by a high wind and heavy eas, the steamer Fidalgo, was virtually vir-tually beaten to pieces against a dock at Seattle. Otto Schultz of Denver has entered a plea of not guilty to conspiracy in connection with the robbery of the Denver Mint in December. The National Railways of Mexico have signed a contract with the department de-partment of industry and commerce whereby the roads will operate drilling drill-ing work's in the federal oil fields. Samuel McGee, bank messenger of the First National bank t Los Angeles, An-geles, was shot and killed here Tuesday Tues-day In a daylight robbery by two automobile au-tomobile bandits who escaped with a bag containing funds of several thousand thous-and dollars. According to police, Felipe Alguin recently deported from Mexico after a nation wide search for him, has confessed to the slaying of Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald in Los Angeles eighteen months ago. One man was Instantly killed, three cities were rocked and a district dis-trict within a radius of 10 miles was shaken by the force of an ejcplislon of nitroglycerine at the magazine of the Illinois Torpedo company at Turkey Tur-key Mountain seven miles south or Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to inform matiuns. The driver of a nltin wagon wag-on was loading his truck at the magazine mag-azine when he dropped a two quart can of the explosives. W ith the exception ex-ception of a small piece of his scalp, no trace of the truck or driver was found. The Kuklux Klan makes sweeping denial of all of the statements nn charges contained in the petllh n receiTTly filed by the state to oust the organization from Kansas, in an answer filed with the supreme court at Topeka. 1 Lieutenant Frank Honsinger and Sergeant .1. Kelley, both of Kelly field, were seven miles east of Ixiro-do, Ixiro-do, when the De Ilavlland combat plane from which they were dropping drop-ping bombs In the war maneuvers being enacted before I'.rlgndler General Gen-eral William F. Mitchell, assistant chief of the aero service of the United Uni-ted States army, fell. GENERAL A family of six was asphyxiated and a dozen other persons were overcome over-come early Monday by gas escaping from a broken main at Ca radon, N. J. Selection of a Jury was begun at Marlon, to try six men on charges of murder In the second trial of the Her-rin Her-rin mine riots last June, In which twenty-five persons were killed. Persons living in the lowlands of southeast Arkansas along the Mississippi Missis-sippi liver are being forced to desert their comes by floods from the river's riv-er's tributaries, according to advices. Many families have moved Into box cars, It was said. Sister Cecilia, a music teacher at the Notre Ilame academy near l'.al-tlmore, l'.al-tlmore, who whs telloved to have been kidnaped from the Institution returned to the convent after she had escaped, according to her story t" Father William J. Kane, supervisor of the academy, from a house In Iiultl-more, Iiultl-more, where she was held captive for several hours. Preliminary Btops toward selection of the grand Jury which will bo ask'-d to Investigate alleged operations of the Ku Klux Klan In Morehouse Parish are expected to be made this week. Itoy Mitchell, negro, lias admitted killing eight persons In and near Waco Texax, within a little more i than a year, County Attorney (!. S. Fnrmer announced. Two negroce wore tried anil convicted for the slaying of Mr. and Mrs. P.arker and Turk, the killing .f whom Mitchell confessed. More than half thJ bodies of the miner entombed In Mine No. 1 of the I'holph-I odj;o corporation at DawHon, N. M by an explosion Inst Thursday had been recovered. Two of tho men walked nut of Hie mine unharmed Friday morning. 'I'liere were Vl'l men In the mine when the bla-tt or. cured. The deat.li Hut probably prob-ably will be 120. WASHINGTON Salaries running Into five and six figures are paid by the leading oil companies of the country to their chief officials, it was disclosed through publication, in part, of the proceedings of the senate subcommittee subcommit-tee which has been investigating the oil Industry. An investigation of charges of irregularities, ir-regularities, waste and extravagance in the veterans' bureau was ordered by the senate. Mrs. Mae Ellen Nolan of .San Francisco Fran-cisco became a member of the house of representatives, taking the oath of office as successor to her late husband, hus-band, John I. Nolan. She Is the third woman member of the present congress, con-gress, but her election also was to the next house of which she Is now the only woman member-elect. Invention of an automobile equipped equipp-ed with four legs instead of wheels is claimed by James William Iiryan, a Washington man, who says he has forty patents for such a machine. He has designed a five-passenger, clutch-less clutch-less and springless car of half the weight of wheeled models, which, he says expert engineers have declared feasible. President Harding has decided to name Postmaster General Work as secretary of the interior, succeeding, Albert D. Fall, It was learned authoritatively. author-itatively. The Fulmer bill, proposing to make the use of official government cotton standards mandatory In both Interstate Inter-state and foreign commerce, was ordered or-dered favorably repurtod by the house agriculture committee. The secretary of the treasury and postmaster general Jointly recommended recom-mended tn congress the prompt appropriation ap-propriation of f.x.Mj.tx wj for the acquisition acqui-sition of a site and tho construction of an annex or extension to tho postofflco nntl courthouse at Salt Lake City, and to remodel and renovate ren-ovate the present building. The soldier' bonus question bobbed bobb-ed up again In tho senate wing of tho capital, the military affairs committee commit-tee devoting nearly two hours to discussion dis-cussion In executive ees-don of the I'.ursum lnus bill, after which derision de-rision was rtarhod to hold another meotlng. l'r n learning that several of tlio transcontinental railroads acting under un-der tho recent doelslon of the Interstate Inter-state commerce cominls-rion had filed new tariffs where. n they proposed to Increase rates on wool from Idaho ami Eastern Washington nnd Oregon to IS slon and other eastern market such Increase to go Into effect February Feb-ruary 10th, Scnatof Gooding of Ida-bo Ida-bo cntorod protest and askod that the new wool rates te suspended pending Invest Igatlon. FOREIGN Ke ports that the Germans are or cnclrfng a general striko at Hume have led to tho dispatch of French war tanks to that place. The first anniversary of the coronn-tlon coronn-tlon of Pope Plus was celebrated with a pontifical mass la tho Slsllno chap-ol chap-ol Monday. Dr. Thomas O'Wgglns. father of Kevin O'HIgglns, froo stnto minister of boms sffalri was nssusslaatcd at his residence noar Dublin. Parliament wm opened wlllh the usual ceremonies of stat Tueiday at London, King Ooorga accompanied by Queen Mary, sotting the machinery In motion. The town of Gclsenklrchcm has been fined 100.000,000 marks, to be paid In consequence of the Incident there between German pollco and French gendarmes. Tho burgomaster, burgomas-ter, tho chief of pollco and tho pollco-mcn pollco-mcn believed to bo guilty In connection connec-tion with the affair have been arrested. ar-rested. Tho Interallied commission In behalf be-half of the ambassadors' council, bus dispatched a note to the P.ulgarian government demanding that It specify Immediately In what manner It In-lends In-lends to moot its reparation obligations. obliga-tions. Under n decision taken by tho disarmament dis-armament conference of tho lenguo of nations nt Uonova the) council of the league will bo naked to Invite tlio United States government lo present concrete propositions concerning con-cerning tlio (renoral lines of collaboration collabor-ation It Is iililo to give other governments govern-ments with rei'iinl lo International control of tnirrir In arms. Premier P.onar lfuv will return to the bouse of commons well prepared prepar-ed according to HifMrlal circles, to vlthslnnd the smokliig-onl procesx lo which bis government. Is likely to he sulijoi -.fix I owning to lliree monlhs of unmitlotml events a' homo nnd abroad. |
