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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES important Event of the Last Seven Daya Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Era Tanguay, vaudeville actress of Los Angeles is quoted as saying that a cataract is impairing the vision vi-sion of her right eye. "It's true," aha is reported to have said. "I am fjoing blind in that one eye. I don't know what I shall do. An operation la a risk." Bob Dalton, Jr., son of Bob Dalton, member of the Dalton gang and who was killed in the robbery of a Coffey-Yille, Coffey-Yille, Kan., bank, October 5, 1892, iraa arrasted near Douglas, Arizona, Wy Deputy Sheriff Hayhurst and Morris as he was about to board a train for California. His arrest followed fol-lowed receipt of a telegram from the aheriff at El Paso, where he is wanted want-ed on two charges of swindling. Dalton Dal-ton had over $15,000 in cashier's checks in his possession. Four marine officers and four gunnery gun-nery sergeants, stationed at the Mare Island navy yard near San Francis-o, Francis-o, have received telegraph orders to proceed to the marine base at San-Diego San-Diego and to "hold themselves in readiness for anything." A motion for dismissal "without prejudice" was entered in the United States district court at San Francisco Francis-co by counsel for Evan Burrows Fontaine, New York dancer, in her $1,000,000 breach of promise action ac-tion against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, young New York and San Francisco financier. Three young men and one young woman were drowned in Lake Washington Wash-ington near Seattle, Wash., when a aailboat in which they were making a pleasure trip to Sand Point, Wash., Bank in the rough waters of the lake. The dead were children of prominent Beattle families. Freezing temperature at the bast of Mount Shasta has checked the stupendous stu-pendous flow of ashes, mud and lava formation which poured down the aides of the mountain before a torrent tor-rent of flood waters, imperiling the lumber town of McCloud, Cal., five miles distant from Sacramento. Modification of the embargo on shipments of livestock and produce from California now in force gener ally throughout the west, was recommended recom-mended at Helena, Mont., to the heads of the departments concerned concern-ed in the seventeen western states, by Dr. W. J. Butler, state veterinarian veterinar-ian and president of the Western States Livestock Sanitary association. Governor George W. P. Hunt of Arizona is reported "resting easily" at St. Joseph's hospital after a hurried hur-ried operation, when he was stricken with an attack of appendicitis. An official checkup of the number of miners and workers in the Sublet mine No. 5 when the explosion entombed en-tombed all at 11:45 o'clock the morning morn-ing of September 16, at Kemmerer, Wyo., show that but forty-seven men were in the mine at the time of the blast, according to officials of the Kemmerer Coal company, owners of the property. The number of entombed en-tombed men was set at eighty-one in earlier estimates by the company. Twelve men were taken out alive. GENERAL Brigadier General Charles Elmer Sawyer, who was personal physician to the late President Harding, died suddenly from heart disease at his home, on White Oak farm near Marion, Mar-ion, Ohio. William G. McAdoo, whose fight for the Democratic presidential nomination nom-ination at Madison Square Garden New York wrote a new chapter in the records of deadlock in national nation-al political conventions, gave his personal per-sonal assurances Tuesday to John W. Davis that he will do whatever he can for the success of the Democratic national ticket. Irene Castle has caused commotion commo-tion on the Cornell, campus at Ithica, N. Y. Not only did she have her second husband, a Cornell graduate and prominent Ithica citizen arrested, but she disputes ownership of the Sigma Chi fraternity house. Arrest of Robert Tremain followed the dancer's dan-cer's charges that he took $40,000 worth of her securities and sold them. Northwest farmers will he given a carload of registered Holstcin hulls by the Great Northern railway to aid in establishing more profitable farming In the territory served by the road by stimulating the dairy Industry, In-dustry, it was announced at St. Taul. The Trince of Wales, accompanied by a secretary, called at Sagamore Hill, the home of the late Theodore Roosevelt. The Prince visited for Borne time with Mrs. Roosevelt and tier son. Kermit. Organization of a marine corps force at San Diego, California, similar in composition and purposes to that maintained at Quar.t'co, Va., for emergencies on the Eust coast, has been ordered by corps rtadquar-ters. rtadquar-ters. An unprecendented step was taken in Chicago by the United States railroad rail-road board in handling a dispute on employees' representation when the board announced it would itself hold an election on the Pennsylvania syse-tem. syse-tem. The election will determine who, in the eyes of the board, may legally negotiate for employees of the road in the telegraph department. Mrs. Edward Swift, Jr., wife of the son of Edward Swift, Sr., president of the Swift Packing company, has filed suit against hnr husband for divorce. Extreme cruelity is alleged in the complaint. One of triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lee of Aurora, 111., near Chicago, may bear the name of the next president. The parents telegraphed tele-graphed President Coolidge, John W. Davis and Senator La Follette: "We have named one of our triplets for you. One is certain to have the name of the next president." John Mahan, central figure in the sensational Schoelhoph jewel robbery in New York, died in his old home at Trenton, New Jersey, Saturday after having made good his promise to a priest that he would restore all of the gems, with an approximate aggregate ag-gregate value of three hundred thousand thous-and dollars. The Idaho civilian team won the Camp Terry shotgun team match at the National Rifle association at Camp Perry, Ohio. It scored 221 out of a possible 2o0. The Kansas national na-tional guard and United States navy team, the only other competitors, tied for second place, Kansas winning the shoot-off with 101 targets against 90 for the navy. Frank Melchoit, 35, policeman in the employ of the Oiive Iron Mining company, was instantly killed at Eveleth, Minn., when he attempted t;.-remove t;.-remove from the street a high voltage electric wire which had been torn down by the storm. Authority for the transfer of approximately ap-proximately 14,000 acres of public land in the Salt River valiey of Arizona to the city of Phoenix for public park purposes was granted by the interior depurtjment. FOREIGN The German cabinet agreed unanimously un-animously to declare itself in favor of the republic's entry into the league of nations, provided, the powers guarantee rights equal to the other big nations. President Ebert presided. pre-sided. "The days of the jazz music are gone and as there is nothing else for me to do I have decided to hang myself," were the farewell words of Kurt Kranzler, bass drummer drum-mer in a Berlin jazz band. According to a dispatch from Belgrade Bel-grade to newspapers at Rome, King Boris of Bulgaria has been assissin-aced. assissin-aced. The dispatches state that there has been no confirmation of the report. re-port. Forty thousand persons in Pangas-inan Pangas-inan and Tarlac provinces near Manila Man-ila are reported reduced to a state of semistarvation on account of floods locusts and animal diseases. The American Red Cross has authorized appropriation of a month's supply of rice to relieve the suffering. Honduran government forces are reported re-ported to have defeated the rebels at Sabana Redondo, in the province of Intebesa, after heavy fighting. Many wounded and a quantity of ammunition ammuni-tion fell into the hands of the visitors The Chinese military authorities of Shanghai have refused permission fo Major Zanni, Argentine world flier, to land at Shanghai. The airman, air-man, who is at Hongkong is said to have defied them and may ignore their refusal. Official telegrams received at Pe. kin from Quinsan, field headquarters of the Kiangsu armies seeking to cap lure Shanghai, declared that Chekiang regimental commanders with their men were surrendering to the attack, ing forecs. According to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Constantinople, Constanti-nople, more than 100 persons perished in a fire in a moving picture house in Smyrna. The dispatch says no details have been received in tht Turkish cnpital. Grand Duke Cyril, cousin of the former Czar of Russia, has signed a proclamation declaring himself "F.m-peror "F.m-peror of all the Russians," says a P.erlln dispatch to the Daily Mail. John D. Wallingford, the Pnnama Canal district judge, died suddenly while delivering an address at ai American Legion dinner at Panama. Anonymous circular letters frflfm an unknown source summoned the chiefs of all Europe's film producers, agents and exhibitors to a mysterious conference con-ference scheduled to be held In London Lon-don two weeks from now for tlif purpose of uniting and taking up arms against Anterior, domination of the moving picture indue ry and distribution. |