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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSnpDERS K RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Sevan Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME Philadeplhia was chosen for the next annual meeting of the soverign grrand lodge of the Independent Order Or-der of Odd Fellows by the unanimous vote of the delegates of the 101st communication com-munication of the order at Portland, Oregon. The meeting will be held the third Monday in September. Swimming in the ocean along any of the several miles of San Francisco's Francis-co's Pacific ocean frontage will result re-sult In arrest hereafter. The new regulation just gone into effect, was announced by Herbert Flieshhaker, president of the park commission, who said the refusal or bathers to heed warning signs has resulted in many drownings. Waders will not bo arrested. Picked up on the highway fifteen miles north of Vancouver, Wash., a man blind, paralyzed and unconscious was taken to a hospital at Ridgefield, Wash., and on recovering consciousness conscious-ness gave his names as Dr. Nathaniel Reich, professor of Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania. He said he had been the victim of a heart attack at-tack while traveling on a bus between Tacoma and Portland and had asked to be left on the road. Efforts are being made for a council coun-cil of engineers to visit the site of the new lake, formed in the Gros Ventre Ven-tre river, in Wyoming, just south of the Yellowstone park in the Jackson's Hole country, to determine what, if anything, should be done to release the waters of the lake gradually. The lake was created when a landslide, loosened by an earthquake, filled up the valley of the Gros Ventre with a dam more than 100 feet high. A proposal to divest sheriffs and constables of all but civil functions and to establish a state constabulary to care for all criminal work was made at Colorado Springs, Colo., by Philip S. Van Cise, former district attorney at-torney of Denver, speaking before the Colorado Bar association. To have his lead horses killed, his wheel horses knocked down and himself him-self rendered unconscious and knocked knock-ed from the wagon seat by a bolt of lightning, was the experience of Joseph Jos-eph Basset, cattle foreman for the J. H. Cazier interests a few days ago, when he was driving through Pole canyon during a severe electrical storm near Elko, Nevada. Basset believes be-lieves that he owes his life to the fact that the heavy downpour of rain which followed was the means which brough him back to life. GENERAL Without a single relative in attendance, attend-ance, the woman found scalded to death a few days ago in a south side Chicago apartment and Identified as Ruth Echo "Silver Dollar" Tabor, daughter of the late Senator Tabor of Colorado, was buried with simple services at an undertaker's chapel. The chicken population of the United Uni-ted States has been placed at 400,-000,000 400,-000,000 by the department of agriculture. agricul-ture. This number, the department said, would make a procession of chickens 100,000 miles long and they could lay enough eggs each year from the earth to the moon and back again. Byron W. Kuhn, 73, maker of presidential pres-idential hats, died at Milwaukee, Wis., after two years' illness. Kuhn made hats for six presidents, U. S. Grant, R. B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Cleve-land, Theodore Roosevelt, Will? am H. Taft and Warren G. Harding. The hats he made for the presidents were in the nature of gifts. The fourth serious clash between members of the Ku Klux Klan and unorganized un-organized young .men determined to break up the klan meetings in this state this summer amounted to a battle bat-tle in the town square at North Brookfield, Mass. Hundreds participated partici-pated and shots were fired. The shipping board again overruled over-ruled President Palmer of the fleet corporation in the matter of ship sales. By a three to three vote it failed fail-ed to affirm the recommendation of Mr. Palmer that four ships operated by the Munson Steamship company as the Pan-American line be sold to that company for $3,0S0.000. Commissioner Commis-sioner Benson did not attend the meeting. Mrs. Sophie Paleski, of New York, a pretty bobbed-hair blonde of 2S, was crammed into a roaring furnace and burned alive after her husband had been unmercifully and mysteri-ounsly mysteri-ounsly beaten. One man is dead and twenty-eight persons are in hospitals at Ft Wayne, Ind., as a result of a crossing crash. An interurban car of the Indiana Service Ser-vice corporation was derailed and turned over on its side after hitting an automobile at the Waynedale crossing, four miles south of Fort Wayne. Another record has been broken. It is Chicago's jai! record. There were 1090 prisoners behind the bars last week, the greatest number on record. And while some of them were having crap games, using cubes of sugar for dice, George Wielding, the new warden, war-den, walked in and stopped the fun. The prisoner's won't lose their sugar, but they'll have to take it granulated. Army proposals for a selective service ser-vice law to round out the national defense de-fense act have been referred to the joint board of the army and navy for ironing out disagreement between the services as to the form such legislation legisla-tion shall take. Both departments are hopeful that such a law will be enacted at the coming session of congress. con-gress. Two stitches in the heart of Melvin Jones of Washington, aged 5, saved his life after he had fallen on the points of a pair of scissors. A quantity quan-tity of blood for a transfusion was supplied by his father. The bey was about to cut paper dolls when he fell down a flight of stairs. Both scissor points pierced his side, one cutting a quarter inch gash in his heart. Senator Smoot of the American debt commission takes little stock in the talk about France's inability to meet her war debts, but he does believe be-lieve that Italy is handicapped by economic troubles, says a dispatch from Washington. The Anti-Saloon League of America is now perfecting a joint program of its national and state leagues to back up all American officials from president presi-dent to constable for rigid enforcement enforce-ment of prohibition, Wayne B. Wheeler, Wheel-er, general counsel for the league, announced. an-nounced. Anthracite coal companies have started to economize as a result of the suspension that began September 1, making about 158,000 miners idle. Mainteance forces have been reduced to a minimum, causing numerous complaints by grievance committees of the United Mine Workers. The body of kelson Williams, Orchard, Or-chard, Colo., youth, was recovered from the debris of a landslide that three weeks ago wrecked, the water system of that city and destroyed mining property in the region. A search now is being made for the body of Harold Reavis, Williams' companion, who also is believed to have perished. The youths were picking pick-ing berries in the region when the slide occurred. FOREIGN Two British automobile drivers, Captain John Duff and Bondfield, relayed re-layed each other to establish a world's nonstop record for twenty-four hours at Montlhery, France covered a distance dis-tance of 2279 miles, an average speed of 95 miles an hour. This is considerably consider-ably better than the previous record held by an American, Ellroy Garfield, and a French driver, Plessier, who, covered 2101 miles in the same time, an average speed of 87 miles. So greatly has the number of suicides sui-cides increased in Greece recently that authorities have issued an order providing for a burial place for persons per-sons who end their own lives separate separ-ate from places where persons die natural deaths are interred. The cemetery cem-etery for suicides adjoins he grounds where dogs are buried and where refuse re-fuse is cast. It is hoped this display of public contempt for suicides will discourage the practice. The Nicaraguan government has annulled the contract with J. G. White Engineering corporation of New York under which the corporation has operated op-erated the Nicaraguan Pacific railway since 1919. The government's action is in pursuance of its policy of resuming resum-ing full control of its railways. Just as the rope was being adjusted ad-justed about the neck of a communist conspirator a reprieve from King Boris Bor-is of Bulgaria arrived. This is the first instance of the king annulling a sentence of death after it had been confirmed and signed by him. Four Russian labor delegates were welcomed to a labor conference at Tokio by representatives of the labor federation of Japan. Numerous workers work-ers assembled at the railway station while the welcome was in progress. The police here, mobilized to suppress demonstrations, made several arrests. Gotthar Strohchein, a German-born American, charged villi an attempt to organize the Knights of the Fiery Cross," similar to the American Ku Klux Klan, will be deported. The same fate awaits Otto Strohschein, father of Gotthard, if it should be proved that he also is an American citizen. Others implicated in the movement have been released pending pend-ing further investigation. Possibility of new trouble in the Near East, this time at the rim of Russia, was foreseen at Vienna as reports re-ports came that Bessarabia was in the throes of persecution and executions with sharp martial law reigning. At an extraordinary session the Japanese cabinet voted 1,S00,000 yen for the construction of a semi-perm- j anent parliament building. The new : structure will be put up on the site of j the imperial diet building which burn- j ed recently. It is expected to be com- j pleted by January, in time for the diet j session after recess. The opening session in December probably will be ; held in temporary barracks. Police announced that the fire was caused : by a careless workman using a gas : lamp. |
