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Show f telegraphic" tAles" " FOB BUSREADEBS The highest bidder fur purchase of Hog Inland, Philadelphia, is Ruot-Caiter Ruot-Caiter company, V, Broadway, New Turk, v.lin offered the fleet corpor-poration corpor-poration J.'J.auO.OuO fur the property. Itaihvay travel lias been made so safe that tin; problem facing the si'-am romU is not of protecting pus-f-rigcr.-s and f:!.tloye.-8 but safeguarding safeguard-ing the occupants of automobiles at j grade crosisngs, said Carl R. Gray of Omaha, Xeb., president of the Union Pacific system. Wisconsin's "grand old lady," Sirs. ' Louise K. Thiers, celebrated her J 11th birthday at Kenosha, Wisconsin, at the home of her son, Louis Thiers. Mrs. Thiers is the oldest member of I he Daughters of the American Revolution, Revo-lution, lier father, Seth Capron, fought in the Revolutionary war. Mayor John F. Ilylan of New York has made a matter of formal record ; his intention to retire to private life at tho end of his present term and . (litis virtually eliminated the possi-i possi-i bility of an Independent ticket in the November mayorality election. Des Moines, Iowa, was unanimously unanimous-ly selected as the 1920 convention city of the United Spanish War Veterans at their session at Petersburg, Fla., J when El Paso withdrew in favor of the former city. El Paso "extended its . invitation for 1927. J A memorial statue to the late Sam- uel Gompers, for almost a half ceu- tury president of the American Fed- i oration, to be erected in Washington j will be recommended to the annual j convention of tho federation which ; opens in Atlantic City soon. The world's largest aquarium, to cost $2,000,000 .will be built in Grant j park, Chicago, near the Field museum. ! The building, funds for which are to j be provided by John G. Shedd, will i be of white marble and will have 125 to 150 tanks containing everything ; from the most minute marine life to monsters of far oft seas. j A RESUME Cr THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Sevs.l ! Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the EuEy Reader WESTERN EPITOME Word received at Rock Springs, Wyoming, from Th.-rinopolis, states that Airs. T. S. Taliaferro, Jr., of this city and well known in Salt Lake city, was (ducted president of the State Federation of Women's clubs fur the coming year. She is first vice president of the Rock Springs Women's clubs and has been prominent promi-nent in state club circles for many years. A hoarse, together with two rn;-n, a motorboal: ami a quantity of liquor w-ere captured by federal prohibi; ion agents al. Point Pedro, n. ar San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The hearse was being loaded wiih cased liquor when the agents swooped down en tho rum runnars. Approximately 80 cases of ' contraband contra-band were found in the section of the hearse which is ordinarily reserved re-served for the coffin. Plans for the eansi ruct ion of a sugar su-gar factory at a point west of Goring, in Scotts Fluff county, Nebraska, were announced by the Great Western West-ern Sugar company. The plant will cost approximately $1,000,000. Another old landmark is giving way to the march of civilization. The old Navy saloon building, one of the early day joy headquarters of Rock Springs, Wyoming has been razed to make way for a hotel. Of recent years it has been occupied as a pool hall. The The Tennessee supreme court has ; continued indefinitely the appeal of j John T. Scopes, convicted at Dayton, j Tenn., of violating the state's anti-evolution anti-evolution law. Neither side was ready. A drive to retain the objective it has won is expected to be launched j by the Anti-Saloon League of America when it meets in Chicago next November. No-vember. Announcement of plans for I the twenty-second national convention of the organization was made. William H. Anderson, former state superintendent of the Antisaloon league, lea-gue, announced at New York that he had instructed counsel to bring suit against the Christian Century, a religious re-ligious publication of Chicago, for $250,000, alleging libel. The basis of the suit, Anderson said, was the statement in the paper that he had "served the misuse of funds of the Antisaloon league." FOREIGN Pantaleon Gondinez, auditor and i Eduardo Henet, assistant auditor, of j the Santa Clara branch of the Royal ; Bank of Canada, have been arrested in connection with the cashing recently re-cently by an unknown man of forged forg-ed checks for $73,000. "I pledge to marry only a girl who does not smoke, drink, bob her hair or use a lipstick," is the novel promise prom-ise exacted from applicants for membership mem-bership in the Young Men's Antito-bacco Antito-bacco league of Leipsig, Germany. Twenty per cent of the cigarets sold in Germany are smoked by women, ' the league says, and the fair addicts seeing their complexions fade, are resorting re-sorting to the rouge pot and lipstick. A semiofficial note, declares the i government of Portugal "will defend j the republic at all points and will j maintain order with the support of j the army, the navy and the republi- can guards." The cabinet met to con- sider reports that a coup d'eat would ! be attempted against the government, j Several hundred workers at the ' Ceveta company textile mill at Mazat- j Ian, Mexico, are out on strike as the I result of the dismissal of an employee i reported to be an official of the union there. As a result of the walkout, the mills are idle and it is not known i when work will be resumed. No disorder dis-order has been reported. j Seventeen sailing vessels with their , crews are reported to have been sunk and three transport steamers are missing as a result of a tornado which has been sweeping the Black sea in the last few days. The dispatches ; from Constantinople report serious less of life due to the sorms. j A breach of the truce in the coal j trade in England is threatened by a demand of the miners that, pending S an inquiry by the coal commission, no local urra::-iomcnt on the basis of low-i low-i er wages s'.-.ail be recognized and any 'of t'.:j mii-i'S rendering themselves ! tilled! ployed by nonacccrtance of such . I am-nge'uenis shall receive v.nemploy-j v.nemploy-j meat payments. J ; C. r. Caldwell, assistant overseer j of i'ien C:y, 111., hopes to establish ; a si:::;; ; colony in British Columbia. ', wir e c: in.:;ing. smoking, swearing, ' li; -u: ";s and short skirts will be pro-', pro-', Ui'-'li: Caldwell, once a prominent mining man in this province was in Victoria, B. C, to see what could be dene toward realizing his ambition. j Four classes of recruits, ranging from the ages of 22 to 23 years have I been called to the colors of Turkey, j The officers of the first and second j reserves are to undergo medical ex-j ex-j amlnations. building, which was of stone, was one of the city's first permonent business structures. Umatilla, Oregon farmers are still holding more than half of their 1025 crop on the farm or in warehouses according ac-cording to estimates made by local grain buyers. The percentage of crop sold ranges from 25 per cent to 40 per cent in the estimates made by the buying agencies. Tho crop yield amounted to aproximately 4,750,000 bushels according to the estimates, with high returns in the heavy land districts and less returns on the higher high-er lands. The state district court of appeals, cf California, took tinder advisement an application in behalf of Ralph C. Wallace a student, for a writ of mandate man-date compelling the University of California Cal-ifornia to admit him without vacina-tion. vacina-tion. Bandits slugged to death a night watchman and blew open the safe in the department store of the A. T. Lewis & Son company in the heart of the business district of Denver. The United States battle fleet steamed into San Pedro Harbor after one of the greatest cruises in the peace-time history of America's navy, a five months' excursion across the Tacific to Australia. The 14,000-mile journey was marked by a series of the most extensive military and naval maneuvers ever held in time of peace. Nine dreadnaughts and four training vessels were in the line that came to port, the destroyers having swung from the fleet after the official review and proceeded to San Diego. GENERAL The broad powers delegated to the fleet corporation last year at the suggestion sug-gestion of President Coolidge has been withdrawn by the shipping board. By rescinding resolutions entrusting en-trusting the corporation with executive execu-tive adminis; ration powers President Palmer will revert more to the position posi-tion of an employee than an officer with independent powers over many of the details of the shipping administration. admin-istration. Fve nV apart, a violinist and pianist ;dad a ralio dset as an expert ex-pert "ncr.i in synchronies ! radiocasting. radiocast-ing. Each heard the other through head phones. The test was made by station KYW of Chit-age. Robert M. La Foliette. Jr., in being elected overwhelmingly to a seat in the United States senate in Wisconsin Wiscon-sin not only rolled up a msj-jrity in excess ex-cess of 130.000 votes, but he carried seventy out of the seventy-one counties coun-ties in the state. Harry Wilis, a one-tig:? stevedore ended his 4 year quest for a heavyweight heavy-weight cliampieujiii;-' fight, when lie signed to meet Jack Dere.gsey in a ten round no-deci;o!i contest, to be staged at Miehigau City, Ind., in Sep-: Sep-: tcmber. lO'l'J. ! The giaicst jewel robbery in the ; history i t New York was ' revealed ' in he !!,:.! Pla-a. "Irs. Jessie Wool-j Wool-j worth Ii.''.'.: hue, daughter ot the late : Fran'.; W. Wooiworth, fire and ten cent store millionaire, wife of James Paul Donahue, broker, and one of the wealthiest women in America, was the victim. The booty included two pearl necklaces, a diamond marquise ring, a vanity case and a purse. The jewels are insured for $750,000 with the Federal Insurance company and are valued at more than $1,000,000 at -present market prices. |