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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSnODERS 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 WESTERN EPITOME James Sullivan, 27, who was arrested arrest-ed at Denver, Colo., recently is said to have confessed to the police that he led a daylight pay roll robbery of the Dindsor Farm dairy June 2, when robbers escaped with $12,000. He is suffering from wounds in his abdomen abdo-men received in an exchange of shots botween policemen and the robbers at the time of the holdup. RuBHell Crawford and Bliss Baker, youthful "intellectuals," held at San Francisco in connection with an unsuccessful un-successful attempt to extort $50,000 from Colonel D. C. Jackling, wealthy mining man of San Francisco, appeared ap-peared in police court and the date of their preliminary hearing was set. Edward L. Doheny, oil magnet, appeared ap-peared before United States Commissioner Commis-sioner Raymond I. Turney at Los Angeles An-geles and posted $5000 bond for his appearance in Washington, October 61 h to answer the indictment recently recent-ly returned against him and Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior. in-terior. From a flimsy shack, 8 by 14 feet, "furnished" with five small empty packing cases and a make believe table of discarded boards, to which an Associated Press wire had been hastily hooked, the first direct news of Santa Barbara's disaster went out to the world. Yellowstone National park's natural natur-al wonders escaped without damage when the earth's gyrations shook most of Montana and sent fear into the hearts of inhabitants of many cities and towns. Reports from rangers rang-ers who inspected the park, according to Supt. Albright, showed no damage to the formations or to tubes feeding feed-ing on the geysers. Only one road was blocked, caused by a rock slide near Mammoth. Despite claims of some scientists that the Rocky Mountain and western regions are protected from earth quake dangers, several notable shocks have been felt over large portions of the western United States in the past fifteen years. A lightning flash which struck four miles up Boulder Canyon, Colorado,, was believed responsible for the fire which destroyed the laboratories of AVarren F. Bleeker & Co. with a total loss of $37,500. The lightning was believed to have been carried into the transformer rooms of the laboratories labora-tories over a 11,000-volt wire. GENERAL Walter Krauser, who a few days ago, fatally stabbed Bernard Grant, while the two were confined in the county jail at Chicago. Grant awaiting await-ing execution for the murder of a po-Pceman po-Pceman and Krauser awaiting' a new trial on the same charges attempted to commit suicide in his cell in the jail by setting fire to his clothing. He was seriously burned before prisoners prison-ers and guards succeeded in reaching him and smothering the flames. Bids from twenty individuals and companies were opened by the fleet corporation at Washington for sale of 200 shipping board vessels for scrapping, but the name of Henry Ford did not appear. No explanation explana-tion was available why Mr. Ford, who had indicated an intention of bidding did not submit a tender and Chairman Chair-man O'Connor of the shipping board raid he had received no communication communi-cation from the manufacturer on the subject. Senator Bean's Boston speech acainst the entrance by the United States into a world court is severely criticised in a letter sent to the chairman chair-man of the senate committee on foreign for-eign relations and other members of the committee by a group of citizens headed by Major General John F. O'Ryan, who commended the 27th division during the world war. President Coolidge prior to his departure de-parture for Swampscott. invited Senator Sena-tor Reed Smoot of Utah to spend at least a week with him at the summer sum-mer capital. Senator Smoot probably probab-ly will accept the invitation, which would give him opportunity to discuss dis-cuss tax reduction at leisure with the president, if the sessions of the foreign for-eign debt commission here adjourn in time. The petition of D. C. Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry asking that they be admitted to bail pending their trial on a charge of murdering Miss Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis, Indianap-olis, was overruled at Noblesville. Ind., by Judge Fred E. Ilines, of the Hamilton circuit court. The Rev. Eiios Bacon, pastor of a Kellogg, Minnesota church, said he had sold his two throats to the British Brit-ish Medical association for $10,000, for delivery after his death. He has two sets of vocal chords, deep bass and sorprano. The transfer of the headquarters of the federal narcotic division from El Paso, Texas, to San Antonio, Texas Tex-as has been announced. Hereafter that division will be known as the San Antonio division. While defense attorneys in northern north-ern cities worked on the legal phase of the Scopes evolution case and other persons debated its educational education-al significance, Dayton, Tenn., went ahead making plans to meet the physical phy-sical wants of the thousands expected to attend the trial of the Tennessee school teacher here beginning July 10th. Rollin S. Woodruff, 71, governor of Connecticut from 1907 to 1909, died died suddenly at his home. Rolwood, in Gulford, near New Haven, Conn. His death was ascribed to heart disease. di-sease. Deficiency of $3,185,227,54 was reported re-ported in an auditor's report of the financial condition of the Detroit street railways which was given to Mayor John W. Smith. The report surprised city officials, Jn view of the fact that for several years reports have been made monthly purporting to show the railways were making money. Jungoslavia will institute negotiations negotia-tions for funding its debt to the United Uni-ted Stales as soon as its economic position justifies such a step, Minister Minis-ter Pavichich said, in explanation of his visit to the state department. The United States, like Italy may come to selling advertising space on its postage stamps to help the revenues. rev-enues. The post office department opposed the idea as "undignified," but the pressure of aggressive business men for action on its leads to the belief that congress may be asked to authorize it. When an enraged bull attacked him on his farm near Maple Creek, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Ernest Limerick saved himself him-self from possible fatal injuries by dashing a pail full of milk in the animal's face. The bull was temporarily tem-porarily blinded by the milk, enabling Ernest to vault a fence. A Swampscott dispatch to the New York Times says that friends of President Coolidge has pledged $125,-000 $125,-000 to buy White Court for him. Informed In-formed of their plans, the president, the dispatch says, remarked, "I might not like it." In case the president does not accept the gift, the dispatch continues it is probable that he wfll not oppose congress making an appropriation ap-propriation for a summer White House. FOREIGN An armed launch river patrol of the British government, protecting shipping in the West river area, near Hongkong, China, met a large body of brigands cruising toward Kong-moon. Kong-moon. The British opened fire on the bandits, killing many and dispersing the remainder, for which they were thanked by the Kongmoon residents. The seismological observatory at Faensa, Italy, recorded an earthquake of two hours' duration. The aprox- , imate distance away was 5500 miles. Within two months, according . to the Quai a'Orsay of Paris, France will send to the United States a debt commission com-mission - to negotiate settlement of her debt to America. There -is much speculation as to whether Finance Minister Caillaux himself may head the commission. The Canton government, according to reports is demanding compensation compensa-tion from the British government for the killing of Chinese in the Sham-een Sham-een trouble last week and likewise is demanding that the foreign colony of Shameen be delivered to the Chinese. Chi-nese. Evacuation of the Ruhr has begun. The army of French poilus which invaded in-vaded the "industrial heart" of Germany Ger-many on January 10, 1923, to make Germany pay is again .turning eyes toward Paris. The first of the French troops have already left their quarters quar-ters on the northern edge of the occupied oc-cupied area, homeward bound. Soviet government agents at Moscow Mos-cow discovered a Secret treasure trove valued at $3,000,000 hidden away in the former home of Prince Youssonpoff, member of one of the oldest and wealthiest of Russian Royal Roy-al families. The price recently received receiv-ed wide public notice in the United States by a suit to-recover two Rem-brandts, Rem-brandts, which he smuggled out of Lenigrad in 1919. Passengers arriving on the President Pres-ident Adams at Manila were compelled com-pelled to cook their own food and wait on table between Hongkong and Manila on account of desertion of Chinese stewards, cooks and waiters from the ship at Hongkong. When the stewards deserted the President Adams cast off for Manila immediately immed-iately without landing cargo consigned consign-ed to Hongkong. This was done in order to prevent the entire Chinese crew from deserting the vessel. Three women and two men went under the headman's axe in the province pro-vince of Silesia last week. Two of the women were sentenced for murdering mur-dering their husbands and-one for taking part in a murder and robbery. The latter was Agnes Musion, 21, who with her husband and another man murdered the cashier at the city hall in Beuthen in order to get the keys to the city safe. The two husband slayers were Clara Nopolina of Boy-adel Boy-adel and Anna Lehmann of Quels-dorff. |