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Show " TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYjEADERS A RE8UME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Event of the Last Seven Daye Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Thirty-two persons were killed in fights and disturbances resulting from the city elections held in the tate of Sonora, Mexico, officials at Nogales, Ariz., declare. Two men were shot and killed in fights at Nogales, Sonora, and the other deaths are said to have ocucrred in Naco and Magdalena, Sonora. Production of crude oil in California Califor-nia declined In 1924 to 230,063,117 barrels, as compared with 263.72S.S95 barrels In 1923, says the annual statement state-ment of the Standard Oil company of California Just issued. The decline was caused by falling off in production produc-tion of the Santa Fe and Signal Hill fields. Governor Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas issued a vigorously worded statement in answer to individuals, organizations and newspapers who have criticised her for undue liberality liberal-ity In the granting of pardons and paroles. When Charles Lindbloom, known from Mexico to Alaska for his picturesque pic-turesque mining and gambling activities activi-ties died in Reno, Nevada, several months ago, he left an estate of $1500 all that remained of the several sev-eral fortunes he made and lost during dur-ing his colorful career. This was revealed at San Francisco when the public administrator filed probate proceedings in the superior court. The varsity and junior varsity ewers of the University of Washington Washing-ton will leave Seattle June 6, for Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for the annual rowing regatta on the Hudson river June 22, it was announced at Seattle. This would give the husky oarsmen a ten day training period in the east. In the races the varsity will be defending de-fending its intercollegiate championship, champion-ship, which it wen by victories in regattas of 1923 and 1924. Moonshiners, fearful of prison sentences sen-tences after May 12, when Colorado's new law, making manufacturing of liquor by still a felony, goes into effect, ef-fect, are burying thousands of gal-Ions gal-Ions of "moonshine" whisky in charred char-red kegs underground, state prohibition prohibi-tion authorities declared at Denver. GENERAL Within a few hours after he surrendered sur-rendered the stars which for almost five years marked him a brigadier general and assistant chief of the army air service, Colonel William A. Mitchell appeared before a group of officers at Washington who had gathered to bid him farewell and took up anew his fight for a unified air service. Mayor R. M. Dudley of El Paso, Texas, best known as the building contractor of the Mexican & Northern North-ern railway and former president of the Texas senate Is critically ill. Mr. Dudley was operated upon recently for a stomach ailment. Slight hope Is held for his recoverey, according to physicians. Major Frederick L. Martin, first commander of the army world fliers expedition, and First Lieutenants Leigh Wade and Leslie P. Arnold, members of that expedition, received the first distinguished service medals ever given for military service performed per-formed in time of peace. All heat records for April were Shattered at Richmond, Va., when the mercury registered 96 110 degrees, Jhe weather bureau announced. The previous high was 95 degrees on April 18, 1911, and on April 27, 1924. Harry Thorndyke Roll, 26, a junior at Colgate university at Hamilton, N. J., was killed by lightning during track practice. Roll, who is a member mem-ber of the varsity track squad, was running when he was struck. Houston paused in its usual activities acti-vities to celebrate the eighty-ninth anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto Ja-cinto that gave Texas her freedom from Mexico. The principal celebration celebra-tion was at the San Jacinto battleground, battle-ground, twenty-one miles from Houston, Hous-ton, Texas, where governors of six states joined with Texans In services to celebrate the natal day of Texas' freedom. Marshall D. McCormack was elected elect-ed mayor of Herrin. III., by 197 votes over Thomas Welty, regarded as the Ku Klux Klan candidate, in an election free from any violence. The 4S90 votes cast established a record. Plans for calling a conference of representatives of all interests directly direct-ly concernod in shipping for the purpose pur-pose of establishing a "permanent and practicable" merchant marin.i policy for the country here were an-! an-! Bounced at Washington by the cham-! cham-! bcr of commerce of the United States. The trial of William D. Shepherd of Chicago, accused of slaying his milionaire ward, William Nelson Mc-Cllntock, Mc-Cllntock, with typhoid germs, was set for May 18. C. C. Faiman, who was indicted with Shepherd following his confession of having furnished the germs to the guardian of the wealthy youth will be tried separately. Faiman, Fai-man, former head of a "school of sciences," is the state's chief witness wit-ness against Shepherd. A sixty-year-old will, one of the oldest old-est ever filed in New York was introduced intro-duced in the surrogate court by heirs of the late Frederick W. Suydam, who was related to some of the oldest old-est families in the United States. Suydam died at Lake wood, N. J., in February, 1923, after a committee had handled his business affairs for more than fifty years. Suit for $200,000 for alienation of affections was filed at Chicago by Mrs. Gladys McCormick-Goodhart, the English wife of F. Hamilton McCormick-Goodhart against her mother-in law. Mrs. Nettie McCormick-Goodhart, who now lives in Washington. Secretary Work has returned to his desk after a month's inspection of western reclamation projects, Indian In-dian lands and national parks. His conclusions, together with the findings find-ings of two special committees now surveying and reappraising reclamation reclama-tion projects will form the subject of a comprehensive report to the next congress. The two masted French schooner Mousmee, carrying liquor vauled at $150,000, and a motor boat which was found near ot were brought into the New York port by the crew of the coast guard boat C. G. 161, which made the seizure twenty miles off Ashbury Park, N. J. News of the election of Field Marshal Mar-shal von Hindenburg as president of Germany was received in official circles in Washington as something of a shock. While it had been realized real-ized by those who have been watching watch-ing the progress of the election closely close-ly that the German war hero was certain cer-tain to poll a very heavy vote, few had been inclined to think he actually ac-tually would be elected as his triumph trium-ph Is certain to mean a difficult period per-iod for Germany until it is clear just what the change in government portends. por-tends. Miss Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan, christened with a bottle of what was said to be prewar champagne cham-pagne the new air mail plane, which is to be used for the night mail route between New York and Chicago. FOREIGN Great Britian has returned to the gold standard. This announcement was made by Winston Spencer Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, exche-quer, in what is considered the most important budget statement of modern mod-ern times. The restoration of the gold standard is put into effect by a special license to the Bank of England Eng-land to export bullion which will operate, op-erate, pending formal lapsing on December De-cember 31, next of the 1920 act prohibiting pro-hibiting the export of gold bullion. The Columbian cabinet has resigned, resign-ed, the ministerial situation having been brought to a crisis by the resignation resig-nation of Foreign Minister Velez, who surrendered his portfolio because, despite de-spite his protest, the congress adjourned ad-journed without acting on the Peruvian-Columbian treaty. The German cabinet held a meeting meet-ing and after distending to a report by Chancellor Luther on his conference conferen-ce with President-elect Von Hindenburg, Hinden-burg, agreed unanimously to remain in office. The decision was arrived at on the ground that there was nothing noth-ing in the German constitution which required the resignation of the cabinet cab-inet on the occasion, of an election of a new president. The first woman in Berlin to pass the examination required for journeymen journey-men butchers secured a grade of "excellent" "ex-cellent" from the Master Butchers' association. She is Margareta Cohn, daughter of a meat market owner. The examination consisted of skinning, skinn-ing, carving and quartering a heifer. After eight months of comparative rest Vesuvius is in eruption again. The volcano offers a fantastic spectacle spec-tacle especially at night, when incandescent in-candescent lava flowing from the southwest side of the crater casts a glow over the area. The present activity occurs periodically and is caused by the collapse of a section of the rim of the crater. France has agreed with China that unpaid installments on the Boxer indemnity in-demnity held up by the oriental gov- j ernment from December. 1922 to De- ' cember, 1924, will be used for the re- I habllitatlon of a Sino-Frauco oank, the Banque of Industrielle de Chine, which failed in 1921. The bank failure fail-ure involved Chinese banks causing serious losses. The accumulated fund amounts to $13,000,000 Mex. President Gomez, who has served as head of the republic of Portugal for a year and a half, presented his resignation but congress refused to accept it. Fredrioh Ebert, Jr., son of the late President of Germany and Fritz Koch, chairman of the Berlin Reich-sbanner Reich-sbanner organization, were arrested at Berlin and allegedly struck down with police clubs, when In response to cries of "down with Marx," they called "long live the rapublic." When the chief of police was notified he ordered their Immediate release. |