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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSTREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last 8even Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Patrick Walker, 25, a Denver optician, opti-cian, staggered Into a police stutlon at 3 o'clock Monday and collapsed. He was suffering from numerous deep cuts and bruises, inflicted according . to his story to the police, by five armed men, who said they were mem-hers mem-hers of the Ku Klux Klan. Fred Denham ,a sailor aboard the U. S. . Fahronhold, died Monday of burns incurred In an explosion aboard the destroyer Saturday. Denham had been assigned to clean the bilges under un-der the fire room. The compartment is supposed to have been charged with explosive vapor from waste oil and when Denham attempted to light a eluaref, an explosion occurred. Den-ham's Den-ham's parents live In Shamrock, Tex. Nonunion workmen employed at the docks at Victoria. B. C. owinir to PERSONAL A stone thrown by an unknown hand inflicted a serious wound in the ear of Princess Ilermlne while she was walking with her children Monday Mon-day evening In a wood near the ex-kaisers ex-kaisers chateau near Doom, Holland, The police arrested several persons but said they did not get the culprit. Andrew Bonar Law, former premier of England and an outstanding figur in international politics, died early Tuesday after a long illness. He was Of! years old last month. The statesman states-man had been in failing health for several years but bis final attack of Illness dates only hack to last week when he was stricken with pneumonia. pneumo-nia. He suffered from throat trouble complicated with heart weakness. Kan Chlun-An, tobacco king of China, died at Kliangflal, Monday. He left a fortune estimated at $10,000,-000. $10,000,-000. Born in Australia, where he spent his early years as a peddler, Kan later became interested In the tobacco industry, In which he made a notable success of himself. Dr. Charles I'. Steinmetz, inventor, scientist, mathematician and electrical electric-al wizard died at Schenectady N. Y., Friday of heart failure brought aoout by the fatigue of a trip to the Pacific Paci-fic coast. Arriving In this country from Germany thirty years ago as a political refugee, a mechanical engineer engin-eer with $10 and no Job, Dr. Stein-metz Stein-metz became by reputation one of the highest salaried experts in the world. That it was cifiefly by reputation, however, was indicated when friends In a position to know, said the inventor's in-ventor's estate probably would not exceed $25,000, if It reached that figure. Frank B. Kellogg, former United States senator from Minnesota, has been selected for Ambassador to London. Lon-don. Ha will succeed George Hurvey, who recently resigned and the appointment ap-pointment is expected to become effective ef-fective in the near future. Mr. Kel-log, Kel-log, who was one of the little coterie of personal friends who accompanied the late President Harding on most of his trips away from Washington and was a frequent guest at the White House during the Harding administration, ad-ministration, is a lawyer by profession. profes-sion. Sensational testimony against Col. onel Charles It. Forbes, former director direc-tor at tha vatarnna' hnrpflii involving a longshoreman's strike, were stoned by a band of about thirty men, believed believ-ed to be union sympathisers, during the unloading of a steamer Monday night. One hundred persons ure homeless at Maricopa, Cai., as a result of a fire which swept the business district and a portion of the residential district Monday, The loss Is estimated ut $:50.O00. Norwalk, near Los Angeles, was the scene Friday of the country's first airplane bank robbery. After four bandits bad looted the Norwalk Commercial Com-mercial & Savings bank of more than $13,000, they made their getaway In the very latest mode by hopping into an airplane "parked" three m'les from the scene of the robbery and heading for Mexico. Notices posted Friday at all the jButte mines as well as at the reduc. tion plants at Butte, Great Falls and Anaconda announced that a reduction of fiO cents per shift In the pay of the employees will take effect November 1. This scnle will give the miners and smelter men $4.75 a day. GENERAL Slight but distinct earth tremor were felt In Memphis and over a large part Arkansas end Mississippi Monday Mon-day morning. Windows were rattled in this city and newspapers were de. luged with telephone Inquires from Pine Bluff, Ark.; Tunica and Tupelo, Miss., and numerous other towns. Alleging a monopoly in restraint of trade, a suit to collect $10,or,0,000 damages from the B. F. Keith Vaudeville Vaude-ville Exchange, the Orpheum Circuit, Inc., and eleven officials of these corporations, cor-porations, were filed in federal court at New York, Monday by Shuberts' Advanced Vaudeville, Inc. charges of conspiracy and graft on a large scale, dope and rum plots and wild drinking orgies with women was heard by the senate committee Investigating Inves-tigating the veterans' bureau Wednesday. Wednes-day. The testimony was given by Ellas II. Mortimer of Philadelphia, agent for construction companies seeking contracts for the building of hospitals for ex. service men. FOREIGN Communists proclaimed a three day strike beginning throughout Saxony's retaliation for the ousting of the liresden government by Berlin. Isniet Pasha has accepted the offer of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, president of the newly proclaimed Turkish republic, re-public, to form a new cabinet. The national assembly at Angora voted Monday to establish a republic. Mus. tapha Kemal Pasha was unanimously elected president with power to nominate nom-inate a premier. According to reports received at Manila, Tuesday, four Filipino ferry, men employed by the government held up four American women, including includ-ing Miss Sue .Mclionald, daughter of General McDonald, in the middle of Agno river for a half hour, defying the American authorities. The women were alone and en route to Gagulo. A mob of several thousand unemployed unem-ployed seized the Krupp works at Esaen Friday and barricaded them, selves In tbe main building, says a dispatch from Fs-en. At least seven persons were killed and -00 wounded in a desperate fight with the "blue" police, who are described as inadequate inade-quate to deal with the situation. Announcement that all the Greev rebels have surrendered is contained in a dlsiatch from Athens, . the re. volutlonary movement which broke out In Greece early last week thus coming to an end. Work was resumed Thursday at the docks at Vera Cruz after a strike of twelve days. A controversy between the Maritime worker's union and the railway employes led to the strike which had virtually tied up the port. The I'nited States submarine O-.l was sunk in Union buy, Cunal Zone, after a collision early Monday with the I'nited Fruit company's vessel AbanKiirvz. the navy department litis leen notified by radio. Five members of the suhmnrine's crew were reported report-ed missing. The Aliannrez was undamped un-damped Winter's spell has stnrted to fall over tbe Klondike, nearly a month late. The Yukon river Is filllni; with shifting Ice. Its tributaries are mostly most-ly frozen over, Including the Porcupine, Porcu-pine, tire Pelly and the .Salmon rivers. The Amerloin Red Cross, throuuh John Knrton Payne, its chairman, reported re-ported Friday to President Coolldjje that it hud raised $10,418,702 for Japanese earthquake relief and that the eniire amount lind been or would be actually delivered to the enrth. quake sufferers either in the form of cash or supplies. None of the money was expended on personnel. Nneteen persons were Injured, four i seriously, Frlduy when eluht coaches of the Canadian Pacific Vancouver-Toronto Vancouver-Toronto express left the track through a broken rail near Savanne, Ontario, j The Injured were in the colonist cars ' on the train according to advices ! reaching the bend office of the road at Montreal. One man was killed and eight wounded In street demonstrations attending at-tending the Militlcal campaign at Mexico Oty, Saturday. Keeling between be-tween adherents of Adolfo de la liner ta and CenersI FMns Calles, rival candidates for the presidency In ths coming election, was intense. Two bandits captured by pollc at Indianapolis following the holdup of a gasoline filling station, conft-ised, police said, that they held up a bank In Helvedere Gardens, a suburb of Ixis Angeles, Calif., on August Hi last and esi'ajxjd with money, bonds and other sHcurtl'-s worth fM.noo, William Kelly, u messenger for the Manufacturers' Trust company, at New York was shot and seriously wounded by four armed bandits, who accosted htm as he wag delivering f'.'o.ooo to a concern in ths upper side, Six persons Including Dhanna Singh, th notorious leader of the Pa-bar Pa-bar Akalls, Sikh Zealots, were killed by the explosion of a bomb near Hos-blarpux Hos-blarpux a It lit lib colony In India. While Supt. of Police Horton and his assistant, Jenkyn, were arresting Dhanna Singh, a bomb which the latter lat-ter was carrying exploded Mowing 1 Manna and five policemen to pieces and injuring Superintendent Morton, bis assistant and another policeman. The fact that the expert committee commit-tee t the Imperial conference had agreed In principle to accept the pro. posal msdo some time ago by Secretary Secre-tary of State Hughes, that Itrltlsh vessvls in American waters might be searched up to a twelve mile limit for contraband llguor, became known at London, Friday. It was al- ascertained ascer-tained that the recommendation of the committee, likely would be approved by the plenary conference of the premUrs next weak. i |