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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALESi FOR BUSYJEADERS! 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 Two deliberate attempts to set tire to the federal building nt Salt Lake were brought to light in the examination examina-tion of two courtrooms where separ. ate fires were started, one on Thtirs-diiy Thtirs-diiy night about 8 o'clock and the other Saturday night about 6:15 o'clock. hTe lneendiarist hn nnt vot PERSONAL Rear Admiral Edward W. Eberle gttve up command of the battle fleet of the United States navy Saturday to Rear Admiral S. S. Itoblsou with imposing ceremonies aboard the battleship bat-tleship California, now in San Fran Cisco bay. ltear Admiral Eberle will depart for Washington to become chief of naval operations. General J. C. Gomez first vice presl. dent or Venezuela was assassinated in bed Saturday niht says a bulletin from Caracas, Federal Judge Woodrouyn of Omaha Oma-ha Saturday sentenced L. C. Corliss former head of the defunct Waterloo creamery cnmpajiy, to six months iu jail on a charge of contempt, growing out of Corliss refusal to answer questions ques-tions put to him before a referee in bankruptcy. Dr. George Ellery Halo, director of the Mount Wilson observatory, California, Cali-fornia, lias been relieved at his own been captured. Federal offcials are of the opinion that the fiend is probably prob-ably a narcotic addict who wished to show his contempt for the govern, ment following the recent roundup of peddlers and addicts. They are convinced con-vinced that the work is that of a week minded person rather tlmn that of an extreme radical who believes in the destruction of government. Captain Lowell H. Smith and Lieu-tenant Lieu-tenant J. 15. Itichter, army aviators attempting to break aviation recorus, were forced down into Diego bay Friday Fri-day by what army officials at North Island described as a faulty gas line" and a heavy fog. The plane fell into shallow water and turned completely over, but neither of the pilots was Injured. The plane Is somewhat damaged. An autopsy disclosure of the presence pres-ence of poison in the stomach of the late Rabbi Martin A. Meyer, who was found dead last Wednesday at San Francisco, was the starting points of a rigid investigation into the manner of the Jewish leader's death. Operations of "lawless mobs that have been committing outrages in Okmulgee, Oklahoma county for months" and not merely the statement state-ment of three citizens detailing alleged al-leged abuses of official authority by deputy sheriffs, prompted Governor .T. C. Walton to proclaim martial law in Okmulgee, county Tuesday. One alleged bootlegger is dead and nnother Is reported dying in a hospital hos-pital In Greyliull, Wyo., following a twenty five mile running fight be- request of active duties and appointed honorary director, and Dr. Wulter Sidney Adamas, his assistant has been made director In charge of operations. oper-ations. Matthew S. Browning, C3 years of ace, former mayor of Ogden and prominent capitalist and Industrial builder, dropped dead in his law offices of-fices of heart failure. I'resident Masaryk of . Czocho-Slo-vakia was taken suddenly ill In Ageria while touring northern Africa for his health. Because of his age, his condition is regarded as serious. Former Secretary of State Robert Lansing, who has been seriously ill with dibetes, his responded favorable to Insulin treatment, it was learned. Lansing was treated by Dr. Sterling Ttuffin, one of former president Wood-drow Wood-drow Wilson's physicians. Walter Warwick, of Cincinnati, has resigned as assistant secretary ot the budget, to become financial agent of the Panama government, it was an. nouhced at the treasury department. Warwick was formerly comptroller ot the treasury. A petition signed by citizens of Savannah, Ga., endorsing Henry Ford for president, having been forwarded to Detroit, the general secretary to Mr. Ford has replied in a letter acknowledging ac-knowledging receipt of the petition: "In view of the interest displayed, Mr. Ford can have no ohjection to their further activities in this direction." direc-tion." FOREIGN A number of Belgium soldiers were iweeu tue two men ana ieaerai pro-blbition pro-blbition officers. The alleged boot, leggers were surprised while loading a car with liquor five miles from Cody and attempted to escape when ordered to stop. Delegates from fifty countries of the world and every state in the union have gathered at San Francisco for the opening session ot the world conference con-ference on education. Mrs. Alta Griffin, of Salt Lake was probably fatally burned at her home when a spark from a lighted clgaret set fire to cotton used In a dressing for her invalid son, William Griffin, 17. The blazing cotton Ignited Mrs. Griffin's clothing and before the flames could be extinguished she was ladly burned about the upper part o! the body. GENERAL killed Saturday by the explosion of a time bomb in a passenger car of a train carrying Belgian Soldiers on leave back to Belgian from the Ruhr. The constitutionalist army of Sun Yet-Sen on the North river front Is advancing and has ocupied Yingiak from which the Kwangsl troops re treated, according to advices received in 1'eklng. . Rands of masked men at Sydney, N. S. made several raids on steel plants where a strike Is in progress. The raids followed several clashes with the police and the stoning of a magistrate who attempted to read the riot act In Whitney Tier. Fire that destroyed several minor buildings in the lmperlnl city of I'ekin, near the north gate is said to have consumed a quantity ot val- A dynamite explosion wrecked the home of J. C. McCoy, chief of dry offlcerg at Stubenvllle, Ohio. Sixteen more sticks of dynamite were found tinder the rear of the home, having (ailed to explode. Forty one Chicago huilding contractors, con-tractors, union lenders and mill workers were found guilty of price flxng In violation ot the Sherman law by a jury in federa court Saturday. Satur-day. Fire at Hampton, Va., threatened to destroy the national soldiers' home housing r0O veterans and appnratus from surrounding cities was called Into action. The blaze began In the mess hall. Arrangements for the through nir mail service between New York and nn Francisco, which will be started about August 1, have been .jjomplcted ly James L. Davis of Washington, assistant superintendent of the rail. "WllV mull aprvl.'u Tho infill milr uable undent records of the deposed Manchu dynasty. Firemen from the Italian legation tried to help put out the fire, but were hampered by regulations regula-tions of the republiciin government prohibiting the opening of the gates to the forbidden city of China's over-thrown over-thrown monarchy. The momentary damage was small. President Quezon of the Philippine senate, Senator Osmena and Speak, er Itoxas of the house of representatives representa-tives campaigning at Calbayog on thf island of Snmur, bad their politics' platform cut from under them literal ly. That is to say their politic' opponents in the province looeene. the siimx'rts of the speaker's stand and while addresses were proceed! n' the platform suddenly collapsed. Th Filipino statesmen, thrown to thi ground, were not injured. Members of the Bulgarian cabinet arrested when revolutionaries over turned the government of Alcxande' utomhni.Hskv were released Thurs wlll be covered by fourteen planes, which will travel In laps In about twenty-eight hours' flying time. The Increasing number of foreign eblps which are docking In American waters with more liquor than per. mltted under the supreme court ruling rul-ing bus brought government officials to the points of considering application applica-tion of the provisions of the Volstend act for the seizing of foreign vessels. One person was killed and several Injured und property damage amounting amount-ing to tbotisandH of dollars wns caus. d by a hli,-h windstorm which swopt Southeastern Missouri Wednesday night. Five lives were lost aboard the deslroycr "Williamson" at Newoprt, It. I. through the flooding of the flic room with Htcnin and hot water Kat-wrtlny. Kat-wrtlny. Five other members of the fire room crew were feared that three ot them cannot recover. day. The future of the released mln isters will depend upon action by th Sobrnnje (Bulgarian parliament). Street fighting occurred at F.iselben Prussian Saxony, between national Ists and communists, on the occaslor of the unveiling of a memorial to th assassinated German foreign minister Dr. Walter Bntbenau, Two of th demonstrators are reported dead ant" twenty-five seriously Injured. By nn overwhelming majority thf British labor party. In conference m Ixmdon, Tuesday projected a resolution resolu-tion for affiliation with the commun Ists. Delegates representing mr. than 2 000,000 members of laboi unions voted against the resolution. M-nllu gripped by a typhoon of tw. 'days whs flooded Saturday says e dispatch, the rainfall In twenty-fou. hours was 02 millimeters. Canoe, were being used for transportation in , the streuts. I |