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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS 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 Safe crackers lIew the safe of tlie Orem line station at American Fork, Utah, and escaped with .$75 in cash. Two persons were killed and two others injured in the collapse of a two story building Wednesday noon ot Salt Lake City. Contractors digging dig-ging a cellar next door are said to Jiave weakned the foundation allowing allow-ing the walls to collapse. A disastrous fire early Thursday swept a portion of "the gay white way" of Nogales. Mexico, across the line. Five cabarets and saloons were completely destroyed. Several others were damaged. Albuquerque, N. M., was selected as the next convention city of the United States Good Roads association. associa-tion. The Bankhead National Highway High-way association and The United States Good Itoads show at the joint convention of the organizatioua in South Carolina. Non-stop long-distance dancing flights are under ban in the large Pacific coast cities, the authorities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., have announced. "TTie first couple that starts it," said Sheriff Matt Star-Wlch Star-Wlch of Seattle, "I will put in jail on charges of Insanity." Herman Leaf, of Los Angeles through his father, J. Leaf, has filed a suit against the Hoffman Candy company asking damages of $2,500 on the allegation he was disfigured for life when he broke a front tooth on a nail in a piece of candy lie asserted as-serted had been made by the defendant defend-ant company. With all highway communication to the north cut off and the steel bridges washed away, flood waters of the Neuches and Sabine rivers continued con-tinued to rise in what promised to be the worst flood in the history of southern Texas. GENERAL Four shipping board wooden ships were destroyed by fire in the Potomac Potom-ac river near Washington D. C. Another An-other was damaged and five others, which made up a fleet transferred from the James river to an Alexandria Alexan-dria shipyard, were saved by marines from the Quantico base and fire-fighting apparatus from other points. A recount of all votes cast last November for the twenty candidates for the office of municipal judge at Chicago for the six-year terms was ordered by County Judge Edumund K. Jarecki. The order was issued after two ballot boxes had be?n opened at the request of Phillip Fin-negan,, Fin-negan,, a candidate, revealing discrepancies dis-crepancies between the count and the canvass last fall. Working up to the first stage of abolishing the whip in the Florida convict camps the Florida senate received re-ceived from the lower chamber of the Florida general assembly, an amendment amend-ment proposed to the present statute which would do away with whipping, a means of punishment now legally employed. Five persons perished and a sixth is missing in a fire which destroyed the Essex Castle, a five story apartment apart-ment building at Lynn, Mass. The victims were trapped with no chance of escape. There were no fire escapes. es-capes. Solitary confinement in the Eastern State penitentiary for not less than six, nor more than ten years, was the sentence given to Henry G. I'.rock, wealthy Philadelphia clubman, for killing three persons with 1 1 is automobile auto-mobile while he was intoxicated and speeding away. A bill recently passed by the Michigan Mich-igan legislature imposing a tax of two cents a gallon on all gasoline sold within the state, was vetoed by Governor Alex J. Groesbeck. The governor, gov-ernor, in li is veto message, charged the hill unjust in that it would be a tax not only upon automobile owners, own-ers, but upon all other users of gasoline. gaso-line. Sheriff J. II. Jones of Tallaliasse. Florida made a personal profit of S2." on each prisoner leased by Leon county to the Putnam Lumber company, com-pany, be testified before the legislate legisla-te e committee investigating prison conctitions in Florida PERSONAL Wang Chnng-IIui, former premier of China and considered the leading international Jurist of the republic, sailed for Europe. His destination is The Hague, where he will attend the approaching session of the international in-ternational court, of which he is one of the judges. Goidle Hughes, little 17-year-old girl, is in St. Joseph infirmary at Houston, Texas, in a comatose condition, condi-tion, the result, according to Dr. It. L. Bradley of acute dilation of the heart following her feat 6t 54 hours of continuous dancing. Political popularity of Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin lias been Increased to Buch an extent by the success of his budget recom-mentioned recom-mentioned that he was prominently mentioned as the next premier of England. Former Senator Charles F. Towns-end Towns-end of Michigan, assumed office as a member of the American section of the International joint commission, having jurisdiction over Canadian boundary waters. He fills the vacancy va-cancy made by the recent resignation resigna-tion of former Senator Obadiah Gardner Gard-ner of Maine. For the first time in his career, Charles F. Murphy, "boss" of Tammany Tam-many Hall, Tuesday took the witness stand in a New York court and submitted sub-mitted himself to cross examination. He testified in his suit for the return of $175,000 which he claims he advanced ad-vanced to Louis N. Partof when they became associated In the war time glucose deal. Edward M. Fullington, insular auditor, au-ditor, is being mentioned as a probable prob-able successor to E. W. Wilson, wbo resigned recently as manager of the Phillippine National bank when the board of directors withdrew its support sup-port of his loan policy. Fullington was appointed insular auditor by President Harding more than a year and a half ago. His home is in Columbus, Co-lumbus, Ohio. Laurence Ginnell, who called himself him-self the envoy to this country of the de Valera party in Ireland, was found dead in his hotel room at Washinton. Physicians said death resulted from natural causes. GENERAL According to the News of the World, former Premier Lloyd George will visit the United States and Canada Can-ada next September, and deliver speeches in New York, Chicago, Washington, Montreal and Toronto. With the exception of Lord Balfour, Lloyd George will be the first of ICng-lands ICng-lands premiers to cross the Atlantic. FOREIGN Two Poles were killed and several others wounded In guerilla fighting on the Lithanian frontier. Commander Com-mander of a Polish military station was kidnapped by Lithunian Irregulars. Irregu-lars. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, head of the South China government at Canton, has fled from the city on a gunboat, according ac-cording to a report. The Cantonese troops were defeated in battle by Kwang-Si forces. Shen Yung-Yin, commander of the victorious troops is said to have assumed governorship of Canton. A dispatch says that the state forces in Rio Grande Do Sul have taken the city of Alegrate, which was abandoned by the revolutionaries after af-ter a. short fight. The correspondent adds that the government forces are concentrating in the Quarahy district where the rebels have collected 1,000 men. Members of Italian communist organization or-ganization were arrested, charged with plotting the assassination of leaders of the Fascisti. According to police the conspirators plan to create a reign of terror and to murder the Fascisti chiefs under cover of Che general excitement. Only a silent tribute to the memory of the dead marked the opening at Paris, Monday of the new "Hall in honor of the allied armies. "Officials from all the allied nations were in attendance. at-tendance. The municipality of Muanay, province pro-vince of Tayabas, is being terrorized by a gang of 30 bandits who are committing com-mitting depredations over a large area, according to official advices at Manilla. A force of Phillippine constabulary con-stabulary has one on the trail of the marauders. Attempts were made to wreck two trains on whicli members of the French and Belgian cabinets were supposed to be passengers. Both attempts at-tempts were unsuccessful, Two bombs were placed on the rails in front of a train proceeding from I'uesseldorf to Essen on which Yves Le Trocquer, French minister of public works was expected to travel. M. 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