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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJEADERS A RE8UME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Dy Reported by Wire and Pre-v Pre-v pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WE8TERN Olive street and Olive way in Seattle Seat-tle have lieen renamed Harding way, under an ordinance of the city council. coun-cil. Along tlrese two thoroughfares the late President Harding received the greetings of thousands of children child-ren on a visit to Seattle less than a week before his death. Three men were killed and five Injured In-jured in an explosion on the United States submarine S-.17 at San Pedro liarbor, Wednesday. The explosion occurred in the after compartment of tha submarine as she lay off the Sun Pedro breakwater. Naval officers of-ficers said a short circuit had probably prob-ably ignited hydrogen gas. A number of claims in the Salt Creek oil field, Wyoming, will be invalidated in-validated by a decision of the interior inter-ior department Thursday in a case brought by Louis I.avoye, a homesteader. home-steader. The department ruled that at the time he filed entry, the land was in possession of a mineral claim ant who hail a producing well on it. A safe in the office of the Mc-Phee Mc-Phee & McGlnnity I'aint company at Salt Lake City, less than a block away from police headquarters, was literally battered to pieces sometime Wednesday night by yeggs who succeeded suc-ceeded in breaking open the strong iox and escaping with $206 in cash. Supt. R. P. Scott, of the Midwest Coal company and five miners were killed in a gas explosion Sunday, two miles east of Palisades, Colo. AVhlle L. C. Larsen was sitting in bis jewelry store Monday night at Omaho, figuring up just how much two bandits took when they broke into his store Saturday, two unmasked unmask-ed men walked in, covered him with revolvers, 'bound and gagged him and escaped with $200 in cash and diamonds dia-monds valued at $2000. Five business establishments were destroyed with a loss of $65,000 by a fire at Delta, Utah, Monday morning. The passenger steamer Queen, which Monday night wras opposite Dixon Entrance, Alaska, was unable Tuesday to move because of a cracked crack-ed cylinder in her engine, she reported report-ed in wireless messages. GENERAL The home of Charles Pearce, prohibition pro-hibition enforcement officer at Smith-field, Smith-field, Ohio, was Mown up Wednesday Wednes-day by dynamite. Pearce, his wife and baby escaped serious injury. The blast partially wrecked the city hall opposite the Pearce home. Jim Henry Mass, negro, killed three negroes and then himself early Wednesday at Crocket, Texas. He visited the home of a negro preacher, where he slew him and another negro, and then went to a second home where n bullet ended the life of a third negro. He returned to his home and killed himself. Fanned by winds hundreds of forest for-est fires burning in Wisconsin woods reached dangerous proportions, Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Five towns were threatened threaten-ed by the flames and navigation on the Great Lakes vas hampered by the ball of heavy smoke. Units of the Wisconsin National Guard . ere called out by Governor Blaine to assist as-sist in fighting the fires. Eight children raging in ages from 8 to 14 years were killed Thursday when a Pennsylvania train, known as tlt 'Clevelander' struck a schooi bus drawn by horses at Atwater's driver of the wagon and four other crossing in Rootstown, Ohio. The children were seriously injured and it is -expected the driver will die. Three armed men early Monday held up the night manager and several sev-eral other employes of the fashion able RiU-Carlton hotel at New York and robbed a jewelry store in the lobby lob-by of $6,000 worth of gems. Fifteen thousand anthracite mine workers employed by the Hudson Coal company were on strike Monday according to claims of the general grievance committee representing the workers. The employees voted to strike at a mass meeting Saturday and the general grievance committee Issued a call for 22,000 workers to quit at the twenty-two collieries of the company between Carbondal? an ' Jsantlcoke, Pa. PERSONAL Tsao Kun, the war lord of North China, Wednesday took the oath of office as president of the republic amid the formal ceremonies which accompany the Inauguration of a new executive. Frederick W. Hecht, former cashier of the American National bank at Dayton, Ohio, pleaded guilty in United States district court Wednesday Wednes-day to an indictment charging him with having embezzled $:i00,000 of the bank. Martial law, which has covered Oklahoma entirely since Sept. 15, was lifted Thursday by Governor J. C. Walton, while the meeting of the joint assembly of the Oklahoma legislature legis-lature was being held. Secretary of the Navy Denby entered en-tered a New York hospital Thursdaj to undergo an operation upon a sever, ed groin of his right leg. Mrs. Emma Strutynsky, kneeling in the sacristy of the little Greek Orthodox Ortho-dox church of St. Micha 1 the Archangel Arch-angel at Chicago, her head bowed aa If in prayer, shot and killed Rev. Basil Stetsuk as he knelt berore her to receive, by a special concession, a Sunday confession that she said she wanted to make because she was very ill and was going to a hospital. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll will come back to America and serve his sentence as a draft evader, this statement was made Sunday by JBerg-doll's JBerg-doll's mother upon her return from Germany. C. J. Levalley and C. C. . Stork of Sheffield, Iowa, appeared in the Iowa district court Monday and entered pleas of guilty to charges of fraudulent fraudu-lent banking, following the closing of Levalley's bank at Seheffield, they were sentenced to 10 years each imprisonment. im-prisonment. Deputy Marcel Cachin, leader of the Communist party in France, was sentenced Friday to six months in jail and fined 2000 francs on a charge of inciting soldiers to disobedience. A sailor named Cruse, held in Berlin Ber-lin on a charge of seeking to assassinate assas-sinate Maximillian Harden, committed commit-ted suicide, Saturday by hanging himself in his cell. Cruse was found in Hardens' residence, his explanation ex-planation was that he was a great admirer of Harden. FOREIGN Heavy damage was reported Thursday Thurs-day from storms which have been raging along the Swedish coast. A number of ships have been wrecked including the steamer ,Bretagne. On the Jutland coast dams gave away, allowing floods to sweep over into tinharvested crops, ruining them. Confiscation of 200 pistols and 20,-000 20,-000 rounds of ammunition, China bound, on the steamer President Fierce, was revealed at Honolulu Thursday by customs officers. The captain of the vessel discovered the munitions in boxes concealed in the ship's ice chests and notified the customs officials upon arrival here. Three members of the crew of the American bark, John St. Emery, wrecked in the gulf last week, lost their lives when the main mast was blown away, according to a story told by one of the survivors and published at Havre. Captain David Ernest and nine members of the crew were rescued. The French dredger Normandie, with a crew of fifteen men and with about twenty-five others, members of their families, believed to be on board is missing, and fears are entertained that she has gone down in the English En-glish Channel with all hands. Nine persons were killed and fourteen four-teen wounded in the recent rioting in the town of Hindenburg, in the German district of Upper Silesia, according ac-cording to messages received at Warsaw. War-saw. The fatalities occurred during a clash between the police and demonstrators de-monstrators against the high cost of living. Marshall Tsao Kun, political and military leader of North China and once an enthusiastic supporter of the old Mancliu government, Friday emerged from his stronghold at Poa-tingfu Poa-tingfu and became president of the Chinese republic. The new Turkish state confirmed hy the treaty of Lausanne will carry the official title of the "Republic of Turkey." Angora will continue as the capital. These decisions were reached Saturday by a conference of the Turkey majority party, wit'.i Mustapha Kernel presiding. Sidney V. Alwes, indicted in Houston. Hou-ston. Texas, hy a federal grand jury j on a charge of hsing the mails to defraud de-fraud in connection with the sale of oil stork, was arrested at. San Francisco Saturday and held in de fault of ?2"'00 bail. |