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Show HEWS HISTORY OF THE AST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN W. H. Hobinon avnltor and two men MUBcnsers were burned to death at Loi Angeles. When the airplane In which they were riding caught fire nl fell. The hammer murder of Mrs. Alberta Al-berta Meadows, 20-year-old widow, was charged to Mrs. Calur Phillips Monday fcf coroner's Jury, following a brief, dramatic inquest at Is Angeles. The Terdlct was that death was due "to a fractur of the skull by a hammer blow at hands of Mrs. Clara Phillips In a premeditated murder." 'two hundred and twenty-five Camp-tire Camp-tire Girls were forced to flee for their lives before a forest fire that swept flown on their summer camp on Vash-on Vash-on Island in Pudget Sound. The young refugees were hurried aboard a steamer steam-er bound for Seattle. Governor Oliver Shoup of Colorado has issued a proclamation threatening to withdraw troops from the nothern Colorado coal fields if the operators continue profiteering. There has been no trouble In the fields. The troops were sent as a precautionary measure and have been there two weeks. Dr. F. II. Taylor, the American missionary mis-sionary who together with his wife, was captured by Chinese bandits and Imprisoned thirty-eight days In dally Joopardy of his life In the remotest mountain regions of China was among tin passengers arriving at Victoria B. C, fnjpi the orient on the Canadian liner Empress of Japan. Sheriff George White of Santa Cruz county, Arizona, was killed and Manuel Martinez and Placido Silvas, convicted murderers, escaped late on Thursday night, when an automobile In which the prisoners were being taken tak-en to the state penitentiary at Florence Flor-ence overturned on the Nogales-Tuc-on highway near Continental, 18 miles south of here. The prisoners were captured later. GENERAL Dr. John Willston Cook, nationally known educator and former president of the National Educational association associa-tion died at his home at Chicago a few days ago, following a protracted Illness. Between $500,000 and $750,000 damage dam-age to crops was the estimate made by a correspondent who toured the region 10 miles in diameter, laid waste late Saturday night by the most severe hailstorm ever known in Pierce county. Neb. Between 70 .nd 80 sections of the richest farming country are in the district. A letter of credit is an Inviolable contact, according to a decision by the tJnited States circuit court of appeals banded down at New Oreians, Wednesday Wed-nesday in which the decision of the djgtrct court at El Paso, Tex., In the Case of the American National bank Of San Francisco against the Border National bank of Eagle Pass Tex., is Affirmed. Cleveland, Ohio will ride to work for five cents beginnig August 1. This was the announcement by officials of the Cleveland Street Railway company following Mayor Kohler's ultimatum The present fare is G cents. The jury in the contest over the will cf Matthew P. Burns 'Wednesday returned re-turned n verdict that t;ie shoe merchant mer-chant was mentally incompetent when he made a will leaving the bulK of his $100,000 estate to his widow ni mother of Gloria Swanson, film actress. ac-tress. The contest was brought Injuns, In-juns, blood relatives. The greatest increase in the membership mem-bership of building and loan associations asso-ciations ever recorded In a single yew was reported for last year by H. F. Cellaritis secretary of the United Unit-ed States League of Ixical Building and Loan Associations, at the annual meeting of the league at Portland. Maine Thursday. "Eight hundred and forty-seven thousand new members were enrolled in the United States last year. Alleging that the estate of the late Charlotte Hix owes her $10,000 for a thirty-one-year washing and ironing bill, Margaret A. Flannery, New York , City, filed suit in the county clerk's office against the Greenwood cemetery authorities, us administrator of the Hix estate. WASHINGTON Senate Republicans wre accused Wednesday by Senator Kobinson, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, Arkansas of conducting a fill-buster fill-buster against their tarriff bill. Ilis charge came after Senator Gooding of Idaho chairman of the Republican ug-ricultural-tariff bloc, and Ladd of North Dakota had consumed four hours in reading prepared addresses. Secretary Edwin Denhy of the American Ameri-can navy narrowly escaped death nt Pekin, China Wednesday afternoon in an airplane accident. lie was flying t a height of 4000 feet over the Great Wall, when the engine of the plane broke down. The machine was demol ished in landing, hut Mr. Denby was uninjured. The latest issue standing in the way of a final Chilean-Peruvian agreement on Tacna-Arica was said, on the highest high-est authority, to be removed Monday, after the heads of the Chilean and Peruvian delegations had conferred again with Secretary of State Hughes. Acceptance by the Oceanic Steamship Steam-ship company of San Francisco of the government's offer or renewal of the contract under which the company transports United 'States malls to Australia Aus-tralia and other South sea islands was received Wednesday at the postoffice department. Senator W. II. King of Utah has introduced in-troduced a bill authorizing the secretary secre-tary of the interior to make a survey and classification of such of the grazing graz-ing lands of the Unita Indians in eastern east-ern Utah that are not required by them and offer them for sale. A resolution asking that the unused agricultural lands of the Uinta Indians be open: up to white settlement was passed by the legislature of Utah several years ago but legislation was not made effective ef-fective because of the pressure of war business. Binder twine, the troublesome stuff that snarls up the machinery and the farmer's temper on hot harvest days, has acquired a tonnage rating in Washington. The department of agriculture ag-riculture has just figured that 100,000 tons of it are us-Hl each year in binding bind-ing the small grain crops of the United Unit-ed States into sheaves. E. F. Grable, president of the Union of Railway Maintenance of Way Employees, Em-ployees, urged President Harding Sunday Sun-day to take drastic action to compel the railroad executives and the striking strik-ing shoft crafts employees to come together to-gether and .settle their differences. Th war department has announced the transfer of the Third battalion, Fifty-third infanry from Fort Douglas, Utah, to Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. This is in accordance with the plan announced by the department some time ago, incident to a general shifting shift-ing of troops in the west. FOREIGN Recent speculation on the supposed impending large-scale operations against the Republican Insurgents in southwest Ireland seems to have moved mov-ed the Free State government to put the brakes on popular anticipation of an early march to triumph and peace. Fighting with a leopard in a six-foot pit into which they had fallen at Nairobi Kenya Colony Henry J. Turn-ley Turn-ley held the animal at arm's length long enough for a companion to shoot him. A special British delegation will arrive ar-rive in the United States early in September Sep-tember in connection with negotiations tor funding the British debt to America, Ameri-ca, it was announced toy Prime Minister Minis-ter Lloyd George in the house of commons com-mons Monday afternoon. A record raw silk shipment is claimed by the Admiral liner President Madison, which arrived in port at Victoria B. C. Wednesday morning from the orient with 5(x.O hales of raw silk aboard for the New Jersey mills. The department oi engineering and medicine of Kyushu imperal university cf Japan have been opened to women and a proposal to open tiie en;:re school to them is now under consideration. consid-eration. The French government has conferred con-ferred . the Cross of the Legion of Honor on Mrs. Whitelaw I'.eid of New7 YUrk in recognition of her contributions contribu-tions to the participation in welfare work during the war . Mrs. Reid has just handed over her property In the Rue de Chevreuse to the American Federation of University Women for five years. Chen Chiiing-Ming's troops have broken the drive of Sun Yat Sen's forces in the vicinity of Shiukwan, China, inflicting considerable losses. Chen Chiung-Ming, who controls the railway between Canton and Shiukwan, Shiuk-wan, has srtnt 1-1,00") 'roops northward north-ward from Canton in the last two days. Gompers Urges Negotiations Washington. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in a statement issued Friday Fri-day invited the government to ur:e that the striking coal miners and the striking railroad workers and their respective employers inaugurate direct di-rect negotiations. I |