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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES for Braces 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 EPITOME Thirty passengers were injured when train No. 1, southbound, side-swiped side-swiped train No. R. Texas fast mail of the Colorado Southern railroad at Mayne, Colorado, near Trinidad. One sleeping car overturned. The body of Dr. Thomas W. Young "alchemist of death," who1 strangled himself with a radio wire to avoid hanging for the anaesthetic killing of his wealthy wife has left Los Angeles for Pittsburg, his former home, for burial. Misse Isabel Young, sister, accompanied ac-companied the remains. Combined losses of the Western Pacific Pa-cific and Southern Pacific and Southern South-ern Pacific railroads through the operation op-eration of an organized gang of box car theives operating from the east to the west line in Elko Count, Nevada, Neva-da, will total nearly $75,000, authorities authori-ties said at Elko. The Western Pacific's loss has been a little in excess of $25,000, while the Southern Pacific's has bee nnearly twice that amount. Joe Burns, 17, of St. Louis, Mo., will lose both legs and possibly his life as the result of a fall from a freight train in a railroad tunnel on the Great Northern system near Boulder, Mont. Both legs were so badly crushed below the knee by the train's wheels that amputation was necessary and physicians say he has but a slender chance for recovery. The youth tumbled oft a freight car a part of a circus train to which he attached himself last spring when overcome by fumes as the train passed through the tunnel. ' Citizens sworn in as deputies escorted es-corted alleged members of the Industrial Indus-trial Workers of the World out of Fargo, North Dakota. They were taken in two groups and sent across two bridges over the Red river, into Moorhead, Minn. Mrs. Emma J. Agard, who was a second cousin to Abraham Lincoln, died at her home at Canon City, Colo., at the age of 71. Mrs. Agard was born in Quincy, 111., May 19, 1S54, the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. J. V. Hanks. She moved to Canon City with her husband in 1SS1. GENERAL The state department has asked the Mexican government to make a thorough thor-ough inquiry into the reported slaying slay-ing of an American cowboy at Palo-mas Palo-mas in Chihuahua. The department was advised of the killing by Consul Dye at Jurez. Details were lacking. William O. Stoddard, 90 years old, once private secretary to Abraham Lincoln ,is dead at his home at Madison. Madi-son. N. J. Mr. Stoddard, a veteran of the newspaper profession had been in good health until recently. Death was attributed to Mr. Stodard's advanced ad-vanced age. He was the first journalist jour-nalist to mention Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1S59. and in 1SG0 he became the hitter's secretary, a post which he held for four years. Charging that his daughter. Man-nie. Man-nie. 4, had been permanently blinded in one eye by a golf ball driven into a public way. James H. Moreton. Port Washington road, has filed suit for $30,000 damages against Robert H. Lindeman, the unlucky golfer, who sliced his shot when driving off the second tee in Lincoln park in Milwaukee. Milwau-kee. The selection of Josephus Daniels as the leader of any movement for a national memorial to William Jennings Jen-nings Bryan is heartily approved by the widow of the Commoner, who is "deeply touched by the evident desire de-sire of the American people." to honor hon-or her husband. Mrs. Bryan declared in a statement to the A;sociated Press. Every New York policeman must be able to swim, and those who have not yet mastered the art will receive instruction, under an order issued by Police Commissioner Enright. Because Be-cause of the great expanse cf water that surrounds the city the eoramis-.sioner eoramis-.sioner has decided that recruits will uot be passed in the police academy until they are proficient in swimming and life saving. With official participation by a half dozen Latin-American governments and private displays by commercial associations and corporatons from all over the world, the international trade exhibition will open at New Orleans Or-leans September 15th. Official representation repre-sentation has been assured from the governments of Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, San Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Panama and Haiti have indicated a desire to be represented. repre-sented. Jumping a wobbly track, known to Bowery residents as the "Toonerville line," a crowded suburban street car skidded across the pavement, climbed over the sidewalk and crashed head-on head-on into the corner of a Chicago brick building. The three small children of George Bradley were smothered to death at Tribune, Kansas, when they were trapped by the falling of a lid that clamped shut on a large tool box in which they were playing. When supper sup-per time came and the children did not appear, the parents made a search and found the bodies in the box. One man who refused to obtain a union button caused a tieup at the No. 6 colliery of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation company at Landsford, Pa., throwing 700 men idle and causing caus-ing a reduction in anthricite production produc-tion for the day of 2000 tons. The button but-ton is evidence that a man is in good standing in his local union. Because of the absence of union officers no attempt was made to settle the strike. Fourteen mediums arrested by Sheriff Daniels in a raid on the Chesterfield Ches-terfield state camp at Manderson, Indiana, were arrainged in city court on charges of bunco steering and obtaining ob-taining money under false pretenses. They waived preliminary hearing and each gave $500 bond for appearance in circuit court during the October term of circuit court. The National Coal Railway company com-pany was granted authority at Washington Wash-ington by the interstate commerce commission to construct 8.5 miles of railroad in Carbon county, Utah. The new road is needed, the company set out in its application for development of coal fields now untouched by railroad. rail-road. About two hundred thousand acres of primeval wilderness to be enjoyed only by those who are willing to go by packhorse method will be added to Yellowstone national park, if the recommendations of President Cool-idge's Cool-idge's co-ordinating committee on national na-tional parks and national forests are adopted. FOREIGN The strike movement against foreign for-eign employers gradually is spreading spread-ing to Chinese concerns. The employees em-ployees of a large Chinese printing plant are out and unrest is reported report-ed among the workers in two department depart-ment stores and the printers employed employ-ed by the Chinese newspapers. An imposing array of 300 fighting ships, comprising the entire naval force of Italy, steamed majestically through the glistening azure waters of the Ionian sea at Cape Murrodi Porco, passing in review before King Victor Emmanuel, Crown Prince Humbert and Admiral Acton, chief of staff of the Italian navy. Official announcement was made at Paris that Finance Minister Caillaux will sail on the liner Paris, September Septem-ber 16, to initiate the debt funding negotiations with the United States. M. Caillaux will be accompanied by only one expert. The remainder of-the of-the French mission is to 'follow either on September 19 or 23. Manufacture of liquors containing 60 per cent of alcohol and vodka of 40 per cent will be permitted in soviet so-viet Russia from October 1, under a decision reached by the central executive exe-cutive committee. The right to manufacture man-ufacture alcoholic drinks is granted to private firms, as well as the state and cooperative distilleries, and sale is permitted throughout the soviet federation. The French and Belgian troops have evacuated Dusseldorf, Duisburg and rtuhrort. the "Sanctions Cities" whicii they had occupied since 1921. Moi.nt Vesuvius has resumed extraordinary extra-ordinary activity, the volcano erupting erupt-ing great quantities of ashes and lighting up the whole countryside at night. Authorities at the volcanic ob servatory. however, have expressed the opinion that no great danger is imminent. Six murderers went to the scaffold at Cario. Egypt with smiling lips and at air of contemptuous indifference abut their fate, while the seventh broke down and had to be dragged from his cell by two trusty wardens. The men were paying the supreme I penalty imposed on them for the mur- der of Sirdar Sir Lee Stack here last j 'November. |