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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 EPITOME Bandits slugged to death a night watchman and blew open the safe in the department store of the A. T. LewiH & Son company in the heart of the business district of Denver. The United States battle fleet steamed into San Pedro Harbor after one of the greatest cruises in the peace-time history of America's navy, a five months' excursion across the Pacific to Australia. The 14. 000-mile journey was marked by a series of the most extensive military and naval maneuvers ever held in time of peace. Nino dreadnaughts and four training vessels were in the line that came to port, tho destroyers having swung from the fleet after the official review and proceeded to San Diego. Oliver J. Slough, veteran of the Mexican war and one of the eighteen American survivors of the conflict is dead at his home at San Diego, Calif, lie was in his ninety-eighth year. Slough was born in Ohio and enlisted In the war against Mexico in a regiment regi-ment from Mansfield, Ohio. He was less than 18 year old. Ray Shank, gray-haired father of Denver, who early the morning of September 1 shot and killed his wife and 19-year-old son Paul, while they slept, and then attempted to kill his daughter, pleaded not guilty In district dis-trict court to a charge of murdering his wife. Philadeplhia was chosen for the next annual meeting of the soverign grand lodge of the Independent Order Or-der of Odd Fellows by the unanimous vote of the delegates of the 101st communication com-munication of the order at Portland Oregon. The meeting will be held the third Monday in September. Swimming in the ocean along any of the several miles of San Francisco's Francis-co's Pacific ocean frontage wjll result re-sult in arrest hereafter. The new regulation just gone into effect, was announced by Herbert Flieshhaker, president of the park commission, who said the refusal of bathers to heed warning signs has resulted in many drownings. Waders will not be arrested. Picked up on the highway fifteen miles north of Vancouver, Wash., a man blind, paralyzed and unconscious was taken to a hospital at Ridgefield, Wash., and on recovering consciousness conscious-ness gave his names as Dr. Nathaniel Reich, professor of Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania. He said he had been the victim of a heart attack at-tack while traveling on a bus between Tacoma and Portland and had asked to be left on the road. GENERAL The army has refused the government's govern-ment's offer of joint control with the navy of the giant dirigible Los Angeles. Ange-les. It bases its action upon a confidential con-fidential report of the craft's condition condi-tion and on observations of the care that has been taken of the ship since it flew across the Atlantic. Ie fears a disaster similar to the one which overtook the Sheandoah, according to officers of the war department. Nelson Anderson, director of the orchestra or-chestra at Keith's theatre, was instantly in-stantly killed near Dayton, Ohio, in the act of saving a little child from death. Anderson, his sister Margaret and his fiancee, M.iss Mildred Cooper, and Bobbie Turbee. 5 years old. were out for an automobile ride. The mo-tar mo-tar stalled on a railroad track. A train was bearing down upon them. Anderson and the two women jumped jump-ed to safety. Anderson went back for the child and was killed. Without a single relative in attendance, attend-ance, the woman found scalded to death a few days ago in a south side Chicago apartment and identified as Ruth Echo "Silver Dollar" Tabor, daughter of the late Senator Tabor of Colorado, was buried with simple services at an undertaker's chapel. Byron W. Kuhn. 73, maker of presidential pres-idential hats, died at Milwaukee. Wis., after two years' illness. Kuhn j made, hats for six presidents, U. S. j Grant. R. B. Hayes. Grover Cleve- I land, Theodore Roosevelt. William H. j Taft and Warren G. Harding. The j hats he made for the presidents were ' in the nature of gifts. j A drive to retain the objective it has won is expected to be launched by the Anti-Saloon League of America when it meets in Chicago next November. No-vember. Announcement of plans for the twenty-second national convention of the organization was made. William H. Anderson, former state superintendent of the Antisaloon league, lea-gue, announced at New York that he had instructed counsel to bring suit against the Christian Century, a religious re-ligious publication of Chicago, for $250,000, alleging libel. The basis of the suit, Anderson said, was the statement in the paper that he had "served the misuse of funds of the Antisaloon league." The commerce department at Washington Wash-ington authorized the following radio broadcasting stations: Bishop N. S. Thomas in Cathedral. Laramie, Wyo., 270-meter wave length, call KFBU; Neches Electric company, Beaumont, Texas, 227-meter wave length, call KFXM; Brown's Radio shop. Portland, Port-land, Ore., 2G3-meter, call KTBR. Fire in a garage in upper Madison avenue, New York, accompanied by a series of minor explosions, caused by the bursting of gasoline tanks, destroyed de-stroyed 100 automobiles. Another record has been broken. It is Chicago's jail record. There were 1090 prisoners behind the bars last week, the greatest number on record. And while some of them were having crap games, using cubes of sugar for dice, George Wielding, the new war-don, war-don, walked in and stopped the fun. The prisoner's won't lose their sugar, but they'll have to take it granulated. Army proposals for a selective service ser-vice law to round out the national defense de-fense act have been referred to the joint board of the army and navy for ironing out disagreement between the services as to the form such legislation legisla-tion shall take. Both departments are hopeful that such a law will be enacted at the coming session of congress. con-gress. Two stitches in the heart of Melvin Jones of Washington, aged 5, saved his life after he had fallen on the points of a pair of scissors. A quantity quan-tity of blood for a transfusion was supplied by his father. The boy was about to cut paper dolls when he fell down a flight of stairs. Both scissor points pierced his side, one cutting a quarter inch gash in his heart. Senator Smoot of the American debt commission takes little stock in the talk about France's inability to meet her war debts, but he does believe be-lieve that Italy is handicapped by economic troubles, says a dispatch from Washington. FOREIGN A breach of the truce in the cotl trade in England is threatened by a demand of the miners that, pending an inquiry by the coal commission, no local arrangement on the basis of lower low-er wages shall be recognized and any ol Liie. miiieis j tuuei nig tueuiseives unemployed by nonacceptance of such arrangements shall receive unemployment unemploy-ment payments. Premier Mussolini, fresh from his triumphal reception at the army and aero movements, was given an ovation ova-tion by thousands in Piedmont when he declared that the policy of the Italian government will "remain rigidly rig-idly and religiously unchangeable for the good of the state." Dr. Harvey J. Howard of the Rockefeller Rock-efeller hospital, Peking, kidnapped by bandits in July, has been rescued. Dr. Howard, a specialist, in eye diseases, was captured by Chinese brigands while visiting the ranch of Morgan Palmer, another American on the Sun-gari Sun-gari river in Manchuria. Mr. Palmer was killed in the fight with the bri- i gands. J The airplane specially constructed j for a non-stop flight from Paris to New York, plauned by Paul Tarascon and Fraucoise Coli, was completely destroyed when it crashed tweleve miles south of Dreux, France. Tarascon Taras-con and his companion aviator, named Favreau, who were trying for a speed record in the machine, were seriously serious-ly injured. Two British automobile drivers, Captain John Duff and Bondfield, relayed re-layed each other to establish a world's nonstop record for twenty-four hours at Montlhery, France covered a distance dis-tance of 2279 miles, an average speed of 95 miles an hour. This is considerably consider-ably better than the previous record held by an American, Eilroy Garfield, and a French driver, Plessier, who, covered 2101 miles in the same time, an average speed of S7H miles. i So greatly has the number of sui- j cides increased in Greece recently that authorities have issued an order 1 providing for a burial place for per-1 sons who end their own lives separ- I ate from places where persons die 1 natural deaths are interred. The cem- ; etery for suicides adjoins the grounds j where dogs are buried and where re- fuse is cast. It is hoped this display of public contempt for suicides will discourage the practice. 1 |