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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BMOEBS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTTER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Lzii Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader. WESTERN EPITOME Wilh all the daring and aplomb of seasoned bandits, two women walked into the First State bank at Renner, S. D., held up the cashier, picked up $500 in silver and disappeared in a decrept touring car. The Southern Pacific railroad has refused to accent an increase in rates authorized by the interstate commerce com-merce commission of California. The increase authorized applies to butter, eggs and cheese shipments between California and Oregon points. The present rail rate was made to meet water competition. The commission has ruled the railroads should not make long haul rates to meet water competition with a charge less than the tariff for an intermediate short haul. Los Angeles welcomed the greatest piece of coast defense armament that had ever moved into the west, the big 14-inch railway gun, enroute to Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, to the harbor there. The special train with the monster mon-ster rifle pulled into the Southern Pacific Pa-cific freight yards at Los Angeles and was greeted by a throng of sightseers. Triumphant Aggies! While the Red Devils of Utah were relinquishing titular tit-ular claims before the vicious onslaught on-slaught of the Utah Aggies, the Colorado Colo-rado Aggies clinched the 1925 Rocky Mountain conference championship by defeating the University of Wyoming 40 to 0 at Fort Collins, Colo. Roy Olmsted, former lieutenant of Seattle police; Lee Parker, deputy sheriff; Alfred Hubbard, who was arrested ar-rested November IS, while landing whiskey on Camano island north o Seattle, and six others were captured captur-ed by federal prohibition agents, who seized 100 cases of holiday liquors at Woodmont Beach, twenty miles south of Seattle. District Judge J. J. Lynch dismissed a petition of executors for the estate of the late Senator W. A. Clark of Montana to appoint James MacDonald of New York executor in the place of Mrs. Annie E. Clark, the widow. The court held that provision in the will of the late senator that any vacancies va-cancies among executors of his will be filled by choice of the remaining executors was in conflict with the state law. Mrs. Clark resigned as executrix. GENERAL Representatives of the United Mine Workers acepted "as a basis of settlement" settle-ment" the plan submitted to them by Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania ending the present suspension of hard coal mining. They agreed to meet the operators' representatives in joint conference at any time to negotiate an agreement covering the proposals submitted by Mr. Pinchot and announced an-nounced that promptly after such an agreement on the part of the operators opera-tors they would arrange to resume mining at the earliest possible date. Andrew Fletcher, 62, president of the American Locomotive company and prominent in the iron and steel industries, died at his residence on Park avenue. New York. Establishment of a permanent international in-ternational court of justice through the agency of a third Hague conference confer-ence to be called by President Cool-idge Cool-idge was suggested by Representative Tiukham. Republican, Massachusetts, who announced that he would embody the proposal in a resolution to be introduced in-troduced in the house. Death is no joke, gravediggers would have you know. One hundred and twenty of them went on strike because union wage demands have not been met. The men on strike are members of the Chicago Cemetery Employees' union, and they claim 1200 of their number will be out unless the cemeteries "sign up." President Coolidge has been asked by the Arlington memorial commission, commis-sion, composed of the secretaries of war and navy, to recommend an appropriation ap-propriation of $50,000 to complete the memorial for the unknown soldier. Two men and a girl were captured and another man was thought to have been killed in Chicago when scores of policemen ambushed a gang just as they exploded a bomb which wrecked wreck-ed a hardware store. On the same day that Governor Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas issued her proclamation offering a $500 reward re-ward for liquor conviction of any person per-son worth $5000, George Brady, her negro butler at the executive mansion was arrested by Travis county authorities author-ities on a charge of possessing liquor for sale. A car in which Brady and another negro were found was searched, search-ed, and officers reported finding seventeen sev-enteen half-pints of liquor. The negro ne-gro said he had been under sentence to hang, but his sentence was commuted com-muted by former Governor F. P. Hobby Hob-by and that he was afterward fur-loughed fur-loughed by Governor Pat M. Neff and given a conditional pardon by Governor Gov-ernor Ferguson. R. A. Chase, a farmer near Quincy, 111., is a patient at the Pasteur Institute In-stitute at St. Louis, having been bit by a rabid mule. About three weeks ago a dog went mad and it is suspected that the mule was bitten while in the pasture. When Mr. Chase went to look after the needs of the mule, it sprang up on him and bit his right hand. Battered by land and bombed from (he sky, Navy struck its colors to Army in a farewell eastern gridiron classic which climaxed a season of upsets by running strickly true to form, 10 to 3. Upon concluding hearings on federal feder-al reclamation projects at Washington Washing-ton the Crampton subcommittee on appropriations decided unanimously to favor an appropriation for carrying the American Falls dam to its maximum max-imum height. This was the only appropriation ap-propriation on which the committee ' acted. Eva Boran, 10, had no money to give to the current commurJty chest fund. She gave her pet duck to her teacher, saying it was her contribution. contribu-tion. At a luncheon of chest fund workers the duck was auctioned off, a part at a time. The bill brought $35, the feet $20 each, and the auctioneer auc-tioneer collected $540 for the fund. Then the buyers surrendered title and the duck was returned to Eva. John L. Hitchcock, well-to-do San Francisco property owner, arose in the midst of a business conference in a downtown office here, shot his three conferees, inflicting severe wounds, and then shot himself through the head. He is believed to be dying. Temporary insanity was believed to be the reason for his act. N. J. "Satan" Miller, 105, civil war veteran and believed to be the oldest man in Nebraska, died at Omaha. FOREIGN Three American destroyers in Shanghai harbor have been ordered to stand in readiness by Admiral Williams Wil-liams owing to reports of disturbances disturban-ces in various Yangtzet ports, likely to menace the lives and interests of American citizens. Not Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, but Professor Reis, a German teacher was the inventor of the modern telephone, according to claims advanced in the Die Umshau on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the telephone. Documents have been produced to show that Reis advertised instruments instru-ments "to reproduce the voice at distant dis-tant stations." He called the instrument instru-ment the telephone. A Central News dispatch from Peking Pe-king states that a group of communist commun-ist students rioted throughout the central cen-tral portion of the city, fired the house of the chief of police and wrecked the homes of the ministers of finance and education. The rioters were dispersed before further damage dam-age was done. The chamber of deputies approved the loan of $100,000,000 recently negotiated ne-gotiated for the Italian government in New York by Count Volpi, minister of finance. (The loan was offered to public supscription on November 20 by a syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan Mor-gan & Company and was oversubscribed. oversub-scribed. It is a 7 per cent gold bond loan, maturing in 1951). The Hamburg-American line is reported re-ported to be negotiating for a loan of $10,000,000 in the United States. A tidal wave sweeping in during a terrific storm has devastated the town of Badnara, in Calabria, near the strait of Messina. The near-by port of Monteleone di Calabria also suffered suffer-ed heavily. No estimate of casualties is available. It is understood that Nagaoka, of Japan, former minister at The Hague, will be chosen as Japan's delegate to the extra territorial commission, which is to meet in Peking on December Decem-ber IS. Two men. Chief of Police Zaphiro-opulos Zaphiro-opulos of Saloniki and an officer named Drakatos. were hanged at Athens Ath-ens for embezzlement of the public funds, a crime for which they were sentenced to death by a court martial recently. Several other officers and civilians were sentenced to imprisonment imprison-ment for the safe offense, two of them for life. |