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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 Yellowstone National park's natural natur-al wonders escaped whhoul damage when (hi! earth's gyrations Kliook MiiiHt of Molilalia anil Hent fear Into the hearts of Inhabitants of many cities anil townn. Reports froni rangers rang-ers who inspected the park, according to Snpt. Albright, showed no damage to the formations or to tuhes feeding feed-ing on the Keyset's. Only one road was blocked, caused Ly a rock slide near Mammoth. Hespite claims of Home scientists that the Kocky Mountain and western regions are protected from earth ipiake dangers, several nutalile shocks lut vu heen felt over largo portions of the western United States in the past fifteen years. A lightning flash which struck four miles up ISoulder (' lyon, Colorado,, was helieved responsible for the fire which destroyed the laboratories of Warren Blocker & Co. with a total loss of f:i7,5O0. The lightning was helieved to have been carried into thi' transformer rooms of the laboratories labora-tories over a 11,000-volt wire. G. W. Ilarrod, electrical engineer of Sioux City. Iowa, died at San Francisco Fran-cisco shortly after slashing his throat with a razor and leaping out of a Hixth-floor window at the Manx Hotel. Ilarrod was staying at the hotel with his wife, who was not in the room when he cut hig throat. An instant after, however, she entered their room and Ilarrod leaped from the window. Ill health was given as the probable motive. At the hospital it was found that his back, arms and legs had been fractured. Port II. Lynch, in charge of one of the substations of the Pacific Gas and Electric company, lost his life at Oakland, Cal., while demonstrating to a friend that current would pass through a lead pencil. Taking a pencil pen-cil from his pocket, he placed the tip against a fuse terminal and at the same time rested his other hand against a steel post. There . was a flash and Lynch fell to the floor, badly bad-ly burned and unconscious. He was rushed to a hospital, where he died two hours later. The Sons of Veterans, meeting at Centralia. Wash., in the annual encampment en-campment for Washington and Alaska Alas-ka of the Grand Army of the Republic, Re-public, announced a stand against circnlatibn of half dollars to aid creation cre-ation of a memorial on Stone Mountain. Moun-tain. Georgia, to the confederate forces. for-ces. GENERAL Senator Borah's Boston speech against the entrance by the United States into a world court is" severely criticised in a letter sent to the chairman chair-man of the senate committee on foreign for-eign relations and other members of the committee by a group of citizens headed by Major General John F. O'Ryan. who commended the 27th division during the world war. President Coolidge prior to his departure de-parture for Swampscott. invited Senator Sena-tor Reed Smoot of Utah to spend at least a week with him at the sum mer capital. Senator Smoot probably probab-ly will accept the invitation, which would give him opportunity to discuss dis-cuss tax reduction at leisure with the president, if the sessions of the foreign for-eign debt commission here adjourn in time. The petition of D. C. Stephenson. Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry asking that they be admitted to hail pending :heir trial on a charge of murdering Miss Madge Oherholtzer of Indianapolis, Indianap-olis, was overruled at Xoblesville. Ind.. by Judge Fred E. Hines. of the Hamilton circuit court. Announcement Announce-ment by the judge that none of the defendants would be admitted to bail was the signal for a storm of cheers by the crowd in the court room. Sixteen lynchings took place in the" United States last year, the smallest number recorded since the gathering of annual statistics on the crime was begun forty years ago. it was shown in a report made public by the commission com-mission on race relations of the federal fed-eral council of churches. The report, prepared by Professor M. W. Work of Tuskegee institute. Alabama, showed that twelve of the victims were ne-(rroes ne-(rroes and four whites. Juneoslavia will Inrtlt ut. m-gotir-. tions for funding its debt, to the United Uni-ted States as soon as its economic position justifies such a step. Minister Minis-ter I'avicliiilt said, in explanation of his visit to the state department. The United States, nice Italy may come to selling advertising space on its postage stamps to help the revenues. rev-enues. The post office department opposed the idea as 'undignified," but the pressure of aggressive business men for action on its leads to the belief that congress may be asked to authorize it. When an enraged bull attacked him on his farm near Maple Creek, Wis- oiiiiiii, l.1 iiL'tit iji inei left PiiH'ii nun-self nun-self from possible fatal injuries by dashing a pail full of milk in the animal's face. The bull was temporarily tem-porarily blinded by the milk, enabling Ernest to vault a fence. A Swampscott dispatch to the New York Times says that friends of President Coolidge has pledged $125,-OUO $125,-OUO to buy White Court for him. Informed In-formed of their plans, the president, the dispatch says, remarked, "I might not like it." In case the president does not accept the gift, the dispatch continues it is probable that he wTTi not oppose congress making an appropriation ap-propriation for a summer White House. Several persons were believed to have been killed and injured in an explosion and fire in the Gillis theatre, thea-tre, a Kansas City, Mo., burlesque house. The explosion, which apparently appar-ently occurred in a restaurant underneath un-derneath the theatre caused a portion of the main floor to collapse and blew off the roof, and soon after portions por-tions of the walls caved in, burying several persons. Senator Robert M. La Follett's will offered for probate in county court, at Madison, Wis., names his widow as sole, beneficiary and executrix. The senator's debts, including the mortgage on the homestead, are estimated es-timated in the petition at $29,000, his personal property at $20,000 and his real estate, which is the homestead at $4S,000. The capacity of the Italian government govern-ment to pay its war debt to the United Uni-ted States was established at the first funding conference as the basis upon which negotiations for a settlement will proceed. At the outset Secretary Mellon, as chairman of the American debt commission, informed the Italian Ital-ian delegation of the American view that the $2,13S.000,000 debt should be funded "now" and on conditions "taking into consideration Italy's ca pacity to pay." FOREIGN Evacuation of the Ruhr has begun The army of French poilus which invaded in-vaded the "industrial heart" of Germany Ger-many on January 10, 1923, to make Germany pay is again turning eyes toward Paris. The first of the French troops have already left their quarters quar-ters on the northern edge of the occupied oc-cupied area; homeward bound. Soviet government agents at Moscow Mos-cow discovered a secret treasure trove valued at $3,000,000 hidden away in the former home of Prince Youssoupoff, member of one of the oldest and wealthiest of Russian Royal Roy-al families. The price recently received receiv-ed wide public notice in the United States by a suit to recover two Rem-brandts. Rem-brandts. which he smuggled out of Lenigrad in 1919. Three women and two men went under the headman's axe in the province pro-vince of Silesia last week. Two of the women were sentenced for murdering mur-dering their husbands and one for taking part in a murder and robbery. The latter was Agnes Musion. 21, who with her husband and another man murdered the cashier at the city hall in Beuthen in order to get the keys to the city safe. The two husband slayers were Clara Xopolina of Boy-adel Boy-adel and Anna Lehmann of Quels-dorff. Quels-dorff. Passengers arriving on the President Pres-ident Adams at. Manila were compelled com-pelled to cook their own food and wait on table between Hongkong and Manila on account of desertion of Chinese stewards, cooks and waiters from the ship at Hongkong. When the stewards deserted the President 1 Adams cast off for Manila immediately immed-iately without landing cargo consigned consign-ed to Hongkong. This was done in order to prevent the entire Chinese crew from deserting the vessel. "" One thousand guests including a j number of Americans, attended the court at Buckingham palace and were presented to King George and Queen Mary. King George wore an informal in-formal royal horseguards blue uniform. uni-form. Queen Mary was dressed in a gown of pure gold brocade with a i pale blue train. The royal circle was smaller than usual, but otherwise other-wise the brilliant function followed the customary routine. |