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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJEADER5 A RESUME OF THE WEEK'3 DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the LaBt Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Nearly four days behind tlielr ex. peeled arrival at Diamond Creek, Arizona tlie ten members of a gov-rnment gov-rnment survey party emerged from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado at that point Wednesday. Because of flood waters which have been sweeping sweep-ing through the gorge, it was feared that the small lioats on which the party is making Its way down the river would he dashed to pieces agalst the canyon walls. The shifting sands of Cole creek, ecene of a Burlington passenger train wreck last Thursday night near Casper, Cas-per, Wyo., Wednesday gave up the bodies of five persons who lost their lives when the truln crashed through a bridge. Four of them were men and the other a woman. More than 1200 persons are involved invol-ved directly in the lock out against retail union clerks at Butte, Montana, which became effective Wednesday, and by the strike of drug clerks and theatre employes which have practically practic-ally stopped all retail business The Pacific Telephone and Tele-graph Tele-graph company, , filed a request Thursday with the interstate commerce com-merce commission for authority to take over the Nez Perce Telephone company's property operating in Idaho. Ida-ho. The Nez Perce company controls flbouV 1300 telephones. Six persons were killed and eight Injured at a Southern Pacific railroad rail-road crossing east of Reno, Nev. Thursday when n westbound motor struck an automobile stage. Doctors and a wrecking crew were sent to the scene. Speeding down a hill at West 3Sth and Upan street at Denver, a street car left the rails at a curve and turned turn-ed completely over. Eight persons were injured. The brakes did not work, according to G. L. Winnings, motorman. one of the injured was believed dangerously hurt, according to first reports. The steamship Diana Dollar, a frei;iter, was afire off the west coast of Mexico near Manzanilla, according to radio advices received at Dos Angeles An-geles Monday. The Diana Dollar broadcast information of the fire according ac-cording to the Federal Telegraph company's marine radio station. GENERAL F'our convicts at the state penitentiary peniten-tiary at Eddyvllle, Ky., shot and kill, ed one guard, seriously wounded three othre guards and an employe of the penitentiary kitchen, and barricaded barri-caded themselves in the kitchen Wednesday morning where, a considerable consid-erable time after the outbreak, they were shooting at everybody within eight. Late returns from country districts In Oklahoma's special election held Tuesday emphasized the overwhelm, lug victory of opponents of Governor J. C. Walton, who sponsored a constitution 'amendment authorizing the state legislature to convene by Its own call to consider the official acts of state officers. One billion additional Harding Memorial stamps were ordered printed print-ed Thursday by Postmaster General New. Two lots of 3,000.000, already have been printed. The stamps are of 2 cent, denomination. Forty persons were overcome by chlorine gas at Philadelphia, Thurs-day Thurs-day when 2 tanks containing 400 gallons gal-lons of poison sprang a leak in the paper manufacturing plant of Dill & Collins. A new inquiry from New York ehtpping interests looking to the purchase pur-chase of at least part of the govern, ment's passenger fleet w-as reported to the shipping board nt its regular weekly meeting Tuesday. Active negotiations are in progress although they have not reached the point where terms have been submitted. The United States navy's rigid air. ship the Zlil largest aircraft in the world, docked at St. Louis field Tues-- Tues-- day after having cruised about St. Louis for several hours awaiting the arrival of day light. The big dirigible diri-gible is on its first long distance trip from Lakehurst, N. Y. PERSONAL Alex A. Kels, wealthy butcher, un. til recently believed to have been foully murdered on his ranch near Lodi, Calif., confessed Wednesday to Sheriff W. F. Riecks, of Stockton, Callforna, that he hired a stranger from an employment agency Sept. 12, killed him, burned the body and arranged ar-ranged fur it to be identified as Kels bo that the supposed widow of Kels could collect insurance approximating approximat-ing $100,000. Complete returns from Manila and partial returns from the provinces indicated that Manuel Quezon's candidate, can-didate, Senor Fernandez, defeated Senor Sumulong, the Democrat candidate, can-didate, in the fourth senatorial district dis-trict election Tuesday. The former German crown prince who is living in exile upon the Island Is-land of Wleringen, departed Wednesday Wednes-day for the unknown and mysterious destination. The ex-crown prince was accompanied by the burgomaster of Wleringen as he crossed to the mainland. I George Harvey, American ambassador ambassa-dor to the Court of St. Johns, has resigned re-signed and will return to this country coun-try January 1, it was learned officially offi-cially at Washington, Thursday. Fred G. Thompson, who for 14 years has posed alternately as a man and woman, was acquitted, Wednesday Wednes-day of the murder of It. C. Tesman, Chicago Insurance broker, who was slain last June, by a smiling woman bandit. Louis Angel Firpo, heavyweight boxer filed an application for United, States citizenship In the naturalization naturaliza-tion bureau. In making out the form Firpo disclosed the fact that he has a wife, an Argentinian, living in his native country. Ralph Douglas, who said he was president of a million dollar corporation corpor-ation a year ago, was arrested Tuesday Tues-day as a fugitive from justice at San Francisco where, according to local police, he is charged with misappropriation misappro-priation of $17,000. The prisoner said his home was in Mexico City. Rudolph Danmeyer, who recently represented himself to Chicago city officials as the secretary to the mayor of San Francisco, was committed com-mitted to the asylum at Elgin, 111., when doctors said he was suffering from dementia praecox. He was arrested ar-rested several days ago at Chicago where he tried to Induce Mayor De-ver's De-ver's secretary to endorse a check to pay his hotel bill. FOREIGN The Stressmann cabinet has resigned re-signed Wednesday after the Socialist section of the German reichstag rejected, re-jected, by Gl to 54, the compromise solution proposed by the government. President Ebert has charged Dr. Stresemann to form a new cabinet. Buried alive for nine days, five or the forty-one miners entombed by an explosion in a coal pit near Falkirk were rescued Thursday. They were in fairly good condition and their remarkable escape from eath has raised hopes of the relatives of the others imprisoned. The searchers redoubled their efforts. Measures for regulating the liquor traffic in the Irish Free States will be put before the Dail Eireann for enactment, Governor General Timothy Tim-othy Healy announced Thursday In his opening address to that body. Four hundred nationalists and twelve ringleaders who seized the fortress at Kuestrin 'Sunday night have all been arrested by the Relch-wehr, Relch-wehr, it was officially announced Tuesday. After being disarmed they were locked up in the fortress they had seized. The city Yratza, fourteen miles northeast of Sofia with a population of 50,000 Monday was set on fire by a mysterious explosion popularly attributed at-tributed to the communists who have been opposing the government. Minister Min-ister of the Interior Russeff took charge of the situation and sent the entire Sofia fire department to tne scene together with medical and relief re-lief expeditions. American Red Cross officials engaged en-gaged In relief work at Tokio, Monday Mon-day estimated 225,000 persons were killed, approximately 450,000 injured and about 2,000,000 made wholly or partially destitute in Tokio, Yokohama Yoko-hama and vicinity by the earthquake. High praise was given to Japanese officials for their cooperation. TTie security police force, which has been formally charged with entire en-tire responsibility for last Sunday's rioting, in which nearly a score of persons were killed and more than 400 injured, has been decreed out of existence by the authorities of occupation. occu-pation. The definite dissolution of the force was announced Tuesday by French headquarters. |