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Two men were killed, another may
die and several others We're injured
following two explosions in n fire
which destroyed the produce plant of
Swift X Co., at Iowa Falls, Iowa.
Thomas Fitzgerald, who on July -
murdered Janet Wilkinson, aged 6, has
been hanged in Chicago. He said he
killed her because she screamed when
he took her. into his room to give her
candy.
While attempting to regain his seat
in his airplane after performing a
series OF daring feats in midair, Capt
Charles Theodorel of Dallas, became
exhausted, lost his grip on the rope to
which he was clinging below the land
ing gear of his machine and fell 800
feet to his death at Dallas, Texas
Thousands of people witnessed his eN-
hibition and his fall.
All the buildings and recreational
equipment of the knights of Columbus
at Fort Davis, Nome, Alaska, have
been turned over to 1000 Indian chill
dren, whose parents We're victims of
the influenza epidemic last year y
large quantity of supplies intended for
the soldiers, who have been withdrawn
for the winter months, has also been
turned over to the children.
Walker d. Hines, director of rail
roads, has held II series of confer
ences with the heads of western roads
and officials of the United States
Grain Corporation at which plans We're
discussed for the movement of the
large wheat crop from the southwest
to the market of the east. Mr.. Hines
announced that wheat would have to
be handled as emergency freight and
given preference over other traffic un-
Ill normal conditions are restored.
Sale has been announced in San
Francisco of the historic Richmond
and Eureka silver and lead mines of
Eureka. New, which We're opened in
1869 and We're said TO have yielded
more than $50 100000 prior to 1910.
John w. Mackay of Comstock fame
was one of the investors in the mines
at II time when they paid dividends
of So Il share monthly. The sale price
was given as S9,5OO.0O0. The Rich
mond-Eureka Mining Company of
Maine was the seller and the +. A..
Hotter and H. p. Henderson syndicate
of New York city the purchaser.
WASHINGTON
Two men We're shot and injured by
one member of Il posse of citizens fol-
lowing an alleged attempt to rob gen
eral merchandise store mt Louisville,
Neb.
Count V. Macchi di Cellere, Italian
ambassador to the United States since
1913, died in the emergency hospital
at Washington just as he was about to
undergo an operation.
An investigation just completed by
Surgeon Edward Francis of the Unit
ed States public health service adds
another to the list of disease germs af-
fceting mankind. The germ, which
bears the name of Bncterium Tular-
ense, was first isolated by Drs. Mccoy
and Chaplin of the United States pub
lie health service as the causative
agent in II plague-like disease of ro-
dents. Ii was not then known that
the same germ infects man.
THE peace treaty will actually he
effective when the former kaiser of
Germany is placed on trial." says Pre-
mier Clemenceau's newspaper, L'Hom-
me Libre, 1--WE must be unwnvering in
his punishment"
Giuseppe Brambilla. counsellor of the
Italian embassy In London, has been
appointed counsellor of the embassy AT
Washington. His wife Is n daughter of
the late George Won l.. Meyer of Bos.
ton, who at various times held the post
Of secretary of the American navy
postmaster general and ambassador to
Russia
Ambassador Bonillas, who has just
returned from Mexico, where he con
ferred with President Carranza re
gardlng the relations between the
United States and Mexico. said that
The Mexican President is most opt
mistlc as TO the future and expressed
the confident hope that the United
States would not intervene In Mexic,
because of the troubles that countr,
is now having as n result of ten year,
Of revolution. President Carranza wa,
said by the ambassador to he conf
dent also that by the time the rest o
the world has regnined Its composur'
Mexico also will be peaceful
Authority OF Ohio state officials Il
confiscatc and sell food held In col,
storage longer than authorized unde
Il state law, was in effect sustained
by the Supreme Court, which refused
TO review appeals In proceeding
growing out of the seizure of 125,0O
pounds Of pork OF the Columbus Pack
Ing Company.
Pressure from administration source
for enactment Of permanent railron