The St. Johns herald., 1921-07-28

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 Mrs. Hanna Vedder, 35, was chokeC
 to death at breakfast in Wellsville
 Mo-, when a piece of ham clogged hel
 throat. She rushed into the yard and
 died before physicians could arrive
 Mrs. Myrl (Jesse) James and Col
 die Gordon, Harrison Fishers model
 charged with the murder of John
 Devereux, aged jurist, were found not
 guilty by jury in the District Court at Tulsa, Okla.
 One fireman was injured, probably fatally, and three others were less SC riously hurt in a fire which destroyed more than block in densely settled flat and apartment house section in San Francisco.
 Ignace Jan Paderewski, pianist and former premier of Poland, led fire fighting force in beating out brush and grass fire which started near his estate at Paso Robles, Calif The fire burned over twenty-Six acres before it was checked.
 Alexander Howat, president of Dis trict 14, United Mine Workers, and August Derchy, vice president, were sentenced to six months in jail and fined $500 each by District Judge Boss of Columbus, Kan, for violating the Kansas Industrial Court law by calling a local strike over a wage controversy.
 With the arrest of Frank Brown and Charles Altendoff, El Paso, Texas, secret service agents believe they have the men who,left a trail of raised federal reserve bank notes across Texas from Houston to Fl Paso. The men were arrested in a clothing store on complaint of the proprietor.
 Investigation has been started by prohibition authorities of reports from Letterman General Hospital at the Presidio, at Frisco, that a number of bottles sent them from the government prohibition seizure rooms at the fed eral building and believed to hold whisky were found to contain tea when they were opened.
 A motor car collision near Topeka, Kan, in which two motor cars, six cases of dynamite and a large Quan- tity of nitroglycerine figured, brought death to M A. Ross, an oil well shoot CT, and his wife and the injury of four other persons. The explosives played only a minor part, however, for, al- though it was scattered along the high way for a considerable distance, it failed to explode. The victims were killed and injured by the crash of the machines.
 WASHINGTON
 President Harding has nominated Charles Fowler to be collector of GUS toms for District No 26, with head | quarters at Nogales, Ariz., and Miss Nomecia Ascarate to be registrar of | the land office at Las Cruces, N. M.
 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and other representatives of organized workers, appeared before Chairman Johnson of the House immigration committee to protest against a pending resolution giving the President author ity to admit Chinese labor into Hawaii temporarily to relieve the shortage of agricultural labor.
 A system of model airways, covering the entire continent, is planned by the army air service for the use of all operators or owners of aircraft. It contemplates various chains of we'll organized landing fields, supplemented by frequent emergency fields and iden- tification markers connecting the prin- cipal cities.
 Grove L. Johnson, nominated by President Harding to be receiver of public moneys at Sacramento, is the father of United States Senator Hiram Johnson of California. He represented g California district in the House of Representatives for one term, and for many years was a member of the low CT House of the California Legislature. MT. JOhnson's home is Sacramento, Calif.
 Through an agreement reached be- tween Solicitor Lloyd of the Treasury and representatives of the six breweries raided at New Orleans because they were making real beer, it was decided that the breweries must pay a fine of little more than S1OO,- 900 to the government. The govern ment does not promise them immunity ] from prosecution on the charges of having violated the volstead law. IC