Taiban Valley news., 1921-08-26

the Premier Pass railway station
caught fire and the. Austrian towns
firemen turned out. Italian gendarmesy
demanded their vses, and having none
they were forced to watch the ware
houses burn.
GENERAL
Clarence NJ. Williams of Madison,
student, and Mss Minnie Boiles of
Baraboo, Wis, were drowned when
steel rowboat capsized in Devils Lake,
at Madison, Wis.
Charges that Mrs. Winnifred Bag
ley, nurse, was killed by electricity
during an X-ray demonstration at the
Pageant of Progress at Chicago, were
made by detective agency which in
vestigated the case.
Bud Bridgens of Chicago was in
stantly killed at Rockford, ILL.,, when
his parachute failed to open in leap
from an airplane. Bridgens was pr1c-
ticlng for an aerial circus. He for
merly was moving picture actor
Nine men were seriously injured and
about fifty others bruised when James
Urban fell from a motor speeder be-
meath the wheels of two trailers and
overturned the three cars, which were
carrying foreign laborers to work on
the Big Four tracks west of Green
castle, Ind. Urban was taken to a
Terre Haute hospital suffering from
probable fatal injuries.
Wasps on business bent may be
pests, but two women here owe their
lives to wasp stiDgs. Mrs. J. e. Nit
chum, who lives near Hickman, KY,
was awakened by the stings, discov-
cred her home was on fire and about
to collapse upon her and adopted
daughter. Mrs. Mitchum rushed to the
girls room, aroused her and assisted
her to safety in the yard just as the
house fell in. The wasps had built
their nests in the attic Of the house
and the heat and smoke drove them
out. One sting on Mrs. Mltchum's
neck is the only sign visible of the
attack.
Bootleggers are blamed for a bomb
explosion that wrecked the residence
of Ashbel w. Smith, states attorney
for Lake county, at Waukegan, Ill.
Smith has been exceptionally active in
prosecuting violators of the prohibit
tion laws.
Information which the police believe
will clear up seventeen gang murders
which have occurred in New York, De.
troit and Avon-by-the-Sea N. j., was
given to New York detectives by Bar
follow Fontano, Italian barber Terri
fled by secret threats of "being baked
in an oven," Fontano gave himself up
to the police and was charged with
homicide. Six other men We're arrest
ed on Fontano's information.
Mrs. Rosa Cowan, who was operat.
ed on at Hopkinsvllle, KY, about a
month ago when five full-sized tea.
spoons were removed from her stom. |
ach, has so far recovered that she has
been returned to her home near Kirk. |
mansville in Todd county. She took
the spoons home with her. Her com.
plete recovery seems assured and her
mental condition, which caused her to |
be sent to the state hospital for treat. |
ment, where she is supposed to have |
swallowed the spoons, Is normal again.
Posing as revenue agents in search
Of liquor, three armed men ordered |
Genaro Demicalo, restaurant keeper OF
New York, to open small safe and
then fled with. $4,000 worth of dia-
monds and other jewelry and 500 In
cash.
Two men were killed instantly and
fourteen injured, three probably fatal
ly, at Knoxville, Tenn, when a motor
truck in which they were riding over
turned and plunged down a forty-foot
One Of the dead was
Identified at Glenn Mcmillan, young