Williams news., 1921-08-05

Jasper IrOWer were killed at Mont
 gomery, Mo, when d threshing ma
 chine engine which they were work
 inS exploded. Four other men were
 seriously injured.
 Bandits broke into the Colonial CIul
 in San Francisco, lined up the guests
 against the wall, took their money and
 escaped Police said the reports indi-
 cated the loot was approximately S1O,-
 0OO The bandits victims were en-
 gagged in a card game, police said.
 Tony Tanker, who says he is q
 Greek, is in a serious condition the
 result uf treatment received at the
 hands of mob at Bayard, Neb., which
 placed a rope around his neck and tor
 tured him with fire. Tanker was ac-
 cused by a 14-year-old girl of mfstreat-
 ing her.
 Four bandits, believed to have been
 intoxicated, broke into the home of
 Minnie Proctor at Sioux City, Iowa,
 robbed her of S160 and after binding
 her to the bed, set fire to her house
 and drove off in a motor car, leaving
 the victim to burn to death. Passing
 motorists, who saw the house in flames and heard the woman'S screams, saved her from death.
 Reports that J. Henry Albers, Port land capitalist, convicted of violation of the espionage act, whose conviction was set aside by the United States Supreme Court and a new trial or dered, was blind and had become para lyZed on the left side, have been con- firmed by a government physician, ac- cording to announcement by the Unit ed States district attorney in Portland, Ore. The district attorney said he would transmit the doctors request to Attorney General Daugherty at Wash ington, D. C., with a request for post ponement of the retrial Should Al bers' disability prove permanent said the district attorney, dismissal of the charges would be asked. WASHINGTON
 The Senate adopted a resolution by | Senator Mccormick, Republican, Hi | nois, providing for an investigation of l American occupation and administra- l ton of Haiti and Santo Domingo. A | special committee of five senators will | conduct the inquiry.
 Pricess Fatima, sultana of Afghanis- tan, who has attracted unusual atten- ton during her visit to this country because of a white sapphire set in right side of her nose was received at IAc " 1llO I1OuSc recently Dy 1TeSlQonC The princess and her two sons were dressed in native costume and were accompanied by an Ameri- can naval officer detailed as an inter preter.
 Alaskan mineral production for l. 1920, amounting to $23, ,3O3,OOO, showed an advance of more than S3,5OO,OOO, as compared with 1919, according to summary issued by the Geological Survey. The gain in 1920, IL is said, was due entirely to the increase in the copper output, which advanced from $S,7S3, 900 in 1919, to SIP ,96O,OOO, {: only eight copper mines were ' operated in Alaska in 1920, as against l eleven in 1919. Gold production, how ever, fell off by more than S1,OOO, ,OOO. {
 With full Japanese participation in he disarmament conference regarded l IS finally assured, American officials I n charge of the conference plans are / 'eginning to give earnest considera- $ ion to the date of meeting as the next i tep in the diplomatic preliminarIes
 E. F. Bishop, president of the Ha- z vaiian Sugar Planters Association, hara acterized as absolute falsehoods ( he report of the legislative commit ! ee of the American Federation of La f 'or, made public at Washington, fnso- | ar as 1t charged a conspiracy on the | art of Hawaiian planters to provide c or admission of Chinese coolies into t he United States. t
 The Bergdoll investigation broke up Il D a row while Representative Johnson f Kentucky, Democratic member of ( he committee, was trying to reach a d rother of Grover Cleveland BergdolI. il vhO had called him liar The Ken d uckian made quick plunge toward a ,harles A. Braun of Philadelphia. the O 7itness, but half a dozen men, fnclud- is ng members of the committee, seized O i'm and kept him in a corner of the F Oom until Braun could be hurried D way by the sergeant-at-arms of the d IouSe- a Secretary Mellon has offered for Inscription two new series of treas r, ry certificates, the combined offering W eing for about $3OO,OOO,OOO. Both is D ues are dated Aug. 1, one maturing R l six months with interest at 5A per a ent and the other maturing in one tN ear with interest at 5k per cent. 1T Vith this issue the treasury, it was m elieved, would be in a position to leet any demands on it by the war if b, ance corporation in connection with NJ ettlements with the railroads under d, le plan submitted to Congress by m Ia r.,