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ATTEMPTS TO
KILL MILLERAND
Would Be Assassin Arrested
After Narrowly Escaping
lynching by Crowds
PRISONER is AN ANARCHIST
No One Hurt BY Bullets Poured Into
Automobile In Which Chief of
Paris Police Was Riding-Mis-
taken for Executives Car.

Paris.-An attempt was made to as
sassinate President Millerand of
France on the Champs Elysees as he
was returning from a military review
held in connection with the celebra
ton of Bastille Day.
Castor Bouvet, aged % years, who
fired three shots into an automobile
in which he thought NJ Millerand was
riding, was arrested after an attempt
was made to lynch him
Bouvet confessed he was an anar
chist and that he intended to kill the
president.
The shots were fired into the auto
mobile bearing Chief of Police Nau
dins, which followed 100 meters be-
hind Millerand's open carriage
Naudins was not hit by the bullets
troop of Black Colonials galloped
between the carriage of Millerand
and Naudins' automobile down the
Champs Elysee when Bouvet fired the
shots.
The sudden reports of the pistol
threw the parade, which was return
ing from Longchamps, into confusion
The attack on Millerand was antici
pated. Paris newspapers sounded a
warning that an attempt on the life
of the president was likely to be
made following inflammatory articles
carried in the radical press.
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ONE PERSON KILLED
IN R.R. STRIKE RIOTS
Militiamen Sent to Preserve
Order in illinois Alter
Workers Clash

Rockford, Ill. - Two companies of
state troops have been ordered to
proceed to Clinton, where a shop
strikers son was shot dead, Acting
Governor Sterling announced.
Sterling issued the following state
ment:
"On appeals from Sheriff J. w.
Pearsons and States Attorney Smith
Of De Witt county, that further riot
ing is threatened at Clinton, infantry
companies at Champaign and Paxton
have been ordered to proceed imme-
diately to Clinton for the protection of
life and property and preservation of
law and order"
st. LouiS.-The Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railway Company suspended
~ local trains in Missouri, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Texas, due, it was said,
to the physical impossibility of get
ting locomotives in and out of the
roundhouse and fear of consequences
If an effort were made to employ
workers not affiliated with the union.
The roundhouse at Sedalia has been
abandoned. said the announcement
by G.. r. Schaff, receiver, who also
said the trains would not be operated
until definite assurances were receiv-
I'd from the governors of those states
that new employees would be protect
ed and until there were guards on
1uty to protect them. Ten of the
rains are in Missouri, IL in Oklaho-
ma, two in Kansas and % in Texas
Chicago.-All traffic on the Chicago
e Alton in and out of Bloomington,
ILL.,. including carrying Of the mails,
mas ceased, due to the failure of local
authorities to furnish adequate pro-
.ection to the few men remaining at
work in the shops there, according to
an announcement by w. G. Bierd,
president OF the road The road has
notified the sheriff of Mclean county
and the adjutant general of the state,
hat unless protection for workers is
furnished at once, the Chicago e. AL
on will undertake to reopen the
shops under it's own guard, Bierd
said
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HARDING WARNS
RAILROAD men
lnSiS'S Men Have Identical Riuht
to Work as Others Have
to Strike
LABOR BOARD TO BE OBEYED
All Persons Directed To Refrain From
obstructing Interstate Commerce.
Trains Must Run, President
States-Will Protect Mails.

Washington.-Presid Harding, in
a proclamation issued at the White
House, directed "all persons to refrain
from all interference with the lawful
efforts TO maintain interstate trans
portation and the carrying of the
United States mails"
In the proclamation which was is
sued after a day in which continued
reports had reached the post Office de-
partment of interference by striking
railroad shopmen with mail trains, the
President invited the cooperation of
all public authorities, state and mu-
nicipal, and the laid of all good citi-
Zens" to uphold the laws and to ia
cilitate those operations in safety
which are essential to life and liberty
and the security of property and our
common public welfare"
The peaceful settlement of contro.
versies between shop craft employees
and carriers, it was stated, lin ac-
cordance with law and due respect
for the established agencies (referring
to the United States Railway Labor
Board) for such settlement are essen
tial to the security and we'll being of
our people"
The President took the position
that men willing to maintain the op-
Grafton of railroad trains in order to
transport mail have the same indis-
putable right TO work that others
have to decline to work"
President Harding was occupied
throughout the evening with the
preparation of the proclamation, de-
laying his dinner one hour in order
to go over the first transcript He
returned to the executive offices after
dinner and remained there until the
proclamation was made public.
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slanaImen Not To Walk Out.

Chicago.-The Brotherhood of Rail
road Signalmen will not strike, for
the present at least, according to a
statement issued by d. w Heit, pres
ident of the organization. Mr.. Heits
statement said that the signalmen
would take up all questions of dis
agreement with the roads separately,
and in case an understanding could
not be arrived at, the matter would be
taken up again with the United States
Railroad Labor Board
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Lamp Explodes; / pead. ? uur,

Scranton.-Joseph Solonick, aged 3
years, was fatally burned and two
other members of the family are in a
serious condition as the result OF the
explosion Of a kerosene lamp in the
Solonick home at Taylor. The boy
died in a hospital. His mother and
S-year-old sister are suffering from
burns on the body and face. The
clothing OF the mother and daughter
caught fire while trying to tear the
blazing clothing from the boy. Their
home was not seriously damaged.
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EIGHT CHILDREN
BLOWN TO BITS
War Shell, Thought Dead" Is
Set Off by the Heat or
Tap of MaIlet
C0NCUSSION WIDELY FELT
Victims Range From II to is Years
Of Age-Clothes Torn OFF and
Hang In Fragments on
Trees and Roofs.

Watertown, n. Y.-Eight children.
ranging in age from IL to 16 years,
were blown to pieces by the explo-
sion of a 75-millimetre shell on the
back porch of a house in Dimmick
street. occupied by Edward G. Work
man and William l.. Salisbury.
The shell, which was owned by Mr..
Workman, was one which he had
kept as a souvenir and used on the
rear porch to hold the door from clos
ing. 1t was believed to be dead"
The children were playing croquet
in the back yarl. The shell is be-
lieved to have either been set off by
the hot sun, or to have been struck
by one OF the victims with a croquet
mallet. Windows within a radius OF
two blocks of the explosion were shat
tered.
Practically all of the clothing was
blown off the bodies of the children.
Fragments OF it lodged in trees and
housetops in the vicinity The bodies
were horribly mutilated, but identifi-
cation was possible in every instance.
The bodies of the children were
found apparently at places near
where they had been standing in their
croquet game. Near them lay frag-
ments of croquet mallets. Several OF
the balls used in the game were
blown to bits, and the wickets were
torn from the ground
The shell apparently let go without
warning. Two carpenters at work on
a house next door to the Workman
home said that second before the
detonation they had heard the voices
of the children laughing at play The
two men were the first to reach the
scene.
They were greeted by a scene OF
utter desolation. The Workman
house is OF concrete, and the concus-
sion had reduced the entire rear Of
the house to powder On the ground
lay the eight bodies, and over all a
grey pail OF concrete dust was begin.
ming to settle.
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Radio Set Hit BY Llahtnlnn.

New York.-The first fire in the his
tory of the fire department to be
caused by an amateur set occurred
when a high voltage bolt Of lightning
struck the apparatus belonging to
Charles Down, which was near the
window OF his dining room on the top
floor Of a fiathouse at 410 West Forty.
fourth street. 1t did little damage be.
side running the radio
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-07-20

Philadelphia. - Three restaurants
in the northeast section Of the city
were held up by bandits working
from a red touring car Police believe
the three holdups we're staged by the
same gang, who escaped i'm every
case. In two places they took the
cash register bodily from the restau-
rants and in the other rihed the pro-
prietor's pockets.
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Observes Elahty.fourth Annlversarx

Philadelphia - John Wanamaker.
merchant prince, and civic leader,
celebrated his eighty-fourth anniver-
sary. The day was spent at his desk
in his store here and at a meeting OF
the Pennsylvania State Sabbath As
sociation Board, of which he is chair
man. Hundreds OF congratulatory
messages were received at his store
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-07-20
Troops 10 Protect Mine

Barbourville, Ky. - Governor Nor.
'ow ordered troops to move from Hop.
onsville and LivermOre to Madison
lille, when county authorities there
advised him the situation at a strip
nine proved threatening and that 10
al authorities would be unable TO
iandle the situation IL trouble deveI-
Jped, as they anticipated The cav
TRY troops from HopkinsvilIe will be
equipped with machine guns, while
he infantry from Livermore will car.
y its regular field equipment.
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U. S. Stops Making Poison Gas.

Washington.-Manu of poi
son gas except in limited amounts for
research purposes was ordered dis
continued by the War Department, in
compliance with the treaty of gas ap-
proved by the United States as q re-
suit of the arms conference. The fl
ling of all projectiles and containers
with poison gas was also ordered dis
continued except for the limited mum
Der needed in perfecting gas defense
appliances
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Liohtnina Kills Man and Youth.

Phoenixville, Pa.-One man and a
BOY we're killed by lightning near
lere during a violent thunderstorm.
The boy, Harry Duffy, aged 8. was in
boat on the canal when a bolt
struck him His father, James Duffy,
md his sister were with him at the
lime The father was stunned by
he shock James McGuickan, on the
)ank of the canal. saw the boy fall
rom the boat in the water and start
ed to his assistance. AS he reached
he canals edge a second bolt of
lightning struck him dead.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-07-20

Hoboken, N. 1.-THE $50 passengers
booked to depart for Europe on the
steamer Nieuw Amsterdam were or
Tered off the ship after Gremen had
allied TO quench a fire that had been
burning in hold No. 5. The smoke
poured more heavily out Of the hold
rs time passed and two fire engines
we're brought to the edge Of the pier
% help pump water A freboat had
six lines playing into the hold and
III Of the vessels fire fighting equip
nent was working
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College Reeelyes Land GIFT.

Grove City.-Eighteen acres of land
were added to the Grove City College
property by a gift from the family Of
the late }. N. Pew Of Philadelphia.
The land is that OF the Mcmillan
heirs, bordering the property on ths
east bought at a cost Of over $40.
600 The land was bought with the
idea Of taking care Of the expansion
of the school in future years.
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Ocean City Life Guards Strike.

Ocean City, n. 1.-THE Ocean City
beach patrol members of which have
a remarkable record for saving ven
turesome bathers, struck in a body,
leaving the Long beach unprotected.
The lifeguards, who so far this season
have not had a drowning to mar their
record, walked out because the city
refused to increase their wages. They
were paid SIS week, $3.50 Of which
was deducted each week for their uni
forms. They demand a minimum Of
S25 a week
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Five Killed In Bail Crash.

Kansas City, Mo. - Five persons
we're killed and 40 injured, most OF
them seriously, when the Missouri
Pacific Scenic Limited hier, west
bound from St Louis 20 California.
collided head-on with a local freight
train near here. Persons who were
in the wreck believed other dead were
under a passenger coach which turn
ed over at the side OF the track. G.
L. Crumm Of Kansas City, engineer
on the freight train, was killed. Mis-.
understood orders caused the wreck.
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Strange Ailment Puzzles Medicos.

Mechanicsburg, Pa. - Investigation
OF an outbreak of strange malady
which has afflicted more than so per-
sons here. including IL children in
the Methodist Orphanage, was begun
by physicians Of the state department
Of health's division of contagious dis
eases. The disease, according to To-
cal physicians, resembled ptomaine
poisoning in some respects.
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"Ten.MllIlon Dollar Rain.n

Chicago go.-"Ten-million dollar rain"
fell over sections of the grain belt re-
lieving a drought of AZ days and saw
ing corn and other crops Crop ex-
pelts said that the rain came just in
time as the long drought has dried
up all plants and every day of it's con
tinuance brought millions OF dollars
damage. The rain was general in
character, and heavy, steady down
pour
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storms crIpple reIearaph servIos.

New York. - High winds followed
by electrical storms over the middle
west crippled telegraph and tele-
phone communication between New
York and Chicago and intervening
points and for a short period practic-
ally every wire linking the Illinois
metropolis with the east was out of
order West OF Pittsburgh and Buf.
talo high winds interfered with the
wires and severe lightning made
things worse, so that for a time no
messages moved.
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Yap Treaty Has Final ApprovaI.

Washington.-Sec Secretary Hughes for
the United States, and Sadao Saburi,
counselor and charge of the Japanese
embassy, exchanged final ratifications
of the Yap treaty and the convention
will be put into effect Immediately
This treaty, signed during the arms
conference, recognized on the part of
the United States Japan's mandate
over the Island of zap and confirms
to the United States full privileges Of
equality in the maintenance of wire.
less and cable stations on the island
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One Killed. Nine Hurt BY Train.

Camden, N. J.-One man was killed
and nine injured, two of them possibly
fatally, when a Pennsylvania Railroad
train hit an automobile truck upon
which the men were riding near Dare.
town, N. ]. The injured were brought
to hospital here. All of them were
from Penns Grove, N. j., and were
being taken to work at Daretown
The dead man was Paul Marfesi. The
two more seriously injured are Antonio
Garcia, fractured skull, and Nicholas
Geraca, internal injuries.
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Man Killed sy 200. 600 Volts.

Latrobe, Pa.-Placing a fuse in a
switch box on a pole at a mine in
Beatty, Frank Stahl, aged 80, was
killed when he came in contact with
a wire carrying charge Of 100000
volts. Arthur Park, aged q, work
ing with Stahl. attempted to assist
him and fell from the pole, suffering
fracture Of the right leg
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Typhoon Strikes Canton, China.

Canton, via Steamer TO Hong Kong
A typhoon has cut off Canton from
telegraphic communication with the
outside world. demoralized river traf-
fc and done other damage The lines
Of the railway between Canton and
Hong Kong are blocked because Of
damage to bridges
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Dynamite Exploded At Mine.

Uniontown.-A charge of dynamite
was exploded near the stables of the
plant of the II. c. Frick Coke Com
pany at Phillips, near here. The ex-
plosion was heard for miles, but no
serious damage was done aside from
tearing a deep hole in the ground.
This was the first disorder OF any
kind that has occurred here since the
strike began.
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Train Strikes Nuptlal Party.

Greenville, Pa.-Five persons, form
ing wedding party and including the
bride-elect, met death on a grade
crossing, two miles south OF Green.
Vile, when the automobile in which
they we're riding was struck by two
Bessemer and Lake Erie freight en-
gines. The party was en- route from
TO Erie.
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Town Council Ignores Sunday Closing

Altoona. Pa.-Juniata borough coun.
Gil has refused to pass a Sunday clos
ing law. When the subject was
brought before the body by the La
dies Auxiliary of the Y. NJ. C. A, it
was discussed at length and then laid
on the table. Those opposed to such
a law declared that most of the men
Of the borough were Pennsylvania
railroad employees and should have
the privilege of buying necessary ar
ticles on Sunday.
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Bloomington, III. A masked mob
tarred and feathered a Chicago and
Alton roundhouse foreman at Road.
house, near here, according to official
reports received. The man, named
Dickens, went out with the strikers,
but returned to work.
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Four Hurled From TrestIe to Death

Cleveland. O.-Four persons were
instantly killed and a fifth was prob.
ably fatally injured when, while re.
turning from a picnic, they were
struck by a Lake Shore electric in
terurban car and knocked from a
testle on which they were walking
into a gulley 40 feet below at Bay
Village. near here. In stepping from
in front Of the car half way across
the trestle, the party stepped into
the path OF another.
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New Yorker Stays Two HOIdup Men

New York.-Called to the door Of
his home on the lower East Side and
ordered 20 hand over his money, Cam
lilo Genovis. a sewing machine op.
orator, answered by shooting at his
two assailants He killed both OF
them. Genovis stood by the bodies
and waited for the police.
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Liberty Bell WIN Not Be Moved.

Philadelphia.-The Liberty Bell will
not be shipped to Chicago for exhibi-
tion in the Progress Exposition there.
Mayor Moore ruled. Mayor Moore We
toed a resolution recently passed by
the city council authorizing that the
bill be taken TO Chicago.
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Ammunition Blast Kills so

Berlin Fifty we're killed and many
injured when a magazine OF mines ex.
ploded at Cuxhaven. according to ad.
vices received here. Cuxhaven is a
naval base on the North Sea at the
mouth Of the river Elbe.
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Japanese Naval AirshIp Explodes.

London.-A japanese naval airship
exploded during a fight, but all mem
bers of the crew we're saved, said
dispatch from Toxic.
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Veteran Of Many Wars Answers raD,

Philipsburg, Pa.-Jacob Klett. born
in Germany, soldier in the British
army, a brave scrapper i'm the Civil
War, fought Indians in the west and
participated in the war with the Nor.
mons at Salt Lake City. died here
aged 81 years.
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Train Hits Auto: Five KiIIed.

Hartford City Ind - Five persons
we're instantly killed and three we're
seriously injured when a Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad train hit an automobile
at crossing near here
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Philadelphia. - Liquors valued at
$4,000 were seized i'm six downtown
saloons in raids conducted by enforce
ment agents
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Kentuekian Dc. Aaed ta4 Years.

Greasy Creek. Ky.-"Uncle John
ny" Shell Kentucky's Oldest citizen,
said to have been aged 1874 years,
died here OF infrmities OF age. Shell.
a mountaineer was claimed by his
relatives to have been the oldest man
in the world
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eetrayer OF Nurse caven is Spared

Brussels. The death sentence i'm
posed on Jacques Jeannes. betrayer
Of Edith Cavell, English nurse, has
been commuted to life Imprisonment,
it was announced.