The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-07-09

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ing a number of houses. Several per
sons were hurt. Property damage
was heavy. There was some loss Of
livestock.
Many persons were reported in
jured at New York by an explosion OF
undetermined origin on board the
British freighter Egremont Castle at
her dock in Brooklyn. Two alarms
of fire were sounded and half doz-
en- ambulances summoned.
H. H. Biglow, millionaire president
of Brown and Bigelow, st. Paul adj
vertising concern, was sentenced to
two years in Leavenworth peniten-
tiary and fined $4,000 in federal
court at st. Paul, Mimi, when he
pleaded guilty to attempting to de-
fraud the government Of income tax
returns.
Andrew MELONS, secretary of the
treasury, and Arthur Sixsmith, his
secretary, have been subpoenaed to
appear at witnesses for the defense
in the trial of CASTOR Means and
Elmer Jarnecke, who are charged
with violation of the prohibition
laws.
Severe heat and humidity which
has prevailed througout more than
a dozen states and the District of
Columbia during the week, has taken
a toll of forty-eight lives and caused
more than 100 prostrations according
to figures compiled by the United
Press at New York.
Utah was the third highest produc-
er of copper in the United States
during 1928. Arizona was first and
Montana second.
Automobile production for the first
five months of 1924, as reported to
The directors meeting of the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce in
New York is 1,742,S32. This figure
Is the best that has ever been re-
corded for the initial five months of
my year and is $1,000 above the total
or the similar period of 1923.
New York newspaper men and
will play host to fellow
craftsmen from all over the land at
he Democratic national convention.
General e. e. Wood retired for
nany years an instructor at the West
'oint Military academy was found
cad in the bathroom of his home
t Westchester Penn. Death was
ue to a heart attack. General
Wood saw service in the Indian wars.
Charging that "select ring Of
line officers dominates
he navy and assign themselves and
leir friends to "all the military and
)cial plums", Representative Britten,
Illinois, in a letter to
resident Coolidge requested an in
niry into the merits of the recent
of six captains to the rank
rear admiral.
FOREIGN
General James Hartzog, leader of
lie victorious parties in the recent
ections in the Union of South
frica, accepted the premiership of
outh Africa, succeeding General Jan
hristian Smutz. General Hertzog
rs begun the formation of cabin
About $750,OOO,3O0 of private Jap
lese capital is invested in Manchur-
and Mongolia, according to sta
sites published by the colonial af- {
irs bureau of the Japanese govern {
ent. These figures do not in I
ude the vast enterprises of the
ruth Manchurian Railway company,
which the Japanese government Q
the principle shareholder.
The British prime minister, Ram '
y Macdonald, and M. Herriot, the c
'ench premier, have agreed provid- t
there is no objection from the
her allies, than an allied conferen-
shall be held in London not later
an mid-July for the purpose of a
finitely deciding on the procedure Il
be adopted for putting the Dawes G
port into execution. n
IL
An appeal addressed to the zen /,
e nation" not to modest Americans n
W in Japan was published this v
elk over the signature of the Talk P
sha, or Great Forward society, in d
ven leading newspapers. is
Ensign ]. Duncan, attached to the :.
rship New York was decapitated =,
lie standing on top of the train =,
ich was taking him back to his
p at Torquay, England, where the ,,
tied States squadron is anchored. If
Under threat that he would bonn a
ID the city of Wannsien on the o.
ngtze river in Szechwan province, q
commander of the British gun y
It Cockchafer compelled the high a,
military leaders there to walk G
the cemetery in full uniform be-
d the casket containing the body "
Edwin C. Hawley The American