The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-09-03

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! ty miles north of Cape Girardea,
Missouri.
Eighty men are believed in per
3 aboard the government dredge Sole
scar, stranded on South Bear, hal
mile off shore from Atlantic City
Tuesday. The tug can be seen from
shore, pounded by heavy seas. Sh
is listing to seward and big wave
are breaking over her top decks.
While attorneys for Kid Mccoy
former pugilist, charged with tn,
murder Of Mrs. Theresa w. Mors al
Los Angeles, August IL, were plann.
ing the next move in their fight tc
save him from the gallows, a physi-
clan at the bedside of the alleged
slayer's aged mother admitted his
efforts to save her life after a heart
attack, brought on by news of her
sons predicament, faced almost GER
tain defeat.
George L. Hart of Washington,
who was official reporter of the rep
aration national convention at Cleve-
land, and who four years ago accom-
panied Warren G. Harding on his
campaign speaking trips was elected
president of the National Shorthand
reporters association, in convention
here. He received rs votes to 80 for
his only opponent, A. L. Coombs, of
San Francisco.
Chicago and vicinity is suffering
plague of sqaitoes-billions Of
them, of new and most bloodthirsty
variety. These predacious insects
have made life miserable for attend.
ants at the outer amusement parks,
at Ravania, where summer opera is
in progress, and at picnics and out
ings. Golf links are heavily infest-
ed and homes and bedrooms in the
suburbs have been invaded by hordes
of the pests.
Nine persons were killed and nine
injured when a twister demolished
the st. Phillips church at Patricks,
La, about forty miles from here at
$3.50 Sunday afternoon. News of the
spread quickly and hundreds
arrived to assist in the rescue. With.
in two hours the dead and injured
had been dug out from the flattened
church. The old church has been US
I'd as school and for festivals.
A selfstyled Or Jekyll and Mr..
1yde"-an unassuming youth of 90
,landly confessed to the police of
New York that he had caused over
90 incendiary fires on Manhattan
sland in the last few months-"just
o see the fire engines in action.
National baseball team
vas on the train but escaped injury.
he players were en- route from st.
.ouis to Cincinnati.
FOREIGN
The German Nationalist party is
pposed to the PREPARATIONS agree
tent reached at the London confer
nee and will oppose all measures to
ut it into effect.
A moving bog in north Cork has
lgulfed farmhouse and threatens
submerge an entire village. A man
amed Michael Collins, regardless of ;
S own safety, ran across the NOV Z
G mass and warned family in r
Efficient time for them to flee He c
rried an invalid girl in his arms s
r several miles. n
American automobile interests are :,
king keen account of a fight which
veloped in Berlin recently between y
e German Association of Automo- q
e Dealers, which favors removal of r
vernment restrictions against cars
all kinds, and the German manu- A
cturers, who desire to keep the pro- Il
,itions effective because of the pro- C,
,tions the regulations provide their Vi
lustries. The import restrictions 5
: of particular Importance to man.
in the United States, as G
~ curtail the sale of American ,et
IS in Germany 20 a considerable ex- Sc
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An explosion Monday on board the
So at Cavite navy yard
ed Chief Petty Officer Engel and FL
ured Seaman Moratki. 1t is stat az
that the explosion was caused by pr
Jack flare in the engine room. flo
appointment of Edgar A. Bancroft ~,
Chicago as ambassador to Japan, ~
of James Rockwell Sheffield of ~,
w York City as ambassador to ~
xico wa sanonunced Tuesday by ~,
sident Coolidge. as,
'ortmund will be evacuated by the tr'
gian troops in the first days of ac
TENDER says Libre Belgique. The 49,
'spaper says it learns that the g.,
toms post at Lippewessel will be va va
ndoned at the same time. If the %,
alton continues satisfactory, the an
spaper asserts, the class of 1923 ,
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