The Colorado statesman., 1908-08-01

Four carloads of strikebreakers
were placed in the mines in the Bir-
mingham, Alabama, district Wednes-
day under military elcort There was
no trouble.
A caravan that has arrived at
Lhassa from Leh, in the valley of the
Indus. brings report that Sven He
din. the Swedish explorer, is in good
health and that his caravan is in good
condition.
The sporting committee OF the Au-
tomobile Club at Paris has decided
to hold the next grand prix compe-
tition in 1909. 1t is probable that the
Diepre course will be abandoned for
the course at Aniou.
The German automobile in the
New York to Paris motor car con-
test arrived in Berlin at noon July
Gath. 1t was the first car to come
into Berlin and apparently is days
ahead of its nearest competitor.
Passengers arriving at San Fran
cisco from Central American ports re-
port that a state of anarchy exists in
Guatemala. Murder is of frequent oc-
currence, they declare, and many per-
sons are fleeing the country.
w. F. Walker, who looted the Saw
ings Bank of New Britain, Connecticut,
of more than 100000 worth of securi-
ties, has been sentenced to twenty
one years in the penitentiary upon
four counts on which he pleaded gull
ty.
After a seven-hour conference with
William ]. Bryan and John w. Kern
at Chicago the subcommittee of the
national Democratic committee Satur
day chose Norman e. Mack of Buff
falo, New York, as chairman of the
committee.
The game of baseball has been re-
sponsible for six deaths in Pittsburg,
Pa, and it's suburbs during the past
three months. The latest is that of 4
babe that was struck by a ball while
in the arms of its sister in a field
where boys were at play.
Following up his crusade against
the appearance of unclothed women
in the Paris theaters, Prefect of Po-
lice Lepine has given orders that the
sale of obscene pictures on the boule-
wards, which has been for so long a
disgrace to the city, be vigorously sup
pressed. The establishments produc-
ing these pictures will be prosecuted.
The Portuguese government, ac-
cording to the newspapers at Lisbon,
has discovered and frustrated a wide
spread Republican plot for an upris
ing scheduled for the anniversary of
the abortive revolt of July 2S, which
was suppressed by eX-Premier Franco.
The announcement follows a large.
number of mysterious arrests made
recently.
The members and officials of the
American Athletic team that compet-
ed in the Olympic games with such
marked success have received many
cablegrams at London asking that the
team return home in a body so that
general reception can be held upon it's
arrival in New York. This will be i'm
possible, as the athletes are already
widely scattered.
In the international athletic contests
which were held at Berlin July 9th,
j. d. Lightbody, University of Chicago,
and w. w. May, University of Illi-
nois, participated and their work
aroused much enthusiasm. LigNbody
| easily defeated Paterson of Sweden in
| the 1,500 meters flat, and later won
the 500 meters flat against thirty7seven
competitors, giving them a start of
siXty-five meters May easily won the
100 meters handicap run.
Announcement has been made by
Frank H. Hitchcock, chairman of the
National Republican committee, that
the following will constitute the COM
mittee: Charles F. Brooker, Connecti-
cut; T. Coleman Dupont, Delaware;
William e. Borah, Idaho; Frank O..
Lowden, Illinois; Charles Nagel, Mis-
souri,; Victor Rosewater, Nebraska;
William l.. Ward, New York; Edward
C. Duncan, North Carolina, and Boies
Penrose, Pennsylvania.