Cheyenne record., 1919-11-20
FOREIGN

Stohtihopic uisputSh.
Forty thousand persons have died in
PetrOgrad in the last six months. The
number Of births registered during the
same period amount to only $500.
President Ebert's salary has been
fixed at 100000 marks by the budget
commission in Berlin. which also
placed similar sum at his disposal
for incidentals for which he is to give
a strict accounting.
The southern provinces of China are
in the market, for arms. ammunition.
tanks, airplanes and other munitions
to be used against the provinces OF the
north, according t" Capt. Herbert Ling
Of the southern Chinese army.
The Swedish steamer Peking, 1900
tons, fOundered in n typhOOn in the
Pacific with !: loss of all on board.
while on her way to GOthenburg from
Kobe, Japan. says a dispatch from For
mOsa. The Peking left Kobe on Oct. r.
Flooding of the French shoe market
with 3OO.OOO pairs of American army
shoes. bought from surplus stocks of
the United States quartermnster, is
expected to materially reduce the al
most prohibilive cost of footwear now
prevailing in France -,
The German government has ad-
dressed TO the Supreme council at
Paris note protesting against the re-
tentiOn by France Of German war pris-
Oners. The note declares the situation
not only dangerous to Germany's own
existence but menace outside the
German frontiers.
The increasing number OF marriages
between French girls and Chinese III
borers in France has resulted in the
minister of the interior warning
French women that most of the cool
les already have wives in Chinn.
where, upon arrival with their hus-
bands. they would be regarded merely
as secondary wives.
Six billion francs is the sum repre-
senting the loss suffered by SwitZer-
land as result of the war, according
to an estimate of NJ. Sarasin, president
of the Swiss Bankers Union of Berne.
or this 2.4OO,OOO,OO0 francs are ac-
counted for by depreciation of German
securities and 1,5OO,OOO.OOO francs by
depreciation of AustrO- Hungarian Sc
curities held by Swiss citizens. The
losses suffered by the hotel world are
put down as amounting to 4OO,OOO,OOO
francs. The majority of Swiss private
fortunes are invested in foreign gov
ernment and foreign industrial under
takingS. the value of which has le-
cIined from 40 to so per cent.
GENERAL
The Wisconsin Teachers Association
at the closing session of the annual
meeting at milwaukee,, went on record
as against unlioniZing.
Appointment of Secretary GleSs to
the United States Senate to succeed
the late Thomas s. Martin, and the ac-
ccptancc of Mr.. Glass, have been an
nounced by Henry Hodges. aide to
Governor Davis.
With n woman and two men under
arrest on charges of promoting an
arcliy through distribution of inflam-
mutory literature, the Boston police be-
licved they have broken up,a well-Or-
ganized "red" campaign in Boston.
Mrs. Marion Il. SprOul. secretary of
| the Communist party in Massachusetts; /;
Israel Rnssman. owner of Il small peri
odicaI store. and Max Andelman of
Roxbury are the three alleged reds un-
der arrest
The eighth International cgg-laying
| contest at the State Agricultural Col
| lege ut StorrS, Conn.,. ended with a vic
| tory for the ten Barred plymouth
Rocks entered by Jules r. FrancaiS of
! WeStllamptnn Beach. l.. |. Their total
| yield for the fifty-twn weeks is 2,022
eggs. this being the only pen in the en-
| tire competition to avcrag" more than
200 eggs for each of the ten hens
| Laurel, Quebec. Poultry Farm Barred
Rocks stood second with total of l.,
9lS.
Approximately 1000 bales of cotton
burned in fire which swept part of
the st. Louis Cotton Compress Com
pany's plant ut Ndorado. Ark, accord
ing to n dispatch received at Little
Rock. The loss is about $1.oOO,OOO.
Mrs +. w. Woolworth, widow of the
late head of the chain of ) and 10
| cent stores, will receive an income O'
| SI43OOO II year from her husbands es-
tate. This was revealed wneu Su-
prcmc Court Justice Griynrich signed
| an order requiring II. r. Parsons,
head of II committee of Mrs. Wool
worth'S property. to file an additional
bond of S2f0O.OOO. His original bond
was 100000.
| Former service men were with diff
Guilty prevented by til" police from Sc
vrrely beating Meyer Faycriuan at Ho-
bnkrn, y. j.. after he had been caught
searching the baggage of soldier dead
| hrnmght from RIISSil ON the Like Dnr-