The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-09
FOREIGN

Lie nun rub-
scriptions amounted to f767 100000 1t
was announced in the House of Com
mons.
Pirates operating on the Black sea
have held up and robbed the steamer
Constantine of $15,0o0,O00 worth OF
notes and gold, says a dispatch from
Constantinople.
The first passenger airship to fly to
Rio de Janeiro from England will
leave next month from Barrow. The
fare will be $1,000 round trip, which
will be made via West Africa.
A shortage of more than 100000
tons of coal, as compared with the
1913 output, is faced by Great Britain
in the coming year, according to Sir
Auckland Geddes, president of the
Board of Trade.
Budapest is occupied by Rumanian
troops who advanced from the river
Thesis, in spite of representations
made by Lieutenant Colonel Romanel-
Ii, the Italian representative of the al
lies at Vienna.
George johnson, United States
army officer, committed suicide In
dramatic fashion at Nice. He waded
out into the sea in sight of numbers of
pleasure seekers and then drew re-
volver ond shot himself.
The United States is not the only
prohibition country, Belgium having
followed suit so far as whisky, gin and
other highly alcoholic liquors are CON
cerned. Soon after the arnistice was
signed law was passed forbidding the
manufacture and sale of such bever-
ages.
Advices from Berlin report that
trunks belonging to the allied arms
tice commission in Germany have been
stolen. The trunks contained import
ant documents concerning agreements
for the restitution to Belgium and
France of machinery that had been re-
moved by the Germans.
An extraordinary attempt of eleven
Koreans to commit suicide by tying
themselves together with a rope and
then jumping overheard is reported
from Chemulpo. The incident occurred
on a ferryboat. All were picked up,
but three were dead. The act is be-
lieved to have been inspired by Budd-
hist superstition.
The Prussian government, according
to American reports, is planning to or
ganize q new and separate police
force" to consist of from 100000 to
100000 trained soldiers, solely as
force to suppress disorder. 1t is
planned to arm this force with the
latest type of military weapons and
to put the men in garriSons through
out Germany.
Germany has cut the high cost of
living in half The reduction applies
to all rational food, principally flour,
potatoes, meat and fat. The govern
ment is spending one and a half billion
marks ($375, OOO,OOO) in an attempt to
bring food prices down to a permanent
ly lower level At the same time the
meat and fat ration is being increased.
American imports being assured.
GENERAL
A sample loaf of bread refused to
explode when Chicago police shot at
it within package. They thought the
box Judge Lands got in the mail was
a bomb.
Quentin Roosevelt, killed in aerial
combat in France, left an estate Of
only $1,100, it was learned when his
mother, widow of Colonel Roosevelt,
applied for letters of administration.
A petition bearing the signatures of
142,54S voters, asking the submission
to the Ohio electorate at the November
election of constitutional amendment
repeating the statewide prohibition
amendment and re-establishing the
liquor license system and home rule To-
cal option, and defining Intoxicating
beverages as those containing in eX-
cess of 2.75 per cent alcohol, has been
filed with Secretary of State Smith
Saturday by L. P. Gibson, manager Of
the Ohio Home Rule Association.
The abnormal demand for pennies is
still taxing the capacity of the presses
in the Philadelphia mint, the enormous
total of 3S,931 900 having been struck
during July. The other coinage con-
sisted of $4,000 dimes and 100000
nickels.
The Black Hills mining district Of
South Dakota produced $6,565,209 in
gold and 159,246 ounces of silver in
1918. From Jan. 1, 1918, to Oct 81,
1918, the Homestake mine and mills
were operated at full capacity, but
during the remainder of the year the
property was operated at only II per
cent capacity, says the geological sur
vey.
The National Geographic Society has
been asked to investigate the claim of
John Shell, mountaineer of Leslie
county, Kentucky, that he is 100 years
old. Shells neighbors corroborate the
statement concerning his age. Shell