The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-31
FOREIGN


An attempt was made to demolish
the American legation building at San
Jose, Costa Rica, by a bomb, accord
ing to advices received by the State
The Olonest in western Russia are
seeking a union of their territory with
Finland, according to Helsingfors re
ted to the State Department.
The italian troops who occupied So
kia, fifty miles southeast of Smyrna,
Asia Minor, have re-embarked on their
transports. They turned over the con-
troll to Turkish military authorities.
There are $4,000 buildings to be re-
built in the devastated districts of
France, according to statistics given
the Chamber of Deputies by NJ. Le
brun, the minister of liberated terri.
tories.
The latest guess as to when the
peace treaty will be signed, is some
time between June 10th and June 18th.
The belief was freely expressed in
French official circles that the Ger
lnduS VIII sign Ine treaty.
The volcano of Kalut, in Java, has
burst into eruption, wiping out twenty
villages in the district of Brengat and
eleven in the vicinity of Blitar and
causing deaths estimated at $4,000, ac-
cording TO dispatch received at Am
sterdam.
The German cabinet has approved a
number of financial bills drafted by
the ministry of finance, including a
tax on incomes from property, levy
on capital on the basis of the last year
of war, an inheritance tax and an in
crease on sugar and tobacco duties.
The american five-masted schooner
City of Orange, laden with nearly 1000
tons of petroleum, coke and coal,
caught fire in the harbor at Marseilles.
The loss is estimated at more than ST.
000, 900. All other ships We're obliged
to leave the harbor because of the dan
ger Of an explosion.
An air plane that was carrying a
treasure of Russian and Austrian gold
bank notes from Moscow to Budapest
fell into the Rumanian lines near Ga
Ian in Pennsylvania and was captured.
The money was being sent by the Rus
sian Reds to finance Hungarian prop
aganda. Advices from Vienna de
scribed the machine as Icing worth
its weight in gold"
SPORT
Michigan defeated Notre Dame in a
dual track and field meet, 691z to 61 ".
Pitcher Bill James has been sold by
Detroit 10 the Boston Americans and
left Detroit with the champions.
Frank Troei, Vancouver, Wash, still
retains the Hercules all-round amateur
trapshooting trophy. He defeated his
brother, ]. b. Troeh, 1S5 to 10 targets
in a championship match at Portland.
Konstantine Romonoff of Omaha
heavyweight wrestler, defeated Nick
Decourt of Los Angeles in two straight
falls at Boise, Idaho. He won the first
with a head scissors and n toe hold in
63 minutes and % seconds.
John Pesek, heavyweight wrestler OF
Shelton, Neb., for whom is claimed the
distinction of never having lost a
match, defeated Chris Sorenson of
Leavenworth, Kan, in two straight
falls at Lincoln, Neb. The time was
81 minutes and 40 seconds.
GENERAL
A gift of 100000 by the United
States Steel Corporation for relief
work in Serbia and the Jugo-Slav
states has been transmitted to Her
bert G. Hoover, director general of
American relief administration, it was
announced in New York by the Amer
lean Jugo-Slav relief.
Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
chairman of the Salvation Army home
service campaign in New York, made
public cable message from General
Pershing, in which the commander of
the eXpeditiOnary forces urged the
American people to support the activi-
ties of the Salvation Army.
Beryl Kendrick, an aviator of At
lantic City, and James Bew, a real es-
tate agent, were killed when Ken
dricks airplane plunged into sand
bar in the inlet at the upper part of
the city.
The estate of the late Chauncey
Jones of Boston consists of 2, 2,499 rings,
COS bar pins, fifty-nine cuff links, thir
ty-seven clasps, eleven brooches, eight
stickpins, pendants, chains and rosar-
les. Total value, $31.60.
Resolutions in favor of one big in
dustrial union of all railway workers,
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initiative, referendum and recall, to-
gether with program for general re-
construction, were adopted by the ma
tional convention of the Brotherhood
of Railway Clerks at Cincinnati.
Howard Rhinehart, experimental
aviator for tha Doytpp- Wri ipht Apro-