The Colorado statesman., 1919-11-22
FOREIGN

fixed at lOO,OOO marks by the buugel
in Berlin, which also
placed similar sum at his disposal
for incidentals for which he is to give
a strict accounting.
\ crisis appears imminent in Aus
iria The Vienna government, 1t is
reported, is unable to maintain It's
power and the republic is likely 10 fall
to pieces, several groups declaring for
a union with Germany.
The Bolsheviki claim the capture of
ten generals and more than 100 other
officers at Omsk, according to an of
ficial statement issued by the soviet
government at Moscow. Kolchaks
army is being pursued in an easteriy
direction, the statement adds.
Complete returns from the French
elections show that the conservative,
moderate and nationalist elements
hold 49I seats in the chamber of dep
uties, while the extremists will have
fifty-four members of the new cham
her. OF this number, 221 were former
deputies. while 327 are men who have
not hitherto been members of the
chamber.
Gabrielle d Annmzio's recent des-
cent upon Zara has augmented his
land and sea forces. They are esti-
mated to number 10000. The Italian
forces of occupation in Dnlmntia com
prise an army corps. with one division
at cara and another at Sebenico. All
of these troops are registered under
D'Annunzio's banners and are said to
have ample supplies.
SO acute has the shortage of house
hold coal in France become that
wealthy Parisians who can afford ii
have ordered such fuel shipped to
them from America as they would
table delicacies. In the cargo of the
Siamese Prince, which sailed for
Havre, was twelve barrels of coal CON
signed to an individual in Paris. The
Jumps of anthracite were as carefully
barreled as sugar.
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.
OF this 2,4O0,O0O,O00 francs are ac-
counted for by depreciation of German
securities and 1,500,000.000 francs by
depreciation of Austro- Hungarian Sc
curities held by Swiss citizens Tho
losses suffered by the hotel world are
put down as amounting to 4O00OO,0OO
francs. The ma jority of Swiss private
fortunes are invested in foreign gov
ernment and foreign industrial under
takings, the value of which has de-
clined from 40 to 80 per cent.
GENERAL
Appointment of Secretary Glass to
the United States Senate 10 succeed
the late Thomas S. Martin, and the ac-
ceptance of Mr.. Glass. have been an
nounced by Henry Hodges, aide to
Governor Davis.
As result of eating butter believed
to have been poisoned by weeds eaten
by the cows from whose milk the but
Ter was churned, Mrs. Sarah Haver-
stock is dead at West Salem. ohio,
and four others are seriously i'll.
Approximately 1000 bales of cotton
burned in n fire which swept part of
the st. Louis Cotton Compress Com
pany's plant at Eldorado. Ark, accord
ing to a dispatch received ut Little
Rock. The loss is about S1,000,000.
Automobile accidents in the state of
New York were responsible for the
deaths of 1O4 persons. according to a
report of the National H ghway Pro-
ing the corresponding month last year
ninety-five persons We're killed in the
state by auto accidents. The report
shows that of these deaths, fifty-nine
occurred in New Yok city, while dur
ing the same month last year fifty-six
persons were killed in motor car acct
dents in the city.
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.
Twenty foreigners, all striking coal
miners, were refused naturalization
papers at Hillsboro, Ill. by Circuit
Judge w. Il. Jett, when he was in
formed that they had not returned to
work following withdrawal of the
strike order.
AS result of damage done to their
plant by rioters in the railway strike
of 1894, Swift & Company of Chicago,
was awarded S13,5O0 verdict against
the city Claims for nearly Sl,000,0O0
damages growing out of the race riots
last summer are pending.
The eighth international egg-laying
contest Mt the State Agricultural Col
lege at Storrs, Conn.,, ended with vic
tory for the ten Barred Plymouth
Rocks entered by Jules f. Francois of
Westhampton Beach, l.. l. Their total
yield for the fifty-two weeks is 2,022
eggs, this being the only pen in the en-
tire competitiOn to average more than