The Colorado statesman., 1919-07-12
EOREIGN

submarine war, De Drought 10 lrlhl, hC-
cording to reports in London.
Several persons were killed and a
large number wounded in disturbances
at Kattowits, Upper Silesia, according
to advices from Beuthen. Germans and
Poles took part in the disorders.
The doctors of Paris have decided
to increase their fees and they will
charge double their rates before the
war. Fees for services at night will
be three times the pre-war rate.
Field Marshal Hindenburg has ad-
dressed an open letter to Marshal Foch
begging him to use his influence to
save the former kaiser from trial by
the allies. He repeats his offer to sub
stitute himself for the former emperor
for trial
Through the mediation of allied rep
resentatives an armistice between the
Esthonians and Germans has been
signed at Riga. 1t provides that all
German troops shall leave Riga and
that the Germans evacuate Letvia at
the earliest possible moment.
Approval of a plan for a concerted
attack upon Petrograd by Finnish
troops and the forces OF the Kolchak
government at Omsk was given by the
council of five. A joint note has been
sent the military attaches of the Unit
ed States, Great Britain, France and
Italy at Helsingfors, instructing them
to support the Finnish government If
it decided to accede to the request of
Admiral Kolchak to assist him in the
campaign.
Premier Clemenceau has begun his
visit to the devastated regions, enter
ing the zone of protracted warfare at
st. Quentin. The premier encouraged
the people to question him and bring
forward any complaints which they
had to make, and they were not slow
in so doing In addressing the popula-
ton of st. Quentin, NJ Clemenceau de-
clared now that peace is concluded, the
work of reconstruction and reform
would be the governments foremost
care.
SPORT
Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight
championship of the world from Jess
Willard in three rounds at Toledo, o.,
July 4th Dempsey received $2T, 900,
while Willard got 100000.
Carl Macke knocked out Young Jack
Dillon of Denver in the fourth round
of a scheduled ten-round fight at Wal
lace, Idaho. The battle was fast and
furious while ii lasted.
Tex Rickard may promote another
championship fight and it may be held
in the arena built for the willard
Dempsey fight If he does it will be
between Lightweight Champion Benny
Leonard and Charlie White of Chicago.
There was difference of fifty-slI
pounds in the weight of Jess Willard
and Jack Dempsey when they entered
the ring for their heavyweight cham
pionship contest. The new champion
weighed 1877 pounds, while Willard
scaled 243.
A worlds record for two-year-old
trOtters was broken at North Randall
when Mr.. Dudley, bay gelding, owned
and driven by Lyman Bruse of Ches-
ter N. Y, was timed :02 "a in half
mile dash during the Grand Circuit
races. The quarter was raced in 31h
seconds.
GENERAL
Calumet and Hecla and subsidiary
mines in Michigan announced re-em-
ployment for all underground men.
Three thousand men returned to work.
Three of the men who robbed the
First National Bank of Downers Grove
of SO, 900 on July 3, are under arrest,
the police declare, and $4,000 of the
loot has been recovered.
AS the Princess Matoika with 1854
Germans slipped out of the harbor for
Holland, she passed the transport OF
sego with 1000 Yankees returning
from France. With the sailing of the
Matoika almost 5000 Germans have
been repatriated through the local
port.
Arthur S. Raymond, a mining engi-
neer from Joplin, Mo-, leaped to his
death from the roof of the twenty-story
Commodore hotel in New York. No
reason for his act is known
President Wilson set foot on Ameri-
can soil for the first time in five
months at the port of embarkation,
Hoboken, N. ]. Just before the George
Washington was made fast, President
Wilson stood on the bridge Of the
steamer, which had brought him back
from the peace conference in Paris
acknowledging the cheers of thousands
of persons, afloat and ashore.
A mob of 5000 persons at Lancaster,
Pa, attacked w. w. Cox while he was
addressing a street meeting at Colum-
bia. Cox, who was severely beaten,
WAS placed under arrest The crowd