The Colorado statesman., 1919-03-08
FOREIGN

ports that Bolsheviki have occupied
the island of Oesel and assassinated
the secretary of the German legation,
his wife and courier.
An American airman, Second Lieut..
Lee Cossing, was killed instantly near
London. The machine in which he was
flying nose-dived, crashing to the earth
on the Haddngtonshire coast.
Typhus is spreading at an alarming
rate in Russia and the food situation
is very bad. Such food as is available
is held at prohibtive prices, according
to advices reaching this country.
The radical party of Chile has
drawn up petition to the govern
ment asking it to follow the example
of the United States and prohibit the
consumption of alcoholic beverages in
Chile.
The entente has promised military
support to Crown Prince Alexander of
Serbia in the event of any republican
movement, according to a dispatch
from Vienna, quoting Information
which was said to have been received
from Belgrade.
The Overseas club in London is APP
preaching its members in all parts of
the globe with a view to their cooper
alton in securing worldwide illum-
nation by means of a chain of bon
fires on peace night-the night of the
signing of the peace treaty.
Not guilty. was the verdict spoken
by three judges in the assiZes court of
the department Seine-et-Marne,
France, and Marie Lescont, Il dress
maker, %, knelt down and prayed. She
had severed a vein in the child's foot
and let the babe bleed TO death, be-
cause, taken prisoner at Maubeuge,
she had unwillingly become the mother
of German child.
Marshal Foch now has completed
armistice terms to Germany, which
are expected to approximate the mill
tary and naval conditions of the peace
treaty, and they will result in the
complete rehabilitation of the German
army, disarmament throughout Ger
many and inspection of German NUM-
lions works by an interallied commits
sion. Germany's armed strength for
the purpose of meeting internal disor-
ders is expected to be fixed at about
twenty-five divisions.
SPORT
Johnny Dundee of New York defeat
ed Johnny Mealey of Philadelphia in
siX-round fight at Philadelphia.
Willie Meehan of San Francisco won
a decision over Sam Langford, the
;f,It In, nd
bout at San Francisco.
Minnesota won its tenth straight
Western conference basketball victory
by defeating Illinois 20 to .. Mime
sota's strong defense held Illinois to
one field goal.
Pitcher Harry Halle of the New
York National league club was pur-
chased by the Cincinnati club, accord
ing to an announcement at the office
of the latter club.
]. Franklin Baker, star third base
man of the New York Americans, will
not return to the club next season, ac-
cording to n letter received from him
by Manager Higgins in New York.
GENERAL
Two men We're shot and probably
fatally wounded and n third slightly
hurt in an outbreak of insurgency in
meeting of about 500 members of u
plumbers union in Chicago.
Twenty-Five dollars glass-which
is merely at the rate of 500 a quart
will be the price of imported cham
payne after July 30--if there happens
10 no lnf than-orpnr1inu A n
announcement of local dealers of New
York.
Two persons were killed and several
injured when the Catholic Home for
the Aged was destroyed by fire mt Fon
du Lac, Wis. Mary Wenard, aged so,
and John Matthews, aged 70, the lat
ter cripple, were suffocated in their
rooms.
The Victory Liberty Loan bill was
passed by the House with just three
dissenting votes.
Jerry Doc" Koehler, 6S, said to
have been the originator of the first
flea circus in the United States, is
dead at Evansville, Ind. Koehler for
many years travelled over the country
with his flea circus, exhibiting the
fleas, which had been taught to do
tricks, under magnifying glass.
Short line railroads will be reim-
bursed for competitive traffic diverted
to government controlled railroads be-
tween April l and Nov. l, 1918, and
hereafter will be given the same pro-
portion of competitive traffic that they
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