Cheyenne record., 1919-10-16
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Ah"o tuO AcpOII thuI tlle DOIbuOSlh
have been forced to abandon the town
of Dsinsk, between otdRussia and Po-
land. ~ -.
The. .Omsk government of Russia
has directed thorough inquiry into
the recent reported arrest of American
soldiers by Cossack troops and the
flOgging OF one Of them because the
Americans did not have the proper
Identification papers.
General Won der Goltz, commander of
German forces in. the Baltic provinces,
whose activities there have recently
led to sharp exchanges between the al
lied powers and Germany, has, with
his staff. joined the Russian Bolshe-
vik forces, according to Berlin dis
patch.
The German reply TO the allied note
demanding the withdrawal of General
Won der GOltz's troops from the Baltic
provinces was discussed by the Su-
preme Council at the resumption of its
meetings, 1t was considered unsatis-
factory and Marshal FOch was in
strucred TO draw up new note to send
the Germans.
Capt. Andre Tardieu, member Of the
French Peace Commission, speaking at
a meeting of the French-America
Club at Paris, gave interesting figures
:On the reconstruction work accom-
plished since the armistice. Sixty
thousand of the $4,000 houses in the
battle area. wrecked by shell fire have
been rebuilt; 2,O16 kilometers of the
3,246 kilometers of railway destroyed
have been repaired and 700 of the
1875 kilometers of canals rendered
useless in the course Of the hostilitles
are again in commission. OF the 1, 100,
plants destroyed by the enemy 588
have been repaired. Equally remark
able progress is being made in restor-
ing to civilization the vast areas in
the devastated regions which, ut the
end Of the war, embraced 4.5OO,OOO
acres. OF this approximately 100000
acres have been returned to the farm
ers and 100000 acres Of 1t are ready
for the seed.
GENERAL
Henry Mills Alden. editor of Harp
er's Magazine since 1869, died at his
hOAhC III -NS" loih ultSl u
He was 81 years old.
Serbia has enfranchised it's women,
according to cable advices by Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of the
National Woman Suffrage Association.
Mad Halter, owned by S. G. Hildreth
and ridden by Jockey FatOr, won the
$4,000 LatOnia championship stake at
nd otD
Ky.
Race riots broke out at Chester, Pa,
and one man has been shot and killed
and five others injured, some Of them
probably fatally. The dead and injured
all are white. Mayor Mcdowell has
asked the sheriff for assistance in con-
trolling the situation.
Six men were reported killed and
five are said by the police to be dying
as the result of boiler explosion on
the oil steamer Chestnut Hill at Phila-
delphia. The killed and injured were
members of the crew. Several others
were badly burned. The vessel was
getting up steam to depart for Mexico
when the accident occurred.
ltuNhy lhCIcuSCu Use VI oukdl Ia
candy, soft drinks, ice cream and other
luxuries In the United States during
the first nine months Of 1919, 1t was
announced In New York, by the Unit
ed States Sugar Equalization Board,
means that such over Indulgence In
sweets must now be curtailed in some
sections of the East for the next three
MONTHS
The shrek OF French seventy-five
shell calls Edinburgh, Ind, to its work,
sounds lunch time and sends 1t home
in the evening. It's n tame shell, how
ever, adapted to peaceful pursuits. Err
nest Law, returned soldier, converted
the shell into whistle for the French
locomotive of which he was engineer.
Then he brought 1t home and it now
occupies a high place-On the canning
factory roof.
william Warn, farmer charged
with being insane, stood off n sheriffs
posse that attempted to arrest him Mt
Denison, Iowa, by using his wife as
shield, while he fired forty shots.
When his ammunition was exhausted,
he used the last shell to kill himself.
An attempt was made to wreck the
plant of the American Sheet and Tin
plate Company at MckeespOrt, when a
missile believed to have been bomb
was thrown on the shipping depart
ment building. 1t exploded, tearing
large hole in the roof of the structure.
Two men lost their lives and another
narrowly escaped death when he was
cut off from land at the end Of a
burning pier, and property worth ST.
100000 was destroyed in fire that
swept the plant of the Standard GuanO
Company at Curtis bay, Md. The
bodies of the dead men, both negro en-
ployes, are buried in the debris. The