Cheyenne record., 1919-07-31
FOREIGN

Two British minesweepers collided
and one was sunk, according to word
reaching Helsingfors. 1t is estimated
that thirty-six lives were lost.
The council of five, il was learned
in Paris, has notified Admiral Won Tir-
pitz, former German minister of ma
rine, that his substitution for the ex
kaiser in assuming guilt for the war Is
impossible and cannot be considered.
Will F. Archibald, who handled the
first cable message ever sent across
the Atlantic, addressed by the late
Queen Victoria to the President of the
United States, is dead at NanaimO, b.
c. He was 81 years old and had been
telegrapher since the age of ii.
All reserves of the French army in
cluding the class of 1917 will be demob-
ilized by the middle Of October, accord
ing to plans completed by the govern
ment and published in Paris. There
would remain in service members of
the classes Of 1918, 1919 and 1920.
japanese newspapers announce that
shihitO will soon visit the United
States, Great Britain and France for
military inspection. They will stay
| abroad for about three years. The i'm
| perial travellers are Princes I<itashira
kawa, Asaka and Higashf Kuni.
Twelve hundred sacks of mail for
Germany, the first to be sent to that
country since the United Stutes en-
tered the war, were carried by the
Scandnavian-American line steamship
United States, which sailed from New
York for Copenhagen, From Denmark
the mail will be sent overland to Ger
| many.
Twenty thousand hostages are rc
ported to huve been. arrested in PetrO-
j grad In the last three weeks and PetrO-
grad newspapers publish almost daily
lists of from fifty to 100 persons who
have been executed for various rea
sons The names of all those in charge
of the diplomatic archives of foreign
legations in Petrogrn,l appear on the
| lists.
| The Philippine Legislature purposes
The ,enuctInent of IL prohibition meas
| ure for the islands in the event ii ia
held that the national prohibition
amendment recently ratified in the
United States does not apply to the
Philippines. This announcement was
made by Legislative leaders. The pro
posed measure. il was said would he
an exact copy of the act of the Amer
lean government.
SPORT
Leo IIouck of Seattle and young"
Cyclone" Brown of San Francisco
| fought ten rounds to Il draw at PhUe-
nix. They are lightwcights.
Frank Bnrricu of San Francisco was
| given the decision after II twrlve-round
huXing match at Boise, Ida, with Al
Sommers, n fighter recently Released
from the army
Tommy Carter. lightweight champion
of the Southern department, United
States army, won the decision over
otto Wallace of Milwaukee, in Il fif-
lern-rnund bout staged at Fort Bliss
The fight was fast all the way and the
| decision II CLOSE one.
GENERAL
Broadway, New York. is Il much ma
| ligned street, according to city Off
cinls. who announced that the ''crops
along the famous thorOughfure will
reap value this year of more than
S7O,OOO. Thee rops are real crops, too,
running principally to sweet corn and
peas, grown in vacant lots along
Broadway's eleven-mIle extent.
The death of Patrick Cudnhy. mil
| lionaire packer of Milwaukee. brother
of Edward \. Cudahy, president of the
| cudahy Packing Company, one of the
| five great packing firms of Chicago,
| removed the third of the Cudnhy bro
| theirs whose rise to great wealth and
| influence made one of the remarkable
chapters of the history Of Western
business.
Thirteen thousand ounces of plat
mum have been sold by the ordnance
department of the army, it was an
nounced in New YORK.. The mineral
sold at 500 an ounce.
Nathan Strauss, wealthy New York
merchant and phiInnthropiSt, may be
the first mayor of .IeruSnlrm when,
under the pact made by Britain after
its conquest, the ancient llrbraic city
becomes II Jewish commonwealth in
Palestine
Chic,goS wrirleSt tragedy occurred
when IL giant dirigible balloon, the
first army style blimp to visit the city,
caught fire and hurtled thrnu III"
81 yIipht nf thn IIljnOiS TruSt AZ SAY
ings Bank, killing II persons. inJurIng
twenty eight and turning the counting
room of the bank into II churnel hOus,
OF horror.
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