Cheyenne record., 1919-08-21
VoREIGN


Eighteen million eggs alleged to be
held in storage in St. Louis were
seized by the United States marshal.
Officials refused to give out informa-
tion as to who owns the supply.
Postal authorities at Winnipeg have
been notified that $4,000 was stolen
some night recently from the interior
deposit vaults of the postoffice at Ed
monitor, Alta. No ciew to the thieves
has been found.
In the second raid on food supplies
stored in the Detroit RefrigeratIng
Company's plant at Detroit, agents of
the Department of Justice seized
7.+O4,OOO eggs and approximately 30O,-
600 pounds of butter.
Charges of "eXtortiOnate profits" by
Dallas retail merchants were made by
=. H. Spencer, chief of the bureau "1
| investigation Of the Department of
| Justice, and w. b. Burrell, assistant
| United States district attorney at Dal-
las.
Six Bolshevist battalions were de-
Stroyed in successful Anglo-Russian
| offensive on the Dvina river on Aug.
| 10, the war office announced in Lon
| don. More than 1000 prisoners,
| twelve field guns and many marhne
| guns were captured.
Jack Dempsey heavyweight cham
pion pugilist, will meet Willie Meeham
in an eightround, nO-decisiOn bout in
the East in November, according t" n
statement issued by Meehan, who said
he had the promise of Jack Kearns,
Dempsey's manager, for the match.
So many English women have be-
come confirmed smokers that in re-
cent months railway employees have
heSitated to enforce the rules against
smoking in certain carriages and it
has come to be accepted that if the
| women passengers do not object, every
| compartment becomes a "smoking
car
Charles Downs. night editor of the
FL paso Morning Times. died follow
ing an accident when he was struck by
n street car while returning t" his
| home His skull was fractured and
he suffered Internal injuries. He never
| rcgained consciousness after he was
| injured. He was we'll known in New
| Mexico, where he was a practicn- at
| torney. member of the Legislature and
newspaper editor for IL number of
years before going to FL PasO.
SPORT
bobby Green was Knocked down
| twice in the concluding round of his
| ten-round fight with Al McManuS at
| Tucson. only the gong saving him from
Knockout Mt the end of the tenth
round.
| Fred Gilbert, IL well-known profess
sional, shooter of Spirit Lake, Iowa,
| broke the worlds record for cOntinu-
GUS target breaking at Hampton, Iowa,
according TO telegram. Gilbert
cracked ;lS9 consecutive targets with
out Il miss.
announcement has been made in
Salt Lake by the directors of the Salt
Lake City Baseball Club of the Pa
cific Coast League that $4,000 would
be divided among the players If they
succeeded in winning the League pen
nant this season.
GENERAL
Three children were killed in Pat
terSon park, baltimore, Nd, when an
uirplnnr of the SSth nreo squadron,
stationed nj Langley field, Va, crashed
inta fence behind which We're several
hundred spectators. Seven were i'll
jured.
| Profiterring by the government in
| Jn = Of, NJ. -
foods has been charged by !. A. Ulmer,
| president of the National Retail Gro
| GERS Association, at meeting called
| by Mayor Cornell Schneider 10 discuss
| food prices. Timer charged that the
| government is holding 3.O00.0oO pounds
| of pruncS ut % cents Il pound which
| it bought. he declared, for 1le cents a
| pound.
Moose hunting, duck shooting and
| fishing are included in the itinerary
| of the prince of Wales trip through
| Canada. II sevpnty-day Journey cover
| ing $500 miles.
More than Il million eggs, hundreds
| of thousands of tins of canned foods
and 27.5OO pounds of sugar were
seized ut Jacksonville, Fla, in a raid
on wholesale food warehouses and
cold storage plants by federal author
tiles.
Convicted of bigamy on his confes-
| sion that he has seven living wives,
one of whom he married twice. Charles
| Hugh Wilson, 4S years Old, former Y.
| NJ G. A. secretary, evangelist and trav-
| cling salesman, was sentenced to three
years and six months in Sing Sing
prison, where he announced he Will
take up prison reform work.
One Of the few American women
who gained the French c"oix de guerre
| for bravery and heroism under fire in