The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-07-26
FOREIGN

that Upper Silesia shall become free
state. The inhabitants of Upper ST.
Iesia, 1t is added, are still demanding
that the district remain German.
Lady Diana Manners Cooper, while
tf@ display OF fireworks in
Hyde Park from the roof of her house
in London, accidentally stepped into
skylight and fell twenty feet, break
ing a thigh and suffering other injur-
les.
Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight
champion, will meet either Joe Beck
EFT, British champion, or Georges Car
pentler, European champion, In Lon
dan early in 1920, according to an an
in London by Promoter G.
b. Cochran.
A Helslngfors dispatch to London
gives refugee from Petrograd as au-
thority for the statement that the
Bolsheviki are offering a quarter of
million dollars for the assassination of
Gen. Justus Mannerheim, the Finnish
regent, with the object of paralyzing
Finnish resistance.
Gen. Franchet D'Esperey, command
er OF the allied forces In the Near
East, announces that he is preparing
to advance upon Budapest, the Hun
garian capital, with 10000 troops.
The army is made up of French col
onials, Rumanians, Jugo-Slavs, Ital-
ians and Hungarians.
Four million children in Europe are
being fed under the auspices of the
American relief administration. This
work probably will be continued
through private charity and under
American direction, even after the con-
clusion of the work of the American
food administration in Europe.
Replying to question in the House
Of Commons, DR.. Frederick G. Kelia-
way, parliamentary secretary to the
ministry of supply, said the govern
ment was considering co-ordinating all
the sources of Oil supply within the
empire with view to preventing es-
adjustment of a world oil monopoly by
financiers
The work of recovering stolen Bel
gian machinery from Germany is pro-
ceeding with full swing. Approximate
ly 1900 tons of machinery are being
shipped back weekly to the original
owners by German industrial firms,
who have set them up in their own
factories. The total tonnage returned
on July LIST was $4,000.
SPORT
Miss Ryan of California won the
Irish ladies' lawn tennis champion
ship" at Dublin from Janet Jackson,
the English representative. The score
was so, 81.
Norman Ross of San Francisco,
United States army, won the SWIM
ming match in the Seine across Paris,
n distance of about $500 meters, in
one hour and thirty minutes. Bacigal-
upo, Italian, was only fOur-fifths of a
second behind Ross. Morris, Austral-
ian, was third. An immense crowd
lined both banks of the Seine and gave
evidence of the popularity of Ross, as
consequence of his victories during
the interallied games, by heartily
cheering him.
GENERAL
James A. Hart, one of the pioneers
of baseball and former president and
owner of the Chicago National League
club, died at his home in Chicago. Mr..
Hart, who was "a years old, had been
in failing health for several years.
Death was caused by organic heart
disease. He is survived by widow
and two children.
Twelve hundred sacks of mail for
Germany, the first to be sent to that
country since the United States en-
tered the war, were carried by the
northumberland line steamship
United States, which sailed from New
York for Copenhagen. From Denmark
the mail will be sent overland to Ger
many.
Chicago's weirdest tragedy occurred
when giant dirigible balloon, the
first army style blimp to visit the city,
caught fire and hurtled through the
skylight of the Illinois Trust and Say
ings Bank, killing u persons, injuring
twenty eight and turning the counting
room of the bank into charnel house
Of horror.
More than 1000 airplanes of the
pleasure type could be sold immediate
ly if manufacturers could make deliv-
cries and more than 500 have been
purchased or ordered in the United
States in the last three months, ac-
cording to statement issued by Hen
ry Woodhouse, vice president of the
Aerial League of America.
The high cost of travelling has been
solved by Mrs. ]. NJ. Franklin, young
graduate nurse of Seattle, Wash. She
is in New York after making the trans
continental trip at cost of S23 The
trip was made as the result OF a $1,000
wager. She walked 432 miles, the rest