The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-21
FOREIGN


During an attempt to put down a
strike near Sombarheek, western Hun
gary, 10S railway men were killed. The
strike is continuing.
One American soldier was killed, two
ared ying and more than 100 others
were injured as the result of the col
lapse of Knights of Columbus hut at
Pontanezen, while a boxing match was
In progress.
A rioting in connection with a Com
munise demonstration in Vienna, eight
persons were killed and sixty-six in
jured. The trouble began when 5000
demonstrants attempted to obtain the
release from prison of Communist
leaders arrested.
DIR. Theodor Melchoir, one of the five
principal delegates, and Frau Dorl-
blush, one of the secretaries to the
German peace delegation, were struck
on the head with stones during a dem
onstration against the German dele
gates when they departed from Yer
sailles.
Adjutant Casale, the French aviator
who established a new world altitude
record in France by ascending to a
height of 10,100 meters Approximately
33, 1856 feeD. The flight was made in
fifty-five minutes. The temperature
at the height of 1O,1OO meters was
6 degrees below zero.
Capt. John Alcock and Lieut.. Arthur
w. Brown, in their Vickers-V Vimy BIZ
plane, landed at Clifden, Ireland, COM
pleting the first nonstop airplane flight
across the Atlantic. Their trip from
st. Johns, n. F., was made in sixteen
hours and twelve minutes. In taking
the ground the machine struck heav-
lily and the fuselage ploughed into the
sand. Neither of the occupants were
injured.
SPORT
According to time taken by Victoria
timers at a school meet in Victoria, a
worlds record for the 10O-yard dash
was made by a 14-year-old girl, Ada
Algar, who covered the distance in 91R
seconds. The worlds record is 80
seconds.
ter's corps of Crawford, Neb., finished
first in the elimination preliminaries
for the pistol team to represent the
United States in the interallied small
arms competition which begins June
22nd at Lemans, France.
Joe Beckett retained his title to the
heavyweight championship of Great
Britain by knocking out Frank God
dard in the second round of what was
to have been twenty-round match at
the Olympic club in London. The
purse was $4,000.
The five-ounce gloves with which
Dempsey and Willard will battle July
have reached Toledo from San Fran
cisco. They were especially built by
Sol Levinson, who has made all the
gloves for championship contests for
the last twenty years. Richard or
dered two sets to guard against acci-
dents.
GENERAL
A verdict of $4,000 against the
Pennsylvania Railroad was given by
a Hartford county jury because Il train
ran over fire hose stretched across
the tracks at Aberdeen, Nd, allowing
n large storehouse to burn to the
ground.
Jewels valued at more than $25, 5,OOO
We're taken from the residence of Mrs.
Nellie Magnus Loeb, daughter of the
late Adolphus Busch, during a party
in Chicago. The robbers worked with
in sight of the party on the front
veranda.
The imperial Russian governments
$50,000,000 61s per cent three-year
credit has matpred and will not be
paid, according to statement which
was received from f. Ughet, charge
d'affaires ad interim and financial at
tache to the Russian embassy at Wash
ington, and made public in New York
by the American banking syndicate
which subscribed to the loan.
A driver of an automobile truck
loaded with silk valued at 100000 and
his helper We're boldly kidnapped near
Paterson, n. j., by two highwaymen
who, after making off with the silk,
locked their two victims in the truck
The kidnapping and robbery took place
on the high road near Morristown,
N. j.
The NC-4, the first airplane to make
the transatlantic flight should have an
honored place in the Smithsonian In
stitute, the governments museum at
Washington, according to F. II. Rus
sell, president of the Manufacturers
Aircraft Association. Mr.. Russell both
wrote and telegraphed Secretary Dan
iels, urging that the NC-4 be given a
permanent place in the national muse
um beside the Wright biplane.
John Kelli, Honolulu swimmer, is
now regarded as possible successor