The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-30
voREIGN

plane service between that city ana
Naples.
The Belgian Senate has unanimously
approved the peace treaty with Ger
many. The Chamber of Deputies rati-
fled the treaty August Sth.
The son of the Earl of March and
heir presumptive of the dukedom Of
Richmond, is dead of wounds received
In battle on the Archangel front.
Mrs. Mary Lyman Burns, sister of
the late ]. Pierpont Morgan, who died
at her London home recently, left an
estate valued at more than S3,000,0O0.
A Toxic cable says an epidemic of
cholera is threatening Toxic. Several
cases have been reported The infec-
ton, the cable said, was brought to
Toxic from Shanghai.
A new Zeppelin airship, on it's maid
en- trip from Friedrichshafen TO Berlin,
covered the 435 miles in little more
than six hours. The aircraft attained
maximum speed of 100 kilometers
"a little more than seventy-four and
a half miles) an hour
Crown Prince Charles of Rumania
has written n letter TO his father, King
Ferdinand, renouncing for himself and
his heirs his rights and privileges as
heir apparent to the Rumanian throne,
according TO dispatch.
King Alfonso signed the law author
izing adhesion by Spain to the coven-
ant of the League of Nations COM
prised in the treaty of Versailles, that
part of the treaty dealing with the or
ganiaztion of labor also being accepted
by Spain.
While Herman Schumann wooed and
won a sweetheart during the last few
years, he murdered ten persons,
robbed scores of others and saved
enough from his career to marry. Now
he is charged with being the champion
murderer of Germany.
Five million Germans have filed
with the Central Bureau of Immigra-
tion and its sixty-four sub-stations ap-
plications for permission to leave Ger
many. The majority of the intending
emigrants are turning their eyes to-
ward South America. A large number
also have indicated their desire to
settle in Palestine.
GENERAL
The seamen's strike at Sydney, n. S.
W., ended when a mass meeting of the
men decided to reman the ships af-
fected Immediately.
Joseph q. Wilholt, Wichita Western
League Outfielder, ended his batting
streak in which he set a new worlds 8
record by hitting safely in sixty-nine
consecutive games.
Two bank messengers of the Fidel-
ity Trust Company were held up and
robbed of $4,000 by four masked ban
dts in Boston. The robbers made their
| escape in an automobile.
Willis E. Davis of San Francisco,
defeated Norman E. Brookes, Austral-
ian tennis star, 1851, 1412, in the
semi-final round of the Meadow Clubs
cup mems singles at Southampton, N.
Y.
Wearing the French war cross with
two palms, Marie Gondier, a 21-year-
old Belgian girl, who was once con
demned by the Germans to be shot as
spy, arrived in New York from
France on the steamship La Lorraine
to become an American citizen through
adoption.
The Irish republic mission has an
nounced the opening of headquarters
in New York to carry on the work OF
| floating the $40, 100000 Irish republic
bond issue to be undertaken by the
American commission on Irish inde
| pendence under the craftsmanship ot
| Frank p. Walsh.
Seven of the Mexican bandits who
robbed sailors from the United States
month have been apprehended and put
to death by the CarranZa authorities
according to an official report from
| General Pueblo Gonzales to Mexican
Consul Meade Fierro at Galveston
Twelve members OF the crew of the
four-masted auxiliary schooner Elmer
Roberts arrived in Yarmouth, n. S.
and reported that their ship loaded
with ammunition, caught fire and blew
up at sea.
The Third Division of the American
| army, one of the last divisions to leave
| French soil, has subscribed S31, 600 fol
| two monuments to be erected on the
flanks of tho approach to the Marne
bridge which its Seventh Machine Cur
Battalion dynamited in defending the
crossing against the great German of
fensive in the spring of 1918, it was
announced by Maj. Gen. Robert l.
Howe, division commander.
A reward of $1,000 for the apprehen
sion of Paul j. B. Haverly, grant
keeper of records and seal of the
knights of Pythias Grand Lodge OF
Illinois, missing since Aug. 6, was an
nounced by Smith l.. Won Fossen OF
Beardstown, ILL.,, grand chancellor Ot