The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
FOREIGN


ty-four injured in collision between
an express train and troop train in
France. The express was running
from Paris to Nancy and Strasbourg.
Several collisions occurred between
food dealers and consumers in France
in the southeastern provinces and else
where. AT Brest the dock workers
seized provisions in the central mark
cts and sold them at half prices.
French pilots and observers killed
and wounded during the war aggre
gated 60 per cent of the total flying
personnel of slightly less than $4,000
men. The percentage of loss was
greater than that of any other branch
of the French army.
Former Emperor William, who has
been living at Amerongen since his ar
rival in Holland, has purchased the es-
tate and house of Doom at the village
of Doom, near Utrecht, according to
the Dagblad. The estate was bought
from Baroness de Baufort. 1t is about
five miles north of Amerongen, in the
direction of Utrecht.
Is IL boilI
in body and spirit, and long time will
elapse before the efficiency of her peo-
pie is restored, it is declared in re
port of British scientists on food con
ditions in Germany. The wartime semi
starvation of the people is responsible
for the slowness with which recovery
will be effected, according to these
authorities.
To recover more than S3,000,000 in
gold, part of the fortunte of the late
Dom Paul Kruger, once president of
the Transvaal, which is believed TO be
cemented in the hold of the bark
Dorothea, sunk on Tenedoes reef off
the coast of Zululand is one of the
projects which may be revived as a
result of improvement in the science
of salvaging sunken ships.
The magnificent former imperial
yacht Meteor, in which the eX-kaiser
used to make his annual summer
cruises in northern waters, is offered
for sale at the price of half million
marks ($125,000). German kaiserist
newspapers are denouncing the offer,
idea" an insult to the ex-monarch, and
secondly, because they regard the
price as "ridiculously low
SPORT
Jack Dempsey heavyweight cham
pion pugilist, will meet Willie Meeham
In an eight-round, nodecision bout in
the East in November, according to
statement issued by Meehan, who said
he had the promise of Jack Kearns,
Dempsey's manager, for the match.
GENERAL
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 clew to the thieves
has been found.
George Peters, 30, farmer of
arundel, Prince Georges county,
Maryland, was murdered and his body
set afire by an unidentified negro.
Catherine Peters, his daughter, was
shot through the breast and arm and
taken to Washington hospital.
Three members of the board of di-
rectors of the American League, con-
| stituting Il majority of the board, or
dered Pitcher Carl Mays reinstated at
special meeting in New York, thus
multiplying the action of President
| johnson in suspending him.
Agents of the investigation branch
at Detroit of the Department. of Jus
| Sn in nj /
visited frozen hog was found which
they We're told had been in storage
twenty-five years. The officials de-
clared that while they believed that
if the hog really had been held for
that length of time, it was through an
oversight; they intend to investigate
| further.
More than million eggs, hundreds
| of thousands of tins of canned foods
and 27,500 pounds of sugar were
seized at Jacksonville, Fla, in n raid
on wholesale food warehouses and
cold storage plants by federal author
| tiles
Charges of "extortionate profits Dy
Dallas retail merchants were made by
p. II. Spencer, chief of the bureau OF
investigation of the Department OF
Justice, and w. b. Burrell, assistant
United States district attorney at Dal-
las.
Three children were killed in Pat.
terson park, Baltimore, Md, when an
airplane of the SSth areo squadron,
stationed at Langley field, Va, crashed
inta fence behind which were several
hundred spectators. Seven We're in.
jured
Police are combing Detroit for three
automobile bandits who in broad day
light held up William Baldwin, aged
81, collector for the Standard Oil
Company, in Spruce street, and robbed
him of leather bag containing $1,000