The Colorado statesman., 1919-07-19
TOREIGN


will start on a trip to India within tho
next few days.
Eighteen million marks gold which
the German government owed Switzer-
land and payment of which had been
stopped temporarily by the allies, was
taken to Switzerland as ordinary
freight.
One officer and six enlisted men
were killed in the destruction Of the
American mine sweeper Richard ii.
Buckley by the explosion of a mine in
the North sea. Two other officers were
injured.
Enver Pasha, Talaat Bey and Djemal
Pasha, the leaders of the Turkish gov
ernment during the war, have been
condemned to death by Turkish court
martial investigating the conduct of
the Turkish government during the
war period.
Marshal Foch was given laurel
wreath of gold by the inhabitants OF
the Department of SelneEtOIs Pres
ident Poincare, speaking at the cere-
mony, held In the palace of Versailles,
euloglzed Marshal Foch for his deeds
during the war.
Twenty-Five thousand French SOL
diers died from tuberculosis during the
war and 10000 men were exempted
from service because of the disease, 1t
was stated in the Senate during a dis
cusslon of bill to establish tubercu-
lOsls sanitarlums.
The first mascots to make the round
trip across the Atlantic by air are n
Maltese cat, "Wopsy," smuggled on
board R-34 at East Fortune in Mechan-
ic Fred Bowdie's hat and dove car
ried on board by another mechanic.
Bowdie said he refused an offer of
$1,000 for "Wopsy" in New York.
Government reports show that 1.00O,-
900 sheep and 100000 cattle have been
drowned in floods in the southern part
of Buenos Aires provinces The rail
ways and telegraphic communications
have been interrupted and several sec
tions in that region have been COM
| pletely isolated for more than a week.
As English law now stands, man
may marry his dead wifes sister, but
a woman cannot wed her dead hus-
| bands brother. The point was made
clear by the presiding Judge at the
| Northampton Assizes the other day in
the case of two women who went
through the marriage service with bro
theirs of their dead husbands. Both
were held for trial.
SPORT
Lew Tender defeated Joe Weihng
of Chicago in a hard siX-rOund fight at
Shibe Park in Philadelphia.
Harry Greb, Plttsburg, and Battling
Levinsky, Philadelphia, fought six
round draw at Philadelphia.
Joe Tiplitz, Philadelphia, knocked
out George ChaRey, Baltimore, in the
third round ut Philadelphia.
Ted (KId) Lewis, former welter-
weight champion, had the better of
sfx-round bout with Steve Latzo of
Hazelton, Pa.
GENERAL
Using an iron wedge, Robert Seifert,
20, beat his mother, 90, to death at
| Alix, Ark The woman's Skull was
crushed. The cause of the crime has
not been learned. Seifert Is In Jail.
A Zeppelin freight and passenger
| transatlantic service to start about
| Oct. 1S, between New York and Ham
burg, with Boston, Chicago, Berlin and
Dusseldorf as ports of call, was an
| nounced in advertisements in German
| language newspapers and one Ameri-
can trade paper published in New
York.
ncl-
killed by Prof. Benjamin Franklin
| Shapelle, head of the department of
romance languages of the summer
school of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, in a fraternity house at Phila-
delphia. The burglar was shot after
he threatened death to Prof. Shappelle
and others living in the fraternity
building.
Mrs. Vera Trepagnier, go years old,
a widow of New Orleans, on trial in
the Criminal Court in Chicago, charged
with the murder of Paul Frederick Vol |
lard, publisher, was found guilty of
manslaughter.
In 1918 automobile manufacturers
paid a total of $50, 100000 in taxes to |
the federal government. In the same
period car owners paid S50,00O,0O0 in
motor registration fees to the states
Total automobile taxes, including the
personal property, local charges, etc,
for the year are estimated at $15O,00O,-
600. The charges will reach S2OO,O0O,-
600 in 1919 All of these are paid by
car owners in the last analysis, making
total charge of $50 per car for 1918.
The presidential ship George Wash
ington, which sails back to France, has
been fitted up with nursery TO take
care of the war babies" returning on