Cheyenne record., 1920-07-22
FOREIGN

Marshal Hindenburg's house in Berlin |
and fired at the field marshal. The |
bullet missed its mark and the man
escaped.
Five thousand Bolshevist troops
were killed and 1000 taken prisoner
when forces of General Wrangel
trapped and surrounded 5000 red
cavalrymen in the Crimea, according |
to news dispatch from CONSTANT
nople.
DR.. Alvara Tore Diaz, until recently
confidential agent Of Provisional Pres
ident de Ia Huerta in Washington. said
he was well impressed with the atti-
tude of the United States toward the
new government in Mexico, according
to an interview published in Ell Uni
versal at Mexico OtT,
Schumann, characteristics by the Vos-
siche Zeitung as one Of the cruelest
and blOodiest murderers of all time,
has been sentenced to death by jury
in the Court Of Assizes at Berlin. The
jury found him guilty of six murders
eleven attempted murders and n num-
ber of other atrocities.
Prime Minister Meighen, at Ottawa,
Can, announced election of his cab
met containing all the members ex.
cept two of the cabinet of Sir Robert
Borden, his predecessor. The new
cabinet officers are r. w. Wigmore,
minister of customs and internal
of public works.
Sweeping reforms in the tariffs
charged by railways, especially freight
| rates, are being made by the secrernry
of communications and public works,
says the Excelsior of Mexico. Changes
| in the rates will be made after con-
ference with all interests involved, the
department having adopted methods
pursued by the United States Inter
state Commerce Commission.
| A silencer for airplane engines, more
highly developed than an automobile
muffler, is announced by a Swiss air
plane firm as the invention of its chief
engineer. The first public demOnstra-
tion of the device is to be made on the
Geneva-Paris air service. 1t is assert
ed the noise of the motor is completely
silenced and that the invention is of
great Importance from military point
Of view.
GENERAL
| A large consignment of liquor found
on board a steamer bound for New Or
leans was seized by the customs au'
thorities at Kingston, Jamaica.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of former
President William Howard Taft, has
been married at Murray Bay to Fred.
erick Johnson Manning, instructor in
history at Yale University.
Reports from the lower Yakima val.
ley, in Washington, which was flooded
by a cloudburst, indicate an estimated
damage of $250,OOO. Railroad tracks
were washed out between Mills Sid
ing and Granger.
Hundreds of bushels of Michigan
cherries will not be harvested because
of unsatisfactory market conditions.
according to an announcement from f,
]. Rogers, an officer of the National
Cherry Growers Association.
Alex Hedberg. 81 years of age, en-
ployed as teller in the Union Bank
Iol NllCuSo loI IL HUIuDCl VI edis .,
been arrested after he was said to have
confessed taking $4,000 from the bank
within the last three or four years.
Benjamin w. Lewis, 16, of Brooklyn
". Y, mascot of the Brooklyn National
baseball club, drowned in the swim
ming pool at an amusement park at
Columbus, Ohio. Hundreds of bathers
and his sisters, Dorothy, II, and Jane
8, saw him drown.
Eight million bottles of champagne
will be among the items on the lists
of the commodities to be placed on sale
July 2S when the Sequestered prop
erty of Baron Walter de Mumm will
be auctioned off ut his estate near
Rheims. This property was seized In
1913 subsequent to the barOn's re-
sumption of German citizenship when
the war began.
Appointment of Japanese-Ameri-
can joint high commission by the two
governments to study the question of
japanese immigration to this country
was advocated by DIR. Jacob Gould
Schurman, former president of Cornell
University, in an address at n luncheon
of the Council on Foreign Relations
ut New York.
Wheat and corn crops will be
greater in the state this year than ever
before, according to forecast by the
Colorado crop reporting service made
public. The report Is based upon crop
conditions on July /. 1t is estimated
that 4,49S,OOO bushels of wheat will be
harvested. The yield of corn is placed
at 15,OOO,OOO bushels. The average in
crease over any previous year is about
IL per cent, according to the report.
| Richmond Va William Turner,