Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-09-16
FOREIGN

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August resulted in an excess Of exports
over imports, according to official sta
tistics.
Fifteen thousand cholera cases have
been reported officially from Korea
with 5000 deaths, in the present cpl
demic.
Armed and masked men attacked
four police officers at Tullow, Ireland.
Two Of the constables were shot dead
and another seriously wounded.
The Polish armies Of the northeast
ern front delivered series Of success
5000 prisoners, four guns and two
armored trains.
Advices from West Siberia an
nounce the formation Of a peasant re-
public in the Altai region, with a war
council composed Of the military chiefs
and three civilians.
The French police have begun
thorough investigation into the death
of Olive Thomas, an American motion
picture actress who succumbed In
Paris to poison taken, it IL said, by
mistake.
Three companies Of Italian infantry
have seized a factory at Lucca, which
had been occupied by wOrkmen and
have forced the men in the plant to
surrender 10000 bombs, according to
dispatches.
The son of Leon Trotzky, war min
@. 0f to< lii InI In,
the fighting on the Russo-Polish front,
according to a Central News dispatch
from Cracow, Poland, crediting the
information to the Cracow Kmrjer.
Thirty men were killed, scores
wounded and damage amounting to
$25O,OOO was done by the explosion Of
dynamite In Callao bay at Lima, Peru.
Negligence in handling the explosive
is declared to have caused the acci-
dent.
A new journal, with policy of open
opposition to the league of nations,
will attempt publication in Geneva in
November, when the first meeting of
the league is to be held at Geneva.
The projected publication is sponsored
by intellectuals Of various countries
who are against the treaty of Yer
sailles.
An order rendered at Toronto, Ont,
by Justice Middleton approves the ac-
tion of II. Homer Smith, receiver for
the Mexican Northwestern Railway,
Limited, in filing a claim for $4,000, 900
gold against the Mexican government
for alleged damages suffered by the
road during revolutionary disturb
ances. The claim was filed by the COM
mission appointed by decree Of the
Mexican government in 1917. Smith
was appointed receiver for the road in
1914, in an action by certain bondhold-
ers to enforce mortgage.
GENERAL
Bodies of 7G3 American soldiers
were brought home from st. Nazaire
and other points in France on the
transport Sherman.
Six persons were killed, an equal
number probably fatally injured and
many others more or less seriously hurt
in street car accident near Fairmont,
W. Va.
+. II. Mefford, aged forty, of Grand
Rapids. Mich, and Guy Dickman, aged
twenty-five, Williamsport, Pa, were
killed at Wilkesbarre, Pa. when
hydroaeroplane, piloted by Dickman,
fell 500 feet
Automobile export demand for the
fiscal year is nine times greater than
the pre-war mark. Records for the
| fiscal year 1920. just ended, show that
automobiles and parts of automO-
biles valued at $232, ,252, ,376 were ship
ped to foreign countries.
Nearly $9OOOOO,OOO in gold bars,
said to be the largest amount Of gold
in any one place in the world, has been
transferred from the subtreasury build
ing in New York to the new assay
building next door. Most of the gold
was melted from English sOvereigns
and French 2O-franc pieces.
Nine men are dead and four are
i'll in the hospital at Edgewood
arsenal, at Baltimore, from drinking
Il liquor, the principal ingredient OF
which was said to be wood alcohol.
Evelyn Nesbit has been named de-
fendant in suit for $2,9SS begun by
Frances & Co., Inc, dressmakers, for
merchandise alleged to have been sold
between Oct. 1st and Oct 31st, 1919.
Among the items charged were gowns,
hats, wraps and capes.
Street frontage Is SO valuable in
Broad street at the Curb market In
New York, where the brokers take
your money by wiggllng their fingers,
that a four-pane window on the
ground flo2r Of No. . rents for 5000
a month. It is paid by four concerns,
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