The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
FOREIGN

demic.
Armed and masked men attacked
four police officers at Tullow. Ireland.
Two of the constables were shot dead
and another seriously wounded.
A number OF the members of the diet
are planning to visit the United States
next summer with hope OF improving
the relations between Japan and the
United States.
The Polish armies of the northeast
ern front delivered series of success
full attacks upon the Russians and took
5000 prisoners, four guns and two
armored trains
Advices from West Siberia an
nounce the formation of n peasant re-
public in the Altai region, with 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 is 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.
Johan Aason of Numedahl, Norway,
who is eight feet and nine inches tall
and weight 503 pounds, walked into
police station in Chicago and confided
that he was lost. The police captain
directed him to his hotel.
According to estimates by the Jap
anese press, Japan will have 120 sub
marines by 1927, when it is expected
eight battleships and eight battle crui-
sers on the naval building program
will have been completed.
The soviet government of Russia
has published figures claiming that
under the 1919 program the total Red
army strength, actual and potential,
was 4,750,000 men, and that this pro-
gram has been restored as a result of
the Polish campaign.
Thirty men were killed, scores
wounded and damage amounting to
$250000 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.
new journal, with a 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
GENERAL
Bodies of 783 American soldiers
were brought home from st. Nazaire
and other points in France on the
transport Sherman.
Nine men are dead and four are
i'll in the hospital at Edgewood
arsenal, at Baltimore, from drinking
liquor, the principal ingredient of
which was said to be wood alcohol.
The Connecticut legislature in ses-
sion at Hartford, by concurrent action
ratified the woman suffrage amend
ment to the federal constitution, max
ing Connecticut the thirty-seventh
state to ratify.
Evelyn Nesbit has been named de-
fendant in a suit for S2,9SS begun by
Frances & Co., Inc, dressmakers, for
merchandise alleged to have been sold
between Oct. list 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 wiggling their fingers,
that n four-pane window on the
ground floor of No. 20 rents for $4,000
month. 1t is paid by four concerns,
Nash & Co., Agostine & Co., NJ. Halt
mayer and Joe Goldstein.
Omaha, Neb.-U. G. Bridenbaugh, So,
retired banker of Coleridge, Neb., end
ed his life here by jumping from n
bridge into the Missouri river. He had
suffered a nervous breakdown from
overwork, it was said, and had been un-
der treatment at Council Bluffs hos
ptal. His physician gave him permis-
sion to leave the hospital temporarily
to attend theater in Omaha.
Rural letter carriers purpose to start
n campaign among congressman and
United States senators for the enact
ment Of legislation granting them an
allowance for maintenance of equip
ment, it was learned at Indianapolis,
when the first annual convention Of
the National Federation of Rural Let
ter Carriers was convened. The
amount to be asked will be 5000 an
nually, it was said.
A spread of infantile paralysis in the
vicinity of Boston, which, while not an