Cheyenne record., 1920-02-12
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planning to start . L0ndOn-tO- Madr1d
passenger service By airplane within
. few months
Denmark. Norway. Sweden. Finland
and Holland have agreed they will not
fore Russia's debt to nationals Of
those countries has been paid or guar
anteed.
Spain has agreed to defer for one
year payment OF the French debt Of
100000 pesetas now due her, says
the Matin, which denies France has
asked for a new loan Of 100000. 600
pesetas
The French government is deter
mined to maintain reserve Of air
plane pilots. Several flying schools
have been approved to which are to
be sent each year q large number Of
student-fliers.
thirty injured In head-on collision be-
tween an express train and freight
train standing at Perrigny sur
LOgnon, about twenty-one miles east
Of Dijon, France.
An illiterate Austrian earned $5,527
in Canada during q single year Of the
war, as a lab0rer at the Welland steel
foundries, It was learned at st. Cath
arines, when Mike Ennis was fined
for making a false income tax return.
Damage to the amount of 1000 900
was caused at Manila, p. l., when fire
| destroyed half the buildings of the
Philippine Carnival Exposition and the
island exhibits they contained. Many
Of the exhibits were irreplacable and
the loss II serious.
France has bought six former Ger
man transatlantic liners, recently
United States army transports, from
the United States shipping board, 1t
was learned at New York from an Of
ficial Of the board, who refused to al
low the use Of his name.
Rate increases Of 80 to 40 per cent
on Canadian railroads were predicted
as the result Of estimates that deficits
for the current fiscal year would total
$2S. 100000. An investigation is being
made to determine increases necessary
to enable the roads to pay expenses.
GENERAL
Aliens are departing from Chicago,
chiefly the steel mills district, at an
average rate Of 300 day. thereby Gre
ating labor problem that threatens
to become acute.
A bill providing for the granting OF
statehood to the territory Of Hawaii.
under qualifications to be determined
by Congress was introduced by Ha-
waiian Delegate Kalanianaole.
Henry Edward Clement, for twenty
five years editor-in-chief of the Boston
Evening Transcript, died Of heart dis
ease at his home in Concord, in his
77th year. He retired in 1905.
A score of persons were injured
when two electric trains on the Wash.
u ington and Virginia railroad crashed
in a head-On collision in the midst OF
driving sleet storm near Dunn LOr-
ing, Va. ,--s-.s,4...s,.g
The total output of the meat pack
ing industry In the United States for
4 1919 was estimated at more than $5,.
10000, 900, in a statement given out
by the Institute of American Meat
Packers. The estimate was based on
annual reports of more than 500 pack
ing companies which operate under
federal inspection. Profit throughout
the Industry averaged not more than
1h cents on each dollar Of sales, the
report estimated. ;3i
Government officials and prominent
coal operators have been invited to At
tend the meeting Of the American In
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers in New York on Feb. II, at
which n constructive plan for the bet
ter working OF the bituminous coal in
dustry will be presented by Horace v.
Winchell, retiring president of the In
stitute, and Herbert c. Hoover. Mr..
Hoover will be installed rs president
Of the institute at the meeting.
DIR. II. S. Robertson, who shot and
killed Porter NJ. Brindley, member of
the Alabama Legislature at Hartzelle,
Ala, was captured at Falkville, Ala,
by posse. He was taken to Decatur
for lsafekeepinE. EE HH
Consumption Of wool In December
Increased from 2S,OOO,OOO pounds ito
"a, 900. 600 pounds, the monthly report
of the Bureau Of Markets showed.
There was continued demand for
fabrics made from the finer grades Of
wool. "a per cent Of the total censump-
ton being Of the fine grades.
On his way to court to face charge
Of picking pockets, Nathan Palestine
broke away from a policeman ut an
elevated station in New York and,
leaping down on the tracks lay down
with his neck across the rail. An on
coming train severed his head. Hum
80 MIC tho Srrfr