The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1920-05-08
FOREIGN.

the country, with the killing of some
persons In clashes between the police
and demonstrators have been reported
by the Giornal DItalla in Rome.
The emperor of Japan, whose Illness
recently necessitated a visit To the win
ter palace at Hayama, has returned TO
Toxic, according TO Toxic cable TO
the Nippu iii, japanese vernaculaf
newspaper at Honolulu.
Poilu, the 'hairy one" will no longer
he the nickname of the French private
soldier Following the lead of the
American army, the French War De
partment has issued an order permit
ting soldiers TO be smooth shaver. In
many regiments mustaches formerly
were obligatory.
Two alleged anarchists We're killed
and thirty wounded Mt Turin, Italy, in
a May Day clash with detachment
of the royal guards. A group of men
carrying the black flag attacked the
guards with rifles and hand grenades,
seriously wounding two guards. The
guards opened fire.
Warsaw that man named Posrednic-
lie, who is declared to have been one
of the group which assassinated for
mer Emperor Nicholas, was taken from
Jail and handed over to the Bolsheviki,
who took him to the Red front. There
he was shot for high treason.
Two men were killed and nine
wounded in conflict between civil
ians and military at the railway sta
ton at Praga, suburb of Warsaw,
where troops from Posen were entrain-
ing for the front According to the
military authorities the conflict arose
between some of the soldiers and II
group of Jews.
The Allied ReparatiOn Commission
has refused Germanys recent request
not to be deprived of its last ships"
and pointed out that, although it has
been three months since the treaty be-
came effective, not n vessel has been
delivered and that the commissioners
cannot possibly consider further pro
posals until a satisfactory quantity Of
tonnage is surrendered.
GENERAL.
Indications that volcanic eruptions
were taking place on the Island of Old
Providence in the caribbean sea were
reported to New York by the United
Fruit Company steamer Calamares. A
wireless message from the ship said
that volumes of white smoke were OBJ
served ascending from one of its tall
est peaks
Supreme Court Justice Lydon of
New York issued an order permitting
the Equitable Trust Company of New
York to sell approximately S2,OO0,O00
worth of securities held as collateral
on loan to the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad Company contracted some
years ago. Both parties consented to
the step.
Imprisonment for from one TO three
years was the sentence imposed at
Phoenix in the Superior Court on
Harry Hurley, business man and
rancher, convicted on charge of
grand larceny in connection with the
taking of 1,200 sacks of cement be-
longing to the State Highway Commits
sion.
Four hundred and forty-seven Illicit
stills were destroyed in the state of
Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee dur
ing the month of March, according to
reports received by the prohibition
commission at Washington. The seiz-
ures include those made by state pro-
hibition officers, federal revenue Off
GERS and civil guardians of the law.
Fire losses in Manila during 1919
were the largest in the history of the
city, amounting to $40, $4,000 accord
ing to the annual report of the fire
department, made public. The losses
in 1918 amounted to S6,50O,00O. The
large increase is attributed to the fact
that fire-flghting equipment has not
kept pace with the growth of the city.
Thomas w. Simpkins, itinerant print
err who shot and killed DIR. James
Wright Markoe in st. Georges church
in New York several weeks ago, was
found insane. Following the report of
the commission, Simpkins was sent TO
the asylum for criminal insane at Mat
teawan.
Chicago-not Reno-is the greatest
divorce center in the world, according
to Francis Minor Moody of Chicago,
executive secretary of the Information
al Committee on Marriage and Di-
vorce. Mr. Moody explained that the
divorce laws in Chicago We're less rig
id than in New York and most other
large cities. Reno, however, with an
annual record of 1,944 divorces, is still
holding the lead of high percentages.
Twenty-Five seconds-one of the
shortest sentences on record in FEEDER
al courts-was imposed on Jesse Nash,
colored, charged with tampering with
the mails, by Judge X. NJ. Lands at