Cheyenne record., 1920-11-04
FoREIoN

me manner In Wnlcn bullS are ADMIT
ted to the ring.
Forty-two horses belonging to the
Royal Canadian mounted police were
killed in fire which destroyed the old
winter fair buildings at Brandon, Man,
with loss Of 100000. Efforts Of fire
fighters are being directed toward
saving the new fair buildings and
nearby residences. Z.
Sylvia Pankhurst, who was arrested
on Oct. 10. charged with attempting
to cause sediton in the navy by edit
ing and publishing an issue of the
newspaper, The Workers Dreadnaught,
Oct. 16, was sentenced to six months
imprisonment on conviction for the Of
fense in London.
Alfred Cocchi, charged with murder
of Ruth Cruger, whose body was found
buried in the cellar under his shop
in Brooklyn several months after he
fled to Italy, was convicted of murder.
He was sentenced to twenty-seven
years, four months and three days by
the court in Bologna, Italy.
The municipal employment bureau
announces that $4,000 men and wom-
en- in Germany are unemployed. OF
these, 10000 are in Berlin. The labor
ministry estimates that soon 100000
will be unemployed or on short time.
Women constitute approximately one
fourth Of those idle.
Fourteen Japanese soldiers were
killed and nine were wounded in a re-
cent fight with bandits at Chein-Tao,
Manchurla, in which the outlaws were
routed, say dispatches received. The
bandits lost sixteen killed and the to-
tai casualties inflicted upon them are
said to be heavy.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik min
lister of war, who is directing the re-
grouping Of the Red troops in the
south, has visited points along the
| Dneiper front. 1t. was he who or
| dered the cOpcentrated effort which
| resulted in the evacuation Of Alexan-
| drovsk by the forces Of General
| Wrangel.
| Canadian highways aggregate $1,000
miles, according to figures presented
by government report, and the land
appropriated for their construction and
improvement is valued at $3.50. .OOO, ,OOO
For every mile the public travels on
railways, 1t Is estimated, it travels two
miles on highways Canada has ex-
pended $20,OOO0OO on highways in the
last five years.
Within two years after the armi-
stice, France has practically remade
the vast area of her agricultural soil
which was pitted and Scared beyond
usefulness by the 'ravages of war. Fig
ures received by the French commits
sion in New York show that out Of
100000 acres which were rendered
unfit for cultivation by the effects of
battle from 1914 to 191s only 2sOOOO
acres will not be incondition to per-
NIT Of sowing next spring.
GENERAL
The Alabama Federation Of Labor
in convention at Birmingham adopted
by unanimous vote resolution de-
manding the impeachment of Governor
Kilby for sending state troops into the
coal strike district.
Appropriations totalling nearly $780,
600 for relief work in the Near East
were voted by the executive committee
Of the Near East Relief. A gift of
$15O,OOO from Armenians resident in
the United States, was received, and
the committee appropriated 100000
for immediate purchase Of supplies for
Armenia.
Count Primo Magri, II, second hus-
band of Mrs. Tom Thumb and himself
a famous dwarf, died at n hospital at
Middleboro, Mass, after an illness Of
two weeks. Two weeks ago Count
Magri held an auction sale Of the late
Tom Thumbs effects and those Of his
wife and with the proceeds planned
to return to Italy, the country Of his
birth.
The speed typewriting championship
Of the United States and Canada was
won at New York by George L. Hoss-
field of Paterson, N. j., who typed ap-
proximately 131 words a minute for
sixty consecutive minutes. The con-
test featured the opening Of the seven
teenth national business show.
Many European children, born dur
ing the lean war years, will enjoy the
taste Of sweets next Christmas for the
first time in their lives, rs a result
of price declines in this country. Be-
cause Of lower costs. the American re-
lief administration announced it would
add two and one-fifth pounds Of sugar
and one pound Of cocoa to all pack
ages bought with Hoover food drafts
beginning Nov. 1.
The World Film Corporation must
pay Kitty Gordon 1851 for injuries
received in making war film, &C
cording to decision by the Appellate
division Of the Supreme Court Of New