Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1921-01-06
FOREIGN

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ures to be taken by the Seine depart
mental council to reduce infant NOR.
tality.
DIR. Louise Pearse and Miss Eliza
beth Bowen Of New York have re-
turned to Brussels after six months
study of the sleeping sickness in the
Congo. They made practical test Of
q new remedy which 1t is hoped will
diminish fatalities from the disease.
The French Socialist party by a
large majority, voted in favor Of abso-
lutte affiliation with the Moscow inter
rationale. Efforts are now proceeding
to keep the Socialist party intact but
the probability seems to be that the
organizations should be split in two.
The annual report OF the Brazilian
Bank Of Germany shows net profits Of
1900, ,303 marks as against 10000
marks for the previous year. The re-
port says that "the reconstruction Of
the bank was caused by the favorable
development Of the foreign trade Of
Germany"
King Constantine has declared to
delegations from the provinces that he
must go to the Smyrna front. He is re-
ceiving kilograms of felicitation from
all parts of the country. Constantine
slowly and carefully is formulating the
speech with which he will open parlia-
ment on Jan. 8.
News from Armenia continues con-
fused. The territory of the Armenian
soviet republic is the scene OF military
movements of Russian troops. The
country appears in complete anarchy;
the bulk Of the Armenian army has
taken to the hills and many towns and
villages are being looted.
Cancellation of President Iroygen's
usual holiday trip gave strength to ru-
mOrs of an impending general strike at
Buenos Aires. Workers generally were
said to be planning a walkout to sup
port ferry hands and naphtha work
ers. The presidents trip was post
pOned because of the extraordinary
situation now prevailing" according to
newspapers.
GENERAL
Four men are seeking to recover in
court at Milwaukee $2,725 lost in an
African domino game in which it Is al
legged ''loaded" dice We're used.
An entire family of seven was wiped
out by fire at Fairfield, Conn. The
victims We're Felix Yackimovitch, "a;
his three sons, and three daughters.
The Union cotton mills at Lafayette,
Ga, one Of the plants Of the American
Textile Corporation, announced full
time operation would be resumed at
once, but that reduction of 10 per
cent In wages would be made.
Retail prices of practically all cloth
ing reached their lowest levels since
1914 in Chicago when merchants ad-
vertised gigantic clearance sales,
throwing millions of dollars worth Of
goods on the market this week.
A red-hot rivet, dropped by workers
in the hold of the oil tanker Charles
Evarest, at dry dock, RedhOOk, Brook
lyn, caused an explosion which killed
one man. seriously injured two and
slightly hurt dozen others, at the
same time virtually destroying the
vessel.
An unidentified man entered the
Peoples bank at Springfield, Tenn,
and, making his way unobserved to the
bank vault, helped himself to $4,000
in bonds. He stood off bank officials
and wounded an officer. Taking ref
uge in storeroom, he was killed by
officers.
John Doyle, an A. E. F. veteran, was
killed in the subway when he leaped
| in front of an express train at the Sew
| enty-second street station in New
| York. Doyle served in France with a
machine gun battalion and was suffer-
ing from shell shock when he returned.
Up to two weeks ago he worked in a
ship yard, but because of the state Of
his nerves, due to shell shock, went to
base hospital.
More than score Of women and
children were partially overcome and
a panic among the 200 guests was mar
rowly ayerted during a fire in the Bur
net house in Cincinnati. The fire orig
mated in a storeroom in the basement.
Firemen rescued all occupants and the
fire was confined to the basement.
The plant of the Wilmington Leather
Company, covering four city blocks,
was destroyed by fire at Wilmington,
Del. The fire broke out in n dry
ing loft, rapidly spread to ten adjoin-
ing buildings and, despite the best eff
forts of ten fire companies, the plant
was a mass Of ruins early today, with
a total loss estimated by James l.
Ford, treasurer Of the company, at
81, 100000.
Plans have been completed for new
six-story $4,OOO,OO0 postofflce building
at Chicago to handle parcel post exelu-
aiYelY. Work will start about March L