Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-09-01
FOREIGN

NJ IemucO City, elShty MlleS Hor'H-
east of Valdivia.
Thirty persons were killed and more
than 100 injured In the collision be-
tween passenger and freight train
near MnglianO, north of Rome.
The Rosta agency, the Bolslevist
official news distributor, announced
that II total of 7S,O11 cases of cholera
have been registered In Russia this
year. The report covers the period up
to Aug. 10.
Mir,lite insurgents have inflicted II
serious defeat upon troops of the AL
bnnian government, according to Il dis
patch 10 the Tribunal from Scutnri.
The Albanian troops fled In disorder,
leaving more than 100 dead.
Hundreds of villages have been de-
stroyed and thousands OF persons left
homeless by an overflow of the HOnng.
Ho, or Yellow river, In China. which,
after month of heavy rainfall, has
flooded large areas In the province of
Shantung.
Fire started in the most thickly pop.
ulated part Of Moscow several days
ago and burned several days, 1t is rs.
serted by the Helsingfor correspond
ent of the Central News. Several hun.
dred houses have been destroyed, the
correspondent says.
Whisky valued at several thousand
dollars was seized at the mouth of
the Fraser river, near Vancouver, B.
c., when provincial police officers
seized party Of men who had deliv-
cred two trucklOads OF liquor to be
loaded on scOw. Officials believe
the whisky was to have been exported
to the United States.
The deficit of the French telephone
service, which is run by the state, will
amount to more than 220,OOO,NO
francs for this year, according to Louis
Deschamps. who ought to be well In
formed. as he was under secretary of
state for the department Of posts. tel
ephones and telegraphs In the previous
cabinet.
Native Moroccan villages along the
coast southeast of Melillu have been
destroyed by bOmbardmcnt by the
Spanish wnrSlip Boniface, according
to message from Chnfinas island. off
the Moroccan coast. The fire from til.
wnrship also caused numerous casual
ties and forced the Moors to flee to
the interior.
GENERAL
| Julius NJ. Hansen, wanted In Lewis
town, Mont, for the alleged embeZ.le.
ment of $4,000 from the Empire Bank
and Trust Company, was arrested at
shreveport. La. He has been sought
since October, 1917. Preparations are
being made to return him to Lewis
town.
Greeted by his friends as the Oldest
living Free Mason III the country,
Samuel Cox of Marble Head, Mass,
took his usual birthday walk ut the
age OF 1O2 years. He was made u
member Of PhiInnthropic lodge seven
ty-five years ago. The organization
presented him with 1O2 roses.
| Edwin Il. Stephenson. preacher,
who shot and killed the Rev. James e.
Coyle, pastor of st. Pauls Catholic
church, Aug. II, at Birmingham, Ala,
was bound over to await action of the
county grand jury, after II preliminary
trial at which the defense offered no
testimony. Bond was not allowed.
The 1921 pineapple pack of the Ha-
waiian islands will approximate 3
SS4.ONO cases. according to Il recent
estimate of 4. II. Tnrleton, executive
secretary of the Hawaiian Pineapple
Packers Association. Last years
pack exceeded 6OO.OOO cases. The
value of the pack will be estimated at
the end of the season.
Jay S. Gehan. Sioux City air pilot,
was probably fatally injured and his
brother, John {. Gehan, an occupant
OF the plane, was seriously injured
when the nirplune In which they were
doing circus flying failed to come out
OF n tail spin and sent them crashing
to the ground. 800 feet below un the
flying field ut South Sioux City, Neb.
Jim Nesbit, nimble negro, turIed Il
novel trick on the bloodhound seat out
to trail him in South Carolina. Scrv-
ing life sentence for murder Oh the
chain gang. NeSbit escaped. A blood
hound was sent on his trail. The ne
gro waited until the bloodhound
caught up. tied the animal to tree
and continued his flight. He was cap
tured later, however.
Arkansas. famous family of ''monn-
tain dew distillers has changed
trades by decree Of jurles. Horace
Cox. fifth member Of his family to be
found guilty of "moonshining," has en-
tered the high walls of the Arkansas
state prison TO do n period Of penal
servitule. He is 10. His father and
three older brothers preceded him to
the city of silent men,"
Petroleum expectations from Tam
pico, Mexico. totnlcd during the month
of July approximately 5,JOO.UD bar
rels, or one-fourth the amount shipped
during the month of June. according
to information given out by oil COM