The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
FOREIGN

government
Fifty-two persons were killed and
twenty-slx injured in a mine explosion
near Friensschacht-Delsn in Sax
ony, according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Carlsbad.
Ffty-five cases OF sleeping sickness
have been reported during the past
four weeks in London. This Is n large
Increase, only twenty-three being re-
ported in the previous period of four
weeks.
Simple ceremonies marked the per
manent entombment OF "a soldier of
France" representing the French un-
Identified war hero, under the Arc de
Triomphe in Paris. A plain stone slab
marks the resting spot of this unknown
poilu.
Orders for suspension OF work on re-
Gently claimed oil lands and prohibi-
ton of new filings on oil territory af-
feet only the federal zone, but do not
apply TO private properties, says an in
dustry and commerce statement from
Mexico City.
The Frankfort Gazette, relative to
the attempt TO kidnap Grover C. Berg
doll and Isaac Stecher, in Eberbach,
Baden, says that the wild west" meth
DDS as practiced by sheriffs in the bor-
der districts of Kansas and Colorado
are hardly adaptable to Germany.
Gen. Ambrose Arrieta, one of the
eleven Arrieta brothers reported to
have been Leading an insurrection in
Durango, has called at the headquar-
ters of General Lopez, government
commander there, and denied that
either he or any of his brothers ever
thought of starting revolution.
Thirty thousand refugees from
Crimea in the Caucasus, among whom
are twenty generals, seventy colonels
and a nephew of the novelist, Tolstoy,
face starvation unless aid is sent by
the allied governments, it is learned.
Typhus and other diseases are ram
pant and scores of deaths are being re-
ported daily.
GENERAL
Henry Martell and five children
were burned to death and two others
were burned seriously when fire de-
stroyed their home at Rochester, n. Y.
G. w. Foster, who probably was the
oldest fireman in active service in the
country, is dead at Lawrence, Mass,
aged 81. He had missed only six
alarms since he Joined the city fire de-
partment in 1850.
Brick making companies with head
quarters at Ogden, Utah, announced a
cut of from 10 to 25 per cent in the
cost of brick, which they said brings
the price virtually to pre-war levels
Common brick was quoted at $3.50
thousand at the yards.
The Nashville Railway and Light
Company was fined $1,000 in a case in
which it was alleged to have violated
the statute providing for the separa-
ton of the races on street cars. The
case will be appealed to the Supreme
COURT or n test of the law.
Zemmes Walmsley, chairman of the
National Memorials Commission of the
American Legion, announced his COM
mittee has decided to recommend ac-
ceptance of the $5,OOO,OOO offered the
American Legion by the Knights Of CO.
USE III VI
mortal to those who died in France.
Suicides in the United States in 1920
numbered GIL, including 707 children,
members of the Save-a-Life League
were told by DIR. II. NJ. Warren, presi-
dent. This exceeded the figures of
1919 by more than 1000, he said. Dur
ing the year 1904 women, a large in
crease, died through selfdestruction.
The American Bonding and Casualty
Company with headquarters at Sioux
City, Iowa, capitalized at $4,000 and
with $100,OOO,0O0 worth of policies on
its books was declared insolvent at Chi.
cago. Albert SABBATH, an attorney, was
appointed receiver. Liabilities were
said to be $3,000,000 and assets "con-
siderably less"
What is said to be the first title in
surance company in the United StatSs
to be organized and conducted by wom-
en-, is now in process of formation in
Philadelphia. 1t will be known as the
Women's Trust Company.
Florence Harding lavender is the
latest color entrant into the category
of fashion, named after the wife of the
President-elect, who herself selected
the shade which will be turned out in
large quantities by well-known silk
mill. The color is in orchid tone. Mrs.
Hardings second choice was a blue,
between an electric and a sapphire.
This will be known as Marion blue"
and used for house dress.
The praecipe in a S5,000,000 damage
suit against Henry Ford and his paper,
the Dearborn Independent, has been
filed in Circuit Court by Morris Gest,
theatrical producer, who alleged an ar
tice in the Independent on Jan. % con
tanned "libelous, slanderous and false
stntaments,, concerning Mr. GeSt and