The Colorado statesman., 1921-06-18
FOREIGN

FOhElGN
Louis Snyder of Boston was beaten
to death by Polish insurgents near
Myslwitz. Upper Sllesin, according to
Karl Born, Hamburg machinist. who
escaped from that region to Berlin.
Max Randohr. student, was ac-
quilted In Leipslc. Germany, by the
court trying war criminals on the
charge of having ill-treated and impris-
oned Belgian chlldrenrat Grammonte
In 1917. The case was brought Mt the
instance of Belgium. III
Greece is opening hostilties against
the Turkish Nationalists In Asia Minor
by land and sea. Already the Greek
fleet has. been concentrated Mt full war
strength in Turkish waters and has
bombarded Turkish positions and sunk
several small transports, aocording'to
information from Constnntinople.
Prince Chamyl. head of the Daghls
tan insurgent mountaineers of the
northern Caucasus, has taken arms
against the Bolshevists in the Cau-
casus and declares he will not surren-
der until liberty has been re-estab-
ished in the Caucasus. He has de-
feated soviet detachments in several
fights recently.
Three Italian cardinals were added
to the Sacred College when Pope Ben
edict, in secret consistory, raised to
the purple Monsignor Giovanni Taccl
Poroelli, the papal major domo Mon
signor Camille laurent, secretary of
the Congregation of the Propaganda,
and Monsignor Achille Ratti, papai
nnncio to Poland.
The British cabinet has decided to
serve a new warning upon the Sim
Fein that amounts virtually to an ulti.
matum. Reports say that the cabinet
will issue time limit and If the south
of Ireland refuses to accept the home
rule (partition) act, a powerful cam
paign of repression against "gunmen"
and the Irish Republican army will be
started at the end of July.
GENERAL
Brown sugar sold at auction for %
cents per 100 pounds in New Orleans.
Five thousand bags, brought last year
from Guatemala in, the sugar rush,
brought from a to % cents pound at
n government auction. The prices OBJ
taincd were not sufficient to pay the
duty.
Brother Batch, owned by G. I. Ar
mold and ridden by. NJ. Garner, won
the 'thirty-ninth Latonin derby, beating
E. II. Bradley's Kentucky Derby win
ner Behave Yourself, by length.
Uncle Velo was third, two lengths
away. The time for the mile and a
half was 9 "A 80.
Three boys, convicted in Juvenile
Court in Tampa, Fla, of having entered
hardware store, We're sentenced TO
save enough money to buy pocket
knife for each boy in the children
home. The court ordered that the
knives should be purchased from the
store that was entered.
John D. Emery, newly elected ma
tional commander of the American lie
gion, in n statement at Indianapolis
advocated a continuance by the legion
of its program of instilling in the
hearts of former service men and wom
en- n sense of individual obligation to
community, state and nation.
With his head almost severed by a
razor, the body of Otto Smitherman
was found near Ringgold, Ga. Near
by the body of Earl Williams was
found hanging from the limb of tree.
A coroner's jury found that Williams
thnp l.
self. Williams was said to have been
Jealous of the attention paid young
woman of the vicinity by Smitherman.
Thousands of person in Cincinnati,
O., paid tribute to the memory of Col
r. w. Galbraith, Jr.. national com
mander of the American Legion, who
was killed in an automobile accident
The funeral services were held In
Music hall, with each of the 4,OOC
seats taken The obsequies We're un'
der the auspices of the American Le
cion and were marked by great sim
plicity.
Explosion of car of dynamite
when two freight trains on the 81
Louis and San Francisco railway col
lided head-on few miles south oi
New Albany, Miss, is reported to have
killed one man, slightly injured sew
eral others and to have destroyed
fourteen cars of perlshable freight.
Mrs. Bessie Mitchell, a widow, pub
licly flogged man known3as Happy
Brennan, whom she accused of at
tempting to mistreat her 4-year-olc
son, Harry, according to. a report she
4 made to the police in Omaha, Neb, She Shhee
tisea a riding whip. "1f more mothers
would administer that kind of treat
Iment the town would he much safe1
for themselves and their children
she said. 3
The new shipping board steamship