Cheyenne record., 1921-05-19
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ed. 1t is believed that this Is the first
discovery of natural gas In Central
America.
Gen. Francisco Murguin, rebel lead
er, was severely injured in recent
clash with federal troops near Mier,
state OF Tamaulipas, according to war
offIce reports. and is now recuperating
on the American side near Las Vegas.
Organization Of an alrplune force to
fight forest fires In the province Of
British Columbia IL to he begun soon,
following the announcement of the
British Columbian government that 1t
had appropriated $2O,OOO for the pur-
pose.
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of
Spain escaped injury when their auto
mobile overturned while they were GO
ing to the Hippodrome to attend the
races, says dispatch from Madrid
The accident was due to the bursting
of a tire.
Gems. Lucio Blanco, Eduardo Her
nandez, Ireneo villareal and Pablo
Gonzales, former Carranza cllieftains.
who have been reported to he starting
a revolution against the Mexican gov
ernment from the United States side,
have made an appeal to President OBJ
regon for leniency II they surrender.
according to official advices.
The Argentine government, under
nn agreement reached with representa-
tives of the labor organizations, will
not permit nOnuniOn labor In the port
area. Work in the major section of the
port which has been at standstill for
some time as result of the boycott
declared by the port workers Is ex-
pected to begin shortly.
A mule is not a horse. according to
an opinion Of the Manitoba Court Of
Appeals, which awarded 800 and costs
to Thomas Pople. a mule dealer,
against the city Of Dauphin, Man. Po-
pie sold twenty mules there last sum
mer, and was forced by town officials
to pay IS a head tax, which Is levied on
horses brought to the town for sale.
He sued to recover the amount.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and w.
Cameron Forbes, former governor,
composing President Harding's special
mission to investigate conditions In the
Philippine Islands, settled down to in
vestigation work Immediately upon ar
rival at Manila. After popular dem
onstration in the shape Of parade Of
all civic organizations, headed by
Mayor Fernandez, In honor of the COM
missionerA the mission started action.
GENERAL
Miss Idell Boland, II years old, Of
Chicago, chose death to blindness. She
ended her life with poison when she
knew her sight was fading.
Six men, comprising the crew Of the
barge Miztec, are believed to have
been lost in the blizzard which tore the
Miztec and the barge PeshtigO loose
from the steamer Zillah off WhitefIsh
Point, In Lake Superior.
More than 25,OOO employees of the
II. C. FrIck Coke Company had their
wages cut from 25 to 35 per cent when
u new scale was put into effect. The
wage cut affects the workers Of the
entire COnnellsville region in Penn
sylvania.
Testimony that he paid $500 to
business agent of plumbers union"
to settle strike called by the wreck
ers when construction of the Woods
theater was started was given before
the Daley legislative committee at
Chicago by George A. Thomas Of the
Longacre Construction Company OF
New York. Thomas declined to name
the man to whom he paid the money.
An unidentified negro was lynched
at McGenee, Ark, for alleged particI-
patton In an attempted attack on ]. P.
Sims, a railroad blacksmith and
young white woman while they were
riding In an automobile along II coun-
try road. Sims reported three negroes
stopped his car and demanded he1eave
the young woman. He opened fire and
the trio fled.
Fire, causing loss Of more than
million and a half dollars, destroyed
No. 8 breaker of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company at Coaldale, Pa.
The structure, together with much val
liable machinery, Is entirely In ruins.
Nearly 200 years ago a thoughtful
boy printer, named Benjamin Franklin,
ran away from Boston to Philadelphia.
Recently bronze statue Of Franklin
was acclaimed by thousands in the city
Of his birth as 1t was exhibited in
parade. The statue, in reaching Bos-
ton had reversed the route taken by
Franklin to Philadelphia.
The United Brotherhood of Main.
tenance Of Way Employees and Railway
Shop Laborers, with its membership Of
about 100000, cannot be reinstated in
the American Federation Of Labor un-
til 1t has turned over to the building
trades union Its members now engaged
In station construction work. This de-
cision was made by the executive
council Of the building trades depart
ment of the federation. The Railroad
Shop Laborers' Union was suspended
in December, 1919, because Of its al