The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-12
FOREIGN

Powerful new ufmoreu chTe, wv
signed to be devastating In action,
have been added TO the tank corps OF
England. They are fitted with Rolls
Royce engines and are very speedy
The volcano Bulusan, In sorsogon
province, Is In eruption, according TO
reports TO the weather bureau at
Manila. The volcano Is pouring out a
column of vapor and ashes and leav-
ing deposit of ashes several inches
deep.
For the half year ending on June
80, 1921, producers of gold In Austria
liza received S2,223. 1s0 in the form OF
premium, having sold their gold in
London Mt an average price Of $26.l1
per fine ounce. American miners were
paid $20.6T per ounce.
Poland has directed the closing OF
the frontiers of soviet Ukraine, where
anti Bolshevist disturbances are oc-
curing, and cleaning of the frontier
belt. said Warsaw official com
muniQue received by the Polish
bureau of information.
The expense of guarding the former
German emperor is the cause OF irri-
tation to some of the political leaders
in Holland. One of the social-demo-
cratic members of parliament criticised
this outlay in a party speech he de
livered the other day and threatened
to interpellate the government on
that subject.
For the first time in its history, an
American has been appointed TO
prominent chair in the faculty of the
German Academic High School for
Music, the leading state musical In
stitution in Berlin. Louis Bachner,
vocal teacher of New York. has been
selected as one of the chief teachers
of vocal music in the opera depart
ment of that In stitution.
Aonther threatening letter from
sympathizer with the Sacco-Vanzettl
movement has been received by VIII
| liam II. Robertson. American consul
general at Buenos Aires. This is the
third message which has been sent TO
him. The writer signed his name and
address and declared that lie intended
to stab him to death. The letter was
turned over TO lne ponce.
The Russian Soviet council Of COM
missars has announced that all Rus
slams who have been abroad for five
wears will lose their citizenship, un-
less they obtain passports before Mar.
l. 1, 1922, Russians who voluntarily
served in armies against the soviet
government or participated in counter
revolutionary activities. will also be
deprived of citizenship, but they may
apply for restoration of citizenship
any time up to next March.
GENERAL
The circulation of recipes for So
called love potions and secret love
talismans, TO be secretly applied, thru
the mails, led to the indictment In
Chicago of Lucille S. Jackson, charged
with using the mails to defraud.
The Rev. DIR. Antoine Louisa Brown
Blackwell, aged 96, believed to have
been the first woman ordained to the
ministry in this country and a pioneer
woman suffrage worker with Susan
b. Anthony, died recently in Elizabeth,
n. J.
One member of the crew Of the
American schooner Singleton Palmer
of New York is reported to have been
lost when the Clyde line steamship
Apache ran down and sank the
schooner off Fenwick island light
house.
Charged with the illegal conversion
of 100000 in funds of the Norman
Oil Company, New York, of which he
was vice president and general man.
ager, NJ. n. Bensabat was arrested ana
Inter released on bond of S5O,OOO. NO
complaint has yet been filed, but the
charge of conversion is made in an af-
fidavit attached to the order for ar
rest. The oil company owns vast
tracts of land in Mexico.
A strike of miners in the Pittsburg
district was averted when, after the
Pittsburg Coal Producers Association
had notified union officials that they
would continue to enforce the "check-
off" r. X. Gibbons, president of dis
trict No. 5, United Mine Workers OF
America, recalled the order for a
strike.
Mrs. LYDIA Southard was sentenced
to serve from ten years to life In the
Idaho state prison for the murder OF
Edward f. Meyer, her fourth husband.
She was convicted after trial lasting
several weeks. The court imposed the
maximum penalty under the Idaho
laws. Attorneys for Mrs. Southard
are expected to appeal the case.
Seven members of the crew OF the
fourmasted schooner Henry S. Kreger'
which went aground on Pollock KIP
shoals, off the Monomoy Point life
saving station are missing and the
vessel is a total loss. The seven num-