The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-19
FOREIGN

each by the American military courts.
The campaign against Spanish emf
grafton is emphasized by some news
papers at Madrid. FL Debate urges the
government TO act to prevent the coun-
try being robbed of many of its best
workers.
Twenty.three farmer boys from Tex
as and Kansas, who came to Germany
recently with II consignment of T42
milch cows presented to Germany by
American farmers, were given recep-
tion by the Bremen Senate
The overthrow OF the Bourgeois
governments of Spain, Italy and
France is outlined in documents seized
in Paris after a search following the
discovery of a widespread Communist
plot. The date fixed was May /.
American sailors who were fired on
at Vladivostok were attacked by n par
ty of Russians probably for the pur-
pose of holding them up, according to
advices received by Admiral Strauss,
commanding the Asiatic fleet.
Cancellation of the debts of allied
nations by the United States is urged
by the Tribuna in Rome in an editorial
on the economic and financial situation
in Europe. The newspaper says the
United States may find her very
strength a peril in future.
The cabinet crisis, which resulted in
the resignation of the ministry at Lis
bon, was caused by protests over the
shortage of oil, due to government re-
strictions on it's transport. Many
sardine canneries and preserve fac
tories have closed, throwing 6,000 per-
sons out of work.
The plant of the Socialist newspa-
per Voratore, which was zeiZed by Com
munists of Trieste and has since been
occupied by Communist working
force, was burned by party of Fas-
cisti, or extreme Nationalists, as a Sc
quel to the assassination of carabin
eer by Communists.
Nearly 5000 of the 1O,SOO members
of the Diamond Workers Union at
Amsterdam are idle and the bottom
seems to have fallen out of the worlds
diamond market. Experts in precious
stones in this city and in Antwerp say
an era of financial stringency has sup
planted the epoch of free spending
Three checks written originally for
small amounts, then certified and
raised TO a total value of $1,000, were
cashed in banks in Montreal by a man
for whom police were searching Made
with invisible ink, the original figures,
an examination disclosed, faded after
certificatiOns were made, enabling the
forger to write in his own figures.
GENERAL
A decrease of about 20 per cent in
the wage scale of the building trades
in Minnesota was announced there by
Morris Schumacher, president of the
Minnesota Building Employers Asso
citation.
More than $50 guests at the Miller
hotel at Minneapolis were rescued
from fire starting on the first floor.
Forty of the guests, including fifteen
women, were overcome by smoke and
carried down ladders by flremen.
Sleeping sickness has caused forty |
seven deaths in New York City since
Jan. /, Health Commissioner Copeland
Eleven new cases and one
death were reported there, bringing |
the total since New Year TO 179.
Federal highway inspectors found in
n culvert some miles from Guide Rock, |
Neb, eleven safety deposit boxes |
stolen from the Guide Rock state bank. |
Liberty bonds and other securities to
the value of nearly $4,000 were found |
in the boxes
Low tide in Baltimores labor situa-
ton has been passed. OF the 10000 |
in the city without employ |
ment, one-half will be given work with
in forty days, according to n survey |
just completed by the industrial bu-
reau of the board of trade.
Police Judge l.. L. Kent of Atlanta,
Ca, found himself guilty of violating
traffic law on evidence submitted by
the policeman who docketed the case,
and imposed theu sual fine. He paid.
Abandoning his houseboat cruise to
legin a final period of consultation on
he personnel and policies of the ad-
PreSident-elect Harding
here by automobile to spend
most of the time until Inauguration
lay. The president-elect left his house
BOAT Victoria late in the afternoon at
Daytona, seventy-five miles south, af-
er changes in plans based on the un-
certain progress of the vessel up the
indian river.
The murder mystery" which has
crown up around the death of Richard
5. Lawrence, former Denver man, sup
posed to have been killed by train
March u. 1918. was exploded in Madi-
son, Wis, with the announcement of
.esults of an official examination
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