The Colorado statesman., 1921-10-22
FOREIGN

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Ten men were killed and many
wounded when 80 trucks of ammuni-
tion exploded at Fort Rudmei, n Ru-
manan arsenal and fortiflcatlon.
Wholesale suspension of business by
stores and factories In the city OF
Puebla, Mexico, was reported in pro-
test against alleged excessive taxation
by the state government
The Colombian Senate, after three
sessions during which there was much
discussion, ratified the treaty which
the United States by which Colombia
is TO receive $25,0O0,000.
According TO the latest statistics the
German casualties in the war were l.
sos, 545 killed and 4,247, ,143 wounded,
including cases returned on the
wounded list more than once.
A Spanish cabinet council has ap-
proved a new naval program for the
construction of fifty-eight warcraft OF
various classes during the next six
years. The vessels TO be built are four
fast cruisers, six destroyers, twenty
gunboats and twenty-eight submarines.
Regular white slave auctions have
been discovered and ended by the
Vienna police. In one instance 10
year-old girl was sold by her mother
for the equivalent of one dollar. The
girl got n pair of stockings. The
mother was sentenced TO three months
at hard labor.
Philip Scheideman, former secre-
tary of foreign affairs, was fired upon
during n meeting of the German Peo-
pies party in Ludenscheid. Westpha-
liz. The bullet went wild, and Herr
Scheideman was uninjured. Five per-
sons were arrested for the attempted
assassination.
A desperate situation which al
ready has cost two lives from violence,
is reported at Puebla, Mexico, where
demonstrations against the state gov
ernment's allegedly excessive tax laws
continue Many of the stores have
been closed, bread and milk supplies
are said to be exhausted and food
scarce.
The yacht Lucullus, on which Gen.
Baron Wrangel, former head of the
III toph'li
Russia, was making his home in Con
stantinople, was struck Mt the en-
trance of the harbor by the British
steamer Adria and sunk with the loss
of two lives. General Wrangel and
Baroness Wrangel were ashore.
A robber who was foiled in an at
tempt to rob the Bank of Hamilton,
Ont, after pistol duel with an Off,
cal of the institution, tried his for
tunes again with better success. He
walked into the Union bank, said to
n clerk: "They stopped me yesterday
but won't today" pointed a pistol at
him, grabbed $1,000 and escaped.
GENERAL
Sam Mirabella of Chicago slipped
while making wine and fell head first
into the barrel. He was dead when
relatives found him.
Thirty-five horses and mules and
three motor trucks of the garbage and
street cleaning departments of the city
of Little Rock were lost in a fire that
swept the city stables, in the east part
of the city. The loss is estimated at
y
animals in the stable was saved.
The railroad brotherhoods have
strike fund of $2,00OO00, which is in
sufficient for n general strike of any
length, John Grunau, president of the
United Association of Railway En-
ployes of North America and leader
of the so-called "outlaw" strike of
last year, declared in Chicago.
A resolution calling upon Congress
and President Harding to enact legis-
lation and amend the national prohi-
bition enforcement act to permit the
manufacture of light wines and beer,
in order that the breweries might be
reopened, thereby relieving the unem-
ployment situation, was presented in
the meeting of the city unemployment
commission at st. Louis.
Decisions of lower courts holding
that irrigation companies can fore
close on farmers for failure to pay
water rent were in effect upheld when
the Supreme Court declined 10 review
appeals of John ii. Martens and 9TH
ers of Idaho against the Twin Falls
Oakley Land and Water Company.
Capt. A. b. Randall, master of the
steamship Hudson, has been cleared of
n charge of violating one of the most
sacred laws of Inc seas in that he
failed to give aid to seamen in dis
tress. II. A. Sargent and ]. Il. Wilson
federal steamboat inspectors, decided
that his failure to pick up three men
adrift in a disabled motor boat off
New York harbor recently did not con-
stitute willful neglect of duty.
Mrs. r. ]. Rocker, 33, has been ar
rested in Memphis by federal officers