Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1921-01-13
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
\ BRIEF RECORD or PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EloN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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WESTERN
While skating on the Milwaukee
river in Wisconsin, the three sons OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hecker Of West
Bend, Clarence, 12; Leo, 10, and Law.
| renee, 6, were drowned.
Two women we're burned to death in
a fire which destroyed the Lone Star
hotel ut Desdemonda, an oil town in
Eastland county, Texas. The victims
were Mrs. Bantell and her nineteen,
year-oid daughter, members OF vau.
deville company.
Brick masons employed by the Utah
Fire Clay Company of Salt Lake City,
which employs several hundred men,
have asked the company to reduce
their wages from SO to $S day, ac-
cording to announcement made by
Lawrence Greene, manager.
Frank Delbridge, convict In the
Nebraska state penitentiary, sentenced
from Omaha on conviction of house
breaking, hanged himself in his cell,
making a moose of his suspenders He
had recently been paroled, but was re-
turned to the prison for alleged infrac-
ton of parole rules.
The towns Of COvina, Glendora and
Azusa in the San Gabrielle valley,
20 to 25 miles east Of Los Angeles,
were rocked by what was declared by
inhabitants to be a series OF explosions.
Each shock was accompanied by loud
report. Otherwise the tremblings re-
sembled earthquakes, it was said.
A permanent injunction was granted
in the United States District Court at
Kansas City restraining the secretary
of agriculture from enforcing his Or
der restoring the wartime commission
rate for handling livestock. Judge Ar
ba s. Van Valkenburgh characterized
the action of Secretary Meredith as
ian arbitrary executive order"
John r. Milholland, investment brok-
er, of the firm of Milholland & Hough
of Spokane, accused by Jay B. Hough.
in an alleged confession to the police,
of having participated with him in en-
bezzling $35O,OOO in bonds ana money
from James F. Callahan, millionaire
Wallace, Idaho, mining man, was
found dead at his home in Spokane,
Wash.
Three unmasked bandits held up the
State Guaranty Bank at Sperry, Okla,
and while two of the robbers kept at
bay seven customers and the two en-
ployes, a third stuffed all the money
in sight, about 81 200 in currency and
$500 in silver, in his pockets. The
three then walked out Of the bank, got
into car in which the other two men
were waiting, and speeded out Of town.
WASHINGTON
A reduction of $1O,S24, 900 in gold
output of the country, and Of 117,041
ounces in the silver output during the
last year as compared with 1919 has
been announced by the bureau Of the
mint.
A decrease of $192, ,932, ,O75 in the
public debt during the last month Of
1920 has been announced by the treas
ury. On Dec. 81 the total gross debt
was $23,9s2, ,224, ,18S, as compared with
$24,175, 1924 on Nov. 30. The de-
crease during the last quarter of the
year amounted to $1O5, ,131 ,196 from
the Sept. 80 total Of 24,OS7 ,S56, 1928.
A total of 1895, 900 workers are out
of employment in the country, accord
ing to survey Of the industrial stu
alton made by Clint c. Houston for the
current issue of Labor. official organ
Of the Plumb Plan League. Mr.. HOus-
ton asserts that his inquiry disclosed
the greatest Industrial slump since the
money panic Of 1907.
The legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill. the big yearly
measure, reported out by the House
appropriations committee, carried to-
tai of $112,72s.4 .43S, or $23, 724, 1876 less
than departments asked for, and 3d.
72S,771 below the amount appropriated
for the current year. AS an indication
Of the wartime increase, the bills to-
tai in 1916 was $S8,910,799.
Special wireless telephone apparatus
will transmit President-elect Harding's
inaugural address to every army post,
every battleship and halls in various
cities where inaugural parties" will be
held, e. B. Mclean, chairman of the
inaugural committee, has announced.
A committee on inaugural radio news
has obtained the cooperation of the
army and navy radio services to carry
out the plans.
Publicity Of official coal cost data to
be collected through the Federal Trade
Commission as means of keeping
down charges to the consumer will be
proposed by the Senate reconstruction
committee following its investigation
into the coal situation, 1t was said by
Chairman Calder.
Guy F. Allen of Somerset, Nd, has