Cheyenne Wells record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1???-1969, 1921-07-14
FOREIGN

dates for election as Judge of the per-
manent court of international Justice.
A typhoon recently caused heavy
damage in Manila and its environs.
The city's power supply was cut off
and the city was In darkness. Houses
were unrOofed and several small YES
sells In Manila bay were driven ashore.
Representatives of soviet Russia
have been feeling out the ground in
trade circles in France, with the view,
they indicated, of placing orders for
automobiles and other articles Of COM
merce, but reports from commercial
quarters are that they have met with
little encouragement
The Cabinet of Premier Allen de
Salazar of Spnin has resigned. There
has been dissensiOn IN the Cabinet for
some time. The situation eliminated
In Manuel .Arguelles, Minister Of
Finance, rendering his resignation. on
the ground that the new tariff law and
the commercial treaties were inimical
to the interests of labor.
Cuba's pineapple crop for this year
is estimated at 100000 crates. valued
at $4.5O0,0OO, by port officials, who
base their figures on recorded ship
ments from Havana. More than 5OO.-
600 crates have been exported over the
ferry ships running between Cuba and
Florida, while about 100000 crates
have been shipped to New York.
Several persons have been arrested
and held for examination in connec-
ton with the fire which destroyed vir-
tually the entire northwest wing Of
the government house at Lima, Peru.
Among those detained are two paint
ers. said to have been Mt work in the
office of the presidents secretary
shortly before the fire. 1t is said the
fire broke out simultaneously in three
places In the presidential suite.
Lieut.. Gen. Karl Stenger, charged
by the French government with hav
ing ordered troops under his command
to take no prisoners and kill wounded
men during the fighting Of August,
1914. has been acquitted by the Ger
man Supreme Court at Leipsic, en-
gagged in the trial of cases against al
legged war criminals. Maj. Bruno
CrusIus, tried on similar charge,
was given sentence of two years In
prison and forbidden to wear the Ger
man uniform.
GENERAL
John Collins is under arrest in Chi
cago because he Is alleged to have
stood by while Annie HOldt, 10 years
.Id IT,, cl, tu-Dt Nl,ith.
out offering assistance.
George Johnson, 40, and Jerry Elan.
nagan, 25, coal miners at RivertOn,
seven miles northwest of Springfield,
ILL.,, were killed when they fell 200
feet down the shaft of the mine when
the scaffOlding on which they were
working gave way.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Ne
braska Potash Company at Antioch,
eighteen miles east of Alliance, Neb.
1t Is owned by Denver concern and
was valued at approximately $JOO,OOO
The Catholic church and several 9TH
er buildings caught fire from the
flames which were famed by wind.
Carl Wanderer, triple murderer, ex-
hausted his last trick In his efforts to
dodge the gallOws when the Chicago
jury that has been hearing his plea Of
insanity, decided In less than one hour
that he was sane and must hang.
After the decision had been handed In,
Judge David set the date Of execution
for Friday, July 20. The sole hope
now remaining for Wanderer is that
n tv&n
Miss Jennie Fullers of Humboldt,
Neb., was awarded $4,000 dollars in
her suit for breach. Of promise against
Louis Henry Howe, also of Humboldt,
by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Miss
Fellers claimed she had waited twen-
ty-two years for Howe on his promise
to marry her. She previously had
been awarded $4,000 by District
Judge TrOup of Douglas county, Ne
braska.
'Proclaiming strike against the
high price of Ice cream sodas, more
raded in New York with the hope Of
bringing their favorite drink down to
the old-time nickel price. They
marched to the office of Borough
President Bruckner, who operates
large soda water plant.
Approximately 1000 coke workers
in the Independent plants Of the Con-
nellsville, Pennsylvania, coke region
were affected by a 10 per cent reduc-'
tion in wages, the second announced
this year. The new rate is about 33 1-3
per cent below the rate paid Jan. 1,
but, accoi ding to coke men, As per cent
higher than the prevailing rate In 1912.
Only about per cent of the independ-
ent ovens are In operation.
Fred Taylor, an ex-service man of
Wichita, Kan, Is n hero. When an
ammonia pipe in grocery store near
Taylor's place of business broke he re-
membered his army training, rushed
home, donned his gas mask and
Stonnad the flow of pOiSOnOuS fumes