Cheyenne record., 1921-04-07
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FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, oo1Hos, ACHIEVE.
MENrs, sUFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.

AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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WESTERN
Jennie Scardino, II years old, who
shot and killed Mike Termain in her
home in February, 1929, was acquitted
Of manslaughter at Ogden, Utah. Miss
8cardino said that she shot Termafn
after he attacked her.
A man identified As J. Elton Moran,
o6 Chicago. entered the private office
OF R. A. Crothers, publisher OF the San
Francisco Bulletin, demanded $5.Oo6
and then committed suicide by shoot
ting himself through the head when the
police arrived to arrest him.
Breckenridge, Texas, has Lost anoth-
e. business block by fire. Three hotels,
seven cafes and lodging houses were
destroyed ut loss estimated at be-
tween $4,000 and 100000. 1t was
Breckenridge's sixth disastrOut fire
during the last two months.
An order has been received at COun-
Gil Bluffs directing that L. w. Boeh-
ner Of Malvern, Ia, to report at once
for transportation to federal prison at
Fort Leavenworth to begin serving a
three-year term on conviction Of OBJ
structing the draft and for slandering
the Red Cross Boehner is wealthy.
Edwin Anderson of Chicago, arrest
. ed at San Bernardino, Calf, on a
charge of having embezzled 10000 In
Liberty bonds and currency from Earl
L. Hart, for whom he acted as sales
manager, was sent back to Chicago
with his wife, without any guard, it
was announced by E. d. Deiss, chief of
police.
Death losses from the sinking of the
steamship Governor off Point Wilson,
near Seattle were reduced to nine
when an error in the list of survivors
was cleared up by the discovery that
the name Alfred Kaseau, Los Angeles,
reported missing, should have been Al
ward Risean, Spokane, WASH. who was
saved.
A $4,000 mail robbery at Stuart,
Neb., Jan. 20, has just been made pub
lie. The securities were In a first
class mail pouch dropped off at the
Stuart station at midnight. When the
station agent looked for the pouch 1t
was missing. When abstracts, mort
cages and other Instruments involved
in March settlements consigned from
O'Neil, Neb.. failed to arrive the value
Of the pouch was made known. Cur
rency from the Treasury Department
was also included In the loss.
WASHINGTON
Hubert Work Of Pueblo, president of
the American Medical Association and
former Republican national committee
man from Colorado, has been given a
recess appointment by President Hard.
ing as first assistant postmaster gen.
eral.
The condition of cereal crops In the
northern hemisphere was described as
generally favorable" by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture's bureau of crops
in summary Of foreign crop pros
poets. The mild winter in almost all
the reporting countries was held to
have been an important factor in the
crop situation. The bureau said that
although several reports had been re-
ceived as to Russian crops, nothing re-
liable had come through.
Postmasters at New York, Chicago,
st. Louis. Detroit, Washington, Balti-
phia have been called In by Postmas-
ter General Hays to attend the first of
the departmental conferences on mail
service conditions.
The executive council Of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor, In call is
sued at Washington for the forty-first
annual convention Of the organization,
to open In Denver June 13, announces
the convention of 5000 workers will
take steps to Withstand and overcome
the bitter antngonism now SO rampant
to undermine and to destroy the great
constructive force in our republic, the
American labor movement"
More than 100000 unemployed will
find work during the next year on road
building projects already approved and
Congress makes an additional appro-
priation Of 500 OOO, 900 as federal aid
in highway Improvement, officials of
the Department Of Agriculture have es.
timated. The grand total cost Of road
building projects that have been ap-
proved and are awaiting completion is
$622, 100000. Between 10000 and 25,-
600 miles Of road can be built, If all the
money Is expended.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation Of Labor, de.
nounced as ''unpatriotic Americans"
those labor leaders who have criticized
his refusal to indorse the Russian so.
Wet government or to urge its recogni.
tion by the United States.
Secretary Hoover announced he had
appointed G. w. Shaw of Chicago as
his adviser In the formation Of the
committee Of business men who are to
constitute the advisory council to the |
Department Of Commerce, which is be- |