The Colorado statesman., 1922-10-14
FOREIGN

Bubonic plague has made It's appear
ance in Barcelona, the newspapers as
serting that five cases have been re-
ported, two of them fatal. Several
families have been placed under quar-
antine.
Greece is making preparations for
new war. King George II has issued
a proclamation calling upon the people
to support conflict against the Turks
in Thrace. Mobilization has been
started.
Forest fire refugees who arrived In
North Bay. Ont, from Haileybury. re
ported that many persons had been
drowned when they were crowded
from dock where they were trying
to board rescue ship.
The Spanish campaign against rebel
lious Riff tribesmen in Morocco, which
has been in progress about two years
virtually has ended in complete victory
for the Spaniards, General Burgueste,
Spanish commander, reported to the
government.
John ID. Wallingford of Des Moine1,
Iowa, who was nominated recently TO
succeed Judge Charles Kerr. opened
the Canal Zone District Court recently
after 1t had been closed for five
months, owing to vacancy in the
judgeship.
Sir Robert Stevenson Horne, chan
cellor of the exchequer has indefinite
ly postponed his debt funding mission
to the United States, according to the
London Daily Express. This action is
in consequence of the political situa-
ton in England.
Twenty-three Irregulars were killed
and thirty taken prisoners in the
thlrty-hour battle recently at Killorg-
lin, near Killarney, according to an Of
ficial report The Free State casual
ties were slight, but included the COM
mandng officer.
Cable dispatches received by the
Nippu Jill, japanese language news
paper at Honolulu, state that cholera
is spreading in Toxic and Yokohama,
127 cases having been reported In To-
kio alone There are said to have been
twenty eight deaths from the plague.
Hungry peasants in Russia are shell
tering their cattle in their houses be-
cause of an epidemic of cattle steal
ing. Extreme shortage of live stock
has put high premium on cattle, with
the result that those fortunate enough
to own even one head find it much
safer to keep the animal under the
family roof.
GENERAL
Andrew Harlaton shook hands so Wig
orousiy on parting from friend In
Chicago that he dislocated his shoul-
der and tainted.
Julian H. Caudle, 30, farmer, died at
his home near Hopkinsville, KY. short
ly after he had been stung over the
heart by a yellowjacket.
A total of 5000, 2,004.93 in cash and
bonds was obtained by five bandits
who held up the Hamilton County
Bank of Cincinnati few days ago.
FATTY" Arbuckle soon is to roll
back into the movies with his bag full
of slapstick tricks, it was reported in
theatrical circles in New York re-
Gently.
The allied debts to the United
States and German reparations and
settlement of these problems as they
may affect the industry and commerce
of the United States were the out
standing topics of interest at the third
and closing session of the convention
of the American Bankers Association
In New York.
Within twenty-four hours after he
had defeated Walter Hagan, British
open golf champion, Gene Sarazen,
American national open champion, was
on the operating table at st. Johns
hospital. in Yonkers, n. Y, where he
was brought from the Westchester-
Biltmore Country Club, suffering from
appendicitis.
S. C. Langworthy. former banker of
Buffalo, Wyo., passed away at his
home at Buffalo, n. Y. He had been
a sufferer for some time and had gone
east for treatment.
Billions of dollars in surplus invest
ment money in the United States. pre-
saying an unprecedented business re
yival, were disclosed in New York re-
Gently as a result of the governments
call for a thirty-four-year loan or a
half billion dollars at Az per cent.
Plans for discussion at dinner in
Washington, April 81, of the newspa-
per in it's relation to public affairs by
men of national and international
prominence were made at meeting
of the board of directors of the Amer
lean Society of Newspaper Editors in
Cleveland recently.
The United States Railroad Labor
Board. in Chicago, handed down three
decisions, holding, as in former cases,
that the contracting out of railroad
work to outside agencies was illegal