The Colorado statesman., 1922-09-09
FOREIGN

Duttle 'front.' were put at more tnan II
300 men, in dispatches from Athens to
London. Most of the Greek losses were
in wounded.
Many persons have been killed and
wounded in terrific new outbreak of
fighting in Dublin. Irregulars were
dispersed with machine guns after VIC.
lent street fighting A hospital was
bombed and woman wounded.
Increase in the population of Cuba
from 100000 to 100000 mainly
through Spanish immigrants, is one OF
the purposes of the new secretary Of
state, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes,
former Cuban minister at Washington.
Complete returns in the recent pro
hibition plebiscite in Sweden show
that 930,655 ballots were polled against
prohibition and 901 ,053 in favor of the
proposal. More than 60 per cent OF
the electorate voted. The question of
prohibition in Sweden is now regarded
as dead for a generation.
The United States will grant recog
milton to Mexico by October 10, lead.
ing Mexican cabinet officer has de
clared. The cabinet official, whose
name was withheld for political rea-
sons, voiced the opinion of official
Mexico on the eve of the opening Of
Congress.
In accordance with the Washington
naval agreement the admiralty has or
dered six large capital ships scrapped
They are the battle cruisers Lion and
Princess Royal, and the battleships
Orio, Monarch, Conquerer and Erin, all
among the most famous warships in
the British navy.
The Muharram festival, celebrating
the first month of the Mohammedan
year, passed quietly at Calcutta. AT
Teliniparu, however, Il town about
twenty miles from Calcutta, serious
rioting and clashes between Hindus
and Mohammedans occurred during
the course of Il Mohammedan process
sion when Hindus looted the bazaar.
Tortuao Lemus, co-operatiOnist
deputy, was shot and killed in the
green room of the Chamber of Depu.
ties in Mexico City. Martin Barra'
gan, an Independent member, is
charged with the shooting, which fol-
lowed dispute over the contested
CT edentials of the two men as deputies
from the state of Michoacan.
The Pacific Mail liner President
Cleveland, which ran ashore at the
mouth of the Yangtze river while en-
route to Hongkong is still aground.
One hundred and thirty cabin passen-
gers have been landed at Shanghai by
tug, the 200 steerage passengers re-
naming on board. 1t is generally be-
lleved the vessel cannot be refloated
for several days.
GENERAL
Henry Ford has refused to avert
shutdown of his automobile plants
Sept 16 at the expense of the domestic
coal users of the Northwest, it has
been learned from a reliable source.
Anthracite miners and operators,
having settled their wage differences,
after more than five months of contro-
versy, every effort will be made to
start production of coal as soon as
possible.
Three police officers of Marissa, H.,
were under arrest and Sheriff Martin
Schnipper of st. Clair county was con-
Quoting an Investigation into the fatal
shooting of Mrs. ID. .. Tuthill at Ma.
rissa. Mrs. Tuthill was shot in the
back and instantly killed while riding
in an automobile with her husband.
Seven car repairmen, recently en-
ployed, were burned to death, ten men
were injured severely and property
loss of $220,O00 was wrought by fire in
Pittsburgh in u bunkhouse in the Thir-
tieth street yards of the Pennsylvania
railroad and swept through the build
ing with incredible speed. Nearly all
the bodies were charred beyond recog-
milton.
Mrs. Franklin Hatch Jones. only
daughter of Gen. U. S. Grant, one of
the country's few white House
brides" and one of the nations pop
ular heroines of II century, died at her
home in Chicago few days ago.
Shipping board vessels cannot be
seized as an outgrowth of prohibition
laws, i, was ruled by Federal Judge
Henry d. Clayton, whose opinion dis
missing libel proceedings brought
against the shipping board steamship
Coldwater was handed down ut jack
sonville, Florida.
The entire staff of the Chicago
High School News, Il publication de-
voted to the interests of high school
students, were on strike recently,
claiming their demands for pay were
ignored by the Interscholastic Publish-
ing Company, which is said to be Jess
j. Carlin, recently out of high school.
James p. Larkin, Irish leader, and
former Assemblyman benjamin Il. Git