The Colorado statesman., 1922-03-25
FOREIGN


A dispatch from Vienna says 1t is
authoritatively stated there that Bull
garian militarists have overthrown the
cabinet of Stambculisky and estab-
lshed a dictatorship.
The American troops ON the Rhine.
who have been withdrawn, will be re-
placed in the Coblenz bridgehead by
the French, who now occupy the sec
tors on both sides of Coblenz.
The first Swiss hospital train for
Russian children started for Volga
district few days ago. 1t consisted
of thirtyfive cars of food and medical
supplies, with which it is hoped to sup
port 10000 children for three months.
Bamon de Valera has issued man
ifesto launching new Irish organiza-
ton the objects of which are to OBJ
tain international recognition of the
Irish Republic and reputation of the
proposed agreement with Great Brit
ain.
Disturbances in the provinces in
connection with the general lockout
in Denmark have necessitated the call
ing out of troops to patrol the streets.
Thoe Geresh, leader of the Danish
Communists, was arrested at Ran
ders, in Jutland, charged with lese
majesty and agitating for a revolu-
ton.
DIR. Otto Ludwig wiedfeldt has
been appointed German ambassador to
the United States. DR.. Wiedfeldt will
fill the post which has been vacant
since February, 1917, when Count
Johann Heinrich Won Bernstorff left
Washington, prior to the declaration
of war between the United States and
Germany.
The wettest and dryest spots-at-
mospherically speaking-in the terri
tory of Hawaii during 1921 We're only
ten miles apart, on the island of Maui,
according to the annual report of the
United States Weather Bureau. The
heaviest rainfall was at Pun Kukui,
Maui, with 1O2 inches during the year,
while Olowalu, ten miles away, bad
the least, 7.54 inches.
| A Stefani agency dispatch to Rome
| from Durazzo states that an eXtraor-
dinary tribunal convened at Shiak,
northeast of Durazzo, had sentenced
to death By hanging Captain Bajra
mgiani, captain of the gendarmerie,
for completely in the recent rising in
Albania, and that the sentence was
carried out Immediately. The tribunal
ruled that the city of Durazzo must
pay 100000 francs damages and Shiak
60 900 francs in connection with the
revolt.
| William d. CBig Bill') Haywood
heads a group of American /. w. w. to
whom Premier Lenin has granted
concession to operate the big Nadejd
insky iron works in the Ural mountain
region, part of the coal mines in the
Kosnetz basin and auxiliary factories.
| Haywood disappeared from the United
States last year while under $50, 900
bail after he and about ninety other l.
w. w. had been convicted of espionage
and conspiracy against the government
in the war. He has since taken some
part in the deliberations of the Third
Internationale at Moscow.
GENERAL
Thirteen dipping vats in the eastern
part of Cass county, Texas, We're de-
stroyed by dynamite. The trouble is
said to be the outgrowth of hostility
on the part of residents of that sec
ton to the compulsory dipping of cat
tie.
A world Holsten record was made
on the Badger stock farms, near Hart
ford, Wis, by Pietertje Ormsby Mer-
cedes Frisby No. 624241, a 2-year-old.
She produced 1921 pounds of butter
fat in seven days, or 1921 pounds of
milk.
Marcie Matthews, the 17-year-old
schoolgirl who killed her alleged be-
trayer in courtroom at Waco, Texas,
Feb. "a, was freed on all charges
brought against her The grand jury
adjourned without finding an indict-
ment
A formal call for a strike of both
anthracite aud bituminous coal miners
on April l has been sent out from the
headquarters of the United Mine
Workers of America at indianapolis.
Students at the University of Mich
igan at Ann Arbor are waging an in
tensive "gum-shoe" campaign in an eff
fort to locate one of their number,
who in a letter in the Michigan Daily,
the student publication, over the sig
nature, "The Man Who Has Never
Been Kissed" severely criticises the
'promiscuous loving in which he de-
clares the male students and goods in
dulge. Male students are vowing ven
geance on the writer.
Nineteen western railroads entered
plea of inability to pay the present
scale of wages for shop crafts en-
ployes at hearing of the United
States Railroad Labor Board at Chi