Cheyenne Wells record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1???-1969, 1922-08-10
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been announced.
Maj. w. T. Blake has completed an
other lap Of his airplane journey
around the world, arriving at Delhi,
India. few days ago.
TwJ hundred passengers perished
when a five-car train was burned be-
tween Kiev and Scheoetowka, says a
report from Kiev. Included among the
victims were eight Zionist pioneers,
who were proceeding to Join their
group on the way to Palestine.
Horatio Bottomley. former publisher
Of the anti-American publication,
John Bull" was expelled from the
House Of Commons. London, by a
unanimous vote. Bottomley recently
was sentenced to seven years impris-
onment for embezzlinS funds from pa
triotic organizations he organized.
Locusts have become SO numerous
in Luzon that their bodies covered the
railway tracks, causing the driving
wheels of the locomotives to slip. and
prevented the movement Of passen.
ger train from Manila to Calamba,
twenty-five miles from Manila. An ex-
ira engine was called before the train
could be moved
The Prussian minister Of the In
terior issued decree ordering the re-
moval Of all monarchial emblems from
the interior and exterior OF all COM
munal and state buildings, besides
signboards. milestones, frontier stones,
etc, which bear similar emblems. The
decree thus carries into effect threat
made several months ago.
The whole Chilean cabinet resigned
recentl- following the retirement OF
Armando Jaramillo, minister Of the in
terior, and Angel GuarillO, minister OF
Justice. The designations were precip-
itated by disagreement with the gov
ernment's policy concerning the recent
prototOl signed in Washington with
Peru, for settlement Of the Tacna-Ar-
lea controversy.
President Obregon has gone to Ocot-
Ian, resort near Guadalajara, for sew.
eral weeks to recuperate from his ILL
ness, 1t was learned recently In reliable
quarters. His condition Is improving
steadily. The president intends to re-
turn to Mexico City as soon as pos
sible in order to consult with depart
ment heads relative to his message to
congess when It opens early In Sep
tember.
GENERAL
Samuel de Grossly, aged 10S, died
at Chicago few days ago. EAT care
fully, drink only moderately. let smok-
ing and chewing alone; above all else,
be faithful to your religion" was the
advice he was fond Of offering to his
seven children, forty.five grandchil-
dren and twenty-seven great-grand-
children.
In a letter to the Society for Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Children. Nal
den woman protested vigorously
against permitting Mary Agnes Voches
tain, IA years old, to preach In Bos.
ton, The woman writes that the girl
would be serving herself and the com.
munity much better By playing In.
stead of preaching.
Report was confirmed by W. J.
OConnor, assistant manager OF the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany's smelter at East Helena, Mont,
that the wage scale at the plant would
be increased 80 cents day. The
smelter will thus be paying the same
scale which will prevail in other places
in Montana for similar work, said Mr..
O'Connor.
The wet and dry Issue played the
major role in political activity In pre-
paration for Ohio's primary election.
In some sections Of the state, while
ministers from their pulpits were urg-
ing support of candidates for state Of
flee indorsed by the Anti-saloon
League, persons on the outside filled
the church-goers automobiles with un-
signed campaign literature strongly at
tacking the Anti-Saloon League and
the candidates indorsed by 1t.
Surface and elevated railway en-
ployes at Chicago voted 9,O22 to 5,O66,
to accept a 1O-cent an hour slash In
wages and return to work, thus ending
a strike which paralyzed the city's
electric transportation system. Shortly
after the result Of the vote was an
nounced, the first elevated train was
pounding toward the ''loOp."
Fifteen persons were killed and
twenty-five injured, more or less seri-
ously, when two Cincinnati, Lebanon
4 Northern passenger trains crashed
together head on at Lester road cross 1
ing in Pleasant Ridge, near Cincinnati.
One Of the engines was driven back
wards, telescoping the first coach be-
hind 1t and killing everyone inside.
Police believe the swindlers who sold |
a pawnbroker gold brick In San
Francisco recently are the same men
who sold a Juarez merchant brass |
brick with the Mexican mint stamp on
1t for 81 200 last summer. The Juarez |
man took his brick to an assayer and |
succeeded in capturing the swindlers |
and getting his money back. The gang,