The Colorado statesman., 1922-08-05
FOREIGN

the customary three refusals, 1t has
been announced.
BY sheer drop of 5000 feet into
an were killed while climbing the
Jungfrau in Switzerland.
France will impose penalties of an
economic and financial character upon
Germany because of her refusal to con-
tinue payments on the debts contracted
by her nationals with allied nationals
before the war, it was said in official
circles at Paris.
Horatio Bottomley, former publisher
of the anti-American publication,
"John Bull" was expelled from the
House of Commons, London, by
unanimous vote. Bottomley recently
was sentenced to seven years impris-
onment for embezzling funds from pa
triotic organizations he organized.
The end of the season homeward
movement of Americans has been ac-
CELEBRATED by an official announcement
by the French bureau of statistics that
the cost of living is doomed to rise %
per cent within the next few months.
Manly NllO lldu lultnutu W Itllulu
some time have changed their minds
and the booking passage.
The body of City Receiver Clement
Denize, Port Au Prince, Haiti, was
found recently, II wound in the head
Indicating he had been murdered. This
follows closely the attempted shooting
Of Mayor Edouard MandoneS, for
which a minor city official Is under
arrest, and which was regarded as |
development from the mayors activi-
ties in unearthing alleged local graft.
Eugene Jova, acting American con-
sular agent. captured by bandits at
| Sagua la Grande, Cuba, and held for
$4,000 ransom, escaped recently, but
was badly wounded as he made his
break for liberty. There were five dag
ger wounds in the young mans body
when he was found in a ranch house
in which he had sought shelter, but
he was able to give the authorities
| information which was expected to
lead to the capture of the bandits.
/ Because of the technical state of
war still existing between the allied
powers and Turkey, the plan of the
British, French and Italian and Amer
lean governments to investigate joint
| ly alleged Turkish atrocities in Ana
tolia has been abandoned and an in
quiry is to be made iastead by the In
ternatlonal Red Cross. The change in
plans was made at the suggestion of
the British and French officials after
the United States had Indicated its
willingness to take part in joint gov
ernmental investigation.
GENERAL
Mrs. Angie NJ. Booth, widow of the
former head of the Ward Steamship
Company, left an estate whose value
will aggregate between $S,0OO,0OO and
S12,0OO,O00, it was disclosed in Surro-
gate Court in Chicago.
A special commission of the grand
lodge of Masons in New York state,
headed by Suprame Court Justice
Arthur G. Tompkins, grand master,
sailed on the Frederick VIII. to con-
stitute the first Masonic lodge in the
republic of Finland 1t will be located
at Helsingfors.
Report was confirmed by w. ].
| O'Connor, 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 a 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.
S. c.. Freiden, president of the Citi-
zens' Ice and Coal Company of Council
Bluffs, was shot and instantly killed,
it is alleged, by Mrs. Linda Taylor,
wife of William Taylor. Mrs. Taylor
alleges that about one week ago when
Freiden cane to her house to callect
bill he assaulted her; that county offi-
cials refused to take any action and
that when Freiden again appeared at
her home she shot him.
Frank and VIII Brow, aged IA and
16 yec-s are in Jail at Bluefield, w.
Va, charged with having lied their
father, Elias Brown, as he was sleep
ing in his cabin near Bradshaw. The
lads told deputy sheriff that t"s
parent abused them and when he fell
asleep they obtained a shotgun and
killed him.
Three men on the wagon bridge
spanning the west end of Ray yards,
freight terminal at the outskirts OF
Denison, recently fired on Texas ma.
tional guard troops protecting that
section of the railroad property al
Denison. An exchange of about fifty
shots between the men and the sol.
diers followed. No casualties wert
reported.
Benny Leonard, worlds lightweight
boxing champion, successfully defend
| ed his title uruinSt Lew Tender of