The Colorado statesman., 1922-09-02
FOREIGN

CONGREGATION OF luouTneTS Ms lHtS Ntle
leaving West Port (Mayo) church,
having attended mass in honor of
Michael Collins.
The American steamship Septo has
sailed for New York from Marseilles
with the bodies of siXty-three Ameri-
ing the war.
The newspapers of Naples report the
discovery by the police of band of
criminals whose principal activities
were devoted to counterfeiting Ameri-
can bank notes.
Twenty of Montreal's smartest and
prettiest girls, rebelling against the at
tempt of style creators to foist long
skirts on women have formed a no
longer-skirt league"
The American consul warned more
than 800 American tourists in Vienna
to leave the city as soon as possible
for fear of riots, unless detained on alb
solutely urgent business.
The Turkish Nationalists launched
mass attack against Afiun Karahis-
sar in an attempt to pierce the Greek
front. 1t is officially stated that they
were repulsed by the Greeks.
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
A small party of Free State troops
was ambushed recently at Glasson, Il
village near Athlone, by thirty Repub-
licans. Free State Lieutenant McCOr-
mack was shot dead and the driver of
his car adlyfwounded. a civilian
wounded during the fighting sue
cumbed later.
In an ambush near Tullamore, ma
tional troops in an automobile were
fired upon, and one officer was killed
and another mortally wounded. In
MarybOro Jail, where 600 irregulars
are confined, fire broke out. 1t is as
serted that prisoners set fire to their
mattresses, the flames spreading to
many of the cells.
All is in readiness for the opening at
Fairbanks, Sept. IS, of the farthest
north college on this continent, the
Alaska Agricultural College and School
of Mines. The college, which is about
three miles outside Fairbanks In the
heart of a rich mining country, will
teach mine engineering. Teachers and
students will live In Fairbanks.
The possibility of Mexico being made
bone dry again is discussed seriously
at Mexico City. 1t is announced that
several deputies will propose a dry"
bill as soon as Congress begins its ses-
sion. The belief prevails that a dry
law modelled after the Volstead law in
the United States will be introduced,
although it is not believed the measure
will be enacted.
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 u reliable source.
The rapid spread of typhus in Po-
land constitutes Il menace to the while
world, said Health Commissioner Roy
al S. Copeland on his return to New
York from Europe, where he has been
studying health conditions.
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 century, died at her
home in Chicago Il few days ago.
Shipping board vessels cannot be
seized as an outgrowth of prohibition
laws, it was ruled by Federal Judge
Henry d. Clayton, whose opinion dis
missing libel proceedings brought
against the shipping board steamship
Coldwater was handed down at Jack
sonville, Florida.
Leon Rupkowsky, Il Chicago alder
man, mistaking his son, Frank, 81, for
"A burglar, shot and perhaps fatally
wounded him at their home.
Appointment of Edward r. Finch,
Justice of the Supreme Court of New
York. to take the place of Cyrus II. X.
Curtis, Philadelphia publisher, on the
official American mission to the Bra
lillian Centennial Exposition has been
announced at the White House. Mr..
Curtis was unable to go.
Fourteen-year-old Howard Wilson
told his parents that he would not re-
turn to school-and he Kept his word.
A few moments after the bell sound
ing through the little mining village of
Herminie, Pa, announced the end of
summer vacation, the boy went to his
room and shot himself through the
head.
The skull of Miss Mona Skinner,
Bloomington, ILL.,, school teacher,
who, it was at first believed,
died in the explosion of gas
oline stove at the home of a