The Colorado statesman., 1922-03-04
FOREIGN

signed for the benefit of creditors.
The announcement was made from the
rostrum of the Montreal Stock ex-
change.
Evacuation of British troops from
Ireland will be resumed, it has been
announced. Two special steamers un-
der British government orders, will
leave the port Of Dublin soon with
troops and military stores.
The universal suffrage bill, intro
duced in the diet by the opposition,
was defeated by vote of 243 to lat
at Toxic. The final debate was not
attended by the promised demonstra-
| ton. snow storm accompanied by a
cold wave interfering.
A fire that swept the Tondo district
of Manila recently, destroyed 800
small nipa houses and rendered home
less more than 1000 natives. AS
there has been no rain recently, the
| nipa houses are dry as tinder and
burned rapidly in high wind that
carried the flames over n wide area.
An exceeding faith is shown in the
/
ton, since the scramble for foreign
moneys began in Moscow. Money
changers refuse to take any checks,
and the American cash they accept
must bear the engraving of George
Washington Such bills they call
"Washingtons."
| ]. B. Murray of Woburn, Mass, con-
i m tpit ol
ministration, suffered a slight flesh
wound when fired upon in the street
in Moscow recently. He was accomp-
anied by Mr.. Callahan of Fall River,
Mass. Whether the shot was fired by
highwayman or by street patrols
who misinterpreted the actions of the
Americans has not been determined.
American food now is beginning to
tell in the fight for lives of children in
the famine districts near Moscow,
where the American relief administra-
ton is in operation. But elsewhere
the situation is growing more CHASTITY
every day. In some villages where, be-
fore the relief administration kitchens
were established, the deaths of child
rem ranged from five to seven daily
Great Britain has not yet received n
penny of war indemnity from Ger
many, the House of Commons was told
by Sir Robert Horne, chancellor of the
exchequer. The cost of maintaining
the forces of occupation, however,
amounting to more than 1,000,000,000
gold marks, had been repaid to the ex-
tent of 970OOO,0O0 marks. OF this sum
f2,640,O00 had been paid to Canada
and Australia.
GENERAL
Four bandits held up the cashier
and twenty-five members of the Frank
lin Printers Union local No. at Chi
cago and escaped with $4,000 In union
funds. The holdup took place at union
headquarters, where l.. S. Mills, the
cashier, was paying out sick benefit
funds.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands is
sued temporary restraining order en-
| joining Arthur G. Lueder, postmaster
of Chicago, from preventing the Chi
cago Tribune from going through the
mails on the ground that a contest in
which cash prizes were awarded to the
possessors of "lucky names" was lot
terry.
Formal announcement of the candi-
dacy of Governor Edwards for Unit
ed States senator on "wet" plat
form will he made soon after the Leg
islature adjourns, Mayor Frank Hague
of Jersey City, has stated. Mayor
Hague was the governors campaign
manager when he ran for his present
office.
James NJ. Cox, Democratic presi-
Dental candidate in 1920, has ac-
cepted an invitation to address Iowa
Democrats at rally at Des Moines,
Iowa, this month, which will inaugu-
rate the state campaign, according to
an announcement by DIR. ]. W. Rey-
state committee.
Contributions to the Woodrow VIII
son foundation offer opportunity for
persons of all political beliefs to aid
the cause of world peace, Henry Ford
declared in a letter made public by
Woodbridge N. Ferris of Big Rapids,
former governor of Michigan and state
chairman of the foundation. Mr.. Ford
inclosed a check for $4,000.
| Failing in their efforts to gain en-
trance to an apartment in Cleveland,
Ohio, where it was reported gang
of alleged safe crackers were living,
police resorted to tear bomb" A
window was broken and the bomb
thrown inside. The result was almost
instantaneous. Four men and three
women surrendered and were taken to
police headquarters for investigation.
Alfred Il. Lindsay, accused Of
swindling society women out of near