The Colorado statesman., 1922-01-21
FOREIGN

falls, according to official statistics
Just published. Eight persons have
been killed in the last few days by
avalanches.
Freight loss and damage claims in
Canada and the United States during
1920 totaled S125, ,S36,94s. Joe Marshall,
special representative of the freight
claim prevention committee of the
American Railway Association, told
the Canadian Railway Club at Mont
real.
With only approximately $250,OO0,-
600 In notes, backed up by one of the
biggest gold reserves in the world,
Australia occupies one of the strong
est financial positions in the world, ac-
cordlng to Sir Henry Braddon, former
commissioner for Australia to the
United States.
The campaign In Mexico against
breweries is reaching its climax. 1t is
stated in official circles that the pres
ent tax on beer is to be raised 100 per
cent. II is contended that Mexican
beer is chemically injurious and the
government has appointed commits
sion to study the question.
The Paris police are using wireless
equipped automobiles to rid the city
of bandits and highwaymen and are
ready to use airplanes in time of riots
or demonstrations. They plan to en-
ploy airplnnes primarily for the study
of traffic problems, but also, when
needed, to cope with rioters.
An ecclesiastical court presided over
by the metropolitan of Athens, found
the Most Rev. Meletois Metaxakis, re-
Gently elected patriarch of Constanu-
nople, guilty of attempting to cause a
schism in the church. II ordered that
he be deprived of his every rank and
secluded as a monk liz the monastery
at Zante.
A nurse in the employ of the Amer
lean Red Cross at Goldingen, Latvia,
lost ten sons in the war, her husband
was shot by the Bolsheviki and her
three daughters died last year. Still
she goes about her work with smile.
"Nitchevo," is. her consolation, which
means, among II million other things,
at can't be helped"
GENERAL
Fur buyers in the Adlrondacks de-
clared the present season would be
marked by the largest harvest of pelts
on record with the trappers receiving
approximately $1,5OO,OOO for their
catch.
Construction projects aggregatinS
$40, 900, 100000 have been planned for
the United States in 1922, w. o. Win
ston, president, declared at the opening
of three-day conference of the Cen
eral Contractors of America at Cle> e.
land, Ohio.
Leslie Haywood of Woodlawn, a sub
urb of Birmingham, Ala, reported to
police that he was severely flogged by
five men after being enticed from his
home. According TO the police, he said
his assallantS accused him of some ir
regular real estate transactions with
mis- mother.
Exports of American coal, excluding
shipments to Canada and Mexico, in
creased by 100 per cent in 1921, as
compared with 1913, according to
statement by the Commerce Depart
ment. Much of this increase, the de-
partment said, was due doubtless to
the British coal strike.
When a teller momentarily left his
cage in the Union Trust Company at
Providence, II. l., an unidentified man
reached through the wicket, stole a
$4,000 Liberty bond, a bill of lading
covering carload of cotton and a bun
die of checks, and escaped before an
alarm could be given.
Total expenditure for building
throughout the country for the year
1921 was 1895, 165, 1872, gain of 14.9
per cent over the record year of 1920,
Bradstreets announced. Reports from
$50 cities showed that S120, ,994 $50 had
been expended for building in Decem-
Der, a gain Of 1928 per cent over De
cember, 1920.
Tony May of Chicago, who told
Judge Friend he was n newsboy, was
ordered to pay 5000 a month to his
wife as alimony. Questioning by the
Judge brought out that while Tony for
merly sold papers on the street he now
owned a string of news stands, quite
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several business enterprises.
Convicted of annoying women, but
saved from straight Jail sentence by
the pleadings of his wife and children,
August Shomeberger of West Hoboken,
n. j., was sentenced to spend the next
twenty week-ends in cell. Re
corder Walter arranged for the mash
er 70 be locked up every Saturday at
noon and released on Monday.
The number of persons killed in au-
tomobile accidents in the United States
In 1921 was estimated at between r.
900 and $4,000, probably nearer the