The Colorado statesman., 1923-02-10
GENERAL


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GENERAL
Restoration of the elght-hour day by
the United States railroad labor board,
with time and one-half pay for over
time to $4,000 railway signal men, has
been announced at Chicago.
The sinking of the Lusitania was an
act of war, the court of appeals ut
Albany, n. Y, held in deciding the case
of the estate of Alfred q. Vanderbilt
against an Insurance company.
Nora Thompson and her twin sister,
Bernice, were remarked at Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa to Dale and eileen Bricker.
The sisters were divorced from the
brothers Jan. II, when each sister tes-
titled her husbands brother had mis-
treated her.
Judge Edward Terry Sanford was
sworn in as associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court at Knox
Vile, Tenn. Oath was administered Dy
Clark Horace Van Deventer of Federal
District Court of East Tennessee.
Judge Sanford left Immediately for
Washington. He will take his place on
the bench on Feb. 10.
Chief Gabriel White Horse, a Cher
okee Indian, went to the happy hunt
ing grounds recently in New York City
by self-inflicted bullet wound
through his heart. He had just learned.
police said, that the pale face girl he
adored had been merely Kidding" him.
The cause of 1t all, according to the
police, was Mrs. Norma Smith, p years
old, cashier in u lunch room.
Savannah, Ga, has just held Its
greatest ebration-welcoming home
the last of the American forces which
participated in the World War. The
entire complement paraded through
Savannah, reviewed by Maj. Gen.
Charles S. Farnesworth, chief of the
infantry branch of the army, and 9TH
er officers. A barbecue for the enlist
ed men followed the parade.
An ice jam some ten miles long and
at places twenty feet in height has
been formed In the st. Lawrence river
between the head of the long Sault
Rapids and Morrisburg, on the Cana
dian shores Considerable damage has
been caused along the Canadian shore.
Operation of power plants along the
river has been hampered by the jam.
Henry Ford was named defendant In
District Court ut Omaha in suit for
s25. 600 damages, brought by Mrs. Mag
gle Boyer. The plaintiff charges that
Ford Is responsible for the death OF
her husband, who was killed last De
cember when u truck he was driving
upset. Mrs. Boyer alleges that the
Ford chassis was not in perfect order
and was not strong enough TO carry
large gasoline tank on 1t.
Homes of thousands of sufferers
from epidemic Influenza for cure or
preventive of the disease were raised
by the announcement of the discovery
of the cause and the Isolation Oh the
germ. The announcement Is made by
DIR. Simon w. FleXner, director or the
Rockefeller Institute of Medical lie
search of Schenectady, n. Y, who at
tributes the discovery to Dr. Peter N
Olitsky and DR.. Frederick Il. Gates, al
SO of the institute.
Absolution from criminal responsl'
bility was given by District Attorney
Dodd of Brooklyn to all those con
nected with the death of Antonio Per
raiano, New York pugilist, known as
candy Thomas" who died from a
hemorrhage of the brain suffered dur
ing his bout with Johnny Clinton IN
Brooklyn.
The Senate of the California Legis-
lature mt Sacramento adopted RESP
luton ratlfyinG the Santa Fe Colorado
river pact. Similar action had there
tofore been taken by the Assembly
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