The Colorado statesman., 1923-04-14
FOREIGN

the anti-Jewish outbreak in Warsaw
have been arrested. The large number
of wounded Jews has served to inten-
sify the excitement in the Jewish quar-
ter
The explosion of a time bomb
destroyed the lock of the Dortmund-
Ems canal, near Herne. The canal was
blocked, seriously interfering with the
complicated inland waterway traffic
in the Ruhr.
Liam Lynch, chief of staff OF the
Irish irregulars, has been captured, 1t
has been officially announced in Dub
lin. Lynch was captured by the Free
State forces at Knocknasalen, near
Newcastle, after an engagement in
which he was seriously wounded.
Special dispatches received in Ha-
vana from Camaguey, Cuba, report
that the destruction OF sugar cane by
fire still continues throughout the dis
trict- The losses through the fires are
placed at more than 100000 arrobas
of cane and sugar production in the
Camaguay district will be greatly re-
duced.
A tall, slender, oliveskinned girl,
who, in the legends of Italy, was
born to be a soldiers BRIDE" fulfilled
the prophecy when the Princess Yo-
landa, eldest daughter of King Victor
Emmanuel and Queen Elena, was mar
ried to Count Calvi di Bergolo, war
veteran and a captain In the Italian
army.
Domestic difficulties which have
piled up steadily since Inauguration of
the Bonar Law administration con-
fronted the government as parliament
reassembled in London. With 100000
| workers on strike and the probability
that half million building trades may
be added to this number, labor unrest
presents, perhaps, the most serious
difficulty.
Only athletics in which the element
of sport predominates will make up
! the program for the 1924 Olympic
games which are to be held in the
Colombes stadium in the suburbs of
| Paris. Many of the events Of nom
sporting character, which seriously
handicapped the American teams in
previous games because the Americans
had no entrants in them, have been
eliminated from the official program,
which has been published in Rome.
GENERAL
Registered bonds of the st. Louis
| Federal Land Bank amounting to ST.
| 10000 were in the loot obtained by
| five bandits who held up mail truck
| in the heart of the downtown business
section of ST. Louis.
A man and four small children were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the Colonel Babb farm home,
two and one-half miles west of Smith
land, Iowa, near Sioux City, Iowa. The
| four children were sons and daughters
| of Colonel Babb.
The death toll as a result of the
| tornado which recently swept Alexan-
dria and Pineville, Louisiana, has been
placed at twenty. A check by author
tiles developed that undertaking es-
Establishments in Alexandria had the
bodies of twenty victims. The list of
| injured was placed at sixty, more than
| thirty of whom are in the United
States Veterans hospital near Pine
Vile. The property damage was es-
| timated at $500,000.
Three fires in towns surrounding
Madison, S. D., broke out recently,
causing n total loss of $4,000. The
| first fire occurred at Howard, in which
IL loss of $4,000 was incurred. At
| Flandreau, town east of Madison, a
large grade school building valued at
$4,000 was completely destroyed. AT
| Ramona, small town twelve miles
| west, fire destroyed large opera
house being used as a school building,
the water works pumping station and
in addition, partially demolished the
municipal light plant of the city.
Conferences of eight departments of
the National League of Women Voters
ut Des Moines, Iowa, women were urged
| to lend their cooperation in the pre-
vention of war, to take an active part
in party politics and to exert their in
fluence in the bringing about of great
er efficiency in world government.
Rules by school boards prohibiting
girl students from using powder and
paint are lust and reasonable and
should be enforced" the Arkansas Su-
preme Court held in its ruling on the
"Knobel lipstick case" Nationwide
prominence was given the case which
originated when officials of the Kno-
bel, Ark, high school expelled Miss
Pearl Pugsley because she insisted on
| using powder on her nose.
Obscurity for William z. Foster,
Americas most prominent exponent of
soviet Russia's regime, or notoriety
that might imperil democracy in this
country depends to the
American Federation of Labor, as re-
presented by Mathew Woll of Chicago.
vice nresident=unon the decision of