The Colorado statesman., 1923-09-01
FOREIGN

plete breakdown owing TO lack or
money to carry them on.
Nine members of one family died
from eating what they thought were
mushrooms, bringing the total deaths
from this cause in Berlin recently to
eighteen.
President Mlllerand received the en-
tire American Legion delegation head
ed by Col. Alvin NJ. Owsley, national
commander, at the presidential sum
mer chateau at Rambouillet, France.
A branch of the Ku Klux Klan has
been formed at Auckland, New Zea-
land, to combat Asiatic labor and trad
ers, according to reports. 1t is assert
ed that the branch has a membership
of nearly 1000.
The Oldest surviving nurse of the
American Civil war Is living in an
English workhouse in London. She is
Mrs. Janet Newbury, 101 years old.
She was an associate of Florence
Nightingale, the founder of modern
Red Cross nursing.
According to the London Star the
salvage ship which has recovered $780,
100000 in gold bars from the sunken
liner Laurentic off the Irish coast is
under guard of a destroyer to prevent
raid by Irish republicans. The sal
wage vessel is real treasure ship
with the decks literally covered with
recovered gold.
Fire gutted the Cosmopolitan cafe,
the largest restaurant in Nogales, So
nora, few days ago. The Nogales,
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ternational line and assisted in efforts
to control the blaze. Damage is esti-
mated at 100000, The Cosmopolitan
cafe was popular gathering place for
visitors from the United States.
The press is excited over disciplin-
ary measures taken against one news
paper which violated the release date
on Gov. Gen. Leonard Woods annual
report to the secretary of war. The
report was for release ut midnight Sat
urday, Aug. 20, but one paper printed
the most important excerpt on Satur-
day afternoon. In consequence the
governor general has excluded report
ers of that newspaper from his eXecu-
tive offices for one month.
Eberbach, Germany, Aug. 2S.-"I am
certain that the gold discovered in the
hills near Hagerstown, Md, is part of
the money l buried there before leav-
ing the United States" said Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy American
draft dodger. He continued: Il could
not describe just where | secreted my
money but l could go to the place. 1t
was in the mountainous region around
Hagerstown. l planted more than
100000. l renounce all claim to the
money. The lucky finder can have it,
l congratulate him. l hope he needed
it. also buried some money in West
Virginia but l will not say just where.
Maybe 1 will get it back myself some
day." Bergdoll is living in secrecy in
Eberbach, Germany, owing to the re-
cent attempt to kidnap him.
GENERAL
The first step in the laying of the
eighteenth cable across the Atlantic
was begun a few days ago.
Miss Emile Bullow of New York
was reelected president of the Ma
tional Association of Women Lawyers.
Directors of the Coca Cola Company
declared quarterly dividend of $l.75
on common stock payable October / to
stockholders of record September 10.
Robbers who had piled $4,000 worth
of furs outside the establishment of
Pannock & Hallbach, Omaha furriers,
made their escape when surprised by
police.
A mother, Mrs. Ross Zimiz, shot and
seriously wounded her son, De2zo, 10,
because, she told the police, she would
rather kill him than have him pursue
II career of crime
At the closing session of the Inter
national photographers union conven-
ton at Milwaukee, Los Angeles was
chosen over New York as the meeting
place for the 1924 convention.
Aside from the anthracite situation,
President Coolidge is understood to be
giving as much study these days to
the merchant marine problem as to any
other governmental question.
A national negro organization, with
a membership of 250,000 voters, is the
aim of the National Negro Democratic
League in Chicago. Plans for launch
ing the new nonpartisan association
were made at meeting recently.
A violent hail storm which struck
the section around Norfolk, Neb., re-
suited disastrously to corn crops, live
stock and poultry, corn being stripped
of it's ears and foliage and many head
of live stock and flocks being killed.
Members of n score of New York
unions have bought the stock of the
New York Call, for fifteen years New
Yorks leading labor publication. 1t was
announced by the newspaper. The