The Colorado statesman., 1924-06-07
FOREIGN

Tor tne year 1875 ut 34l,oOfio%O'
Raymond Poincare, who has held the
premiership of France for two and a
half years, has rendered his resigna-
ton and that Of his ministry to Presl-
dent Millerand.
The Norwegian whaling expedition
which has been working in the Ross
sea, has returned to Stewart island
with 221 blue whales and number of
finbaeks. Seventeen thousand barrels
of oil, including by-products, have been
secured.
Former Chancellor Marx consented
to attempt the formation of new cab
met to succeed the coalition govern
ment which has resigned. He notified
President Ebert he would try to Gre
ate Il ministry on the basis of bour-
geoise parties. Social Democrats prob
ably will have no posts in the new gov
ernment.
The Austrian chancellor Ignaz Sell
pei, was shot and seriously wounded
while alightlng from train in Vienna.
The attack on him was made by
fellow passenger. While the chancel-
lor suffered u serious wound, it is not
believed fatal. His assailant was shot
and badly wounded while being placed
under arrest.
Villa Hermosa, capital of the state
of Tabasco, Mexico and considered the
last rebel stronghold, fell before fed
eral attack, according to War De
ms rtr onupnnpatnaut uttptinu az
vices from Gen. Vicente Gonzalez. The
rebel garrison, under command of Fer
nando Segovia, was dispersed, suffer
ing large number Of casualties.
Ho Tim, editor of Pun Man Pc,
Chinese newspaper, was shot and serl-
ously wounded while in his office, Il
victim of the first tong war on record
in Honolulu. His assailant escaped
but was recognized. Chief Detective
]. r. Kellett says the shooting was
the result of a dispute between the
two factions of the Chez Kung tong.
Floods described as the worst in for
ty years have followed the heavy week
end rains in England, the NIidlands and
the north of England suffering the
most. Several persons are reported
drowned, much live stock has been de-
stroyed, and the property damage is
heavy, many farms having been inun-
dated. The forecasters predict more
rain.
GENERAL
Mrs. Julia Dorff Stull of Houston,
Texas, was indicted for the murder Of
her seventh husband, Raymond Sylves-
ter Stull, at Richmond, Va, several
weeks ago.
Ten persons were killed and between
forty and fifty injured few days ago
when crack Wabash passenger train
crashed into westbound freight train
on siding west of Williamsport, Ind.
Jasper (Jap) Muma, codefendant
with Tex Rickard, Frank Flournoy and
Fred C. Quimby, pleaded not guilty be-
fore Federal Judge Lynch ut Newark,
n. j., to a charge of transporting
Dempsey-Carpentier fight films in in
terstate commerce. He was released on
$500 bail.
Bishop William Montgomery Brown,
on trial for heresy before jury of his
fellow bishops in Cleveland, Ohio, last
the first round of his fight against be-
ing tried when the ecclesiastical court
decided that it has the right to try the
bishop for his heretical utterances and
errors of doctrine.
A morgue and hospital housed all
of the thirty-eight subnormal girls who
were in the care of the Hope Develop
ment School at Playa Del Rey, south
west of Los Angeles, when that insti-
tuition was RACED by fire recently.
Twenty of them, charred, twisted
forms of what had been little children
of less than 10 years of age, or girls in
their teens, or young women in their
20's, still children in mentality, We're
buried mt Venice mortuary not far
from the scene of the blaze.
The Wyoming public service commits
sion authorized the Sheridan Electric
Railway Company to abandon its street
railway line between Sheridan and vet
Grams hospital No. 6, formerly Fort
Mckenzie.
Nathan f. Leopold, 19-year-old stu
dent at the University of Chicago, son
of the millionaire owner of the Mani
tou Steamship Company and big box
factory, and Richard Loeb, also 10,
son of the millianuire vice president
of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and nephew
of Jacob Loeb, former president of the
Chicago school board, confessed the
deliberately planned murder of Robert
Franks, the 14-year-old son of Jacob
Franks, a retired millionaire.
The Alaskan fisheries bill, urged by
President Coolidge and Secretary Hoo
yer as necessary to save the salmon in
! dustry from destruction was passed by
the Senate, ending bitter fight which
| hns hnen in nrnrreSs for mnnY months.