The Colorado statesman., 1924-08-02
FOREIGN


Australian aviator.
Soon after leaving port the liner Ber-
gensfjord caught fire arter there had
been an explosion in the after-engine.
The liner anchored in a side-arm of
Christianford and landed all of her
450 passengers. The damage to the
vessel is considerable.
One hundred and sixty-nine persons
were drowned in the wreck of the Tai
rel Maru off Cape Notoro, northeast of
Hokkaido, says a dispatch to the
Asahi, leading Toxic newspaper. The
Tairei Maru nominally is freighter,
but was carrying number of passen-
gers.
Miguel Costa, commander of the
Brazilian rebels at Sac Paulo, COM
mitted suicide in the main street of
the city when he saw federal troops
entering, said a dispatch from Sac
Paulo received in Rio De Janeiro.
Rebel forces fled from Sac Paulo
towards the interior in two military
trains.
The soviet government has appropri-
ated $32, 100000 for the purpose of cop
ing with the threatened famine in Rus
sia, according to an announcement
made in Moscow by the central COM
mittee of the Communist party. OF
this amount $15,00O,OO0 will be used
for seed and the rest for the direct as
sistance of the peasants in the worst
affected areas.
A pogrom in which 1t is known fif-
teen Jewish passengers were killed has
taken place on Russian boat in the
river Djesna, between Hakoshin and
Novgorod Sewjersk, according to re-
ports received at Riga from soviet
Russia. The report asserts that an or
ganized band, which attacked the boat,
picked out the Jewish passengers,
leaving the non-Jews alone.
AS the fighting between Brazilian
government and revolutionary forces
at Sac Paulo continues, conflicting
reports as to the number of persons
killed or injured as result of the
battle are being received in official
advices reaching the State Department
at Washington, D. c. A summary of
the reports issued by the department
says "it is believed that the rumors
overestimate the casualties"
Flood waters have submerged half
the state of Cochin, causing loss of life
and widespread damage among cattle
| and crops, according to messages
| received in Madras, British India, by
| the newspaper, Hindu. A teacher and
sixty-four pupils in a boys school at
| Cheruthumby are stated to have per-
ished in the collapse of the school
building. Thousands of persons in
Calicut have been rendered homeless
through the destruction of their dom
| iciles.
GENERAL
Between $4,000 and $4,000 was OBJ
tanned by six bandits who held up the
First National bank at Highland, Ill.
Limitation of political campaign
speeches by radio to fifteen minutes,
except in rare Instances, is under con-
sideration by some of the largest COM
panies operating broadcasting stations
in the Eastern states, was announced
| in Washington.
Twenty persons, mostly negroes, and
more than 6,000 head of cattle are re-
ported dead in Tennessee, Arkansas
and Mississippi from anthrax. An ad-
ditional government expert has been
rushed to Mississippi where Governor
| Whitfield reports eight persons and
| 5000 head of cattle dead
Mrs. Mary Shank, held in Jail at
Frederick, Md, in default of $1,000 bail
us the ringleader in the tarrlng and
feathering of Miss Dorothy Grandon at
| Myersville, disclaimed the responsible
| ity she assumed for the affair when
she testified at the preliminary hear
| ing and laid the blame for it on men
of the village.
buffalo stampede and hunt in a
residential district of San Francisco
ended with the rounding up of twenty
paddock in Golden Gate park. The
bisons, after breaking down the wire
fence that kept them in their paddock,
stampeded to nearby lawns and forced
citizens to seek places of safety.
Five forest fires in California, two
in Washington and one in Oregon en-
gagged the attention of Pacific coast
fire fighters last week. One fire in
| Oregon burned over 1,500 acres of
| Mayer park, on the Columbia River
highway, near the Dalles. Cooler
weather and higher humidity had re-
lieved the general situation through
out California.
The United States Railroad Labor
Board postponed until Sept. s further
hearing on the controversy between en-
gine operatives and the western car
riers. The two brotherhoods formally
| nntified the hoard thnt they would not