The Colorado statesman., 1924-03-15
FOREIGN

facto president of Honduras, was re-
ported TO the State Department at
Washington, d. O., In a telegram from
Tegucigalpa.
The members of the callph's house
held left behind on his departure
from Constantinople for Switzerland
are penniless and in acute distress,
no provision having been made for the
eunuchs and members of the harem.
Vatican authorities state that there
Is no foundation to the report printed
In n Rome newspaper that the vatican
was about to acknowledge the Russian
soviet government. 1t was added that
such an understanding had not been
asked for and would be unwelcome to
the soviets.
Former Premier Venlzelos, whose
health gave out after he had assumed
the premiership early this year in an
attempt to straighten out the tangle
over Greece's future form of govern
ment and the fate of the dynasty, has
left Athens. 1t is understood his des-
tination is Paris.
Colorum agitators have aroused the
wild natives in northern Mindanao
and trouble is feared in Agusan prov
ince, where band of 200 is reported
preparing to surround the constabu-
larry detachment STATIONED there Re-
Inducements are being rushed from
the provincial capital.
The mutinous activity in the Irish
army continue to be the absorbing
topic of Interest in Dublin. President
Cosgrave in the dali announced the
letter of General Tobin and Colonel
Dalton, written on behalf of the ex-
ecutive council of the Irish Republic
can army demanding a discussion
with the government of the Anglo
Irish treaty provisions, was chal-
lenge the government could not ignore,
and that the government has taken
the necessary steps to deal with the
situation.
Responsibility for the murders of Sa-
kao Osugi, Socialist leader, and his
wife, Noe Ito, who were killed by Cap
tain Amakasu of the Toxic gendarme-
RE after the September earthquake
has not proved costly to the chief af-
al Koizuma, military commandant in
Toxic after the disaster, and Colonel
Koyama, commander of the Toxic gen.
darmerie in the same period, were sus-
pended from active service as a result
of the murders. Now orders have been
issued reinstating them and the gener-
al is to be given command of an army
division.
GENERAL
Mrs. Mary Struttky, who shot and
killed the Rev. Basil Steelsuk in the
confessional at the church of ST.
Michael the Archangel in Chicago, was
adjudged insane and committed to the
Kankakee asylum for life
Three robbers rifled the safes of
three oil companies in an outlying
district of Phoenix, Ariz., and es-
capped with approximately $4,000 in
currency and checks after a hectic
gun battle with night Waterman.
Gov. Warren T. McCray entered a
plea of not guilty to charge of vio-
lating the national banking laws when
arraigned before Federal Judge Albert
B. Anderson at Indianapolis. Amos d.
Morris, cashier of the Kentland Dis
count and Deposit bank, of which Gov
ernor McCray was president until
1t closed, pleaded guilty to the same
charge.
Circumstances linked up with state
ments in what Louisville, KY, police
held was substantiation of the strange
story of William Gates, that he killed
Richard Heaton, his former business
associate, to save himself from mutt
lation in revenge for the fancied viola
ton of Heaton's home. Surgical i'm
plements, rubber sheeting and an i'm
provised operating table were found in
the house where Gates said he was
held captive two days and where
Heaton's body was found.
A jury in Decatur, Ga, awarded
verdict in favor of Walter L. Gambler,
Atlanta capitalist, growing out of
100000 suit brought against him by
Mrs. Clyde X. Byfield She charged
that Gambler attacked her on the
steamer Berengaria during the sum-
mer of 1922
Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight
champion, probably will accept mo-
ton picture contract which will pre-
vent him from defending his title be-
fore next September, his manager,
Jack Kearns, told John Griffin, Prov
the latter's bid for Dempsey-Harry
Wills match at Cumberland r. l.,
July /.
Stocks of wheat on farms We're d.
sos, 600 bushels smaller on March 1
than they were a year ago, while stocks
of corn, oats and barley were larger.