The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-04-17
FOREIGN

An accident In coal NINE near
Shimonoseki resulted in the loss Of
236 lives, according to information re-
ceived in Toxic.
Pope Benedict issued decree for
the recital OF prayers for peace in
Roman Catholic churches over the
world during the month of May.
Six thousand bales OF American cot
ton aboard the steame San Gugliel-
mo were destroyed by fire in the har-
Dor at Naples. Italy. The loss is es-
timated at 100000 lire (s20O,0o0)
The Alaska Senate passed a bill
submitting territorial prohibition to
the voters at the November election
in 1916. II the voters approve pro-
hibition, 1t will become effective Jan.
l, 1918.
Demos Lermos. one of the most no.
torious outlaws of the Arizona Sonora
border, was hanged with three com
panions forty miles east of Aqua
Prieta by border patrol OF Gen. P.
Elias Gales forces.
The charge that explosives and
spare parts OF guns are being carried
into Turkey through Rumania by Ger.
man and Austrian diplomatic couriers
is made in dispatch to the Paris
Journal from Bucharest.
Four men and a boy were blown to
pieces, forty persons badly injured
and the big city herring market
Quilted by fire in a mysterious eXplo-
sion at Lerwick, capital of Shetland,
according TO wireless message re-
ceived in London.
The countess of Granard, who was
Miss Beatrice Mills daughter of Og.
den Mills of New York, has given
birth to son in London. He will
be given the title of Viscount Forbes.
The earl and countess of Granard have
two other children, both girls.
SPORTING NEWS
1t has been announced that Ad VOL
CAST will meet Freddie Welsh in Mil.
waukee on May in a ten-round, no
decision bout.
President McGill of the Denver
Western league baseball club pur.
chased outright John Dell, an out.
fielder from the Columbus Club of the
American Association and two other
players
w. r. Applegarth defeated Jack
Donaldson of Australia in a 220-yard
race at Stafford, England, for the
worlds professional championship for
that distanee, held by Donaldson
Applegarths time was 22A seconds.
AL Reich and Jim Coffey, two OF
Jess Wizards foremost challengers
will get together in the ring with the
champion as referee some time in
May, if statements by their respective
managers issued in New York count
for anything.
RUDE Smith. light heavyweight OF
Denver was knocked out in the twelfth
round of bout at Cripple Creek by
George Coplan of Cripple Creek. The
fight was staged by the Cripple
Creek Athletic Club and a crowd OF
I,400 attended.
The Philadelphia Country Club pole
team defeated the Boise, Idaho, four
on the San Mateo polo field by a
score Of II to 101a goals in the second
round for the Polo Association cups
in the Panama-Pacific exposition
tournament at San Francisco.
Bob Fitzsimmons, the former
heavyweight champion, was married
in Washington to Miss Temo Zillen
who has been associated with him for
some time in theatricals The brides
gift from the bridegroom is said to
have been $4,000 in jewels.
GENERAL
f. B. Parkhurst was killed and .
traction engine he was driving was
demolished when run down by a
Union Pacific fast passenger train al
Durham. fifteen miles east of Chey
enne, Wyo.
Averaging $50 words a minute fol
one hour Notwithstanding deductions
of five words each for forty-four er
rors, Miss Mary B. Owen of Passaic
y. Y, made new worlds record fol
speed in typewriting at Boston.
Seventy thousand milk bottles
worth, empty, $500, have been con
demned and seized in the last two
weeks for being short measures by J.
E. Harshman. sealer of weights and
measures, at Los Angeles, Cal.
Four of the five officials of the Sc,
000, 900 International Lumber and De
velopment Company, who were con.
victed in the United States Court on
charges of swindling, began their sen.
tence in the penitentiary in Philadei
phia
Four men, convicted in the Terre
Haute election fraud trial and SEN
fenced by Judge Anderson to the fed