The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-10-22
FOREIGN

Pope Benedict shortly will hold a
consistory at which new cardinals will
be created.
Seyenty-one persons lost their lives
when the French steamship Amiral
Hamelin was torpedoed and sunk by a
submarine.
According to a dispatch from Athens
to the Cologne Gazette. the ministers
OF Russia and Italy are preparing to
leave Greece.
As a consequence OF a rise in the
price OF meat, it has been decided te
supply Parisians with a large quantity
OF frozen beef
The Brazilian Chamber OF Deputies
has approved by a vote OF 1903 to the
arbitration treaty signed last May be-
tween Argentina. Chile and Brazil
A legacy of $4,000 has just come
to Mrs. John Wareham OF GoIcar,
Yorkshire. as sequel to her kindness
to wounded Austrian soldier Robert
Mcclure.
The steamer Nieuw Amsterdam,
having on board DR.. Constantin T.
Dumba, the returning Austro- Hun
garian ambassador to the United
States, was detained off Deal.
According to the Cologne Gazette
the Greek government has asked the
Bulgarian government to permit the
export of Bulgarian corn to Greece,
and the request has been granted.
The Oldest newspaper in France,
the Gazette de France. has suspended
publication after appearing for nearly
800 years. The publishers hope to re.
vive the paper after the war. 1t was
founded in 1851 by Theophraste Re-
naudot.
Members OF labor unions in Eng
land increased by nearly 100000 per-
sons during the year 1913. according
to belated report just issued by the
registrar general The total member
ship at the end OF the year was 1885,
600.
An American yacht bound from San
Francisco with the name Academy
painted over the name Ethel. and
carrying an unusually large crew, was
detained by government authorities
near Buenaventura, a Colombian port
on the Pacific, under suspicious cir
cumstances.
SPORTING NEWS
Princeton rolled up score of 40 to
3 against the Lafayette football team
at Princeton, N. j.
Pennsylvania and Navy made a to
tie game at Annapolis, Md, each
scoring touchdown and goal
Charley White of Chicago won the
decision over Johnny Harvey of New
York in twclve-round bout at Bos-
ton
Richie Mitchell, Milwaukee light
weight was awarded the newspaper
decision by a shade over Joe Azevedo.
California, in fast ten-round bout at
Milwaukee.
Floyd Gilbert. captain OF the Grange
vile High School football team, died
at hospital at Moscow, Idaho from
broken neck sustained in game at
Nez Perez.
Frank Moran of Pittsburg, knocked
out Jim Coffey, the Dublin giant, in
the third round of a scheduled ten
round battle at Madison Square Gar
den in New York
Sam Langford, the Boston Tarbaby
was given a decision over Battlina
Jim Johnson by Referee English al
the end of fifteen rounds of savage
milling at the National Athletic Club
in Denver.
GENERAL
Count Max Lynar London, a Ger
man nobleman, was arrested in New
York on charge Of bigamy.
Bethlehem Steel common, which
sold at $50 when the war opened, sold
at $500 share in New York
f'ifty-two violations OF the Sunday
saloon closing law were reported to
police headquarters in Chicago.
Indications based on unofficial re-
turns were that woman suffrage
would be defeated in New Jersey by
! from $4,000 to $4,000.
AT Ossining. y. Y, the Sing Sing
Prison Savings Bank has suspended
payment after an existence of five
days, and the prisoners are mourning
the loss of the token money" they
had deposited.
A so-called victory" parade OF l6..
600 advocates of the woman suffrage
amendment to be voted on in the Nov.
ember election in Massachusetts was
held in the business section of Bos.
ton.
More than 5000 persons registered
at Minot, Bismarck and Plaza for a
chance to file on one of the 700 home
steads in the Fort Berthold Indian
reservation, which will be thrown