The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-11-30
Foreign

tach Japan from the allies and again
been refused according to word reach
ing Amsterdam
Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader
of the jameson raid on the Transvaal
In 1895, shortly before the Boer war
died in London.
All goods for Russia have been
posite Tornea, Finland, and are being
returned to Narylk
Vienna is threatened with a short
age OF grain bread and other foods,
owing TO transport difficulties. accord
ing to reports from London.
A troop train left Juarez, Mex,
carrying the 500 troops from the
Ojinaga garrison who will be incor.
porated into Gen Eduardo Herman
dez's forces as shock troops" in the
campaign against villa in the north.
eastern zone of Chihuahua state
The text of certain confidential
communications between the Russian
foreign office and foreign govern
ments were published at Petrograd BY
Bolsheyiki and social reyolutionist
newspapers at the instigation OF Leon
Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign min
lister.
The Caucasus has declared its sep
aration from Russia and formed a
parliament OF forty deputies members
OF the Socialist parties. including one
Bolsheviki according to reports
brought by NJ Tseretelli, former min
lister in the Kerensky cabinet, on his
return to Petrograd
The Maximalist commissioners have
proclaimed the abolition of class titles
distinctions and privileges. All per
sons henceforth are citizens of the
Russian republic. the corporate prop
erty OF MOBILES merchants and bur
eesses, according to the proclamation
must be handed over to the state
Germany's food situation is grave
and her population faces winter OF
priyation and suffering Authentic re
ports to officials at Washington
showed that Germany supplies OF
fats are being rapidly depleted and
that the scarcity in certain essential
foods may force a cut in rations fol-
troops as well as Williams
Sporting News
The Brown Dartmouth gridiron riv
airy, formerly an annual feature of the
New England football calendar, was
renewed at Boston for the first time
i'll eleven years, and Brown won, Is
to o.
Using nothing but straight football
the University of Minnesota eleven es
tablished its position as runner-up in
the Western conference by defeating
the University OF Illinois at lirbana,
~ to 6.
Lieut., J. c Matthews, aged 81, OF
St LOUIS, member OF the aviator sec.
ton, training at Taliaferro field. Fort
Worth, Tex, was instantly killed when
his alrpane fell from height of q.
900 feet
On slippery field that gave the
weighty Army team shade adyant.
age, the football representatives from
Camp Funston defeated the Grea,
Lakes Training school team by 7 to Q
at Kansas City
General
Orders were issued to kill enemy
aliens caught in barred zones
Complete unofficial returns from
the recent New York election show
that the woman's suffrage amendment
carried by a majority of Ss,S49
December cotton crossed the 80
cent mark on the floor OF the New
York Cotton exchange Nov. &C. and
later sold for 3o20 cents, the highest
price ever recorded on the exchange.
The party OF American congress,
men, members of which had narrow
escapes from death or injury when
they came under German machine gun
fire recently while visiting the
trenches on the British front in
France. returned home on an Ameri.
can steamship.
The National War Work Council of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton announced at New York that the
grand total of the nationwide war
fund campaign is s49,2o9.4l1 This
exceeds by nearly $l5,ooo,0o0 the $685.
600 900 goal set at the beginning OF
the campaign on Nov. II.
At Mineola, L. L., smiling perfectly
at ease and speaking with a lisping
English drawl, Mrs. Blanca de Saulles
told the jury in her murder trial that
John L. de Saulles, her divorced hus-
band, who she killed, squandered her
fortune and boosted of his love affairs
with other women.
Miss Tatiana Nicolaevna Romanoff.
second daughter of Nicholas Roman
off. deposed emperor of Russia, has
escaped from Siberia through a ficti-
tious marriage to a son of former
chamberlain OF the emperor and now