The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-11-23

bombing raids over German lines.
one more American soldier was
killed in a fight between patrols in
No Mans land
on the Piaye front. Oh the Isletin
front at Folina. three machine guns
and several rifles were taken.
Gen. Pershing has reported to TIE
War Department that two men were
killed in action on Nov, 10. Three
were severely wounded and three
slightly wounded
Capture of l.2Oo Austrians who
crossed the Piave river is announced
in a message from Gen. Diaz. the Ital-
ian communicative chief, TO his army,
received by cable
Germany has refused TO treat for
peace with the new soldiers and
Norkmcn's government in response to
recent proposal, according to the
news papers al Petrograd
sinking OF the American destroyer
fhauncey in collision III the war
zone with probable loss of twenty.
one lives was announced by the Navy
Department at Washington
Shifting his offensive TO the south,
Field Marshal Haig has delivered a
series OF attacks against the Germans
IN the region between ST Quentin and
he River Scarpe in France,
The British rapidly are encirc!ing
jerusalem in their Palestine cam
paign, having now brought their
In into /.
west and fifteen miles west OF the
ancient city
Inmstakable signs OF Great Brit.
aims Willingness to iorsake It's defen.
siye naval policy and heed the sugges-
lions OF the United States and other
nations warning with Germany have
reached Washington.
Germans. who previously have ased
only light field pieces against Diaz
troops. are now bringing up the heav-
lest howitzers and laying the stag"
for a tremendous assault before the
full strength OF allied help arrives.
The struggle between the Austro-
Germans and Italians al Monte Tomba
and Monte Monfenera, in the noun
tlnues. it was officially announced by
the Italian War Department The in
yading forces We're driven back four
times when they attempted to take the
Italian positions on the Monfenera
spur.
WESTERN
Constitutional prohibition was de
feated in the Oct. 10 election in Iowa
by a majority of 932 votes. according
TO the official canvass
p. D. Armour, III, grandson OF the
founder of the Armour packing indus
try, enlisted at Chicago in the United
States aviation corps and was given a
commission as first lieutenant
At st. Louis, Oliver Wilson OF Pc
oria, ILL.,, was reelected president OF
the National Grange, Patrons of Hus
handry. Among other officers chosen
were assistant steward. John Morris,
Golden. Colo. and chaplain. w f.
Deal Nampa, Idaho
Returns from eighteen OF the TWEEN
ty-eight counties of New Mexico show
a majority for the prohibition amend
ment of IL $50, a majority against the
tax amendment OF $3.50 and major
ity against the judicial district amend
ment OF 3,0S7
WASHINGTON
Secretary Daniels told the President
that more submarines have been de
stroyed in the last two months than
In the entire year heretofore
Messages from Ambassador Francis
at Petrograd and Consul General Sum
mers at Moscow. received al the
State Department, said all Americans
in the principal Russian cities were
safe, Conditions in both places We're
represented as quieter, but still cha
otto.
A roundup of suspected Germans,
mainly in seacoast and lake port
cities, is in progress under authority
OF President Wilson's new proclama-
ton forbidding alien enemies within
100 yards OF docks. requiring their
registration and imposing other re-
strictions on their movements.
Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt stopped
in the same Washington home. The
prospects are that they will remain
there permanently Antinetto and Clio
vaninni Riccobono, heads of this
home, were extremely elated. Wilson,
Taft and Roosevelt are triplets-the
first treble birth on record in Wash
ington in fourteen years.
Railroads Of the nation agreed to
the principle OF arbitration OF wage
disputes. and government officials
now are convinced that there VIII be
no railroad strike.