The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-14
FOREIGN

| Germany's great gun makers, the
krupps, have opened a branch factory
at Lucerne. with a capital OF 80 o,000.0O0
marks.
| Al Santiago, Chile the government
issued a decree of neutrality in the
| war between the United States and
Austria Hungary
No attempt will be made to define
| the future position of Jerusalem until
| general peace comes, the London
| Times says it understands
A regiment of business and profes-
| sional men set to work digging graves
for the 1.200 bodies recovered from
the ruins made by the explosion
Dec 6.
Virtually all hope has been aban
doned at Quebec for the crew of the
! government steamer Simcoe, which
was reported sinking off Magdalen
islands.
! President Wilson's name may be
given to one OF the principal streets
in the Eternal city in grateful COM
memoration of Americas aid to Italy
in the great war
A Geneva dispatch to the Vosseche
Zeitung says that on receiving tho
cardinals Dec. 20. the Pope will de-
liver an important pronunciamento on
| the question of peace.
Germany made a move for peace
through some neutral government
last September, according to an an
NJ L., h.. .f
by Foreign Minister Balfour
The death is announced in London
OF Countess Sarah Esterhazy, widoG
| of Count Maximilian Esterhazy, for
mer Austrian ambassador to London,
who died thirty years ago.
Premier Alhucemas made official
announcement at Madrid that the
Spanish steamship Claudio had been
bombarded by German submarine.
eight sailors being killed and others
wounded.
Figures officially given out OF the
| casualties in the munitions explosion
disaster in Halifax, n s.. follow:
/ Known dead, 1880, identified. $40:
unaccounted for 1920; wounded g.
600 homeless. 25 900. A roaring bliz-
zard, the third to strike that sorely af-
flicted city since the blast from the
exploding munition steamer made u.s.
900 persons homeless. burst from the
northeast
The American Red Cross is in Hall.
fax and the relief work is already
under way. but the railroads are hav-
| ing difficulty handling the freight
which has come from nearby cities
and towns answering the call for aid.
The marriage in London of Coun.
| Christian Gunther Won Bernstorff son
of the former ambassador to the Unit
ed States. and Mrs. Marguerite Vivian
/ Burton Thompson of Burlington. n. j..
| is reported by the Berlin newspapers.
SPORTING NEWS
Seemingly the plan OF the Western
league to drop Denver from the cir
| cult is going to succeed.
Ban Johnson will continue as presi-
| dent of the American league unless he
| is called to perform some war duty
/ for the government.
Fred Fulton. Rochester, Mimi, as
| pirant for the heavyweight title, is
more insistent than ever that Cham
| pion Jess Willard battle with him.
Fulton turned loose at Columbus, O..
on Porky Dan Flynn OF Boston in the
| second round of scheduled ten-round
| bout and knocked the Beantown man
cold A left uppercut turned the
trick.
GENERAL
News of an explosion on board the
! submarine Az, resulting in the death
| of Joseph Schaeffer, chief electrician
| of the boat was received by the navy
department
Many crops this year exceed the
production of other years, while the
value OF the country's farm products.
with a total estimated unofficially at
s21 900 ,000,0 600 far exceeds any other
year in history.
President Wilson has issued proc
lamation in which he urges everyone
not already a member to join the Red
| Cross during the membership cam
| paign starting Dec. 1G and continuing
until Christmas eve.
A clear profit Of $40 head from q
flock of 275 ewes, with the wool clip
averaging eight pounds. and an in
crease in numbers Of 16S per cent, Ii
| the cheerful outlook reported by .
Bayfield, county, Wis. sheep raiser.
| The bodies of 400 Chinese, buried
in the Chinese reservation in Cypress
Hill cemetery, Brooklyn, during the
| past thirteen years, are being ex-
humed preparatory to shipment to the
Orient that they may rest finally in
the soil OF their ancestors