The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-26
FOREIGN

| heTce mas Detu successfully ~BAA
lied in London.
| No one in authority in the British
government would comment upon
President Wilson's address TO the Sen
ate. but newspapers are discussing II
al great length.
Amedee Bollee, Sr., an inventor.
known in France as the father OF
automobilism," Is dead in Paris
Bollee was the builder of a steam car
which he first operated in 1873.
| Average dividends OF the eight hun
dred largest stock companies in Den
mark have increased from s-s per cent
III 1912. to 1928 per cent in 1916. Steam
| ship companies show the largest In.
crease from As per cent in 1912 to 81
| per cent in 1916.
Recourse will be had to compulsory
national service if the appeal for vol
untary service fails to evoke suffi-
cient response, declared Arthur Ne
Vile Chamberlain. director general Of
national service. at a meeting OF en-
ployers and employees at Birmingham.
England.
The Copenhagen Politiken, az
quoted in AN Exchange Telegraph dis
| patch, says the Socialist party OF Nor
way has adopted resolution support
| ing the American proposal that an in
ternational Socialist congress be sum-
moned to meet at The Hague to pre-
Eare the way for peace.
ha INF ;pta ual ~
German and Belgian children. as well
as many children of Dutch families
resident in Germany. 500 youngsters
are now being sent to Amsterdam
from Austria and even children Of Ru
manian and Turkish nationality are
being taken there by Jewish relief
ganizatlon.
Japanese bankers, it is announced.
have signed an agreement with the
Bank OF Communications for a loan
OF s5,000.000 in silver at 7a per cent.
The Chinese parliament attempted TO
prevent the loan, but was unsuccess.
full as the transaction, it was stated,
does not increase the governments
liability in connection with the bank
Official figures announced for 1916
show German ayiators were victors IN
y majority of the aerial battles on all
fronts and that Germany lost fewer
battle planes than her antagonists.
The official figures show the total
losses OF aeroplanes on both sides dur
ing 1916 to have been 1,o05. OF these
the entente forces lost 1874 and the
Germans 22l. On the west front alone
both sides lost 92O and OF these ls
were German war planes.
SPORTING NEWS
Happy" Felsch has signed his con
tract with the Chicago Sox.
Edward tStrangler) Lewis, Ken.
lucky heavyweight. won in two
straight falls wrestling match in Los
| Angeles, Cal, with Gus kervaras.
The Northwestern bonspiel opened
in Duluth, Mimi, for the curling cham
pionship of America. More than 100
rjnks, twenty OF these being Cana
t.an, We're entered.
Courtney Chapman of Chicago, 400 to
227 in the first match of the first in
ter-city English billiard contest ever
layed in America.
President Frazee of the Red Sox an.
rounced in Boston that nine members
of the worlds champions have signed
contracts and that before long he ex
poets to have at least five more. H
would not divulge the names of any
who have signed on players request.
GENERAL
Three men were burned to death
and four others seriously injured in
hotel fire in Portland, Ore.
Three bandits. Oscar Poe. viii Har,
and Harry Hart, We're shot and killed
~ posse under Sheriff Roach. eight
cen miles southN est of Okmuigee
| Okla.
Overalls will be worn by numbers
OF Chicago women at their work here
after if the judgment, announced OF
buyers for leading department store
is sustained.
A check written by her wandering
| ! usband, whose mind had become
flank, enabled Mrs. G. w. Watson OF
| Collinsyillc, H., to find Watson IL
| ,.ittsburg, Kan.
John w Blancett, accused OF the
murder of Clyde Armour, his travelling
companion, has been arrested at Fri
day Harbor, Wash, and taken to
Santa Fe, N. NJ, for trial.
The taking up of the new $250,000.
| 900 loan to Great Britain will in
crease American investment in for
eign government loans or commercial
credits due to the war to $2,350, 900.
600, OF which about half is to Great