The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-10-11
FOREIGN

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Boris to the throne Of Bulgaria was
received enthusiastically by the popu-
lace, according TO a dispatch from So
fla. The bells OF all the churches were
rung
Douglas, Alaska. II becoming .
model town. The city marshal re-
signed more than a week ago and no
successor has been appointed. Not
withstanding this fact. there has been
no need of marshal
Amiral Henry B. Wilson. command
er-in-chief OF the American naval
forces in French waters. refused the
Cross OF the Legion OF Honor when
President Poincare and Minister OF
Marine Georges Leygues visited him
at Brest
The Belgian government has issued
statement that from the coast TO
beyond the city of Bruge- the NAL
population between the ages OF Is and
10 have been brutally torn from their
homes and forced to labor on German
military work
one hundred and eighty thoL sand
new cases of Spanish influenza are re
ported in the German army. according
to an official dispatch received from
Berlin A Vienna dispatch says Hun
garian newspapers report 100, 900
cases in Budapest.
The Buenos Aires national medical
department is alarmed by the persist
ent spread of an unidentified epidemic
among children in Catamarca prov
ince. In month 1os children have
died out of a total population of 10 900
The disease resembles dysentery and
is highly contagious
An indication of the troubious times
in the German army is the report that
Field Marshal Won IIindenburg has re-
signed after a stormy interview with
Emperor William during which Won
Hindenburg informed the emperor that
German retreat on large scale was
necessary.
The evacuation by the Germans OF
the Belgian coast region is continuing
the frontier correspondent of the Am
sterdam Telegraaf reports. The stores
of material at knokke. near the coast,
five miles from the Dutch border have
been set on fire, the reports state, ana
many factories have been undermined
in preparation for their quick destruc-
ton.
A powerful movement Is under way
in Germany for a general armistice
and peace The new German chancel-
lor. Prince Maxiniilian of Baden pro-
posed general suspension of hostili
ties, the appointment Of plenipoten'
tiaries to meet at a neutral place for
the discussion OF a league for arbitra-
ton and disarmament and the for
warding of request to the entente al
lies for their terms.
SPORT
Football will be one of the most pop
ular sports in the various army and
navy training camps this autumn.
Patrick J. paddy, Carroll. an old
time manager of boxers, died at his
home in Chicago of pneumonia, fol-
lowing an attack of Spanish Influenza
He was 50 years old
The government has approved the
plan of the National Baseball Fedora
tion to form miprofessional
league to play in major league parks
on Saturdays and Sundays during the
coming season, it was announced at
Cleveland, Ohio. by Clayton Townes
Only one major league pitcher
added his name to baseball's pre-war
hall of fame during the curtailed sea
son of 1915 by fighting nine-inning,
no-hit game. This was the smallest
output of hitless laurels for many
years as there were five such per
formances registered last year and
four in 1916. Dutch Leonard of the
Boston Red Sox. formerly a Denver
Grizzly, was the pitcher who delivered
the only no-hit feat in the season that
closed on Labor day
GENERAL
American shipyards established an
other worlds record in September by
delivering seventy-four vessels of 362.-
635 dead weight tons
Thirty-five bodies have been tax IN
from the ruins of the T. A. Gillespie
Loading Company plant at Morgan, n.
j., destroyed by explosions.
Capt X. w. Schroeder's world rec
ord breaking altitude flight at Wilbur
Wright field, near Dayton, Ohio, Sept
Is, was certified at 2S,9o0 feet in a
statement by the Aero Club of Amer
ica at New York.
A warning to farmers not to sell
wheat at less than the governments
price is contained in message re-
ceived from Herbert Hoover, federal
food administrator, by the food admin
istration's grain corporation at New
York.
After almost three decades OF ac-
tive campaigning in behalf of woman