The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-07-19
FOREIGN

men. says the Havas correspondent on
the British front. This equals the
number on the front in 1917.
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch
is reported in Berlin dispa0h to the
London Exchange Telegraph Company
by way OF Copenhagen TO have arrived
at kiev, the Ukrainian capital.
The Austro Hungarian war minister
says Vienna dispatch TO the Nos-
sische Zeitung, announces that far
more than 5u0.0 900 Austrian war pris-
oners already have returned from
Russia.
The japanese battleship Kawachi OF
q. .420 tons displacement blew up and
sank in Tokoyama bay, $50 miles
northeast OF Nagasaki. OF July Il? Five
hundred members of the crew lost
their lives
The Arbeiter Zeitung OF Vienna. the
official organ of the Austrian Social
Democrats, according to a dispatch re-
ceived by the Havas agency demands
the government come to an agreement
with President Wilson.
Everett ]. Conger, who attained note
as cayalryman in the Civil war and
led pursuit OF John Wilkes Booth.
President Lincoln's assassin, died st
Honolulu, T. II. Conger was al one
time justice OF the Supreme Court @:
Montana
q Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt. Colonel
Roosevelt youngest son, who has
been attached to the American line
forces on the Marne front, was killed
at Chateau Thierry on July IA. says a
dispatch from Paris to the London Ex-
change Telegraph Company.
When the British Trades Union
Congress meets AT Derby in Septem-
Der for its annual conference the mem
bership OF affiliated unions represent
ed probably will be more than 1900
900. Arthur Henderson, secretary and
recognized leader OF the British La
Dor party, will be present as dele.
gate.
German aviators, according to a
Paris report, dropped bombs on the
American Red Cross hospital at Juoy
Two enlisted men were killed and
among the personnel nine persons
American Red Cross nurse. was among
those wounded, though her injuries
are not serious.
Field Marshal von H!ndenburg is
dead, according to the newspaper Lea
Nouvelles. His death is said 10 have
occurred after stormy interview with
the German emperor al great head
quarters at Spa. The emperor and the
field marshal are declared TO have had
serious differences of opinion concern
ing the German offensive toward Par
Is. The field marshal died from con-
gestion OF the brain.
SPORT
Unless the government holds base
ball an essential occupation Ty Cobb
Will quit the game after this season for
the war.
The death of Art Ross near Breton
Woods, n. H, takes from the game OF
hockey player generally considered
the greatest that ever stood on skates.
Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swim
mer. made new record for sixty
yards in the Chicago Athletic Associa-
ton tank meet covering the distance
with the crawl stroke in 25 lis sec
onds.
Mary Pickford is TO be asked to use
her sweet voice over the telephone
from Los Angeles to Kansas City in
an effort to induce Jess Willard to go
to San Francisco and box for the to-
bacco fund for the soldier boys in
France
GENERAL
Filhjalmur Stefansson. the Arctic ex-
plorer stricken with fever last April at
Herschel island and taken to Fort Yu-
kon on a dog sledge, will spend the
summer there in order to recover his
strength, according to letter from
him received In New York by the Ex-
plorers' Club.
An order committing Thomas ]
Mooney to San Quentin penitentiary to
await execution there on Friday. Aug
%, was given the sheriff at San Fran
cisco by Superior Judge Franklin A
Griffin. before whom Mooney was con-
victed of murder. In connection with
Preparedness day bomb explosion.
According to a Berlin dispatch print
ed in the Frankfurter Zeitung, the
present meat ration of $50 grammes
will be distributed only until the mid
die of August, when it will be reduced
to 200 grammes for all German towns
having population Of more than 1O0.-
600. Smaller towns, which are as
sumed to receive plenty of supplies of
vegetables from surrounding districts,