The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-08-23
FOREIGN

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Vienna
Details of German outrages on Brit
ish prisoners have been made public
Affidavits of Scotch soldiers testify to
the authenticity OF the charges.
The Swedish vice consul at Moscow
has requested the Swedish govern
ment to send ship 10 Petrograd to
take a party Of 200 out OF Ru sia.
Members of the naval committee OF
the United States Congress visiting
allied countries arrived in Rome. They
were welcomed by Admiral Resio.
German newspapers comment bit
tcrly upon the manifesto issued by
Great Britain In recognition of the
Czecho-Slovak nation, declaring it
hypocrisy"
Mai Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. was
cordially received by Premier Clemen-
ceau in Paris Mai Roosevelt's
wounds still were unhealed and he Is
using crutchcs.
Estimates placed the number OF
omnibus and street car employees out
on strike Aug 10 in London at $4,000.
No omnibuses were operating in the
metropolitan area.
The disturbances over the high price
of rice are reported to be subsiding
except In north Japan where they ap-
parently are spreading. Mobs have
burned several houses at Sendai.
Archduke Joseph has replaced Field
Marshal Won Hoetzendorff as com.
mander OF the Austrian mountain
army group on the Italian front, &C.
cording to a Budapest dispatch
Lieut.. Rene Fonck, the famous
French aviator. who shot down three
German airplanes on Aug "A, as an,
nounced officially in Paris, accounted
for all three of them in the record
breaking time OF twenty seconds.
Hundreds OF persons were killed and
wounded in veritable battle between
l.ettish guards and rioters during food
disorders in Petrograd. according to
ar Amsterdam dispatch. Martial law
was proclaimed in Petrograd the same
evening
SPORT
Sam Langford knocked out Rough
house Ware of New Orleans at Tulsa,
Okla. in the ninth round of one
sided contest.
John Kinley Tener's resignation as
president OF the National League, say
what you WILL is a great loss to that
organization Tener was by long odds
the greatest presiding official the Ma
tional League ever had.
| At Nashville. Tenn, J. NJ. Overton
received letter announcing that his
son, Lieut.. John w. Overton. formerly
Yale distance runner was killed in
the battle of the Marne. July 19 The
news came in a letter from friend
who said he helped bury Overton.
GENERAL
President Wilson's outing at Man
chester Mass, has much improved his
health
Births in Germany in 1916 fell off
40 per cent from the births of 1918,
the year before the war
| The Red Cross war council was no
| titled that during the Red Cross war
| fund drive In Chile, which ended July
6, total OF sl1s,ooo was collected.
The board OF police commissioners
of Kansas City held up the bar IL
censes of every Kansas City cabaret
and restaurant in the city. announcing
violation of its order requiring serv-
| ing full meals with drinks as the
reason.
Plans for the stabilization of pc
troleum prices, recommended by the
National Petroleum War Service Com
mittee in New York. were accepted
| by the Fuel Administration. which an.
nounced its belief that the agreement
will prevent any radical change in
consumers prices of gasoline in other
| oil products.
! Postmaster General Burleson, in
control of telegraph and telephone
! systems, has approved the 10 per cent
| increase in wages of employees of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
it was announced at the company's Of
fices in New York.
| Congressman w. C. Hawley OF Ore
| gon, who was in Denver. says that it
| is proposed in Washington to use the
alien property in the United States as
a guarantee that the confiscated prop
erty of Americans in Germany will be
paid for at its real value
Hatcher 4 Snyder have filed suit
in the Denver District Court against
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road for $e2.S30, the alleged value of
nearly $500 sheep which. it is alleged.
| died as result OF hardships under
| gone as they were being shipped over
the railroad to Deming, n NJ.
War profiteers In 1917 were most
numerous in business devoted to food
| production and distrihntion cotton