The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-08-02
FOREIGN

be higher in price next fall ana winter
than ever.
Miss Milado Jamschek, teacher
OF languages. has been sentenced 10
death BY the Vienna military tribunal
on a charge OF espionage.
SIX airplanes dropped bombs on
Constantinople. according to Turkish
official report received at Amsterdam
Five persons were wounded
Allied food controllers session in
London decided on an interallied food
council to administer the allied food
problems until victory is assured.
The west front disaster caused a de-
preston in Germany similar to what
the Piave debacIe did in Austria Hun
gary, said a Berne dispatch. South
Germans accuse the German general
staff Of deliberately sacrificing the
troops OF the southern German states.
The largest appropriation demanded
submitted to the House OF Commons.
says the London Daily Telegraph. The
credit asked is for f70o ,00O,0 900, The
previous highest was c $50. 900 900. a
year ago The new appropriation is
required TO finance the war until the
end of October.
Lieutenant Nungesser. second among
French aces. was cited for the Legion
of Honor at Paris. having brought
down, according to the official an
nouncement, thirty -one German planes
and destroyed three observation bal
looms. He has received many wounds
and has been cited fifteen times. He
Honor for his superb example of cour
age"
We are ready to conclude an hon
orable peace as soon as our opponents
renounce their hostile plans aiming
at our destruction or repression" SAID
Baron Won Hussarek. Austrian premier.
in presenting his cabinet to the up
per house of the Austrian Parliament.
according to Vienna advices He added
according to the dispatch that so far
as the central powers are concerned
the war is a defensive one.
now have permanent bases in Euro
pean waters. Franklin ID. Roosevelt.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, an
nounced during a speech at the Amer
lean Luncheon Club, in London.
Roosevelt paid tribute to the British
for their aid In transporting American
troops, Sir Eric Geddes, first lord OF
the admiralty, responded with enthu
siastic reciprocation for American aid.
King George.
SPORT
Jack Britton OF New York scored a
technical knockout over Willie Ryan
of New Brunswick, n. j., In the fourth
round OF an eight-round match at Jer
sey City. N ].
James G.. Dunn, president Of the
Cleveland Baseball club. said that he
was in favor of President Johnson's
plan to close the season on Aug. 20
and playing the world series prior to
Sept l.
Ralph de Palma held two world rae
ing records July 20. Competing against
four famous drivers in sour races, De
Palma won three. He won the ten-mie
race in SPAS and the twenty mile in
10: 59.2 Both are new records. The
average is 10 miles per hour. He also
took the thirty mile event at Chicago
with an average speed of 106.5 per
hour
Of
the worlds steer roping champion ship
at Frontier Days, at Cheyenne, instead
of Joe Gardener of FL Paso, Tex, as
was previously announced. A recon-
putation by the Frontier Days manage
ment of the average time in the con-
test found the champions time to be
thirty seconds and Gardeners time to
be thirty and one-fifteenth seconds.
GENERAL
Alexander Kerensky is in America.
according to a private message re-
ceived In Chicago
Thirty persons were killed and sixty
others injured by an explosion OF mu-
nitions at Shlmonoseki, Japan
suit for s1,022,000 started in the New
Jersey courts as a result Of the Black
Tom explosion two years ago.
King Ferdinand has left Bulgaria
for an extended trip" to foreign lands,
presumably on account of his health,
according to French dispatches. quot
ing reports from Basle.
Flying Cadet Fred c. Campbell Jr,
whose home is Rosedale, Kan, was
killed at Fort Worth, Tex, when his
plane dropped into tail spin at a
low altitude. He was &c years old.
His father lives at Browning, Mont
"Airplanes carrying 100 men and
equipped with engines equal in power
to those in a medium sized steamship