The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-08
FOREIGN

The French ambassador to Russia.
Joseph j. B. Z. Noulens. his embassy
staff and the allied missions have left
Petrograd.
| The Chilean schooner Falcon has ar
rived at Valparaiso from Easter ISL
| ands, having on board the crew of the
| German auxiliary cruiser Seeadler
Berlin dispatch received In Am
sterdam forecasts the early resigna-
tion OF Lenine and Trotzky, the Boil
shevik foreign minister, owing to theii
| increasing unpopularity.
| In thc view of the marquis OF Lans-
! downe. expressed in a letter TO the
London Daily Telegraph. the recent
| speech OF Chancellor Won Hertling
| marks perceptible advance in peace
| discussions.
The German government has or
| dered the coinage of 200. 100000 new
1 iron 5-pfennig pieces. Complaints OF
| the scarcity of small coins have been
continuous in all parts of Germany for
long time
| By the closing of her frontiers.
| Switzerland again finds herself com
plete1y isolated in Europe Mean
while the food question. especially as
/ it relates to bread, is becoming more
serious daily.
Mrs. William B. Leeds, now in
Montreux, Switzerland, has author
lied an absolute denial OF reports OF
her marriage to Prince Christopher Of
Greece. youngest brother OF Constan-
tine, the deposed king
At least 730 lives were lost in the
disaster at the Hongkong Jockey
Clubs track at Happy Valley when =
stand occupied by Chinese collapsed
and then caught fire. That many
charred bodies have been removed
from the ruins.
The governor of the Lrovince of Sin
Kiang. western China, from which
have come reports that Turks and Ger.
mans are stirring up the Mohammed-
ans, telegraphs that the Russians are
massing on the frontier. evidently in
tending an invasion of Sin Kiang.
The peace treaty signed between
the four central powers and Russia.
according to dispatch received here
from Berlin. says the powers men
toned have agreed to terminate the
state Of war and bring about peace
as quickly as possible" and fix terms
later.
The heaviest snowfall Of the pres
ent winter in the Swiss Tyrolese Alps
has occurred during the last few days.
The snow is from three to six feet
deep. One avalanche cut an Austrian
military train in two south of Botzen
Twenty-siX officers and men were
killed.
SPORT
Knockout Mars, Cincinnati, won a
referees decision over Benny Mcneil
of Bristol, England, in ten rounds
Heinie Schuman of Denver defeated
Harry Gibson OF New York in a six
round bout before the Manhattan Club
at Salt Lake City. Utah
Western League club owners ad-
journed at Des Moines, Ia. after
adopting a 140game schedule, begin
nine May 1 ard ending Sept Is
w. c. Jackson, who for two years
has managed the Peoria Three-I.
league team. has been signed by Pres
ident Rourke to manage the Omaha
Western league team this year, ii was
announced in Omaha.
Four soldiers of the balloon corps
at Fort omaha, Nes, spent eleven
hours imprisoned in the basket of a
monster sausage" threefourths of
mile in the sky, when the power winch
to which the cable of the balloon was
attached went wrong and refused to
haul down the bag A hand windlass
finally was rigged and the balloonists
rescued.
GENERAL
Germany is believed to be getting
wireless reports direct from New
York
Meatless meal scheme is temporarily
abandoned.
Temporary suspension of the meat
less meal and OF the special restric-
tons against the use of pork on Sat
urday was announced by the food ad
ministration.
Control of the House of Representa-
tives was regained by the Democrats
when they elected their candidates
from four districts in Greater New
York at special elections.
Thomas l.. Ward. veteran of both
Mexican and Civil wars. died in the
Soldiers home at Bath, N. Y, aged
Ill years. He attributed his longevity
to the fact that he had used tobacco
since boyhood.
William Nimke of Torrington, Conn,
sergeant in Company F, Thirty-first
engineers, at Camp Devens. was given
thirty-year sentence for unpatriotic
uftarancas Ii He Was triad h.- uau.