The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-01-18
FOREIGN

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Count Won Hertling. the German i'm
perial chancellor. is i'll and probably
will resign shortly. says an exchange
telegraph dispatch.
Former Premier Joseph Caillaux.
who has been under investigation by
the authorities in connection with the
German propaganda in France. was
placed under arrest in Paris
The British Food Ministry an
nounces that 1t intends to make com
pulsory the employment OF a certain
percentage OF potatoes in breadmak-
ing. This is for the purpose Of saw
ing cereal foods.
The document which caused the ar
rest OF NJ. Caillaux. former French
premier, according to the Temps,
showed that he had been directlysor
indirectly in communication with a
representative OF an enemy power.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Odessa describes disorders at
Sebastopol in which sixty.Ewo naval
officers were killed, as two days OF
butchering in which the horrors o.
iAipN0'hNsl Hfit ''-'ild'tti
Control OF the dcstinies of the Ger
man empire. press accounts from neu-
tral countries agree is passing into
the hands Of the mi!tarists or the
leaders who want to hold what has
been gained by might and the sword.
German newspapers, in referring
to the Anglo American measures
against submarines indicate that the
employment OF the depth charge has
been greatly increased and perfected
since American destroyers arrived in
European waters,
A meeting of the Fatherland party
at Mannheim was frustrated by the
Independent socialists, the Amster-
dam Kolnische Volks Zeitung says.
After hours of pandemonium the
meeting which was attended by about
5000 persons was dispersed
The British Labor party, in a mes
sage to the Russian people. an
nounced that the British people ac-
cepted the Russian principle of self
determination of peoples and no an
nexations for the British empire, par
ticularly in the Middle East, Africa
and India,
Ten army officers, including Gen.
Leocadio PARA, out OF forty-five ar
rested in connection with a plot TO
kill Gen. Alfredo Novo, commander OF
the military district in the state of
Mexico, and Augustin MILAN, govern
or of that state, were executed at To-
luca, the state capital, about forty
miles from Mexico City.
Food rioting in Vienna on New
Year Day is described in a dispatch
received from Switzerland. When the
authorities announced that 500 Serbi-
an pigs would be put on sale at seven
ty-five cents a pound, more than 90
900 people assembled outside the mar
ket, most of them remaining thruout
the New Year Eve intense cold for
the chance to buy.
SPORT
Ted Lewis. welterweight title
holder and Soldier Bartfield fought
12-round draw at Columbus, Ohio.
Horse racing on ice, one OF the pop
uar winter sports in the Northern
states, came into Cleveland, Ohio.
with all the trimmings
Chuck Schneider halfback of the
School OF Mines football and captain
elect OF the 1918 squad passed exami-
nation in Denver for the aviation
corps.
Ultimus, a stallion by Commando.
brought $4,000 at the sale of race
horses when the Wickliffe stud of J.
W. Corrigan was disposed OF at auc-
ton at Lexington, Ky
Had some one exploded a bomb un-
der the Cubs grandstand in Chicago
it could scarcely have jolted things in
President Weeghman's office more
than did flash of news coming from
Lincoln. Neb., which stated that Grow
er Cleveland Alexander, the great
pitcher, has been drafted and placed
in Glass l for United States army
service.
GENERAL
America must accept no peace ex-
cept the peace of overwhelming vic
tory Theodore Roosevelt said in an
dhhlfSs ht d diIlutT Vi lHp onlO So
ciety in New York
Efforts of German interests to OBJ
tain foothold in the Tampico oil fields
of Mexico were disclosed by the arrest
at Tucson, Ariz., of Charles Frederick
Won Petersdorff, city engineer of Tue
son.
At Indiananopis, Ind, all theaters,
saloons, poolrooms and places not abb
solutely necessary where heat and
light are used were ordered closed i'm
mediately until further notice by Dr.
Henry Jameson, federal fuel admins
traitor for Indianapolis.
Dissolution "of the partnership of
bo Eajs T.,