The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-12-06
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President Wilson. during his stay At
Rome. will pay = visit 10 Pope Bens
dict.
As illustrative Of travelling condi
tions in the former Austro Hungarian
empire. the robbery of trains along the
frontier OF the various republic Is
daily reported.
The German government has con
sented TO permit a number OF the Ho
henzollern princes 10 leave Germany
on condition that they leave their for
tunes behind them.
A demand for the surrender of Viii
liam Hohenzollern will be submitted to
the Netherlands government in the
name OF all The allied cabinets. accord
ing TO the London Express.
Hundreds are homeless at LemberE
as III. result of pogroms against the
Jews in that city. IL is reported that
many people have been killed and
wounded and wholesale looting has
taken place.
The Dutch government has decided
to stop all exports to Germany in re
prisal for the stoppsge OF the export
OF German coal to Holland. according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Amsterdam.
Francisco villa again is playing .
hide and seek game with the Mexican
federal forces under Gen. Francisco
Murguis Nov. "a he captured villa
Ahumada on the Mexican Central rail
road. abandoning the town for the
! northwest
Four thousand non-commissioned of
| ficers at \ mass meeting in Berlin
adopted a resolution calling upon the
| government to end the Bolshevist agi-
tation of DR.. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa
| Lunem burg, and delaying the convoca-
| ton OF a national assembly
The German foreign office destroyed
| by fire all damaging documents in the
archives OF the German general gov.
I ernment al Brussels and destroyed all
! documents in Berlin which might be
! useful in placing possibility FOR the
| war on the German government, Herr
| Melkenbuhr a former Socialist mem
| ber OF the reichs,ag declared in q
speech in Berlin according TO adyices
| received a. Paris
Reuters Limited has received from
"A Greek source figures showing that
| in the spring OF 1914 the Turks de
ported 100 ,O00 Greeks Since the begin
! ming Of the war to the end of 1917 the
/ Turks deported 2,i4o 900 Greeks and
Armenians OF whom 900 .ooo Arnenians
and 100000 Greeks have been massa
cred and 100000 modified Greeks have
been put to death or have died of theil
| sufferings. Greek property taken by
the Turks is valued at 5000, 900 .60t
| francs.
SPORT
Directors of the San Francisco club
OF the Pacific Coast league elected at
San Francisco placed themselves on
record as favoring a reopening OF
baseball next spring.
French military aviators are plan
ming the organization of an associa
tion TO foster aerial sports and to place
competent pilots at the service OF the
government and industry and business
Grover Cleveland Alexander. the Chi
cago National League club pitcher.
who went into the army soon after the
club paid $50, 900 for him, is with the
American army of occupation now
marching into Germany
Henry F. Buckingham, former foot
ball coach at the Colorado School OF
Mines and Denver University. was
gassed in France during the last days
of the war. according to word received
in Denver He Is now confined in a
hospital where he is reported to be 70
covering. rapidly.
GENERAL
Women munition workers who had
been receiving high pay and who have
been discharged. marched to Downing
street in London and demanded 10 see
Premier Lloyd George.
The republic of Lithuania has been
proclaimed at Riga.
| Turkey is expected to invite the
peace conference to send an interna-
ional commission TO that country to
establish sound government. accord.
| ing TO diplomats in Washington.
The shell plant OF the Minneapolis
| Steel and Machinery Company was re-
stroyed by fire at Minneapolis with a
| loss estimated at $500 900, fully COW
cred BY insurance. One man lost his
| life. being burned to death.
The right of employees in Nebraska
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improve their working conditions was
upheld by the Supreme Court in an
opinion affirming a decision by the
District Court OF Douglas county.
Postmaster General Burleson has
dismissed from government service