The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-17
FOREIGN

in the week ending May IL was 41.6l2.
The Uruguayan minister at London
has been appointed minister TO the
United States
Considerable criticism is being
heard in Germany and Austria regard
ing the peace treaty OF bucharest.
Active artillery fighting in Picardy
on both sides of the Avre river Is re-
ported in the Paris official statement.
Mrs. II. Gordon Seliridge, wife of
the American who established the first
store in England, died in
London of pneumonia
The Prussian lower house has re
jeeted motion to restore the provf
sion for equal suffrage in the Prussian
franchise reform bill.
AT Beaulleu France. James Gordon
Bennett. proprietor Of the New YORK
Herald. died May "A. after having been
unconscious for two days.
Pastor Charles W. Wagner. author
OF the widely known hook, The Sim
Pile Life" is dead at his home in
Paris He was CT years old.
huskier. better tit body Of Amer
leans probably never went into fight
than those who threw Americas
weight into the Picardy battle line.
Official announcement has been
made at Hardin that General Semen
off. leader OF the movement in Siberia
against the Bolsheyiki. has advanced
along the trans Siberian railway as far
as Adrianovsk. west OF Onon river.
having restored the bridge across the
river which the Bosheviki destroyed.
Poland is handed over to Germany
economically, politically and militar-
lily, according to the terms OF secret
treaty reached at Brest Litovsk be
tween a delegation of the Russian
headed by Leon Trotzky
and German representatives. accord
ing to the Gazette of Lausanne
The Ukrainlan press bureau has re-
ceived Information from Odessa. &C
cordiug TO which the former Dowager
Empress Marie Feodorovona and
Grand Dukes Nicholas Nicholaievitch
and Alexander Nicholaievitch mich
aelovitch). who has been living at
Dulbar. near Aitodor, in the Crimea.
are in the hands of the Germans.
The Austrian food controller is con
the Introduction of one bread
less day week. according to Il dis
patch from Geneva to the London
Daily News. Vienna newspapers say
no rrt1p mt to ~ "a. 10
action owing to the rapid diminution
Of the flour supply and the small pros
poets of obtaining more wheat before
the next harvest.
SPORT
Max Eller. sporting man of Denver,
received wire from Joe Leopold at
Oakland in which he announced that
be had fought a draw with Jimmy
Dundee, the toughest boy on the
coast" and was rematched with him.
Sunday baseball win be played in
Washington by American League
clubs. The Board OF Commissioners of
the District of Columbia legalized
playing OF professional games on Sun
lay by resembling regulations prohib-
ting them
Fred Winsor, former Denver boxing
authority, has removed his headquar-
ters from Los Angeles to San Francis
90, according to word received in Den
yer He has arrived in San Francisco
and started campaign TO make :
champion out of Jim Downing, the Og-
len, Utah. heavyweight.
GENERAL
AT Camp Kearny, San Diego, Cal,
Benny Leonard. lightweight champion.
o appear at an entertainment for
camp kearny soldiers May %.
Count James Minotto. son-in-Iaw OF
louis f. Swift. the packer, was taken
nto custody in Chicago by Deputy
United States marshals two weeks
after his arrest was ordered on a
Presidential warrant
Announcement was made in New
York that in recognition OF their eff
forts in behalf OF Serbia, the Order OF
of St. Saya had been con
ieiieu pl the prince regent OI SeTDld
on number of Americans
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
railway report for 1917 shows operat-
ing revenues of sl65,529 5l9. an in
crease of s21,239,2S over 1916. large
ly offset however. by expenses OF
s105. 222,77s. an increase of $16.s09,192,
leaving net gain In operating reve-
nues of s4.429.S9o.
French war orphans are being adopt.
ed by the American expeditionary
forces abroad. This information was
published in the April issue of the
Stars and Stripes, an American paper
published in France. and the first war
orphan has been adopted by the staff
of the paper