The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-11-29
Foreign

sailed from London Tor home on tho
liners Lapland and Minnehaha.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween the German Soldiers and Work
mems Council and the government, it
is officially announced in Berlin.
Count Montgelas. a general in the
Bayarian army, who was dismissed at
fpres In 1915 because he refused to
use poisonous gas. has been recalled
from Switzerland TO Munich to elte.
the Bavarian cabinet
President Wilson wiz receive tie
greatest reception We ever gave any
guest No progress any emperor ever
made will equal his" says the London
Observer in an article discu sing -
coming visit OF the President to Eng
land 1t adds We rejoice that al
event we have so urgently advocate
is now assured"
The first woman TO be appointed An
ambassador has been nominated by
the Hungarian government for III
post in Switzerland She is the Hun
garian writer and pacifist, X 3sika
Scbwimmer, who now resides in Swltz
erland Madame Schwimmer has ac-
her duties shortly.
The cost of living in England is still
rising and according to the London
Labor Gazette the retail prices OF prin-
cipal articles of food during Septem-
Der averaged l29 per cent higher than
July, 1914, or 13 per cent increase
compared with the previous month.
The increase is due to the higher
prices Of meat, butter. milk and eggs.
The Bulgarians. during the occupa-
tion of eastern Macedonia. deported
$1,000 Greek residents, according to
official Bulgarian documents in the
possession OF NJ Djvaropoulos. sub
Der OF those deported, he says. sue
cumbed to famine. torture and en-
forced labor. At. kitcheyo a number
OF Greeks were burned alive under the
pretext that they had typhus microbes
Sporting News
Augie Kieckhefer, worlds champion
three-cushion billiardist. successfully
defended his title at Chicago, when he
defeated Robert Cannefax, former
champion, in their three night match,
$50 to LOG in 147 innings
To decide the 1918 national gridiron
championship OF the United States d
challenge was issued by the undefeat-
ed Naval Auxiliary Reserve school
team OF Chicago. to any university,
army or navy service eleven in the
country.
Cheyenne will hold its twenty-sec-
ond Frontier celebration next July. it
Is announced by the directors. The
earlier decision to abandon the 1919
celebration owing to prospects then In
dicating continuance OF the war has
been revoked
The second annual convention Of
the Rocky Mountain Auto Trades As
sociation, comprising eighteen sep
arate affiliated automobile bureaus.
not including civic and commercial as
sociations throughout Colorado, Wyo-
ming and New Mexico, will be held in
Pueblo. Dec. 9 and TO-
The grand championship in the all
age field trials OF the National Fox
Hunters association was won at Col
umbia, Tenn. by Jack. owned by j.
w. Maur' OF Kentucky. Glen Shaver.
owned by r. L. Rays OF West Virginia.
took second, and Phoebe, owned by
T. c. Long Of Tennessee, won third.
General
Cable communication betw n
America and liberated Belgium has
been resumed.
Reports Of wholesale slaughter in
pogroms against Jews at Brzssko.
Galicia. where cellars are reported
filled with bodies and many Jews at
tempting flight have been shot down
in the streets, were received in New
York from Copenhagen by the Zionist
organization of America.
1t is officially announced that Peru
has withdrawn her consuls from Chile
as a result OF the renewal of anti Peru
Wan rioting in Iquique and Antofa,
gasta.
Frederick w. Henshaw, former jus
tice OF the California Supreme Court,
issued signed statement denying
charges he received a bribe of S41O,-
900 in the famous will case Of tn,
James G. Fair estate and denying any
connection with an alleged frame up
In the San Francisco preparedness day
Mooney bomb cases.
A shipment OF s3,OO0.000 in silver
bullion. the largest ever sent out from
the United States assay office in New
York city, was started on its way to
the secretary of state in Calcutta, In
dia. 1t required twenty-five motor
trucks to carry the metal on the first
stage OF its long journey. The bull
lion was obtained by the melting down
OF the silver dollars held in reserve
against the 81 silver certificates.
which arc hetpo rotirod hy tho iaauiu ~