The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-07-26
FOREIGN

A serious outbreak OF typhoid has
occurred in Berlin. the Exchange Tel
egraph correspondent at Amsterdam
reports.
German aviators have dropped a
note into American aviation camps
confirming the death Of Lieut.. Quen-
tin Roosevelt.
The relief committee of Greeks for
Asia Minor announced that 1t had ex-
pended s72. .G7G during the current year
to aid Greek refugees in Turkey.
Repairs which Germans made to the
Mole and locks at Zeebrugge have
again been destroyed by allied airmen,
according to the Telegraaf, AInster-
dam.
Nilhialmur Stefansson. Canadian
Arctic explorer, now at Fort Yukon,
| Alaska. is planning to go on lecture
tour this fall for the benefit OF the
Red Cross, according to a telegram re-
ceiyed al Nome
Speaking at luncheon given in his
honor by the lord mayor at the man.
sion house in London, Herbert G.
traitor. gave a most reassuring review
OF the food situation.
Field Marshal yon Hindenburg. chief
OF the German general staff, is serious
ly i'll and has taken no part in military
operations Of the present year. accord
ing to information from Berlin, says
Central News dispatch from Berne.
July 23.
Your country is proud OF you and
am more than proud to command such
men as you You have fought splen-
didly" General Pershing thus ad-
dressed wounded American soldiers
lying in the American Red Cross hos
pitfalls in Paris
Maj Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., receiv-
ed the wound from which he is suffer
ing while leading an attack on a ma
chine gun nest at Ploisy. southwest of
scissors. The wound was made by
machine gun bullet behind the left
knee.
A Russian wireless message gives
the text OF an agreement between
Great Britain, the United States,
france and the Murman regional coun-
ell for the defense OF the Murnan re-
giqn against the powers OF the Ger
man coalition"
Fourteen enemy aeroplanes were
shot down Friday by British aviators,
and in addition three others were driv-
en- down out of control, and three OBJ
l,I ha
British air ministry stated in its com
munique. Seven British machines are
missing
SPORT
Clarence Shockley won the Denver
to-Cheyenne auto race.
Charlie Ellis. former worlds three
cushion billiard champion, enlisted In
the marine corps at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Motor racing preliminary TO the
opening of the Frontier days celebra-
tion at Cheyenne, Wyo., occupied the
attention of the crowds gathered for
Cheyenne's big fete In the races
there were no accidents of any kind,
and the sport was excellent The con-
ishes exciting and there was nothing
to mar the enjoyment OF the afternoon.
World records were shattered on the
new one-mile track in the inaugural of
grand circuit racing in Toledo, Ohio.
Miss Harris NJ, in the free-for-all pace,
went the first mile in :5SA, the fast
est mile ever covered by a pacing
mare. In the second heat of that
event, Edward F. tPop) Geers drove
Single G., winner of the race, a mile
in 1894, giving that horse a new rec
ord and establishing record for the
fastest two paced heats.
GENERAL
Maj. Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., has
been slightly wounded and taken to a
hospital in Paris.
President Wilson by proclamation
assumed control OF the Cape Cod ca
nal, connecting Cape Cod and Bug
yards Bay. Mass. and directed the
railroad administration to operate 1t.
Important gains by the French,
American, Italian and British troops
in the territory comprising the Sois-
sons Rheims salient are reported in
the official communication issued by
the Paris war office.
David H. Mercer Of Omaha, former
member of Congress from the second
district of Nebraska, entered the Aug
ust primary race for nomination as
candidate for the United States Sen
at on the Republican ticket
According to review Of the mill
tary situation in L'Homme Libre of
Paris, the newspaper owned by Pre-
mier Clemenceau, the German losses