The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-01
FOREIGN

"A 5tpdi att PNo%& oahA iNNHst'1 a." -
'Pyrrhich victory" the Vienna Arbit-
er Zeitung declared. because Great
Britain. France and America viii
make war to the bitter end"
Ensign krylenko. the Russian com
mander-in-chief, was shot and slight
ly wounded In Petrograd by a ST cial-
list, according TO an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Amsterdam.
The Breslau Tageblatt says that the
Bolsheviki have ordered the trial OF
Grand Duke Nicholas by a revolution
AIRY tribunal. He is charged with at
tempted high treason against the Rus
sian republic.
At the Bolshevik headquarters in
Petrograd confirmation is given to the
report that Swedish forces have
seized the Aland islands. The land
ing force was resisted stubbornly b.
the small garrison OF Bolshevik
troops
General elections were held
throughout Spain and Liberals appear
to have maintained their position. al
though complete returns have not
been received. Republicans carried
Madrid and Valencia and the Cetalin-
lists were victorious at Barcelona.
A dispatch TO the Exchange Tele-
graph from Petrograd reports that
there has been disagreement in the
Council OF Workmen's and Soldiers
delegates regarding the evacuation o.
Petrograd, and that the retirement OF
Leon Trotzky. the Bolshevik foreign
minister, is imminent
A revolution in Germany was pre-
dicted by DR.. Cohn. Independent So
cialist deputy. in an address to the
Reichstag the Volks Zeitung OF Co
logne says DR.. COINS address. made
during the debate on the peace treaty
with Ukraine, threw the Reichs-
tag into an uproar.
Speaking before the Reichstag. the
imperial German chancellor, Count
Won lIcrtling. made this declaration:
Il can fundamentally agree with the
four principles, which in President
Wilson's view mus be applied in
mutual exchange of views. and thus
declare with President Wilson that
general peace can be discussed on
such a basis
Germany plans to restore the mon
archy in Russia. according to a tele-
gram date at Petrograd to the Lon
don Morning Post II says the grand
duke OF Hesse has been appointed the
commander in the Riga section OF the
German front His sister" the dis
patch adds. the former Empress Al
81, Ln ,t bar
the former czarevitch. is the favorite
German candidate for the throne"
SPORT
Fred Fulton knocked out Frank Mo
! ran in the third round of their twenty
1 round bout in the open air arena OF
| the Louisiana Auditorium at New Or
| leans, La,
Thomas Murphy of Poughkeepsie,
n y purchased Miss Harris. the ia
nous daughter of Peter the Great, at
the annual mid-winter horse sale in
Madison Square garden in New York.
Bob McGraw, pitcher for the New
York Americans, received a telegram
from Miller Higgins ordering him to
report at once to the Yankees AT Ma
con- Ga McGraw will leave in few
days if the Pueblo, Colo, draft board
gives permission. McGraw is regis
tered for the draft and has claimed
no exemption.
GENERAL
Women enfranchised at the Novem-
ber election exercised their first
rights as voters by registering for
special election on March ) in four
congressional districts OF New York
City.
The German war aims are due to
fail, said Cardinal Gibbons in a SER
mon preached at the cathedral in Bal
timore He discussed the marvellous
! diffusion OF the primitive Christian re-
| ligion.'
Capt. David A. Henkes, Sixteenth
| infantry, L. S A.. has been sentenced
! to dismissal from the service and con
| finement at hard labor for twenty-five
4 years by general court martial held
at Governors island, n. Y.
| A revolution in Spain and the even
/ tual election Of King Alfonso as first
| president of the Spanish republic was
/ the prediction made in New York by
| Will Irwin author, who has just re-
| turned to this country from Europe.
Trouble bordering on a riot was
started at Nokomis, Ill, when mob
| of "loyalists' visited homes OF Ger
man sympathizers TO enforce pledges
of loyalty Ten men were dragged
! from their homes and forced to kneel
| and kiss the American flag.
| Further disclosures in the investl-
| cations conducted in New York into
the activities in America of Bolo
| Pasha, under sentence of death in
/ France for treason were made public,