The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-07-05

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The total of Austrian prisoners cap
tured on the Piave is 1000. according
to a semLofficial statement issued at
Rome
British casualties during the month
of Juno totaled 141,I47. This COM
psres with total casualties reported
during May OF l66,S02.
The province Of Archangel has been
declared in a state of war Here Amer
lean and allied naval forces are guard
Ing the port OF Kola and its railroad.
Capture of 3O9 German prisoners
near Chateau Thierry and the destruc-
ton Of three German airplanes by
American ayiators was reported by
General Pershing in an official com
munique.
The Austrian war office admits the
complete evacuation by the Austrian
forces OF the two important strategic
positions OF Col del Rosso and Monte
II Val Bella, on the western end OF the.
Italian front
twenty-five German airplanes were
shot down, ten were driven down out
Of control and two German balloons
were destroyed during the air fighting
Sunday, according to an official state
ment on aerial operations issued by
the London war office.
Heavy attacks launched against
Monte 81 Val Bella by the Austrians
we're repulsed by the Italians, the en-
pmy masses being moved down by ar
tillery fire, according TO the official
communication from Rome headquar-
ters. More than 1000 prisoners were
taken by the Italians.
A German submarine seventy miles
from the Irish coast on the night of
June 81 torpedocd the II 000ton hos
pital ship Llandoyery Castle, char
tered by the Canadian government and
in the service OF carrying wounded and
sick from England to Canada. The ship
was then on her way to England. She
had on board 25S persons, including
eighty men of the Canadian army med
ical corps, and fourteen women nurses
only twenty-four including the captain.
are reported saved.
Western
The Indiana statewide prohibition
law was upheld by the state Supreme
Court at indianapolis The decision
was to /.
1t will require 100000 or more to
handle the garbanzo crop OF Sonora
this year. Garbanzo which is a Span
ish pea. has been selling for sl6 per
pf IiSb 10 ha lob
ust market price ever paid To pay
the duty on the Mexican side of the
border. 100000 was shipped to No
gales recently from the East
Eugene V. Debs, four times Socialist
candidate for the presidency of the
United States. was arrested at Cleve-
land. Ohio. by United States Marshal
Charles ", Lapp and Deputy Marshal
Charles Boehme as he was about to de
liver a speech The arrest was made
on a warrant in connection with his
speech at the Socialist state conven-
ton in Canton, Ohio June 16 last
Work of identifying the dead in the
Ruff building disaster was practically
finished at Sioux City, la, thirty.seyen
Of the forty bodies being identified.
Washington
Holders of first and second Liberty
the third loan, bearing IA per cent in
rerest
The army appropriation bill carrying
$l2.0Ss 900, ,00O-the largest single
budget in world history-was passed
by the Senate without rollcall
No more perishable goods, such as
fruit and foods, will be accepted at
postoffices for mailing to troops be-
cause almost always they can't be de-
livered in edible condition.
One hundred million dollars more for
housing war workers in industrial cen
ters in addition to the 100000 al
ready appropriated for shipyard work
ers, has been asked of Congress by
Housing Commissioner Eidlitz
The statue of Frederick the Great
recently removed from the grounds OF
the war college in Washington, would
be melted and nodded into a new Lib
erty bell" under a bill introduced by
Representative Taylor OF Colorado.
Hope for the recovery of Senator
Tillman of South Carolina, chairman
of the naval affairs committee, who
suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, virtu-
ally was abandoned Monday by mem
bers Of his family and friends at the
bedside.
With the arrival at Deming, N. n,
of 700 recruits for the national army
from Oklahoma, the total Of selective
draft recruits arriving at Camp Cody
last week reached 1900. They came
from Kansas. Oklahoma, New Mexico