The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1919-05-09
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An airplane in which General Sykes.
controller general Of civil aviation. was
making a flight, fell at kenly. Eng
land. and the pilot, Captain Knott. was
killed General Sykes was badly shay
en-.
4 state of siege was proclaimed In
Petrograd. according to . wireless
message from Tsarskoe-Selo. The
soviet government has appointed II
committee of three and given 1t I'M
limited power over the city and dis
trict of Petrograd-
Gen. John J. Pershing, commander
in-chief of the American expeditionary
forces, Is going to England on May n
as the guest of the nation. He Will Of
ficially thank Britain for what she did
to make comfortable more than q mil
lion troops passing through England
on the way to France.
The Neues Zeitung of Stuttgart At
firms that In spite of the regulations
issued by the German government. .
great many capitalists, in particular
those who made enormous war prof
itS, al Z ihdhdsihS ~ 'AP''t ''''' '''H-
ey The same paper declares that in
the last two months 25.oO0.0O marks
have been deposited in different Swiss
banks.
One hundred and fifty persons were
killed or executed during the fighting
at Munich, according to an account Of
the fall of that city. Among the killed
To "A Snyiaf
government, and Herr Sontheimer, a
communist leader Herr Seidl, who
was said to have instigated the shoot
ing of hostages, was reported beaten
to death by Wurttemburg soldiers.
That Holland will refuse the expect
ed demand of the allies to turn VII
helm HoIIenzollern over to them for
trial was Indicated in information OBJ
tanned from confidential sources. A
commission of the best International
lawyers in Holland. appointed to ex-
anime the question. has made "a secret
report to the Dutch government. This
report, it is reliably stated, recon-
mends that Holland act strictly in &C
cordance with International treaties TO
which she is party. The government
contends that the former kaiser en-
tered that country as private citizen
and that Dutch law applies to his case.
SPORT
Terry Martin of the United States
navy defeated Chris I.angdon, Of
Swansea, Wales, on points in q M
teen-round contest in London.
1t was officially announced by Tex
Richard that Toledo. Ohio, has been Sc
lected as the scene of the battle be-
tween Jess Willard and Jack Demp-
sey for the worlds title.
In track meet held by men en-
gagged in the service of the supply de-
partment Of the American army. held
at lie Mans. France, Pat Ryan, the
Olympic champion. threw the hammer
| 100 feet, eight inches. Lieut.. F. d.
Maker of the University of California
made high jump of six feet.
Ed (Strangler) Lewis and Wladek
Zbyszko. heavyweight wrestlers, are
! matched for finish contest May 10 in
Chicago. The men are to wrestle I'M
| til one has obtained two falls, with no
| time limit for the match. ZbysZko re-
| Gently defeated Lewis in New York
| and in Chicago in one-fall matches.
GENERAL
| Aerial passenger service between
Havana, Cuba, and Atlantic City is
planned, according to the announce
ment of Victor Barranco, Cuban dele
gate to the second Pan American
| AerOnautic congress.
Paul Frederick Volland, wealthy
head OF the Art Publishing Company,
which bears his name, was shot and in
stantly killed in his office in Chicago
by woman. According to clerks in
Volland's office the woman had II hal
lucination that the publishing company
owed her 5000 in royalties
John NJ Thorn of Lansing, faced a
| fifteen-month sentence in Leaven-
worth penitentiary following his con-
viction for using the mails to black
mail j. p. Morgan and his daughter,
Mrs Jane n. Morgan Nichols.
Julius II. Barnes, national wheat adj
ministrator, said in an address to
| members of the Chicago board of trade
| that the act establishing the food adj
ministration gave authority to control
trading in foodstuffs on exchanges to
the extent of prohibiting future trad
ing altogether He said the act was
still in effect and that his duty was i'm
perative if demonstrated abuse should
arise.
The bodies of Sheriff Joseph c. Tol
bert and Deputy John Mcdonald of La
fayette county, both dead, We're found
in the underbrush seven miles south
east of Lexington, Mo- There were
bullet holes in the heads of the two
men and their bodies indicated they
had been beaten badly. James c. Sta
| bleton, another deputy, fatally