The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-12-05
FOREIGN

when his horse, Brigand, won the Cam
bridgeshire at Newmarket, England,
recently are stated to total apE1oxi-
mately S390,O0O.
The city of Stockholm, Sweden, has
decided to send about $1,0O0,0O0 worth
of foodstuffs to Berlin and Vienna to
relieve conditions there, according to
Swedish reports received.
The situation in soviet Russia is
growing more serious. In several
towns workers are without employ
ment and desperately hungry, and
have revolted against the Bolsheviki.
An armistice stipulating the imme
diate evacuation of LithuaniE by the
Germans has been signed by Germany
and Lithuania through the mediation
of the interallied military mission.
The firepits Of Mount Kilauea which
| for months was level with the main
crater and overfiowed frequently, col
lapsed and fell 400 feet Ten earth
| quake shocks accompanied the col
| lapse.
Six chairs, each of which has been
used at one time or another by Mar
shal Foch at French general head
| quarters during the war. brought ST.
| 900 at public auction in Paris. The
marshal's silver berry spoons sold for
S. each.
Tickets to the public gallery of the
house of commons for the opening ses-
sion were in great demand, hundreds
showing their desire TO see the first
woman member presented in the house.
1t was impossible to accommodate
nearly all the applicants.
1t has been announced that the In
fante Antonio of Bourbon-Orleans, by
an acknowledgement signed Nov. goth,
renounced his title as an infante of
Spain and the privileges attached to
this title. He also relinquished his
Spanish nationality and severed family
ties with the Spanish royal family.
The Polish professor, A A. Ossen-
doffsky, chief of the intelligence de-
partment of the All Russian govern
ment, estimates that the world war,
Bolshevism, Civil war, starvation and
disease has cost Russia total of 3d.
100000 lives. He places the cost of
Bolshevism at 12.2S0,0O0 lives.
The German general staff's story of
the war written from the official
archives will soon be issued and will
be entitled "The Battles and Fights of
the Great War of 19I4-191S." The
account is to contain a consecutive and
ordered description of all battles in
which German troops participated.
1T was primarily due TO the recep-
tivity, courage and driving force of
Winston Spencer Churchill of England
that the general idea to use such an
instrument of warfare as the tank
was converted into practical shape
, says the report issued by the commit
tee which investigated at great length
the numerous rival claims to credit
for inventing the tank KS me uTf
minister is considered a servant of the
state, he is not entitled to any award
GENERAL
Henry Clay Frick, pioneer ironmas-
, ter and one of the foremost art collec-
tors In the United States, died sudden
, ly at his New York home in his 10th
year.
Federal agents raided an alleged
! counterfeiting plant in Minneapolis
placed one man under arrest and
i seized 500 spurious half-dollars, sev
eral molds and dies and a quantity OF
metal.
Maud Powell, the violinist collapsed
: during a recital at st. Louis and was
taken to hospital in Il semi-conscious
condition. Physicians diagnosed hel
+ ailment as an acute attack OF stomach
+ trouble.
T. The American Wooden Company il
Boston announced an advance il
r wages in all its mills. The increase
Q became effective at once. The amoun
J. was not stated. The company ha
forty mills in several states.
l. The Rev. DR.. Edward Ballard, 9S
l. who was born December %, 1920, ant
II was the oldest Methodist minister il
q America, died at his home in Oceai
v Grove, N. J.
it Two masked bandits entered the of
n flee of the American theater at Butte
Mont, and after beating into insensi
, bility Miss Emma Peterson. the cash
n Ter, and John Kelly, the janitor, robbed
!. the safe of all its contents. 1t is es
h timated the robbers obtained $1,000.
J. Bituminous coal miners, now OF
r. strike throughout the country, ma,
n have the support Of the miners in TIL,
: Eastern anthracite fields if they be
come hard pressed" Frank Earring
ton, president of the Illinois miners
declared. The miners have not We
e utilized the full strength of their or
: ganization, Harrington said
e Documentary proof that Venustiant
: Carranza knew of the plan of Sar
d Diego and that Carranza's general.
e knew of raids planned across the
i United States border and participated
n in them even while Carranza's recog
= milton by the United States was being
n thrashed out in Washington, is nov