The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-11-21
FOREIGN


eleven minutes in Italy.
President Ebert's salary has been
fixed at 100000 marks. by the budget
| commission In Berlin, which also
placed a similar sum at his disposal
for incidentals for which he is to give
a strict accounting
A crisis appears imminent in Aus
tria. The Vienna government, 1t is
reported, is unable to maintain its
power and the republic is likely to fall
to pieces, several groups declaring for
union with Germany.
The Bolsheyiki claim the capture of
ten generals and more than 100 other
officers at Omsk. according to an Of
ficial statement issued by the soviet
government = at Moscow. Kolchak's
army is being pursued in an easterly
direction, the statement adds.
Complete returns from the French
elections show that the conservative,
noderate,. and nationalist elements
held 494 seats in the chamber of dep
ufies, while the extremists will have
| fifty-four members of the new cham
ber. OF this number, 221 were former
deputies, while 327 are men who have
not hitherto been members Of the
chamber.
Gabrielle d. Annunzio's recent des-
cent upon cara has augmented his
land and sea forces. They are esti-
mated TO number $1,000. The Italian
forces of occupation in Dalmatia com
prise an army corps. with one division
at Zara and another at Sebenico. All
| of these troops are registered under
D'AnnunziO's banners and are said to
have ample supplies s
So acute. has the shortage of house
hold coal in France become that
wealthy Parisians who can afford it
have ordered such fuel shipped to
them from America. as they would
table delieacies. In the cargo of the
Siamese Prince, which sailed for
Havre, was twelve barrels of coal con-
signed to an individual in Paris. The
Jumps of anthracite were as carefully
barreled as sugar. =.
Six billion francs is the sum repre-
senting the loss suffered by Switzer-
land as a result of the war, according
to an estimate of NJ. Sarasin, president
of the Swiss Bankers Union of Berne,
OF this 2,4OOOOO.OOO francs are ac-
| counted for by depreciation of German
securities and 800, 100000 francs by
depreciation of Austro- Hungarian Sc
curities held by Swiss citizens. The
losses suffered by the hotel world are
put down as amounting to 100000. 900
francs. The majority of Swiss private
fortunes are invested in foreign gov
ernment and foreign industrial under
takings, the value of which has de-
clined from 40 to 80 per cent.
GENERAL
Appointment of Secretary Glass to
thes United States Senate TO succeed
the late Thomas s. Martin, and the ac-
ceptance of Mr. Glass. have been an
nounced by Henry Hodges, aide to
Governor Davis
As result of eating butter believed
to have been poisoned by weeds eaten
by the cows from whose milk the but
ter was churned. Mrs. Sarah Haver-
stock is dead at West Salem. Ohio,
and four others are seriously i'll.
Approximately 1000 bales of cotton
burned in a fire which swept part OF
the St. Louis Cotton Compress Com
pany's plant at Eldorado, Ark, accord
ing to n dispatch received at Little
Rock. The loss is about $1,OOO,OO0
Automobile accidents in the state OF
New York were responsible for the
deaths of 1O4 persons. according to a
report of the National Highway Pro
tective Society issued recently. Dur
| ing the corresponding month last yeal
ninety-five persons were killed in the
state by auto accidents The report
shows that of these deaths, fifty-nfne
occurred in New Yok city, while dur
ing the same month last year fifty-siz
persons were killed in motor car acci
dents in the city.
Forty thousand persons have died il
Petrograd in the last six months. The
number of births registered during the
same period amount to only $500.
Twenty foreigners, all striking Goa
miners, were refused naturalization
papers at Hllsboro, III. by Circuit
Judge w. T. Jett, when he was in
formed that they had not returned t6
work following withdrawal of the
strike order.
AS result of damage done to theil
plant by rioters in the railway strike
of 1894, Swift & Company of Chicago
was awarded S13,5OO- verdict against
the city Claims for nearly $l,O0O,OOl
damages growing out of the race riots
last summer are pending.
The eighth international egg-layina
contest at the State Agricultural Col
lege at Storrs, Conn, ended with a vic
tory for the ten Barred Plymouth
Rocks entered by Jules F. Francais oi
| Westhampton Beach, L. I. Their tota
yield for the fifty-twO weeks is 2,02.
eggs, this being the only pen in the en-
tire competition to average more thar