The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12
FOREIGN

troops from Siberia, according to an
official statement issued at the war Of
flee in Toxic.
Occupation of Petropavlovsk, on the
Ishim river about 175 miles west of
Omsk, by Bolshevist forces is claimed
in a Russian soviet official statement.
Information has reached Amsterdam
that a new African diamond field had
been discovered by officers of the Brit
ish Geological Survey in the Gold
coast.
The Bolsheviki have taken Pskoff
and driven off the White forces in a
southwesterly direction, according to
State Department advices received
from Viborg.
In order to relieve the dock and
transport congestion, Sir Eric Geddes
will raise the railway rates so as to
induce greater extension of railroad
transportation, it was announced in
London
From two to three hundred persons
are dying daily in Petrograd of chol-
era, according to advices from that
city. Owing to the lack of medicines
and food many of the hospitals have
ben closed.
Georges CASTOR Quien, on trial be-
fore court-martial, charged with hav-
ing had reasonable dealings with the
Germans, and of having betrayed Edith
Cavell to them, has been convicted in
Paris and condemned to die.
The Mexican War Department issued
der to flash red, white and green sig
nails as a warning to American avia-
tors who have crossed the frontier and
are flying over Mexican territory.
Anti-Italian disturbances continue to
spread in Albania, according TO dis
patches, it being reported that a de-
tachment of 300 Italians was annihil-
ated at Kastrali recently Advices
say that the Albanians intend to send
delegates to the peace conference to
demand that their country be granted
autonomy
The Ulster Labor Unionist party has
extended an invitation to the labor
party of Great Britain to send a depu-
tation to Ulster with a view of having
it obtain first-hand information on the
Irish question as viewed in Ulster, and
securing the party's Endorsement of
Sir Edward Carson's views, recently
expressed at Belfast.
Bare legs are the custom throughout
Warsaw. Probably not one in five of
the poor own stockings and many not
even shoes except the wood-soled san
dals strapped to bare feet. Adult wom-
en-, bare-legged and barefooted, are to
be seen everywhere, not only in the
and other large cities.
GENERAL
More than $4,000 Knights Templar
attended the thirty-fourth triennial
conclave and paraded at Philadelphia.
John Shell, said to be the Oldest liv-
ing man in the United States, eelebrat-
ed the 131st anniversary of hts birth
at Lexington, KY, on Sept. 3rd.
-Four organizers of the American
Federation of Labor, including Mother
Jones, We're fined 500 each today by
Mayor James S. Crawford of Du-
quesne, for attempting to hold a meet
ing of steel workers without first OBJ
tanning permit.
Fourteen thousand employees of Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western Coal
Company in its mines within Lacka-
wanna county, Pennsylvania, obeyed
the strike order of their grievance
committee. They went on strike in
support of the company's miners at
Archibald.
AS unreasonable as it sounds, the
city authorities have announced that
every canine resident of Asheville, n.
c., must wear bell during the next
year, and to prove their earnestness
they have purchased large supply of
the necessary ornaments for distribu-
tion among the owners of dogs.
Five strikers were killed and fif-
teen wounded in battle between 1000
former employees of the Standard Steel
Car Company and the police at Ham
mond, Ind.
What is believed to be new two
man airplane altitude record was set
at McCook aviation field by Maj r.
W. Schroeder when he ascended to a
height of $4,000 feet.
A fire which broke out in the plant
of the Central Elevator Company at
Pittsburg, completely destroyed that
building with 100000 bushels of grain,
damaged the plant of the Mcintosh
Hemphill Engine Company, and ad-
joining buildings and menaced large
part of the downtown section before
it was controlled. The loss was esti-
mated at $650,000.
The purchase of land for the pro-
rosed Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
park at Oyster Bay, which ultimately
may include Sycamore Hill, the Roose-
welt home, win be the first object of
the National Memorial committee, Col
William Boyce Thompson, its chair
man, told delegates from the Eastern