The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-02-28
FOREIGN


| Queen Helena of Italy has been In
Paris to see her father, King Nicholas
| Of Montenegro. She was accompanied
| by her daughters, including Princess
olande
Dr. Friederich Adler, who assassi-
| 1916. has been proclaimed President of
| the German Austrian republic by the
defense troops outside the nwn hall,
according TO reports from Niena.
\ French aviation mission will
leave France for the United States to
demonstrate the degree of efficiency
of the French airplanes. They will
take the five fastest planes equipped
with closed cabins. Five OF the most
noted French aces will be pilots.
Gen. Joseph Pilsudski has announced
| his Intention Of resigning as chief Of
! The Polish state. General Pilsudski has
been the military leader of the new
olish government and previous to the
reconstruction of the government by
Isnace Paderewski he was director Of
Poland.
Princess Dyama, widow of the field
marshal, Prince Oyama, who command
ed the Manchurian army during the
Russo-Japanese War. is dead of influ
euza. She was "A graduate of Nassar
college. The princess took a prominent
part in the work of the Japanese Red
Cross and was an active supporter OF
the American Red Cross.
The interallied commission appoint
ed by the peace conference to investi-
gate the situation in Poland IL rapidly
getting settled and is preparing to face
many problems. the most important
oi which are the food supply and The
ii ffereucc> between the Poles and the
tkrainians regarding the oil region
near Iemberg, Galicia.
One of the German long range guns
which shelled Paris ut intervals during
the last few months of the war now /.
ON its way to that city and will b,
placed on exhibition in the Place de la
tonrurde. according to La Nictoire
Marshal Foch demanded the surrender
by the Germans of one of these guns,
which was found by French officers
near MaHeuce. and it is this weapon
which is being sent to Paris.
SPORT
The National Baseball Commission
has restored Player Charles A. Bender
of the Philadelphia Nationals to good
standing.
Harry Coulon. II Buffalo bantam
weight, gave ten pounds weight To Ed
die ketchell of Toledo. carried the
fight to him in every round and earned
the decision by wide margin in eight
rounds at Saginaw.
A house bill to legalize ten-round
boxing matches and placing all public
boxing exhibitions under control OF
boxing commissions of the various cit
les of the state has passed the Oregon
Senate, 1t goes now TO the governor.
Verne Clmons, for several seasons
Association team, expects to play base.
ban again thfs season. He was dis
charged from the navy at Newport,
Rhode Island, just fifteen minutes be-
fore naval discharges were discontin
ued II is understood he will play with
Louisville
GENERAL
President John Grier Hibben OF
Princeton university was decorated by
the French government with the cross
| of the Legion of Honor.
British Columbia apparently intends
a. Il 60 IL h.n Il ~
| the great codfishing fleet which oper-
| ates about the Aleutian islands and
which has heretofore worked out OF
| San Francisco.
The old Wigwam site in Chicago
| where Lincoln was nominated for Pres
i,ient. was swept by IA S250,OOO fire
which destroyed several buildings oc
| cupied by wholesale grocery establish
ments and coal houses.
Tamhourines and free-will offering
| boxes, which for more than thirty-fi
years have been used by the Saliva
ton Army in gathering funds, are tO
be abandoned, says statement issued
by Commander Evangeline Booth in
announcing plans for drive for SO,
100000 in May.
| Twenty-three hundred stars, repre-.
| senting that number of University OF
| Oklahoma faculty members, graduates
| and undergraduates in military or ma
val service at the time of the signing
| Of the armistice, were in the university
| service flag, ii was announced. Four
| Teen of these We're gold stars.
Mrs. Stanslaws Lypchinski has been
arrested at Manistee charged with the
| murder of Sister Mary Johns, who
| nysteriously disappeared from the con
| vent mt Isadore. Mich, eleven years
Igo and whose body, it recently be
| came known. was eXhumed last sum
! tncr from grave in the basement OF