The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-06
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The monster dirigible R34 has been
formally accepted by the admiralty of
the airship will start across the At
lantic within two weeks.
King George celebrated his fifty
fourth birthday June 3rd. Artillery
salutes We're fired at noon in London,
Windsor and in garrison and dock
yard towns at home and abroad.
Prominent business men of Toxic
have met to discuss the project of lay
ing a new cable line between Japan
and the United States. Committees
have been appointed to study the
question.
The body of Rosa Luxembourg, the
radical Socialist, who was killed by
a mob in Berlin early in the present
year at the same time DR.. Karl Lieb
knecht was assassinated, has been
found in the Landwehr canal.
Three nurses attached to the Ameri-
can eXpeditionary force We're killed in
an automobile accident at Chateau
Thierry, it has become known in Paris
The nurses were Florence Graham of
New York city, Ella Delton of Toronto
and Alice Hagadorn of Palmer, n. Y
Miss Grace d. Banker of Passaic,
n. j., received the distinguished ser
vice medal from Lieut.. Gen. Hunter
Liggett, commander of the first army
al army headquarters in CoblenZ. She
is chief operator of the army telephone
service and has been overseas one
year.
In the House of Commons in Lon
don a resolution has been adopted au-
thorizing the treasury to raise a loan
to Il limit of f25O00o,000 to cover the
estimated deficit for the year, and any
sum required for the repayment of ma
turing securities and the creation of
sinking fund.
Lieut.. Milton Roberts of Lebanon,
KY, is the first American TO be dec
Grated for gallantry during the fight
ing on the Murmansk front He has
been awarded the French war cross
for leading an attack on the Bolshe-
visit trenches at Urosozero on April
11th, with the cooperation of a
French armored train.
SPORT
Charles Albert (Chief) Bender, for
| mer star pitcher of the Philadelphia
American League Club, has been
signed as manager of the Richmond,
Va, league team. Bender will play
right field and pitch.
| NJ Botcazen, the one-armed golf
professional at La Boulie links, Yer
sailles France, is coming to America
to play in a number of exhibition
matches. On the French links NJ. Bot
cazens score averages from T6 to so.
Americas expeditionary force will
present an American made track team
when the interaliied championships
are held in Paris this month All the
material for the track uniforms and
| for the training of the men is being
shipped to them from this side of the
/ water
GENERAL
w G. Lee, Cleveland, was reelected
president OF the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen at its triennia conven-
ton at Columbus, Ohio. He had no
opposition. Other officers We're re-
| elected.
Resolutions demanding the custer of
Postmaster General Burleson, because
of @autocratic management, has been
| forwarded to President Wilson by the
executive committee of the Chicago
Federation of Labor after adoption at
the meeting in Chicago.
In response to urgent appeals from
overseas, seventeen carloads of Red
Cross relief material, finished and raw,
having value of sS55,012.7S, left the
mountain division within the last three
months. The bulk of this tremendous
order is destined for the refugees of
France and American troops serving
| in Russia
According to word received by the
local police department of Kansas
City, a bank near Pittsburg, Kan, was
robbed of Liberty Bonds to the
amount of $4,000
Because he kept 10 cents out of his
wages and his wife became angry
George Vantigan had her arrested on
d peace warrant. She was placed un-
der 500 bonds at Bogota, n j.
The Pershing highway, a proposed
transcontinental route from New York
to San Francisco, was organized re-
Gently at a meeting in Lincoln, Neb.,
attended by representatives of several
states included in the projected itin-
erary.
Despite a vigorous protest from the
good-road men of Missouri, Governor
Gardner signed the dirt-road bill
which provides for a system of 5000
miles of graded highways. Each
county in the state is allowed $1,000
mile provided that the total graded
is not less than fifty miles. There
is some doubt as TO whether federal