The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-04-18
FOREIGN


Reginald Devnelle, u fashion design
| er formerly Of New York, was found
not guilty OF manslaughted In connec-
| tion with the death Of Billie" Carlton,
| an American dancer, In the Old Bailey
court In London.
The troops at Munich express sym
pathy with the soviet cause They have
declared their intention. however, to
maintain neutrality and TO prevent
rioting. At all public gatherings enthu-
siasm is shown in favor of the soviet
idea.
The airplane Of the Shortt Brothers.
one of the entries for the 10000 ster-
ling race across the Atlantic, will start
from Ireland for Newfoundland short
ly. weather permitting. The airplane
is expected to make the journey In
twenty-four hours.
There Is widespread agitation in
Constantinople that II any country be
given the mandatory of Turkey 1t must
be the United States. Turkey is bank
rupt financially, politically and com
mercially, and II is impossible for her
to recover by her own resources.
The Berlin Zwelf Uhr Batt reports
that 157 persons had been killed and
1Sl wounded in the fighting between
troops and strikers at Dusseldorf The
heaviest fighting occurred when the
strikers attempted to cut off the water
supply.
Replying to a question in the House
of Commons Of England, Stanley
Baldwin, parliamentary secretary to
the treasury, said allied obligations to
the United Kingdom March 3lst last
were 1,56S. .447 600 pounds sterling and
obligations OF the dominions 10, $685.
600 pounds sterling.
AS result of the strike Of bank EN-
ployes In Berlin the German govern
ment was unable to remit 35.0OO,OOO
marks representing part of the pay
ment due the allied powers on food
shipments The amount was to have
been transferred to the Deutsche bank,
which was compelled to close by the
strike.
SPORT
The Chicago Cubs played the Doug
las military team at Douglas, Ariz.. to
a score of IA to =
The New York Assembly passed the
bin of Senator Walker permitting Sun
day baseball games. The bill now goes
to the governor for his approval.
frankie Britt of Boston had the bet
ter of slow sixround bout at Phila-
,i.l ,.-ith To .lc Of NaW
York. lightweight.
Augie Rather an American boxer,
has been matched to meet Johnny Ba-
shan, the welterweight champion of
! England, in twenty round bout at the
| National Sporting Club June 16 for a
purse of $1,000.
John Fitzpatrick, who was the ref
| cree in the fight in Mississippi City in
which John l.. Sullivan won the
| worlds championship from Paddy Ry-
an and the seventy -five-round fight be-
| tween Sullivan and Jake Kilrain at
Richburg. Miss, is dead at this home
| in New Orleans.
GENERAL
| A new worlds record in shipbuiIiins
| was claimed for the Ford Eagle plant
| in Detroit in the completion to the
| launching point Of L. ). Eagle boat No.
| 50 in exactly ten days to the minute
| from the time the keel was laid.
| The Georgia early peach crop was
| seriously damaged by the cold weather
/ according to reports deceived from
/ Fort Valley, Byron and Marshallville,
the centers of the peach belt The late
peaches are not believed to have been
affected.
Six physicians and four druggists
were arrested by internal revenue Of
| ficers at New York charged with viola
ton Of the Harrison act. Fifty drug
addicts were taken in the raid and
habit forming drugs valued at sos, 900
were seized.
captured Simferopol, capital of the
Crimea, and Eupatoria, thirty eight
miles northwest of SimperopOl, with
considerable booty.
Bond to the amount of $4,000 for
the release of William d. Haywood. l.
W. W. leader, who last year was con-
victed of violating the espionage act
and sent to the Leavenworth peniten-
tiary, was signed by George NJ. McIn-
tosh of Peoria, Ill.
Comforting on themselves the Free
dom of the city" an unknown number
Of yeggmen spent the weekend in New
York cracking seven safes and obtain.
ing nearly $4,000 in loot and getting
away with all Of 1t, according to re-
luctant admission BY the police.
Rear Admiral william r. Capertoo.
commander-in-ch chief Of the Pacific
fleet, has arrived in New York aboard
the United States cruiser Pittsburgh,
his flagship, which was flying n 500