The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-08
FOREIGN

| dluouuIeu " tOt ,COO,OOO, IL
was announced in the House of Com
mons.
Pirates operating on the Black sea
have held up and robbed the steamer
Constantine of S15,OOO,00O worth of
notes and gold, says dispatch from
Constantinople
The first passenger airship to fly to
Rio de Janeiro from England will
leave next month from Barrow. The
fare will be $1,000 round trip, which
will be made via West Africa.
A shortage of more than 7O,000,0OO
tons of coal, as compared with the
1913 output, is faced by Great Britain
in the coming year, according to Sir
Auckland Geddes, president of the
Board Of Trade.
Budapest is occupied by Rumanian
troops who advanced from the river
Thesis, in spite OF representations
| made by Lieutenant Colonel Romanel-
| Ii, the Italian representative of the al
lies at Vienna.
George Johnson, a United States
army officer, committed suicide in
dramatic fashion at Nice. He waded
out into the sea in sight of numbers of
| pleasure seekers and then drew a re-
| volver ond shot himself.
The United States is not the only
| prohibition country, Belgium having
| followed suit so far as whisky, gin and
| other highly alcoholic liquors are con-
| cerned Soon after the armistice was
siu ad q Low nos SsaI fnrhiIIinp "a
| manufacture and sale of such bever-
ages.
Advices from Berlin report that
| trunks belonging to the allied armis-
| tice commission in Germany have been
| stolen The trunks contained import
ant documents concerning agreements
| for the restitution to Belgium and
France of machinery that had been re-
moved by the Germans.
An extraordinary attempt of eleven
| Koreans to commit suicide by tying
themselves together with rope and
then jumping overheard is reported
| from Chemulpo. The incident occurred
on a ferryboat, All We're picked up,
but three were dead. The act is be-
lieved to have been inspired by Budd-
hist superstition.
The Prussian government, according
to American reports, is planning to or
ganize a new and separate police
| force to consist of from 100000 to
100000 trained soldiers, solely as a
force to suppress disorder 1t is
| planned to arm this force with the
latest type of military weapons and
to put the men in garrisons through
out Germany.
Germany has cut the high cost of
living in half The reduction applies
TO all rational food, principally flour,
potatoes, meat and fat. The govern
ment is spending one and a haE billion
marks (S375, ,000,0O0) iii an atten.p. to
bring food prices down to Il permtnent-
ly lower level. At the same time the
meat and fat ration is being increased
American imports being assured.
GENERAL
A sample loaf of bread refused to
: explode when Chicago police shot al
it within a package. They thought the
box Judge Landis got in the mail was
a bomb.
f Quentin Roosevelt killed in aeria
combat in France, left an estate OF
t only 81 100, it was learned when his
} mother, widow of Colonel Roosevelt
applied for letters of administration.
= A petition bearing the signatures o.
: 1924 voters, asking the submission
:. to the Ohio electorate at the Novembe
d election of constitutional amendmen
), repeating the statewide prohibition
amendment and re-establishing tn,
l. liquor license system and home rule 10
beverages as those containing in ex
/ cess of 2.75 per cent alcohol, has beer
: filed with Secretary of State Smitl
Il; Saturday by l.. F. Gibson, manager o
the Ohio Home Rule Association.
y The abnormal demand for pennies i
# still taxing the capacity of the presse
# in the Philadelphia mint, the enormou
q total of 38.931 900 having been strucl
y during July. The other coinage con
g sisted of $4,000 dimes and 9,306,Oo
d nickels.
r. The Black Hills mining district o
South Dakota produced $685. 200 il
gold and 159,246 ounces of silver il
= 1918 From Jan. l, 1918, to Oct q
= 1918, the Homestake mine and mill
= were operated at full capacity, bu
during the remainder of the year tn
;, property was operated at only II pc
cent capacity, says the geological SUI
!, vey
The National Geographic Society ha
been asked to investigate the claim o
John Shell, a mountaineer of Lesli
l. county. Kentucky, that he is 100 year
a old Shells neighbors corroborate til
# statement concerning his age. Shel
n has nine children. He says the oldes
Y, is 90 years old. He is said to have 20
t. descendants in his home section, sev
l. eral being greatgreat grandchildren
i The mountaineer, who claims excelIen
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