The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-10-17
FOREIGN

in peace and war
Allied cruisers are aiding in the de-
fepse of Riga against German attacks,
which has been stubborn, according to
a communication issued by the Lettish
foreign office.
The American steamer Mount Hood
ia 81 total loss as the result Of fire
aboard the vessel at MontevideO, ac-
cording to a dispatch from that port.
The Mount Hood was built at
Portland. Ore, last year.
The Omsk government of Russia
has directed thorough inquiry into
the recent reported arrest of American
soldiers by Cossack troops and the
flogging of one Of them because the
Americans did not have the proper
Identification papers.
The anniversary of the discovery of
America was celebrated In Madrid and
throughout the provinces Of Spain.
King Alfonso, the members of the gov
ernment and the representatives of all
the Spanish-American countries &c
tended the celebration In the capital.
NJ. Stambuliwsky, leader of the peas
ants and agrarians, has been success
full In his attempt to form new cabi-
net in Bulgaria, according to Sofia
message received In Paris. The minis
try. 1t IL stated, has been constituted
for the purpose Of signing the peace
treaty presented by the allies.
w. hnr ~f N
French Peace Commission, speaking at
q meeting of the French-American
Club at Paris, gave interesting figures
on the reconstruction work accom-
plished since the armistice. Sixty
thousand of the $4,000 houses In the
battle area wrecked by shell fire have
been rebuilt; 2,O16 kilometers of the
3,248 kilometers of railway destroyed
have been repaired and 700 of the
1875 kilometers of canals rendered
useless in the course of the hostilitles
are again in commission. OF the leo
plants destroyed by the enemy 5SS
have been repaired. Equally remark
able progress is being made In restor-
ing to civilization the vast areas In
the devastated regions which, at the
end of the war. embraced 100000
acres. OF this approximately 1.OO0,OO0
acres have been returned to the farm
ers and 100000 acres OF it are ready
for the seed.
GENERAL
Some official action, either by Presi-
dent Wilson or the cabinet, to avert
the threatened strike of soft coal min
ers Nov. l is TO be expected, 1t was
said at the White House. Officials re-
gard the matter as one requiring gov
ernmental action if other efforts to
avert a tieup of the coal mines fail.
Six men were reported killed and
five are said by the police to be dying
as the result of a boiler explosion on
the oil steamer Chestnut Hill at Phila-
delphIa. The killed and injured were
members of the crew. Several others
were badly burned. The vessel was
getting up steam to depart for Mexico
when the accident occurred.
REPORTS that Russians on the north
eastern coast of Siberia recently con-
fiscated the cargo of the American
schooner Belinda, which was in Siber-
ian waters hunting walrus has been re-
ceiyed at Nome, Alaska Russians, It
was said, disputed the right of the
Americans to shoot walrus on Siberian
shores. The Russians first seized the
vessel and her cargo. Later the ship
was released
Super-chickens and eggs, two or
three times their present size, at cost
not much greater than present prices,
was predicted by Alton +. Briggs, Bos-
ton, president of the National Poultry,
Egg and Butter Association, in an ad-
dress to the 1000 delegates attending
the opening session of the thirteenth
annual convention at Cleveland. Mr..
Briggs said a new type of super-hen Is
being bred and in the near future
would reach the public, thus doing
much to lower the cost of living.
Heavily increased use of sugar in
candy, soft drinks, ice cream and other
luxuries in the United States during
the first nine months of 1919, 1t was
in New York, by the Unit
ed States Sugar Equalization Board,
means that such over indulgence in
sweets must now be curtailed in some
sections Of the East for the next three
months"
Margaret Seithamier, aged IL. on
trial for the murder of Benjamin Burr,
n Chicago attorney whom she was al
legged to have shot to death in his Of
flee July Z, was found not guilty after
two hours of deliberation by the jury
Mrs. Marie Hermes, co-defendant, also
,vas acquitted. These women make
some two-seore acquitted In recent
wears after staying men in Chicago.
The shrek of French seventy-fiye
shell calls Edinburgh, Ind, to its work,
sounds lunch time and sends 1t home
in the evening It's tame shell, how
ever, adapted to peaceful pursuits. Er-
nest Law, returned soldier, converted
~ sba,l into whistle for the French
,eoonotive of which he was engineer.