The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-04-11
FOREIGN

| feet).
The allied forces, principally British
| and Russian, operating In the Sredn
| Mekhrenga sector, delivered u crush
| ing defeat TO ii large Bolshevik attack
| ing party.
Bella Kun. the foreign minister IN
The soviet (Bolshevik) government OF
| Hungary. has been assassinai.d and
the government overthrown, says
| telegram from Paris.
Two hundred Germans and Aus
trians were arrested in Barcelona
| charged with completely In syndicalist
| (radical socalisD plots. The police
| seized number Of documents.
In a fight between armed Sim Fein-
ers and armed cOnstabulary in Lime
| rick. one policeman was killed and
| four others were wounded. said a dis
1 patch from that place. The Sim
| Feiners raided the Limerick WORE
house hospital and removed Sim Fem
| prisoners.
Eosheviki forces are Withdrawing
| from all the northern Lthuania dis
trict after severe fighting in which
they have lost severely. Bolshevik
| soldiers have mutinied at several
| places according to an official state
uent issued by the Lithuanian press
| bureau at kovno.
The first meeting of the League OF
Nations H. to be held at the Whit"
House in Washington in mid-October
according to a report in British peace
conference circles. There is no off
! cial confirmation, but the project is
| said to enlist the sympathy Of the
| British. who feel that President VIII
son should be honored personally in
| presiding at The initial meeting, In
view of his unceaSing efforts to per-
| feet the league covenant
SPORT
Ashton Dome. New Orleans. 111
pounds; Frank Il. Cassidy, New York
l35 pounds, and Sam Lagonia, New
| York. 15S pounds, earned the right
| to represent the United States in the
| international boxing tournaments IN
Scandinavia this summer by winning
the championship in their classes nj
| the annual competition of the Anna
teur Athletic union in Boston.
+. f. Egan. of Denver, Colo, a mem
| Der of the 1921 class of the Sheffield
Scientific school at Yale, won the
heavyweight championship at the ma
| tional boxing games by defeating
| james j. Tully of New York. Egan
was recently discharged from the serv-
ice. He also took part in the 10
pound class, in which he was defeated
in a seml-final round by AL Roche OF
Boston, who won the final in that di-
! vision.
! George Douglass Freeth, a native of
| Hawaii and for years one Of the most
| famous aquatic performers OF the Pa
cific coast, is dead at San Diego, after
| Il long illness. Freeth, recoveriuE
! from an attack of influenza, suffered
Il relapse. which resulted in his death.
| For years Freeth was known on the
Pacific coast as IL lifc-saver, swimming
and diving champion and an authority
| in all things pertaining TO water
sports. Until recently he was the
swimming coach of the San Diego
| Rowing club
GENERAL
More than 10000 Jews were killed
or injured in the recent pogroms IN
the Ukraine, according to reports re-
ccived by the Zicnist organization al
London.
Six physicians and four druggisls
were arrested by internal revenue of
fcers at New York, charged with vl"-
lation of the Harrison act Fifty drug
addicts We're taken in the raid, and
forming drugs valued at $4,000
were seized.
\ boom for Governor Carl T.. Mill
ken for vice president has been started
in Illinois. Ii was launched when
Republican legislative caucus indorsed
the governors candidacy for vice pres
ident at the next Republican Natioral
convention.
Rioting marked by promiscuous fir
ing by strike sympathizers and police
opened the tenth week of the teXtiic
strike at Lawrence, Mass.
Influenza claimed upwards of 100,
900 lives in Illinois in 1918, according
to conservative estimates fixed by tn
State Der rtment of Public Health
The country's total is estimated Il
6S3, l35.
4 postal card was delivered to Titur
| Hodder of Braddock, Pa, which novel
at an average speed of about 100 miles
| an hour. 1t showed this postmarh,
Jacksonville. Fla, Jan. 10, 1919 an /
had been forwarded to Montreal aad
| then back to Braddock.
The American University Union, es
| tablished in Paris to meet wartime
needs of American college men, will b.
continued as permanent institution,
| according to word received at Colum
bia University. After peace has been
| signed and the American troops lenVp