The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-05-02
lrOREIGN

Herbert II. Asquith. former premier.
is likely TO succeed the Earl of Read
ing as ambassador 10 the United
States, according to London report
The provisional government of Vor-
arlberg. the westernmost district OF
the former Austro- Hungarian empire,
has decided to submit the question Of
a union with Switzerland to a plebis-
cite
Because of the increasing difficult
ties Of provisioning Switzerland with
meat the Federal Council has decid-
al IN forbid the eating of meat FROM
May 9TH to May 10Th throughout the
nation.
Bolshevist forces attacked the allied
troops ON the Murmansk railway at
Kurgomin, bur We're easily repulsed,
says a statement from the British war
office. The enemy left "A number of
prisoners behind.
The salary Of Sir Edric Drummond,
secretary of the League Of Nations,
is to be $4,000 yearly. with II similar
amount for the expenses of the Of
flee, including the clerical staff, ac-
eording TO the representative of Iteu-
ters limited in Paris.
Ii has been virtually decided tina.
the first meeting of the League of
Nations shall be held in Washington
next October SHOULD this be done. 1t
is said President Wilson doubtlessly
would be asked to become the first
president of the league.
The state of New South Wales, of
Australia, in settling its returned SOL
ders on the land, not only provides
them with a farm on easy payments,
but makes sure of the repatriated An
zac's welfare by paying him an allow
ance up to SO a week for sustenance
during the unproductive period Of his
tenure
German government troops are re-
ported to have encircled Munich,
which is held by soviet forces. but Ii
Is probable that it will be several days
before general attack on the city
is launched. Gustave Noske, the Ger
man minister of defense, is in COM
mand OF all the government troops.
Bavarian and Wurttemberg forces be-
ing placed under his control.
SPORT
Harry Greb of Pittshurg, outpointed
BATTLING Levinsky of New York in
twelve-round boxing contest at Can
ton, Ohio. according to the newspaper
critics
Tom Gibbons won decision from
erloo, Iowa. While Roper was at no
time in danger of being knocked out,
the fight was all Gibbons on points.
frankie Mason won from John Err
tie at South Bend, Ind, by the mar
rowest margins in ten-round battle
the best seen in this state In years.
Mason had u shade in five rounds,
Ertle slightly the best of the argu
ment in four with one round a draw.
Wladek Zbyszko, the giant Pole, re-
"Strangler" Lewis at the Coliseum at
Chicago by pinning his man in two
hours and fourteen minutes with a
scissors and side roll The end came
just as it did in New York, as n COM
plete surprise. Lewis was winning all
the way with nasty head locks and had
one just before duped into the grip
that decided the contest
GENERAL
Lieut. c. f. Hines, of Lake Charles,
La, a flying instructor at Kelly field,
was instantly killed in the fall of his
airpane Cadet Masse, flying with
him, was slightly injured.
a naval seaplane of the F-5 type,
propelled by two Liberty motors of 400
horsepower each and carrying u crew
of four men. remained in the air Mt
the Hampton Roads naval base for
twenty hours and ten minutes, estab-
fishing what naval officers said was a
worlds record for seaplanes.
American army officers in Paris say
there are virtually no American troops
left in Italy. excepting few railroad
transport Officers and military police.
Harbingers Of the soft drink flood
that Is expected to follow prohibition
next July were in evidence in Chicago.
A large brewery sent an order to the
federal employment service seeking
statesmen to sell soft drinks. An or
ange juice shop already has estab-
lished itself in a small paAitiOned
space in what was the front window
OF saloon which continues its own
hard drink business
An alliance of French and American
banking interests, representing conf
bined resources of more than one and
a quarter billion dollars, organized to
promote trade between France and the
United States, was disclosed through
the filing at Albany of Incorporation
papers for the eFrench-American Bank
ing Corporation Half of the stock will