The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-22
FOREIGN

sented to the village of Mons. Bei
gium, with elaborate ceremonies.
Seven persons were killed and thir-
ty-four injured in a collision between
an express train and IL troop train in
France The express was running
from Paris to Nancy and Strasbourg.
Several collisions occurred between
food dealers and consumers in France
in the southeastern provinces and else-
where At BreSt the dock workers
seized provisions in the central mark
cts and sold them at half prices.
French pilots and observers killed
and wounded during the war aggre-
gated go per cent of the total flying
personnel of slightly less than i3,oD
men. The percentage of loss was
greater than that of any other branch
of the French army.
Former Emperor William, who has
been living at Amerongen since his ar
rival in Holland, has purchased the es-
tate and house of Doom at the village
of Doom, near Utrecht, according to
the Dagblad. The estate was bought
from Baroness de Baufort 1t is about
five miles north of Amerongen, in the
direction of Utrecht.
Germany is a broken nation, both
in body and spirit, and a long time will
elapse before the efficiency of her peo-
pie is restored, il is declared in Il re-
port of British scientists on food con-
ditions in Germany The wartime semi
starvation of the people is responsible
for the slowness with which recovery
will be effected, according to these
authorities.
To recover more than S3.000000 in
gold, part of the fortunte of the late
Dom Paul Kruger. once president of
the Transvaal which is believed to be
cemented in the hold of the bark
Dorothea, sunk on Tenedoes reef off
the coast of Zululand, is one of the
projects which may be revived as a
result of improvement in the science
of salvaging sunken ships.
The magnificent former imperial
yacht Meteor, in which the ex-kaiser
used TO make his annual summer
cruises in northern waters, is offered
for sale at the price of half million
marks ($125,000). German kaiserist
newspapers are denouncing the offer,
first, because they consider "the very
idea an insult to the eX-monarch, and
secondly, because they regard the
price as "ridiculously low
SPORT
Jack Dempsey heavyweight cham
pion pugilist, will meet Willie Meeham
in an eight-round. no-decision bout in
the East in November, according to n
statement issued by Meehan, who said
he had the promise of Jack Kearns,
Dempseys manager for the match.
GENERAL
Postal authorities at Winnipeg have
been notified that $4,000 was stolen
some night recently from the interior
deposit vaults of the postoffice at Ed
monitor, Alta. No cew to the thieves
has been found.
George Peters, 30, farmer of
Arundel, Prince Georges county,
Maryland, was murdered and his body
set afire by an unidentified negro.
Catherine Peters, his daughter, was
shot through the breast and arm and
taken to Washington hospital.
Three members of the board of di-
rectors of the American League, con
stituting a majority of the board, or
dered Pitcher Carl Mays reinstated at
| a special meeting in New York, thus
| multiplying the action of President
Johnson in suspending him.
Agents of the investigation branch
at Detroit of the Department of Jus
tice said that in one cold storage plant
visited frozen hog was found which
they were told had been in storage
twenty-five years. The officials de
clared that while they believed that
| if the hog really had been held fol
that length of time, ii was through an
oversight; they intend TO investigate
further.
More than a million eggs, hundreds
| of thousands of tins of canned foods
and 81. 800 pounds of sugar were
seized at Jacksonville, Fla, in raid
| on wholesale food warehouses and
cold storage plants by federal author
| tiles.
| Charges of "extortionate profits by
Dallas retail merchants We're made by
| ?. H. Spencer, chief of the bureau ol
investigation of the Department oi
| Justice, and w. B. Burrell, assistant
| United States district attorney at Dal
| las.
Three children We're killed in Pat
| terson park, Baltimore, Md, when an
| airplane of the SSth areo squadron
stationed at Langley field, Va, crashed
| inta fence behind which were several
| hundred spectators. Seven We're in
| jured.
Police are combing Detroit for three
automobile bandits who in broad day
light held up William Baldwin, aged
81, collector for thes Standard Oil
| Company, in Spruce street. and robbed
| him of leather bag containing $1,000
| cash checks and oil coupons which he