The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-02-14
FOREIGN


the great shrine of the British empire,
a splendid and impressive service was
held To do honor TO the memory OF
Theodore Roosevelt.
A Belgrade dispatch says typhus
has broken out in the Serbian capital.
especially among the Czech prisoners
collected there and among Serbian sol
diers from the south.
The Economical Association OF
Prague has issued a proclamation urg-
ing boycott of everything German ia
the Czecho- Slovak republic. German
shops, physicians and lawyers are 10
| be avoided.
The Lithuanians have arrested the
Bolshevist advance on the Lithuanian
front, according to news received by
the Lettish bureau in Berlin. The town
of Ponievsk, north of kovno. has been
taken by the Lithuanians.
The eye trouble which Viscount
Grey. former British secretary of state
for foreign affairs, has been afflicted
with for years now has eliminated in
total blindness. says reports from Lon
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by the Braille system of characters for
the blind
The congress OF soldiers councils
attached to various German army
corps concluded its session at Berlin
with the adoption of "A resolution calf
ing on the central council of the sol
diers' and workmen's boards TO sum
of all rho Ger
man soviets by Feb. 20.
Despite Paderewskis demand that
the Polish national committee urge the
allies to send n Polish army from
France to Poland. the Supreme War
Council will not transfer two Polish
divisions under Gen. Haller. attached
To the French army. to Poland. Amer
lean opinion is strongly opposed 70
tispatching an expeditionary force TO
Poland now, and France and Great
Britain agree
SPORT
Hank Gowdy's day at the Chicago
Cubs park was set for June 6. If
available the Chicago doughboy bat
terry, Alexander and killifcr. will work
for the CUBS.
The Minnesota Boxing Commission
meeting at Minneapolis, voted to bar
indefinitely Fred Fulton, Rochester.
Mimi, heavyweight fighter. from box
ing or sparring in Minnesota rings.
Jack Dempsey has signed the arti-
cles calling for fight with Jess Will
lard for the championship on July !.
The articles were signed in the wait
ing room of the West Shore railroad
| because the laws of New York pre-
| vented such arrangements being made
| in that state.
| Hal Chase. stormy petrol of base
| ball, was cleared of the charge OF
| "throwing' games. preferred against
him by the Cincinnati club, He was
| declared mot guilty" by President
John A. Heydler of the National
League. who acted as judge. after II
weeks study of the evidence for and
against him.
GENERAL
W. u. Childs. for many years chief
representative of the Western Union
III iAhNNih, Ii" ''"'
of starvation in Petrograd.
Nearly S45,OoO,ooo worth of vehicles,
harness, forage and raw materials
wer shipped to the American expedi-
tionary forces from the beginning of
the war to Dec /. 1918, according to
information made public by the War
Department.
While the farmer would be paid the
2.26 government guarantee for the
1919 wheat crop, the wheat would be
sold to the consumer at a price to be
dictated by the law of supply and de
mand under legislation approved by
the House agriculture committee. The
government would lose the difference
between the purchase and sale prices.
Coffee houses as substitute for
saloons when prohibition goes into eff
feet next July is plan now being sup
ported by II number of prominent min
listers in New York.
An American newspaper published
| in Germany was discovered when IA
group of soldiers in the city of Mayen
were found reading the Fourth Corps
| Flare 1t is "A four-page weekly, put
out by members of the Fourth Corps
artillery park. And 1t is a real news
paper. In addition to items on the
latest society news, the four pages in
| clude column of wireless picked up
by the powerful radio operated at
Colhem by the 80 Field Signal bat
| talon.
The record of crimes attributed to
the supposed organization popularity
known as the gray automobile rob-
| her band" has been augmented by the
| killing in the Mexican federal peniten-
+, tiary of Francisco Ovfedo. Oviedo had
been prisoner for year and half
and was accused of being one of the