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

Inc supreme economic cOuHCii Te
ports that the thirty-eight German
ships that have left German ports TO
be turned over to the allied and asso-
ciated powers are generally in a sea
worthy condition.
John Makea que. the lord mayor of
Manchester, who entertained President
Wilson during his visit "a Manchester
and presided at the comforting Of tn.
freedom OF the city on the President.
died suddenly AT Manchester.
Approximately 1000 agitators at
Barcelona, Spain. have been arrested
according to Madrid cablegram.
Among those arrested was the director
of German bank. who is charged
with distributing funds to syndicaiists.
II was officially announced in Lon
don that the army council had decided
that Queen Mary's auxiliary corps Of
women, which did such splendid work
during the war, should be maintained
as Part of the after-the-war army or
ganization.
Former Emperor Charles OF Austria
who with The former empress fled
from Austria into Switzerland. Is Ill.
The public has begun to agitate against
Switzerland harboring royalties and
their suites when food here is so
scarce it has to be ratioHed
The British minister to Chile and
the Chilean foreign minister have
signed an arbitration treaty. II pro-
vides for the establishment OF pence
commission to solve difficulties which
may arise between Chile and Grea,
Britain and which cannot be adjusted
thru diplomatic channels.
The government has issued decree
nationalizing the port service at Bue-
nos Aires of coastwise vessels in an eff
fort To solve the port strike situation
us it affects coastwise trade. 1t is said
that the February wages of the port
workmen will be paid by the govern
ment.
SPORT
Johnny Kibane, featherweight cham
pion, knocked out Johnny Mealy of
Philadelphia in the second round of a
scheduled siX-round bout at Philadel-
phia
Words of the death at Grand Canon,
Ariz of Robert Scott Bingham, half
back Of the Yale football teams OF
1919 and 1916. was received by rela-
tives at Lawrence. Mass. He was a
brother of Capt William j. Bingham,
former Harvard track captain, who
now is in France Robert Bingham
vice.
GENERAL
Ballots calling for n vote on the
question of a strike have been mailed
10 telegraph and telephone operators
belonging to the Commercial Telegra-
piers Union of America. The de-
mands which the union is making. ac-
cording to the ballot sent out, include
recognition Of the union, the right OF
F collective bargaining and an Increase
of pay.
( AT the close of n three days confer
ence at Chicago with Levy Mayer,
chief counsel for the distillers, a com.
mittee of seventy-five distillers repre-
senting the industry in every part OF
the country, announced legal action
will he taken in courts of the country
Immediately looking to multiplying or at
least delaying the enforcement, of the
nationwide wartime prohibition act
which otherwise would BECOME effec
tive July I.
Two masked bandits held up st
Louis 4 San Francisco passenger train
No. sol about two miles west of Bridge
Junction. Ark, and escaped with tive
packages containing about $4,000 in
currency, taken from the express car
When the engineer warned the robberl
he was due to pass st. Louis Il Sar
Francisco train No. l06 at the junction
according to his story they told hin
they had sent a man ahead to flag that
train to prevent a wreck.
More than 10000 Jews we're killed
or injured in the recent pogroms In
the Ukraine. according to reports re
ceived by the Zionist organization al
London.
The United States Steel Corporation
from whoses hops, laboratories and Of
fices 34.407 men went into the nation.
military service, expended more thar
S3O2, ,OOO,OO on enlargement and i'm
provement OF its main and subsidiary
plants for war purposes. and from ths
beginning of the war in 1914 delivered
to the United States and the allies 18,
439, AGO tons of steel, according to ths
corporations annual report. made pub
lie in New York.
The suggestion OF Sir Robert Baden
Powell. head of the British Boy Scouts
that the millions of Boy Scouts thru
out the world celebrate the signing OF
peace by II world-round chain OF bon
fires has been adopted by the EOy
Scouts of America, it was announce,
in New York by the national head
| Quarters of the organization. The