The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29
vOREIGN

much lava, is a late report.
Announcement is made in Rome of
the Inauguration of passenger aero
plane service between that city and
Naples
The Belgian Senate has unanimously
approved the peace treaty with Ger
many. The Chamber of Deputies rati-
fled the treaty August Sth.
Mrs. Mary Lyman Burns, sister OF
the late ]. Pierpont Morgan, who died
at her London home recently, left an
estate valued at more than $3,OOO,OOO.
Toxic cable says an epidemic of
cholera is threatening Toxic. Several
cases have been reported. The infec-
ton, the cable said, was brought to
Toxic from Shanghai.
A new Zeppelin airship, on its maid
en- trip from Friedrichshafen to Berlin,
covered the 435 miles in little more
than six hours. The aircraft attained
a maximum speed of 120 kilometers
Ga little more than seventy-four and
IA half miles) an hour.
Crown Prince Charles of Rumania
has written letter to his father, King
Ferdinand, renouncing for himself and
his heirs his rights and privileges as
heir apparent to the Rumanian throne,
according to a dispatch.
The Bolshevist battleship Andrea
Pervosvan, the battle cruiser Petro-
pavlovsk, a transport and Il guardship
are reported TO have been sunk during
| an engagement with the British fleet
| in the Gulf of Finland. The British
are said to have lost three motor boats
and to have had eight officers and
| three men killed.
GENERAL
| Joseph G. Wilholt, Wichita Western
League outfielder, ended his batting
| streak in which he set a new worlds
| record by hitting safely in siXty-nine
consecutive games.
| Two bank messengers of the Fidel-
ity Trust Company were held up and
robbed of $4,000 by four masked ban
dts in Boston. The robbers made their
! escape in an automobile.
Willis E. Davis of San Francisco,
| defeated Norman E. Brookes, Austral-
ian tennis star. 1851, 14-12, i'll the
| semi-final round of the Meadow Clubs
cup mems singles at Southampton, n.
Y
The first cargo to reach New York
from Hamburg, Germany, since the en-
try of the United States into the world
war arrived on the steamship Keresan,
which brought 1S1 packages of glass
ware.
Lucy Murillo, Ii years old, of New
York City, was arrested on charge of
| homicide. She is accused of causing
| the death of her one-day-old baby by
letting it fall six stories from the win
dow of a factory.
| United States deputy marshals and
agents of the Department of Justice
at Chicago, raided downtown saloons
and cafes and arrested score of own
erS and employees, charging them with
violation of the wartime prohibition
act by selling beer and whisky since
| July 1st All those arrested were re-
leased on bond
The Irish republic mission has an
nounced the opening of headquarters
in New York to carry on the work OF
floating the $40, 100000 Irish republic
bond issue to be undertaken by the
American commission on Irish indie
pendenee under the craftsmanship oi
Frank P. Walsh
Walter Elliott, a negro, who is al
legged to have assaulted farmers
wife, was shot to death by mob
which later carried the body to the
scene of the crime and swung it to
tree in country churchyard. The
mob took the negro from Sheriff
Kearney, two miles from Louisburg
N. c., while on his way to the jail.
Seven of the Mexican bandits who
robbed sailors from the United States
cruiser Cheyenne off Tampico last
month have been apprehended and put
to death by the Carranza authorities
according to an official report from
General Pueblo Gonzales to Mexican
Consul Meade Fierro at Galveston
The report states the bandits had prop
erty of the sailors in their possession
Wearing the French war cross will
two palms, Marie Gondier, a 21-year
old Belgian girl, who was once con
demned by the Germans to be shot as
spy, arrived in New York from
France on the steamship La Lorraine
to become an American citizen through
adoption.
The Third Division of the American
army, one of the last divisions to leave
French soil, has subscribed S31, 900 fol
two monuments to be erected on the
flanks of the approach to the Marine
bridge which its Seventh Machine Gun
Battalion dynamited in defending the
crossing against the great German of
fensive in the spring of 1918, it was
announced by Maj. Gen. Robert L.
| Howe, division commander.
| A reward of $1,000 for the apprehen
sion of Paul J. B. Haverly, grand
| keeper of records and seal of the
knights of Pythias Grand Lodge OF
Illinois, missing since Aug. 8, was an
nounced by Smith L. Won Fossen OF
Beardstown, H., grand chancellor OF
1 the lodge who stated that q shortage
| of more than $4,000 had been found