The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-04-25
FOREIGN

Improvement in the Punjab and the re
giOn Of Delhi.
Sixteen thousand men, women and
children died Of starvation 10 Petro
grad in December and January. Th'
total number Of deaths from all causes
in these two months is 10000.
Lieutenant Fontan. who had starte':
from villa Coublay in an aeroplane fof
Casabianca, on the west coast of Mo
rocco. MS II first step in II flight t.
Brazil. was forced to return his ma
chine to Its hangar owing to engine
trouble
American commercial interests plar
to lop off twenty-four hours on ths
New York Paris journey by financing
a railroad from vigo. just north OF
Portugal. to Arun and Hendaye. on tht
Franco Spanish border, going thence
TO Bordeaux and Paris.
The Italians have demanded re
duction OF Austria's armed force IN
compliance with the armistice but
Austria has replied that the armistic.'
was concluded with the old monarch,
and does not bind the present govern
ment OF German Austria.
Special dispatches from Korea stat.
that members of the Christian mission
at Teigonari. near Seoul, clashed with
gendarnies during riot there, the OF
ficcrs firing upon the mob, killing
twenty and woundIng many of those
engaged in the demonstration.
A revolution has broken out in Tur-
key and a soviet government has been
declared. A revolutionary committee
has been established at Constantine
pie, according to telegram received
here from kiev, quoting the Bolshevik
representative at Odessa, who says
that the Turkish consul there has re-
ceived official announcement of the
change Of government.
The Rev. Ell NJ Mowry Of Mansfield,
Ohio, Presbyterian missionary, was
found guilty at Pyeng Fang, Korea. OF
having permitted Koreans to use his
premises for disseminating prOpagan-
da for Korean independence and sen
fenced to six months Imprisonment.
The decision was appealed from by the
missionary and he was admitted to
bail.
SPORT
Eddie Fitzsimmons Of New York won
an easy victory over Charlie White, the
Chicago boxer, before the Armory Ath-
letic Association in Boston.
Mike" Gibbons of St Paul was Civ
en- decision in San Francisco over
soldier" Bartfield OF Brooklyn. The
men fought fast and their four-round
bout was close.
Carl W. A. Linder Of the Hurja A. c.
of Quincy won the Boston Athletic As
sociation twenty-five-mile marathon
run in hours, 20 minutes and 13 2-5
seconds.
The annual North and South trap
shooting tournament at Pinehurst end
ed with W. \. Boylston, Florida state
champion the winner of the 22J-target
contest, and H. A. Merson of Charlotte,
n. C., the victor in the North and
South handicap.
GENERAL
Two spectacular fires destroyed
buildings in sections of the business
district at Pittsburg, entailing a loss
of between $15O0OO and 100000.
Physicians believe temporary insan-
ity caused Ere ierick Drew, Pacific
coast representative of the Interna
tional Harvester Company, to leap to
his death from a hospital window In
Chicago.
Plans for celebrating the first ami
versary of the New York-Philadelphla
air mail service May Is contemplate
the use on regular flights the same six
planes which inaugurated the service
and which to date hase survived more
than eleven months of flying under all
sorts OF weather conditions. Lieut.. ].
C. Edgerton, chief of flying operations,
will take mail to New York in the
plane he used for the first trip from
New York to Washington.
Although blind and his only income
dimes and nickels that people toss In
lineup as he plays hand organ.
Frank Ritter of Chicago has sub
scribed to every war loan the govern
ment has Lad.
Camp Merritt, Hoboken, the main
embarkation camp during the war,
dealt with nearly 10000 cases of alb
sence without leave between April ]
last year and the signing of the arms
tice. Maj. r. A. Stone told the Amer.
lean Bar Association in connection
with the discussion Of military justice.
General Pershing's own headquarters
band, 1.-THE Pride of the A. +. F." com
all recruited from combat troops after
the armistice was signed, has arrived
in New York aboard the transport Won
Steuben to inspire stay -at-homes with