The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-07-25
FOREIGN

The Silesian News reports the Ger
man government has finally agreed
that Upper Silesia shall become free
state. The inhabitants of Upper 81
lesia, 1t is added, are still demanding
that the district remain German.
Lady Diana Manners Cooper, while
watching the display of fireworks in
Hyde Park from the roof of her house
in London, accidentally stepped into a
skylight and fell twenty feet, break
ing thigh and suffering other injur-
les.
Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight
champion, will meet either Joe Beck
ett, British champion, or Georges Car
pentier, European champion, In Lon
dan early in 1920, according to an an
nouncement in London by Promoter G..
B. Cochran.
A Helsingfors dispatch to London
gives refugee from Petrograd as au-
thority for the statement that the
Bolsheviki are offering quarter Of a
million dollars for the assassination of
Gen. Justus Mannerheim, the Finnish
regent, with the object of paralyzing
Finnish resistance.
Gen. Franchet D'Esperey, command
er Of the allied forces In the Near
East, announces that he is preparing
to advance upon Budapest, the Hun
garian capital, with 10000 troops.
The army is made up of French col
onials, Rumanians, Jugo-Slavs, Ital-
ians and Hungarians.
Four million children in Europe are
being fed under the auspices of the
American relief administration. This
work probably will be continued
through private charity and under
American direction, even after the con-
clusion of the work of the American
food administration in Europe.
Replying to question in the House
of Commons, DIR. Frederick G. Kella-
way, parliamentary secretary to the
ministry of supply, said the govern
ment was considering co-ordinating all
the sources Of oil supply within the
empire with view to preventing es-
tablishment of world oil monopoly by
financiers
The work of recovering stolen Bel
gian machinery from Germany Is pro-
ceeding with full swing. Approximate
ly 5000 tons of machinery are being
shipped back weekly to the original
owners by German industrial firms.
who have set them up in their own
factories. The total tonnage returned
on July LIST was $4,000.
SPORT
Miss Ryan of California won the
Irish ladies' lawn tennis champion
ship" at Dublin from Janet Jackson,
.he English representative The score
was go, 81.
Norman Ross of San Francisco,
| United States army, won the swim
| ming match in the Seine across Paris,
distance of about $500 meters, in
| one hour and thirty minutes. Bacigal-
upo, Italian, was only four-fifths of q
| second behind Ross. Morris, Austral
ian, was third An immense crowd
| lined both banks of the Seine and gave
evidence of the popularity of Ross, al
| a consequence of his victories durinf
the interallied games, by heartily
cheering him.
GENERAL
| James A. Hart, one of the pioneer
of baseball and former president ant
owner of the Chicago National League
club, died at his home in Chicago. Mr.
Hart, who was GA years old, had beer
in failing health for several years
| Death was caused by organic hear
disease. He is survived by a widow
and two children.
Twelve hundred sacks of mail TO
Germany, the first to be sent to tina
country since the United States en-
tered the war, We're carried by tn,
andinavian-American line steamship
United States, which sailed from New
York for Copenhagen. From Denmark
the mail will be sent overland to Ger
many.
Chicago's weirdeA tragedy occurred
when giant dirigible balloon, tn.
first army style blimp to visit the city
caught fire and hurtled through tn,
skylight of the Illinois Trust and Saw
ings Bank, killing u persons, injurini
twenty-eight and turning the countinj
room of the bank into a charnel hous'
of horror.
More than 1000 airplanes of th
pleasure type could be sold immediate
ly if manufacturers could make deliv
cries and more than 800 have beei
purchased or ordered in the Unite'
! States in the last three months, ac
cording to statement issued by Hen
ry WoodhOuse, vice president of til,
Aerial League of America.
The high cost of travelling has beel
solved by Mrs. ]. NJ. Franklin, youn
graduate nurse of Seattle, Wash. Sh
is in New York after making the trans
continental trip at a cost Of $23. Th
trip was made as the result of $500
wager. She walked 432 miles, the res
of the way being covered on hay wag
ons, side cars of motorcycles, mul