The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-01
FOREIGN

regular a1rplane service between
Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen will be-
gin this summer French machines
will be used.
Demolition of the forts of Helgoland,
once Germany's "Gibraltar in the
North Sea-" is under way In few
days no Notifications will be left.
The Third division of the American
army has been ordered home from the
occupied area of Germany. 1t will be-
gin entraining for Brest Aug. 5.
The Hungarian soviet troops have
been thrown back in disorder across
the Thesis river by the Rumanians, at
Szolnok and other points. according to
reports.
Socialist motions to hasten the bill
establishing a state tribunal to investl-
gate the cause of the war and the guilt
for it, has passed the national assem-
bly, at Weimar.
Premier Nitti of Italy is organizing
a new mission to the United States. Its
purpose will be to present Italy's finan-
cial and Industrial needs, the establish
ment Of credit. and the facilitation of
exports and imports.
The Polish advance into Galicia was
made so rapidly that the Ukrainians
had no time to destroy the railways or
bridges as they retired. The Poles, ac
cording to this announcement, took g.
800 prisoners and forty-one guns as
well as vast quantities Of munitions.
An American loan of 100000, 900 has
been obtained by Martin Nordegg, rep
| resenting the Deutsche Bank of Berlin,
| according to an exchange telegraph
| dispatch from Berlin 1t was said 10
| per cent of the loan would be deposited
in foreign bonds to the German banks
credit.
The Philippine legislature purposes
| the enactment of a prohibition meas
ure for the islands in the event it is
held that the national prohibition
amendment recently ratified in the
| United States does not apply to the
| Philippines. This announcement was
made by legislative leaders. The pro-
posed measure, it was said would be
an exact copy of the act Of the Amer
lean government.
SPORT
Leo Houck of Seattle and Young
Cyclone" Brown of San Francisco
fought ten rounds to draw at Phoe-
nix. They are lightweights.
Frank Barrieu of San Francisco was
given the decision after twelveround
boxing match at Boise, Ida, with Al
| al oad
from the army.
Tommy Carter, lightweight champion
of the Southern department, United
States army, won the decision over
Otto Wallace of Milwaukee in a fif-
teen-round bout staged at Fort Bliss
The fight was fast all the way and the
: decision a close one.
} GENERAL
Both houses of the Arkansas Legis
i lature ratified the federal woman suf
frage amendment. Arkansas is tn,
twelfth state to ratify the proposed
amendment.
Thirteen thousand ounces of plat
f mum have been sold by the ordnance
e department of the army, 1t was an
nounced in New York. The mnera
e sold at $105 an ounce.
: Four persons were killed and four
l. teen injured in a head-on street ca
l. collision on the outskirts of Minneapc
= lis. The motorman on one of the ear
was among those killed.
J. William II. Recap, sports writer
It has brought suit against George l
S (Tex) Rickard to recover $1,000 dan
e ages for alleged SANDER and defama
IL ton of character The action is base
d on a statement said to have been mad
e by Richard on July 5, the day afte
II the Willard-Dempsey fight which Rick
ard promoted
e Gustav Pabst, president of the Pabs
Y, Brewing Company, has purchased 70
l. the company securities of the compan
# with a par value of S2.SS9,9OO, tn
property of alien enemies sold at aut
d tion by the government, for S1,476,91'
II Less than one-half of 1 per cent q
e the American soldiers who died on tn
It battlefields of France were buried III
Identified, according to Col Joseph s
r. Heron of Cincinnati, commander @
r. the $4,000 troops who inferred the fal
u en- Americans.
it Jack Britton of Chicago, weltel
Il weight boxing champion, and Mix
Y O'Dowd of st. Paul, the middleweigt
title holder, will meet in an eigh
+. round contest at Newark, N. j., Au,
+ %. The men are to weigh in at Is
II pounds.
It The death of Patrick Cudahy, mi
l. lionaire packer of Milwaukee, brothe
:, of Edward A. Cudahy president of tn
II Cudahy Packing Company, one of tn
d five great packing firms of Chicago
o removed the third of the Cudahy brt
f Tiers whose rise to great wealth an
: influence made one of the remarkabl
: chapters of the history of Wester
business.
& The War DeDartment has sold to tn