The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-20
FOREIGN

Oncs1GN
A bill abolishing capital punishment
in Sweden will be introduced by the
government in the new Parliament
shortly.
The Danish minister of foreign al
fairs has requested the assent or Par.
lament to the proposal that denmark
join the league of nations.
Sixteen tourists We're killed and
twenty-one others injured when Il mo
tor bus fell into Il river while travel
ing along the road from Tasgia TO Trl-
ora, near San Reno. Italy.
The internationalzation Of the Dar-
danelles, which had been forecast, has
been decided upon definitely by the al
lied supreme council The details of
the control of the waterway, however,
have not been worked out.
Norman Ross, American swimmer,
won the three-quarter mile Australian
championship, covering the distance Iii
II minutes % 10 seconds. He defeated
the Australian swimmer, +. f. Beaure-
paire by five yards There We're eight
starters.
In the egg-layng competition for
1919 under the auspices of the Irish
department of agriculture ut Dublin,
BOG pullets took part and produced 90
124 eggs Gan average of $50 eggs per
pullet at an average profit of 33 shil
lings 3 pence for each fowl.
A lone bandit held up pay train going
from Waimea TO the Kekaha plantation
camp and after throwing the engineer
fireman and paymaster from the loco
motive escaped with LOCO One sus
pect has been arrested. Waimea is
about seventy miles from Honolulu.
London's underground railways trans
port 100000 passengers daily, it was
stated by Sir Albert Stanley in an adj
dress as chairman of meeting of sub
way workers. The vehicle controlled
by the roads make ii total journey ev-
cry day equal to twenty circuits of the
earth. The gross revenue each month
is 100000.
Intellectual workers in Paris have
formed federation, which has been
given recognition by labor organiza-
tions. Dramatists, engineers, scientists
teachers, artists, poets. song writer's,
journalists and dramatic experts are
eligible to membership in the fedora.
tion, which has appointed two commit
tees to draft a definite constitution
and program
A memorial to the 100000 allied sol.
diers killed in the defense of Verdun
will be erected through the combined
subscriptions of France, Great Britain
and the United States Marshal Petain
heads the committee which has just is
sued an appeal to the United States
and Great Britain to join France in
this work. The monument will stand
on Douaumont hill, which overlooks
the greater part of the verdun battle
field
GENERAL
Walter Hagen, the open golf cham
picn, and Jim Barnes, his chief pro-
fessional rival, will meet at New Or
leans in thirty-six-hole match for a
purse within few weeks.
Five auto bandits, heavily armed,
IN otlltbilN SiCdhCu oul lHt 4NeWaTh IuI
shop in Chicago, getting away with
furs valued at $4,000. Hundreds of
pedestrians We're passing by the shop
during the robbery. A similar robbery
a week ago in the same shop was
foiled by the proprietor who wounded
one of the bandits
Mayor William Hale Thompson and
Chicago captains of industry have
joined hands in support of plan to
boost Chicago to the world at an ex-
pense of $4,OOO,OO0 A million dollars
will be spent yearly for the next four
years with newspapers, magazines,
moving pictures, bill boards and otner
means of advertising.
The long-drawn-out strike which has
been in force since May at the plant
of the Willys-Overland Company at To
ledo, involving at the start 5000 work
men, has been formally called off by
the Machinists' union and the Central
Labor union. In statement labor of
ficials said conditions at the plant are
now satisfactory.
Soldiers who have served overseas
since July IL, 1919, will receive an in
crease of 20 per cent on their entire
base pay instead of on the old base pay
| used during the world war 1t is esti-
mated that from 250,000 to 100000 sol
| diers will submit claims for back pay
ment and it will require approximately
| 81 ,S00,0 600 to settle the claims
A central communist propaganda bu-
reau for the western hemisphere will
be established in Mexico, in accordance
with a resolution passed at a secret in
| ternational communist conference held
| in Amsterdam, according to the Lam
densblad The newspaper adds this
| step was taken on the initiative of an
| American delegate at the conference.
| New York sport fans are backing a
bill to be introduced in the State Leg
| islature by Assemblyman Ross, provid-
| ing for the restoration nf hoyin,r II, fho