The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-30
FOREIGN

TO the newspaper Hurjei Po Banay.
DIR. w. H. Solf, former foreign min
lister of Germany, has been appointed
German ambassador to Japan, accord
ing to a Toxic cable to Nippu Jilu,
Honolulu japanese language newspa-
per.
The appropriation of S20,00O,OOO for
good roads by the Dominion Parlia-
ment. presages unprecedented activity
in road making throughout Canada
during the coming year. Main high
ways and market roads will be provid-
ed In every province.
Consideration of the future constitu
tion Of Prussia has been closed by the
commission assigned to the task and
it has been decided that Prussia will
not have Il president of its own. The
head of the legislative assembly will
be ex-officio chief of the state.
The prince of Wales has set an ex-
ample by employing only ex-service
men as male servants in his new
bachelor home, York house One Of
his footmen wears a wound stripe and
the military medal; another has the
Mons star. All the men servants in
the establishment have war ribbons.
German newspapers publish a letter
from former Emperor William to
personal friend in which Count HO-
henzollern expresses his absolute dis
couragement and says he does not
wish ever to return to Germany. He
says he believes his return would
cause a split between German fac
tions.
The plight of retired Austrian Off
ficers is illustrated by an incident re-
ported from fashionable suburb OF
Vienna. A house owner was in search
of a porter and made his want known
to the officers league. Among the
applicants were major general. three
colonels, two lieutenant colonels,
seven majors and eighteen captains.
There have been serious food riots
in the Moravian cities of Stanburg,
Muglitz and Hohenstadt and troops
have been called. Workmen are de-
manding immediate requisitioning of
supplies by the army and their distri-
button under Il workmenis committee.
In the Olmutz district the authorities
have conceded this demand.
The British navy may soon be given
a new and unsurpassed weapon in
large caliber shell which Will pierce
the heaviest armor without shattering,
said Sir Robert Hadfield, chairman
and managing. director of Hadfields,
Ltd, steel manufacturers, recently.
He indicated that possession of such
a shell during the great war would
have been of inestimable value to the
British fleet
GENERAL
Women administering property in
their own right will be permitted to
vote at the first national election in
Jugo-Slavia next month, according to
an announcement made by the cabi-
net at Belgrade.
"The jazz must go; 1t is on the
wane; fashion decrees that it must
co. was the declaration of w. ]. Karn-
good of st. Louis, secretary of the
American Federation of Musicians. In
annual convention at Detroit.
Eight persons We're killed in the col
| lision of two sections of the Montreal
| Vancouver express on the Canadian
| Pacific, eleven miles east of North
Bay, according to final revised esti-
mate of casualties from the scene.
| Robert Petit, foreman in a machine
shop. living in West Allis, Wis. hit his
wife over the head with a crowbar, in
| flicting serious wounds. Petit was re-
| covering from the flu, but suffered q
| relapse. In a delirious fit he attacked
| his wife. When he saw what he had
done he shot himself, dying instantly
| Laying of the keel of Il new $500
ton passenger steamer, which will be
named the Calgary, for service between
Liverpool and Montreal and Quebec
was announced by the White Star line
The ship is under construction at Bel
fast and is expected to be ready fol
service in 1921. The vessel is designed
to carry $50 cabin and 1000 third-class
passengers.
Membership in churches of all de
nominations increased 2,T79,661 sinct
1916, according to the new year bool
| issued by the Federated Council of tht
Churches of Christ in America. The
following figures of present member
ship in the United States appear il
the book: Protestant, 25.9S0,4 ,456; Ro
man Catholic, 17,549,324; Jewish
100000 Mormon. 494,3SS; Greek
Orthodox, 119,7S1; Russian, Orthodox
99,6S1.
Several hundred ministers and lay
men representing the general synod Of
the Reformed church in the Unitet
States met at Philadelphia and dis
cussed plans for the launching of 0
financial drive in connection with the
religious campaign from April 21 tt
May ,. The drive will be conducted
exclusively among the Reformed
churches, but will be in cooperation
| with the iutarchurch movement .nf