The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-13
FOREIGN


a few months.
Seven million dollars WAS appropri-
ated for public works by the Philip
pine Legislature, which has adjourned
| its regular session. An extra session
has been called for Feb. %.
The French government is deter
mined to maintain Il reserve of air.
plane pilots. Several flying schools
have been approved to which are to
be sent each year Il large number of
student-fliers.
An illiterate Austrian earned S5..j21
in Canada during a single year of the
war, as laborer at the Welland steel
foundries, 1t was learned at st. Cath
arines, when Mike Ennis was fined
for making false income tax return.
The two aeroplanes belonging to
the South African government which
are attempting a flight from London to
CapetOwn crossed the Mediterranean
in fourteen hours. This is said to be
the first nonstop flight over the Medi-
terranean.
Damage to the amount of $1,000,OOU
was caused at Manila, p. l., when fire
destroyed half the buildings of the
Philippine Carnival Exposition and the
island exhibits they contained. Many
of the exhibits were irreplacable and
the loss is serious.
The council of ambassadors at Paris
has refused the German-Austrian re-
quest that they be allowed to create
department of aerial police. The
council took the ground that creation
of such body would be contrary to
the treaty of Versailles
Fifty men who escaped from a
train taking 1,500 Polish prisoners of
war back to their land from France
have claimed sanctuary on Swiss soil,
asserting they were really Germans.
They declared that when captured
treatment in France and asked to be
transported to Germany.
Enrique Tirabosch. an Italian
swimmer, broke the worlds INNER
sion record when he swan the River
Plat, crossing from Colonia, on the
VI US ytb 'OdSts llOii NhiNh POihe
he started, to within five kilometers
of Buenos Aires. The distance is over
thirty-two miles. but the swimmer was
forced to breast strong currents.
Announcement of the death of Fe-
dor Ivanovitch Katlinin, one of the
soviet government, commissioner of
education and president of the central
committee of proletarian culture, Is
made in Il wireless dispatch from Mos
cow He had an adventurous career,
suffering exile and Imprisonment at
various times.
GENERAL
A gift of SG3,0OO by A. Barton Hep1
burn of New York to Middlebury Coll
lege for the encouragement of major
athletics has been announced by
President John NJ Thomas.
Henry Edward Clement, for twenty
five years editor-in-chief of the Boston
Evening Transcript, died of heart dis
ease at his home in Concord, in his
77th year He retired in 1906.
II our DtISOHS WCIC anu SCN
eral injured at Lexington, KY, when
mob intent upon lynching William
Lockett, a negro, who confessed to
the murder of 10-year-old Geneva
Hardman, charged the court house
during Lockett's trial and was fired
upon by police and state troops.
The total output of the meat pack
Ing industry in the United States for
1919 was estimated ut more than $5,-
| OOO. .OOO, 600, in a statement given out
by the Institute of American Meat
Packers. The estimate was based on
annual reports of more than 800 pack
| ing companies which operate under
federal inspection. Profit throughout
the industry averaged not more than
liz cents on each dollar of sales, the
report estimated.
A shortage of 10000 trained nurses
| exists in the United States, according
| to the National Organization for Pub
| lie Health Nursing. The organiza-
tion has started a campaign in the
hope of enrolling 10000 young wom-
en- workers.
On his way to court to face charge
of picking pockets, Nathan Palestine
broke away from n policeman at an
elevated station in New York and,
leaping down on the tracks lay down
with his neck across the rail. An on
coming train severed his head.
Consumption of wool in December
| increased from 2S,000,000 pounds to
GA, 100000 pounds, the monthly report
of the Bureau of Markets showed.
| There was continued demand for
| fabrics made from the finer grades of
wool, 81 per cent of the total consump-
| ton being of the fine grades.
| The woman's suffrage amendment
has been ratified by the state of New
Jersey when the assembly. by a vote
of 81 to "a, passed the Senate ratifi-
cation measure following an all-night