The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-16
FOREIGN

five allied powers to- try the former
kaiser, it has been learned in Paris.
The capture of 25400 prisoners is
claimed in an official statement is
sued by the soviet government at Mos
COW, giving details of the results Of
Bolshevist operations on the southern
front between Dec p and Jan. 8.
The American Red Cross spent 1885,
100000 francs in relief work in 1919,
according to a report issued from its
headquarters in Paris. Thirty million
francs of this sum were spent in Bel
GUM and the remainder on civilian
relief in France.
The revolutionary movement In Bull
garia is spreading among peasants
and working men, according to Bel
grade adyices received at Geneva.
King Boris and the royal family are
said to be secluded in the palace,
which is under heavy guard.
Whether the League of Nations is
to be the real thing or an imposture
| depends upon the attitude of the peo-
pies, and not least the British people,
in the opinion of Lord Robert Cecil,
who is chairman of the executive
committee of the League of Nations
Union.
The authorities of Barcelona, Spain,
surprised sixty-eight syndicalist work
ers' delegates, and succeeded in ar
resting all of them, although they
fired at the gendarmes. A quantity
of money, proclamations, list of EN-
ployers and other documents were
seized by the officers.
The Dutch aviator and inventor,
Fokker, who gave his services to Ger
many during the whole of the war, is
now constructing new machine capa-
Bile of carrying sixty passengers. The
machine will weight 100000 kilos,
will have six motors and make a speed
of 120 kilometers per hour.
The French steamer Malte, from
Havre and Vigo, with passengers and
cargo for Buenos Aires and Rio
Janeiro, arrived at Rio Janeiro with
five passengers dead, seven danger
ously i'll and large number of others
| suffering from an attack of influenza,
which broke out in violent form on
| the boat
Thirty million men. women and chill
dren have died in Russia from vio-
lence, famine and disease during the
last three years, according to state
ment made by Princess Cantacuzene-
| Speransky, granddaughter of Ulysses
| S. Grant, in an appeal in behalf of the
| Aerican central committee for Rus
sian relief. The tremendous death
toll was exclusive, she said, of 5,OO0,-
900 men who had been killed in the
wa-.
GENERAL
The Oregon Legislature, in special
ment to the federal constitution grant
ing suffrage to women.
| Forty-three physicians of the public
school staff have been dismissed in
Chicago by order of Commissioner of
Health John Dill Robertson. Lack of
funds was given as the reason.
Brooklyn census officials announced
that the population of the borough ex-
ceeds 2,250,OOO Their estimate is
based on the census now being taken
and which is nearly completed. The
state census in 1915 showed 1926, ,5S4-
Rembrandts portrait of Magdalena
Van Loo, wife of his son, Titus, con-
sidered by many art experts his great
est work, has been bought for $500,
600 by Frank Wood of Toronto. The
masterpiece is now on exhibition in
Toronto.
Four armed bandits who attempted
to hold up saloon in New York, were
beaten and driven off by Mrs. Ernest
Berggren, wife of the saloonkeeper.
Mrs. Berggren prevented the robbery
of ten patrons and her husbands cash
| register when the bandits started
shooting. She placed herself before
the register and fought them off one
by one One man was shot.
Thirty-five aliens ordered deported
from Detroit were sent to Ellis Island
A thousand friends and sympathizers
gave the deportees a noisy sendoff at
the station, but there was no disorder.
Jack Britton, welterweight champion
of America, will accompany Promoter
| Cochrane to England in order to ac-
cept a 1880 offer to box the winner
of the Kid Lewis-Johnny Basham
match.
Reduction of fine silver in Canadian
currency to 800 parts with 200 parts
alloy by a government order has been
| announced in Ottawa, Ont The for
mer standard was 925 fine silver and
rs alloy.
Marrying persons and justices look
for prosperous new year following
advice by Attorney General ]. j.
Blaine that 10000 Wisconsin couples
should be remarked. Blaine's adyices
followed ruling in Illinois that mar
riages contracted in that state by per
sons desiring to avoid the laws in
their own states are invalid. Wiscon-
| sins marriage laws are strict and law