The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-27
FOREIGN

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been adopted by the Leitrim county
council.
Ten million pesos of the 11,0OO,O00
carried off during the flight of Car
rama from Mexico City, have been re-
covered, according to a statement by
the treasury department of Mexico.
An official list of imports and ex-
ports from Jan. / to July 81, 1920,
shows increases of 2,73S, ,5O2, 900 francs
in imports and 1920, ,22s, 900 francs in
exports over the same period last year
in France.
China is confronted with serious
situation as a result of the retirement
in Siberia of between $4,000 and 10000
Semenoff and Kappel anti-Bolshevist
troops eastward toward. the Manchu-
ian frontier.
Andreas Zorn, the Swedish painter,
died in Stockholm. He visited the
United States in 1911. He was a con-
tributor to the fund to enable Swedish
scientists to pursue their studies in the
United States.
| The Swiss police have taken meas
ures to protect the British premier,
David Lloyd George, declaring they
have discovered a plot against his life.
The police claim to have the plotters
under supervision in Geneva.
Fourteen oil workers were drowned
in the Panuco river at Tampico, Mex
leo, when the foreman at the wheel
lnf lirbtar or, vrbioh tl,or xuora oxyaI
ing made a sudden maneuver to avoid
collision with another boat.
More than $50 separate forest fires
in the district south of the Campbell
river in British Columbia have been
reported within the past few days.
The Still Water districts are said to
be a vast sea of flames.
Gen. Eugenio Martinez, who re-
ceived the surrender of Francisco
Villas forces, has been appointed
chief of operations in the states of
Chihuahua and Durango and the La
guina region, it was announced at the
war department at Mexico City.
Polish emigrants for America to the
number of 75O have been stopped by
the Danzig authorities on the Polish
frontier on the pretense that many of
them are of military age and might be
used in the warfare against the Bolshe-
visits, according to Berlin dispatch to
the London Times.
According to Ell Heraldo, President
de la Huerta has announced that no
condition for the recognition of the
Mexican government have been i'm
posed by the United States or France.
"The Mexican government" he ia
quoted as saying, sis giving all guar
antees to foreign countries and not
seeking to break promises with foreign
countries, and it does not believe for
eign nations have any reason to i'm
pose conditions belittling cur signify"
GENERAL Ts
The Pennsylvania state highway de-
partment is erecting standard scales
at various points along the main high
ways for testing overweights of trucks.
Every indication points toward
total motor registration in the United
States by 1925 of double the present
figures-or 100000 passenger cars
and trucks.
Richard ]. Foran, who survived the
world war with twenty-five wounds
while a member of the 309th machine
gun battalion, was killed by lightning
at Paterson, N. ].
Erwin G. Bergdoll of Philadelphia,
has been found guilty of desertion from
the draft and sentenced to four years
hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, it was
announced at Governors Island.
Explosive Trades, Limited, of Lon
don, has acquired $25,000,000 interest
in the General Motors Corporation of
America, according to advices received
today from London by the department
of commerce. The British company is
one of the largest trading concerns in
Europe.
George Griffin, millionaire Chicago
sportsman, who died recently in Cali
fornia, left an estate valued at 81 800
900, including $4,000 worth of liquor.
it was learned when an inventory was
filed in Chicago.
Two thirsty burglars entered the
local church at Middleton, N. Y, and,
after opening the cupboard where the
sacramental wine is stored, drank
themselves to sleep. The sexton found
them snoring on the altar steps.
Marshal Foch will visit the United
States when the European situation
permits, he told Supreme Knight James
A. Flaherty, in response to formal in
vitation, extended by Mr. Flaherty at
a banquet at Metz.
The five Socialist assemblymen of
New York who were ousted from the
State Legislature have been renomi-
mated and will fight for reelection at
the special elections September 18th.
1t has been announced by the county
committee of the Socialist party. The
committee of forty-eight will support
the Socialist ticket in the districts rep
resented by the ousted assemblymen.
6prIared Juli1S Cprbar caaratorx,