The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-23
FOREIGN


cavalrymen in the Crimea, according
to news dispatch from Constanti-
nople.
Peasant scythemen of Modlin. re
viving the traditions of the scythe-
men of Kosciuszko, who fought the
Russians in 1874, marched thru War
saw en- route to Poland's eastern from
tier to take stand against posi-
BILE invasion of the bolsheviki
France will carry out her agree
ment with Great Britain to furnish
armed support to Poland in event eff
forts to effect pacific solution OF
differences between Poland and soviet
Russia fail, Premier Afillerand told
the Chamber of Deputies in Paris.
The Greek patriarch reports that
Fouladjik, a Greek village with pop
ulation of 1900, was virtually wipef-
out by Turkish Nationalists July Is
The Greeks were shut up inside
church, which was set on fire. Th
patriarch reports that there are onl.'
$50 Greeks alive in the village.
Schumann, characterized by the Nos
Siche Zeitung as one of the crueies
and bloodiest murderers of all time
has been sentenced to death by Il iur
in the Court of Assizes ut Berlin. Th
jury found him guilty of six murder,
eleven attempted murders and nun
ber of other atrocities.
A war office statement says ii
..f L.,
tilities in the western part of trans
baikalia was signed July IL betwee
the Japanese and the Eerkhne L dinsk
government pending complttiOn of ne
government pending completion of ne
sian and Japanese committees in 81
IBERIA.
Sweeping reforms in the tariffs
charged by railways, especially freight
rates, are being made by the secretary
of communications and public works,
says the Excelsior of Mexico. Changes
in the rates will be made after a con-
ference with all interests involved, the
department having adopted methods
pursued by the United States Inter
state Commerce Commission.
A silencer for airpIane engines, more
highly developed than an automobile
is announced by a Swiss air.
plane firm as the invention of its CHIEF
engineer The first public demOnstra-
tion of the device is to be made on the
air service 1t is assert
ed the noise of the motor is completely
silenced and that the invention is Of
great Importance from a military point
of view.
GENERAL
A large consignment of liquor founo
on board steamer bound for New Or
leans was seized by the customs au
thorities at Kingston, Jamaica.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of former
President William Howard Taft, has
been married at Murray Bay to Fred
erick johnson Manning, instructor il.
history at Yale University.
Decrease of 100000 900 pounds in the
country's meat production for the last
six months as compared with last yeai
has been reported by the Institute o.
American Meat Packers.
Three armed bandits held up the
cashier of the Borden Condensed Milk
Company today in front of the com
pany's office on the West Side. in New
York and escaped with $4,000 in cash
DR.. Jules Hammer, Bronx physician
convicted of manslaughter in the first
degree for having performed an al
legged unnecessary operation on q
woman, was sentenced to serve moi
less than three years and six months
and not more than fifteen years il
state prison
Inadequate and inefficient transpor
tation not only is costing American
farmers hundreds of thousands of dol
lars daily, but may cause Il reduction
of wheat acreage next year and in
creased prices of breadstuffs. accord
ing to J. X. Howard, president of tn.
Farm Bureau Federation.
A 10 per cent reduction in the work
ing force of the Pennsylvania railroad
will be made shortly. it has been an
nounced at the company's office ii
Philadelphia In the Eastern region
alone, which takes in the territory easi
of Altoona, between 1000 and 1900
workers will be laid off, it was stated
Richmond, Va. William Turner
negro, was convicted in Federal Court
here for the murder of T. Morgan
Moore of Washington, who was shot
TO death two months ago near that city
while motoring with Miss Pearl CLARK
of Chicago, secretary to Representative
Britten of Illinois. The shooting took
place on government property and Miss
Clark was the principal witness. The
verdict carries death penalty.
Six hundred million dollars was
added to the pay envelope of the ma.
TONS 100000 railway workers in the
first award handed down by the new
United States railway labor board at
Chicago. Rejecting the demands OF
the organized rail unions for increases
totaling approximately one billion dol.
lars, the board decided approximately
60 per cent of that sum would be a