The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-10
FOREIGN

An attempt has been made to as
sassinate Mustapha Kemal Pasha,
leader of the Turkish Nauonalfsts.
near Tokat, town fifty-eight miles
northwest of Sivas, according to an
unconfirmed report.
1t is reported in diplomatic circles in
Berlin that negotiations regarding the
new ambassador to Italy from Ger
many have begun. 1t Is limited that
Won Buelow, who is a friend of Giolit-
ii, could have the position, should he
care to re-enter public life.
Five school children We're killed and
more than dozen seriously injured
at Paris when an aviator, doing trick
flying, crashed into the Mont Rouge
schoolyard. The mechanic also was
KILLED and the pilot was injured. -Four
of the children were cut to pieces by
the propellers.
A new journal, with policy Of open
opposition to the league Of nations,
will attempt publication in Geneva In
November, when the first meeting OF
the league is to be held at Geneva.
The projected publication is sponsored
by intellectuals of various countries
who are against the treaty Of Yer
sailles.
The Austrian Supreme Court has re-
jected Hungary's demand for the extra
dition Of communists wanted in con-
nection with the Hungarian dictator
ship of Bella Kun. The court ruled that
the acts which the communists are al
legged to have committed were a part
of the legitimate discharge of their
governmental functions.
An order rendered at Toronto, Ont.
by Justice Middleton approves the ac-
ticn of r. Homer Smith, receiver for
the Mexican Northwestern Railway,
Limited, in filing a claim for $1,000, ,000
gold against the Mexican government
for alleged damages suffered by the
road during revolutionary disturb
ances. The claim was filed by the com
mission appointed by decree of the
Mexican government in 1917. Smith
WIS appointed receiver for the road in
1914, in an action by certain bondhold-
ers to enforce a mortgage.
GENERAL
Six persons were killed, an equal
number probably fatally injured and
many others more or less seriously hurt
in a street car accident near Fairmont,
w. Va.
No more good Samaritan stuff for
Richard Oracle of Lorain, Ohio. He
stopped his machine to give a tired"
man ride and was promptly tied to
a tree and robbed of $500.
Three men were killed at Clinton,
Ind, by a gas explosion in the SUBJ
marine mine while they were feeding
the mine mules about 200 feet from
the hoist The bodies were recovered.
Seventeen mules were killed.
The fast mail plane bound from
New York to Cleveland and Chicago,
caught fire over Morristown, N. j.,
plunged to the ground and there ex-
ploded, instantly killing Max Miller,
pilot, and Gustav Rierson, mecha-
nician.
Forty thousand dollars-including a
$4,000 bill and more than $4,000 in
jewelry-was stolen in a ten-minute
daylight robbery by two gunmen, who
beat Philip S. Smith. wealthy mer.
chant, into insensibility in his office in
New York.
Miss Marion G. Parsons, an Amer.
lean Red Cross nurse of Berkeley
Calf, has been appointed by the
Czecho-Slova Red Cross to be direc.
tor of the state school of nursing, ac'
cording to advices. 1t was stated she
will remain in Prague for two years
National organization Of Americans
who served in the armies of Greai
Britain in the world war was perfected
by delegates attending the convention
of the veterans at st. Louis. "The
American Veterans ofBritish and Can
adian Forces" was selected as the
name of the organization.
Samuel Lehman, well-known musi
cal conductor and author of Every
body Works but Father" was killed
in New York by an automobile. Leh
man was 80 years old and brother Of
Assistant District Attorney Alexander
Lehman. The driver of the car wa.
held on a manslaughter charge.
| Declaring that it was not their in
tention to fight union labor, but t
''stop union domination" of theil
plants, seven of the largest shipbuild
ing plants and ship repair plants oi
Mobile have announced an "open shop
policy. The company officials in {
public notice announced that all unior
men in their employ desiring to remain
would be kept at work.
Columbus, Neb.-Work of copying
the longest mortgage ever recorded In
Nebraska made to enable the issuance
of bonds which will mature May 1
2037, was just completed at the court
house at Columbus. The mortgage Is
against the Chicago, Burlington &
| Quincy railroads property in the state
and in favor of the Farmers Loan
and D'y,1St Cpmnnnu of Noxy Vor1y