The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-06
FOREIGN

explosion near Prague.
Thousands were rendered homeless
by typhoon which, accompanied BY
torrential rains, swept the Island Of
Luzon, p: l.
Brigadier General Lucas, who was
kidnapped by Sim Feiners from
hunting lodge boarded military lor-
ry and escaped
Armistice negotiations between the
Poles and the Bolshevists have been
broken off and Polish delegates have
returned to Warsaw.
DR.. b. Porras, candidate of the Lib
eral Conservative party, was elected
president of the Republic of Panama.
His opponent in the campaign was DR..
| Ciero Urriola.
Archbishop Daniel ]. Mannix Of Mel
bourne, Australia, will not be allowed
to land in England because of his re-
cent utterances, Premier Lloyd George
has announced in the House of Com
MONS
| About fifty American women and
children have left Warsaw recently.
The only women remaining are well
fare workers, who have been assured
of transportation should the capital be
directly menaced by the Bolshevists.
Explosion of bomb in Il window of
st. Filipe's Catholic Church at Havana,
while Il service was in progress, re-
suited in the death of one woman and
slight injuries to few other persons
The one victims death was due to
fright. Only slight damage was done
to the church.
Twenty-Five persons We're killed and
fifty-seven were wounded in fighting
in Ireland during July, Premier Lloyd
George declared in the House of Com
mons The killed were fifteen police
men, four soldiers and three civilians
Wounded were thirty policemen, TWEEN
ty-twO soldiers and five civilians
The king received John H. Fahey,
former president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, accompanied
by A. b. Dennis, American commercial
attache at Rome, in an audience at the
Quirinal palace. The informal conver-
sation, lasting half hour, had the as
pect of talk any business man in
Italy would have with two American
business men.
Grave statements concerning Italys
food position We're made in the cham
ber by Signor Soleri, the food COM
missioner. The harvest was disap-
pointing, he reported, and despite re-
questioning there would be only
twelve instead of the 100000 quin-
tails of wheat it had been hoped to OBJ
tain. To meet the needs of the popu-
lation. the commissioner explained,
Italy would be required to purchase
broad about 30,OO0,OOO quintals.
GENERAL
Fire swept, through the warehouses;
of the Appalachian Corporation at New
Orleans. destroying sisal and other
merchandise to the value of more than
S1,OO0,OOO
ResOlute captured the fifth race be-
tween the defender and the challenger
Shamrock w., in their contest for the
Americas cup, and thereby the cup re-
mains in America.
Fire Chief John Healy of Denver,
was elected unanimously president of
the International Association of Fire
Chiefs at the concluding session of the
convention at Toronto.
| The Kentucky state wool pool, in
Guiding more than 100000 pounds
from many countries in the state, will
be stored in warehouses here until the
market breaks favorably for the grow
ers.
CASTOR Chevrolet set new worlds
record for 100 miles over a dirt track
at Columbus. Ohio. when he covered
the century without a stop in 80 min
utes and % seconds. He drove the
same Frontenac car with which he
won the $4,000 Indianapolis Decora-
ton day race The former record Of 81
minutes and 80 seconds was set by
Tom Alley at Minneapolis in 1914
dead or. alive, was declared by the city
of Philadelphia in connection with
movement by health officials to pre-
vent the entrance of bubonic plague to
that city.
| Phillip Nisseman, "a years old a con-
vict in the state prison at Auburn, N
Y. was murdered in the prison yard
by fellow inmates following series
of fights in which several convicts
participated.
Whisky will be one of the hardest
things in the world to buy in New
York before another month elapses,
according to John f. Kramer, United
States commissioner of DrOhjbition
who arrived from Washington to per-
socially discover if liquor can be
bought here as easily as reported.
| Sensation followed sensation in the
unprecedented career of Charles Ponzi
of Boston, variously known as the 80
per cent interest king" and the post
age stamp king of Pie alley" who
| claims to have made $12.000,000 in
few months by manipulation of for