The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-03-19
FOREIGN

- SdpplllIc eight INCHES long uHu
weighing more than five pounds Is re-
ported to have been found at Mogok,
India. by Burmese. Its value Is es-
timated at between $175 900 and $3.50,
600.
japanese children no longer have to
learn 5000 alphabetie characters be-
fore they are able to read and write.
School kids are joyful The number
has been reduced to 1900 by govern
ment decree.
The movement recently launched in
Toxic by university students for uni
all parts Of the country and to Korea
and Manchuria rs well, according to
advices received.
Harry Pilcer, former dancing part
ner for Gaby Delys, has announced
that he intends to devote the legacy
to the construction of mammoth
dance palace as memorial to her in
Paris.
Troops marching through the nortli-
ern suburbs of Berlin and carrying an
old flag Mt the head of their column,
for the purpose of exciting enthusiasm
and winning followers for the new gov
ernment, Were savagely attacked by a
great crowd of workmen.
A revolt has broken out among sew
eral units of the Japanese troops in
Siberia, according to a wireless dis
patch sent out by the soviet govern
ment at Moscow. The soldiers ripped
off their shoulder straps and substi-
tuted red straps, the dispatch says.
There has been much feasting and
other celebrating within the quarters
of the former crown prince at Wierin-
gen, Holland, since the news Of the
new developments in Germany began
to reach Wieringen. William is report
ed to regard the situation joyfully. but
Is said to have assured the burgomas
ter that he will not attempt to leave
Holland.
President DeschaneI of France is adj
vertisng for first-cass chef. 1t has
been revealed that the former famous
cook at the Elysee palace was dis
charged by EXPIRES. Poincare because
he was TOO expensive and was replaced
by a second rate "maitre d'cuisne."
who was able to prepare simple meals
ut Il minimum cost. NJ. Deschanel,
own right, purposes TO spare no ex-
pense to make the palace menus the
most exquisite in the land
GENERAL
The estate of Harris G. Fahnestock.
banker who died in June, 1914, is val
ued at S17, ,775.66I, according to an ac-
counting filed in New York with Sur
rogate james \. Foley. by executors of
the estate.
Gold coin, valued ntr approximately
$40, 100000. was taken from the sub
treasury at New York for shipment 10
South America. chiefly for the Argen-
tine. This makes total outflow of
about S57 100000 to that country this
year
Two inmates of Clinton prison at
Dannemora have died, five have gone
| totally blind and twenty-five are vic
| tins of partial loss of vision as the re-
| suit of the outbreak of some mysteri-
Gus malady which is battling state of
ficials and medical men.
| Trade winds, sweeping from west IL
east at 100 to 300 miles an hour, were
discovered at 10000 feet by Major Ru
dolph W. Schroeder, army test pilot
Mt Dayton, Ohio, before he fell approx
imately five miles and landed without
crashing after establishing an altitude
record of 36,020 feet in a recent flight
Salaries of the teaching staff at Har
ward will he advanced from 40 to 81
per cent Sept. l. President Lowell an
nounced to the faculty that the results
of the Harvard endowment fund cam
paign had enabled the governing boart
of the university to draw up new
| scale of salaries.
The Kentucky Senate passed the
| bill granting presidential suffrage t,
women in Kentucky, thereby opening
the way for equal suffrage in tht
South. The House already has passed
the measure.
The American Red Cross announced
at Washington AN appropriation o
$4,000 from the national children''
| fund for Junior Red Cross activities
among the children of the Virgin isl
ands The fund will be used chiefly il
| furnishing educational equipment.
Mrs. Charlotte Stock, 80, is dead a!
| the result of d fall on an lev Sidewall
| at Three Rivers, Mich. Had she livet
| until April % she would have been Ion
years old. The death of her husband
in the Battle of the Wilderness left he
with family Of eleven small children
| all of whom are still living.
Roy L. DAILY, who is in charge o
prohibition enforcement in the Phila
delphia district, has written to Wash
ington for ruling on the question
| whether champagne shall be used TO
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