The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
FOREIGN

Vera Cruz be re0pened Tor rail and
ship traffic.
Tens of thousands of rats which in
fest Paita, Peru, have caused the Pc
ruvian government to order the town
destroyed and rebuilt in a rat-proof
manner. Yellow fever is raging in
some districts Of Peru.
Private advices from Danzig predict
that Great Britain will in all probable
lity be forced to proclaim a state of
siege over the territory of the free
city should the soviet army threaten
to enter the Polish corridor
The Polish general staff has defin-
itely rejected the offer of General Wey-
gand of the French army to take COM
mand of The Polish army If granted
full authority. according to report
from the Anglo-French mission in
Warsaw.
| The American motorboat Miss Amer
lea, owned by Garfield A. Wood of De-
| troit and representing the Detroit
Yacht Club. won the first race for the
Harmsworth trophy, the international
motorboat prize, contested in the So
lent off the Isle Of Wight
Lower California is in state of
blockade, the Mexican government
proclaimed. Instructions were for
warded to Iglesias Calderon, Mexican
representative at Washington, to ad-
wise the State Department that the
ports of Lower California were closed.
Brigands who have terrorized the
upper reaches of the Yangtsze river
in recent months found sudden check
put upon their activities when Ameri-
can and British gunboats were dis
patched into the upper river from
Shanghai, according to reports from
Shanghai.
Dr.SWalter Simons, minister of for
eign affairs, in an interview in Berlin
says Germany is prepared to resume
diplomatic relations with Russia when
satisfaction is given for the assassina-
tion of General Count Won Mirbach,
German ambassador to Russia, in Mos
COW, in 1918.
The lives of eight persons, including
four children, living in a two-family
house In the Brownsville district, were
saved by the heroism of Samuel Fein,
Is, who fought his way thru flames
and smoke to rescue others who wesS
sleeping in the house. He carried four
children thru flame and smoke to
safety, and aroused four other persons,
including his parents.
The first new railroad line built by
Poland since the armistice was form
ally opened for traffic recently, the
line saving seventy kilometers between
Warsaw and PoZnan, the two largest
cities in the new republic. Completion
of this line connects more intimately
the people of Congress Poland with
the residents of the Poznan district,
| for generations under German rule.
GENERAL
Two persons are known to have been
killed, five missing and a number re-
ported injured in n wreck of a car
| nival train on the Lexington division
of the Chesapeake & Ohio, near Ash
land, KY.
A national convention of postmasters
will be held in Cincinnati Sept. S-1I,
according to announcement of Post
master Colin NJ. Selph, president of the
National Association of Postmasters.
The national gathering will supplant
the tri-state conventions this year, he
said.
Announcement was made at New
York that new unofficial record for
a transcontinental automobile trip was
established when five-passenger tour
ing car carrying United States mail
from San Francisco to New York ar
rived in New York after a run of four
days, IA hours and 43 minutes.
The railway labor board at Chicago
handed down a decision increasing
wages of employees of the American
Railway Express Company $300O0,O00
yearly. Eighty thousand men not pro
vided for by the recent $600,0OO,0OO
railway wage award are affected. The
award is retroactive to May L, 1920.
West Frankfort, ILL.,, has settled
down to its normal life again. The
men have gone back to the mines
!, which will resume operations without
the scores of Italians who have fled
from this district.
With the bodies of 1,575 American
soldiers in caskets below her deck and
fifty-two living. khaki-clad men serv-
ing as attendants, the United States
army transport Antogone arrived In
New York from Danzig, Antwerp
n Brest and Bordeaux. The soldier dead
were landed at the army piers, where
preparations to forward the bodies tc
their last resting place in "home ceme
teries," were made
Five sailors were severely wounded
and a score of men received minor in
) juries in battle at Revere Beach
, Revere, Mass, between Metropolitan
park police, whe were barricaded in
the police station and several hundred
attacking sailors, marines and soldiers
The battle, precipitated by the at
tempt of police officer to arrest a
sailor on charge of drunkenness,
ragged two hours and was only quelled
when troops sailors and police from