The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-02
FOREIGN

| Sir William Osler, noted physician,
who has been ill for several weeks, Is
dead at Oxford, England
Mrs. Gwyneph Marjory Thomson will
| be the first woman barrister in the
| United Kingdom. Her application for
admission as student for the bar was
accepted by the Benchers of Lincolns
Inn i'll London.
| News has been received in London of
| the discovery of sixty-mile ridge of
| gold near KaIgoorlie, in western Aus
| tralia. 1t is the longest gold-bearing
| formation ever found in history. The
new Klondike already is attracting
prospectors from all parts of the
world
Yves lie Trocquer, under-secretary Of
state for liquidation of stocks, told the
| Chamber of Deputies in Paris that g.
OOO,OO0,O00 francs would be realized
| from the liquidation of French war
stocks and that $4,000, 100000 francs
would accrue from the liquidation of
American army supplies.
Premier Nitti of Italy, expressed the
opinion that from $4,000, 100000 to 49,
OOO, 100000 lire would be subscribed to
the victory loan, the sale of which be-
gins Jan. 9th On his return from the
visit he is to make to Paris and Lon
don early in January Premier Nitti
will undertake speaking tour on be-
half Of the loan.
The rebels in Eastern Siberia, says
n Moscow dispatch, have completely
several all communication on the
Amur line and Observation-Disclosures has
been cut off. The dispatch adds that
Galician troops, intended for the de-
fense of Kiev, have revolted against
General Denikine, the anti-BOlshevik
leader in the South and attacked the
volunteer army in the rear.
The University of London is planning
to build an institution Of phonetics at
a cost of 100000, where seventy as
sistants would be engaged in research
work on the 1000 languages of the
British empire The scheme, which
originated with Daniel Jones, head OF
the phonetic department Of the univer-
sity, calls for the expenditure of $2,-
100000.
An epidemic Of influenza similar to
that which swept around the world last
year has broken out in Japan, accord
ing to Toxic advices to the Nippon jill,
a Japanese newspaper of Honolulu. Re
ports from different parts of Japan re-
ceived in Toxic, says the Nippu Jill
correspondent, states that the govern
ment has taken energetic measures to
block the spread of the epidemic.
Herr Huszar, the Hungarian pre-
nier, stated in Budapest to a deputa-
don representing those crippled during
the war, that Communism. had cost Hun
ly about *, 800, ,OOU, ,UOO), acc6p22lm1g to
report received in Berlin. The pre-
| mier said that Rumanian invasion had
taken thirty-six billion kronen more.
The national assembly now had to re-
store Hungary's finance from a des-
perate condition.
GENERAL
Sir Horace Plunkett, the Irish pub
licist, arrived In New York on the
steamship Adriatic, for business trip.
He refused to comment on Premier
Lloyd Georges plan for dual parlia-
ment for Ireland because he had not
examined the proposition in detail.
After shooting Cashier Herman
Rothfuss in the right foot and locking
him, Miss Lottie Roger, bookkeeper,
and Lawrence Smith, customer, in the
vault, seven armed bandits robbed the
Peoples bank Of Ottawa Lake, Mich,
of $1,000 in bonds and cash, and es-
capped.
New York boasts of a new school
boy tennis wonder in the person Of
Charles NJ. Wood, Jr., IA years old, Of
the Dewitt Clinton High school. Play
ing in the semi-finals of the junior in
door national championships the youth
easily won his match and displayed
such powerful service and speed at
volleying that experts among the spec
tators were fairly dazzled
Cracksmen broke into the safe of
the Oresster & Hassler Chemical Com
pany at Perth Amboy, N. j., and es-
capped with gold and platinum valued
at $4,000.
Statistics obtained show that 1,726
British girls married American dough-
boys. OF these only seventeen remain
to be sent to join their husbands in the
United States.
Charges of murders will be made
against all persons who have sold
liquor containing wood alcohol, County
Prosecutor J. Henry Harrison an
nounced at Newark, N. J.
The Boy Scouts of America has
grown to total membership of 47O,-
034 since its organization nine years
ago, according to report issued in
New York. OF this number 14,S96 are
scout masters and 1884 assistants,
while of the 69,351 troop committee
men and local council members all but
250 are unpaid volunteers. The scouta
obtained 2,234,497 subscriptions in the
five liberty loan campaigns, amounting
to 1854, ,1S0,6S7, and war savings
stamps amounting to more than $780,