The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-09
FOREIGN

tee OF the reichStng.
Supreme power In the government OF
Poland and full military authority
have been vested in a national council
of defense created by the Polish diet.
Keeping pace with the times. the
London Daily Mail has installed its
own wireless receiving plant for the
receiving of news dispatches on the
roof of Carmelite house, home of the
Northcliffe papers.
Germany is 100000 tons in arrears
of her engagements concerning the
delivery of coal in execution of the
treaty of Versailles, according to an
Interview with Louis Loucheur printed
in the Petit Parisien in Paris.
Provisional President de la Huerta
of Mexico, has abolished the moving
picture censorship and the censorship
department of the ministry of the In
terror will hereafter be used "tO fos-
ter rather than hinder the industry
Polish forces on the Bolshevist front
have evacuated Mozir and Kalenkowitz.
in Polesa, according to an official
statement issued at army staff head
quarters at Warsaw This step was
taken. it is said, for the purpose Of
shortening the front.
The French Chamber of Deputies
voted an additional 10000 francs a
year for cabinet ministers and 1900
| francs for secretaries of state, in rec
ogirition of the increased cost of liv
| ing. The vote, which was taken by the
raising of hands, was almost unani
nous.
The Mexican national debt, is more
than 546,0000O0 pesos, including in
terest, it was announced officially. OF
this, more than 100000 pesos is owed
abroad. Efforts will be made to reach
an agreement with Mexico's credit
ors regarding the resumption of inter-
est payments.
Fire has swept the entire fishing
district on the western shore of the
sea of Okhotsk, which was leased tC
Japan under the treaty of Portsmouth.
The area burned includes the city Of
Okhotsk, according to a wireless report
received by the Hokkaido Fisheries
Company from the steamer Kam-
, chatka. The financial loss is esti-
mated at S4,OOO,OOO.
GENERAL
Newcomb Palmer, young farmer of
Momence, ILL.,, is being held at Chica
| go. and Byron Caldwell, former EN-
pIoye of Palmer. is in jail at Kanka.
| H.. <.Ix. -
extort $4,000 from Lem Small, candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
| governor of Illinois.
An express car on the Charleston
and Western Carolina Railroad was re-
ported robbed near Augusta, Ca, by
bandits who gagged and bound an ex-
press messenger and an armed guard
and made away with $50, ,725, consti-
tuting the pay roll for the marines at
Paris Island, S. c., station.
In a pistol duel at Spartanburg, S
c., William p Cooper, a blacksmith
and Oscar Godfrey, horse trader
} killed each other Each man emptied
the six chambers of his weapon and
when the police arrived Cooper was
dead and Godfrey, though dying, was
: still swapping his empty gun at the
body of the dead man. The cause OF
the fatal quarrel has not been learned
, Georges Carpenter, the French
champion, has returned to New Yorl
to make preparations for sailing home
/. Jack Curley, who has been in charge O.
: Carpenters tour, announced that Car
pentier will positively return to Amer
lea to fulfill his agreement to NEE
J Battling Levinsky. The match has beeI
: set forward to Oct. 10. Curley adde,
t that he has received word that Jacl
e Dempsey and his manager, Jacl
v Kearns, would be in New York shortly
e and it looks very much as if article
v will be signed and sealed for Demp
e sey- Carpenter match before George
Sails" Curley concluded.
A $25,OO0,OOO loan to Switzerlan
9 will be raised in the United State
). as a result of negotiations concludes
: between the Swiss government an
American bankers, it has been all
+ nounced in New York.
n The Big Four Railroad Company SUI
s fered loss estimated at betwee
100000 and 100000 at Elkhart, Ind
when fourteen freight cars piled up o
a a curve. The cars contained coal an
= merchandise. No one was injured.
n In collision between three cars O
g the Lackawanna & Wyoming Vale
9 railroad, near South Piston station
o eighteen persons are reported kille
o and 100 injured. The accident Occur
i. red when lightning struck a telegrap
y pole along the line of the track and tn
pole fell over on the tracks in front @
Il car bound for Scranton.
According to an announcement mad
O by the War Department, four arm
@ aeroplanes, one of them driven b
: Lieut.. Clifford c. Mutt of Denver, wi
leave New York on July Is for fligh
: to Nome, Alaska, and return, dis
i tance of $500 miles The purpose O
8 | the trim will he to flemOnStrate th