The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-11-19
FOREIGN

Chinese women. 1T warns against ap-
ing foreign styles, with the display OF
ankles and bare arms.
public, has been evacuated, commune
cations between the great railway
junction of AleNandropol and Tiflis
capital of Georgia. having been cut,
completely isolatiug Armenia from the
outside world.
The postal convention making all
the countries of North, Central and
South America and Spain one postal
territory was signed by the delegates
of Spain, the United States and the
other countries concerned ut Madrid.
The convention, which also provides
for free transport of CORRESPONDENCE"
from aay signatory nation 10 another
sgnatory nation, Will come into force
Jan. l next.
The treaty concluded by the Italians
the dispute over Fiulne and other ter
ritory on the Adriatic littoral has been
approved by the United States, Great
Britain and France, Premier Giolitti
announced Under this agreement
Fiume is to be an independent state
and Italy relinquishes her claim to
part of Dalmatia, which will be an
nexed by ugo-Slavia. A commercial
treaty will be negotiated later.
A young man, wearing the uniform
of French lieutenant, recently OBJ
fained TS6.OO0 francs (nominally about
S157, ,000) from the French ministry of
finance on presentation of payment
order purporfing to have been issued
by the quartermaster of the army of
occupation at Mayence The order
proved to be forgery. The police
arrested Henri Platel, 81 years old, Il
tailor. They say PLATED confessed to
the crime, adding: 'Some say it is
hard to obtain money from the gov
ernment It's easy"
The defeat of the Nenizelistas in
the Greek elections leaves the Lloyd
George cabinet in England as the only
war government in Europe which has
survived the world conflict. Russia is
not taken into consideration, as the
soviet regime at Moscow has not been
recognized by the allied powers. The
war governments of the following
European nations have fallen: France,
Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany.
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia.
The war government of the United
States also has gone by the defeat of
Governor James NJ. Cox, who was
pledged to carry out the policies of
President Wilson.
GENERAL
'"School Week. will be observed
throughout the nation the week of
December 5-11, as the Commissioner
of Education is designating the first
fun week in December as "School
Week"
Sin ffremen were seriously injured
in Milwaukee in a 100000 fire which
gutted a four-story building occupied
principally by the Milwaukee Seet
Company. The firemen We're injured
when the rounds of an extension lad
der collapsed.
A prison guard and convict wer,
shot and two other guards badl.
beaten at the Missouri state peni
tentiary at jefferson City, Mo-, whel
four convicts made AN unsuccessful
attempt to fight their way to freedom
| The men We're captured before the,
could get outside the prison wall.
Chicagos police force today wa
given the biggest shakeup in its his
tory by Chief Charles G. Fitzmorris
recently appointed to succeed Johi
| L. Garrity, whose resignation was re
quested by Mayor William Ell. Thomr
son. Adjustment of the special squad
did away with the homicide squad
the bomb squad, the rifle corps, tt
burglary squad, the '.flivver details
and numerous other special organiZa
tions created by Garrity.
Mrs. George A. DeButte, 5S, wife o
the president of the Melbourne Say
ings Bank at Marshalltown, Iowa, wa
burned to death in the furnace at he
home. After missing her, Mr.. d
Butte began "A search and found hi
wife's body wedged in the furnac
door. She had been i'll for some tim
and is believed to have eommitte
suicide.
Declaring that the Navy Departmer
would ''go the limit" 10 uphold tn
authorities of the Naval Academy q
Annapolis in their efforts to STAN
out hazing at the institution, Secr'
tary Daniels announced that instru'
tions had been issued that no HAHN
would be tolerated and that any men
ber of midshipmen would be dismisse
if necessary to end the practice.
Three years ago Miss Anna NyQuis
whose home is in Stambaugh, Mich
began a training at Ausustana ho
pital in Chicago She became a gra,
Il uate nurse. After receiving her
: ploma, she entered the elevator, fainte
. and fell forward. Before the operate
; could stop the car, the beam at I'll
top of the elevator door had crushe