The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-17
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FOREIGN

Degoutte of the French. army as
grand commander of the Legion OF
Honor.
The plan for an international court,
submitted to the assembly by the
League of Nations by its committee
which had been considering the sub
ject, was unanimously adopted by the
assembly at Geneva.
Unconfirmed reports received at Con-
stantinople say that the whole of Ar
menia has gone Bolshevist. The re-
ports add the soviet Azerbaijan has
been ceded to soviet Armenia and that
it is expected Georgia will follow Ar
menia's lead and adopt Bolshevism.
1t is expected that Mexico's sugar
crop will amount to more than 10000
tons. But as the country consumes
about 100000. tons annually, Mexico
will continue to import sugar. Pre-
vious to the revolutions Mexico pro-
duced almost enough sugar for home
| use.
Constantine of Greece has person
| ally declared he would not abdicate
the throne. II will not abdicate and
never had any such Intention" said
Constantine in his farewell interview
with correspondents preliminary to his
departure for Venice, en- route to
Athens.
The weekend Of terror and wild de-
struction through which Cork has
passed left in its train terrible welt
er of ruin. The conflagrations have
burned themselves out, but the finest
part of the city is a mass of ruins.
In st. Patrick's street, which was the
main commercial artery of the city,
solid blocks of business premises, the
most imposing in Cork, have been
wiped out.
Picard Pictet and Company, the
largest building concern in Switzer-
land, failed with liabilities of $5,OOO,-
600. The company employed 1900
workmen. 1t built the hotel used by
the League of Nations and also con-
structed turbines used at Niagara
Falls During the war the company
for the allies, refusing to work for the
Germans.
The members of the reichstag at
Berlin went on rations of black bread
without butter, and coffee without SUI
gar or milk when the managers and
employees of the reichstag restaurant
refused to serve the forbidden foods,
sin view of the governments apparent
intention to continue raiding hotels to
compel them to obey the rationing reg
ulations' The hotel proprietors have
closed the restaurants in virtually all
the principal hostelries as a protest
against the government insisting on
obedience to these regulations.
GENERAL
President-elect Harding, according &
to information received at Washing
ton, will spend the last four weeks be-
fore his Inauguration at Palm Beach,
Fla.
f. d. (Strangler) Lewis of San Jose,
Calf, won the worlds heavyweight
catch-as-catch-c wrestling champion
ship at New York by throwing Joe
Stecher of Dodge, Neb, in hour,
Al minutes and 56 seconds, with a
head and hip lock.
Jack Dempsey is still the heavy
weight champion pugilist of the world
by reason of his knockout of Bill Bren-
nan at Madison Square garden in New
York. Dempsey is still boss of the
heavies, but he had to travel twelve
hard and serious rounds to accomplish
the task.
Circuit Judge Baldwin in Chicago
sustained the Probate Courts refusal
to admit to probate the alleged second
| will of James G. King, millionaire lum-
herman. The first will, as probated,
left between $3,OOOOOO and S5,OO0OO0
to the James C. King Home for Aged
Men which King founded. The original
decision branded the second will' a
forgery.
| All the mail sacks stolen from the
storage car of Burlington mail train
at Council Bluffs, Ia, Nov. ID, were
accounted for when a small boy re-
ported to police the discovery of five
locks of the kind used on registered
mail sacks. Examination of the num-
bers on the locks showed them to be-
long to the missing sacks.
Mary Zembek, the Joliet, ILL.,, girl
| who spent seventeen of her nineteen
years in physical and mental darkness,
is recovering from an operation per-
| formed in a Chicago hospital when
| thyroid glands of monkey were graft
| ed into her neck. The operation was
performed in the expectation that it
would cause the girl to attain normal
physical and mental development.
Federal grand jury indictments
against sixteen officials of the Dan
iel Hayes Company of Idaho, charging
conspiracy to use the mails to defraud,
were announced at Chicago. The in
dictments were returned Oct. "a, but
were kept secret until they had been
served. According to federal officials,
| officials of thp cOmpany sold from