The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-06-11
lFuREIGN.


village of Achupayas, in the province
of Chimborazo. Fourteen bodies have
been unearthed. Many persons were
| injured.
Albanian insurgents have annihilated
an Italian battalion near Alessio and
Italian warships have shelled that city,
according TO a Vienna dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
Clifton Crawford, internationally
Known actor. was found dead in Lon
don in an areaway of the hotel at
which he was stopping, having fallen
five stories from the window OF his
room.
Virtually all of 500 steers aboard the
American steamer st. Charles were
drowned and devoured by sharks which
infest the waters off Moro castle, when
the animals sstampeded and plunged
overheard
Marshal Foch was slightly injured
when his automobile collided with a
taxicab in Paris. His injury consists
of cuts about the face from glass. The
driver and occupant of the taxicab
also were injured
+ A body, believed to be that Of an
American officer, was found in the III
river, near Feldkirch, Austria, by fish
ermen. 1t Is believed the man was
drowned while escaping from an Aus
trian prison camp toward Switzerland.
A severe earthquake shock occurred
throughout. FOrmosa, Japan, according
to advices received at Toxic. The cen
ter of the disturbance was near Ywa-
len. on the eastern coast. There were
some casualties and damage to build
ings.
Mrs. Mabel Caster, wife OF the vicar
of st. Paul's, Greenwich, has been
killed by her pet donkey. She was
stopping in the country with her chill
dren and was feeding the animal in
the stable when it kicked her down.
bit and trampled on her.
Preparations are being made both by
the government and the municipality
ITO receive in few days several hun
dred delegates from the whole worI.l
who will meet at Genoa for the inter
national seamen's labor conferences.
The American delegates will be pres
ent only as observers.
1t is reported that the Turks cap
tured Bozanti, north of Adina, taking
prisoners in large numbers. Turks are
not free to turn their entire strength
In that area against Atlina, Tarsus and
Mersina, but say they do not want to
take these towns lest they incur the
i'll will of the British and Americans.
King George v. of England has won
a verdict for $52,575 in the Supreme
Court In a suit against Ernest Harrah,
broker. The king sued for $172,OOO
on contract for 25,OOO tons of scrap
steel for delivery to Italy. The con-
tract was made through j. p. Morgan
4 Co. The defense was counter
claim. The trouble arose over the
reports Of inspectors and alleged de
lays in delivery.
GENERAL.
New York City had population Of
1872, ,151 on january 2nd, an Increase
of S54, ,26S, OR 179 per cent over 1910,
the census bureau has announced.
Five persons We're killed and more
than 100 injured in an explosion at the
plant of the Mason Tire and Rubber
Company at Kent, twelve miles from
Akron, Ohio.
The country home of Enrico Caruso,
tenor, at East Hampton, n. Y, was
burglarized and jewels valued at $780,
600 were stolen. The stolen jewels in
cluded diamond necklace valued at
$75,OO0
Provision is made for the establish
ment of home for respectable bach
elors and widowers'' in the will of
Marcus l.. Ward, son of New Jerseys
Civil war governor, probated, and dis
posing of an estate valued at more
than $3,00O,O00. Men applying for a
place in the home must be white
bachelors or widOwers who have
through misfortune lost the means
they once had for support"
Five persons We're killed near Crane
Rapids, Mich, when an interurban
train struck an automobile in which
they We're riding. The dead: John b.
Polzin, his wife and two children,
Joseph, 13, Agnes, 6, and Uric Host,
ID, a neighbor's son.
Aldermen of the city Of Evanston, a
suburb of Chicago, denied the petition
of 100 residents who sought to prohibit
children from playing in the suburbs
chief park. The aldermen declared
that raising grass is secondary to
happy children
William Wilkie of Grey Eagle, Mimi,
WAS elected president of the National
Editorial Association at the last ses-
sion of the annual convention at Bos-
ton. Other officers elected included
f. E. Brodie of Oregon City, Ore, vice
president. and w. w. Aikiens of
Franklin, Ind, treasurer