The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-10
FOREIGN


An earthquake has occurred in the
Tepeleni district, to the southwest Of
Avlona, Albania, rendering $4,000 per
sons homeless. An American Red
Cross party i'll charge of Henry Rey-
nolds of New Britain, Conn, has gone
to the disturbed area.
Andrew Bonar Law, the government
| spokesman, declared In the House Of
Commons that he was convinced there
can be no truce, or successful advocacy
of truce, in Ireland until the extreme
leaders of the Irish Republican army
either surrender and deliver their arms
or are arrested"
Denmark has sent communication
to the League of Nations refusing the
request to send troops to Armenia.
The note said Denmark hoped troops
would not be necessary now that
President Wilson has promised to
mediate between Turkey and Armenia.
Norway and Sweden will take similar
action.
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of
| the Turkish Nationalists, is massing
| 10000 troops for an offensive against
the Greeks in Smyrna, according to a
dispatch from Constantinople. All
these troops are being withdrawn from
Armenia since soviet Russia ordered
| the Turkish Nationalis,s to cease their
war against Armenia.
Thousands of tons OF German coal,
| intended for some of the entente ma
| tions have been stolen while en- route
down the Rhine and smuggled into
Holland on barges, says the Rottey-
| dam COur Aut Only part of the
| coal was unloaded at the allied depots,
and the rest covered with stones, was
brought down the river to Holland.
| No less thaa an average of forty
| persons day were sentenced to death
| by the Moscow revolutionary tribunals
and executed during September, ac-
| cording to the official soviet organ
| Isvestia. The same paper throws
light on the desperate fuel situation in
Moscow by stating that 5000 wooden
houses have been torn down in Mos
COW to provide fuel for the people.
General Semenoff, leader of anti
Bolshevist forces along the frontier be-
tween Siberia and Mongolia, has ar
rived at Vladivostok under Japanese
escort. Dispatches from that city state
he has gone on board a japanese trans
port. General Semenoff's troops de-
feated by the Bolshevists recently, de-
serted in such numbers that their lead
er gave up the struggle against the
soviet armies in that region.
Relief of the food famine in north
ern China is engaging the widespread
lief funds are being generously con-
| tributed to the schools and univer-
sites, the statement said, and door-to-
door soliciting of funds is being con
Quoted by special committees in Toxic.
The China-Japanese business associa-
tion also was said to have started a
nationwide famine relief movement
GENERAL
| December 10Th is the last day for
the payment of the fourth installment
of the income tax and excess profit
| taxes due this year. To avoid penalty,
| tiiC ttt<N 1iiuoL pC III thC pliitSo VI COk-
| leetors of internal revenue or branch
offices by midnight of that date.
| The United States District Court of
| Appeals has reversed the recent judg-
ment for S264, 900 granted by the Dis
trict Supreme Court against the ma
jor baseball leagues in favor of the
Baltimore Federal League Club which
oIo tta,ax Il fs.1a
laws, by the use of the reserve clause"
in the players contract.
| G. +. Troyer of La Fontaine Ind,
was named the national corn king"
at the Hay and Grain show in connec-
ton with the International Livestock
exposition at Chicago. Peter Lux, also
of Indiana was last years "king" Mr..
Troyer's ten winning ears of corn were
gathered from a seventeen-acre fielt
that yielded 100 bushels to the acre.
A reign of terror exists in many
districts in Fayette, Westmoreland and
Washington counties, In Pennsylvania,
comprising an area of $50 square
miles. Firebugs are running amuck,
and many schoolhouses, barns, stores
|
ously burned within the last thirty
days.
On grounds that the Phillips Circuit
Court had erred in refusing to permit
introduction of evidence to support a
charge that prejudice in the exclusion
of negroes had been shown in selec-
ton of the present Jury, the Arkansas
Supreme Court at Little Rock has re-
versed and remanded for new trials
the cases of six of the Elaine negro
rioters who were under death SEN
| tences
A reduction of at least 80 per cent
in the cotton acreage of 1921 and a
crop of not more than 100000 bales
was predicted by w. B. Thompson,
| former president of the New Orleans
Cotton exchange, in an address at
Memphis, Tenn, before the cotton con-