The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-24
FOREIGN

Rumania has asked the League OF
nations to send an international army
to the relief of Armenia.
Austria has been elected member
of the League of Nations by the
assembly of the league at Geneva.
The number of persons dead and in
jured in Argentine's earthquake disas-
ter is now estimated at more than 400.
This figure is based on reports from
relief parties in the affected zone.
First reports from the general cleo
tions held in Spain indicate govern
ment victory. Unofficial estimates
are that the majority for the Monarch
list parties will be large one.
The Irish home rule bill, as slightly
modified by the House of Lords, has
been adopted by the House of Com
mons in London. The measure now
needs only the royal signature to be-
come law.
Three thousand well-armed revolu-
tionaries, alleged by the Mexican gov
ernment to be Bolsheviks, have invad-
ed the state of Campeche from Yucca
tan and are attempting to drive out
the federal authorities.
Japan's population, as revealed by
the census recently completed, is more
than a million. under the estimate. The
total number of persons in the empire
is 77,OO5, 900, of which 55,96O,OO0 are
in Japan and 1924 900 in Korea.
Charges of murder have been filed
in court at Manila by the city
prosecutor against seventy-seven Phil
ippine constabulary soldiers as result
of the rioting in which four Americans
and seven Filipinos were killed.
Correspondence which has been 60
ing on between Premier Lloyd George
and Father Michael O'Flanagan, vice
president of the Irish republic" in an
effort to bring about a truce between
England and the Sim Fein organiza-
tions, apparently has been ended.
Andre Lefevre, French war minister,
has resigned. His resignation resulted
from his opposition to the new mill
tary service bill before the chamber
Of deputies, which provides for eight
cen months obligatory military serv-
ice NJ. Lefevre had insisted upon two
years service with the cOlors.
GENERAL
Robbers stole from $4,000 to $4,000
in ''overflow'' deposits from the Indi-
ana National bank at Indianapolis.
The deposits had been placed in the
book vault, which was rifled. The
robbers entered through a skylight.
Indictments charging proflteering
were returned by the federal grand
jury against three of Kansas City's
largest coal dealers. The indictments,
brought under the Lever act, We're the
result of a probe of coal conditions
made by Arthur J. Devlin, Washing
ton, federal Investigator
The entire plant and apparatus of
the Stegmaier Brewing Company, the
largest in Luzerne county. Pennsylva-
nia,. We're seized by the United States
government for alleged violation of the
Volstead prohibition act. 1t was. the
first brewery taken over by the rev.
enue authorities in the state of Penn
sylvania.
For an indefinite period, employees
of the Newbern Iron Works and Sup
ply Company, one of the largest plants
of its kind in Eastern North Carolina,
are to receive all profits made by the
concern above cost of operation. This
agreement was reached between the
workers and the management follow
ing disagreement over 20 per cent
reduction in wages.
Stockyards' workers in Chicago will
abide by the recent wage decision of
Judge Samuel Alschuler, federal medi-
ator, it has been announced by George
Youstra, secretary of the stockyards
labor council. A mass meeting called
to protest against the award, which
denied most of the wage increases
asked by the employees, was attended
by less than 100 workers.
Twenty-Five individual plumbers and
twenty-seven plumbing firms, members
of the Master Plumbers Association,
We're charged in blanket Indictment
reported to Justice McAvoy in New
York with violation OF the antitrust
law.
Twenty-nine cut stone contractors
indicted for violation of the Donnelly
state antitrust act pleaded guilty be-
fore Justice John B. McAvoy in the
criminal branch of the Supreme Court
in New York. Twenty-seven of the
contractors having corporations were
fined $500 as individuals, with ST.
800 fine for each corporation. Two
contractors not having corporations
were fined $4,000 each.
Criminal carelessness upon the part
of Capt. George I'll. Hart, master of
the United States steam launch Mar
garet that sank in the Ohio river,
was responsible for the tragedy, ac-
cording to the verdict returned by the
coroner's jury, following the recovery
of the body of one of the eleven vic