The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-03
FOREIGN

XIII, which was launched last month,
was destroyed by the flames.
Hundreds of prisoners have been
taken in Dublin in great roundup OF
Sim Fein leaders In addition to Ar
thur Griffith, head of the Sim Fein,
and John Mcneil, commander of the
Irish volunteers, police and military
took many lesser officials to jail.
General Baron Wrangel has notified
the French government he is ready to
come to Paris to discuss using his army
once more against the forces of soviet
Russia This army, which has been re-
organized since its disastrous defeat by
the Bolshevists on the Crimean penin-
sula, is said to number about 10000
men.
The naval court of inquiry investi-
concluded Its hearings In Haiti with
the examination of Lieutenant Colonel
Hooker of the gendarmerie, who testi-
fled to the belief that 1000 peaceful
Haitiens had been killed by bandits in
the last few years. He declared that
from March, 1919. to October, 1913,
large farming and settlement areas
were completely wiped out by bandits
The avalanche which descended from
the summit of Mont Blanc into the
italian valley of Courmayeur has
caused greater havoc than was first re-
ported. Several square kilometers Of
land are covered with blocks of ice,
tree trunks and boulders, and near the
village of Portud pine forest, cele-
brated for its antiquity and the size of
the trees was absolutely uprooted The
avalanche fell through the air a dis
tance of about 10000 feet, landing on
the Brenva glacier and carrying away
a portion. The detonation was so pow
erful as to shake houses fifty miles
away.
Discovery of $105,O 900 In bonds in the
attic of John Doughty's home at Tor
onto, Can, was announced by the po-
lice shortly after the arrival of Dough-
Ey in custody of detectives who brought
him to Toronto from Oregon City, Ore.
Doughty was secretary of Ambrose
Small, Toronto millionaire, who disap-
peared year ago. Doughty and sew
sral hundred thousand dollars in bonds
vanished at the same time Police said
he bonds. They were found wrapped
n an old newspaper. Doughty reiter-
tied he did not know what had become
If Small.
One person dead, another missing
and property loss of approximately
100000 is the result of tornado of
Two minutes duration which struck at
Port Arthur, Texas, a port near the
coast and on Sabine lake. A portion of
panies' sheds We're demolished by the
storm.
Mrs. Charles Garland of New Bed
ford, Mass, agrees with her husband in
his determination to refuse his inher-
itance of $1,o00,000. She said so, smil-
ing cheerfully, this afternoon, and add
ed: Il am quite willing to be poor
mans wife, and if my family in Ded-
ham leave me any money-they have
plenty of it-I will turn it down" Nor
do the couple have any fear that they
are doing an injustice to their baby,
Margaret, just month and half old.
Keith Collins, aviator, bogus army of.
ficer and alleged master mind" in the
worlds greatest mail train robbery, In
custody of postal inspectors at Kansas
City, following his sensational capture
in Westville, Okla. Collins was heav.
lily shackled when taken off train
and hurried to the postoffice building
to undergo cross-examination by Joe p
Johnston, chief postal inspector. Col
Inns, who is charged by postal authori
ties with having planned the S3,5OO,0Ot
mail train robbery between Council
Bluffs and Omaha, Neb., Nov. 13, /.
said to have confessed his share in tn,
plot.
A golden casket, presented by tn,
city of Baltimore to Charles M
Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Stee
Corporation, has been stolen from hi
New York mansion on Riverside drive
Schwab declared. Schwab discovere,
the golden casket was missing when h
read an article in a New York news
paper stating that such box had beel
sold in Germany by sailor.
4 Allan A. Ryan, New York financiei
who several months ago aroused the Fl
nancial world through his allege
manipulation of corner in Stutz Nc
| tor stock, announced that he had cor
t ferred with Samuel Untermeyer with
/ view to retaining the attorney to tax
charge of the readjustment of his Fl
nancial affairs, which are reported t
involve several millions of dollars.
: Renewed violence has been reporte
from several points in the Mingo coun
T ty coal strike zone and nearby, to mi
: itary authorities and to the offices O
The Coal Operators Association at Wi
J iamston, w. Va. The most serious OF
Cured at Baranshee, on the Kentucl1
side of Tug river, across from Mate
Il e.