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

| stroyed Makhet, Grakali and other vii,
lagos within radius Of sixty miles
west of Tiflis.
Bolsheviki at Odessa captured the
| Russian cruiser Admiral Nakhimoff
four topedo boat destroyers, one scout
vessel, one steamer. three trawlers.
two cutters, two submarines. says a
Moscow wireless message.
A wireless dispatch from Moscow
says the red army has --yictoriously
broken through to the shores of the
Arctic ocean" 1t adds that the Muir
mansk railway is free of the white
forces as far as Murmansk
]. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of
the exchequer, has announced that
England and France had agreed not TO
renew the Anglo-French loan issued
| in the United States in 1915 and were
taking steps for its repayment
The strike situation in Portugal is
becoming more acute and all the pub
lie services are paralyzed. according
to dispatch from Lisbon. The new
| cabinet formed by Antonio Silva has
resigned on account of the strike, the
dispatch adds
| Sowing of the devastated areas of
| France has been expedited by deliver
| les from Germany of oats and barley,
according to orders of the Preparations
Commission. The minister of liberat
ed regions reports that this seed is of
excellent quality
Children, ., rI.a pa,.lf,, .al,aale
are to be weighed and measured at the
beginning of each semi-annual term.
a special school is also TO be estab-
lshed for pupils who are unable TO
follow regular instruction because of
deficient eyesight
Charles Diamond. editor of the
. Catholic Herald. whose trial on
charge of melting to the murder of
Niscount French, lord lieutenant of
Ireland, and others in an article in
his newspaper. opened at the old
Bailey Court in London. was found
guilty He was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment
the first plenary meeting of the
newly elected Moscow soviet has just
Dlsltt- LII me tl,tttOuS
votes were east, or 81 per cent of the
voters. There were 5ss, 900 who had
no right to vote, of whom 46S,O0o were
children. The others were criminals
and those whose incomes were not de-
rived from labor.
GENERAL
More than seventy alleged anar-
chists and radicals have been arrested
at Akron, Ohio, in extensive raids con-
Quoted by Department of Justice Of
| ficials.
Announcement has been made that
| officials believed the fire which has
ragged in the underground workings at
| the Girard Mammoth colliery at Raven
| Run, Pa, for fifteen years, is now un-
der control. In short time the burn
| ing area will be opened up and hun
| dreds of thousands of tons of anthra-
cite will be reclaimed.
| Five armed men, accompanied by a
young woman, drove an automobile to
the jewelry store of the James A.
Afmiger Company =. at Baltimore,
| smashed the plate glass window of
the store, stole $4,000 worth of dia-
monds, shot and slightly wounded
| Charles Williar, who tried to block
their way, and escaped.
There will be no strike by the 37S,-
| 600 railroad maintenance of way men
represented in a national meeting at
Chicago said J. B. Malloy, grand
vice president The grand lodge heads
voted to abide by the decision of their
| president and executive board to give
the Esch-Cummins rail bill trial and
to try for better wages by peaceful
| methods before resorting to a walk
| out.
Mrs. Marie Ryan, cashier of the
Miles theater, located in the heart of
| the downtown business section of De-
troit, was struck down by two ban
dts in the office of the theater and
robbed of $5,100 in cash. The rob-
bers escaped.
Twenty fellowships, each with a
| stipend of at least 81, ZOO and in some
cases $1,000, will be awarded to Amer
| lean students, men and women, for
| technical and humanistic study in the
| University of Sweden, Denmark and
| Norway, the American Scandinavian
foundation announced in New York. In
addition to the ten fellowships for
Sweden, established last year, five stu
dents will be sent to Norway and five
| to Denmark.
Fifteen gallons of wine a year is the
maximum quantity a family of Jewish
| faith may receive for religious cere-
monies, according to a ruling received
| in Hartford, Conn, from Washington
to Civil Revenue Collector J. W..
Walsh The ruling says Jewish fami-
| lies, after gaining approval of their
| rabbi, who in turn will secure permits
from officers of the prohibition en-
! forcement director, may secure max
imum of fifteen gallons a year.
The biggest collection of mammals
ever taken out of Mongolia-1,3 30
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