The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-01
FOREIGN


of Honor at Paris. The countess was
the war.
A violent earthquake is reported to
have occurred in Giarre, Sicily, at the
base of Mount Etna, according. to a
Rome dispatch. The quake lasted ten
seconds. One village was destroyed
and many persons We're injured.
1t is reported that a plot fomented
by Asatic Bolsheviki to assassinate
the sultan has been discovered. The
palace is being guarded and Arabic
new year parade was changed to a
private function.
The yearly production by paper mills
thruout Japan is roughly given as 1885,
700 tons, of which $4,000 tons are used
for newspaper printing, 1900 tons by
the government monopoly bureau for
cigarettes, 100000 tons for the printing
of school textbooks, and 10000 tons for
the printing of magazines.
An official report issued at Dublin
castle shows that the attack on a mo-
tor lorry containing six policemen
near LII 1lluCH was iuOlc SCllOuS
announced. Six constables were killed,
while soldiers assert they saw four of
their assailants drop.
The Poles have reached Zbrucz river
along the entire line, according to
Tuesdays official communication, and
ukrainian troops have crossed the
river. In the Pruzana region prison
q
cation adds that cavalry has occupied
Oysterog, Bubrin and Derazono.
France will pay every dollar Of the
$25O,OOO,OOO loan due in New York
October 18th, NJ. Francois Marshal,
minister of finance, officially an
nounced to the cabinet council at Par
is. This sum is Frances share of the
$500,0OO,OOO Anglo-French loan floated
in the United States during the war.
Damage estimated at fifty million
francs has been caused in upper Mauri-
enne, department of Savoie, by floods
which followed in the wake of vio-
lent storm on both sides of the Franco
Italian frontier, according TO dis
patches received at Paris. In the vi
cinity of Modanne several houses were
carried away.
1t was stated on reliable authority
that the jewels belonging to the Ro-
manoffs, Hapsburgs and Hohenzol-
lerns, deposited for safety with Swiss
banks and private firms, are worth
EST 100000, while the Jewels sold or
pawned in Switzerland since 1911 by
these families amounted to double this
sum.
Twenty-Five persons were killed in
rioting at Gensan, Korea, when Korean
students attacked and destroyed or
damaged branches of the Korean In
dustrial bank and the Oriental Devel-
opment company and seven Japanese
houses. The following night there was
further shooting with additional cas-
ualities
Slow moving landsides covering con-
siderable territory are doing consider.
able damage in the Sanding Alps OF
Upper Austria. The entire mountain
surface apparently is settling into the
Leisling valley. Many huts have been
destroyed and hamlets, forests and
fields are moving bodily, accompanied
by tremendous noises.
In order to make hoarders of gold
coin bring them in to the treasury. the
French finance minister has announced
that when gold coinage is resumed
those which were in circulation before
the war will not be recognized. The
announcement, the legality of which is
contested. has given the French gold
louis new value in the eyes of col
lectors
GENERAL
r. A. Robinson of California, a
United States mail aviator, was killed
when his plane struck heavy feed
wires spanning the Susquehanna river
at Millersburg, about thirty miles
north of Harrisburg, Pa He fell 2OO
feet.
Twenty-Five persons were injured,
several seriously, when two Missouri
Pacific passenger trains collided near
Malvern, Ark.
Howard W. Showalter, banker of
Fairmount, w. Va, who was sentenced
to five years in federal prison in 1917
for misapplication of national bank
funds, has been granted a pardon by
President Wilson.
A million-dollar endowment fund for
an institution where, speakers said,
the worlds most scientific bakers
would be developed, was started by
the American Association of the Bak-
ing Industry in annual convention at
Atlantic City. More than 100000 was
pledged. Cheaper, better bread" will
be the slogan on which the institution