The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-21
condemned RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAvINos, DOING ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union News Service
WESTERN.

clOIHinS store III Olndiid nav "ii
nounced flat reductions CT 20 per cen
on their entire stocks.
Robbers blew open the safe of TN
State Bank at Colon, Neb., stole abou
$4,000 of the banks cash, robbed pri
vate deposit boxes of an unesiimate'
amount and escaped.
Fifty families were rescued by po
licemen and firemen in boats at Oma
ha when the breaking of levy il
North Omaha, due to the rise of the
Missouri river, flooded that district.
-Four carloads of sugar. alleged tt
have been held on a sidetrack since
April II for speculation, have been
seized at Wellington and Emporia
Kan. by a deputy United States mar
shall
Hubert H. Wesley Of Bancroft. Kan
sophomore in the University of Kan
sas. died soon after being hit by six
teen-pound shot thrown in track prac-
tice. The shot struck Wesley over the
heart
One of the largest department stores
in Omaha has announced flat re'iuc-
tion of 80 per cent following ~ per
cent cuts made by three stores. A
large mems clothing establishment
made 20 per cent reduction. making
five stores which have reduced.
Lieutenant Baton of Puryear field.
attempted TO break the worlds air
plane altitude record for pilot and
three passengers, established at Min
l.. s,I. = NH. lint
engine trouble forced him TO descent
after reaching an altitude of 15,4W
feet
Mountain lions are menacing the
vast herds of sheep in the Spencevilie
region, according to reports of stock
raisers of Yuba county. Calf, This
season of the year the beasts are par
ticularly ferocious and until watches
were placed on all herds the nightly
toll was reported to be twenty-five or
thirty sheep.
The main building of the Albu-
querque sanitarium was destroyed by
fire Ten patients and two physicians
who were asleep were rescued from
the second story by ladders Patients
were llolh DtiION
which were threatened to places q
safety The loss was $4,000.
One man is dead and four critically
I'll at Florence. Ariz.. after havin:
eaten preserved string beans and pre-
served beets, according to County PLY
sician W. c. Small of Florence ID,
Randall said the men were infected
.,f
cent ripe olive poisoning cases il
various parts Of the country
WASHINGTON.
The Supreme Court has decided iha
telegraph companies cannot be hel
liable for the full amount of losse
caused by delays in delivering tel.
grams.
The House adopted resolution al
thorizing the treasury 10 buy feders
land bank bonds, issued against loan
approved before last March l. Effort
10 extend the measure to cover loan
approved before next March was d,
feated, las to 121
L. SamboIa Tones, American mini.
ter to Honduras, has resigned his po,
and his resignation has been accepte,
the State Department announced. Hi
successor has not been selected.
A committee appointed by the S,
cialist party called on Secretary Bake
TO present memorial asking for tn
release of conscientious objectors sti
held in prison. Secretary Baker t0l
the Socialist delegation that there ar
not now and have not been any poll
ical prisoners in the army prisons, an
none are in custody whose conscier
tious objections to war We're based o
religious grounds.
A bill proposing that Congress imm,
diateiy begin plans for the holding @
an international exposition in Philade
phia in 1926 to commemorate the on
hundred and fiftieth annivarstry of til
signing of the Declaration of lndepen,
ence, was sent to the House by Repr,
sentative Darrow, Republican, of Penr
sylvania An appropriation of $4,000
is proposed and it would be used h
a commission composed of two repre-
sentatives from each state to be az
pointed by the President. which woul
make plans for the exposition
Senator Smoot, Utah, has introduce
an amendment to the sundry civil bill
authorizing the government to pay tn
railroad transportation home of wa
workers who resign or are discharge,
before July L. Senator SInoot said tn
amendment was designed principally t,
bring about the dismissal of extra EN-
.ployes hired during he war.
The nomination of George w. +
Hunt. former governorsof Arizona, t
be American minister 10 Siam. whicl
has heen held up pending inquiry by
the foreign relations committee, ha'
been confirmed By the Senate.