The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-21
FOREIGN.

the priyy seal, acting as host.
Greek and Turkish troops have
clashed about twenty-five miles east Of
| Smyrna, where the Turks are taking
the offensive and are apparently mass
ing reinforcements preparatory to fur
ther advances against the Greeks.
The Philippine government has
seized all rice in Maniin to prevent
boarding by dealers The government
has fixed the price at approximately ;
cents a pound, TO become effective
| June l. The present price is cents
Soviet rule in France was TO have
been established if the revolutionary
strikes inaugurated May had sue
ceeded, according to the French police
who said they had obtained complete
| evidence from documents they secured.
Toreador Josclto Elgallo was killed
mt Place de Taavera when dispatch
| ing his fifth bull Il! Madrid. He be-
longed to a famous bull-fighting fam
| lily. his father being :, banderillero,
while his older brother. Rafael, also
is a bun fighter.
has sent message to President Will
son requesting him TO convoke the
League of Nations next November at
Brussels II is pointed out that Gen
eva is not ready to receive the assem-
bly,.
BY vote nearly unanimous, the
Honolulu post of the American Legion
f,d n
cash bonus to men who served in the
military and naval forces of the United
States during the war, it has been an
nounced by officials of the post at
Honolulu.
Several additional attacks on govern
mental property and other incidents
have recently occurred in various parts
of Ireland. The police barracks. court
house and postoffice in Bureau. County
Limerick. were burned, while a motor
van containing provisions for the po-
lice was burned near Sheverie.
Wireless telephone communication
over Il distance of 800 miles with ap-
paratus of strength OF only three
kiIowatts has been achieved by Will
lam Marconi, the Italian inventor, he
at Rome upon his return
from a cruise In the Atlantic and Med
iterranean on the yacht Electra.
The body of Il beautiful young isus-
sian woman has been found in Lake
Geneva, off Ouchey, She was clad in
expensive clothing and wore furs, !,
pearl necklace and Il gold watch. On
the reverse side of one of the many
bank notes found upon her was writ
ten "GooG-by. Am another victim OF
the Bolshevists" II was signed
Countess W."
With view 10 insuring against un.
pleasant incidents on the occasion oi
the evacuation of Frankfort, says {
dispatch from that city, the Frencl
are demanding the following hostages
President Cossinan, the head of the 10
cal government Chief Burgomastel
Voight; Police President Ehrler
Chairman of the City Council Hopf
Alderman Rumpf and Councillor Lion
and are also demanding guarantee o
,OOO,W)0 marks.
GENERAL.
Thirty-five states will elect govern
ors next fall al the time when til,
President and vice president are chos
en-. Thirty-two United States senators
to take office March 4, 1921, also ar,
to be elected
| Levi T.. Morton, vice president o
the United States under President Har
/ f..F .,f ct III
died from bronchial pneumonia on tn
96th anniversary Of his birth at Pough
keepSie, N Y.
The Illinois Agricultural Association
| which is the farm bureau Of that state
has active committees on Legislation
finance, grain marketing, rock phos
phate, limestone, produce marketing
livestock, roads and dairying The an
nual budget to carry on this work j
s:,33, 900.
Legislation hesi.ued to aid the raj
roads and shipper, in the car shorl
Iage situation by extending the USE O
the S:'OO.OOO.WW revolving fund pre-
| vided in the transportation act froT
five to fifteen years, aud also ament
ing the law in other respects, has bee
Iagreed upon by the Senate Interstat
Commerce Committee
l.. T. Walton of ST. Joseph, No., f;
ther of Horace Leroy Walton, tn
youthful bandit killed in battle VIII
the police ut Chicago, after he ha
robbed mail car of $1OO,00O, die
while en- route to Chicago to claim tn
body of his son. He suffered pal
Ialytic stroke and was taken from tn
train at Bucklin, No. He died in he
tel short time later
Eighty thousand small America
flags We're sent out by the Memoria
Day Committee to the various GENE
teries in France so that there will b
an ample supply available for the Gel
emonies May Both. NonperishabI
wreaths are being prepared for til
graves of $1,000 American soldiers "A
Romange and in the cemeteries o
northern France, bur fresh flower