The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-02
FOREIGN


smuggling opium from Annoy, China, to
Manila.
The first official meeting OF the
League of Nations will be held at Gen
eva next November, according TO IN
formation received from the principal
allied capitals
The commission of jurists in session
for formation of Il permanent court OF
international Justice, as provided IN the
League Of Nations covenant, has unan-
imously decided that the court shall be
located ut The Hague.
American missionaries stationed at
Ressht, Persia, near the Caspian sea,
retired from that town when the Bol-
sheyiki approached it and are safe, the
State Department was advised by the
American legation at Teheran.
The secretary Of foreign affairs has
ordered the boundary commission to
investigate complaints by farmers of
Ojinaja. state of Chihuahua, Mexico,
that recent rains had moved the bed of
the Rio Grande southwark, leaving
lands of Mexicans apparently on the
American side.
OF all industries in Japan, ship
building made the greatest progress
during the war, reports the depart
ment of agriculture and commerce. Be
fore the war Japan ranked sixth
among the powers in the number of
vessels. Last year she ranked in
third place after the United States
and Great Britain.
More than 5000 Americans will here
after be entitled to wear a new bronze
decoration on their uniforms, hanging
from Il ribbon striped alternately red
and white. The medal is the new serv-
ice badges of the French army, COM
memorative of the war. The 5000
Americans entitled to wear it have all
served with the French army.
Gen. Frederick Monies, former gov
ernor of the state of Gunnajuato, who
has been detained in the military pris-
on in connection with the death of the
late President Carranza, has been or
dered set at liberty by Provisional
President de La Huerta of Mexico. The
president acted on the request of the
Chamber of Deputies so that Monies
might take his seat as a'deputy.
Two thousand British, Austrian, Ger
man and Finnish prisoners of war
were drowned when a Bolshevist
steamer was sunk recently in the Neva
river, according to Helsingfors dis
patch to the Central News in London.
A Reuter- report from Stockholm
would seem to confirm this dispatch,
saying that ship was sunk June 6
with 1000 repatriated prisoners on
board
GENERAL
The State Legislature of Tennessee
will be called to meet on Aug 0 at
Nashville, TO consider the federal suf-
frage amendment, it was stated at the
capitol.
Between S2,000,00O and S4,0OO,0OO
damage was done to corn, tobacco and
cotton crops by hailstorm which
swept Wayne, Pitt, Lenoir and Greene
counties in North Carolina. The grow
ers declare little of their crop can be
saved.
Operating revenues of the Southern
Pacific Company and proprietary com
panies for 1919, as disclosed in the an
nual report published in New York,
amounted to $239, ,65T, ,272, an increase
of S1S.O46, ,066 or S14 per cent over the
preceding year.
A S3,OOO,OO0 cargo of South African
gold, consigned to the banking firm
of Kuhn, Loeb 4 Co., and shipped
aboard the steamer Mauretania, has
arrived in New York. The metal was
ket last week.
| The sum of $4,000 and an annuit,
| of $4,000 were left Miss Mary Kihm
| for twenty-seven years secretary tt
| George W. Perkins of New York, by
the will of the financier. The bulk Of
the two children.
| Meat packers from all parts of the
country will meet in Atlantic City
Sept. 13, IA and 10, to discuss problem,
affecting the industry, Thomas +
Wilson, president of the Institute %
| bttht ldthelSy hdS
nounced at Chicago.
President Lowell has announced gift
to Harvard during the year totalin;
So, S,332, ,615. This amount does not in
clude sums less than $4,000, or pledg
es Total subscriptions to the pro
posed endowment fund of $15,250, ,0O
have reached 81, ,764.
Allan A. Ryan, chairman of the Slut
Motor Car Company, who became in
vOlved in a controversy with Officials
of the New York Stock Exchange IL
the time 1t was alleged corner exist
ed in Stutz, has been expelled from TIL,
exchange, according to an announce
ment by the board of governors.
; Five workers who had refused t,
) join strike of machinists and un
skilled laborers, woman and thre,
children miraculously escaped death a
Waterbury, Conn. when bomb wa
hurled through the window of one q