The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-15
FOREIGN

I1VAG40N
Some thirty persons were ip3pseA
when passenger train, trav|ains 0pa8
Paris for Argenteuil, collided with ~
other passenger train running from ~
genteuil for Paris.
The Chinese government formally
has approved the sending of japanese
troops into the Hunchan district OF
Manchuria, to protect Japanese nation
ais there, says Toxic cablesram.
| Demands for immediate increase In
wages has been telegraphed the Ger
man minister of labor by the confer
ence held at Bochume of four miner3
unions composing the Miners FedeKa-
tion, says the Vorwaerts.
The French aviator, Fronval, estab-
lished a world record for landing at
a given spot when he ascended to
height Of 1000 meters and came down
within nine feet OF the spot indicated
The measurement was 2.80 meters.
The Prince of Wales made triumph
ant entry into London on his return
from his six months tour Of the en-
pire. Hundreds Of thousands Of per
| SOuS turucu Vut " SiSC AAAAA OAAS ~ 49,
greatest welcomes Of the kind In the
history of the country.
The yellow fever epidemic In the
Tuxpam oil fields is spreading and LAD
died there from the disease during the
last week, said dispatch from Tux
pam. The people are becoming panic
stricken and are appealing to the gov
ernment for assistance
More than 8OOOO,OO0,OO0 marks in
German paper money was circulated
at the end of September, according to
the Chreich's bank statement covering
that period, made public in Berlin.
This announcement closely follows an
official admission that the current
budget shows deficit of 81, 900. .O00, 900
marks.
Man O. War proved his claim as the
"horse Of the century" at Windsor, On
tario, when he defeated Sir Barton over
mile and a quarter at Kenilworth
Park. Clarence Hummer plloted the
great colt owned by Samuel Riddle to
victory while crowd of $4,000 cheered
wildly. The. race was for purse OF
$4,000 and $1,000 cup, all going to
the winner.
GENERAL
Rube Vanguard, star seuthpaw pitch
er of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was found
guilty of ticket scalping when ar
raigned in Municipal Court at Cleve-
land, and was fined 81 and costs.
Clinton L. Conkling, who notified
Abraham Lincoln of his nomination for
president by the Republican national
convention at Chicago, died at his
home in Springfield, ILL.,, this week.
Il Capt R. w. Schroeder of McCook
field, holder of the world altitude
record. will retire from the air serv-
ice as soon as he returns from
France, where he flew in the Gordon
Bennett race.
A gift of $4,000 by the Rockefeller
Foundation to the American Hospital
Association, on condition that $4,000 Is
obtained from other sources, was an
nounced at the closing session of the
associations convention at Montreal
Gold valued at approximately So
100000, consigned to the federal re-
| oClNC jain, alIlbtu dL NeW 1OEk Oh
the steamship Aquitania. This is the
fourth recent shipment of gold from
the Bank of England, making $685.
100000.
Several hundred Louisiana planters
and business men at New Orleans, in
dorsed plan of Barry D. Wilson, state
commissioner Of agriculture and immi-
grafton, providing for importation of
Mexican laborers for cane, rice, sugar
and cotton fields.
4 An assertion that the interstate COM
merce commission made an apparent
error Of S192, ,S53 ,696 in the calculation
upon which it fixed the freight rate
increase on western roads to give the
roads per cent return, is made in
an opinion granting a modified 30 per
cent increase in Kansas intrastate
rates by the Kansas court of Industrial
relations, handed down at Topeka,
Kan.
Two Brooklyn Boy Scouts have ar
rived ip New York from San Francis
co, completing a round trip made part
ly on foot and by picking up rides in
automobiles and wagons. The boys,
J. f. Budd and A. G. Greiner, began
their journey July 81, arrived at San
Francisco Aug. % and started back
three days later.
The states Of New York and New
Jersey Joined hands and broke ground
on the New York side for vehicular
tunnel beneath the Hudson river which
will be the biggest substructure in the
world. SHte officials and other diglii
taries from both sides of the nations
front door launched the $2S0OO,0O0
project, while thousands of citizens OF
| both New York and New Jersey