The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-11-16
FOREIGN

us security lOT IL lOdll 10 purcilaSe W,
900 tons of breadstuffs.
Although there has been less than 9
fourth in the number of students al
the American Ecclesiastical college al
Rome this year, American students
have won the usual number of prizes
Mexico will not accept conditional
recognition from any, country. Its re-
fusal to make specific guarantees as
a means of obtaining recognition be-
came known in an announcement from
Provisional President de la Huerta.
| The first suspension OF rail traffic In
Ireland has been ordered. The Mid
land railway notified its employees that
all agreements with the employees are
at an end on account Of the troubles
that have arisen over the transporta-
tion of troops and munitions.
The cabinet today nominated Leon
Bourgeois, president of the council of
the League of Nations former Premier
Rene Viviani, and former Minister of
Foreign Affairs Gabriel Hanotaux as
Frances delegates to the League of
Nations assembly in Geneva.
Depreciation of the rupee has demor-
allied all Indian foreign trade and the
country faces the grave possibility of
financial panic. The warehouses in all
ports are choked with American and
British goods which the merchants re-
fuse to accept The banks find mil
lions of dollars in bills they are una
Bile to collect and number of firms
already have entered bankruptcy.
The question of the legal rights of
Madame Manos, morganatic wife of
the late King Alexander, seems likely
TO create some difficulty, according to
leading jurists of Athens. Her attor-
ney asked the court to remove the
seals from the apartments of the dead
king, asserting Madame Manos, thru
her marriage, and also because of her
approaching motherhood, would inherit
Alexander's property.
The shortage and high prices of
bread in Argentine will be relieved
through an agreement entered into by
the government and the millers where
by the governments stock of approxi-
mately 10000 tons will be released at
a price amounting TO about half the
current quotation This decision was
reported after the closing of a number
of mills due to lack of grain and the
increase of the price of bread to rec
ord figures
The spectacular rush of hundreds of
oil prospectors to the far north where
.'strikes" have been reported, has
caused the Canadian government to re-
vive the old grubstake ordinances Of
Yukon days. As the situation threat
ems to become serious, it is proposed to
prevent those who go in from becom-
ing charges upon the Royal Canadian
mounted police. Therefore. only those
in physical condition to stand the rig
ors of an arctic winter and with
enough grub to keep them will be
permitted to go.
GENERAL
The Harvard football team converted
a lost cause into an even issue when it
tied the Princeton team at IA points in
the last period of their annual game
The Rev. J. o. l.. Spracklin of Wind
sOr, Ont, pastor of the Sandwich
Methodist Church of Windsor, Ont,
and special liquor license inspector,
is detained in the Sandwich Jail follow
ing the shooting TO death of Beverly
TrumbIe. proprietor of an inn known
as Chappell House The shooting oc-
Cured during a raid upon the inn.
Albert Ellis, alleged murderer of 49,
year-old Edna Ellis, his former sweet
heart, is in jail in st. Louis, awaiting
the action of the grand jury. The al
legged confession followed three hours
of steady questioning by authorities
during which they disproved an alibi
that Ellis spent the morning following
the murder with an acquaintance. Jeal-
ousy was given as the motive for the
murder The body of Edna Ellis,
pretty telephone operator, was found
in vacant lot She had been slashed
numerous times with razor
His memory completely obliterated
and his own name and identity lost
somewhere in the shadow of his own
mind, an amnesia victim, believed to
be James Morton, was claimed at In
dianapolis, Ind, by Mrs. James Nor
ton of Cleveland, Ohio. as her husband.
The Rockefeller Foundation at New
York announced gift to the state of
Louisiana of the S5,000-acre Grand
Chenir wild life refuge, purchased
from individual holders in 1914 and
since unaer supervision of the Louis
lana department of conservation. The
tract, in Cameron and Vermillion par
ishes, Louisiana, was bought as a con-
tribution TO the country's wild life
preservation.
Governor Morrow of Kentucky par
doned Fess Whitaker, iailer of Letcher
county, who was elected county
judge while serving a sentence in the
jail over which he had charge. Whit
aker was convicted of attacking county
officers. Governor Morrow, it was
said at the state house, took the posi-
tion that Whitaker, although in Jail,