The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-07
FOREIGN.

Opium said to be worth over $780,
600 has been seized in the Chinese Sec
tion of Vancouver, B. c., by detectives.
Serious disorders in various parts of
the country, with the killing of some
persons in clashes between the police
and demonstrators have been reported
by the Giornal DItalia in Rome.
The emperor of Japan, whose illness
recently necessitated visit to the win
ter palace at Hayama, has returned to
Toxic, according to Toxic cable to
the Nippu Jill, japanese vernaculai
newspaper at Honolulu.
Poilu, the hairy one," will no longer
be the nickname of the French private
soldier Following the lead of the
American army, the French War De
partment has issued an order permit
ting soldiers to be smooth shaven. In
many regiments mEstaches formerly
were obligatory.
Two alleged anarchists were killed
and thirty wounded at Turin, Italy, in
a May Day clash with detachment
of the royal guards. A group of men
carrying the black flag attacked the
guards with rifles and hand grenades,
seriously wOunding two guards. The
guards opened fire.
1t is semi-officialiy announced from
Warsaw that man named Posrednic-
Ee, who is declared TO have been one
of the group which assassinated for
mer Emperor Nicholas, was taken from
Jail and handed over to the Bolsheviki,
who took him to the Red front. There
he was shot for high treason.
Two men were killed and nine
wounded in conflict between civil
ians and military at the railway sta
ton at Praga, suburb of Warsaw,
where troops from Posen were entrain-
ing for the front. According to the
military authorities the conflict arose
between some of the soldiers and
group of Jews.
The Allied Reparation Commission
has refused Germany's recent request
not to be deprived of its last ships"
and pointed out that, although it has
been three months since the treaty be-
came effective, not vessel has been
delivered and that the commissioners
cannot possibly consider further pro-
posals until satisfactory quantity of
tonnage is surrendered
GENERAL.
Indications that volcanic eruptions
Providence in the caribbean sea were
reported to New York by the United
Fruit Company steamer Calamares. A
wireless message from the ship said
that volumes of white smoke We're OBJ
served ascending from one of its tall
est peaks.
Supreme Court Justice Lydon of
New York issued an order permitting
the Equitable Trust Company of New
York to sell approximately $2,O00.000
worth of securities keld as collateral
On a loas to the Del3Ger s Rio frande
Railroad Company Contracted soiAe
years ago. Both parties consented to
the step.
Imprisonment for from one to three
years was the sentence imposed al
Phoenix in the Superior Court on
Harry Hurley, business man and
rancher, convicted on charge oil
grand larceny in connection with the
longing to the State Highway Commits
sion.
Four hundred and forty-seven illici
stills were destroyed in the state Of
Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee dur
ing the month of March, according tt
reports received by the prohibition
commission at Washington. The seiz
ures include those made by state pro
hibition officers, federal revenue off
GERS and civil guardians of the law.
| Fire losses in Manila during l91.
were the largest in the history of tn,
city, amounting to $1O,733,OO0, accord
ing to the annual report of the fir
department, made public. The losse
in 1918 amounted to $6,5OO,OOO. TIL,
large increase is attributed to the fac
that fire-fighting equipment has no
kept pace with the growth of the city
Thomas W. Simpkins, itinerant print
er, who shot and killed DR.. Jane
Wright Markoe in st. Georges churcl
! in New York several weeks ago, wa
found insane. Following the report O
the commission, Simpkins was sent t,
the asylum for criminal insane at Mat
teawan.
Chicago-not Reno-is the creates
divorce center in the world, accordin;
Y to- Francis Minor Moody of Chicago
executive secretary of the Information
al Committee on Marriage and Di
vorce. Mr.. Moody explained that th
divorce laws in Chicago were less rig
i'd than in New York and most othe
large cities. Reno, however, with al
annual record of 1,944 divorces, is still
holding the lead of high percentages
Twenty-Five seconds-one of tn,
shortest sentences on record In FEEDER
al courts-was imposed on Jesse Nash
c0lored, charged with tampering will
the malls hy Judpe X NJ Handle a.