The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-06
CONDENSED RE ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
aAYINos, DOING ACHIEVE.
WENTs, sUFFERlNcs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

Thomas II. Brewster, president of
the Fidelity National Bank of Spokane,
died of what physicians diagnosed as
sleeping sickness He had been i'll two
months.
Brent Dow AllinsOn of Chicago was
released from the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth, where he was Serv-
ing a term on the charge of being a
war Stacker. He failed to report when
drafted
Possemen captured Neil Hart and
Jim Owen, half-breed Indians, who, it
is alleged, were among the prisoners
who escaped from the county Jail at
PendletoT. Ore, after killing Sheriff
t. d. Taylor
Eighteen persons We're reported in
jured when Oregon Short Line train,
Butte, Mont. to Salt Lake, was de-
rallied near Downey. Nine of the
twelve coaches of which the train was
made up were overturned
Seeing that train was about to
crash into an ice truck he was driving,
Earl Markham, "A nephew of Edward
Markham, the poet, threw two boys
who were riding with him to safety,
but himself suffered injuries from
which he died.
Robert A. Robertson, veteran of
the World War and captain of a COM
pany of national guardsmen which was
shortly to go on duty with other state
troops under the command of Gen. J.
F. Wolters, was shot and killed at Gal
weston by sentry at the National
Guard camp.
Miss Carrie Cunningham, &c years
old, was shot to death by Theodore
Osweiler, Jr., a banker of Shuttle, Kan,
on the steps Of st. Mary's cathedral at
Wichita, as she, her mother and sister,
were entering to attend mass. Osweil-
err shot through the pocket of his
coat
Lieut.. Ormer Locklear, daredevil air
pilot, whose stunts of leaping from one
plane to another in midair have
thrilled thousands, is dead. His plane
crashed from a height of 1000 feet
while he was engaged in nightflying
for the movies. With him died Lieut.
AZiliOlt, iilS pol anu Pilot al
his hair-raising stunts.
WASHINGTON
Assured under contract already
signed with oil companies of most of
the fuel needed for the oil burning
portion of the government merchant
fleet for the year beginning October L,
the shipping board set out to secure
100000 additional barrels of fuel oil
When they are obtainable, officials
said, the board will have an adequate
supply, estimated at 29,SO0,OOO barrels
for the year.
Nearly 800 Russian children, en-
route from yladivostok to Petrograd
to rejoin their parents, whom they
have not seen since the spring of 1915
have reached San Francisco, the
American Red Cross at Washington
has announced. The children are on
the steamer Yomei Maru. in charge of
Red Cross doctors, nurses and at
tendants and several Russian school
teachers, who have been caring for
them for more than two years.
Authority for the railroads to in
crease revenues by approximately one
billion and half dollars has been
granted by the Interstate Commerce
Commission
President Wilson is to retire from
the sheep business. The White House
flock of forty-eight prize sheep, which
has kept the lawns cut for three sum
mers. is 10 be sold.
Washington. = Further steps de-
signed to relieve the coal situation has
been taken by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. Orders were is
sued prohibiting more than one recon
signment of coal when loaded in cars,
and imposing a charge of from 50 to
So per car for making even the single
reconsignment.
Imports of foodstuffs into the United
States during the fiscal year just end
ed increased by more than S6SO,0OO, 900
over 1919, while exports in 1920 show
q decrease of more than S360, 900 600
according to foreign trade figures is
sued by the Department of Commerce
Foodstuffs imported totaled 81 BIB
7763O9, compared with SS32 ~ .991 in
1919. Exports amounted to S2,141,-
1913, 100, as against $2,502. .S52, 100 dur
inK 1919.
Deputy Sheriff Harry worden was
instantly killed, another deputy sheriff
was wounded and two alleged bandits
were shot in a gun fight between
slerirf's officers and a gang Of rob
bers who held up and robbed the
Farmers State Bank at Grass Lake.
twelve miles east of Jackson, Mich.
Captain Rudolph w. Schroeder, hold
ar of the world altitude record. will
pilot the American army plane in the
Gordon Bennett international cup race
10 be held in France the last week of
September. it was announced nf the
War Department