The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-03
FOREIGN

| A resolution advocating q general
boycott Of Belfast farms owing to al
legged persecution of Catholics has Just
Ibeen adopted by the Leitrlm county
council.
Major Johnstone. justice Of -
peace, was assassinated at his hsOs
In Londonderry by men who fired
through window. The assassins
escaped.
Bolshevist officers taken prisoner by
the Poles say that the Polish army
will not meet serious resistance until
it reaches the line running through the
railroad points Of Wilma, Ida. Baran-
ovichy and Luniniets.
Japan has decided to subsidixe JAP
aneses steamship lines plying to South
America and also to Asiatic and Afri-
can ports, according to advices re
ceived at Buenos Aires through dipIo-
matte channels.
Dispatches from Constantinople re-
port the massacre of 400 Armenians by
Kurds in Anatolia. The Kurds shot
the men, but the women and children
were locked In a church and burned to
death the dispatches, say.
NJ Ramadana, rebel chief in the dis
trict of Mesureata, Tripoli, has been de-
feated and killed by government forces,
says . telegram from Tripoli. Two
thousand of the followers of the rebel
leader also were killed or captured.
A municipal strike has been called
in Cor<Jiff oil
patches received at London. The Gene
terry workers are affected and the
families OF those dying have had to dig
graves for their dead.
Miss Marion G. Parsons, an Amer.
lean Red Cross nurse Of Berkeley,
Calf, has been appointed by the
Czecho-Slovak Red Cross to be direc-
tor of the state school Of nursing, &C.
cording to advices. 1t was stated she
will remain in Prague for two years.
Great Britain's external debt on
March 31st. last, amounted to f1,277,.
$685. 900, according to a White paper re-
Gently published OF this amount H.
DAG, TIA, 900 Is due to the United States,
including some small amounts borrow.
ed from Continental countries which
have to be paid back in United States
dollars.
Andre Liesse, editor of the financial
journal Economiste, published in Paris
declared in an article that France will
be obliged to import 4,4O9. 24O, ,OOe
pounds of breadstuffs, and that the
United States has the largest available
quantity for that purpose. He remarks
France will be able to profit by the
fall In the Chicago wheat market.
GENERAL
Leslie Allen, a negro, was shot and
killed near Virgilina, Va, by a posse
Of Halifax county citizens, following
charges that Allen had insulted two
small white girls at Buffalo Springs,
Va
Forty-twO steamship companies and
freight brokers, including virtually all
the big transatlantic lines, have been
indicted by the federal grand jury at
New York on charges of conspiracy
and restraint of trade in violation OF
the Sherman antitrust law
announcement that the gunboat Sac.
ramento had been ordered to La Ceiba
Honduras, ready to protect American
interests If necessary, revealed that of
f'cials have been watching with grow.
ing concern revolutionary movements
developing in several Central American
countries.
Clarence Coombs, alternate pilot OF
the Texas Wildcat" one of thres
American entries in the international
Paris to assist Roland Rohlfs, former
holder Of the worlds altitude record, in
his attempt to lift the Gordon Bennett
aviation cup.
The marquis of Blanford and Lord
Ivor Churchill have been left $1,000.
600 each by their grandfather, William
X. Vanderbilt, it became known when
a summary of Mr.. vanderbilt's will
was made public. Both are sons of the
Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Con
suelo Vanderbilt
Plans for making Honduras dry"
are being made by Gen. Lopez Quit
terez, president of the republic, ac-
by Dr. Eusebio Toledo, Honduran con-
sui general at New Orleans.
A misstep caused Mrs. Philomena
Mustaci to fall to her death at Chi
cago in the huge bread mixer in her
husbands bakery. The police worked
two hours extracting the body, near
ly every bone in which was broken.
| A call for all italians and friends OF
Italy" to celebrate 'Fiume day." on
September 18th, anniversary of the oc-
cupation of Fiume by D'Annunzio and
his forces, was issued at New York by
Whitney Warren, newly appointed rep
resentative of the D'Annunzio govern.
ment in the United states.
Knowing her death was only mat
| ter of hours because of burns recetypu