The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-09
FOREIGN.


as commander of the anti-Bolshevist
forces in the south of Russia.
Bolshevist forces on the Polish
front. are being regrouped and fresh
forces brought up, the Polish war Of
flee advised Major General Brynk, mil
itary attache of the Polish legation.
Polish successes are reported along
the Slutz river, where Bolshevist at
tack has been repulsed. General Lit
owskfs forces captured 300 Bolshev-
lists, four guns and much ammunition
and other material.
Lieut.. Stanislaw Zebrowski Of the
Polish army, tried by court-martial and
found guilty Of a charge of having mis-
appropriated 10000 marks belonging to
his regiment, has been sentenced to be
shot at Warsaw.
Jews clashed with Moslems at ,Jeru-
salem on Easter Sunday and 1SS cas-
ualties resulted, said news agency
dispatch from that city. Most of the
casualties were slight The military
is controlling the situation.
blind prodigy, has had the announce
ment made in Berlin that she has as
signed all her royalties and income
from the sale of her books in Germany
Tor all time to the Association of
Homes for Blind German Soldiers.
The first aeroplane to rise from and
alight again on the deck of warship
was one of those aboard the Furious
while the British fleet was off Vigo
recently. Aeroplanes ascended from
the Furious during the war, but were
unable to land on the vessel again.
Famine conditions prevail in Slovak-
la, according to reports received in vi
emma 1t is reported that people are
collapsing in the streets due to hun
ger, and that there have been hunger
riots in various districts. In Karschau
the populace invaded the office of the
Czech food controller and dragged him
to the street and killed him.
Germany has delivered to France,
in execution Of the armistice terms,
2,6SS locomotives, of which 697 have
powers. OF the 1885 locomotives re-
tanned by France, 151 are in need of
extensive repairs, according to an Of
ficial statement issued by Yves Le-
trocquer, minister of public works.
Members of the Jockey Club of
Paris, most exclusive of its kind in
Europe, have resolved to boycott taxi
cabs owing to the extraordinary in
crease in taxi rates. Any member in
fringing on this covenant" will be
fined $50. But this is one Of innumer-
able instances showing what France
means to do to beat down the prices.
GENERAL.
Toe stecher and Ed rangrer)
Lewis, heavyweight wrestfers, have
been matched for bout in the Sew
enty-first Regiment Armory at New
York on April 16.
Fighting Bob" Evans old battleship,
the Iowa, now condemned and out OF
commission, is destined to play an I'M
portant part in the experiments of the
Navy Department in the control of
ships by wireless.
Edward O'Toole, 56 years old, who
witnessed more electrocutions in Sing
Sing prison than any other employs
there, having been for nineteen years
a keeper in the death house, died at
his home in Ossining, N. Y.
The national debt of Canada on Feb
ruary 28th, last, amounted to $1,915,-
995, ,924, according to a report made in
the House of Commons. The Domin-
ions gross debt amounted to SO, 49,
098, 800 and its assets to 81, ,223, 1O3, ,066
Two children are dead as the result
of mistake on the part of she'll
shocked ex-soldier employed by man
ufacturing chemist at Edinburg, Ill.
The veterans mind wanders some
times. He packed strychnine in cal
omel bottle A coroner's jury held him
blameless.
The torpedo boat destroyer Peary,
named in honor of the late Rear Ad-
miral Peary, was launched at the
Cramps shipyard on the eleventh an
niversary of his discovery of the North
Pole.
Patrick Tyrrell, 90 years old, who
was one of the guards about President
Lincoln when the chief executive was
shot, is dead at Chicago. Mr. Tyrrell
was connected with the secret service
for many years.
A delegation representing six asso-
Citations of war veterans of Canada
presented petition to Acting Premier
Foster for a bohus of $1,000 for every
man who served in France, $1,000 for
service in England, and $1,000 for
service in Canada. The petition had
100000 names.
With their heads badly crushed and
their throats cut, five small children
of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Cowart were
found dead in a tent, in which they
had been making a temporary home
three miles south of Elk City, Okla
The wife and mother lay beside the
children with her throat badly