The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-16
FOREIGN

in the Chamber of Deputies.
Turks are beginning to realize the
critical situation created by the tri'
umphant Greek advance into Anatolia,
and what they regard as a complete
rupture of peace negotiations.
Police Inspector Turner Of BARGE
Iona, Spain, was killed in a saber duel
with Police Captain Toro, according
to advice from that city. The quarrel
arose over a question of service in the
police force, 1t is said.
Victories for the Poles in the Pripet
region and in Volhynia are reported in
advices received at Warsaw. The boil
shevist cavalry leader, General Bud
emmy, has been defeated. the advices
stated. he is fleeing to Rovno, upon
which the Poles are marching.
President Wilson has accepted the
invitation of the League of Nations to
call meeting of the assembly of the
league early in November, it was an
nounced in the House of Commons in
London by Cecil NJ. Harmsworth, un-
dersecretary for foreign affairs.
1t is announced that the Banks of
England, France, Spain and Portugal
have combined TO run a private air
service for the carriage of securities,
etc, between the four countries. The
service has been started over the
route, being London, Paris, Bordeaux,
Madrid, Lisbon
A dispatch to the vossiche Zeitung
from fTilSit hot of inb
the Bolshevists have broken through
the Polish northern front and crossed
the Beresina river at three points, The
dispatch adds that panic has broken
out in Wilma, from which the Polish
occupation authorities have fled.
W. Fl. Taft has been appointed to
represent the Grand Trunk Railway
system on the Board of Arbitration to
determine the amount to be paid by the
Dominion government for the stock of
the corporation. The announcement
was made officially by Howard Kelley,
president of the Grand Trunk at Mon
treal.
Marie Anne Boude GagnOn, under
of death at Quebec for the
murder by cruelty and neglect of her
Aurora, gave birth to
twins, boy and a girl in the Jail in
The father, Telesphore
Gagnon, is serving life sentence in
st. Vincent de Paul penitentiary for
in the murder of his daugh-
ter.
GENERAL
John S. Burgill, miner was shot
to death by a posse at Hazard, KY,
when he barricaded himself in a vacant
house after killing Deputy Sheriff r.
s. Wooten and Robert Galbraith,
negro, while resisting arrest.
j. B. Norman and his 17-year-old
daughter We're killed, and twelve other
persons knocked unconscious by light
ming striking a schoolhouse at Enville,
Fla, as the people were assembling
at the school for religious services.
The building was set on fire.
A report just completed by the
Phelps Dodge Mercantile Company at
Tombstone, Ariz., showing purchases
of agricultural products which it made
in Arizona last year, proves that farm
ing and ranching in that state are
steadily becoming the rivals of mining
and stockraising.
Prime Minister Meighen, at Ottawa,
Can, announced election of his cab
met containing all the members ex-
cept two of the cabinet of Sir Robert
Borden, his predecessor. The new
cabinet officers are r. w. Wigmore,
minister of customs and internal
revenue, and F. B. McCurdy, minister
of public works.
Eight million bottles of champagne
will be among the items on the lists
Of the commodities to be placed on sale
July 2S when the sequestered prop
erty of Baron Walter de Mumm will
be auctioned off at his estate near
Rheims. This property was seized in
1913 subsequent to the baron's re-
sumption of German citizenship when
the war began.
| The estate left by Ohio c. Barber,
the late match manufacturer, was ap-
praised at S5,081, ,115, in an inventory
filed in Common Pleas Court at Akron
Ohio.
| Ten armed automobile bandits
robbed the Plainfield State Bank OF
1000 in cash and government bonds
at Joliet, Ill.,, and escaped after sweep.
ing the main street of the town with
rifle fire, wounding seven persons in
all. One of the bandits was wounded
Provisional President de la Huerts
of Mexico, has abolished the moving
picture censorship and the censorship
department of the ministry of the in
terror will hereafter be used "to fos
ter rather than hinder the industry"
Federal inquiry into recent escapes
of aliens from Ellis Island followed
the arrest and holding in $500 bail OF
Xavier F. Destefano, male nurse at the
immigration station there. Sixteen
aliens were reported to have escaped
but this was denied by Superintendent
Baker. Destefano was charged with
assisting John TreSsey, an Irish stowa