The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-30
FOREIGN

strikers IN Cork Jail, is dead His death
followed Mayor MacSwiney only one
day. Murphy was a member of the
Irish Volunteers, and was well known
as an athlete.
An increase of $1.15 day in the
wages OF Alberta coal miners, granted
by operators in conference with repre-
sentatives of the United Mine Workers
of America, has been announced in
Calgary, Alberta
Total value of fish and fish prod-
ucts marketed in Canada during 1919
was $56, ,4S5,579, compared to Se0,25O,-
544 in 1918. These figures were an
nounced at Ottawa by the dominion
bureau of statistics.
Fifteen thousand Russian Bolshe
visit soldiers have been taken prison.
ers, and many cannon and large guam
titles of war material have been cap-
tured in raids carried out by General
Baron Wrangel's forces recently.
Incontrovertible evidence, 1t was
said, has reached the Spanish and
Portuguese authorities that the rail-
road strike in Portugal was the be-
ginning of an attempt by the Bolshe.
visit elements to seize power.
The imports into France for the
nine months ended Sept 80 We're 81
1S9,000,000 francs, as compared with
"a, 56T, 100000 for the same period of
1919. The exports We're 1867 ,0O0.O0O
as compared with 6,704, 100000.
Fourteen japanese soldiers were
killed and nine We're wounded in re
cent fight with bandits at Chein-Tao.
Manchuria, in which the outlaws were
routed, say dispatches received The
bandits lost sixteen killed and the to-
tai casualties inflicted upon them are
said to be heavy
Action by the French government
to recover S1,372, 100, alleged to be the
value of war equipment which went
down with the steamship North Cam
bria Aug. 2, 1918, has been Instituted
in Admiralty Court in Brooklyn against
the Commonwealth and Dominion Line
Limited, of London.
Panama maintains sovereign rights
over the territory upon which Ameri-
can wireless stations have been erect
ed, Secretary of Justice Alfara ruled
in ordering the arrest of wireless op-
orator at Puerta Obaldio on charge
of wounding citizen of Panama. The
operator will be tried under the PAN
anna laws.
Canada's trade with the United
States continues to develop on both
sides of the account September fig
ures, issued showed exports to the
United States amounted to $49,943, 600,
as against $43,457 600 in the same
month last year, an increase of 10 per
cent. Imports from the United States
totaled $81, $4,000, against S85,917 900
an increase of % per cent.
GENERAL
New York trucking companies
adopted resolutions refusing recent de-
mands of their $4,000 employees for
shorter hours and increased pay, and
notifying them that they must work
ten hours for the present nine-hour
wage.
Edgar Carlton Stinger of Clear
Lake, Mimi, sent gold watch and
chain to the Democratic national COM
mittee as his contribution to the
Democratic campaign fund. Still run
ming, the watch was received at head
quarters in New York, with letter
from Stinger
The Otis Company announced at
Ware, Mass, that its cloth department
would operate only four days week,
beginning at once, because of lack of
orders. About 1000 operatives are af-
fected A part of the underwear de-
partment already is on a four-day
schedule.
Three trainmen were killed, five
others injured and five or six pas
sengers shaken up in q head-on col
lision between two Norfolk & West
ern passenger trains at Rural Retreat,
Va, according to an official announce
ment at the railway headquarters at
Roanoke, Va. The trains met on
siding.
The convicts, George Stivers and
Marcus Bassett, who escaped from
Sing Sing prison, were captured in
the woods at Warner, N. III.
The speed typewriting championship
of the United States and Canada was
won at New York by George L. Hoss-
field of Paterson, n. j., who typed APP
proximately 131 words a minute for
sixty consecutive minutes. The con-
test featured the opening of the seven
teenth national business show.
Testimony taken at the New York
hearing of the joint legislative com
mittee investigating the alleged build
ing trust, relative to the payment of
So, 1000 by E. B. Levy, real estate
owner and builder, to have a strike
settled on one of his building projects,
will be submitted to the proper
prosecuting authorities for immediate
action"
Mrs. Milla D. Shonts, widow of
Theodore P. Shonts, former president
of the Interborough Rapid Transit