The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-24
FOREIGN

OF lSInlu, mas Deeu captured Dy Gr0cO>
British troops, after sharp skirmish-
ing.
| Representatives of italian employers
and the striking workmen who have
seized the factories have accepted Pre-
mier Giolittrs offer of mediation, 1t il
stated in advices from Rome
Three persons were killed and six
injured in an explosion in the Ionfoio
powder factory at Mantau, says Rome
dispatch. The explosion, which dam
aged several houses, is believed to have
been caused by parties unidentified.
| A dynamite bomb exploded in front
of the Friends club, in Talavera, su-
| burb of Madrid, Spain, doing enormous
damage but inflicting no casualties.
the police have found a number of
dynamite cartridges and also a deto-
nator.
The suggestion accredited to Pro-
visiOnal President de la Huerta of
Mexico that "dry" zone be estab-
lished in Mexico within sixty-five
miles of the United States border will
be discussed at an international con-
vention of the border chamber Of
commerce at Ell Paso. Oct. 4, 5 and 6.
1t is officially announced that the
total killed in the recent earthquakes
in Italy was ia. The mountainous
zone affected was thinly inhabited and
the destruction was limited to small
places. Normal life is being resumed.
The houses destroyed are being re-
placed by huts.
| The Chinese foreign office notified
Prince N. A. Koudachef, minister of
Russia, in charge of the Russian
legation by appointment of the late
czar, that in view of the nonrepre-
sentative status of the Russian lega-
tion, voluntary cessation of function
ing of the legation and Russian con-
sulate would be welcomed.
| Departure of $50 Japanese mostly
women and children, who sailed for
Japan on the Canada Maru was de-
clared by shipping authorities to be
evidence Of alarm felt over relations
between Japan and the United States.
Numbers Of the Japanese admitted
they We're leaving the country because
of the anti-Japanese sentiment in this
country.
| ahtAuh 10 SOteiih6 ibo hOuoihS PAOO-
lem by government action. The do
minion government agreed to loan the
provinces $25,00O,OOO at per cent,
the loan to be repaid in twenty to
thirty years. The provinces were en-
powered under certain simple condi-
tions carrying responsibility to lend
money to municipalities and munich
palities were empowered to lend money
to builders or to housing organiza-
tions, which are forbidden to pay divi-
dendn in excess of six per cent
GENERAL
! = The Supreme Court of Maine has
. decided that a woman should not be
required to tell her age in order to
, qualify as a voter.
: Department of justice agents and
the police are still without a definite
clew to the identity of the persons re-
sponsible for explosion in Wall street.
Robbery, jealousy and other eIe-
ments entered into the brutal Staying
of John Zelek, foreman OF the stock
department in a large warehouse
whose body was discovered in small
Mushroom in Chicago He had been
beaten to death in a most savage man.
ner, plank and hammer being the
weapons Scattered about the floor
near the body We're number of love
letters which the police are investigat-
ing
All this talk about the horse becom-
ing extinct because of the universal
use of automobiles is idle gossip. ac-
eording to the delegates who assem-
bled at Chicago for the twenty-ninth
annual convention of the Master
Horseshoers' National Protective Asso.
ton. Not only are horses increasing
in numbers, but also in value, accord
ing to official statements, and trans
portation by horsepower still costs less
than by motor truck.
!; J. Milton Smith, as counsel for
James O'Brien of Mount Vernon. has
!, filed suit for $4,000 against the
city of New York for injuries received
in the Wall street bomb explosion.
Charged with shipping more than
100000 worth of automobiles stolen
in Detroit thru eastern ports to Scan
dinavian countries, six Detroit per-
sons. one of them woman, have been
arrested at Detroit, and are being held
by, federal authorities under the Dyer
interstate automobile theft act.
held under guard.
Two suits of $1O,O00,0OO were filed
by the city of Chicago, on orders of
Mayor William Hale Thompson against
the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago
Daily News, respectively. The suits,
according to Corporation Counsel S. A.
| Ettleson, allege that charges made by
these newspapers in the primary cam
paign have injured Chicago financial
ly The charges alleged false state
ments to the effect that the city is
bankrupt and its credit exhausted.
They declared that these statements
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