The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-17
| FOREIGN

Will O,OOO uedtuS, Ill tue present cp
demic
Armed and masked men attacke
four police officers at Tullow, IRELAND
Two of the constablee were shot dea
and another seriously wounded.
A number of the members of the die
are planning to visit the United State
next summer with hope of improvin
the relations between Japan and tn
United States.
The Polish armies of the northeast
full attacks upon the Russians and tool
5000 prisoners, four guns and tw,
armored trains.
Advices from West Siberia an
nounce the formation of a peasant re
public in the Altai region, with a wal
council composed of the military chief!
and three civilians.
The French police have begun 9
thorough investigation into the death
of Olive Thomas, an American motion
picture actress who succumbed in
Paris to poison taken, it is said, by
mistake.
Three companies of Italian infantry
have seized a factory at Lucca, which
had been occupied by workmen and
have forced the men in the plant to
surrender 10000 bombs, according to
dispatches.
.Tohnn AaSon of Numedahl, Norway,
who is eight feet and nine inches tall
ifrht ;x,fo
police station in Chicago and confided
that he was lost The police captain
directed him to his hotel.
According to estimates by the JAP
anese press, Japan will have 120 sub
marines by 1927, when it is expected
eight battleships and eight battle crui-
sers on the naval building program
will have been completed.
The soviet government of Russia
has published figures claiming that
under the 1919 program the total Red
army strength, actual and potential,
was 4,750,000 men, and that this pro-
gram has been restored as result of
the Polish campaign.
Thirty men were killed, scores
wounded and damage amounting to
$250,000 was done by the explosion of
dynamite in Callao bay at Lima, Peru.
Negligence in handling the explosive
is declared to have caused the acci.
dent.
A new journal, with policy of open
opposition to the league of nations
will attempt publication in Geneva II
November, when the first meeting Of
the league is to be held at Geneva
The projected publication is sponsored
by intellectuals of various countrie,
who are against the treaty of Yer
sailles
GENERAL
Bodies of 1853 American soldier
were brought home from st. Nazair
and other points in France on tn
| transport Sherman.
Nine men are dead and four ar
i'll in the hospital at Edgewoo,
arsenal, at Baltimore, from drinking
a liquor, the principal ingredient o
which was said to be wood alcohol.
The Connecticut legislature in ses
sion at Hartford, by concurrent actio
ratified the woman suffrage amend
ment to the federal constitution, mai
ing Connecticut the thirty-sevent
state to ratify.
Evelyn Nesbit has been named de
fendant in a suit for $2,9SS begun b
Frances & Co., Inc, dreSsmakers, fo
merchandise alleged to have been sol
between Oct. 1st and Oct. 31st, 191!
Among the items charged were gown.
hats, wraps and capes.
Street frontage is so valuable
Broad street at the Curb market /
New York, where the brokers tax
your money by wiggling their finger
) that a four-pane window on til
. ground floor of No. 20 rents for $500
a month. 1t is paid by four concerns
Nash & Co., Agostine & Co., NJ. Hal
mayer and Joe Goldstein.
| Omaha, Neb.-U. G. Bridenbaugh, s.
retired banker of Coleridge, Neb., ent
. ed his life here by jumping from
bridge into the Missouri river. He ha
| SulltIcu q ntINOuS
overwork, it was said, and had been III
der treatment at a Council Bluffs no
. pital. His physician gave him permi
sion to leave the hospital temporaril
to attend theater in Omaha
, Rural letter carriers purpose to stal
a campaign among congressman an
1 United States senators for the enac
! ment of legislation granting them a
allowance for maintenance of equi]
ment, it was learned at Indianapoli
when the first annual convention
the National Federation of Rural LIE
ter Carriers was convened. tt
amount to be asked will be 5000 al
nually, it was said.
A spread of infantile paralysis in tt
vicinity Of Boston, which, while not a
epidemic, yet constitutes a conditio
that has caused some concern anon
health officials, was announced by II
state department of health. A total
ninety-seven cases in the state was r