The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-14
FOREIGN.

France is sending note to German.
demanding action in the war gull
trials which the German government
has promised to conduct in the newl!
created Supreme Court at Leipzig
France is seeking evidence of goot
faith that Germany will fulfill heI
promises.
Because she could not read, Anns
Sherbetjian, young Armenian won
an. at Ellis Island, has been ordered
deported back to Turkey, where sht
may face death for her escape from 8
harem there to come to the Unifet
States to an unseen prospective bride
| groom.
The French cabinet at meeting ir
Paris instructed Minister of Justice
L'Hopiteau to open proceedings against
the general federation of labor with a
view to the dissolution of the organ
ization which has been supporting the
strike of the French railway men by
calling other strikes.
A fleet of twenty-five American mo-
| tor trucks is engaged in transporting
merchandise within the city of Shang-
| hal. 1t is the first public motor truck
service to be established in China and
is conducted by the China Garage Com.
pany of Shanghai, which started this
improved system of transportation
-"Gay Paree' is particularly gay
these days because the predictions of
an invasion by American money kings
and queens is coming true. 1t is con
servatively estimated that American
wealth arriving in Paris daily amounts
TO S2O,000,OO0 The Mauretania alone,
Just in, had a list of millionaires aggre-
eating $50,0O0.OOO.
The 100000 dance club opened in
Paris by Tom Morgan, the American
promoter, is nightly attracting Il large
and brilliant crowd of Americans,
Even the most spoiled visitors express
amazement at the riot of expenditure
manifest in the luxurious fittings. All
dishes ni:e of solid silver and cham
pagne is obligatory
General Erhardt, commander of the
Baltic brigade which recently entered
Berlin, has fled the country after ad-
dressing his soldiers He declared that
he was unwilling to surrender and did
not want to subject his brigade to
fighting if the government attempted
to take him by force. He hoped to re-
join his brigade if fighting broke out
again in Germany.
The total cost of the world war in
lives has reached the appalling figure
of 35,3SOO0O. according to final esti-
mates made by the Copenhagen Soci
ETY. for the Study of the Consequences
of the War made public. Thee figure:
were reached after an exhaustive study
of the decrease in the birth rates o.
the countries involved, as well as in
crease in deaths from causes directl.
attributed to the war Actual militar,
deaths in killed totaIed 9,S29.000, ac
cording to the report. Each nation in
volved lost the equivalent of S.S pc
cent of its population from all causes
Each nations actual killed equaled 3!
per cent of its population. Serbia wa
the heaviest sufferer of all the bellig
erents. She lost 80 per cent of he
total population, while her actual kille'
equaled l4.S per cent.
GENERAL.
Senator Wadsworth's resolution pro
posing to remove the New York stat
barge canal from government opera
tion and control has been adopted b.
the Senate.
The Hotel Knickerbocker in Ne,
York soon will be converted into a
office building, it has been announced
The value of the building and its cor
tents has been estimated at S4,0O0,00t
An ambition to die poor because 81
is disgrace for a man to die rich,
was expressed by Nathan Straus, 4
year-old retired millionaire philar
thropist at New York.
The Rev. A. r. Hoare, Episcopa
missionary at Point Hope, Alaska, II
miles north of Nome, was shot an
killed April % by james Mcclure, Is
his assistant, according to advices re
ceived at Seattle.
Mrs. Thomas Yosich of Cairo, Ill
mother OF IOur cnllufel, SuOl anu kllle
her stepfather, John Lilley, 53. be
couse, she asserted, he insisted on fore
ing his attentions on her. She surren
dered to the sheriff.
Chicago is to have the worlds great
est hotel, to cost $l5,000,00O and con
prise 1000 rooms This will mean
hostelry larger than the combine
Pennsylvania and Commodore hotels o
New York.
few hours after he had cried ''ba
luck" as picture fell from a wal
| William c. Krauter, a wealthy real es
tate man, was shot and killed in hi
home in Chicago. A clumsy effort t
make the crime appear one brough
about as the result of a detected rob
berry was made by the perpetrators
Two wills, one of which made Krau
ter's wife and stepson beneficiaries
and one which is now missing, figure il
the mystery, which is being probed b.
picked detectives.
The Delaware Legislature stands ad
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