The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-02-04
FOREIGN

claims under an order Issued Dy the
government.
Fifty-two persons were killed and
twenty-six injured In mine explosion
near -Delsnitz, In Sax
ony, according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Carlsbad.
Fifty-fiye cnses of sleeping sickness
have been reported during the past
four weeks in London. This Is large
increase. only twenty-three being re-
ported In the previous period OF four
weeks.
Simple ceremonies marked the per-
manent entombment Of "a soldier Of
France" representing the French IN
identified war hero, under the Arc de
Triomphe IN Paris. plain stone slab
marks the resting spot Of this unknown
poilu.
| Orders for suspension of work on re-
Gently claimed oil lands and prohibit
tion of new filings on oil territory af-
feet only the federal zone. but do not
apply TO private properties, says an in
dustry and commerce statement from
Mexico City.
The Frankfort Gazette, relative to
the attempt to kidnap Grover C. Berg
doll and Isaac Stecher, in Eberbach.
Baden, says that the wild west" meth
DDS as practiced by sheriffs in the bor-
der districts of Kansas and Colorado
are hardly adaptable to Germany.
| Gen. Ambrose Arrieta, one of the
eleven Arrieta brothers reported to
have been leading an insurrection in
Durango, has called at the headquar-
ters of General Lopez, government
commander there, and denied that
either he or any of his brothers ever
thought of starting a revolution
Thirty thousand refugees from
Crimea in the Caucasus, among whom
are twenty generals, seventy colonels
and nephew of the novelist, Tolstoy,
face starvation unless aid Is sent by
the allied governments, it is learned.
Typhus and other diseases are ram
pant and scores of deaths are being re-
ported daily.
GENERAL
Henry Martell and five children
were burned to death and two others
were burned seriously when fire de-
strOyed their home at Rochester, n. Y
c. w. Foster, who probably was the
Oldest fireman In active service in the
country, is dead at Lawrence. Mass,
aged 81. He had missed only six
alarms since he Joined the city fire de-
partment in 1850.
Brick making companies with head
quarters at Ogden, Utah, announced a
cut of from 15 to % per cent in the
cost of brick, which they said brings
the price virtually to pre-war levels.
Common brick was quoted at $3.50 q
thousand at the yards.
The Nashville Railway and Light
Company was fined $1,000 in case in
which it was alleged to have violated
the statute providing for the separa-
tion of the races on street cars. The
case will be appealed to the Supreme
C0urtf or test of the law.
Zemmes Walmsley, chairman of the
National Memorials Commission Of the
American Legion, announced his COM
mittee has decided to recommend ac-
ceptance of the $5,0O0,0O0 offered the
American Legion by the Knights of Co
lumbus for use in the erection of me-
mortal to those who died in France
Suicides in the United States in 1920
numbered GIL, including 707 children,
members of the Save-a-Life League
were told by DR.. H. NJ. Warren, presi-
dent. This exceeded the figures of
1919 by more than 1000, he said. Dur
ing the year 1904 women, a large in
crease, died through self-destruction.
The American Bonding and Casualty
Company with headquarters at Sioux
City, Iowa, capitalized at S5OOOOO aud
with 500, 600 worth of policies on
its books was declared insolvent at Chi
cago. Albert SABBATH, an attorney, was
appointed receiver. Liabilities were
said to be $3.OOO,O0 and assets Con
siderably less
What is said to be the first title in
surance company in the United States
to be organized and conducted by wom-
en-, is now in process of formation in
Philadelphia. 1t will be known us the
Women's Trust Company
Florence Harding lavender is the
latest color entrant into the category
of fashion, named after the wife of the
President-elect, who herself selected
the shade which will be turned out in
large quantities by well-known silk
mill The color is in orchid tone. Mrs.
Hardings second choice was blue,
between an electric and Il sapphire
This will be known as marion blue"
and used for a house dress
The praecipe in S5,0O00OO damage
suit against Henry Ford and his paper,
the Dearborn Independent, has been
filed in Circuit Court by Morris Gest,
theatrical producer, who alleged an ar
tice in the Independent on Jan % con-
tained ''libelous, slanderous and false
statements" concerning Mr.. Gest and
certain stage productions he has han
died. The article mentioned in the suit
was said to have attacked "Aphrodite"
and "MarrNN in nartipu1or tarv,,tnc