The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-10-21
FOREIGN

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wounded when 80 trucks of ammuni-
ton exploded at Fort Rudmei, Ru-
manian arsenal and fortification.
Wholesale suspension of business by
lstores and factories in the city OF
lPuebla, Mexico. was reported in pro-
test against alleged excessive taxation
by the state government.
The Colombian Senate. after three
sessions during which there was much
discussion. ratified the treaty which
I the United States by which Colombia
is TO receive S25.000,O00.
According TO the latest statistics the
German casualties in the war were L.
SoS.54 killed and Apt, 143 wounded,
including eases returned on the
wounded list more than once.
A Spanish cabinet council has ap
proved a new naval program for the
construction of fifty-eight warcraft of
various classes during the next six
years. The vessels to be built are four
fast cruisers, six destroyers, twenty
gunboats and twenty-eight submarines.
Regular white slave auctions have
been discovered and ended by the
Vienna police. In one instance 15-
year-old girl was sold by her mother
for the equivalent of one dollar The
girl got pair of stockings. The
mother was sentenced TO three months
at hard labor.
Philip ScheidemGn, former secre-
tary of foreign affairs, was fired upon
during meeting of the German Peo-
pies party in Ludenscheid. Westpha-
liza. The bullet went wild, and Herr
Scheideman was uninjured. Five per-
sons Were arrested for the attempted
assassination.
A desperate situation which al
ready has cost two lives from violence,
is reported at Puebla, Mexico, where
demonstrations against the state gov
ernment's allegedly excessive tax laws
continue. Many of the stores have
been closed, bread and milk supplies
are said to be exhausted and food
scarce.
The yacht Lucullus, ON which Gen.
Baron Wrangel, former head of the
anti-Bolshevist government in South
Russia, was making his home in Con-
stantinOple, was struck at the en-
trance of the harbor by the British
steamer Adria and sunk with the loss
of two lives. General Wrangel and
Baroness Wrangel were ashore.
A robber who was foiled in an at
tempt to rob the Bank of Hamilton.
Ont, after pistol duel with an Off
cfal of the institution, tried his for
tunes again with better success. He
walked into the Union bank, said TO
clerk: "They stopped me yesterday
but won't today" pointed a pistol az.
him, grabbed $1,000 and escaped.
GENERAL
Sam Mirabella of Chicago slipped
while making vine and fell head firss.
into the barrel. He was dead when
relatives found HIM.
Thirty-five horses and mules and
three motor trucks of the garbage and
street cleaning departments of the city
of Little Rock We're lost III fire that
swept the city stables, in the east part
of the city. The loss Is estimated at
$25,OOO Only one of the thirty-six
animals in the stable was saved.
The. railroad brotherhoods have a
strike fund of 100000, which is in
sufficient for q general strike of any
length, John Grunau, president of the
United Association of Railway En-
ployes of North America and leader
of the so-called 'outlaw" strike OF
last year, declared in Chicago.
A resolution calling upon Congress
and President Harding to enact legis-
lation and amend the national prohi
bition enforcement act to permit the
manufacture of light wines and beer
In order that the breweries might be
reopened, thereby relieving the unem
ployment situation, was presented If
the meeting of the city unemployment
commission at st. louis.
Decisions of lower courts holdin,
that irrigation companies can fore
close on farmers for failure to pa,
water rent We're in effect upheld wheI
the Supreme Court declined to review
appeals of John H. Martens and 9th
ers of Idaho against the Twin Fall
Oakley Land and Water Company.
Capt. A. B. Randall, master of tn,
steamship Hudson, has been cleared O
= charge of violating one of the mos
, sacred laws of Inc seas in that h,
| failed to give aid to seamen in dis
tress. II. A. Sargent and J. E. Wilson
| federal steamboat inspectors, decided
that his failure to pick up three mel
adrift in disabled motor boat of
New York harbor recently did not con
stitute willful neglect of duty.
Mrs. r. ]. Rocker, 33, has been ar
rested in Memphis by federal officer
on charge Of being fugitive from
Justice, she being under Indictment il
Dallas, Texas. the Officers said in con
nection with the embezzlement of $40.
900 from the West Side National Banl
in that city. According to the officers
Mrs. Rocker, for whom a search ha.
been under way for six months, wa: