The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-02-18
FOREIGN

troops at Coblenz. They have bee
sentenced to one year Imprisonment
each by the American military courts
The campaign against Spanish em
grafton is empha sized by some news
papers at Madrid. FL Debate urges tn
government to act to prevent the couL
try being robbed Of many of its bes
workers.
Twenty-three farmer boys from Z 1ex
as and Kansas, who came to German.
recently with consignment of IA:
milch cows presented to Germany b.
American farmers, were given recep
tion by the Bremen Senate.
The overthrow of the Bourgeois
governments of Spain, italy ant
France is outlined in documents seizet
in Paris after search following ths
discovery of widespread Communis
plot. The date fixed was May l.
American sailors who were fired OF
at Vladivostok We're attacked by a par
ty of Russians probably for the pur-
pose of holding them up, according te
advices received by Admiral Strauss
commanding the Asiatic fleet
Cancellation of the debts of allied
nations by the United States is urged
by the Tribuna in Rome in an editorial
on the economic and financial situation
in Europe. The newspaper says the
United States may find her very
strength II peril in future.
The cabinet crisis, which resulted in
the resignation of the ministry at Lis
bon, was caused by protests over the
shortage of oil, due to government re-
strictions on its transport. Many
sardine canneries and preserve fac
tories have closed. throwing 5000 per-
sons out of work.
The plant of the Socialist newspa
per Voratore, which was zeized by Com
munists of Trieste and has since been
occupied by Communist working
force, was burned by /: party of Fas-
cisti, or extreme Nationalists, as a Sc
quel to the assassination of carabin-
eer by Communists.
| Nearly 5000 of the 10,SO0 members
of the Diamond Workers Union at
Amsterdam are idle and the bottom
seems to have fallen out of the worlds
diamond market Experts in precious
stones in this city and in Antwerp say
an era of financial stringency has sup
planted the epoch of free spending
Three checks written originally for
small amounts, then certified and
raised to a total value of SIT, 200. were
cashed in banks in Montreal by Il mar
for whom police We're searching Made
with invisible ink, the original figures
an examination disclosed, faded aftel
cerrifications were made, enabling tn,
forser to write in his own figures.
GENERAL
r decrease of about 20 per cent il
4 the wage scale Of the building trade
n in Minnesota was announced there b.
r Morris Schumacher. president of TIL
Minnesota Building Employers Asso
j, citation.
g More than $50 guests 1T the Mile
/ hotel mt Minneapolis were rescue,
from fire starting on the first fiooi
Forty of the guests, including fifteel
women, were overcome by smoke am
l. carried down ladders by fircmen.
Sleeping sickness has caused forty
>, seven deaths in New York City sine
Jan. /, Health Commissioner Copclan
y announced. Eleven new cases and on
l. death We're reported there. bringin
, the total since New Year to 179
= Federal highway inspectors found i
a culvert some miles from Guide Rocl
Neb., eleven safety deposit boxe
stolen from the Guide Rock state banl
Liberty bonds and other securities [
!, the value of nearly $4,000 were foun
:. in the boxes.
d Low tide in Baltimore's labor stu:
l. ton has been passed. OF the 1900
.e workers in the city without einpio,
T. ment, one-half will be given work will
y in forty days, according 10 IA surve
/ just completed by the industrial HI
reau of the board of trade.
IA Police Judge l.. l.. Kent Of Atlant:
I Ga, found himself guilty of violatn
lie traffic law on evidence submitted h
N the policeman who docketed the cas-,
e. and imposed theu sual fine. He pait
is begin a final period of consultation .
the personnel and policies of the II,
:. ministration. President-elect Hardin
.t returned here by automobile to spen
: most of the time until inauguratio
y day. The president-elect left his lious
; boat Victoria late in the afternoon :
y Daytona. seventy-five miles south, a
L ter changes in plans based on the Ill
! certain progress of the vessel up tn
Y Indian river.
The murder mystery which ha
grown up around the death of Richar
u S. Lawrence, former Denver man, SUI
L posed TO have been killed by trai
n March II. 1918, was exploded in Mad
t. son, Wis, with the announcement {
e results of an official cxaminatio
= made of the body. Investigation b
e DR.. G. Fl. Bunting, University of Wi
r consin, pathologist, and DR.. w.
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