The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-09-09
FOREIGN

stage in Berlin while singing In
Aida He had been engaged to sing
| in the Metropolitan Opera house in
New York the coming season.
Two soldiers We're killed and more
than twenty wounded wnen $500 Hun
garian regulars and volunteers clashed
with Austrian gendarmerie on the
Austro-EIungarian frontier, snid a
Vienna dispatch to the Morgenpost.
Mustapha Renal pasha Turkish Ma
.ionalist leader, is fighting stubborn
! ly against the Greek army in his last
attempt TO save Angora. His army is
continually being pressed by the
Greeks, who are only forty miles from
the city. The Turkish losses have been
exceedingly heavy.
Government officials would be au-
thorized to send 10000, 600 pesos worth
of food to relieve famine sufferers of
Russia under provisions of bill in
troduced In the Chamber Of Deputies
by Senior Muzio at Buenos Aires. So
cialist members of the chamber have
indorsed the measure.
Informal discussions are taking
place at Paris between American H.
nanciers with the purpose of estab-
fishing closer cooperation between
American banking interests in France
end evolving practical methods for
helping French industries through
these institutions. Five of the largest
American banks and trust companies
have offices there.
The discovery of u generally un-
known Rembrandt birth of Christ
estimated to be worth more than $780,
0OO is reported from Nottingham. The
painting. which is signed by the great
Dutch master, is "A inches by 4S inches
iii size. For the last 450 years it has
been in the possession of the family
Of Its present owner, Mrs Catherine
Gadd. widow of a prominent lace
manufacturer
The worlds poultry congress was
opened in Holland by Queen Wilhel-
nina and Prince Henry. Fifteen coun-
tries sent exhibits. The United States
is represented by educational displays,
among them n model poultry farm,
which greatly interested the queen.
Demonstrations of the methods en-
ployed on such farms were given by
Professor Rice of Cornell and Profess
sor Beach of the University of Cali
fornia.
GENERAL
Harry Meadows, Is years old. COM
mitted suicide at Springfield, Mo-,
rather than go to school, where he
feared the other boys would "pick on
him.
Eugene NJ. Stafford of Boston, a
halloonist, fell 600 feet to his death
at a fair at North Adams, Mass. His
web belt broke as he changed para
cllutes in an attempted double para
chute drop.
One dead. two dying and ten others
for whom physicians hold out little
hope. and two more with only des
perate chance for recovery, nre vic
tins of tondstools eaten by mistake
for mushrooms at La Porte. Ind
The wheat land plowIng match. a
contest open to pl0wmen of the world,
wis Itli Otl tue JOiiu NOll luTlIi near
Plainfield. III. Over 10000 persons
Witnessed the final burrows turned.
The great prepondernnce of entries
was In the tractor contests
Joseph Cain, sheriff of Boone coun-
ty. Ind, was shot to death in bat.
tie with whisky bandits. One bandit
was wounded. His three companions
driving truckload of whisky, es
capped. The wounded man said they
had come from Chicago.
Daniel Tobln, president of the In
ternational Brotherhood Of Teamsters,
Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers
and member of the executive council
of the American Federation of Labor
refused to affirm or deny reports that
he had resigned from the executive
council He also refused to say whe
ther he had resigned as treasurer OF
the American Federation of Labor.
Word reached Watertown, N. Y. OF
the sinking of the schooner Oliver
Mowatt, coal laden, after n collision
in Lake Ontario off the main DUCK
Islands with the freighter Key West
The schooner WAS cut in two and the
captain, Thomas L. Van Duesen, 65
of Picton, Ont, his mate and WON
an cook went down with the ship.
David Behnke of the Checkerboard
field, carrying a woman passenger
won the Labor Day airplane derby III
Chicago, flying the fifty -five-mile
course in 40 minutes. He was closely
followed by Price Hollingsworth, John
Kiser and james Curran. The other
five starters, including Charles Dick
inson, the oldest pilot in the Chicago
district, who is 65 years old, finished
within few minutes more
The death of Miss Mary Louise
Graffam, missionary of the Ameri
can Board Of Commissioners for For
eipu Missions nt Siyas Asia Minor