The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-08-19
FOREIGN

has arranged to give preference to
jamaican sugar.
The German government has ap-
pealed to the German residents of Up
per Silesia to keep cool and not start
anything pending solution of the Up
per Silesian issue by the council OF
the League of Nations.
In his annual report the chief med
ical officer to the ministry of health
states that consumption In England
lis declining by over 10000 cases dur
ing 1920, and that there were 16,OOO
fewer deaths from the disease.
Lady Bonham-Carter. daughter OF
former Premier Asquith, has refused
an invitation to become candidate for
member of Parliament for Westmins-
ter. to succeed the late William Ash
mead Bartlett COutts.
Forty-five seamen are believed to
have been drowned following the
wreck of the freight steamer Shoshu
Maru, which was disabled by a ty-
phoon and battered to pieces on the
rocks off the LOochoo islands. Only
one of the ships personnel is known to
have survived.
The Trading Company, capitalized
at 100000 ven (normally about S.
900, ,0O0), and one of the largest firms
in Japan, has announced that 1t is
closing its doors at the end of the
MONTH 1t has liabilities amounting
to over 1OO,OO0,OOO yen (s50,000,000
normally.
Robert Stolz Vienna composer has
broken the worlds record for the in
come received from single piece of
dance music, according to the Neue
Berliner. His "Salome Foxtrot" has
netted him 100000 kronen in royal
ties. To figure out the wealth of the
foxtrot millionaire In real money: an
Austrian krone is worth about one
tenth of cent.
Meatless days, bread and macaroni
restrictions and sugar embargoes, |
which have been In force since the be-
ginning of the war, have finally been
abolished in Rome. Food cards are
low no langer needed to procure the
,are necessities of life and gradually
such luxuries as pastry, cakes, ice
,ream and other delicacies are being
'old In their prewar quality and
mount.
Frontier restrictions were carried to
n extreme when they prevented an
AUSTRIAN fire brigade from crossing
he italian border to fight blaze
ome buildings on the Italian side of
he Premier Pass railway station
aught fire and the Austrian towns
Iremen turned out. italian gendarmes
their vises, and having none
hey were forced to watch the ware
ouses burn.
GENERAL
Charges that Mrs. Winnifred Bag
", nurse. was killed by electricity
uring an X-ray demonstration at the
'nxeant of yrogress at Cnicago, weredI
made by a detective agency which In
-estigated the case.
A mob of 1,5OO or 1900 armed men
aptured Jerome Whitfield, negro.
lear Kingston, N. c., charged with at
acking a white woman of Jones coun-
y, and after hanging him to a tree by
he roadside riddled his body with bull
cts.
Bootleggers are blamed for bomb |
explosion that wrecked the residence
Of Ashbel w. Smith, states attorney
for Lake county, at Waukegan, Ill.
Smith has been exceptionally active in
violators of the prohibit
ton laws.
Information which the police believe
will clear up seventeen gang murders
which have occurred in New York, De
troit and Avon-by-the-Sea. N. j., was
given to New York detectives by Bar
follow Fontano, Italian barber. Terri
fled by secret threats of "being baked
in an oven," Fontano gave himself up
to the police and was charged with
homicide. Six other men were arrest
ed on Fontano's information.
Clarence NJ. Williams of Madison, a
student, and Miss Minnie Boiles OF
Baraboo, Wis, were drowned when a
steel rowboat capsized in Devils Lake.
at Madison, Wis.
WOrkmen of the Keene- -Strunk Coal
Company at Helenwood, Scott county.
Tenn, have found buried in the earth
and petrified giant six feet four
inches tall. The fingers are perfect,
with long, tapering iails. The hands
are folded across the breast. On either
side of Its head are two horns each
about four inches in length. Its weight
is about 45O pounds.
Wasps on business bent may be
| pests, but two women here owe their
lives to wasp stings. Mrs. j. E. Nit
chum, who lives near Hickman, KY,
was awakened by the stings, discov-
cred her home was on fire and about
to collapse upon her and adopted
laughter Mrs. Mitchum rushed to the
girls room, aroused her and assisted
her to safety in the yard just as the
house fell In. The wasps had built
their nests in the attic of the house
and the heat and smoke drove them
out. One sting on Mrs. Mitchum's