The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-10-28
FOREIGN

! Three thousand tons of German toy
arrived in Boston on the American
steamer Deranof Capt Thomas Cart
wright of the Deranof said he counted
sixty iron steamships under construc
tion as he passed up the river Elbe.
Prime Minister Lloyd George has de-
cided definitely to leave for Washing.
ton Nov. 5 on the liner Aquitania, ar
riving in time, it is expected, for the
afternoon session of the armaments
conference on its opening day, Nov. IL.
much blood and manned so many of
her sons, dueling must be severely re-
pressed, declares NJ. Bonnevay, French
minister of justice, in circular ad-
dressed to public prosecutors all over
France.
On the morning of the explosion of
the bomb in his Paris home, Myron T.
Herrick, American ambassador took
out an accident policy for the en-
ployes and also against damage to his
residence Under his contract he must
make good to the Due de Broglie the
5000 damage done to the house and
furniture.
A bald eagle with a wing spread Of
seven feet, attempted to carry away
a 9-year-old girl named Gibbs from the
veranda of her home at vanderhoof, b.
C. Struggles of the child and her
mother prevented the bird from get
ting away and it was finally beaten to
death by Mathew Semple. The girl
suffered flesh wounds.
The Munich correspondent of the
London Times is informed that the
Germans have perfected triple-bar-
relied machine gun, electrically oper-
ated, weighing twenty-five pounds and
capable of spreading 1000 rounds per
minute in a circle. The three barrels
could be operated by gunner half
mile distant.
The government at Pekfng has ap-
pointed a commission to investigate
the opium situation in the Ful1ien
province. An appeal has been made to
fort to stop poppy planting in the
province. An appeal has been made to
DIR. X. Wellington Koo, minister to
Great Britain, for foreign assistance
and cooperation.
A British mission will soon proceed
to Anatolia to sound the Nationalists
regarding peace. The Angora govern
ment has already advised the British
embassy that the delegates would be
welcome. The feeling in Constantine
pie Is that the cessation of the long
drawn out conflict in Asia Minor may
passibly be in sight
GENERAL
John Christmas, negro, of Cham
paign, was hanged at Urbana, Ill. 1t
was the first hanging in this county
for more than forty years. Christman
killed his wife with razor last sum-
mer.
Miss Annie Stone, 103 years old, the
Oldest woman voter in Massachusetts,
if not in the United States, and a per-
sonal friend of President Harding and
Vice President Coolidge, died at the
Mount Pleasant home in Roxbury,
Mass. She had been ill only week,
a cold developing into pneumonia.
Nathan Loar, Mexican war veteran.
CtltDTdlGu Ills DHt iluuuTtuiH D1TIH-
day at Leavenworth. Kan. He was
born Oct, 1921, near Culpepper court
house, Virginia. His wife, with whom
he lived seventy-two years, died six
years ago. They were parents of ten
children. Loar has forty grandchild-
rem, fifty-three eat-grandchildren
and five great-great-grandchil
Mrs. r. G. Rocker, arrested at Mem
phis, Tenn, several days ago on fu-
gitive from justice warrant issued in
Dallas, Texas, where it is alleged by
federal officials she is under indict-
ment in connection with the mbezzle-
ment of $4,000 from the Southwest,
ern National Bank, was released when
she gave bond for $1,000 for her ap-
pearance in the Federal Court in Dal-
las.
Emma Richardson Burkett, Hills
dale, Ind, was sentenced to from SIX
months to three years in the peniten
tiary by Judge Alfred J. Talley fol
forging the name of the late Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt to fake note.
Citations directing James A. Still
dlNOlCc Suil " shON
cause why Mrs. Stillman should not bt
appointed general guardian of theil
sons, James and Alexander, were Is
sued by Surrogate Cohalan. They
were procured by Mrs. Stillman's coun
sci.
Thirty-five horses and mules ant
three motor trucks of the garbage ant
street cleaning departments of the cit.
of Little Rock were lost in fire tina
swept the city stables, in the east par
of the city. The loss is estimated a
$25, 600. Only one of the thirty-si.
animals in the stable was saved
resolution calling upon Congress
and President Harding to enact legis
lation and amend the national prohi
bition enforcement act to permit tn
manufacture of light wines and beer
in order that the breweries might b
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