The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-10-14
FOREIGN

including cases returned on the
wounded list more than once.
The feature of the reichstag bank
statement for the week ending Sept.
30, issued at Berlin, is an increase in
the paper currency circulation by A.
205, 100000 marks to S6,3S4 800, 900
marks. During the week ending Sept.
30 new bank notes and loan bank notes
to the amount of 213,7OOOOO marks
were issued.
! English cotton men so far have not
been disturbed by reports of an Amer
lean cotton shortage. Manager John
Ryland, connected with one of the
biggest Lancashire spinning companies
said he was not worried as all English
spinners hold big stocks and are not
buying because the cotton goods export
trade is dead.
Sir Ernest Shackleton and his party
have arrived at Lisbon on board the
vessel Quest, which has been damaged
by heavy storm off the west coast
of Portugal 1t is recalled that when
the Quest started out from England on
its voyage of exploration to the Ant
arctic. dispatches from London stated
there was not "single able-bOdied
seaman in its crew.
| Damaged by one vessel in a dense
fog off the southwest coast of Scot
land and then sunk by another coming
to its aid, was the fate of the Laird
line steamer Rowan, plying between
Glasgow and Dublin. Thirteen of the
Rowan's crew and three passengers
are missing Two passengers died aft
er being rescued by vessels which re-
sponded to the wireless S. o. S. call.
The American freighter West
Comak, bound with cargo from San
Francisco for Glasgow, rammed the
Laird liner Rowan, a GlasgowDublin
night passenger boat, in thick fog
off Corsewallpoint, Scotland, near the
mouth of the river Clyde. While the
Comak was lowering its boats to aid
the stricken ship, third steamer, the
Clan liner Clan Malcolm, from Glas-
Cow for Natal, South Africa, sped out
of the fog in answer to an S. o. S. call
and crashed amidships of the Rowan,
which sank minute later Thirteen
members of the Rowans crew and
three passengers We're lost.
GENERAL
Mrs. Myrtle Greenlee fell dead in re-
vival meeting in Paris ILL.,, while plead
ing with her husband to join a church.
The cause of death was described by
physicians as heart disease aggravated
by religious excitement.
The State Bank of Muncie, Kansas,
was robbed recently, and in an ex-
change of shots between the robbers
and bank officials, it is reported, L. E.
Worthington, cashier of the bank, was
shot. Telephone wires between Kan
sas City and Muncie were cut, pre-
sumably by the robbers.
Ray V. McCsraw, formerly vice pres
ident and general manager of the Mis-
souri, Valley Cattle Loan Company of
Omaha, which was declared bankrupt
some time ago, has surrendered to the
sheriff on indictments, one of which
charged embezzlement of 100000 of
the company's funds.
Flying at the rate of 141 miles an
hour, flying boat, piloted by Clifford
Webster, completed trip of 1SS miles
from Aberdeen, Md, to Fort Washing
ton, n. Y, in so minutes without
stop. A speed of 165 miles an hour
was maintained between Philadelphia
and the Battery, New York.
Directors of the Associated Dress
Industries of America bowed to the
I decision of Partisan designers and in
: dorsed the longer skirts. "This means
: that manufacturers of dresses over
| the country will take up the matter in
their respective organizations for indi-
, vidual action" said David ]. Moses
sohn, executive director. st is be-
: lieved that by spring the new length
t will be considered established and pub
!. licity approved"
One person is known to have been
= killed and two were injured seriously
Y by an explosion that wrecked a whole
! sale grocery in Detroit. Police began
' a search of the debris in the belief
: some of the occupants of apartments
S in the upper floor might have per-
ished. Joseph Caruso, proprietor of
. the grocery was unable to explain the
E explosion or give the police a clue.
t More than S1,OOO,0OO week was
! spent on the highways in Ohio during
Y the past summer, beginning the latter
E part of June Vouchers fo: n total of
: S2,461,5 ,504 were paid out by the Ohio
/ Highway Department for work done
r between June Is and July !. This Is
the largest amount ever spent in that
short period of time since the depart
ment was organized.
: broken engagement and the an
: nouncement that her promised fiance
was preparing to marry another girl,
led to the fatal shooting of Boyd Rid
: niger, 81, farmer, of Bradley's Ferry,
, fnear Lead HILL Ark. Miss Allie Stin-
nett, 81, his former sweetheart, in the