The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-05-14
FOREIGN

territory near Puerto Limon, on tn
! eastern coast of Costa Rica, is report
! ed. 1t is believed that this Is the frs
discovery of natural gas in Centra
America.
Outlaws have captured British mis-
sionary named Stevens near Fengh
sien, in the province of Shensi, it il
said in advices to the British legation
Dispatches indicate the object is Il
bring pressure to bear on provincial
authorities to. abandon oppressive
measures.
Ruins of a prehistoric city have beer
discovered by Prof Carl Blegen of the
American Archaeological School al
Athens. The city was situated betweer
Corinth and Mycenae, in southeastern
Greece, and pottery and fragments OF
statuary unearthed fix the date of its
prosperity at about 2OOO b. C.
| Twenty-four patches of American
workmen and immigrants, totaling g.
042 men, arrived in Petrograd from
December, 1920, to April l, and during
the first part of April 1000 additional
persons arrived, says Petrograd dis
patch. Most of the immigrants re-
manned in Petrograd. The others have
been sent into the provinces.
France held two-day observance
of the centenary of the death of Ma
poleon. A salvo of artillery at the In.
valides marked the passing of CEN
tury since the death of the great war.
rior at st. Helena and closed the
exercises. The celebration appeared to
have little appeal for the general pub
lie. a
A mule is not horse, according to
an opinion of the Manitoba Court of
Appeals, which awarded 500 and costs
to Thomas Pople, mule dealer,
against the city of Dauphin, Man. Po-
pie sold twenty mules there last sum-
mer, and was forced by town officials
to pay S5 head tax, which is levied on
horses brought to the town for sale.
He sued to recover the amount.
A Moscow dispatch announces the
quelling of the revolutionary move
ment in Tambov, led by General An
tonoff, former Bolshevist command
er. The dispatch says: From Tam
bow the destruction of Antonoff's 8
bands is reported. Antonoff escaped
Many of the bandits were killed, among
whom were all of the main staff. All
the arms and transports were cap
tured."
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and W.
Cameron Forbes, former governor,
composing President Harding's special
mission to investigate conditions in the
Philippine islands, settled down to in
vestigation work Immediately upon ar
rival at Manila. After popular dem
onstration in the shape of a parade of
all civic organizations, headed by
Mayor Fernandez, in honor of the com
missioners, the mission started action.
GENERAL
I. G. Brown and ]. W. Creole were
burned to death and several persons
were injured in fire which destroyed
boarding house at Richardson, La.
Frank Miller is held at Muskegon,
Mich, on charge of mayhem. 1t is
alleged he twisted off his wife's ears
because of her relations with Jaseph
Romenoff.
Charles Manzell, Ogden, Utah, patrol
man, on his first shift after a leave
of absence for war work, was shot to
death by bandits when he came upon
them robbing clothing store there.
The board of directors of the Pitts
burgh Chamber of Commerce has
adopted a resolution under which the
organization would form a 100000
corporation for the construction of l.
600 residences of moderate cost to be
rented at reasonable figure.
Five thousand people are facing
, semi-starvation in Cork, Ireland, and
10000 farmers are impoverished as a
!, result of the wrecking of thirty-five CO.
, operative creameries, according to ad-
: vices received in New York by the
American committee for relief in Ire.
land.
The theft of jewelry and money to
: falling $10,555 while she dozed in q
, moving picture theater In Chicago, was
, reported to the police by Mrs. Bessie
Morrison. wife of an oil operator o.
, Salt Lake City.
Forcing four clerks in the depart
ment store of A. j. Carlan to go int
: rear room, lone bandit at Matea
| wan. N. Y, robbed the cash drawer O.
several thousand dollars and escaped
The robber previously had called, seek
ing to buy pair of trousers When ht
, returned he wore no mask. Police be
gan hurried search for the bandit
, The United Brotherhood of Main
tenance of Way Employees and Railway
Shop Laborers, with its membership o1
about 100000, cannot be reinstated il
the American Federation of Labor un
til it has turned over to the building
trades union its members now engaged
in station construction work This de-
cision was made by the executive
council of the building trades depart
ment of the federation. The Railroad
Shop Laborers' Union was suspended