The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-21
FOREIGN

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TO Spain.
General Caviglia, commander OF the
italian forces along the Adriatic, mas
ordered the raising of the naval block
ade of Fiume, and also the land block
ade.
Rembrandt's landscape AFTER the
Thunderstorm" was stolen from prl-
vate owner at Hamburg and supposed
ly was shipped to the United States
The painting is said to be valued at
2,OOOOOO
Canada's wheat yield for 1920 to-
tailed 263, 1876, 300 bushels from lS,252,-
374 acres, an average gain OF four
and one-half bushels an acre over
1919, the Dominion Bureau of Statis-
tics announced at Ottawa.
More than 100000 Armenian ref
ugees between Kars and Alexandropol
are dying because of lack of food and
fuel, and anarchy stalks among them,
said latest advices from Armenia re-
celved by the Near East relief.
The Russian wife of Naval Lieuten-
ant Warren FL. Langdon, American Of
ficer killed by a Japanese sentry at
vladivostok recently, ended her life
upon learning of her husbands death,
according to a Reuter- dispatch from
Vladivostok.
| A call for a special session of the
Mexican Congress, beginning Feb. z,
has been issued by President Obregon
Among the projects to be considered
are the new banking law, article q OF
the constitution, which governs petro-
leum deposits, new labor law, army
reconstruction and international COM
merce
Fifty persons were arrested in To-
kio, Japan, charged with disturbing a
court in which thirteen Socialists, ar
rested when the Japanese Socialist
leader was inaugurated, were being
tried Employees of an engineering
works have smashed the fixtures in
the plant following the dismissal of
seventy five strike agitators. Ten men
were arrested.
The Italian cabinet has decides.
says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Rome, that in the supreme coun-
ell in Paris it will be impossible for
Italy to support any measure calcu-
lated to force Germany to fulfill en-
tirely the obligations of the Versailles
treaty or any measure to force Turkey
to accept the present disposition on
the Near Eastern situation.
GENERAL
| Rent reductions averaging about 20
per cent were ordered made by seven
Milwaukee landlords. by ruling OF
the local rent bureau. Among the land
lords affected was the owner Of twelve
flats.
A reduction of 20 per cent in the
price of farm implements has been an
nounced by A. v. Burch, vice presi
dent and general manager of the
Blount Plow Company at Evansville
Ind.
The Singer Manufacturing Company
makers of sewing machines, employ
| ing 5000 workers at Elizabeth, N. j.
announced an immediate reduction in
wages Of 20 per cent. 1t will not affect
salaried employees.
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Chicago stopped an automobile driven
by Mrs. Sigmund G. Livingston and
robbed her of jewelry which she valued
at $4,000. Included was pearl neck
lace which she said was worth $4,000
George Franklin, a former attache
of the United States Shipping Board,
and later auditor of the Southern Ce-
dar Company, slipped on the bathroom
floor at his home at Jacksonville, Fla,
broke his neck and died almost in
stantly.
1t cost Stanley Wasno, 12-year-old
adventurer, $500 for the souvenir curla
he clipped from the heads of two little
girls in theater in Chicago. Stanley
was taken before Judge Mckinley in
the boys court and six girls from IL to
13 years old, testified against him.
Judge Mckinley thought the locks
were worth $500
The Scent loaf of bread is back in
New York. 1t appeared in bakery
shop there and almost Immediately
sales jumped from 80 to 1000 loaves
a day. In nearly all other New York
stores the price Is 10 cents, but the
baker who reduced the price says he is
making more money now.
In spectacular bout which was
stopped by the referee in the sixth
round at Madison Square garden, Ben
ny Leonard. worlds lightweight cham
ION, scored technical knockout over
Richie Mitchell of Milwaukee, who, de-
spite his defeat, proved himself wor-
thy challenger The bout was the
main attraction at a benefit given by
the American Committee for Devastat-
ed France.
Ole Hansen, former mayor of Seat
tie, disrupted Socialist meeting at
Racine, Wis, when, under auspices OF
the Racine Constitutional Defense
League, he invaded the meeting, at
which Irwin st. John Tucker, indicted
under the espionage act, was the prin.
cipal speaker, and challenged him to q
debate. Mr. Tucker declined at first