The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-07-29
FOREIGN

may ask permission to go to the
United States for lecture tour.
The German government has agreed
that President Harding issue an off
cial proclamation of peace between
the United States and Germany, there
by ending the present indefinite Stu
alton.
Germany lost 1,792,368 men killed
and 4,246,S74 wounded from 1914 to
1918, according to revised compila-
tiOn of the German casualties during
the war; In addition, 100000 men
still are reported missing.
The war on the province of Kwang-
tung, which has been waged for sew
eral months by Wwangsi militarists
under the direction of Inspector Cen
eral Lu Yung Ting, the Kwangsi war
lord, has virtually ended, according to
advices from Canton, China.
The Soviet government is reconsid-
ering the question of admitting Amer
ican journalists into Russia. NJ. Lit
vinoff, chief of the Soviet legations
abroad, telegraphed NJ. Ganetsky, the
Soviet minister at Riga, saying a de-
cision on the question probably will
be reached soon.
A compromise has been effected be-
tween France and Great Britain re-
garding the Silesian issue as a result
of new exchanges. Premier BRAND, 1t
is announced, will probably agree to
meeting of the supreme council and
withdraw his demand for meeting of
experts. In return for this Great Brit
ain has asked to join with France in
requesting free passage of reinforce
ments through Germany.
The official Bolshevist newspaper,
Pranda, of Moscow, telling of the ter
rible sufferings of the Russian people,
says that ''as a result of the drought
and the crop failure, famine is raging
among a population numbering about
25,00O,000.' This announcement was
given out in New York City by A. J.
Sack, director of the Russian informa-
ton bureau in the United States, who
represents the Russian antibolshevist
forces in this country
from Madrid indicate that critical
situation obtains on the Barbary coast
owing to what is unofficially charac-
terized as a Spanish disaster in bat
tie with the attacking rebels at Melilla,
Morocco. The officials in Madrid, the
advices said, declined any information.
By way of Paris, however, committee
reports that the Spanish lost heavily
in a desperate engagement, and that
to the scene.
GENERAL
For four days, Roy McMTlen, %
years old, struggled at the bottom of
an abandoned cistern Just outside OF
the business district of, Kansas City
in an attempt to release himself He
was rescued in dazed, starved, de-
lirious condition, following his discov-
cry by two negro boys.
Hot, dry weather during the month
south's cotton crop. This is the con
sensus of opinion among the agricul
ture extension forces of the cotton belt
The boil weevil is damaging thousands
of acres. Agricultural experts of the
Mississippi delta predict destruction
of the crop in many sections if damp
cool weather should develop in ths
next two months.
Thomas D. Randolph, a bushes.
man of Sharon, Pa, who was believed
to have been kidnapped and held fo
$4,000 ransom but who returned t.
his home and was accused of having
planned the proceeding himself
pleaded not guilty to four charges
When bail of $1,000 was not produced
he was returned to his cell. TIL,
charges preferred were: Attempt t,
obtain money under false pretenses
attempted blackmail and eXtortion
, and statutory charge against Ran
dolph, while postal inspector pre-
ferred a charge of using the mails il
scheme to defraud.
John A. Gustafson, suspended chic
of police of Tulsa, Okla, was foun,
f guilty by jury of having failed t.
, take proper precautions for publ
, safety on the night and day of the re
, cent riots at Tulsa, and also guilty OIL
another count of conspiracy to fire.
automobile thieves and collect rewards
A. s. Legg, negro porter on Chicag
Great Western passenger train No. IL
Minneapolis to Omaha, jerked the gul
. from train robbers hand and kicke'
|. him off the train just outside the cit.
limits of st. Paul. A switching crev
captured the robber. He had boarde,
the train as a passenger, and as tn
train neared st. Paul attempted t,
hold up Pullman passengers
Mrs. Emilia Panico, wanted by tn
Chicago police for the stabbing t,
death of Mrs. Mary Esposito, wake,
into precinct station and surren
| dered. The murder of Mrs. Esposito
/ at first thought to have been a par
. of the nineteenth ward political feud
is now attributed as being due to jeal
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