The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-05-28
FOREIGN

from June until June II.
Attempts to establish trade between
Italy and Russia have failed. according
to the Bolshevist representative who
asked for his passports at Rome.
number of persons are reported to
have been killed or wounded during
fighting at Buenos Aires in the port
zone when union laborers attampted 10
prevent non-unon workers from un-
loading ships.
Rebels have adopted new method
for attacks on police barracks IN Ire
land Travelling by train, they COM
PEELED the trainmen to stop the train
at Ballaghaderreen, where they opened
fire on the barracks The police re-
piled, wounding one passenger in the
traih.
According to reports In labor circles,
Bunji Suzuki, the president of the
Yuai- Kai, Japan's labor confederation.
will soon resign from his office.
Among the various rumors, that which
stands out prominently is that Mr.. Su-
zuki is not in harmony with the more
radical elements in his organization.
An Italian tenor dropped dead on
the stage of the Bellinzona theater in
Geneva while singing in the last act
of Puccini's la Boheme" to Mimi,
who was lying dying on bed. The
actress, unaware of the tenor's death,
continued singing her role until a ply
sician appeared on the stage and or
dered the curtain rung down
American forms of spelling have
been barred from official documents
in the high court at Melbourne. The
federal chief justice has announced
that he will not allow their introduc-
tion and ordered the spelling of the
words program and center
changed to programme" and centre"
He remarked that English spelling was
good enough for him
While digging for water on his farm
short distance from Calgary, Alberta,
William Embree stopped work for
moment to light his pipe, and in stoop-
ing down to do so ignited gas coming
from the well. The flame shot sew
Cldi lCEt III Lie an anu WAS OIlfN put
out by the use of sods and earth This
strike of natural gas was made at a
depth of 100 feet. and is said to be
wet gas, indicating the probability OF
OIL
Sudden death claimed Theodore Lut-
tof, the "Cossack Hercules" after per-
forming feats of strength in the Ma
tional theater at Havana during
wrestling carnival the other day He
had twisted iron bars and supported
upon his shoulders a steel rail to
which eighteen persons We're hanging
by their hands, without apparent ill
effects, but after the performance he
dropped dead while emerging from a
shower bath.
GENERAL
After slashing his wife's throat with
a razor, Il. B. Eaton, As years old, a
farmer residing near Sloan Springs,
Ark, shot to death his 13-year-old
step-daughter and then ended his own
life with the same weapon. The bodies
wer found on the floor of the living
room at Eaton's home.
Rev. Guy Kyle was sentenced to
eighteen years Imprisonment and
fined $1,000 in Federal Court at st
Louis when he pleaded guilty of rob
bing the mails of S1S9,O0O Loren
Williamson, partner in garage bust
ness at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, was found
guilty by jury previously and given
the same sentence.
Flames which shot from stove and
burned Mrs. Alfred L'Ecuyer's arm
when she replenished the firebox with
coal which had been stored in the
basement, resulted In the discovery OF
oil seeping into the excavation beneath
the L'Ecuyer home in the heart OF
. Spokane's residence district. Several
gallons of the fluid were baled from
the basement in a day, according tc
t Mrs. L'Ecuyer's account, conveyed b,
neighbors.
!, Mr.. and Mrs. Ton Christian of Can
: lou, Mo-, are happy again. Theii
: fourth set of twins arrived to greet
: five singles. Wen welcome the fifth
v pair of twins" says Mr.. Christian, who
is Christian
e One large Chicago brewery and twc
I other smaller ones in Illinois have beer
p seized by agents from the internal
e revenue office, it was announced OIL
formal complaints charging them will
making and selling beer containing
a more than one-half of one per cent oj
alcohol.
5 Herbert Prentice Crane, Jr, son Of
Herbert P. Crane, Chicago millionaire
= was sentenced to from one to twent,
+ years in prison for an attack on Louise
Sturm, 13-year-old girl Judge
Thompson overruled a motion for 4
new trial. Cranes attorney announced
that an appeal would be taken.
: Raymond Doolittle, 4, is dead ant
+ several other children are seriously IL
i as result, physicians believe, of eat
S ing poisoned candy The DoolIttle bo,