The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-07-09
FOREIGN

/ Lie CITY > pOWct supply wac Sdt VI
and the city was in darkness. Houses
were unroofed and several small YES
sells in Manila bay were driven ashore.
Street car service was paralyzed.
Representatives of soviet Russia
have been feeling out the ground in
trade circles in France, with the view,
they indicated, of placing orders for
automobiles and other articles of COM
merce, but reports from commercial
quarters are that they have met with
little encouragement.
More than 800 of the visiting Rotary
Club delegates and their wives went to
| the grave of the unknown soldier in
| the Plate d'Etoile in Paris and stood
by silently while DIR. Crawford Y. Nc
Cullough of Fort William, Ontario,
president of the International Rotarian
organization, laid wreath on the
| tomb.
! The Cabinet of Premier Allen de
Salazar of Spain has resigned. There
has been dissension in the Cabinet for
some time. The situation eliminated
in Manuel Arguelles, Minister of
Finance, rendering his resignation, on
the ground that the new tariff law and
the commercial treaties were inimical
to the interests of labor.
An American gunbOat is watching
the situation at WI Chow, where SOL
diers of the Kwan-Tung party, sup
porting President Sun Vat Sen, have
defeated opposing forces and captured
Ian Of hair kr Sim
| Sen recently was inaugurated as pres
ident of southern China, and estab-
lished government at Canton. This
| government was in opposition to the
Peking government.
Several persons have been arrested
and held for examination in connec-
ton with the fire which destroyed vir-
tually the entire northwest wing OF
the government house at Lima, Peru.
Among those detained are two paint
ers, said to have been at work in the
office of the presidents secretary
shortly before the fire. 1t is said the
fire broke out simultaneously in three
places in the presidential suite.
Political union in Eastern Siberia
is further off than ever, as result OF
the activities there of General Semen
off, the Cossack anti-Bolshevist lead
er, according to dispatches reaching
Toxic from various centers Following
persistent reports that SemenOff had
received Japanese help in effecting
his escape to the interior from Vladi-
vostok, the story being that he had
been concealed in the bottom of an
automobile, the japanese command at
vladivostok has announced the issu-
ance Of instructions forbidding Japan
ese officers to give any assistance to
Semenoff.
GENERAL
r Twelve persons we're seriously in
i; jured recently in the collapse of ,
: three-story building in Denison, Texas
e 1t is understood that more than TWEEN
:. ty-five persons were in the structur
2 at the time. 1t is not believed tina
e any lives were lost.
4 Carl Wanderer, triple murderer, ex
t hausted his last trick in his efforts Il
/ dodge the gallows when the Chicago
d jury that has been hearing his plea o
/ insanity, decided in less than one hou
/ that he was sane and must hang
After the decision had been handed in
S Judge David set the date of execution
e for Friday, July 30. The sole hop
It now remaining for Wanderer is tha
{, Governor Small will intervene.
/ Mrs. Eta b. He'll, the "millionair
$ maid" of Chicago, was placed on Pre-
}, baton for one year after she pleade
6 guilty to four separate charges of lai
ceny Mrs. He'll, the wife of a wealth
n broker, was arrested and confesse
e that she had looted a dozen Mort
h Shore homes while posing as "maid.
s. Her loot ran above 100000, but rest
d tuition was made to all her victims b
e her husband The probation sentenc
d was decreed by Judge Kerston in Grin
l. inal Court after attorneys for tn
woman had appealed for clemency.
d Fire destroyed the plant of the NJ
IL braska Potash Company ut Antioch
J. eighteen miles east of Alliance, Mel
g. 1t is owned by Denver concern an
.e was valued at approximately S500,o0'
IS The Catholic church and several otl
d cI DulldIuSS NuuSnt liit lloih I'll
ID flames which were famed by wint
Approximately 1000 coke worker
T. in the independent plants of the Coz
n nellsville, Pennsylvania, coke regio
} were affected by 10 per cent redu'
" tion in wages, the second announce
it this year. The new rate is about 33 l.
.e per cent below the rate paid Jan.
4 but, according to coke men, As per Ger
y higher than the prevailing rate In 191.
d Only about per cent of the indepent
ent ovens are In operation.
d An alleged unauthorized strike b
If 200 pressmen in the printing shop c
e the Cuneo- -Henneberry Company, pull
IS fishers, of Chicago resulted in the fl
IS ing of the praecipe of $4,000 SUI
o. against the Chicago Printing an
h Pressmen's Union No. 3 and eight o
n ficials and agents of the union. Tror