The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-08-26
IFoREIGN


China has formally replied with a
cordial acceptance to the invitation to
attend the Washington disarmament
and far eastern conference.
The number of peasants threatened
with starvation in the Volga region, is
now placed at 30,OO0OoO by Moscow
wireless dispatch. OF this number, D.
50O,0O0 are children.
Thirty-four lives were lost when
the British steamship Perlis was sunk
near the coast of Siam. Fourteen per-
sons were saved. The vessel was a
small passenger carrier sailing from
the port of Penang, India
Cooperation in the interest of their
common motherand'' was pledged in
an agreement signed at KattOwitz, Up
per Silesia, by representative German
Industrial and political leaders and la
Dor representatives from all Polish
parties in Silesia.
Whisky valued at several thousand
dollars was seized at the mouth of
the Fraser river, near Vancouver, B.
c., when provincial police officers
seized a party of men who had deliv-
cred two truckloads of liquor to be
loaded on scow. Officials believe
the whisky was to have been exported
to the United States
Forecasts of the wheat crop yield in
the northern hemisphere, issued by
the International Institute of Agricul-
ture, show that it will be approximate
ly 50,20OOOO tons, compared to 81 ,3OO,-
600 tons in 1920. The crop in Europe,
leaving out of consideration Great
Britain, France and Germany, is esti-
mated at 12,OO0,0OO tons, compared to
1O,500.OO0 last year. The United States
and Canada are expected to produce
28,50O.0OO tons, against 2S,60O,0O0 tons
in 1920, and India, Japan. Algeria, Mo-
rocco and Tunis will, it is said. yield
100000 tons. against 12,000,000 tor
harvested last year.
GENERAL
| Judge James E. Boyd, in federal
court at GreenbOrO, n. c.. held the new
federal child labor law unconstitution-
al The Owen Keating child labor law
was also held unconstitutional by
Judge Boyd two years ago and that
ruling was upheld by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Julius NJ. Hansen, wanted In Lewis
town, Mont, for the alleged embezzIc-
ment of $4,000 from the Empire Bank
and Trust Company, was arrested Mt
Shreveport, La. He has been sought
since October, 1917. Preparations are
being made to return him to Lewis
town.
Chief of Police Fitzmorris has of
ficially barred public exhibition of the
Dempsey Carpenter fight pictures in
Chicago. Fitzmorris announced that
police would stop any attempt of Tex
Richard the New York promoter, or
any other person to exhibit the pic
lures before paid audience. He said
he would not interfere with exhibit
tions before wounded soldiers.
The first day of the John Bailey
murder trial at Mount Vernon, KY,
growing out of the Bailey-White noun
tain feud, was productive of nothing
more thrilling than the searching for
weapons of every person who entered
the courtroom. Soldiers and deputy
sheriffs stopped each clansman as he
entered the doorway. None resisted
the search and no weapons except a
few pocket knives We're found. Even
the women were not exempt.
Mrs. Rosa Cowan, who was operat-
ed on at Hopkinsville, KY, about
month ago when five full-siZed tea
spoons were removed from her stom-
ach, has so far recovered that she has
been returned to her home near Kirk
Evansville in Todd county. She took
the spoons home with her. Her com
plete recovery seems assured and her
mental condition, which caused her to
be sent to the state hospital for treat
ment. where she is supposed to have
swallowed the spoons, is normal again
Jim Nesbit, nimble negro, turned Il
novel trick on the bloodhound sent out
to trail him in South Carolina Serv-
ing life sentence for murder on the
chain gang, Nesbit escaped. A blood
hound was sent on his trail The ne
gro waited until the bloodhound
caught up, tied the animal to tree
and continued his flight. He was cap
tured later, however
i Andrew Little, dishonorably dis
charged soldier, has learned TO salute
the American flag. 1t took a good
flogging to teach him the lesson. Fol
lowing the burial at Benton ILL.,, of
Stanley McCollum, who was Killed in
the Argonne, Little. according to men,
bers of the American Legion, refused
to salute the flag. The Legion men
flogged him. Now he salutes
Two steam yachts. the Venice and
the Tranquillo, confiscated by local
authorities for alleged whisky run
ming between Canada and Cleveland,
Ohio, will be sold as soon as legal
formalities can be arranged. Federal
Prohibition Agent Fred Counts an
nounced upon his return from a secret
mission in connection with the ships.
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