The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-06-11
FOREIGN


ince Of Siberia, shot 100 political Of
tenders in Jail there.
The first submarine ever construct
ed in Spain was launched at Carriage
ma. The vessels displacement Is 718
tons and her calculated speed sub
merged is nine miles an hour and sur
face speed sixteen miles.
The peace treaty with Hungary,
which was signed June 4, 1920, in the
Trianon Palace at Versailles, and Is
known as the treaty of Trianon," was
ratified at Paris by the chamber of
deputies. The vote on ratification was
478 in favor to "A against.
DIR. v. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese
in the League Of Ma
tions, has notified the secretary of the
league that it is the intention Of the
Chinese government to give effect to
concerning limitation of expenditure
on armaments.
The naval ministry Of Japan has or
dered the withdrawal of the garrisons
in the islands of the South Pacific, in
clading the Island of Yap, leaving the
protection of the islands, including the
wireless installation in Yap, to the po-
lice force attached to the civil admin
istration.
Major General Joseph Hummel, for.
merly of the Austrian army, and elev-
en- other ex-officers, who were placed
trin nj in, vi
emma on the charge of having commit
ted treason in connection with the re-
cent attempt of former Emperor
Charles to regain the Hungarian
throne, have been acquitted.
Drastic steps have been taken in
Kattowitz, Silesia, by leaders of Pol
ish insurgents to prevent plundering.
Firing squads have been busy every
morning and several times recently six
men have been executed at one time
for various reasons. In spite Of the Sc
we're discipline, the Poles continue riot
ing, and are reported to have robbed
food conveys.
Lieutenant Neumann of the German
navy, charged with sinking the British
hospital ship Dover Castle, in which
many lives were lost, has been acQuit-
ted in Leipzig by the special courts
trying Germans accused of violating
the rules of warfare. Admiral Scheer,
the battle of Jutland, had maintained
that Neumann, a U-boat commander,
was merely obeying orders in sinking
a ship in part of the Mediterranean
which Germany had declared closed to
craft of that class.
GENERAL
Denzel Chester has been acquitted
by jury in Kansas City. Mo-, of the
murder of Miss Florence Barton. The
jury was out only twenty minutes.
The former German passenger liner
Kaiser Wilhelm II, has been renamed
President Harding. it was announced
at New York by officials of the United
States Mail Steamship Company.
Mrs. Ethel Hutchins Mott, on trial
at Bridgeport. Conn.,, charged with the
murder Of her husband, George B.
Mott, pleaded guilty to murder In the
second degree. Judge Maltbie SEN
fenced her to life Imprisonment.
A great meeting of the representa-
tives of all the railway unions affected
by the wage cut decision Of the rail-
way labor board to be held In Chicago
June 27 and % it has been announced.
At that meeting the unions will give
their answer to the $40O,0O0,000 wage
cut and in oil probability the question
of strike or work will be decided there.
Resumption of building activities in
Chicago, which have been halted for
many weeks by wage disputes between
the building contractors and the
unions, is believed imminent as the re-
suit of an agreement to arbitrate the
dispute Building contracts represent
ing expenditures of approximately
500, 100000 hinge on successful ad-
justment of the dispute.
Anders Gustaf Nelson, son-in-law of
Senator Knute Nelson, charged with
shooting to death Joseph Middleton,
farm hand, in March, 1920, was found
guilty of manslaughter in the first de-
gree by jury at Fergus Falls, MINI.
Between 1000 and 10000 workmen
will be re-employed in the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern railroad
shops, officials announced at st. Paul,
MINI. The men will be called back
to work July l. The decision is di-
rect result of the wage reduction, said
a Northern Pacific official.
Two Mexicans and three negroes
have been arrested in Des Moines by
Sheriff Robb as suspects in the muir
der of Miss Sara Barbara Thorsdale.
One of these was Tom Willis, 40-year-
old negro, who had been camping on
the Raccoon river near where the
teachers body had been found.
Recent passage of the congressional
deficiency appropriation measure By
the Senate will provide for the early
return to duty of all federal dry
agents and inspectors. According to
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