The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-06-18

FOREIGN

Louis Snyder of Boston was beaten
Ito death by Polish insurgents near
Myslwitz, Upper Silesia, according to
Karl Born. IA Hamburg machinist. who
escaped from that region to Berlin.
Max Randohr. student, was ac-
quilted in Leipsc, Germany, by the
court trying war criminals on the
charge of having ill-treated and impris-
oned Belgian children at Grammonte
in 1917. The case was brought at the
instance of Belgium
Greece is opening hostilities against
the Turkish Nafionalists in Asia Minor
by land and sea. Already the Greek
fleet has been concentrated at full war
strength in Turkish waters and has
bombarded Turkish positions and sunk
several small transports, according to
Information from Constantinople.
Prince Chamyl, head of the DagIis-
tan insurgent mountaineers of the
northern Caucasus, has taken arms
against the Bolshevists in the Cau-
casus and declares he will not surren-
der until liberty has been re-estab-
lished in the Caucasus He has de-
feated soviet detachments in several
fights recently
Three Italian cardinals were added
to the Sacred College when Pope Ben
edict. in a secret consistory, raised to
the purple Monsignor Giovanni Tacci
POroelli. the papal major domo; Mon
signor Camille laurent. secretary of
the Congregation of the Propa ganda,
and Monsignor AchlIe Rath, papaI
nuncio to Poland.
The British cabinet has decided 10
serve a new warning upon the Sim
Fein that amounts virtually to an ulti-
matum. Reports say that the cabinet
will issue time limit and if the south
of Ireland refuses to accept the home
rule (partition) act. powerful cam
paign of repression against ''gunmen"
and the Irish Republican army will be
started at the end of July.
GENERAL
Brown sugar sold at auction for p
cents per 100 pounds in New Orleans.
Five thousand bags, brought last year
from Guatemala in the sugar rush"
brought from a to p cents a pound at
a government auction The prices OBJ
tanned were not sufficient to pay the
duty.
Brother Batch, owned by G. T. Ar
mold and ridden by NJ. Garner, won
the thirty-ninth Latonia derby, beating
f. R. Bradley's Kentucky Derby win
ner. Behave Yourself. by length
Uncle yelo was third, two lengths
away The time for the mile and a
half was 2 Al 80.
Three boys, convicted in Juvenile
Court in Tampa, Fla, of having entered
IA hardware store, We're sentenced to
save enough money 10 buy a pocket
knife for each boy in the children's
home. The court ordered that the
knives should be purchased from the
store that was entered.
| John D. Emery, newly elected ma
tfonal commander of the American Le-
gion, in statement ut indianapolis.
advocated continuance by the legion
of its program of instilling in the
hearts of former service men and wOm-
en- a sense of individual obligation to
community, state and nation
With his head almost severed by a
razor, the body of Ottp Smitherman
was found near Ringgold, Ga. Near
by the body of Earl Williams was
found hanging from the limb of a tree.
A coroner's jury found that Williams
| slew Smitherman and then hung him
self. Williams was said to have been
jealous of the attention paid young
woman of the vicinity by Smitherman
Thousands of person in Cincinnati,
| o., paid tribute TO the memory of Col.
r. W. Galbraith, Jr., national com
mander of the American Legion. who
was killed in an automobile accident
The funeral services were held in
Music hall. with each of the 1000
seats taken. The obsequies were un-
der the auspices of the American Lee
gion and We're marked by great sim
plicity
Explosion of car of dynamite,
when two freight trains on the St
Louis and San Francisco railway col
iided head-on few miles south Of
New Albany, Miss is reported to have
killed one man. slightly injured sew
eral others and to have destroyed
fourteen cars of pershable freight.
Mrs Bessie Mitchell, a widow, pub
iicly flogged man known as Happy
Brennan, whom she accused of at
tempting to mistreat her 4-year-old
son, Harry, according to a report she
made to the police in Omaha, Neb. She
used riding whip. IF more mothers
would administer that kind of treat
ment the town would be much safer
for themselves and their children, -
she said.
The new shipping board steamship
Buckeye State, which sailed for San
Francisco was forced to return to
Baltimore because of fire in the for
ward boiler room. Officials of the
| ATnfSop line which operutpS tbe yes