Gilpin observer., 1915-12-16
AN EP|TOME OF
LATE live NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
fR0il ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DO 1 N G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
About the War
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War
Turks capture three British bat
faaions retreating from Bagdad.
Police in Berlin were forced to dis
perse mob making a peace demon
ftration
Allies war council at Paris maps
ozit plan for concerted military action
on all fronts.
Russians hurrying troops to Ru-
ton depots on Danube.
Imperial chancellor tells reichstag
it would be folly for Germany to in
hiate peace negotiations.
Great Britain and France decide to
continue Balkan campaign and to
send large reinforcements.
Baron Zwiedinek, in charge of Aus
trian embassy at Washington, in
yolved in plan for passport frauds.
Premier Asquith announces that
any serious peace proposals will
first be discussed by the allied gov
ernments.''
The Bulgars are approaching the
Greek frontier. Athens dispatches in
dicate the Bulgars will not be per-
nitted to step on Greek soil.
King Constantine of Greece has
given the allies the right of way to
Saloniki. Greek troops have been
withdrawn from the war zone.
U. S. note to Austria demands
prompt denunciation of sinking of An
coma, punishment of submarine COM
mander and indemnity for American
lives lost
Austria's representative has sought
Eing on the possible results of Aus
tria's reply to the United States note
ON the Ancona
German and AustroHungarian sub
marines to date have sunk sos ships,
according to a news dispatch from
Berlin. The total tonnage of the YES
sells sunk is given as 917,S19.
Reports from Albania indicate that
conditions there are most distressing,
the people being on the point of star
vation, the weakest being unable to
resist the cold on account of hunger.
The British and French have fallen
back into Greece. Berlin claims the
British lost 10000 men in the last en-
gagement of the retreat. The Innis-
KILN fusileers, a famous Irish regi
ment, sacrificed itself to cover the
British retreat. With only their rifles
To oppose cannon and machine gun
fire the Irishmen stopped the Bulgar
advance. Most of them were killed.
Western
Oklahoma crude oil advanced 10
cents barrel Monday. The price is
now $110
The Fairbury-Nelson passenger
train on the Rock Island was wrecked
near Desploy, Neb., and practically
the entire train destroyed by fire.
A recall election for Mayor James
G. Woodward and four members of
the Ataltna, Ga, police commission
vas ordered by the city council for
Jan S.
Miss Ida May Swift, daughter Of
Louis +. Swift, the Chicago packer, is
to be married next month to Count
James Minotto, Il Venetian nobleman,
who is engaged in banking in New
York.
At Pinole. Cal, fire in the Hercules
Powder Company's plant caused an ex-
plosion of 1900 pounds of gelatin
dynamite. The mixing house in which
the explosion occurred was obliterat-
ed
Charles Mitchell, 81, of Walsenburg,
Colo. coppersmith, and a gypsy, paid
to Louis John, aged father of Miss
Rosa John, also. a gypsy, $2,5OO in the
presence of Judge Val Stentz of the
FIRST City Court of New Orleans, who
afterwards married the pair.
Washington
Ordinary receipts of the United
States treasury In Nov -mber were
about s12,OO0,00O more than In the
same month last year.
The personal income tax was paid
ourinB tne last fiscal year by 57,516
individuals, who turned into the gov
ernment $4l,04G,162, more by nearly
$i3,0oo,O00 than the total paid by the
357,59S making returns the year be.
fore, according to the annual report
of the commissioner of internal reve.
nue..
Attorney General Gregory issued n
sta ement outlining the policy of the
government in regard to suits insti-
tuted against various oil companies in
California and Wyoming which have
occupied and ara operating public oil
lands withdrawn from entry by the
Taft order of 1909. Millions OF dollars
worth of lands are involved.
Senator Kenyon proposed In Sen.
ate bill to tax manufacturers OF NUM-.
tons and to prohibit passengers on