Gilpin observer., 1915-08-26
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War


One thousand were drowned when
the British transport Royal Edward
was torpedoed and sunk by German
submarine.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Petrograd says: "The President of the
Duma has announced that the Ger
mans lost the battleship Moltke, three
cruisers and seven torpedo boats in
the Riga battle
The German Emperor, with Gen. Won
Falkenhayen, chief of staff of the Ger
man army, Field Marshal Won linden
burg, Gen. Won Beseler, and a brilliant
suite, entered the still burning town
of Novogeorgievsk, near Warsaw, on
Aug. 20.
Marquis di Garroni, Italian ambas-
sador to Turkey, Saturday handed to
sidered herself in state of war with
Turkey and demanded his passports.
according to an official telegram from
Constantinople.
Underwater craft torpedoed Fri
day: The British steamers Restor-
mel, 2,11S tons; Baron Erskine, $685.
tons; City of New York, 2,190 tons;
Samara, 3,172 tons; Gladiator, 1883
tons Bittern, 1,797 tons, and the Ben
Brachie, 3,908 tons.
The White Star liner Arabic, car
rying 1S1 passengers and crew of 242
and bound for New York, was torpe-
doed and sunk by German subma-
rine. off the southwest coast of Ire
land, near Fastnet. Thirty-two persons
are reported missing.
Troopers of the Tenth cavalry, do
ing border patrol near Lochiel, Ariz.,
were fired upon and returned the fire,
which is supposed to have come from
renegade Mexicans protesting allegi-
ance to Carranza. There were no
casualties. The Mexican commander
sent an apology.
Germany is indulging in the first
thought of possible defeat which she
has countenanced since the war be-
gan. While the German fleet at Riga
was meeting with decisive defeat,
Gen. Won Moltke, former chief of staff,
was telling a secret conference Of
German cabinet ministers that the
possibility Of complete Russian defeat
could not be hoped for by those well
informed on the situation. At the
same meeting Chancellor Won Beth
mann-Hollweg and Karl Hefferich,
secretary of the treasury, announced
that the empires financial resources
are in danger of exhaustion and ad-
vised the preparations Of acceptable
peace proposals. The chancellor
threatened to resign when the confer.
ence refused to adopt a moderate at
titude in the Reichstag.
Western
Eight are reported dead and 5000
.marooned in floods at Newport, Ark.
Albert F. Bradbury, resident OF
Colorado since 1871, died in Albuquer-
que, N. NJ, from heart disease.
Twenty-four are reported dead and
10000 homeless as result of the
heavy rain and flood at st. Louis.
The Salt Lake City Commercial
Club has addressed letters to all COM
mercial organizations and the leading
newspapers of the Middle West, ask
ing them to interest themselves in a
project to keep open the San Fran
cisco and San Diego expositions next
year.
With the adoption of vigorous reso-
lutions by the Atlanta, Ca, Chamber
of Commerce denouncing the lynching
of Leo M. Frank, Governor Harris
proclaimed reward of 81 800 for the
conviction of the first three persons
who participated in the unfortunate
occurrence"
total of 25G known dead resi-
dents of southeast Texas coast points
and crews of wrecked craft of all
wrecked craft of all kinds: sixty-fiye
persons missing, many of whom are
believed to have perished and prop.
erty damage close to $5O.000,0 900 was
the toll taken by the hurricane which
swept Galveston, Tex. and the Gulf
coast section.
Washington
The Arabic case will not be decided
on "fragmentary evidence" it was
stated on high Department of State
authority.
Six pontoons are engaged in efforts
to drag submarine F.i, sunk in Homo.
lulu harbor ten weeks ago. as. close in
shore as possible.
One battalion of marines, $50 men.
ut Annapolis, have been ordered to
be prepared to embark for Haiti il
Rear Admiral Caperton calls for more
forces. They probably would go on
the cruiser Tennessee now on her way
nortn Iom Port au Prince,
Gov. Ferguson of Texas telegraphed
President Wilson that the loss of life
from the tropical storm along the Tex.
as coast will not exceed 300 and that
estimates of the damage done have
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