Gilpin observer., 1915-12-23
Foreign

IN tne country.
The Bulgarians lost $4,000 in the
Cerna river lighting, according to ad-
vices received at Amsterdam.
The Gounaris party supporting
King Constantine's neutrality pro-
gram was returned to power.
Only $4,000 Serbian troops escaped
capture or annihilation at the hands
of the Austro German Bulgarian
armies, according to advices received
at Sofia.
Col. Joseph E. Willard. United
States ambassador to Spain, left Mad
rid for Bordeaux, where he will en-
bark on the steamer Rochambeau for
the United States.
The Manchu prince, Hu Lun, has
been named as chairman of the coun-
Gil of state at Peking, succeeding LII
Yuan Hung, whose resignation was
automatically accepted.
Mrs. Herbert II. Asquith, wife of
the premier, appeared as a plaintiff
manding an order to restrain the
Globe from the publication of alleged
libels.
More than 100000 refugees fled
from Serbia" says the London Times
Saloniki correspondent, "preferring
the horrible alternative of a winter
flight into snow-covered mountains,
to submission to the Germans.
Eight members of the crew of the
Zeppelin airship which raided London
Oct. 10 were found frozen to death
on their return to Germany, according
to the London Daily Express, which
says it has been openly discussed in
Germany.
Italy now has 100000 men engaged
in the war, and is preparing to add
are on the fighting line, stretched
along the mountains from Trentino in
the west to the Austrian stronghold
of Gorizia in the east
THE total destruction of life dur
ing two years of war will reach twen-
ty million persons declared Prof.
Louis C. Parkes of the government
health service ct the annual meeting
of the Royal Institute of Sanitarians,
Just concluded in London.
Mussulmans, armed by Bulgars and
Austrians, are masacring old men and
attacking helpless women in Serbian
Macedonia, the Serbian war office
charged in an official statement. "The
cruelties and eXcesses are without
precedent" said the official state.
ment.
Under pressure of his generals, the
weight of his defeat in Sonora and
the counsel of his wife, Gen. Fran
cisco Villa is on his way to the bor-
der and the United States; his title
of commander-in-chi renounced and
his iron determination to continue
fighting the de facto government of
Carranza until death broken once and
for all,
Sporting News
Ad Wolgast. former lightweight
boxing champion, was suspended for
six months by the New York State
Athletic Commission for violating a
contract with the Harlem Sporting
Club of New York.
Two pugilists. Fighting Bob Spen.
Ger and Aaron Brown, known as
Dixie Kid, were remanded in ESQ
bail each in London when they were
arraigned in Westminster Police
Court in connection with alleged pass
port frauds.
Johnny O'Leary, lightweight cham
pion of Canada. has enlisted for ac.
tive service with the Sixty-fifth over
seas battalion, according to word re-
ceived at Vancouver from Saskatoon,
Sask. A. w. Madden. his manager
also enlisted.
Clergymen, social workers, bankers
and prominent business men were re.
yealed as participants in the profits
of women who lead lives of shame in
the report of the vice commission
made to Governor Goldsborough at
Baltimore, Nd.
General
The Maine Democratic state con-
vention will be held in Bangor,
March 90.
Seven men were drowned in the
Chesapeake bay when the oyster
sloop Lady Harrington of Oxford cap.
sized and sank in gale of wind and
rain
Albert o. Edwards. &c, nephew OF
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and for nine
teen years custodian of the Lincoln
homestead at Springfield. ILL.,, died
suddenly of heart disease.
President Wilson and his bride
abandoned plans to play golf Monday
at Hot Springs. Va, to reply to hun.
drcds of messages of congratulation
from personal friends. relatives and
officials.
Reports today from the section
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