Gilpin observer., 1915-12-30
Foreign

Alarming rumors are being circu-
lated in Switzerland concerning EN-
peror Williams illness.
The Persian cabinet has fallen,"
says the Teheran correspondent OF
Reuters Telegram Company.
There have been twenty severe
earthquakes in Guatemala in two
days No serious damage has been re-
ported.
Free house rent for year for i'm
poverished widows of Carranza sol
diers is philanthropy which the new
government has undertaken at Mex
leo City.
Governor Hanna of North Dakota,
who eft the peace party at Stock
holm, arrived at Copenhagen and is
in 81. .Josephs hospital suffering
from influenza
Sir George Foster, minister of trade
and commerce, intimated in an ad-
dress at the Peoples Forum at OF
tawa that Canadian domestic loan
of $500 100000 might soon follow the
recent issue of $100,00O,000.
A revolutionist movement under
the leadership of Tsai 40, former
ly military governor of Yunan. has
broken out. The Chinese government
has sent 10000 soldiers to quell the
revolt
A Melbourne wheat deal Just COM
pleted with the British and French
In
600 sterling (s15,000,000), and the
price IS above shillings a bushel. A
sale also has been made to Italy.
Richard Melville Hall of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, volunteer driver attached
to thai section of the American am
bulancs operating with the French
army in Alsace, was killed Christmas
Eve IN the performance of his duty.
A committee, of which Paul Pain
leve, minister of public instruction, is
the chairman, has been organized for
the object of presenting the city Of
Paris with monument in the form
of bas relief in memory of Miss
Edith Cavell.
Prince Won Buelow, former German
imperial chancellor, who has been in
Switzerland since late October but
who has denied that he was in that
county on peace mission, as has
been widely reported, left Switzer-
land for Germany.
Sporting News
Uncle Joe" Hineman OF Wausau,
Wis. is 81 years old, yet he never
misses trap shoot that he can at
tend.
Yoakum's first 1915 battle will be
on Jan. 3 when he meets Bobby
Waugh in a fifteen-round match m
Fort Worth, Tex.
Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland, Ohio
featherweight champion, and George
Cheney of Baltimore, will battle fit.
teen rounds for the title in Baltimore
March II.
Jess Willard at Chicago assured
Fred Fulton that, regardless of what
the New Orleans promoters do, he
will take on no other opponent until
he has boxed Fulton.
Hor5emen said in New York that
the sale of fifteen thoroughbred
horses, bred and foaled in Europe, for
about $4,000, was the best showing
of prices obtained for thoroughbreds
for many years. The horses were the
property of Clarence Fl. Mackay, and
were bred on his farm in Normandy,
France.
Packey Hommey's constant rushes
Cross. and the Ghetto champion had
decided edge over the fighting dent.
ist in their ten-round bout at the
Harlem Sporting Club in New York
Hommey clinched the victory in the
last round when he lambasted Cross
without return.
General
Charles Chrisdie. famous as a
clown and pantomimist half cen,
tury ago, died in New York.
The Pittsburgh, Pa, Bank for Saw.
ings was closed by order of the
Pennsylvania banking department.
The members of the Ford Peace
Expedition have held various meet.
ings in an endeavor to arouse peace
sentiment in Sweden.
The Reading. Pa, Iron Company an.
/ nounced wage advances of from 3 to
10 per cent throughout its plants
About $500 men are affected.
Robert b. Berman. the first mem
ber OF the Ford party to return to
America, arrived in New York aboard
the steamer Stockholm. He left the
party at Kirkwell, Scotland.
President and Mrs. Wilson were
driven from the golf links at Hot
Spring., Va. Christmas, by heavy
rainstorm which broke suddenly and
drenched both of them before they
could reach their hotel mile away
1t was an American who surren