Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVEllTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
western Newspaper Union new. serv,c.
About the War


coast
The German official report claims
victories both over the Russians in
western Galicia and over the British
to the east of Ypres in Flanders.
Victoria was under martial law as
result of renewed attacks upon Ger
man establishments by mobs bent up
on revenging the sinking of the Lusi-
tania.
The steamer Wilhelmina, owned by
the A. II. Bull Steamship Company, of
1886 tons was torpedoed and sunk by
a German submarine. The Wilhel-
nina was under British registry.
An Italian army 100000 strong, fully
equipped and ready for the field, has
been concentrated at Kerona, twenty
five miles from the frontier of Austria
Hungary according to a Geneva re-
port
The British admiralty announced
that the destroyer Maori had been
blown up by mine. The British
steamer Don of Goole has been tor
pedoed by German submarine off
Coquet island, near the Northumber-
land coast. The crew was rescued.
AT Kinsale, Ireland, the coroners
jury which Investigated the deaths at
tendant upon the loss of the Lusi-
tania returned the following verdict
"The jury find that this appalling
crime was contrary to international
law and the conventions of all civil
lied nations, and we, therefore charge
the officers of the submarine and the
German emperor and the government
of Germany, under whose orders they
acted, with the crime of wilful and
wholesale murder"
Western
Six were drowned and five rescued
at Cleveland, Ohio, when the Sand
sucker Junior struck the breakwater
and sank at East Seventeenth street.
Laurence Scanlan, bishop of the
Salt Lake City diocese of the Roman
Catholic church and pioneer mis-
sionary of the West, died at Salt Lake
after long illness.
Announcement was made at Spring
field, ILL.,, of the marriage in Picking,
Ill.,. of William Homer Leavitt, former
son-in-law of William Jennings Bryan,
to Miss Clara Killius of Springfield.
At Atlanta, Ca, Judge Ben B. Hill
Leo M. Frank to die
June %. 1t was Franks fourth SEN
tence to death following his convic-
tion on charge of numbering Mary
Phagan.
Settlement of the strike in the east
ern Ohio coal fields that has kept
Is, 900 miners idle for thirteen months
and has cost more than $4O,OOO,O0O,
was accomplished by the joint scale
committee representing operators and
miners at the conclusion of their con-
ference in Cleveland.
Mrs. Nathaniel Valone of Detroit,
Mich, has given birth to twins. They
are the twenty-seventh and twenty
eighth children of the father, twenty
one OF whom are living, all born with
in a period Of thirty-one years. Va
lone. who is So, was married to his
first wife in 1884, but she died several
years ago.
Word received at the headquarters
of the International Dry Farming
Congress in Denver indicates that the
government exhibit in Denver during
the sessions of the congress and the
Soil Products Exposition
will be the best and most complete ex.
hibt of the kind the Department of
Agriculture has made
Washington
The American Red Cross asked C.
A. McIlvane at Balboa Heights. chair
man of the Panama chapter, to report
If outside aid were required for the
sufferers of the fire at Colon.
The state department cabled Consul
Frost to get in touch, If possible, with
the captain of the American liner ST.
Paul, and ask about the report that
the st. Paul passed floating bodies.
An attempt to assassinate Rogue
Gonzales Carza, the convention pro-
visional President of Mexico, was
made by troops led by General Bar
ona, former military commander of
Mexico City.
Fifty men were killed in a fight be-
tween followers of Generals Antonio
Barona and Juan Banderas, Zapatista
in Mexico City. according
to statement by the Carranza
agency in Washington.
American Consul Frost at Cork sent
the following cable to the State De-
partment: please assume that per,
sons not listed as either survivors or
dead, are missing and almost
certainly dead. No news of Wander
bilt, Stone, Shields. Myers, Klein,
Hubbard, Forman, nor of their bod
les"