Gilpin observer., 1915-10-14
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DO N G 8, ACHIEVE
MENTs, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War

The British steamer Thorpwood,
3,1S4 tons gross, has been sunk. There
was no loss of life.
Three-quarters of the city of Bel
grade has been destroyed by 5000
Austro-German shells.
Turkey, according to dispatch
from Saloniki is sending $4,000 men
TO Varna and Dedaghatch to help in
the defense of those ports.
Two Russian torpedo boats have de-
stroyed nineteen Turkish sailing ships
off the Anatolian coast in week, the
Russian admiralty announced at
London.
One hundred and fifty thousand
Austro-German troops have crossed
the Save and Danube rivers into Ser
bia, according to reports in diplomatic
circles at Athens.
Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, was
attacked and taken by German-Aus-
irian force estimated at 100000. Off
cial announcement of the fall of Bel
grade was made at Berlin
Rumania will join the allies actively
and will make war on the Austro-Ger-
man forces, choosing her own time to
strike the blow, Premier Bratiano has
Informed the Italian government.
Georges Clemenceau and other sena-
tors have proposed that an urgent Sec
ret session of the Senate be called to
give the French government an oppor-
tunity to explain it's Balkan policy.
Pope Benedict has been successful,
k1A Do, ~, Mott, ;,, I,;. nf
forts to obtain from belligerent gov
ernments pledge that prisoners of
war will be permitted to abstain from
work on Sundays.
Although the Bulgarian minister at
London, who has not received or
asked for his passports, declared that
Bulgaria had no quarrel with England,
an attack on Serbia would be consid
cred by England as sufficient reason
tor quarrel.
Western
Lieut.. Walter d. Talliaferro, sta
toned at the United States army avia-
.ion corps school at North Island, fell
1000 feet into San Diego bay at San
Diego, Cal.
Steps were taken at Clifton, Ariz.,
TO gather representatives from the
unions of miners and smelter men to
make up committee to go to Ell Paso
to confer with the mine managers.
Closing saloons in Chicago on Sun
day for the first time in forty-four
years resulted in the day passing with
the lowest crime record known to the
police department, Chief of Police
Healy announced.
After locking c. E. Greising, assis-
lant cashier Of the Wilson Creek,
Wash, State bank, in the vault and
carrying away all the cash in sight,
lone robber was pursued and killed by
citizens posse in fight
One hundred and six dogs, includ-
ing seven from the Allan Darling
worlds champion racing team, ar
rived at Seattle from Nome on the
steamship Senator. on the way to
France for alpine service in the war.
Washington
Recognition Of the Carranza govern
ment as the defacto government of
Mexico was unanimously decided upon
by the Pan-American conference.
Alberto Garcia Granados, minister
of the interior in the Huerta cabinet,
was executed in Mexico, according to
State Department advices, charged
with completely in the killing of Presi-
dent Madero
In re the German note on the
arabic, Secretary Lansing announced
that Germany had disavowed the
sinking of the Arabic and was pre-
pared TO pay an indemnity for the
American lives lost
President Wilson studied the long
note prepared by Secretary Lansing
answering the several notes received
in the last few months from Great
Britain on the subject Of interference
with American trade.
Justice Lamar had not sufficiently
recovered from the illness which over.
took him several weeks ago at White
Sulphur Springs. w. Va, TO attend the
opening Of the Supreme Court or join
the other justices in paying their re-
spects to President Wilson.
Specific protest agains, shipment of
six forty-foot motorboots from Boston
to England has been made to the
State Department by the German EN-.
bassy on the ground that they are war
vessels designed to aid in the British
campaign against submarines.
Two hundred men, their clothes
faces and hair powdered with ore dust
to a uniform terra Gotta hue, gathered
around the bath house of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company iron mine at
Sunrise Wyo., and listened to a
speech by John ID. Rockefeller, Jr.