Gilpin observer., 1915-04-29
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVE,lTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union rev. service.
About the War

The west coast metropolis of Guada-
lajara has been reoccupied by Villa
troops
Three Norway ships Capriva,
Oscar and Eva-were sunk by German
submarines.
Ambassador asserts that Greece is
ready to enter war when Allies send
demand for aid.
The Danish steamer Nidaros, 631
tons net, was captured by a German
warship in the North Sea, and taken
into port at the Island of Sylt.
Gen. Villa bombarded Celaya for
twenty-four hours, causing much dam
age to buildings where Obregon had
placed his artillery" says the report.
1t is stated that the Germans have
sent 100000 fresh troops into Flanders
to follow up first success in the spring
clash which sent French and British
back to User canal.
"Ypres is in flames, the Germans
having thrown a hail Of incendiary
bombs into the town" Thus tele-
graphs the London Morning Posts
correspondent in northern France.
In the battle of Celaya Gen. Villas
horse was shot under him in charge
of the battalion of DEATH" according
to an official report from Chihuahua
to Enrique c. Llorente of the Villa
agency at Washington.
That there is no shortage of either
men or munitions in the German army
is shown by the fact that the Germans
are conducting an offensive in the
heights Of the Meuse as we'll as in
Flanders. Their attacks in the Meuse
failed, according to the French Of
ficial report, in an effort to recapture
Les Eparges.
Western
An earthquake shock was felt at
Tacoma, Wash.
An assembly bill removing property
qualification for jurors was passed by
the California Senate.
Fifteen South Dakota towns went
dry in the recent election, with tie
vote reported at Aberdeen.
AS result of local option elections
In twenty-six Illinois towns, eleven
towns were placed in the dry column.
William Hale Thompson, Republi-
can, took his office as mayor of Chi
cago and was welcomed by a down
town street parade and carnival.
Damage of $1,00O,0OO and death
list of twenty-one or more persons are
the result of the rain and electrical
storm that swept central, eastern and
northern Texas.
Thirty-five thousand acres of phos-
phate beds near Vernal, Utah, $50
miles from the end of the Moffat road
at Craig. have been filed upon by sew
eral Denver men.
The Japanese steamer Kageshima
Maru sailed for Vladivostok from
Seattle with automobile trucks, aero
planes and high explosives for the
Russian army, and bales of cotton for
Russian mills.
Mayor Dom M. Roberts. recently
found guilty with twenty-seven other
Terre Haute men of conspiracy to cor
rupt the election there on Nov. g.
1914, was impeached by the city coun.
Gil by vote of seven to three
Congressman Joseph G. Cannon of
Illinois kept promise made five
years ago by dancing a waltz in the
New York state building at the Pana-
ma-Pacific Exposition In San Fran
cisco. He will celebrate his 10Th
birthday May Z.
Frank Moore, a deputy sheriff, and
Robert Fenter, county ranger, are
in the county jail at Tucson, Ariz.,
charged with murder, for having
hanged the Leon brothers, alleged
bandits, while administering a third
degree" instead of shooting them in
battle, as reported
Washington
The State Department has advices
that thousands are dead and others
are on the verge of starvation in
China as a result OF the famine due
to protracted drought
Announcement at the White House
that President Wilson was going into
seclusion for period of ten days dur
ing which he planned to concentrate
upon the Japanese-Chinese question
was convincing confirmation that the
situation in the far East is fraught
with danger.
Secretary Daniels reiterated with
out qualification that the Atlantic
fleet will pass through the Panama
canal to the Pacific in July.
Senator Henry F. Lippitt of Rhode
Island and Mrs. Thomas X. Laughlin
of Pittsburg were married at Mrs.
Laughlin's home in Washington by
the Rev. Roland Cotton Smith.
Philip e. McCleary, an American
newspaper correspondent at Vera
Cruz, has been imprisoned and sen.
fenced to be shot by Carranza au-
thorities, for having sent out uncen.
sored news dispatches.