Gilpin observer., 1915-10-14
Foreign


and confined to his room, says dis
patch from Athens.
Premier Venizelos of Greece, not be-
ing able to agree with King Constan-
tine on matters of national policy, has
resigned.
Rudyard Kipling in London has re-
ceived no further news of his son,
who was wounded and reported miss
ing in the north of France.
The Norwegian bark Seileren, from
Clyde for Savannah, has been sunk as
the result of collision near Torr
Head. Her crew was saved.
Camille Saint-Saens, the most dis
living representative of
congratulations at Paris on his SOth
birthday.
Prince George of Greece, brother of
King Constantine, left Athens for
Paris, where he is to be married to
the daughter of Prince Roland Bona
parte. Prince George is highly in ia
vor of the cause of the allies.
President Yuan Shi Kai promul-
gated the bill adopted by the State
Council authorizing the President to
call a peoles convention for the pur-
pose of deciding the form of govern
ment China is to have in future.
There are now in the district form
ing the entrenched camp of Paris L.
44S charitable organizations working
for the relief of victims of the war
ford accommodations for about 10000
wounded
Queen Sophie received William H.
Hamilton of New York, representing
the American Mercy and Relief COM
mittee, with whom she talked for two
hours concerning the relief of Greek
refugees from Asia Minor and other
Turkish territories, some 100000 of
whom have found asylum in Greece.
Pope Benedict received in private
audience at Rome the Most Rev. Fran
cisco Orozco Jiminez, archbishop of
Guadalaiara, Mex, together with Mon
signor Francis c. Kelley of Chicago,
president of the Catholic Extension
Society in the United States. The
visitors presented an important plan
in connection with the present condi-
tion of the church in Mexico.
Sporting News
Mary Putney won the kentucky
futurity. The stake was $4,000
the local Nationals, to 0, at Chicago,
and made the series stand 3 to l in
their favor
George Foster, the smallest pitcher
in baseball, won single-handed the
second game of the world series from
Philadelphia 2 to 1.
For the eighth time in his career,
Ty Cobb is champion batter of the
American league, according to aver
ages published in Chicago.
Grover Cleveland Alexander lost
the toughest game of his career
Monday at Boston before the
biggest crowd that ever saw a
professional baseball game in
the United States. Boston beat out
the big Phillie star in a desperate
ninth inning finish that sent more
than 10000 people into frenzy.
A new worlds record in automobile
speeding was made when Gil Ander-
son, at the new Sheepshead Bay
speedway, driving at an average rate
of 1926 miles an hour, won the $50.
mile automobile race for the Astor
cup and $4,000 in prizes. His time
was hours, "a minutes and AZ sec.
onds, making worlds record by 10
minutes AZ 3S-100 seconds.
General
The birthday of James Whitcomb
Riley was celebrated at his home in
Indianapolis. He is 62.
There are now $4,000 out in the
strike of the General Electric Com.
pany at Schenectady. N. Y.
Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Widener OF
Philadelphia, widow of George d.
Widener, who was lost with his son
on the Titanic was married at Bos.
ton to DR.. Alexander Hamilton Rice.
Two negroes who confessed that
they killed A. H. Cage, cashier of the
Planters bank Of Clarksdale, Miss,
in an attempt at robbery, were
lynched by mob Of 1000 armed citi.
zens.
Detection from the villa and Zapata
forces were reported in messages re.
ceived by Gen. p. Elias Gales, Car.
rama commander, at Aqua Prieta, So
nora, across the border from Douglas,
Ariz.
With patriotic exercises and in the
presence of a large crowd of specta.
tors, n handsome monument was un-
veiled at Brookline, Mass, in memory
of the Brookline soldiers who fought
and fell in the civil war
Grave anxiety is felt for the welfare
of approximately 500 members of the
Mormon colonies Of the Casas Grandes