Gilpin observer., 1915-12-02
Foreign


ognized the Haitien government OF
President Cartiguenave.
Patrick MacGill, known as the
navy poet" was married in London
to Miss Margaret Gibbons, grand
niece of Cardinal Gibbons of Balti-
more.
The copper roof is being taken from
the imperial castle at Donaueschingen.
Germany, and will be used in the
manufacture of munitions of war This
roof weighs many tons.
In border battle one American
was killed, two wounded, and forty
Villa men killed. Carranza men cap
tured and held Nogales, Sonora, Fri
day night
Viscount Bryce made public the de-
tails of further Armenian massacres,
which in letter accompanying them.
he says, "surpass in horror, if that
were possible, what has been pub
lished already"
Reports that the Carranza authori-
ties had shot several looters arrested
after their occupation of Mexican
Nogales were confirmed. The bodies
of three men, said to have robbed
woman, were visible from the Ameri-
can side.
Peter Wright, an Englishman, was
sentenced by court martial at Lau-
same to imprisonment for three
months, expulsion from Switzerland
for five years and to pay a fine of
1,5O0 francs, on the charge of espi-
onage.
A message from Brussels forwarded
from The Hague by the Exchange
Telegraph correspondent says that the
French soldier whose confession to
the German authorities resulted in the
arrest and execution OF Miss Edith
Cavell has committed suicide by hang
ing in the military prison there
Sentences of six months at hard
labor and subsequent deportation
were imposed in Bow Street court,
London, upon Edward Hodgson, an
American, said to be a mining engin-
eer, and Lucy Warnsche, declared to
be German. Both had American
passports when they came to England
recently. Hodgson was charged with
abetting the woman who was alleged
to be in possession of false pass
port
The Alaska Engineering Commits
sion put men to work at Anchorage
to dynamite path through solid ice
at the mouth of Ship Creek so Capt.
Cramer, veteran navigator, can
take the launch Traveller out to 90
to the assistance of Fred Tracy, agent
OF the Alaska Steamship Company,
and five other men who are trying
to reach Anchorage through the Cook
Inlet ice field in the small launch
Onward.
Sporting News
Sixteen deaths resulted from foot
ball during the 1915 season.
Victor Carlstrom, an aviator, com
pleted 60O-mile flight from Toronto,
Ont, to New York when he landed at
Governors Island.
Colonel Maitland of the royal naval
air service, jumped with a parachute
at London from an aeroplane which
was 10000 feet in the air. He landed
safely.
Miss Molla Bjurstedt, national
woman's tennis champion, defeated
Miss Mary X. Browns, former title
holder, 2-6, 2-6, Ga, at Long Beach,
Cal, closing an invitation tennis
tournament
The curtailed racing season Just
ended in England is regarded as sat
isfactory, even from the point of view
of the racing men. The figures for
attendance at Newmarket show that
at the ordinary meetings there was
an increase of visitors, while all the
extra fixtures were well patronized.
General
The formation of a $4,000, 900 COM
pany, backed by leading financiers OF
this country to develop the foreign
trade Of the United States, will be an
nounced by the National City bank.
it was learned in New York.
The assets of James Smith, Jr,
former United States senator from
New Jersey, who placed his affairs in
the hands of trustees, total S192,227,
according to schedule filed with the
surrogate at Newark, N. J.
Walter Hill, president of produce
company, convicted In the Superior
Court of selling hard cider. was SEN
fenced to serve fifteen days in Jail
and pay fine of $500. Hill was an
active worker for the dry faction last
year when Arizona adopted the pro-
hibiion amendment
christianity Emerging From Pa
ganism,' Rafaelo Romanellis marble
figure of the Christ, now in the gar
den of the Italian building at the
Panama. Pacific Exposition, was re-