Gilpin observer., 1915-05-20
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union vew. serv,c..
About the War

occurred About forty bombs were
dropped. So far as has been ascer-
tanned three persons were injured.
great battle is developing near
the fortress of Przemysl, it was semi
officially stated at Petrograd. The
enemy has appeared in large force on
both Russian flanks.
Official announcement was made in
Rome that King Victor Emmanuel had
declined to accept the resignation of
Premier Salandra. The Salandra cab
met Is to be retained without change.
Six thousand Armenians have been
massacred at Van in Armenia, Asiatic
Turkey, according to a dispatch re-
ceived in official quarters in London
from the Russian consul at Urumiah,
Persia.
A revolution has broken out at
Trieste. according to a message to the
Rome Idea National, telegraphed from
the frontier. The dispatch states that
forty-seven women were killed and
over 300 injured.
The British battleship Goliath was
tofpedoed and sunk at the Oar
danelles by Turkish destroyer, with
the loss Of about 500 lives. Official
announcement to this effect was made
in London, together with the state
ment that two Turkish gunboats and
Turkish transport had been sunk.
Field Marshal Sir John French in
formed the British people that their
troops again had assumed the often
sive after fortnight spent in hurling
back the German attacks and had
swept across and captured all German
trenches to the south of Richebourg-
L'Avoue over a two-mile front. This
is looked upon here as the big spring
drive, so long promised. The Ger
mans have been driven from their
positions on the west bank of the
User.
Western
The Liberty bell will leave Philadel-
phia July 5. reach Denver July 10, and
be at the Panama-Pacific exposition
July II.
Cincinnati was chosen as the meet
ing place for the 1916 conclave of the
American Federation of Musicians
shortly before the organization con-
cluded its convention at Los Angeles
Gen. Antonio Villa, brother of the
northern chieftain, was probably
mortally wounded, and seven others
were killed at Chihuahua city in a pub
lie place where a political argument
arose.
John r. Law1Dn, international
board member for district Is of the
United Mine Workers of America, of
Denver, received word of the death of
his mother at the family home in
New Jersey.
Eleven Of the fourteen members OF
the Welsh chorus which recently visit.
ed Denver perished on the Lusitania.
according to information received in
Denver. The chorus was one of the
most famous in the world.
Distribution of the estate of the
late Arcadia b. de Baker will be made
June l, provided no contest is filed,
according to statement made public
at Los Angeles. Final accounting
fixed the value Of the estate at 81.
15S,225.
Washington
Ambassador Guthrie. home from
Toxic on leave. conferred briefly with
Secretary Bryan and other State De-
partment officials.
The relations OF labor and the law
were again inquired into when the
Federal Industrial Commission re-
sumed it's hearing.
DR.. Bernhard Dernburg, former Ger
man colonial secretary and known as
unofficial spokesman in this country
for the German cause. has voluntarily
decided to leave the United States.
President Wilson received a letter
from former President Taft express
ing confidence in his ability to handle
the situation growing out of the sink
ing of the Lusitania. The President
has written reply to Mr.. Taft thank
ing him warmly.
plans submitted by the transconti-
mental railroads for constructing rates
to points east of Pacific coast termi.
nails and in the intermountain country
the so-called back haul rates-were
disapproved by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Recordbreaking cargoes passing
through the Panama canal in March,
according to War Department statis-
ticians, would have filled approximate.
ly 1880 freight trains OF twenty cars
each. These trains, 1t is estimated,
would have totaled 275 miles in length
or filled five parallel tracks from
Panama to Colon.
A telegram received at the State De-
partment expressed the sympathy of
the convention government in Mexico
fer the loss Of American lives ON the
I.usitania.