Gilpin observer., 1915-10-21


About the War
The allies have captured Strumitsa.
Great Britain has formally declared
war on Bulgaria.
French troops encountered the Bull
garian army at Ghevgheli.
Martial law has been proclaimed
throughout Greek Macedonia.
French troops are still hammering
the German line in Champagne.
The British steamer Salerno has
been sunk. The crew was saved.
The allies landed troops at Enos
and seized the neighboring Dedea-
ghatch railroad.
Women and children are helping to
resist the advance of the Teuton In
raders through Serbia.
The Italians have stormed Pregasina
an important advanced position OF the
Riya defenses in Trentino.
An imperial ukase has been issued
proclaiming "a state of war" in Mos
COW and the Moscow district.
Bulgarians have captured the passes
between Bjelogradcik and Knjazevac,
announced the war office at Berlin.
Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton, who has
commanded the British wing of the
expedition against Constentinople, has
been called to London to make a re-
port.
At Paris the Council Of Ministers
~,ocs,3od ,uor bx, DrocJaont poiD on q
announced that state of war existed
between France and Bulgaria dating
from a. m. on Oct. 16.
Losses of the Austro-German forces
on the northern front of Serbia have
totaled 10000 killed and 10000 wound
ed, according to the latest reports re-
ceived at Serbian headquarters in
Nish
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, announced in New York
that an official communication from
Berlin stated German submarines had
recently sunk twenty three vessels, in
cluding four transports of the allies,
in the Mediterranean.
While the Serbians and Monte
negrins in northern and western Ser
bia are strenuously contesting the
march of the Austrians and Germans,
on the east the Serbians are fighting
hard against Bulgarian attacks, the
Anglo-French forces to the south with
bases on the Aegean sea are declared
in unofficial reports to be making
progress in their efforts to bring re-
lief to their harassed allies.
Western
Chief of Police Healey ordered his
assistants to rid Chicago of promiscu-
ous gambling. Confiscation of all slot
machines was the result.
The navy tug IroQuois is on the way
from Honolulu to Midway island to
pick up the stranded crew of the San
Francisco schooner o. NJ Kellogg.
Peter Benedict, aged 80, logging
yobber and the father of twenty-five
children, the oldest of whom is rs,
died at Marinette, Wis. He was the
father of four pairs of twins.
At Salt Lake City the board of par
dons denied Communication to Joseph
Hillstrom and terminated his reprieve.
He will now be taken before the Dis
trict Court and re-sentenced to death
Former Judge Charles H. Fairall,
chief counsel for Matthew A. Schmidt,
on trial for murder in connection with
the dynamiting of the Los Angeles
Times building Oct 1, 1910, died at a
Los Angeles hospital
Working In one of the largest
buildings in the heart of the down.
town district and in the daylight, at
Milwaukee, robbers blew open the safe
of A. C. Grant, agent for the Pruden-
tial Life Insurance Company, and Sc.
cured $500.
AT Salt Lake City, Utah, Joseph
Hiilstrom, convicted of the murder of
]. G. Morrison and Morrisons son
Jan. 10, 1914, was brought before
Judge M. l.. Ritchie of the District
Court and resentenced to be shot to
death Friday, Nov. 10.
Washington
Contracts for sixteen submarines
and six destroyers were awarded by
the Navy Department.
Secretary Garrison announced that
the new army program calls for the
abandonment of none of the existing
army posts.
The American Civic Association an.
nounced that its eleventh annual con.
veution will be held Dec 2S to 81, in
conjunction with the second Pan.
American Scientific congress. which
opens Dec 81 for two weeks ses.
sion
a national defense program that
probably means an expenditure on
the army and navy of upwards of ST.
900. 100000 in the next five years will