Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN q 8. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War

with Belgium.
Russian torpedo boats sink 1853 sail
ing vessels on the Black sea.
Austrians take Antivari and Dull
cigno. Montenegrin seaports.
British submarine sinks Austrian
torpedo boat in upper Adriatic
Teutonic allies claim to have cap
tured 100000 prisoners since war
began.
Belgium reports 1s,2O7 houses
burned by Germans since they in
vaded country.
The Russians have captured Hassan
Kalah in Caucasus aud driven Turks
twenty miles to forts of Erzerum.
French airmen have successfully at
tackled and bombarded Monastir. They
dropped several hundred bombs, doing
great damage.
The conscription bill passed the
British commons at its third reading
by an overwhelming vote. 1t now
goes to the lords.
Germany's resumption of air raids
has terrorized England. In three days
three successive raids were made on
Dover, England's principal channel
port
Austria announces her troops will
give Montenegrin forces opportunity
to surrender before beginning battles.
Montenegrins deny they have capitu-
lated.
Turkey, it is reported, will admit Of
ficially that one of her submarines
sank the steamer Persia, on which
American Consul Robert N. McNeely
lost his life.
Austrias troops have taken Scutari.
Despite their reported surrender, the
Montenegrins are still making heroic
resistance and contesting every inch
of ground with the Teutons.
Western
The Arizona strike of 5000 Clifton
MorenciMetcalf copper miners is
ended.
Rescue parties at Yuma, Ariz, Mon
day extended relief to ranchers made
homeless by floods in the Colorado
river
Five canaliform riffs in the north
cred by astronomers at Lowell observ-
atory at Flagstaff, Ariz.
william c. Redfield, secretary OF
commerce, was reelected president OF
the National Society for the Promo
ton of Industrial Education at Mime
apolis.
A Findlay, Ohio. dispatch says the
Ohio Oil Company has added cents
barrel to the price Of North and
South Lima and Indiana, Wooster and
Plymouth oils.
Another murder mystery developed
at Gary, Ind, at point near the home
of the Rev. Edmund Kayser. who was
killed last fall in what was then be
lieved to be war plot.
Big Pete Mccullough, seventy-si,
years old. 'the hanging Judge" of An
Jacksonville prison during the Civi
War. died at his home in Mexico, Mo.
after "a short illness of pneumonia.
Raymond Dodds, the mulatto, ant
Mrs. Viola Hood, who eloped from Sai
Diego, surrendered themselves to tn,
Salt Lake City police and both de
clared that their act was voluntary.
Washington
President Wilson soon will recon
mend the enactment of legislation pre-
sion.
Senator Johnson OF South Dakota |
confined to his home by injuries fror
falling down stairs. Several ribs ar
believed broken.
Senator Shafroth introduced bi
forbidding railroads charging as muc
or more for short haul than for
longer one on the same route.
The income tax was declared cor
stitutional by the United States s,
preme Court in an unanimous dec
soin which swept aside every confer
tion raised against It.
Consul General Lay in Berlin cable
that the German authorities in Rui
sia Poland had prohibited the renal
ing of letters addressed by individual
In the United States and transmitte
through American consulates in Ge
many.
Washington officials were both su
prised and gravely concerned over tn
report that Turkey admits responsible
ity for sinking the steamer Persia.
The House immigration committe
decided to incorporate in pending In
migration bill provision barring Hi
du as well as Chinese immigrants an
restricting Japanese immigration.
Chile's ratification OF the peat
commission treaty negotiated by 70
mer Secretary Bryan. was presente
to the State Department by the Chill
an ambassador. Eduardo suarex M
jics.