Gilpin observer., 1916-02-10
Foreign

A Bucharest dispatch to the Milan
Secola says that in the explosion at
the Skoda armament factory in Bo-
hemia, 1876 workmen perished.
King Georges coronation gift to
horse which arrived few days ago
at the imperial stables from India.
According to advices received ut
Panama. from La Paz, capital of Bo-
livia, section of the city about 1,600
yards long is sliding into the Cho-
queyahu river.
The Bulgarian government has
voted TO erect a marble monument at
Nish to commemorate the meeting
there on Jan. 1S of Emperor William
and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
All rumors of the ill-health of EN-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria are
unfounded, according to information
received at Zurick from what is de-
clared to be an unimpeachable source.
Col. Hipolito Villa, brother of Gen.
Francisco Villa, was arrested ut
Havana at the request of William E.
Gonzales, the American minister 10
Cuba. Villa is charged with damaging
the railroad near Ell Paso.
Sensational reports of the discovery
of new German plots were in circula-
tion as parliament prepared to as
semble at Ottawa, Ont, to discuss the
origin of the fire that destroyed the
Canadian parliament buildings
Viscount Bryce. former ambassador
to the United States, speaking at Bed
ford College, London, condemned the
policy of reprisals against Germany,
which, since the last Zeppelin raid,
has gained many advocates
The government at Peking an
nounced that its troops had recap
tured Pingshan, northeast of Siu-Fu.
in the southern part of Sze-Chuen
province, and that general attack
upon the rebels at Siu-Fu is immi-
nent.
The American ambassador to Con.
stantinople, Henry Moreenthau, who
arrived in Berlin on his way to the
United States, said in ar interview,
that the situation in Constantinople
at present was almost normal, and
there was no scarcity of food.
Sporting News
Johnny Ertle, bantam champion,
signed to box Roy Moore at Minne-
apolis March II.
Federal Judge Lands at Chicago
dismissed the Federal league suit
against organized baseball, thus legal
ly ending the baseball war.
The Western Association of base
ball clubs will play 14O games during
the coming season, opening April 20
and closing Labor day, Sept. A.
The management of the Philadel-
phia National league baseball club an
nounced that the club has secured
Wilbur Good, outfielder, from the Chi.
cago Nationals.
Tho first of a series OF annual chal.
lenge cup rifle matches conducted by
the Denver City troop was won by the
squad representing Troop C. The
final score was 452 to 447, Troop B
thus losing by five points.
The suits of Mr.. and Mrs. John F.
Coffey against James c. McGill, in
which the former captain of the Den.
yer baseball team and his wife each
seek to recover $4,000 from Mr.. Nc.
Gill, owner of the team, for an al.
legged attack of Mr.. McGill upon Mrs.
Coffey, probably will be tried at the
March term OF the District Court in
Denver
General
Henry Ford, the Detroit manufac.
turer who sent a peace ship to
Europe, has new peace plan.
Charges that Spanish fishermen
were being employed by the Germans
to lay mines off French ports were
made by Ship Surgeon Ponez, who ar.
rived in New York on board the
French liner Chicago from Bordeaux.
Col. William =. Hepburn, former
member of Congress, from the Eighth
Iowa district, died at Clarinda after n
| long illness. Death resulted from kid
ney and heart trouble. Besides the
widow, son and daughter survive
him
Labor leaders in New York say that
a movement is under way to bring
about concerted action of members of
the four great unions of railway en-
ployes and of the United Mine Work
ers in their demands for increased
wages or shorter working days. 1t is
stated that II this plan were put into
effect it would bring about combined
action by 100000 men and affect the
mining fields of Pennsylvania, Colora-
do and the South.