Gilpin observer., 1916-01-06
Foreign

Italian tragedian, oicd at Florence.
Italy.
At San Juan, Porto Rico. the Ameri-
can schooner Forest City, with a car.
go of palm oil. burned at her dock.
The Bulgarian government has ar.
rested the French vice consul at Sofia
in retaliation for the arrest of the
Bulgarian consul at Saloniki
1T is reported from Stockholm that
orders have been given to all Jewish
refugees at Petrograd to depart imme-
diately," says the Overseas News
agency.
News was received at Madrid Of
the loss off the Sci'v islands OF the
steamer Miguel Ben.liure in a storm.
There were forty-two members in the
crew.
Announcement is made by the Jill
Shimbo at Toxic that squadron of
Japanese warships will sail for the
Suez canal. presumably to protect
Japanese shipping.
Unofficial dispatches from Cairo
state that the British steamship
Persia, sunk in the Mediterranean.
was torpedoed without warning and
sank in five minutes.
The London Chronicle announces
definitely that Sir John A. Simon. sec
tires from the Cabinet, thus breaking
his brilliant ministerial career for
conscience sake"
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele.
graph Company from Athens says that
Prof. Strauss Esselberg is expected to
Kavala to perform Il slight operation
on King Constantine.
At Paris the cr'ss of war was
pinned upon the French flag which
covered the body Of Richard Hall, a
Dartmouth graduate, who was killed
early on Christmas morning by a
German shell while driving an Ameri-
can ambulance near Hartman'sW eiler.
kopf.
The British armorcd cruiser Natal
sunk after an explosion. Official an
nouncement to this effect was made
lost. The Natal was sunk while in
harbor. as the result of an internal
explosion. There were about 400 sur.
vivors.
Yuan Shi Kai, president OF China,
who has accepted the proffer of an
emperor's crown, on request" of var.
ious elements in the nation, entered
the palace in the imperial yellow chair,
sat on the throne and was announced
as His Imperial Majesty" at the New
Year day reception given for Chinese
officials.
Sporting News
Ted Lewis, the English welter-
weight, and Willie Brennan boxed ten
fast rounds to draw at Buffalo. N. Y.
Johnny Kilbane OF Cleveland and
Ritchie Mitchell of Milwaukee fought
ten fast rounds at Cincinnati, popular
decision giving Mitchell the better of
the bout.
Johnny Dundee, the only light
weight of any prominence now in the
fighting game, who has never lost a
decision. will appear in Denver at the
Stockyards arena the night or Jan. 90.
The owners of the st. Louis Fed
erals paid $425,000 for the st. Louis
Americans. including $4,000 COM
mission. The stoc, brought $500 a
share. The purchasers did not take
over $4,000 mortgage on the plant.
At Edinburgh, Scotland, the Pow.
derhall marathon, fifteen miles. was
won by G. McCrea OF Scotland, who
finished twelve yards ahead of Hans
Holmer of New York, second. The
winners. time was 1:21:55. Holmer
won in 1914 and was third in last
years race.
General
The Democratic state committee In
session at Nashville. Tenn, indorsed
President Wilson fol reelection
Severe earthquake shocks were
recorded on the seismograph at
Canisiuss college at buffalo. n. Y.
One man is known to be dead and at
least eleven others are missing as 4
result Of an explosion that wrecked
the engine room OF the Norwegian oil
tank steamer Aztec at a Brooklyn, ~
Y, dock.
During the last year 100000
pounds of foodstuffs were shipped to
Palestine for the relief of the desti
tute Jews. according to the report OF
Nathan ID. Kaplan, president of the
Knights OF Secon, made at Chicago to
the nineteenth annual convention OF
the society.