Gilpin observer., 1916-03-23
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The interests OF Austria in Portu-
gal have been confided to the Spanish
minister at Lisbon.
Pope Benedict at Rome gave a
private audience to M p Pachitch,
the Serbian premier
Count jacques Decazes military
aviator and brother of Duke Decazes
was killed in an air battle at Paris.
The constitutionalist government.
has announced an active campaign
to modernize the public school sys.
TEN of Mexico.
All direct telegraphic communica-
ton between Greece and Germany.
Austro-IIungary, Bulgaria and Turkey
has been cut
The Danish steamer Skodsborg of
| 1857 tons, has been sunk. Seventeen
members of the crew were saved,
three being lost.
The press OF the Netherlands, in
discussing the sinking of the liner
Tubantia, refers to the possibilities vi
war between Germany and Holland
An official dispatch from Constan-
tinople says that Enver Pasha, the
there from trip of inspection to
Syria, Palestine and Arabia.
The financial situation in Greece
| appears to be of the gravest nature.
| The families of mobilized soldiers in
many cases are in dire want and the
men themselves will be shortly rs-
quired in the fields II the crops are
not to be neglected.
Premier Radoslavott of Bulgaria
was attacked by a would-be assassin
while riding in an open carriage in
the streets of Sofia, according to dis.
patches from both Rome and Paris.
A postal employee named Ivanoff fired
two shots at Radoslavott, it was
| stated.
After crossing the Atlantic from
| New York in his wife's trunk, Captain
Roewer, German engineer, was de.
| tected by the British at Kirkwall and
interned, according to story appear
ing in Danish newspapers and for
warded to Reuters Copenhagen cor.
respondent.
| A popular demonstration was held
at Vera Cruz to celebrate, the agree
ments reached between the Unite1
States and Mexico regarding mutual
concessions for the prosecution OF
outlaws. An imposing street parade
was held and speeches were delivered,
| during which the mention of the
names of President Wilson and Pro
visional President Carranza was
loudly cheered.
Sporting News
Jack Dillon of Indianapolis knocked
out Wnitey Allen, in the fourth round
CT 10-round match in brooklyn,
N. Y.
Bill Clarke, once well known prize
| tighter, died at st. Louis, age 49, In
his youth he was noted in England
as bantamweight. TO ring follow
Chicken"
| The best work in the American
Bowling Congress tournament at To-
ledo, Ohio, was done by William and
George Dernbach, two Chicago broth
ers, who posted 1,266 for third place
| in the doubles.
Winfield Scott Townsend of Den.
yer. a member of the Varsity Soccer
team at the Tome School at Fort De
post, Md, was awarded a jersey
with the A. T. f. at the dinner which
marked the close of the winter term
Two worlds records for automobile
speedways were established at the
racing meet at the new Ascot Speed.
way at Los Angeles. Barney Oldfieid
lowered the worlds record for a mile
from flying start by almost three.
quarters of second and Bob Bur.
man clipped As seconds off the
worlds record for the same distan 20
the official time.
General
Robert T. Rigby. assistant cashier
of the Wabash Railroad at st. Louis,
confessed to a shortage of $4,000. He
was arrested.
Exports from the port of New
York for the week ended March IS,
were sGi,022,540, according to figures
compiled at the customs house.
Governor Ralston of Indiana, ap.
pointed Thomas Taggart United
States senator to fill the vacancy left
by the death of Benjamin F. Shively.
Louise j. Pierson, lawyer and mem.
ber of the Illinois Legislature. dropped
deaf in the pulpit of the Methodist
church at Wilmette. suburb of Chi.
cago.
Enric0 Visconti, ar Italian subject
and one OF the best known foreign
ranchers in Mexico, was murdered by
Mexican bandits on his ranch at En
cinillas, Chih.
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