Gilpin observer., 1916-12-28
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Tho Spanish steamship Marques d.
Urquijo has been sunk by German
submarine.
Berlin records attacks favorable "a
Turks and Bulgarians in the Struma
region of the Macedonian front.
The new Almanach de Gotha's list
of nobility fallen in the war includes
25S counts. SGT barons and 1,465 les
ser nobility.
Announcement of the new board of
agricultures intention to guarantee a
fixed price for wheat was made in the
House of Commons in London.
David r. Francis, the American am.
bassador at Petrograd, handed Presi-
dent Wilson's note to the belligerent
powers to the Russian minister of for
eign affairs.
Italian press indorses Wilson S
peace nots and hopes nations will
consider it in the spirit in which 1t
was sent. Pope Benedict says note
shows honesty, justice and far
sightedness" of President Wilson.
President Wilson's note with its
recommendations that belligerents en-
ter some way into an exchange of
jected to continuous discussions and
conferences by German diplomats and
statesmen since its delivery.
A Frankfurt dispatch to the Elk
change Telegraph Company. via Rot
terdam, says there was heavy betting
on the Berlin exchange that peace
would be signed before August. The
same dispatch says that the German
emperor will return to Berlin for con-
ferences with the American and Span
ish ambassadors.
Switzerland, in a note to the war
ring powers, announced it's support of
President Wilson's appeal for a dis
cussion of peace terms, saying 1t
would consider itself happy if It
could act in any way, no matter how
modest, for the approachment of the
peoples now engaged in the struggle,
and for lasting peace"
OfOh llNG NE vs.
H. r. Deighton Simpson, son of
Henry w. Simpson of New York, was
accidentally killed while flying in
England on Dec. 49,
Billy Miske of ST. Paul and Jack
Dillon of indianapolis, middleweights,
have signed for twenty-round fight
at New Orleans, La, on Feb. 2.
Ad Wolgast announced that he had
booked four fights for next month, be-
ginning with fifteen-round match in
Kansas City, Mo-, New Year day with
Otto Wallace.
The st. Louis Cardinals were almost
sold once again. Russell II. Gardner
millionaire manufacturer of st. Louis.
offered Mrs. Helen Britton, owner of
the club. $250.00O.
A New Orleans fight promoter tele-
graphed to Les Darcy. the Australian
now in New York, an
offer to fight Mike Gibbons at New
Orleans, La, for purse of $4,000.
GENERAL
Col. Frederick Newbold Lawrence,
president of the New York Stock Ex-
change, died in his eighty-third year.
Surrounded by large proportion
Of her score or more of grand and
from Brooklyn
and Philadelphia, Mrs Alice Bennett
celebrated her l0Gth Christmas at her
home in RrOoklyn N
At Wichita, Kan. five bodies were
taken from the ruins, and three per.
sons are in a critical condition as a
result of an early morning fire which
destroyed the Kansas Masonic Home,
entailing money loss estimated at
s25O,O00.
Discovery at Chicago of an inter
national diploma MILL" where men In
all walks of life can buy forged "di-
plomas.' which purport to come from
big universities in all parts of the
world, has been made by the federal
government.
Miss Ella Felicia Endslee. who was
a constant companion of the late Mrs.
William Mckinley in the White
House at Washington, died at Mount
Vernon, n. Y, at the home of her
niece, Mrs. Mabel Mckinley Baer. She
was 66 years old.
A dispatch from field headquarters.
Mexico, states that $4,000 would not
cover the cost Of presents the people
OF the United States sent to the sol
diers of the punitive expedition, it
was estimated by the committee in
charge of the Christmas celebration.
The will OF Mrs. Clara l.. Ricciardi
formerly Clara de Riauet. princess de
Chmay. formerly Clara l.. Ward and
q petition for letters testamentary
we're filed in the Probate Court in Chi.
cago by John w. Gary. The petition
recites that the estate is worth APP
proximately s1.124,935.96 in personal
property and $4,000 in real estate,