Gilpin observer., 1916-07-27
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DoIN G 3. ACHIEVE.
NENTs. sUFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union rews Service.
About the War

About the War
Italy reports continued advances
against Austrans in Artico and Aviso
regions.
Russian army in Armenia captured
Gumuskhaneh and now is forty miles
northwest of Baiburt.
French capture German battery
south of Estrees. Redoubt west OF
Thiaumont lost by Kaiser's men.
Berlin declares British attack on
ThiepvalGuillemont line was minor
success, won at great cost of men.
German troops moved from Verdun
to fight along Somme. Berlin and
Petrograd silent about fighting near
Riga.
Ten thousand Canadian soldiers are
to proceed overseas soon, it was an
nounced at the militia department at
Ottawa.
Russians drive Germans from vii
lage of Galitetanie on Lipa river
while Germany repulses attacks In
Galicia.
A new advance of Turkish forces
on the Sinai peninsula TO within about
thirty miles of the Suez canal has
been reported to the British authori-
ties.
The German army headquarters
staff in the official statement claims
that the great uniform AngloFrench
attack on the Somme sector in France
has been abandoned.
The Russians have driven the Teu-
tonic forces facing them south of the
river Lipa, in Volhyna near the Gala
clan border beyond the town of
Berestechk to the west.
]. Beltran. one of Villas chief lieu
tenants and participant in the mas
sacre of eighteen Americans at Santa
Ysabel, Chihuahua. last January, was
killed in the engagement at Cerro
Blanco July IL, reports to General
Jacinto Trevino at chihuahua City
indicated.
Berlin reports that the enemy lost
seven aeroplanes, four of them south
of Bapaume, one east of Arras, one
west of Combles and one near Roye.
Lieutenant Wintgens disabled his
tenth and Lieutenant Hoehendorff mis-
eleventh aeroplane. The emperor be-
slowed the Pour le Merite on First
Lieutenant Won Althaus. who con-
auered a biplane near Roye.
Western
James Whicomb Riley, the Hoosier
poet. died at his home in Indianapo-
lis.
The mysterious death of 17-year-old
Elizabeth Ratcliffe, while riding with
Roy Hinterlier has become the SEN
sation Of Richland county. Ill.
Six persons we're killed and forty
three injured by the explosion at
San Francisco of timed bomb in the
midst Of throng viewing a prepar-
edness parade.
Rewards reached $4,000 for the ar
rest and conviction of the perpetra-
tors of the bomb explosion which
killed six persons and injured forty
two in San Francisco's preparedness
parade.
The will of Mrs. Hetty Green was
admitted to probate at Bellows Falls,
VT, without contest, leaving the en-
tire estate to her son, Col Edward
II. r. Green. and daughter, Mrs.
Matthew Astor Wilkes.
Five persons. Mr. and Mrs. G. f.
Talbot and baby of Hartville and Mrs.
Frank Pine and Harold Myers of
Sunrise. were drowned near Sunrise.
Wyo., when torrent from cloud.
burst in the hills above that place
swept down Eureka canon and car.
ried away an automobile party OF
nine.
Washington
Chicago has been selected for the
campaign headquarters of the Wo,
mans party.
Speaking on business conditions in
the United States. Senator Shafroth.
addressing the Senate, emphasized
the present prosperity of the coun.
try.
After being held up since January
on objection Of Senator Hitchcock,
the nomination of Thomas S. Allen
as United States attorney for Nebras-
ka w~ confirmed by the Senate.
Alien is brother-in-law of william
Jennings Bryan.
The Senate uEanimcus!y confirmed
the nomination OF John II. Clarke of
Cleveland. Ohio, as associate Justice
of the Supreme Court to succeed
former Justice Hughes.
The Senate passed the Phelan bill
oeding to the Panama Pacific Inter.
national Exposition Company. subject
to revocation, portion of the San
Francisco preside for maintenance as
permanent palace of fine arts.
Alaskan sales to the United States
in the last fiscal year aggregated $780,.